Utah Mineral Specimens
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OKH-787 Pseudobrookite Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah. Ex. Paul and Dawne Dunning collection. Fine, metallic, asicular crystal spray off a matrix coated by tiny quartz?? crystals. Crystals are to 1 cm. 3 x 2.3 x 1.5 cm. No damage. Mounted in a perky box. Quite aesthetic. $50
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OKH-752 Beryl Wah Wah Mountains, Utah. Ex. Paul and Dawne Dunning Collection. A single terminated crystal free of matrix that measures .8 cm. It is deep red which varies (depending on if the areas of the crystal are gemmy or just translucent), has a good luster, and is damage free, viewing well from any direction. The camera did not like this color....it is the typical red. Mounted in a perky box. The rarest of all beryl colors. $70
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OKH-724 Fluorite Deer Trail Mine, Piute County, Marysville, Utah. Ex. Paul and Dawne Dunning Collection. An 11.2 x 5 x 4.2 cm piece with large green crystal to 2.5 cm each. They are an interesting green color, gemmy internally, and their surfaces are stepped. They are cube octahedron combinations. One crystal is poorly formed or healed. The piece only shows contact at one end. The matrix is white milky crystalline quartz. $145
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OKH-645 Salt (halite) Great Salt Lake, Utah. Ex. Paul and Dawne Dunning Collection. A 6 x 6 x 4.4 cm grouping of hoppered white crystals. Individual crystals measure up to 2.5 cm each and have nice luster. The grouping seems to be very stable as it has been out of the ground for more than 15 years. $20
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OKH-719 Weeksite Sleey Cat Mining District, Utah. Ex. Paul and Dawne Dunning Collection. This is a simple specimen light green/yellow micro crystals I matrix. It measures 3.4 x 1.7 x 0.9 cm overall. A good example for the systematic collector. $30
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OKF-628 Azurite and Malachite La Sal, San Juan Co., Utah. Ex. Jim Turek Collection. An attractive, balanced grouping of rich green malachite and deep blue azurite crystals. 4.8 x 3.8 x 3 cm overall. No damage and attractive. 45$
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OKE-336 Variscite Utah Ex. Nancy Collins Collection. Another specimen suitable for either lapidary of fine just left as a specimen. Light to deep green shades of variscite banded within a white matrix. 8 x 4 x 3.8 cm. This is now rare stuff!! 365$
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OKA-993 Topaz Thomas Range, Utah. This is an average sized grouping of approx five crystals of sherry colored topaz crystals. Intergrown into a cross like form with the largest of the crystals measuring 3.5 cm. Gemmy areas and some areas coated by sand. Nicely terminated gemmy end on the main crystal. 18$