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19198 Mineral: Tetrahedrite 001 Locality: Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado Description: Large plate of colorless quartz crystals (visible around the edges) complete overgrown with galena, pyrite, bornite (and probably a few other minerals...). Good specimen for locality collectors because it has such a wide variety of mineral species. Overall Size: 14x7x4 cm Crystals: 2-10 mm

DESCRIPTION: No. 23649 Mineral: Tennantite Locality: Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia Description: Three crystals of dark, metallic tennantite on matrix coated with 1-2 mm colorless quartz crystals. The tennantite crystals contrast nicely against the lighter matrix. Overall Size: 9x6x5 cm Crystals: 6-16 mm DESCRIPTION: No. 16893 Mineral: Tetrahedrite 002 Locality: Cavnic Mine (Kapnikbanya), Maramures, Romania Description: Sharp crystals of metallic tetrahedrite without matrix. These are very well crystallized with no damage. Mounted in acrylic Perky box for protection. Ex. A. Stevenson collection #843a Overall Size: 20x15x10 mm Crystals: 2-12 mm

DESCRIPTION: No. 11493 Mineral: Tennantite Locality: Leonard Mine, Butte Mining District, Summit Valley, Silver Bow County, Montana Description: Dull gray metallic tennantite in crystals to 6 mm on edge in cluster with minor pyrite on back. Ex. Reasenberg collection #1806 Overall Size: 5x4x2.5 cm Crystals: 3-6 mm DESCRIPTION: No. 20428 Mineral: Tetrahedrite Locality: Botes, near Zalatna, Transylvania, Romania Description: Superb specimen of well crystallized tetrahedrite crystals in an elongated formation. There is a second pocket on the rear with brilliant, smaller crystals. Excellent specimen, Ex. Robert C. Linck (1905-1970) Overall Size: 5.5x3x1.5 cm Crystals: 2-25 mm DESCRIPTION: No. 20514 Mineral: Tetrahedrite Locality: Horhausen, (Grube Louise?), Nassau, Germany Description: Brilliant, metallic crystals of tetrahedrite scattered on one face of matrix. Looks beautiful under magnification. With old label from Wards. Ex. Robert C. Linck (19051970) Overall Size: 9x5x4 cm Crystals: 1-5 mm

DESCRIPTION: No. 13480 Mineral: Polybasite Locality: Las Chipas Mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico Description: Complex crystal grouping of dark metallic polybasite crystals up to 9 mm. Formation could be due to hopper-type growth of a single crystal. A nice thumbnail specimen of a rare sulfosalt mineral. Ex. A. Stevenson collection #328 Overall Size: 17x10x8 mm Crystals: 5-9 mm DESCRIPTION: No. 13952 Mineral: Polybasite Locality: Freiberg, Saxony, Germany Description: Mounted specimen of interconnected polybasite crystals up to 5 mm each. Complete and undamaged. Ex. Russ Buckingham collection Overall Size: 18x15x13 mm Crystals: 2-5 mm

DESCRIPTION: No. 29397 Mineral: Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite Locality: (Cliffs Shaft Mine), Ishpeming, Marquette County, Michigan Description: Heavy mixture of sulfide minerals: bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite. Has a colorful iridescence in areas. Sensel acquired the specimen in 1965 from Markerts. Ex. Dr. Eugene E. Sensel (1911-2000) collection #B960 Overall Size: 9x7x5 cm

DESCRIPTION: No. 16776 Mineral: Bornite Locality: Zacatecas, Mexico Description: Mass of copper-colored bornite with gray quartz vein running throughout. Good color. Overall Size: 8x4x2 cm Crystals: -

DESCRIPTION: No. 34825 Mineral: Enargite Locality: Red Mountain, San Juan County, Colorado Description: Heavy mass of crystallized enargite crystals up to 20 mm with limonitestained quartz crystals up to 1 mm in small cavities. No enargite crystal terminations are visible, all are massive and intergrown. Ex. John A. Manley ca. 1890s Overall Size: 6x5x4.5 cm Crystals: 1-20 mm

DESCRIPTION: No. 51497 Mineral: Enargite Locality: Julcani District, Huancavelica, Peru Description: Large, well-defined prismatic enargite crystals with flat basal pinacoid terminations and yellowmetallic coating on the prism faces of a unidentified mineral, possibly chalcopyrite. The specimen was sprayed with an acrylic coating (can be removed). Ex. Larry Krause (1945-2010) collection Overall Size: 5.5x5.5x5 cm Crystals: 0.2-13.0 mm

DESCRIPTION: No. 12734 Mineral: Chalcocite Locality: Bristol, Hartford County,

Connecticut Description: Two parallel crystals of chalcocite from the classic New England locality for this mineral species. The chalcocite crystals are fully crystallized front and back and a totally undamaged. Ex. A. Stevenson (1916-2007) collection #115 Overall Size: 21x18x12 mm Crystals: 10 mm

DESCRIPTION: No. 11229 Mineral: Chalcocite Locality: Bristol Copper Mine, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut Description: Perfect V-twin crystals of sooty black chalcocite fully crystallized front and rear with sharp, well defined crystal faces throughout. See article: Connoisseur's Choice: Chalcocite in Rocks and Minerals, November-December, 1995. Ex. D'Esopo collection (Utica, NY) Overall Size: 18x13x10 mm Crystals: 8-9 mm

DESCRIPTION: No. 6795 Mineral: Covellite Locality: Summitville Mine, Summitville, Colorado Description: Large specimen of terminated covellite crystal with chalcopyrite. Ex. Sahno Collection Overall Size: 7x6x6 cm Crystals: 1-2 cm

DESCRIPTION: No. 16800 Mineral: Covellite Locality: Anaconda Copper Mine, Butte Mining District, Summit Valley, Silver Bow County, Montana Description: Large mass of iridescent blue-black covellite frozen in matrix. See the special Butte issue of Min. Rec. v. 33, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2002). Ex. Earle Sullivan collection (Ct.) Overall Size: 11x7x5 cm Crystals: 5-25 mm

DESCRIPTION: No. 44909 Mineral: Covellite Locality: Leonard Mine, 3800' Level, Butte Mining District, Summit Valley, Silver Bow County, Montana Description: Foliated crystalline mass of metallic covellite with iridescent sheen ranging from blue to purple. Ex. Chas. W. Velte Jr. (1914-1987) Overall Size: 3.5x2.5x1.2 cm

DESCRIPTION: No. 35096 Mineral: Covellite Locality: Butte Mining District, Summit Valley, Silver Bow County, Montana Description: Iridescent blue-black covellite crystals with white calcite(?) in the crevices around the covellite. The covellite crystals are large, lustrous and have good color for this classic locality. Overall Size: 7x3.5x2 cm Crystals: 1-4 cm

DESCRIPTION: No. 30307 Mineral: Polylithionite and Serandite Locality: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Qubec, Canada Description: Bladed polylithionite crystals in rosettes up to 32 mm across with orange serandite crystals up to 18 mm long overgrown on the polylithionite. The polylithionite has a beautiful pearlescent luster. Collected August 2004 Overall Size: 5x2x1 cm Crystals: 2-25 mm

DESCRIPTION: No. 7315 Mineral: Enargite on Pyrite Locality: Leonard Mine, Butte Mining District, Summit Valley, Silver Bow County, Montana Description: Gray-metallic striated enargite crystals to 8 mm long on lustrous yellow-metallic pyrite crystals to 15 mm. The pyrite crystals are a combination of pyritohedral and octahedral crystal forms. Ex. Robert P. Bates (1926-2008) collection #173 Overall Size: 32x25x24 mm Crystals: 1-15 mm