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Sawn slab of zinc ore consisting of sphalerite, galena, and other unidentified minerals, from the Ophir Hill Mine, Tooele County, Utah. ...

Featured here are two specimens consisting of sphalerite/zinc ore from the ZCA Mine No. 4 (now called the Empire State No. 4 Mine),...

Large, triangular-shaped piece of metallic grey colored sphalerite/zinc ore with brassy grains of an unidentified sulfide mineral (pyrite...

One of the many specimens collected in the Green Monster Mine, Sandy Valley, Nevada, in early January 2022. The blue-white fluorescent is...

This is a multi-color longwave fluorescent rock from the Huanzala Mine, Bolognesi Province, Ancash, Peru. The specimen has red-orange...

Every so often, a common location will produce a very uncommon specimen. The Elmwood mine, a zinc mine located in Carthage, Tennessee,...

To mineral collectors, the Sweet Home Mine in Alma, Colorado is best known as a producer of some of the finest rhodochrosite specimens in...

This lovely 2-color fluorescent specimen contains willemite and sphalerite, and is from the Nelly James Mine (also known as Miller...

Schalenblende is an interesting rock composed of concentric layers of fine grained sphalerite, typically included with intergrown...

This is a spectacular 4-color, mixed mineral, fluorescent specimen from the Franklin Mine, Franklin, New Jersey. This rock contains...

Gray masses of sphalerite crystals with a bright orange-yellow LW response. Lit by a pair of 365nm flashlights. Specimen is 82 x 58 x 54mm

To mineral collectors, the Sweet Home Mine in Alma, Colorado is best known as a producer of some of the finest rhodochrosite specimens in...

Horn Silver Sphalerite is one of our favorite materials. Fluorescent in all wavelengths with an amazing array of colors, phosphorescent,...

Sphalerite is a stunning material, and apparently quite varied in its manifestations. This Sterling Hill Mine specimen is a rather large...

The Horn Silver mine is located in the town of Frisco, Beaver County, Utah, and during its heyday in the late 1870s, was one of the...

This triangular-shaped piece of waste rock was surface collected from a tailings pile at the Maxfield mine, in Big Cottonwood Canyon,...

Sphalerite and microcline from the Taylor Road site in Franklin, New Jersey is quite beautiful stuff. There may even be a smidge of...

Collected in October 2016 during a visit with Mark and John in the late afternoon. In just a few minutes I learned some very valuable...

This is a beautiful 4-color, mixed mineral, fluorescent specimen from the Franklin Mine, Franklin, New Jersey. The primary component is...

Yellow zincite strongly fluorescent under longwave 365nm, with willemite and calcite. The blue fluorescence is strongly phosphorescent. ...