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In 1947, the Linde Air Products Company of New York began producing a form of synthetic gem corundum that was marketed in the gemstone...

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...

Recently acquired bird's eye sphalerite from Balmat, NY,. They fluoresce purple/blue/green under long-wave UV. This specimen above is a...

A mixture of anthophyllite (formerly known as manganocummingtonite) and tremolite crystals with minor talc. The anthophyllite fluoresces...

The Walworth Quarry has been a productive source of highly desirable fluorite specimens for many years. The Walworth fluorites are...

The Amity area of the Town of Warwick, in Orange County, New York, is located near the central region of the Franklin marble belt, and is...

Light grey, translucent crystals of willemite on and in a light grey matrix, from Balmat, St. Lawrence Co., New York. The willemite...

This is a beautiful pair of 6" specimens from the Talc mines in New York. Photographed in LW, SW and NL.

Pink/Red Manganocummingtonite (LW), Orange Tremolite (SW, LW). This 3" specimen is from the No. 8 Reynolds Mine in Talcville NY. The LW...

Collectors of fluorescent minerals are familiar with the bright, warm yellow, fluorescent wollastonite from the Franklin/Sterling Hill,...

This multi-wave fluorescent specimen contains wernerite, diopside and minor calcite, collected from the Purple Diopside Mound (PDM), Rose...

This is a spectacular fluorescent Diopside specimen that rivals most Franklin material for brightness. Collected in 1995 from a roadcut...

Grains of brightly fluorescent diopside with minor non-fluorescent pyrite in a calcite groundmass, from the Rt. 4 Roadcut, Fort Ann,...

Mass of platy, cream/white-colored talc crystals, from the Gouveneur Talc Co. Mine, Balmat, New York. This specimen shows an...

Foliated layers of needle-like crystals of light pink tremolite and intergrown anthophyllite, from Balmat, St. Lawrence County, New York....

This specimen contains grains of orange fluorescent turneaurite in a non-fluorescent matrix, from the ZCA No. 4 Mine, Balmat, St....

This specimen contains light colored veins and masses of sphalerite in a dark matrix, from Balmat, St. Lawrence Co., New York. The...

Here is a set of three different Birdseye Sphalerite pieces from the Zinc Corporation of America Mine #4 in Balmat, NY. This sphalerite...

A number of these pieces from an old 60s collection hit the market over the last year. This is one of the more interesting examples. It...