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In daylight, calcite specimens from this rarely heard-of (and now depleted) locale are not quite spectacular; just white rhombohedral...

Beautiful specimen of sodalite var. hackmanite, from the now inaccessible Davis quarry, near Bancroft. This specimen was given to me by a...

Nice cabinet-sized specimen of sodalite var. hackmanite, from a recent find in the District of Sudbury, in Ontario, Canada. It is...

Small but pretty nice specimen of sodalite var. hackmanite, from a recent find in the District of Sudbury, in Ontario, Canada. It is...

Shown here is a nice cabinet-sized specimen of sodalite var. hackmanite, from a recent find in the District of Sudbury, in Ontario,...

While not being of considerable size, this is one of the most aesthetic specimens in my collection. It consists of a well-formed rosette...

During many years, this Canadian locality has been quite popular; really nice specimens of calcite, dolomite, fluorite, etc, were found...

The Sainte-Clotilde quarry (formerly Marcil quarry) near the village of Sainte-Clotilde-De-Châteauguay in Montérégie, Québec, now...

Years ago, some really nice golden calcite crystals were found in a small occurrence in the vicinity of Salaberry-De-Valleyfield. The...

Last year, while sorting out specimens in my storage, I decided to get rid of all specimens that were not aesthetic or rare enough to be...

Shown here is a nice specimen of vlasovite, a rare fluorescent mineral found only in a few localities around the world, along with...

Very brightly fluorescent scapolite, from a new locality visited in October & November 2020 with one of my collecting partners....

Shown here is one of the best pieces of fluorescent phlogopite & diopside I found, during visits in a new occurrence with one of my...

During our last field trips in October and November 2020, one of my partners and I found lots of interesting fluorescents in a new...

Like most fluorescent minerals collectors already know, sadly, blue sodalite is rarely fluorescent. To my knowledge, fluorescent blue...

Shown here is a really gorgeous combination of polylithionite, leucophanite, serandite and others, on albite crystals. As usual, the...

Shown here is a really nice cluster of translucent natrolite crystals, associated with misshaped microcline crystals. As usual, the...

The Grant Quarry, located in the area of Greely in South-Eastern Ontario, Canada, is mostly known for its highly aesthetic quartz...

This sparkling little gem scapolite crystal was a find at the 2018 Tucson Gem & Mineral Show. Its country of origin is Tanzania, but the...

It is not uncommon for fluorite specimens mined from the historic Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District to contain bitumen, oil or other...