When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
I'm going through a huge collection of rocks, minerals, crystals, ore, possible meteorites, and gems from an estate. These seem to have been collected in the mid 1900s in the western United States.I'm doing my best to take pictures and identify everything but I really don't have a clue. So whoever buys these will probably come away with a lot of value.Please be careful in handling these items since I do not know with certainty what each of them are. There is possible toxicity and radioactivity.This is just one of many lots to come, but I would also be interested in selling the whole thing to someone if they could give me 25% of what they think they can resell it for.Here are my best guesses based on books and AI on some of the items in this listing ( some items came with detailed descriptions and others have been identified by my local rock shop, but I have too many to id them all.Druzy spirit crystals with Galena and florite and quartz.
multi-mineral matrix cluster. pegmatite
Black Tourmaline (Schorl): The highly visible, contrasting black columnar or blocky crystals embedded throughout the host rock.Quartz / Smoky Quartz: The translucent to clear, crystalline masses forming a major part of the body.Feldspar (likely Albite): The chalky white to tan base matrix holding the specimen together.Aquamarine / Topaz / Beryl: The pale, glassy greenish, icy blue, and light purple crystalline pockets interspersed.Wavellite, Actinolite, or Epidotefossilized colonial coral. limestone matrix.pegmatite rock containing major concentrations of brown mica crystals (likely phlogopite or muscovite variant) interwoven with white quartz or feldspar.cave calcite. aragonite, a carbonate mineral. botryoidaliron stained calciteazurite and malachite mineral specimenThis specimen appears to be a piece of volcanic scoria containing green olivine crystal inclusions.rhodonite in a heavy black matrix of manganese oxides.obsidian flakesquartz
Everything is boxed up in a medium flat rate box. Wrapped up in bubble wrap and newspaper from the 1950s and cardboard to protect and fill the spaces.
#30
11 pounds
