Canada - The Collection

This is a specimen of augite and apatite crystals from Lake Clear, Ontario. The specimen is a floater with no contact point and is a mass of about thirteen inter grown augite crystals. There is also one large brown apatite cluster and more small apatite in the seams. The largest augite crystal is 1 ½" across. The apatite is 2" x 3/4". The specimen is in very good condition.  Make this a special specimen in your collection. 

Name: Augite and Apatite
Specimen Size:  Cabinet-Sized
Dimensions:  76x64x57 mm / 3x2.5x2.25 inches
Weight:  276 Grams /   10 ounces
Origin: Lake Clear, Ontario

Name: Red Amethyst

Specimen Size:  Large Cabinet-Sized

Dimensions: 241Xx127x165 mm / 9.5x5x6.5 inches

Weight: 5.4 kg  /  11 lbs 14.5 ounces

Origin: Mined in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

This is an amazing Red Amethyst Crystal Cluster from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. This is a quality cluster and the Burgundy Red is due to hematite inclusions which is unique to this location. Good pieces from Thunder Bay are recognized the world over with collectors due to their uniqueness and this one is a massive specimen!  Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection.

Another fantastic mineral from Quebec! The front of the specimen is covered with many sharp quartz, siderite and albite crystals. The back of the specimen is mostly small smoky quartz crystals. It is in very good condition.

Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection.

Name: Albite, Siderite and Quartz Crystal Cluster  
Specimen Size:   Cabinet-Sized  
Dimensions: 93x53x82 mm / 3.7x2.1x3.2 inches  
Weight: 375 Grams / 13.2 Ounces  
Origin: Mined in Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec 

One side of the specimen is covered with olive green siderite crystals and small druzy pyrite while the other side is mainly covered with quartz and albite. It is a very unusual specimen and in very good condition.

Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection.

Name: Albite, Pyrite, Siderite and Quartz Crystal Cluster
Specimen Size:   Cabinet-Sized
Dimensions: 67x40x55 mm / 2.6x1.6x2.2 inches
Weight: 119.5 Grams / 4.2 Ounces
Origin: Mined in Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec

Product Type: Spectrolite (Labradorite var.)

Approx Weight (per piece):  61.8 grams / 2.2 ounces

Size:  72x34x17mm / 2.8 x 1.3 x .7 inches

Shape: Freeform slab

Color: Fine Gray with Rainbow Luster

Clarity: Opaque

Origin:  Marathon Ontario Canada

A variety of labradorite showing strong labradorescence due to very fine exsolution of K-feldspar.

This is a beautiful piece of eudialyte from Abitibi-Temiscamingue, Quebec. It features raspberry red eudialyte with black crystals of Rare Earth Element (REE) bearing Pyroxene, white feldspar and a little Mossandrite (a rare species) from the remote Kippawa mine.  Great addition to any collection.

Name: Agrellite and Eudialyte
Specimen Size:  Cabinet-Sized 
Dimensions: 96x78x38 mm - 3.8x3.1x1.5 inches
Weight: 294.51 grams - 10.4 oz
Origin: Kipawa alkaline complex, Les Lacs-du-Témiscamingue, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, western Québec, Canada

Name: Agrellite and Eudialyte (Polished on One side)

Dimensions: 83x36x28 mm - 3 1/4 x 1 3/8 x 1 1/8 inches

Weight: 133.24 grams - 4.7 oz

Origin: Kipawa alkaline complex, Les Lacs-du-Témiscamingue, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada

This is a beautiful piece of agrellite and eudialyte from Abitibi-Temiscamingue, Quebec. It features raspberry red eudialyte on greenish white agrellite and black aegirine on this rarely available combination of material.

Name: Augite in Calcite

Specimen Size:  Large Cabinet-Sized

Dimensions: 119x59x71 mm / 4.7x2.3x2.8 inches

Weight: 576 Grams /  1 lb 4 ounces

Origin: Yates mine, Otter Lake, Pontiac RCM, Outaouais, Québec

This is a piece of a calcite that includes many little diopside crystals from Western Quebec region.  The Augite crystals are shiny and black with an octagonal habit.

Beautiful specimen of well crystallized black augite crystals covering orange calcite matrix. Though the augite crystals have an irregular surfaces, typical of this occurrence, some of the crystals are terminated and are mostly clean.  Make this a special specimen in your collection. 

Name: Molybdenite Vein in Feldspar

Specimen Size:  Large Cabinet-Sized

Dimensions: 118x84x64 mm / 4.6x3.3x2.5 inches

Weight: 694 Grams / 1 lb 8.5 ounces

Origin: Mined in Western Ontario

This is a section of a vein that has Molybdenite in feldspar from Western Ontario. This specimen also features a neat little pocket filled with some nice microcrystal species.  

Molybdenite, molybdenum sulfide, is the major ore mineral of molybdenum. It was rarely found as crystals, but is commonly found as foliated masses in Ontario. This means the mineral forms folia or layers, like the mineral mica. It is metallic gray, has a greasy feel, and is very soft at only 1 on Mohs' hardness scale. Its softness, metallic luster and gray color led scientists to mistakenly believe it was a lead mineral. Geologically, molybdenite forms in high-temperature environments such as in igneous rocks. Some molybdenite forms when igneous bodies contact rock and metamorphose, or change, the rock. This is called contact metamorphism

 Name: Sea Agate Rough

Dimensions: 72x58x44 mm - 2.8x2.3x1.7 inches

Weight: 204 grams - 7.2 oz

Origin: Nova Scotia, Canada

This is a beautiful piece of colored sea agate from the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. It features Lavender, white and red colors and even a couple of druse pockets making it a quality lapidary material.