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Pseudomorphs are mineral specimens that have the external shape of one mineral but are composed of another. The pseudomorph goethite after marcasite forms when marcasite is exposed to oxidizing conditions and starts to oxidize and break down. As the marcasite breaks down, goethite replaces it in the crystal structure, preserving the shape of the original marcasite crystal. The resulting specimen appears as a marcasite crystal, but is actually composed of goethite.
The Farafra Oasis, in the White Desert, has been known for a number of years to deliver incredible pseudomorph specimens. The pseudomorphs occur within the Cretaceous Khoman Chalk, from which the White Desert derives its name.
These specimens are remarkable for their relatively sharp marcasite crystal forms in aesthetic crystal clusters. They are in excellent condition. This collector's specimen is unique, of great quality and ready for display.
Name: Goethite After Marcasite Pseudomorph
Specimen Size: Miniature-Sized Specimen
Dimensions: 43x28x21 mm / 1.7x1.1x0.8 inches
Weight: 37.6 grams / 1.3 ounces
Origin: Found in White Desert, Farafra Oasis, Egypt
Product Type: Grossular Mali Garnet
Approx Weight (per piece): 13.28ct
Size: 17.5x10mm
Shape: Briolette
Color: Lime Green
Clarity: Transparent
Origin: Africa
Product Type: Hessonite Garnet
Approx Weight (per piece): 0.79ct
Size: 5.2mm
Shape: Round Cut
Color: Orange
Clarity: Clean to the eye
Origin: Madascar
Treatment: None - the stone is unheated, untreated
Product Type: Alexandrite Cats Eye
Product ID: ACGP3593
Approx Weight (per piece): 0.17ct
Size: 3mm
Shape: Round Cabochon
Color: Change Green to Purple*
Clarity: VSI (Very Slightly Included)
Origin: India
Treatment: None
*Color change is achieved using incandescent light.
Alexandrite is a rare gemstone that belongs to the chrysoberyl family of minerals. It is primarily known for its ability to change color from green in daylight or fluorescent light to red or purplish-red under incandescent light. Alexandrite Cats Eye is an extraordinary gemstone that displays both the color-changing properties of Alexandrite and the cat's eye effect.
Alexandrite is believed to aid in personal transformation and balance, enhance intuition and insight, provide protection and grounding, attract luck and prosperity, and facilitate emotional healing.
Product Type: Silky Aquamarine
Product ID: AQSB7315
Approx Weight (per piece): 6.8ct
Size: 14x10mm
Shape: Oval Cut
Color: Aqua blue green
Clarity: Silky
Origin: Brazil
This is a superb looking Garabato meteorite full slice weighing 4.79 grams and measuring 34x33x2 mm. This fresh H5 chondrite classified meteorite with 50% fusion crust was found September 23, 1995. The total weight of the single stone is 160 Kg. The meteorite was found while plowing.
Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Will come with a Canagem Collection and a Naturalia specimen card.
The colorful apatite crystals are visible throughout this calcite vein with multiple small crystal being terminated. It has a nice luster and lovely colored hues with apatite in green, greenish blue and rare grey white. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection.
Name: Calcite vein with green, greenish blue and rare grey white Apatite crystal
Specimen Size: Large Cabinet-Sized
Dimensions: 110x73x79 mm / 4.3x2.9x3.1 inches
Weight: 662 Gr / 1 lbs 7 oz
Origin: Eastern Ontario, Canada
Apophyllite is a mineral known for its distinctive crystal formations, often occurring in clusters with a unique beauty. Its crystals are usually colorless or white, allowing them to be transparent or translucent. Although, some specimens may exhibit a greenish, yellowish, or pinkish tint due to the presence of impurities.
Apophyllite often forms as prismatic crystals with a square or rectangular cross-section. It frequently occurs in distinctive pyramid-like structures, and its crystals can be large and well-formed. It is found in various locations around the world with notable occurrences in India, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, and the United States.
Apophyllite is believed to have a calming effect, and to effectively reduce stress, releasing mental blockages and negative thought patterns. Apophyllite is also said to release suppressed emotion, to overcome anxiety, worries and fears. It calms apprehensions and allows uncertainty to be tolerated.
Name: Apophyllite Crystal Cluster
Specimen Size: Cabinet-Sized
Dimensions: 65x32x24 mm / 2.6x1.3x0.9 inches
Weight: 59 Grams / 2.1 Ounces
Origin: Mined in Jalgaon, India
Pseudomorphs are mineral specimens that have the external shape of one mineral but are composed of another. The pseudomorph goethite after marcasite forms when marcasite is exposed to oxidizing conditions and starts to oxidize and break down. As the marcasite breaks down, goethite replaces it in the crystal structure, preserving the shape of the original marcasite crystal. The resulting specimen appears as a marcasite crystal, but is actually composed of goethite.
The Farafra Oasis, in the White Desert, has been known for a number of years to deliver incredible pseudomorph specimens. The pseudomorphs occur within the Cretaceous Khoman Chalk, from which the White Desert derives its name.
These specimens are remarkable for their relatively sharp marcasite crystal forms in aesthetic crystal clusters. They are in excellent condition. This collector's specimen is unique, of great quality and ready for display.
Name: Goethite After Marcasite Pseudomorph
Specimen Size: Miniature-Sized Specimen
Dimensions: 35x22x20 mm / 1.4x0.9x0.8 inches
Weight: 17 grams / 0.6 ounces
Origin: White Desert, Farafra Oasis, Egypt
Product Type: Spinel
Product ID: SPLP3855
Approx Weight (per piece): 1.88ct
Size: 8.4x5.6x5mm
Shape: Oval Facet Cut
Color: Light Purple
Clarity: SI (Slightly Included)
Origin: Mogok, Myanmar (formerly Burma)
Spinel comes in a variety of colors, ranging from vivid reds and pinks to blues, purples, oranges, and even black. It is a durable gemstone with a hardness of 8 on the Mohs scale making it suitable for everyday wear in jewelry.
Spinels are believed to enhance energy, promote vitality, and offer protection. Some also associate spinel with love and compassion.
Prehnite can form prismatic, tabular, or pyramidal crystals, but usually occurs in botryoidal, reniform, stalactitic, granular, or compact habits. It is usually green in colour, but may be white, colourless, yellow, or gray. It has a colourless streak. Prehnite is transparent to translucent, with a vitreous to pearly luster. It forms in cavities in basaltic lavas.
Prehnite is said to be a stone of unconditional love and the crystal to heal the healer. Placing it in the garden is believed to help make a home into a healing sanctuary and teach one how to be in harmony with nature. A good Fung Shui stone, prehnite is said to be helpful for decluttering, helping one let go of possessions no longer needed.
Name: Prehnite Crystal Cluster
Specimen Size: Cabinet-Sized
Dimensions: 62x48x46 mm / 2.4x1.9x1.8 inches
Weight: 121 Grams / 4.2 Ounces
Origin: Mined in Mumbai (Bombay), India
Product Type: Ruby
Approx Weight (per piece): 1.1ct
Size: 9.5x4.5mm
Shape: Marquise Cut
Color: Pink
Clarity: Fine Crystal
Origin: Africa
This is an interesting and unusual Pyromorphite on Cerussite specimen from the Bunker Hill mine, famous for those crystal types. This Cerussite displays some nice small crystals with a section covered by Pyromorphite. A colorful and beautiful specimen. Would be a nice addition to any new or existing collection.
Name: Pyromorphite Cerussite
Specimen Size: Thumbnail-Sized
Dimensions: Specimen 35x24x17 mm / 1.4x0.9x0.7 inches
Weight: 32.5 Grams / 1.1 Ounces (including box)
Origin: Mined in Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg Idaho
This is a beautiful amethyst geode that has been polished on 4 sides. It is super bright and shows complete crystals. Will stand on a table displaying all its beauty.
Amethyst is believed to enhance spiritual awareness, ward off negative energies, promote balance and relaxation, and improve intuitive and psychic abilities. Amethyst is also thought to enhance mental clarity and focus.
Name: Polished Amethyst Crystal Partial Geode
Specimen Size: Large Cabinet-Sized
Dimensions: 165x88x61mm / 6.5x3.4x2.4 inches
Weight: 1.24 kg / 2 lb 12 ounces
Origin: Mined in Brazil
This is a rare specimen of the brown Cyrtolite variety of Zircon crystals mined at MacDonald Mine, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. This is a large mass of Cyrtolite. The mine deposit is remarkable for the presence of a variety of rare-element minerals, some of them recorded for the first time. Its content of such minerals makes this deposit one of the most remarkable pegmatites, mineralogically, yet discovered in Canada. The specimen is in great condition.
Name: Cyrtolite (Zircon) Crystals
Specimen Size: Cabinet-Sized
Dimensions: 65x47x29 mm / 2.6x1.8x1.1 inches
Weight: 125 Grams / 4.4 Ounces
Origin: Mined in MacDonald Mine, Monteagle Township, Hastings Highlands Municipality, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
Product Type: Star Sapphire
Approx Weight (per piece): 1.7ct
Size: 6.4x5.5mm
Shape: Oval Cabochon
Color: Fine Pale Blue
Clarity: Transparent Sharp 6 Rays Star
Origin: Myanmar (Burma)
Treatment: None
This is a lovely thumbnail specimen of Pyrite from Nikitovka, Ukraine. The pyrite found in this region typically occurs as metallic brassy masses, granular aggregates, and smaller crystal groupings. Unlike the sharp cubic pyrite crystals from Spain or Peru that collectors often recognize immediately, Nikitovka pyrite is more valued for its geological association with mercury minerals than for dramatic crystal form.
Name: Pyrite Crystal
Specimen Size: Cabinet-Sized
Dimensions: 26x26x22 mm / 1.0x1.0x0.9 inches (incl box)
Weight: 4.4 Grams / 0.2 oz
Origin: Mined in Nikitovka, Ukraine
Cubic and crystallized pyrite matrix with Marmatite and Quartz crystal cluster.
Some of the more important Colorado localities for specimens of well-crystallized pyrite include mines at cli- max, Gilman, Leadville, Rico, Ouray, Telluride, Creede, Alicante, Alice, and State Bridge. Specimens from each of these localities often have distinctive crystal habits and mineral associations. The Eagle mine is probably best known for its pyritohedral Pyrite specimens. This cluster is a good representative Eagle mine Pyrite showing typical striated pyritohedra with sharp, lustrous faces plus some Marmatite opaque black iron-rich crystals.
This top specimen is in very good condition. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection.
Name: Pyrite with Marmatite and Quartz Crystal Cluster
Specimen Size: Cabinet Sized
Dimensions: 62x49x33 mm / 2.4x1.9x1.3 inches
Weight: 185.7 Grams / 6.5 oz
Origin: Mined in Gilman, Colorado, USA
This is a great looking Dhofar 269 classified meteorite weighing 23.56 grams. Its dimensions are 54x36x5 mm. This H5 classified meteorite was found in Oman in 2000. The total weight of the pieces recovered is recorded as 2.01 kg and the meteorite has a shock stage of 4 and weathering grade of 3. This piece displays extremely well because of its beautiful shape and is a great size.
Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.
Amber golden calcite from Mexico is a beautiful variety of calcite known for its rich golden to honey-colored tones. It often forms in sharp, well-shaped crystals like dogtooth clusters or larger, chunky crystals with smooth faces. These pieces can have a soft glow when light passes through them, making them visually warm and inviting. Much of this material comes from regions like Durango and Chihuahua, areas well known for producing high-quality calcite in many colors.
Amber golden calcite is often associated with confidence, warmth, and personal growth. Some believe it helps boost self-esteem and encourages a positive, motivated outlook, making it a helpful stone during times of change or new beginnings. It's also thought to carry a gentle grounding energy, helping balance emotions while keeping one connected to a sense of inner strength.
Name: Amber Golden Calcite Spray
Specimen Size: Large Cabinet-Sized
Dimensions: 145x72x48 mm / 5.7x2.8x1.9 inches
Weight: 395 Grams / 14 Ounces
Origin: Mined in Mexico
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