Dyscrasite

Origin: Mine #21, Pribram, Czech Republic
Sample size: crystals to 1.5 cm
 
  
Dull steel grey, massive with some minor crystal forms in barite matrix with other sulfides present.
Origin: St. Andreasberg, Hartz Mountains, Germany
Ex. Kidwell collection
Sample size: 6 x 4.5 x 2 cm
 

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Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

 
 
  
Origin: Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic
Sample size: 7 x 6 x 6 cm (top), 4.5 x 4.5 x 3.3 cm (2nd/bottom row)
 
Origin: Andreasberg, Harz Mtns., Germany
Ex. Mark Feinglos collection
Sample size: 2.7 x 2.6 x 1.9 cm
 
  
Slabbed specimen of bright, metallic-gray dyscrasite crystals embedded in artfully shaped, massive, dark gray "allemontite" and nicely contrasted by lustrous, off-white adularia from the original find at Pribram, Czech Republic. Allemonite is natural alloy of variable composition of arsenical antimony.
Origin: Uranium Mine 21, Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic
Ex Josef Vajdak collection
Sample size: 7.8 x 6.5 x 1.2 cm
 

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Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Origin: St. Andreasberg, Harz Mountains, Germany
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 3.7 cm, crystal  4 x 6 mm
 
  
  
Dendritic very finely crystallized silver metallic dyscrasite set on a massive white calcite and dark native arsenic rich matrix.
  
Origin: Uranium Mine No. 21, Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic
Sample size: 3.5 x 3.2 x 6 cm (top/2nd row), 7.2 x 5 x 5.1 cm (bottom)
 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

Origin: Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic
Sample size: 27 mm
 

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Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

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