Stibnite

     
Origin: Xikuangshan Mine, Lengshuijiang, Hunan Province, China
Ex. Keith Hayes collection
Sample size: 17.5 x 1.3 x 0.8 cm
 
  
  
  
Pale violet fluorite cubes formed in clustered masses over intergrown blades of stibnite. There is also some alteration to brownish yellow stibiconite and blades of barite attached.
Origin: Kadam-Zhay Mine, Fergana, Osh District, Kyrgyzstan
Ex. Mark Wrigley collection
Sample size: 6.8 x 5.4 x 4.5 cm
 
  
     
Sample with a lot of bright undamaged curved stibnite crystals up to 3.5 x 1 cm. Few beautiful completely terminated barite crystals (up to 1 x 1 cm) are perched on stibnite together wit microcrystalline quartz spheroids.
Origin: Hunan prov., China
Ex. Giorgio Spiga collection
Sample size: 10 x 7 x 6 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

  
Origin: Kusa Mine, Bau, Kuching, Sarawak Province, Borneo, Malaysia
Sample size: 9.8 x 10.5 x 4.1 cm
 
  
 
     
 
  
Origin: Dahegou Mine (Dahegou-Zhangergou Mine; Lushi Mine), Lushi, Sanmenxia area, Henan, Central South Region, China
Sample size: 3 x 1.5 x 13.8 cm (top), 4.8 x 3 x 11.6 cm (2nd/3rd row), 17.5 cm in length, 12-13 in diameter (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Origin: Wuling Antimony Mine, Jiangxi Province, China
Sample size: 18.7 x 2.4 x 1.9 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

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