Malachite on Olivenite, Brazil

Really nice crystallized piece. Really sparkly and it very much looks like a taco. 

Location:

Wessels Mine, Hotazel

Kalahari manganese fields

Northern Cape Prov., South Africa

Size:

L: 3.3 cm W: 1.5 cm H: 2.0 cm 

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-Keith Hayes Collection

Nice piece of Ruby. Really gemmy  specimen and shows brighter colors under lighting. 

Location: 

Zazafotsy Quarry

Ihosy District, Hormobe District 

Fianarantsoa Prov., Madagascar 

Size:

L: 1.4 cm W: 1.0 cm H : 2.0 cm 

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-Keith Hayes Collection

Nice all round Malachite piece. It has different tones and generations of greens all around it. 

Location:

Copper Queen Mine

Bisbee District, Cochise County

Arizona

Size:

L: 4.0 cm W: 1.7 cm H: 4.0 cm 

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-Keith Hayes Collection

Gem Scapolite Crystal, Tanzania

Big piece of Sphalerite. A little bigger than the size of your palm. Crystals turn red-ish under lighting. Tiny layer of crystals on the back side as well. 

Location:

Tri-State District

near Picher, Ottawa Co.

Oklahoma 

Size: 

L: 11.3 cm W: 6.0 cm H: 8.5 cm 

Brought to you by KQ Minerals / Cowboy Crystals 

-Keith Hayes Collection

Nice Azurite crystal inclusions. It is a one face specimen with lots of Azurite inclusions. 

Location: 

Bisbee District 

Cochise County 

Arizona 

Size:

L: 3.5 cm W: 1.6 cm H: 3.9 cm 

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-Keith Hayes Collection

Descloizite complex crystal, Namibia

Native Sulfur, Russia

Woodhouseite, Rare Mineral, Type Locality, California

Fluorite, Octahedral Crystals, 2 generations, China

Fluorite Crystal from South Africa.

Fluorite & Sphalerite & Calchopyrite mineral specimen from Illinois.

Tourmaline crystal from Brazil.

Vanadinite Mineral Specimen from Morocco.

Staurolite / Faerie / Fairy Cross: approx. 1/2″ x 1/2″ x 1/2″ Celtic Cross shaped. Named after the Greek word “Stauros” for “cross”, they are commonly known as “fairy stones” or “fairy crosses”. According to European and Christianity influenced Native American legend on the state park website, “hundreds of years before Chief Powhatan’s reign, the fairies were dancing around a magical spring of water, playing with naiads and wood nymphs, when a elfin messenger arrived from a city far away bringing the news of the death of Christ. When these creatures of the forest heard the story of the crucifixion, they wept, as their tears fell upon the earth they crystallized into beautiful crosses”. During the first meeting of John Smith and Pocahontas, it is said the Indian princess gave John Smith a good luck charm made out of a “fairy cross”. Legend has it that Richard the Lionheart used them during the crusades to heal the wounded. Some say these are the tears of the Cherokee who wept over the loss of their homeland during the exodus on the “Trail of Tears”. Others talk of an ancient race of mountain faeries who were dancing at their favorite meeting places, and upon finding out that the “Great Creator” had died, shed tears, so moved, were crushed in heart and cried, as they wept their tears crystallized into the “fairy crosses”. Others say that during the defeat of the Tuatha de Danann and other faerie races when they were forced under-ground to live in the hills, the faeries around the world shed tears, made of Iron to represent the Iron Age destroying their race, in the shapes of crosses as an omen of the peopling that would destroy the planet next.

Staurolite / Faerie / Fairy Cross: approx. 1/2″ x 1/2″ x 1/2″ Celtic Cross shaped. 

FC020: Staurolite Faerie/Fairy Cross. Celtic Cross shaped. Approx 1 1/4″ x 1″ x 1/2″. .5 oz.

Drusy Quartz lined Gastropod

Fluorite crystal from Colorado.