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Epidote with Garnet
Ludwig, Lyon County
Nevada
NOTES: #1632
Numerous Green Crystal Shafts
SIZE: SC
5cm or about two inches
$6.00
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Quartz SiO2
Crystal Point
Ludwig,, Lyon County
Nevada
NOTES: 5cm or about two inches
$5.00
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Tremolite Asbestos
Monarch Mine,
Douglas County
Nevada
NOTES: Lustrous silky white
crystals to 5cm on calcite.
SIZE: 5cm or better or about two inches.
$10.00
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Quartz with
Chlorite Sericite inclusions
SiO2
Ludwig,, Lyon County
Nevada
NOTES: Crystal Point
5cm or about two inches
$15.00
The above photo is a view of the Pine Nut Mountains right about Ludwig, Nevada. They are filled with
some very beautiful minerals. They have colorful oxidized copper deposits about metamorphic rocks. The marble and skarns
show the tale.
We have expanded our extensive California travels to include the Central Western area of Nevada in the greater
Tahoe Area, and have found several new mineral specimens including lovely green garnets, beautifully included quartz crystals,
Many different copper minerals, and very well formed vesuvianite crystals. We hope you enjoy these new additions to our collection
and keep checking for newly added specimens to this website.
A favorite collecting place recently is the ridge at Mount Clover, Zirnville (between the Monarch Mine and
the Oleana #8), Gardnerville, Douglas County, Nevada.
I cruised along the snowlined ridge in the 'old AWD Honda Civic. I stopped, hopped out and took a brisk hike in
golashes; quickly disappearing from sight of the vehicle towards many of the tunnels in the ridgeside. Along the
pines I saw an old claim marker that said I was standing on the Rawhide #2 claim. There were 2.5 cm quartz crystals the
girth of a pencil with calcite and adularia, pyritohedrons, talc, clinozoisite, and California jade in the
immediate area. Chrome vesuvianite, grossular garnet, epidote and tremolite crystals were occasionally found in many of the
lower dumps.
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Vesuvianite Ca10Mg2Al4(SiO4)5(Si2O7)2(OH)4
LOCALITY: Monarch Mine, Douglas
County,
Nevada, USA
NOTES: Miniature sized matrix specimen with tiny green crystals.
$ 8.00
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Vesuvianite Ca10Mg2Al4(SiO4) 5(Si2O7)2(OH)4
LOCALITY: Ludwig, Smith Valley,
Lyon County, Nevada, USA
NOTES: Miniature sized matrix specimen with tiny greenish yellow crystals.
$
8.00
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Grossular Garnet
Ludwig,, Lyon County
Nevada
NOTES: SC
Numerous Crystals,
in cluster, to 3/16"
5cm or about two inches
$15.00
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Vesuvianite
Ludwig, Lyon County
Nevada
NOTES: SC
Numerous Greenish Crystals
to 1.25cm or about 1/2 inch.
SIZE: SC 5cm or about two inches
$20.00
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Vesuvianite
Douglas County
Nevada
NOTES: Lustrous yellow green crystals
to 1/16"on Californite.
SIZE: 5cm or about two inches.
$10.00 
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Cuprite on Quartz
Ludwig,, Lyon County
Nevada, USA
NOTES: SC
Purplish Druse coating
rock crystal with limonite.
SIZE: 2.5cm or about one inch
$6.00
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Azurite
Ludwig,, Lyon County
Nevada, USA
NOTES: SC
Blue Druse on Garnet
5cm or about two inches
$6.00
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Laumantite
with Quartz
Ludwig,, Lyon County
Nevada
NOTES: SC SizedSpecimen.
Nice but fragile crystals.
5cm or about two inches
$8.00
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