Ancylite Pseudo after Romandite Specimen #CA_01 Poudrette Quarry Mont Sainte Hilaire Quebec, Canada 1.0 x 0.7cm Toenail $10 From the Greek Ankilos = curved. This micro specimen displays a couple of xls of yellowish ancylite. We have a number of these specimens in stock.  If you're interested in a volume purchase, please contact us.

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	Carletonite and Acmite Specimen #CA_02 Poudrette Quarry Mont Sainte Hilaire Quebec, Canada 3.5 x 2.0 x 2.0cm Miniature Type Locality $50 Here's a great example of a mineral species that only occurs in one place in the world, Mont Sainte Hilaire!  This piece is made up of a base matrix that is covered in colorless to light blue carletonite xls to 0.5cm along with ink black aegirine xls to 3mm.  I don't see many of these specimens available for sale, so here's your chance to own a specimen from the great white north at a very reasonable price.  The carletonite xls are somewhat reactive under SW UV light.

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	Corundum Specimen #CA_03 Combermere, Ontario Canada 8.5 x 4.3 x 4.1cm Small Cabinet Ex Mike Groben collection #1614 $35 When I think of corundum’s, I usually associate them with rubies and sapphires, so this one was a bit of a surprise to me. I found out that the corundum produced in this locality is generally brown and mixed with impurities, so its main use was in abrasives, such as emery paper. Corundum was first reported here in 1847 but was forgotten for nearly 50 years. This rock is covered with a number of xls, the largest measuring 4.6 x 0.9cm and is singly terminated. It appears as though its other termination has cleaved off, although this does not detract from its display qualities.

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	Diopside Specimen #CA_04 Lake Girard Mine Quebec, Canada 9.8 x 5.0 x 4.5cm Cabinet Ex Mike Groben collection #729 Comes with Mike's original collection card (see photo below) $75 This specimen consists of  a single large olive green individual diopside xl from Canada. It is singly terminated  and comes with Mike Groben's original collection card.  This specimen dates back to 1960 and perhaps earlier.

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	Chromian Grossular Specimen #CA_05 Thetford Mines Mégantic County Quebec, Canada 5.2 x 5.0 x 3.0cm Small Cabinet Defunct Local $75 This specimen consists of a base matrix that is covered by candy apple green, chromium colored garnets to 3mm from a rare find at this now closed locality.  Many of the xls exhibit some geminess.  This mine is now closed, so specimens of this quality are becoming harder to find.

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	Gypsum var Selenite Specimen #CA_06 Willow Creek Chain Lakes, Alberta Canada 4.5 x 3.4 x 2.3cm Miniature $25 This specimen consists of ice cube clear twinned xls.  The larger one is doubly terminated and the overall specimen has excellent form and great luster. This specimen also has a wonderful internal rainbow. It is naturally etched and makes for a really nice display specimen. We have a number of these specimens in stock.  If you're interested in a volume purchase, please contact us.

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	Millerite Specimen #CA_07 Thompson Mine (open pit) Moab-Setting Lakes area Manitoba, Canada 7.5 x 6.5 x 2.7cm Small Cabinet $75 Millerite xls are commonly found as radiating and jack-straw clusters of shiny metallic acicular crystals, pale brass-yellow with an iridescent tarnish.  This specimen consists of a large, very rich specimen of the rare mineral millerite, covered with dense, velvety acicular crystals of a deep moss green. This is a fine specimen, indeed!

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	Fluor-Richterite Specimen #CA_08 Earle Farm Wilberforce, Ontario Canada 6.8 x 4.2 x 6.0cm Small Cabinet Ex Mike Groben collection #56 Fluorescent $75 This specimen contains a number of richterite xls with the dominant one being doubly terminated and measuring 6.4x 3.5cm. They're encased in what appears to be calcite, which fluoresces orangey-red under SW UV light. Fluorrichterite is a rare mineral, known from only this location in a skarn formation. The skarn is a term for a rock that is the product of a chemically unusual magma body that has intruded into and recrystallized a "dirty" limestone. The "dirty" limestone is not composed of just calcite, CaCO3, like "clean" limestone but is mixed with silicates and/or phosphates, etc. This mixing of the hot chemically unusual liquids and volatiles of the magma, with the different minerals of the "dirty" limestones produces some interesting and rare minerals after all the recrystallizing is done.

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	Silver Specimen #CA_09 Cobalt Coleman Township Timiskaming District Ontario, Canada 4.9 x 3.0 x 2.1cm Large Miniature 59 grams $50 This specimen consists of a mass of silver ore from Canada.  Nice specimen!

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	Stilbite & Heulandite Specimen #CA_10 Minas Basin, Nova Scotia 5.9 x 4.4 x 3.3cm Large Miniature Ex Mike Groben Collection #1230 $50 A nice specimen from north of the border. Lustrous, creamy white stilbite crystals with a smattering of salmon colored heulandite xls at their base. The prominent stilbite crystal is 5.6 cm.