Polished & Natural Specimens
Included here are a variety of polished specimens and natural mineral specimens perfect for adding to your collection or giving as gifts to friends.
Many of the specimens offered here are wonderful starter pieces for beginning rock collectors, and some are suitable for the more discerning agate, gem, and mineral connoisseurs among us. Measurements are given as width by height by depth. Enjoy!
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#SP101
Specimen: Face polished Moctezuma nodule with a bright yellow banded center floating in a translucent blue chalcedony. From Mexico.
1 3/4″ x 1 1/2″ x 1 1/2″
Price: $60.00
#SP102
Specimen: Very pretty face polished Laguna agate in shades of pale blue grey with pink bands featuring the parallax effect. From Mexico.
2 3/8″ x 1 3/4″ x 3/4″
Price: $25.00
#SP103
Specimen: A beautiful face polished banded agate nodule in shades of blue and red with chromatography. The fracture lines are healed. From Queensland, Australia.
2 1/4″ x 2″ x 1 1/4″
Price: $40.00
#SP104
Specimen: A nice slightly dome face polished piece of gem silica, chrysocolla, malachite, and quartz. The gem silica is a beautiful aqua baby blue, and this piece could be cut into slabettes for cabbing. There are some tiny fractures in the lower part as seen in the photo. From Arizona.
2 1/8″ x 1 3/8″ x 1 1/2″
WT: 61.3 grams
Price: $120.00
#SP105
Specimen: Mirror face polished tan and white brecciated jasp-agate from Australia.
2″ x 2″ x 7/8″
Closeout Price: $12.00
#SP106
Specimen: A rare and collectible mineral specimen covered with large malachite after azurite crystal pseudomorphs along with silky, fibrous malachite. From the Milpillas mine in Mexico.
6″ x 3″ x 1 1/4″
Price: $180.00
#SP107
Specimen: A beautifully formed and richly colored Amazonite double crystal cluster. From Colorado.
1 5/8″ x 1″ x 1 3/8″
Price: $25.00
#SP108
Specimen: This is a beautiful, fairly large, face polished fortification banded slab of Parcelas (Purple Passion) agate from Mexico. There are a few flaws such as a couple of semi-healed fractures and some fine polishing scratches near the bottom of the fracture on the right. This piece has some great dendritic inclusions and pretty purple colors, and would make an excellent starter piece for someone’s agate collection.
3″ x 2 1/8″ x 1/4″
Price: $20.00
#SP109
Specimen: A large, double terminated, included quartz crystal known as a “Herkimer Diamond”. There is an indentation on the back where this crystal had been attached to another. From Herkimer, NY.
2 3/4″ x 1 1/8″ x 1 1/2″
Price: $40.00
#SP110
Specimen: A wonderful standing quartz plate covered with flat, radiating clear crystal faces included with little green chlorite balls and flecks. Includes metal stand.
2 7/8″ x 2 3/4″ x 1/4″
Total height is 4 1/4″
Price: $16.00
#SP111
Specimen: A beautiful piece of Pyrite with lots of well defined cubes. From Peru.
3 1/4″ x 2 1/4″ x 1″
Price: $22.00
#SP112
Specimen: A beautiful little micromount Wulfenite crystal specimen on a brown matrix. From the world famous Red Cloud Mine in Arizona. Comes in a perky box with label.
1/2″ high x 1/4″ wide
Price: $18.00
#SP113
Specimen: For crystal collectors, a nice, clear single quartz crystal in matrix from Diamond Point, Arizona. It’s hard to come by pieces like this nowadays, and you can see the crystal top sticking up at top center left.
2 3/4″ x 1 1/2″ x 1″
Price: $18.00
#SP114
Specimen: This is a really nice face polished banded agate nodule in shades of greenish-gold with strong parallax in the banding. There are some interesting little red inclusions towards the top right in the euhedral quartz and an area of fine waterline banding. From Queensland, Australia.
2″ x 1 1/4″ x 3/4″
Price: SOLD
#SP115
Specimen: This is a sweet dome face polished ovoid banded Imperial Jasper nodule in shades of dark brown, taupe, & mauve. The polish has some scratches in a couple of spots, so it may need a repolish or it could be recut for a flat lap polish or for cabbing. It appears darker in hand. From Mexico.
3 1/8″ x 1 3/4″ x 1 1/2″
Price: $24.00
#SP116
Specimen: This is an awesome face polished piece of purple & white sagenite agate with an open center filled with druzy quartz crystals & a little calcite. Self collected from Sheep’s Bridge, Arizona.
2 1/4″ x 2″ x 1 5/8″
Price: $30.00
#SP117
Specimen: A beautiful face polished banded Botswana agate nodule in shades of purplish-grey & white with intense parallax around the center banding. From Africa.
2 1/8″ x 1 1/2″ x 1 3/8″
Price: SOLD
#SP1118
Specimen: This is a really pretty face polished Mexican agate in colors of red & yellow with euhedral quartz, quartz crystal vugs, sagenite bursts and other inclusions.
3 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ x 2 1/4″
Price: $35.00
#SP119
Specimen: A very pretty face polished Dryhead fortification agate with an euhedral quartz center. The back side is also dome polished, so it could be displayed either way. From Montana.
3″ x 1 1/4″ x 1″
Price: SOLD
#SP120
Specimen: Face polished banded agate with striking sagenite needles floating in a translucent blue chalcedony. This is a really beautiful piece with exquisite detail. From Madagascar.
3 7/8″ x 1 3/8″ x 1 1/4″
Price: $45.00
