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PostPosted: Sep 20, 2009 23:02    Post subject: Re: Less costly pieces  

Wow Darren, nice wulfenite!! You're lucky to have reacquired it. So 30 years ago, that'd be about 1979, same vintage more or less as the one pictured here (1971, as can be seen from the label on the undercarriage of the piece). I bought it in Juarez back in the days when it was safe to cross over the bridge, carouse all night, and stagger home under the influence of Tequila. What do they say? "A hangover is the wrath of grapes." ? I cannot remember exactly how much I paid for the specimen, but given the fact that I rarely had more than two or three dollars in my pocket at any one time back then, it couldn't have been much, and I'm certain it was less than $25.00, maybe even less than $20.00.

The point here is that both specimens look to have originated in the same area of the mine, and they could even be from the same pocket. Do you remember the year of the newspapers in which the specimens were wrapped there at Pebble Pups?

If you come to Tucson in 2010, bring the piece. I'll bring this one, and we can compare them side by side, maybe even factor Bennie Fenn into the mix.

Your specimens are great, muy interesting. Keep 'em coming.

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PostPosted: Sep 21, 2009 08:15    Post subject: Re: Less costly pieces  

Wow, it looks like all the old-timers definitely have the upper hand on this topic. The fact that people are posting stuff they bought when I was still in diapers makes me feel a bit better about posting stuff that I bought fairly close to the source. Granted, these are a couple of the nicer pieces from a larger lot I bought, but still, the per-piece cost was fairly low so think these qualify...
One of the bonuses of wandering into every shop with minerals in the window, no matter where I happen to be in the world... in the US I just go in, drool for a while, and walk out empty handed, but in a source country with no domestic demand, it is another game entirely. Both of these pieces are from Ica, Peru.



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PostPosted: Sep 21, 2009 09:11    Post subject: Re: Less costly pieces  

Ed Huskinson wrote:
Wulfenite, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico. Specimen is 10.5 cm long, 7cm by 7cm wide. I don't know what the green stuff is. Anyone?

Arsenic-rich Vanadinite (Endlichite), I believe.

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PostPosted: Sep 21, 2009 12:43    Post subject: Re: Less costly pieces  

Yes, endlichite is found there Jordi. We'll look at the specimen together in Tucson in 2010.

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PostPosted: Sep 21, 2009 18:36    Post subject: Re: Less costly pieces  

Here are a few coppers from the Chino Pit, Grant County, New Mexico, that I got for about 25 cents each.


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PostPosted: Sep 21, 2009 18:40    Post subject: Re: Less costly pieces  

There once was a little old lady (seriously!) who used to sell minerals at our downtown farmers market. I used to put stuff out to sell with her every now and then - locally collected Baryte, micros, fluorite and Mexican minerals I would buy at the Deming show to resale. One day, this popped up in one of the boxes she bought from "some guy" in Arizona. When asked what she wanted for it, she said 3 dollars. It's another one that was traded away a few years ago and just came back to me.


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PostPosted: Sep 22, 2009 02:23    Post subject: Re: Less costly pieces  

3 US$?
My goodness! ;-)
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PostPosted: Sep 22, 2009 10:50    Post subject: Re: Less costly pieces  

Yep, $3! I was surprised as well? I assume it's worth a bit more than that.
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PostPosted: Nov 06, 2009 03:51    Post subject: Re: Less costly pieces  

This 5,5 cm vanadinite from Taouz (Morocco) costed 3 euros (4 or 5 dollars)


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PostPosted: Nov 06, 2009 03:53    Post subject: Re: Less costly pieces  

This 6,5 cm specimen of fluorite from the Erongo mountains (Namibia) had the same price of 3 euros.


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PostPosted: Nov 06, 2009 03:55    Post subject: Re: Less costly pieces  

And i bought this calcite specimen from the Sweetwater Mine (Missouri) with a 9 cm (!) crystal for 9 euros (about 14 dollars).


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