| Below is a gallery of high quality classic mineral specimens from closed
or lost localities known for great mineral specimens acquired from old
collections available for sale from John Betts - Fine Minerals in New York
City, NY. To purchase mineral specimens, go to the
online order form.
Sizes: (t) = Thumbnail, (m) = Miniature, (c) = Cabinet, (lc) = Large Cabinet

#37337, Elbaite Tourmaline, (Himalaya
Mine), Mesa Grande District, California (m) $250 |

#43974, Uvarovite Garnet, Saranovskoye
Mine, Russia *Type Locality (c) $250 |

#46174, Ilvaite with Quartz, 1st Sovietskiy
Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia (m) $125 |

#45582, Hemimorphite var. Calamine, Sterling
Mine, New Jersey (c) $125 |

#46671, Elbaite Tourmaline with Rose Quartz
Crystals, Alto da Pitorra, Brazil (m) $375 |

#46982, Calcite, Dalnegorsk, Russia
(m) $175 |

#46584, Ilvaite on Hedenbergite, Dalnegorsk,
Russia (m) $48 |

#41987, Apatite-(CaF) with Muscovite,
Minas do Panasqueira, Portugal (t) $225 |

#46595, Apatite-(CaF) on Quartz and
Albite, Harvard Quarry, Maine (m) $75 |

#46888, Hematite, Bisbee, Arizona
(c) $65 |

#46885, Wulfenite, Defiance Mine, Arizona
(m) $375 |

#32711, Rutile (twinned crystals), Graves
Mountain, Georgia (m) $175 |

#46650, Azurite with Malachite, La Sal
District, Utah (c) $350 |

#46911, Quartz var. Smoky on Microcline,
Moat Mountain, New Hampshire (c) $22 |

#46564, Muscovite, Tamminen Quarry, Maine
(m) $15 |

#43543, Gold (fine wire crystals), Olinghouse
Mine, 6030 bench, 813 pit, Nevada (t) $275 |

#39042, Barite with Calcite and
Chalcopyrite, Minerva #1 Mine, Illinois (c) $45 |

#45698, Fluorite, William Wise Mine,
New Hampshire (c) $325 |

#37735, Pyrite, Isola d'Elba, Italy
(c) $75 |

#45692, Dioptase with Malachite, Tsumeb
Mine, Namibia (m) $375 |

#45911, Quartz, Tamminen Quarry, Maine
(c) $225 |

#45850, Pyrite, Ambasaguas, Spain
(m) $125 |

#45678, Siderite, Bisbee, Arizona
(c) $250 |

#45707, Silver in Arsenic, Pohla Mine,
near Crottendorf, Germany (t) $225 |

#46633, Quartz var. Amethyst, Pennsylvania
(m) $75 |

#46036, Smithsonite, Kelly Mine, New
Mexico (m) $395 |

#46113, Prehnite, Quartz, Epidote, Djebel
Melh, Bou Arfa, Morocco (c) $350 |

#46045, Azurite with Malachite pseudomorphs after
Cuprite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona (m) $350 |

#46784, Beryl (18-sided crystal), McGinnis
Mine, New Hampshire (m) $95 |

#46567, Quartz var. Carnelian, Stirling
Brook, New Jersey (m) $75 |

#46344, Galena, Milliken Mine, Missouri
(m) $165 |

#46121, Andradite Garnet, Stanley Butte,
Arizona (c) $125 |

#46683, Copper (Spinel-law twinned
crystals), Ray Mine, Arizona (m) $250 |

#46350, Spinel with Chondrodite, Amity,
New York (t) $75 |

#46387, Uvite Tourmaline, Power's Farm,
Pierrepont, New York (m) $125 |

#24764, Fluorite, La Viesca Mine, Spain
(c) $150 |

#46390, Almandine Garnet, Ötztal,
Austria (c) $350 |

#46450, Analcime, Two Islands, Canada
(c) $110 |

#46388, Calcite with Pyrite and Hematite,
St. Joe Minerals Corp. Mine, Balmat, New York (c) $350 |

#46372, Rutile, Parkesburg, Pennsylvania
(t) $38 |

#46755, Cuprite and Native Copper, Ray
Open Pit Mine, Arizona (t) $110 |

#46939, Grossular Garnet, Pitts and Tenney
Quarry, Maine (c) $125 |

#46823, Quartz var. Amethyst, Washington
Camp-Duquesne District, Arizona (m) $95 |

#42070, Wulfenite with Mimetite, San
Francisco Mine, Mexico (m) $175 |

#46590, Vivianite, Richmond, Virginia
(c) $75 |

#40381, Pyrite Stalactite, near Frankfort,
Ohio (m) $75 |

#19625, Ilvaite, Dalnegorsk, Russia
(m) $150 |

#46766, Wulfenite and Calcite, Glove
Mine, Arizona (c) $36 |

#47072, Pyromorphite, Bunker Hill Mine,
Idaho (t) $100 |

#8309, Arfvedsonite (rare terminated
crystal), Hurricane Mountain, New Hampshire (m) $175 |

#47046, Sphalerite with Calcite, Tri-State
Lead-Zinc Mining District, Oklahoma (c) $42 |

#46732, Galena on Sphalerite, Commodore
Mine, Colorado (c) $75 |

#41956, Hematite var. Eisenrose, Prosa,
St. Gotthard, Switzerland (t) $225 |

#7872, Quartz var. Amethyst scepter, Deer
Hill, Maine (t) $28 |

#47049, Gmelinite on Chabazite, Pinnacle
Rock, Canada (c) $85 |

#48001, Grossular Garnet, Pitts and Tenney
Quarry, Maine (m) $38 |

#47070, Magnetite (rare cubic and tetrahexahedral
crystal form), ZCA Mine No. 4, Fowler Ore Body, 2500' Level, New
York (t) $175 |

#47042, Quartz var. Amethyst, Saltman
Prospect, Maine (c) $250 |

#47088, Pyrite, Navajún, Spain
(t) $48 |

#48009, Quartz var. Smoky, Palermo Mine,
New Hampshire (m) $40 |
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#46189, Stibnite, Baiutz, Romania
(lc) $375 |

#42019, Gold (crystallized), Eagle's
Nest Mine, California (m) $1500 |

#43871, Liddicoatite Tourmaline, Alakamisy,
Madagascar *Type Locality (c) $1100 |

#43969, Wulfenite, Bad Bleiberg, Austria
*Type Locality (c) $400 |

#43707, Quartz var. Laguna Agate, Ojo
Laguna, Mexico (c) $450 |

#45896, Apatite-(CaF) in Calcite, Yates
Mine, Canada (lc) $495 |

#45570, Barite on Manganite, Lucy Mine,
Negaunee District, Michigan (c) $400 |

#43874, Liddicoatite Tourmaline, Alakamisy,
Madagascar *Type Locality (c) $1450 |

#36384, Benstonite, Minerva #1 Mine,
Illinois (lc) $795 |

#46439, Barite, Villamassargia, Italy
(c) $850 |

#41758, Elbaite Tourmaline in Quartz,
Santa Rosa Mine, Brazil (c) $650 |

#46385, Quartz var. Amethyst, Saltman
Prospect, Camp Encore, Maine (lc) $150 |

#46197, Ferberite, Arsenopyrite, Siderite,
Quartz, Minas do Panasqueira, Portugal (c) $400 |

#44195, Wulfenite, Bad Bleiberg, Austria
*Type Locality (c) $400 |

#41742, Benitoite* and Neptunite, Benitoite
Gem Mine, California *Type Locality (lc) $3500 |

#45725, Copper (crystallized), Tsumeb
Mine, Namibia (m) $650 |

#45572, Galena, Dalnegorsk, Russia
(c) $500 |

#45675, Azurite on Chrysocolla, Morenci
Mine, Northwest Extension, Arizona (c) $150 |

#45895, Sulfur, Girgenti, Italy
(lc) $450 |

#45893, Calcite with Dioptase inclusions,
Tsumeb Mine, Namibia (lc) $475 |

#20260, Sphalerite with Dolomite, England
(c) $400 |

#45988, Goethite, Lucy Mine, Negaunee
District, Michigan (lc) $275 |

#45912, Smithsonite on Coronadite,
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Australia (lc) $400 |

#45989, Almandine Garnet, Ötztal,
Austria (lc) $750 |

#46039, Quartz var. Smoky with Chlorite,
Maderanertal, Switzerland (lc) $300 |

#46363, Magnetite (rare cubic crystal
form), ZCA Mine No. 4, Fowler Ore Body, 2500' Level, New York
(lc) $250 |

#41363, Fluorite with Calcite, Denton
Mine, Illinois (lc) $275 |

#46315, Galena with Calcite, Rossie Lead
Mines, New York (c) $450 |

#46274, Cerussite (twinned crystals),
Tsumeb Mine, Namibia (c) $400 |

#46616, Almandine-Spessartine Garnet,
Avondale, Pennsylvania (c) $950 |

#41835, Calcite, Egremont, England
(lc) $375 |

#40373, Fluorite with Sphalerite, Elmwood
Mine, Tennessee (lc) $150 |

#46543, Quartz var. Smoky, Peter's Pocket,
Bartlett, New Hampshire (lc) $200 |

#41950, Vanadinite and Quartz in Calcite,
Grey Horse Mine, Arizona (c) $400 |

#46384, Manganite, Ilfeld, Germany (Type
Locality for Manganite) (lc) $3000 |

#43857, Gold (crystallized), Mockingbird
Mine, California (t) $675 |

#42071, Epidote, Untersalzbachtal, Austria
(m) $450 |

#42160, Copper and Calcite, Quincy Mine,
Hancock, Michigan (m) $950 |

#46287, Celestine on Sulfur, Girgenti,
Italy (lc) $500 |

#46638, Calcite (twinned crystals), Roosevelt
Avenue Quarry (York Stone Quarry), Pennsylvania (c) $150 |

#46602, Anglesite on Galena, Wheatley
Mine, Pennsylvania (c) $3750 |

#46631, Calcite (twinned crystals), Roosevelt
Avenue Quarry (York Stone Quarry), Pennsylvania (m) $75 |

#46618, Quartz, White Haven, Pennsylvania
(lc) $350 |

#46637, Calcite (twinned crystals), Roosevelt
Avenue Quarry (York Stone Quarry), Pennsylvania (lc) $350 |

#46619, Andradite Garnet, Cornwall Iron
Mines, Pennsylvania (lc) $400 |

#46608, Calcite, Roosevelt Avenue Quarry
(York Stone Quarry), Pennsylvania (lc) $400 |

#46603, Pyrite and Magnetite in Calcite with
Actinolite inclusions, French Creek Iron Mines, Pennsylvania
(c) $75 |

#46620, Calcite (twinned crystals),
Thomasville Crushed Stone Quarry, Pennsylvania (m) $400 |

#46606, Clinozoisite in Quartz, Keystone
Trap Rock Quarry, Cornog, Pennsylvania (c) $450 |

#46640, Calcite (twinned crystals), Roosevelt
Avenue Quarry (York Stone Quarry), Pennsylvania (lc) $400 |

#46614, Brucite, Texas, Pennsylvania
(lc) $1500 |

#46607, Calcite (twinned crystals), Roosevelt
Avenue Quarry (York Stone Quarry), Pennsylvania (c) $500 |

#46629, Rutile, Parkesburg, Pennsylvania
(c) $750 |

#24716, Calcite, Santa Eulalia District,
Mexico (lc) $400 |

#46918, Fluorite with Calcite and
Chalcopyrite, Denton Mine, Illinois (lc) $250 |

#25067, Pyromorphite on Barite, Mine
Les Farges, France (lc) $8500 |

#46869, Malachite pseudomorphs after
Azurite, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia (lc) $475 |
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#48011, Copper (crystallized native
copper), Michigan (lc) $800
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