12407 Ivyridge Turn
Chester, VA 23831
U.S.A.
email sales1@coolrox.com
web site http://coolrox.com
(804) 748-9735
(888) COOL-ROX [266-5769]
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Coolrox Limited
12407 Ivyridge Turn Chester, VA 23831 U.S.A. email sales1@coolrox.com
(804) 748-9735 |
Welcome to the Coolrox Mineral Gallery.
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Inventory was update on November 2, 2004. Not all minerals in inventory have been listed here. If you have particular interests, please email me. State name have been abbreviated (IN=Indiana), 'Habit' refers to the crystal shape. Prices stated are for 'each' mineral unless noted. You can use "Search in Page" from your browser if you are looking for keywords.
| Mineral | Description | Price | Photos |
| Agate | river stones, translucent, cloudy clear, orange; fist size and smaller | $2 | |
| Also see Rocks page | |||
| Agate Slices |
Cut, polished, geode slices from Brazil. Come in blue, red, natural, pink, purple; from 1-10" | $2+ | Link to rocks page with photos |
| Amazonite | Colorado and Virginia, up to fist size, beautiful blue-green color | $2+ | |
| Amber | Mexican | $40 | (Pic2) |
| Small (~1") pieces with bugs | $35 | ||
| Amethyst | small crystals (~1") | $2 | |
Andalusite |
Visit the Andalusite Page. Natural cruciform cross; comes in smalle (~0.75"), medium (size of a quarter), and large (~2-sq.in.) and truncated crystals. | ||
| Aragonite | from Morocco, excellent crystal habit, just bigger than a golf ball, with good crystal habit | $15 | |
| Asbestos | 10" long fibers of asbestos from China, please contact me if you are interested. 2-bundels left. | ||
| Azurite | small pieces, ~1" or less, dark blue color (Kinoite?) | $5 | !new specimens! |
| small azurite "roses" ~1" | $8 | !new! | |
| Beryl | Mitchell Co., North Carolina | ||
| light green, good habit, ~2" thick, 2.5" across | $17 | ||
| Bismuth | "Psychedelic Stairways", Lab grown in Germany, ~1" | $2 | |
| Bornite | Taos, New Mexico, small examples, great for beginning collectors | $1.50 | |
| Mineral | Description | Price | Photos |
| Calcite | blue, grapefruit size, looks 'melted' (result of acid dip); very cool look and texture | $25 | |
| transparent rhombohedrons, ~2", (NM) | $2 | ||
| honey colored scalenohedrons, geode in limestone; rock is about ~6" tall | $28 | ||
| large white rhombs, NM, upto 5" | $10 | lower price | |
| medium white rhombs (IN), about 2" | $1 | ||
| also see dolomite | |||
| also see fluorescent Franklin Minerals | |||
| Chiastolite | see Andalusite | ||
| Dioptase | very nice, small dark (emerald) green crystals, approx. 1" specimen from Tsumeb, Africa. | $40 | |
| Dolomite | chunks -some w/ calcite or chalcopyrite (OK), upto 5" | $12-$36 | (Pic1) |
| sm. Pieces (IN), good saddlebacks, ~1" | $6 | ||
| lg. flat pink slab, good saddleback crystal structure, ~4.5" | $25 | ||
| Emerald | 1-2" rough crystals | $5 | |
| Fluorescent Franklin Minerals | variety of minerals | $2+ | |
| Fluorite | |||
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A sweet specimen of light purple cubic fluorite with encrusting calcite scalenohedron seeds. This is a large specimen, bowling ball size! | $450 | (Pic2) |
| I've recently acquired some large fluorite specimens - you can now see the inventory page specific to these fluorites. | |||
| Fulgurites | Visit fulgurites.com | ||
| Mineral | Description | Price | Photos |
| Fuschite | Chromium Mica schist | $12 | |
| Garnet | white, smaller than a gold ball, good habit | $6 | |
| free of matrix, match head size and bigger | $4 | ||
| Big euhedral garnets from Vietnam (~4" diam.) | $100+ | ||
| tumbled, almost golf ball size, good garnet color | $4 | ||
| Gypsum | Austin, TX, vein in-filling, about 1cm thick, various sizes. | $1 | |
| rough pieces for pendants or wands (TN) | $3 | ||
| very fine light green crystal mass from Australia, approx. 6"x4"x3", fragile and precious | $100 | lower price | |
| also see selenite | |||
| Halite Opal | Fluorescent, one massive chunk ~12"x10"x3"-thick | $90 | Pic1 Pic2 |
| Hematite | Tumbled, ~1" | $1 | |
| Botryoidal, "Kidney Ore", England?, upto 2" | $15 | !price reduced! | |
| Kyanite | blue, in rock, rock about 5 lbs. | $25 | |
| misc. pieces, good as small collection samples | $3 | ||
| *nice* transparent pendants | $18 | ||
| Labradorite | |||
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Polished Slabs of Labradorite (~3") | $25 | |
| Lapis Lazuli | pendants | $18 | |
| rough pieces from Chile | $10 | ||
| Malachite | tumbled, around pea size | $1 | |
| Magnetite | from Kovdor, Kola, Russia, pyramid structure, multiple crystals in white matrix. New 2-3" specimen is similar to the one in this photo. | $65 | 1 new specimen |
| Mica | lepidolite (purple, lithium), semi-transparent book, Brazil, ~3" x 1,5" x 1" thick | $32 | |
| lepidolite, massive, small crystals, 5"x3"x4", | $8 | ||
| mica sheets,max 3" | $3 | ||
| biotite in rock | $8 | (left side of photo) | |
| lepidolite, botryoidal from Brazil, baseball size | $12 | (Pic2) | |
| muscovite in rock, weathered, 3" (center-back of photo) | $20 | ||
| muscovite in rock, 1" | $1 | ||
| dark mica in rock, good habit, crystals ~1cm+ | $12 | (right side of photo) | |
| mica in rock, Royal Gorge, CO | $16 | ||
| misc., in rock, NC (front right of photo) | $2 | ||
| mass of muscovite mica | $14 | ||
| cool sample of biotite growing in muscovite mica | $5 | lowest price! | |
| Moldavite | approx. 1" pieces, translucent green. Formed from meteorite impact and ground surface blown into the atmosphere and falls back to the ground (different local). | $30 | lowered price! |
| Nickel Sulfides | 3"+/- specimens of nickel copper ore from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. These samples contain pyrrhotite, pentlandite and chalcopyrite from the Copper Cliff North Mine (Inco). | $45 | new item! |
| Orpiment | Marble-size pieces, no crystal habit, great color, with realgar, (Not for Children, it is an arsenic mineral) | $6 | |
| Orthoclase | "Moonstone"marble to 3-marble size | $3 | !price reduced! |
| tumbled, 1" | $1 | ||
| Pyrite | golf ball size | $3.50 | |
| Mineral | Description | Price | Photos |
| Quartz | scalenohedrons in basalt, Rio Grande Rift, NM | $8 | !price reduced! |
| Phantom crystal points, upto 3", nice phantom point--$66 | $8+ | ||
| Good Points (no nicks, 2", some w/ phantoms) | $10+ | ||
| Clusters, golf ball size and larger | $3+ | ||
| Small quartz crystal clusters from Arkansas, side view | $2.50 | lower price | |
| Riebeckite | Colorado | $22 | |
| Realgar | Marble-size pieces, no crystal structure, great color, with orpiment, (Not for Children, an arsenic mineral) | $6 | |
| Rhodocrosite | *nice* pendants | $18 | |
| Rose Quartz | small broken pieces in bottom left of photo | $4 | |
| pale-pink piece in front right of photo | $5 | ||
| Rose- Tumbled, ~1"=$1, $13/lb | $1 | ||
| Rutilated Quartz | Rutilated, polished | SOLD | |
| Rutilated quartz, rough pieces 2-3" | $8 | ||
| Rutilated quartz, tumbled | $4 | ||
| Selenite | satin spar, 1", fiber-optic properties of Ulexite | $4 | |
| satin spar, large slab, 3"-6", optical | $9-$18 | ||
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variety of sizes, clear, upto 4" | $3-$25 | |
| rough, gray, TN | $0.75 | ||
| shards, ideal for pendants | $3 | ||
| roses, opaque | $7.50 | ||
| roses, translucent, golf ball size | $12 | ||
| rose, large blossom, opaque, "Desert Rose" | $65 | ||
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huge piece, ideal for a mantle, about 36" x 18" x 12" | Sold | |
| Serpentine | Tumbled, Peru, green ~1" | $4 | |
| Rough, British Columbia, 1"+ | $4 | ||
| Sphalerite | have sphalerite included with other minerals including tetrahedrite, pyrite, and quartz crystals. | $45+ | |
| large (6"+) specimen of sphalerite crystals with calcite scalenohedrons from Tennessee. | $150 | ||
| Staurolite | 'Fairy Crosses', marble size | $2 | |
| Mineral | Description | Price | Photos |
Stibnite |
Small Cluster, 2" x 1" x 1" | $85 | |
| Big Cluster, ~6" x 3" x 2" | $300 | !price reduced! | |
| Tiger's Eye | rough, gold and variagated (blue and gold), ~3" x 2" x 1" | $9 | |
| red tumbled, ~1" | $1 | ||
| gold, tumbled, 1" | $1 | ||
| Talc | Vermont, 4" | $8 | |
| Illinois w/ calcite, 6" | $12 | ||
| Montana 2" | $4 | ||
| tourmaline | in green schist matrix, nice!, 8" x 7" x 3"-thick | $275 | |
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misc. pieces of black (schrol) tourmaline, golf ball size | $15+ | |
| dark green tourmaline crystals in matrix, fist size | $90 | ||
| black tourmaline from Coal Creek, Colorado, ~baseball size | $60 | ||
| blue and purple tourmalines in syenite(?) from Paraiba, Brazil (rock about 5" x 4"), some material is gemmy | $199 | ||
| small crystals in black matrix, rock about grapefruit size | $38 | ||
| green in mica matrix (good mica sample), in white matrix | $14 | ||
| pink, translucent, poor habit, rock ~4" x 3" x 3" | $12 | ||
| tumbled black, ~1" | $4 | ||
| green in matrix (Brazil) | $22 | ||
| broken schrol in quartz matrix, rock about 5" x 4" x 3" | $6 | !price reduced! | |
| Turquoise | misc. rock scraps | $.50 ea | (Pic2) (Pic3) (Pic4) |
| Unakite | Tumbled, ~1" | $1 | |
| Wavellite | Mt. Ida, Ark | $1-$10 | |
| Wulfenite | Arizona | $4 |
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