We must surely concede by now that Dzhezkazgan is one of the very greatest of contemporary specimen localities, but you'll only really turn on to it if you favor metallic minerals (world-class crystallizations of silver, copper, bornite, chalcocite, tennantite,
stromeyerite, etc.).
Box 54, 272 80 Kladno, Czech Republic) brought in a mighty sophisticated new lot of things from the copper mines of Dzhezkazgan, including the familiar bornite, chalcocite and
stromeyerite specimens in good overall quality, and even a few small miniatures of dolomite in small pink saddle crystals with quartz: nothing great for dolomite, but at last a non-metallic (gangue?) mineral from this place.
At this show the Dzherkazgan scoop was a handful of thumbnails of exceptional crystallized
stromeyerite (AgCuS) offered by Dudley Blanwet of Mountain Minerals International.
From Springfield I mentioned the new
stromeyerite crystal clusters from Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, and there were, sure enough, a few more of these around; and Herb Obodda had two small cabinet specimens of what is surely the finest betekhtinite yet produced from Dzhezkazgan or anywhere else.
Kosnar purchased back many Sweet Home specimens from high-graders, including 1-cm tetrahedrite crystals, ruby-red hubnerite crystals, twinned
stromeyerite, and good crystals of goyazite, svanbergite and fluorite (Bancroft, 1984).
Minerals that are part of the massive ore assemblage identified by petrographic techniques and described by Honea (1992) and Wenrich and Aumente-Modreski (this issue), in general have also been identified as euhedral crystals in hand specimens, with the exception of
stromeyerite, which has not yet been seen in hand specimens.