The Core of Expo Mineral Show (1)

SV1900EPM

Group of cubic Fluorite crystals covering two large main crystals of Calcite, one of them rhombohedral at the base of the piece and another in the form of a scalenohedral crown. The Fluorite crystals exhibit very marked bevels and with deeper purplish tones, very typical for the historic locality from which this piece comes, the legendary Josefa-Veneros vein.

Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 20.4 x 14.5 x 6.9 cm

Main crystal size: 1.5 x 1.4 cm

SV260MRB

Quartz crystal with well developed prism and termination, slightly translucent, with very sharp faces and edges and partially covered by small rhombohedral Calcite crystals, and with Pyrite inclusions visible mainly on the back of the piece.

Bouismas Mine, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2022)

Specimen size: 11.2 x 8.2 x 6.8 cm

SV80MRB

Obtained at Sainte Marie 2022: Floater group of Microcline crystals with polycrystalline growths, well profiled, with very sharp crystal forms and a beautiful cream-white color.

Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (05/2022)

Specimen size: 12.2 x 8 x 6.3 cm

Main crystal size: 1.5 x 1.3 cm

SV75MTV

Obtained at Sainte Marie 2022: Floater group of Microcline crystals with polycrystalline growths, well profiled, with very sharp crystal forms and a beautiful cream-white color.

Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (05/2022)

Specimen size: 8.7 x 8 x 5.2 cm

Main crystal size: 3 x 2.2 cm

SV220NNB

Floater aggregate formed by Aragonite crystals with hexagonal outlines and short whitish grey prism faces. On matrix, accompanied by a crystalline mass of Sulfur with strong color contrast.
A classic of Italian sulfur mining.

Cozzo Disi Mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento (Girgenti) Province, Sicily Italy

Specimen size: 12.2 x 8.7 x 4.4 cm

Main crystal size: 1.6 x 1.2 cm

SV150EBX

Very elongated Gypsum floater crystal, perfectly terminated and transparent, with well-defined faces and edges and coming from a quarry exploited for clays, and where crystals longer than 1 meter have been found.

Carresse Quarry, Carresse-Cassaber, Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine France (1975)

Specimen size: 13.4 x 0.9 x 0.4 cm

SV170BRT

Curious specimen with two very different parts: the upper one formed by a multitude of cubic Fluorite crystals with a color gradation from dark to greenish tones and with violet edges; and a lower part formed by Fluorite crystals, but which have been practically covered by coralloid growths formed by Quartz microcrystals with the upper surface stained by Hematite.
It comes from a well-known mining district in Bavaria, Germany.

Hermine Mine, Lissenthan, Nabburg, Wölsendorf West District, Upper Palatinate/Oberpfalz, Bavaria/Bayern Germany

Specimen size: 14.3 x 11 x 3.4 cm

Main crystal size: 1 x 1 cm

SV390EFH

Aggregate of elongated crystals of Cerussite, on matrix, and almost entirely coated by deep green Malachite microcrystals.
The specimen comes from the collection of Michel Perraudin and was found in an old German mine that benefited from lead and zinc.

Glücksrad Mine, Oberschulenberg, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Goslar District, Harz, Lower Saxony/Niedersachsen Germany

Specimen size: 10.8 x 6.7 x 4 cm

Main crystal size: 0.7 x 0.1 cm

Former collection of Michel Perraudin

SV230ELP

Aggregate of single Cerussite crystals, some of them with a very marked V-twin. On matrix, bright and translucent, accompanied by small Wulfenite crystals, product of oxidation of the metallic part of the matrix, formed mainly by Galena.

Adami Mine No. 2, Plaka Mines, Plaka, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture Greece

Specimen size: 9.6 x 6.3 x 2.8 cm

Main crystal size: 1 x 0.5 cm

Former collection of Michel Perraudin

SV350NBX

Group of prismatic crystals on matrix, many of them doubly terminated, with excellent development of faces and edges and flat pinacoidal terminations. The color and brightness are very good.
A glory from the past, coming from one of the best pockets found in the San Andrés Mine.

San Andrés Mine, del tunel pocket, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia Spain (11/1998)

Specimen size: 5 x 4 x 2.4 cm

Main crystal size: 0.6 x 0.6 cm

SV170NTR

Group of elongatedc crystals of Pyromorphite, very aerial, many of them doubly terminated, with well defined faces and edges and flattened pinacoidal terminations with an extraordinary color and luster.
It comes from one of the best pockets in the San Andrés Mine, in Cordoba, Andalusia.

San Andrés Mine, Realces pocket (Victoria), Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia Spain (11/1997)

Specimen size: 2.2 x 1.9 x 1.4 cm

Main crystal size: 0.6 x 0.6 cm

SV160EBR

Group of Cerussite crystals on a ferruginous rock matrix with marked complete multiple twins and with a morphology reminiscent of snowflakes, but with scattered crystals and some stacking, which makes this type of Cerussite popularly known as 'jackstraw'.
The specimen is a classic for this American Mine in Arizona, although in this case the crystals are more transparent than is usual in this locality.

Flux Mine, Flux Gulch, Alum Gulch, Patagonia Mountains, Harshaw District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona USA

Specimen size: 4.4 x 4 x 1.3 cm

Main crystal size: 0.4 x 0.1 cm

SV190EBE

Group of Calcite crystals with a well-defined pseudohexagonal outline, coated entirely by a second generation of smaller Calcite crystals which are partially dissolved at the end of the prism, and with small Quartz crystals. We have analyzed this type of specimen due to its genetic complexity and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.

Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region Morocco (09-10/2021)

Specimen size: 19.8 x 19.6 x 10.7 cm

Main crystal size: 6.4 x 2.6 cm

SV860MJA

Elbaite-Schorl series crystals with well defined faces and edges, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, with dominant yellowish brown tones, and a geometric black zone on the termination, popularly known as a "Black Cap". They are in matrix, with very sharp Microcline crystals with growths in a preferred orientation, leafier crystals of Albite and, completing this pegmatite specimen, some crystals of Quartz.

Beni Bouzra (Bni Bouzra), Chefchaouen Province, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 14.6 x 8.9 x 6 cm

Main crystal size: 3.4 x 1.1 cm

SV540MBX

Group of equant Azurite crystals, with perfectly defined faces and edges, very lustrous, and a very deep and uniform blue, with marked striations on one of the faces of the crystals and accompanied by fine acicular primary crystals of Malachite arranged in the form of a spray, with a beautiful color contrast to the Azurite, in addition to some Quartz crystals, all with remnants of a limonitic rock matrix.

El Fecht prospects, El Fecht, Oumjrane, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2022)

Specimen size: 6.9 x 4.8 x 2.8 cm

Main crystal size: 1.8 x 1 cm