The Core of Expo Mineral Show (2)

SV2540NEZ

Group of cubic Fluorite crystals intergrown with each other, with marked polycrystalline growths on the faces of the cube and of a very deep and uniform mauve color, accompanied by small leafy Baryte crystals. The specimen is not perfect, it has some small dings on the edges, but stands out for the locality of origin, the Ana concession, better known as the 'Mina Ana'. The specimens that came out there are not usually very aesthetic (not to be confused with everything found later by artisanal diggings in the area of Playa Vega) so that, due to its quality, this specimen can be considered a rarity for what is usually found there.

Ana claim, Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain (±1982)

Specimen size: 17.7 x 13.8 x 8.7 cm

Main crystal size: 3.7 x 2 cm

€540 / US$576 / ¥87350 / AUD$906

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SV2640NTZ

A powerful piece. Perfectly sharp and outlined Sphalerite crystal group, of complex and twinned crystallography, of very deep toasted honey color, transparent and implanted in a rock matrix, on very well defined Dolomite crystals with a snow-white color and small crystals of Calcite.
The specimen comes from the Antonino Bueno collection whose label we will send to the buyer.

Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 3, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (2006)

Specimen size: 5.8 x 4.4 x 4.2 cm

Main crystal size: 1.4 x 1 cm

Former collection of Antonino Bueno

€640 / US$681 / ¥104420 / AUD$1050

SV2290NPR

Group of Sphalerite crystals with small white Dolomite crystals. This Sphalerite is crystallographically complex, twinned, very translucent and transparent and of a delicious apple-green color, a color which, although known at this mine, is rarely seen in specimens of this quality.
Comes from the Antonino Bueno collection whose label we will send to the buyer.

Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 1, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (01/2006)

Specimen size: 4.3 x 3 x 1.6 cm

Main crystal size: 1.2 x 1.2 cm

Former collection of Antonino Bueno

€290 / US$313 / ¥43360 / AUD$470

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SV2420NBA

Group of twinned Sphalerite crystals of excellent luster and honey color, highlighting the transparency of the piece.
The specimen comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar whose handwritten label we will send to the purchaser.

Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 2, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (2007)

Specimen size: 6.5 x 4 x 5 cm

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar

€420 / US$448 / ¥67940 / AUD$705

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SV2240NXH

Fan of fibrous-radiated Millerite crystals, with a golden color and great luster, on a Calcite matrix offering a beautiful color contrast, with small Pyrite crystals and remnants of limestone matrix. Note that this specimen has not been acid-etched, as can be seen from the good condition of its Calcite.
The specimen is a classic of Catalan mineralogy, and comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes, whose handwritten label we will send to the buyer.

Eugenia Mine, Bellmunt del Priorat, Comarca Priorat, Tarragona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain

Specimen size: 5.4 x 4.5 x 4 cm

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar

€240 / US$256 / ¥38820 / AUD$403

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SV2860TGM

Very thin and sharp, elongated crystal of Madagascar Fluor-liddicoatite, between translucent and transparent, gem quality and with dominant mauve tones, more intense in the termination of the crystal.
The pegmatites from which this specimen comes are known precisely for this type of tourmaline crystal.

Anjanabonoina, Ambohimanambola, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province Madagascar

Specimen size: 5 x 0.7 x 0.7 cm

€860 / US$936 / ¥134160 / AUD$1411

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SV2170CXA

Arborescent growth formed by well-defined Copper crystals showing dominant dodecahedral shapes of intense color and luster.
From a classic locality in Namibia, the specimen comes from the collection of duplicates of Carles Curto (number 1978.20), whose digital record we will send to the buyer.

Onganja (Emke) Mine, Helen Farm 235, Onganja mining area, Seeis, Windhoek District, Khomas Region Namibia

Specimen size: 5.5 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm

Main crystal size: 0.9 x 0.5 cm

Former collection of Carles Curto (duplicates)

€170 / US$181 / ¥27730 / AUD$270

SV2440TXX

Aerial and arborescent growth of Silver crystals with the very marked cubic forms having been preserved, and that has been completely pseudomorphed by Acanthite.
The specimen is a Moroccan classic for silver minerals, of which only few specimens are seen in the mineralogical market.

Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco

Specimen size: 7.1 x 3.6 x 2.9 cm

€440 / US$468 / ¥71790 / AUD$720

SV2280CJR

Pair of doubly terminated crystals of Azurite, one of them totally pseudomorphed by Malachite, arranged in a very aerial way with faces and sharp edges, and partially covered by Cerussite crystals and small traces of matrix.
The specimen, a Moroccan classic from the most splendid years of Touissit, comes from the collection of duplicates of Carles Curto (number 1989.32), whose digital file we will send to the buyer.

Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (±1989)

Specimen size: 4.6 x 3.8 x 2.5 cm

Main crystal size: 3.5 x 1.2 cm

Former collection of Carles Curto (duplicates)

€280 / US$298 / ¥45680 / AUD$450

SV2230NJB

Aggregate of Lead crystals with a leafy habit, with curvatures and marked twists, aerial, and with the upper part having more crystal forms.
The specimen, a world classic from the Långban mine in Sweden, which has an astonishing more than 300 different mineral species - 77 of them type locality, comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes whose handwritten record we will send to the buyer.

Långban Mine, Långban, Filipstad, Värmland Sweden

Specimen size: 4 x 2.1 x 2.2 cm

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar

€230 / US$248 / ¥34390 / AUD$373

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SV21800NXF

An important piece due not only to the minerals that form it, but by the very association of both species on the same piece, which is not common. Metallic grey Nagyagite crystals with preferentially oriented growths, are implanted in a slightly pink crystalline Quartz matrix and accompanied by darker lanceolate crystals of Sylvanite.
A historical specimen, obtained at the end of the 19th century, from a classic mining district in Romania that has deposits in which gold, silver and tellurium are exploited and that is the type locality (TL) for Nagyágite. From the collection of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes whose handwritten record we will send to the purchaser.

Sacarîmb (Nagyág), Deva, Hunedoara Romania (±1850)

Specimen size: 6.9 x 4.6 x 1.1 cm

Type locality

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar

€1800 / US$1917 / ¥293680 / AUD$2950

SV2490CXF

Spheroidal groups of small flat crystals of Chalcostibite, very sharp and lustrous, which is extraordinarily unusual in this species, on white Quartz crystals and small Dolomite crystals. A rarity of the Boldut mine, which is currently closed.
This analyzed specimen comes from the collection of duplicates of Carles Curto (number 2008.65), whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.

Boldut Mine, Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures Romania (2001)

Specimen size: 7.9 x 5.2 x 3.3 cm

Main crystal size: 0.6 x 0.1 cm

Former collection of Carles Curto (duplicates)

€490 / US$529 / ¥77290 / AUD$823

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SV2980NRF

A classic of German mineralogy formed by fans of radiating Kermesite crystals of an intense crimson-red color, with a strong color contrast thanks to being deposited on snow-white Quartz crystals, on a rock matrix. From the type locality (TL) for the species, which is also the type locality for Diaphorite and Miargyrite.
The specimen, which is accompanied by an old handwritten label, comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes, whose label and handwritten file we will send to the buyer of the piece.

Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Bräunsdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen Germany

Specimen size: 9 x 5.8 x 4.1 cm

Type locality

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar

€980 / US$1043 / ¥159890 / AUD$1600

SV2240CFA

Group of equant crystals of Harmotome, a rare tectosilicate that belongs to the zeolite group, with very marked twins among which the cross twin stands out, with other twins in the form of a "drill bit". The crystals, which are on matrix, are white, with a prominent pearly luster. Several of them are doubly terminated. From the type locality for the species.
This specimen comes from the collection of duplicates of Carles Curto (number 1967.10), whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.

St. Andreasberg mining area, Goslar District, Harz, Lower Saxony/Niedersachsen Germany

Specimen size: 4.7 x 4.6 x 2.3 cm

Main crystal size: 0.7 x 0.4 cm

Type locality

Former collection of Carles Curto (duplicates)

€240 / US$259 / ¥35890 / AUD$389

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SV2100TPA

Group of Quartz crystals (variety amethyst) growing preferentially in two directions, on matrix with small globular Calcite crystals, with good luster and uniform color.
The specimen comes from finds made in the Capurru quarry during the year 2008.

Capurru Quarry, Osilo, Sassari Province, Sardinia/Sardegna Italy (±2008)

Specimen size: 7.2 x 4.6 x 4.6 cm

Main crystal size: 1.8 x 0.7 cm

€100 / US$106 / ¥16310 / AUD$160

SV290CFB

Delicate miniature formed by an aggregate of fine Stibnite crystals, some of them perfectly sharp, with their characteristic metallic luster, intertwined with each other, with small remnants of Calcite matrix.
The specimen comes from the collection of duplicates of Carles Curto (number 1970.47), whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.

Niccioleta Mine, Massa Marittima, Grosseto Province, Tuscany Italy (±1970)

Specimen size: 3.9 x 3.2 x 1.7 cm

Main crystal size: 4.1 x 0.3 cm

Former collection of Carles Curto (duplicates)

€90 / US$97 / ¥13450 / AUD$146

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SV2490TMB

Group of Pyromorphite crystals with a prismatic habit and hexagonal outline, in matrix, with greater development in the upper part of the piece forming divergent crystal aggregates and flat terminations, with great luster and the best green color for specimens from the locality of origin, the Les Farges mine, in France.
A very fine and elegant piece.

Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine France

Specimen size: 3.4 x 2.7 x 2.8 cm

Main crystal size: 0.4 x 0.3 cm

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

€490 / US$521 / ¥79940 / AUD$800

SV2150CTV

Parallel columnar growths of Prehnite crystals with sharp and curved edges, of a delicate yellowish green color with lighter areas and a satin luster.
A quality specimen for this locality that comes from the collection of duplicates of Carles Curto (number 1974.08), whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.

Ankogel, Malta, Spittal an der Drau, Hohe Tauern, Carinthia/Kärnten Austria

Specimen size: 4.5 x 4.1 x 2.5 cm

Main crystal size: 0.6 x 0.6 cm

Former collection of Carles Curto (duplicates)

€150 / US$162 / ¥22430 / AUD$243

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SV280CBR

Spheroidal crystals of Rosasite with an intense blue color, implanted on a matrix of limestone rock, with the particularity of being accompanied by fine translucent rhombohedral Calcite crystals.
An elegant specimen that comes from the collection of duplicates of Carles Curto (number 1985.57) and whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.

Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango Mexico

Specimen size: 6.3 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm

Main crystal size: 0.4 x 0.4 cm

Former collection of Carles Curto (duplicates)

€80 / US$86 / ¥11960 / AUD$129

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SV2440NJE

Doubly terminated, sharp floater crystal of Silver, with a very visible spinel-law twin, skeletal growths, very sharp and profiled, accompanied by groups of isolated Acanthite crystals, one of them dominant.
The specimen, whose locality of origin is a classic for silver minerals, comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes whose handwritten label we will send to the purchaser.

Batopilas, Andrés del Río District, Municipio Batopilas, Chihuahua Mexico

Specimen size: 3.3 x 0.8 x 0.7 cm

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar

€440 / US$468 / ¥71790 / AUD$720

SV2170NBR

An iconic piece from Arizona. Gypsum (selenite variety) with small remnants of limonitic matrix embedded in the Gypsum and also on the surface, and with some whitish cloudy areas which highlight inclusions of acicular crystals of Copper in dendritic growths with a very vivid reddish color, all perfectly visible thanks to the transparency of the Gypsum.
A pedigreed piece from the Dick Bideaux collection and the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection whose labels we will send to the buyer.

Mission Mine, Mission complex, San Xavier, Pima mining district, Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona USA

Specimen size: 5.8 x 4.7 x 1.4 cm

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV

Ex Dick Bideaux

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar

€170 / US$183 / ¥25420 / AUD$275

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SV2380THE

Mass of Malachite crystals that have covered very arborescent and dense Copper crystals with aerial forms at the ends, and a bright and uniform color.
The specimen is an American classic for coppers and comes from a deposit in which gold and silver were also worked, in addition to other elements such as bismuth and zinc.

Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona USA

Specimen size: 4.6 x 3.5 x 2.4 cm

€380 / US$410 / ¥56820 / AUD$616

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SV2190TBR

Group of arborescent Copper crystals arranged aerially and with a very sharp crystal definition.
A very elegant miniature from a classic American deposit for Copper, and which comes to us via the old collection of Robert-Auguste Touchon.

Lake Superior copper district, Keweenaw County, Michigan USA

Specimen size: 2.5 x 2.1 x 1.1 cm

Main crystal size: 0.4 x 0.2 cm

Former collection of Robert-Auguste Touchon

€190 / US$205 / ¥29970 / AUD$319

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SV2680TGA

Novelty on the market in 2022.
Arborescent Silver, very aerial and aesthetic, with very marked spinel-law twinning. It is on matrix, surrounding a rocky core decorated by Calcite crystals that differentiate it from the classic Hongda silvers.
These pieces come from a find made in a small gold working, currently closed, and from which until now there was no evidence that such good silvers had been found there.

Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province China (±2014)

Specimen size: 6.3 x 3.2 x 2 cm

Main crystal size: 3.1 x 0.15 cm

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV

€680 / US$724 / ¥110940 / AUD$1110

SV2420TRM

Novelty on the market in 2022.
Arborescent Silver, very aerial and aesthetic, with very marked spinel-law twinning. On matrix, surrounding a rocky core, and adorned with Calcite crystals that differentiate it from the classic Hongda silvers.
These pieces come from a find made in a small gold working, currently closed, and from which until now there was no evidence that such good silvers had been found there.

Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province China (±2014)

Specimen size: 5.2 x 1.8 x 1 cm

Main crystal size: 4.7 x 0.1 cm

€420 / US$457 / ¥65520 / AUD$689

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SV2290TXA

From a 2022 discovery in the Daye area, parallel growths of lenticular and very aerial Calcite crystals forming stacks, on matrix. They are translucent, lustrous, yellow with red Hematite inclusions and geometric color zoning that gives a very aesthetic result.

Daye mining area, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province China (03/2022)

Specimen size: 5.7 x 5.1 x 3.9 cm

Main crystal size: 1 x 1 cm

€290 / US$308 / ¥47310 / AUD$470

SV2240TPR

From a 2022 discovery in the Daye area, parallel growths of lenticular and very aerial Calcite crystals forming stacks, on matrix. They are translucent, lustrous, yellow with red Hematite inclusions and geometric color zoning that gives a very aesthetic result.

Daye mining area, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province China (03/2022)

Specimen size: 5.2 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm

Main crystal size: 1 x 0.9 cm

€240 / US$259 / ¥35890 / AUD$389

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SV290MAB

Elongated crystal of Beryl (emerald variety) of hexagonal outline and uniform grass-green color, somewhat translucent, with faces and edges well defined, showing a slight twist and with a second, smaller crystal growing perpendicular to the main one. The specimen comes from China where they are found in veins of Quartz and in pegmatites.

Dayakou Mine, Mengdong township, Malipo, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province China (08/2022)

Specimen size: 1.5 x 0.4 x 0.3 cm

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

€90 / US$97 / ¥13450 / AUD$146

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SV2220MTX

Book-like aggregates of very sharp Baryte crystals, between tabular and lamellar, translucent, white, and on matrix. From an already extinct locality from which it is very difficult to find specimens nowadays, and even more so of this quality and size.
This specimen comes from the collection of Lluís Daunis.

Osor Mines, Osor, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain

Specimen size: 11.8 x 10 x 6.7 cm

Main crystal size: 1.2 x 0.6 cm

Minor fluorescence short UV

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

€220 / US$235 / ¥35580 / AUD$369

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SV2240EGX

Group of Quartz crystals (smoky variety) implanted on a matrix of Orthoclase crystals twinned according to the Baveno law, and with a parallel aggregate of lamellar Mica crystals, probably Muscovite.
The specimen, of special interest due to its locality and size, comes from the collection of Raúl Sanabria, whose label we will send to the buyer.

Navazales Quarry (El Berrocal, Los Gallegos), La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco - Bustarviejo, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama, Community of Madrid Spain (03/2001)

Specimen size: 14.4 x 11.6 x 6.7 cm

Main crystal size: 4.5 x 3.5 cm

Former collection of Raúl Sanabria

€240 / US$255 / ¥39150 / AUD$390

SV2180TBX

Cubo-octahedral crystal of Galena, of considerable size, partially covered by a multitude of tiny Cerussite crystals, hosted in a matrix formed of iron-rich Dolomite and associated with a large group of Quartz crystals, some of them doubly terminated.
A curious specimen due to its genetics and for being from the Rómulo mine in the La Unión-Cartagena mining district, very difficult to get nowadays.

Mina Rómulo, Collado La Mina, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia) Spain (±1992)

Specimen size: 10.5 x 7.4 x 4 cm

Main crystal size: 3.1 x 2.7 cm

€180 / US$191 / ¥29360 / AUD$290

SV2110TTX

Galena cubo-octahedron crystal, of considerable size, partially covered by a multitude of tiny crystals of Cerussite, encompassed in a matrix formed by iron-bearing Dolomite, and accompanied by Quartz crystals, some of them doubly terminated.
A curious specimen due to its genetics, from the Rómulo Mine in the mining district of La Unión-Cartagena, and which is very difficult to obtain today.

Mina Rómulo, Collado La Mina, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia) Spain (±1992)

Specimen size: 8.6 x 6.3 x 6.5 cm

Main crystal size: 6.3 x 5.9 cm

€110 / US$117 / ¥17790 / AUD$184

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SV2230TXL

Cubo-octahedral crystal of Galena, of considerable size, partially covered by a multitude of tiny Cerussite crystals, hosted in a matrix formed of iron-rich Dolomite and associated with Quartz crystals, some of them doubly terminated.
A curious specimen due to its genetics and for being from the Rómulo mine in the La Unión-Cartagena mining district, very difficult to find nowadays.

Mina Rómulo, Collado La Mina, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia) Spain (±1992)

Specimen size: 8.6 x 6.3 x 3.9 cm

Main crystal size: 4.5 x 4.3 cm

€230 / US$248 / ¥34390 / AUD$373

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SV2360NCX

Group of Baryte crystals that form bright leafy aggregates, sharp and interpenetrated with each other. One crystal is adorned at the end by tiny, totally water-clear Quartz crystals.
Comes from a mine that has become swallowed by the peri-urban nucleus of Vista Alegre, in the mining district of La Unión-Cartagena.

San Camilo Mine, Vista Alegre, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia) Spain

Specimen size: 12.2 x 10.9 x 7.6 cm

Main crystal size: 8 x 3 cm

€360 / US$383 / ¥58730 / AUD$590

SV2120NFM

Group of Galena crystals with dominant cube forms, with the vertices truncated by octahedron faces, with small remnants of honey-colored Sphalerite and whitish lenticular and curved crystals of Dolomite.
Comes from a mining district where zinc and lead were exploited from Sphalerite and Galena ores respectively.

La Florida mining area, Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Comarca Costa Occidental/Saja-Nansa, Cantabria Spain

Specimen size: 6.3 x 5.3 x 4.7 cm

Dolomite fluorescent long & short UV

€120 / US$128 / ¥19410 / AUD$201

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SV280NGR

Group of Galena crystals with dominant cube forms, with the vertices truncated by octahedron faces, with small remnants of honey-colored Sphalerite and whitish crystals of Dolomite.
Comes from a mining district where zinc and lead were exploited from Sphalerite and Galena ores respectively.

La Florida mining area, Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Comarca Costa Occidental/Saja-Nansa, Cantabria Spain

Specimen size: 5.4 x 3.6 x 3 cm

Main crystal size: 2.2 x 1.6 cm

€80 / US$85 / ¥13050 / AUD$130