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HM480LB
Floater group of Schorl crystals, most of them doubly terminated, with excellent terminal faces and very bright luster.
The specimen is from the Philippe Morelon collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Erongo Mountain, Usakos, Erongo Region Namibia (2013)
Specimen size: 11.2 x 8.5 x 6.7 cm
Main crystal size: 4.5 x 4 cm
Former collection of Philippe Morelon
HM180TZ
Growth of very sharp rhombohedral crystals, with polycrystalline surfaces, good luster, and a more intense and vivid pink color than usual. On matrix.
Manuelita Mine, ↓1400 m., Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department Peru (03/2019)
Specimen size: 7.8 x 6.1 x 3.9 cm
Main crystal size: 0.6 x 0.5 cm
HM140TQ
Growth of very sharp rhombohedral crystals, with polycrystalline surfaces, good luster, and a more intense and vivid pink color than usual. On matrix.
Manuelita Mine, ↓1400 m., Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department Peru (03/2019)
Specimen size: 8.9 x 5.8 x 3.8 cm
Main crystal size: 0.6 x 0.4 cm
HM120TN
Growth of very sharp rhombohedral crystals, with polycrystalline surfaces, good luster, and a more intense and vivid pink color than usual. On matrix.
Manuelita Mine, ↓1400 m., Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department Peru (03/2019)
Specimen size: 7 x 6.2 x 4.6 cm
Main crystal size: 1 x 0.8 cm
HM120TP
Growth of very sharp rhombohedral crystals, with polycrystalline surfaces, good luster, and a more intense and vivid pink color than usual. On matrix.
Manuelita Mine, ↓1400 m., Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department Peru (03/2019)
Specimen size: 8.4 x 6.8 x 4.2 cm
Main crystal size: 0.8 x 0.7 cm
HM90TE
Growth of very sharp rhombohedral crystals, with polycrystalline surfaces, good luster, and a more intense and vivid pink color than usual. On matrix.
Manuelita Mine, ↓1400 m., Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department Peru (03/2019)
Specimen size: 5.2 x 4.6 x 2.6 cm
Main crystal size: 0.6 x 0.6 cm
HM360LG
Group of Pyromorphite crystals with a tapered habit produced by the curvatures on the faces and edges and with very deep hopper terminations. These lustrous crystals have the olive-brown color so typical of many specimens from the locality..
This specimen is from the Philippe Morelon collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine France
Specimen size: 5.9 x 3.7 x 3.8 cm
Main crystal size: 1.1 x 0.7 cm
Former collection of Philippe Morelon
HM190LG
Group of very sharp crystals, beveled by the dodecahedron, between transparent and translucent, shiny, and with a very intense and uniform violet color. A classic of Spanish mineralogy.
Former collection of Philippe Morelon
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain (2012)
Specimen size: 14.5 x 11.8 x 6.2 cm
Main crystal size: 4.2 x 3.8 cm
Former collection of Philippe Morelon
HM55CD
Botryoidal growths of Austinite crystals of the copper-bearing variety which is also known as “barthite”, transparent, very lustrous and with an intense and deep green color, on a limonite matrix, with white scalenohedral Calcite crystals..
The specimen comes from the Carles Curto collection, whose label and catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango Mexico (±1981)
Specimen size: 2.9 x 2.2 x 2 cm
Former collection of Carles Curto (duplicates)
HM160GD
Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, shiny, with an intense yellow color, with violet geometric zoning on the edges and with highly visible hydrocarbon inclusions..
An American classic that comes from the Casado Margolles collection (No. FRM 12), whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois USA
Specimen size: 7.8 x 6 x 5.8 cm
Main crystal size: 4.2 x 3.3 cm
Former collection of Casado Margolles
HM280HR
Centered groups of acicular white Scolecite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with bright luster, and partially covered by small crystals of Fluorapophyllite-(K). On a basalt matrix.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra India
Specimen size: 15 x 9.5 x 7 cm
Main crystal size: 4.5 x 0.2 cm
HM180FH
Druse of Fluorite crystals very rich in polycrystalline growths, transparent, very shiny, and with an intense violet color, partially covered by small Quartz crystals and with cubo-octahedral Galena crystals.
Former Jan Buma collection. Number 200408
Taolin Mine, Linxiang, Yueyang Prefecture, Hunan Province China (±2000)
Specimen size: 9.8 x 7.2 x 6.3 cm
Main crystal size: 2 x 1.8 cm
Former Jan Buma collection. Number 200408
HM220TA
Parallel growths of Strontianite crystals, many of them doubly terminated, translucent, with bright luster, and slightly yellow color. On a matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with small twinned Chalcopyrite crystals.
Dreislar Mine, Dreislar, Winterberg, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia/Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Specimen size: 7.3 x 5.4 x 3.5 cm
Main crystal size: 1 x 0.3 cm
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