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Fluorite with Quartz

Fluorescent light (daylight)

SM180NGZ

Druse of Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit, sharp, transparent, with good luster and a light blue color with geometric color zoning with violet tones near the edges. With partial coatings of very transparent Quartz crystals.

La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain (2010)

Specimen size: 10.2 x 8.5 x 5.4 cm

Main crystal size: 2.4 x 2.3 cm

€180 / US$192 / ¥29110 / AUD$300

Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)

SM290NHA

Fluorite crystals of cubic habit beveled by dodecahedron faces, polycrystalline and stepped. The crystals, transparent and lustrous, have a fine geometric color zoning with dominant violet tones on the outside and an azure-blue nucleus.

La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain

Specimen size: 12.7 x 9.8 x 7.6 cm

Main crystal size: 4.7 x 3.5 cm

€290 / US$320 / ¥39250 / AUD$426

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Fluorite
Fluorite
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Fluorite
Side

Fluorescent light (daylight)

SM540NVG

Fluorite crystals of cubic habit beveled by dodecahedron faces, polycrystalline and stepped. The crystals, transparent and lustrous, have a fine geometric color zoning with dominant violet tones on the outside and an azure-blue nucleus.

La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain

Specimen size: 12.7 x 10.8 x 6.5 cm

Main crystal size: 8.7 x 4.7 cm

€540 / US$576 / ¥87350 / AUD$906

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Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte
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Fluorite with Baryte
Side

Fluorescent light (daylight)

SM1400ECB

Fluorite crystals of cubic habit beveled by dodecahedron faces, transparent, with good luster and a very well defined geometric color zoning, with violet tones on the outside and azure-blue in the center. The Fluorite is partially covered by aggregates of Baryte crystals.
A Spanish classic that comes from the Raúl Sanabria collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.

La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain

Specimen size: 11.8 x 11.2 x 8.2 cm

Main crystal size: 3.2 x 3 cm

Former collection of Raúl Sanabria

€1400 / US$1695 / ¥186590 / AUD$2203

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Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)

SM1600MRF

Group of cubic Fluorite crystals, on matrix, with very marked polycrystalline growths, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and a lilac color which, depending on the incident light, acquires intense violet tones.

Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain (±2000)

Specimen size: 20.4 x 19.8 x 6.6 cm

Main crystal size: 4.6 x 3.7 cm

€1600 / US$1709 / ¥258830 / AUD$2680

Mimetite with Beudantite

SM65NXB

Small but very sharp tabular Mimetite crystals of excellent quality. In groups or isolated, they have very well defined faces and edges, bright luster, and an intense and uniform yellow color, on a limonite matrix with botryoidal growths of Beudantite microcrystals. Both the Mimetite and Beudantite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of both analyses to the buyer.

Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia Spain (09-10/2011)

Specimen size: 2.2 x 1.7 x 0.4 cm

Main crystal size: 0.4 x 0.2 cm

€65 / US$69 / ¥10510 / AUD$109

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Mimetite with Beudantite

SM65NBA

Small but very sharp tabular Mimetite crystals of excellent quality. In groups or isolated, they have very well defined faces and edges, bright luster, and an intense and uniform yellow color, on a limonite matrix with botryoidal growths of Beudantite microcrystals. Both the Mimetite and Beudantite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of both analyses to the buyer.

Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia Spain (09-10/2011)

Specimen size: 3.3 x 2.7 x 3.6 cm

Main crystal size: 0.3 x 0.1 cm

€65 / US$69 / ¥10510 / AUD$100

Quartz with Magnesioriebeckite inclusions

SM60NAT

Quartz crystals, on matrix, with a clearly bipyramidal habit formed by two rhombohedra with very thin prism faces, practically non-existent, which is rare in Quartz. The crystals are lustrous and exhibit an intense blue color due to Magnesioriebeckite inclusions.

Acedo Claim (Juanona Quarry), Juanona, Antequera, Comarca de Antequera, Málaga, Andalusia Spain

Specimen size: 3.9 x 3.4 x 1.8 cm

Main crystal size: 1.1 x 0.8 cm

€60 / US$64 / ¥9700 / AUD$100

Baryte
Baryte
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Baryte
Side

SM95NBK

Group of thick platy crystals of Baryte that are transparent, lustrous and colorless, with white geometric zoning around the edges. A Spanish classic.

La Cruz mining group, La Cruz vein, shaft 5, Linares, Comarca Sierra Morena, Jaén, Andalusia Spain (1980)

Specimen size: 4.6 x 4.4 x 3.6 cm

Main crystal size: 3.2 x 2 cm

€95 / US$112 / ¥12390 / AUD$150

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Villamanínite on Calcite

SM90NRT

Aggregates of sharp octahedral Villamaninite crystals, with parallel growths, on a Calcite matrix. More lustrous than usual for the species. From a find made between 2010 and 2011 in the La Divina Providencia mine area, which is the type locality for the species, with larger and sharper crystals than most of the specimens historically found in the locality.

Providencia Mine (La Divina Providencia), La Foceja, Villanueva de Pontedo, Cármenes (Villamanín), Comarca Los Argüellos, León, Castile and León Spain (2010-2011)

Specimen size: 4 x 3.4 x 1.9 cm

Main crystal size: 1 x 0.8 cm

Type locality

€90 / US$96 / ¥14550 / AUD$151

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Molybdenite on Quartz and Muscovite
Molybdenite on Quartz and Muscovite
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Molybdenite on Quartz and Muscovite
Side

SM160NTW

Thick lamellar crystals of Molybdenite, very lustrous, on a Quartz matrix, with small leafy groups of Muscovite.
The specimen, a rarity for Spain in this quality, comes from the Jesús Villar collection.

Hoyo de Manzanares, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama-Alto Manzanares, Community of Madrid Spain

Specimen size: 6.3 x 6 x 3 cm

Main crystal size: 2.4 x 2.4 cm

Former collection of Jesús Villar

€160 / US$189 / ¥20870 / AUD$253

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Quartz (variety smoky) with inclusions and Orthoclase
Quartz (variety smoky) with inclusions and Orthoclase
Front
Quartz (variety smoky) with inclusions and Orthoclase
Rear

SM130DAJ

Group of Quartz crystals (smoky variety), one of them clearly dominant and partially doubly terminated, with a normal termination at the lower end and a parallel polycrystalline growth in the upper part. The group, very rich in inclusions, conserves remains of an Orthoclase matrix.
The specimen comes from the Lluís Daunis collection.

(La Cabrera pluton), La Cabrera, Comarca Sierra Norte, Community of Madrid Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 9.6 x 4.3 x 4 cm

Main crystal size: 8.2 x 4.3 cm

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

€130 / US$138 / ¥21030 / AUD$218

Dolomite

SM60NQE

Group of very sharp rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with interpenetrant twins, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, and on matrix.

Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre) Spain (±1990)

Specimen size: 4.8 x 4 x 3.2 cm

Main crystal size: 1.7 x 1.6 cm

€60 / US$71 / ¥7820 / AUD$95

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Quartz with hydrocarbon inclusions
Quartz with hydrocarbon inclusions
Front
Quartz with hydrocarbon inclusions
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)

SM240DKG

Polycrystalline growth of Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant and doubly terminated, with very sharp crystal forms, transparent, lustrous, and with abundant fluid inclusions of hydrocarbons of organic origin.
The specimen comes from the Lluís Daunis collection.

Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain

Specimen size: 11.3 x 8.2 x 6.9 cm

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

€240 / US$284 / ¥31310 / AUD$380

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Pyrite

Fluorescent light (daylight)

SM180NKD

Group of Pyrite crystals with cube forms with strongly striated surfaces, and smooth pyritohedrons, on a marl matrix. A classic of Spanish mineralogy.

Ambasaguas 2 outcrop, Ambas Aguas (Ambasaguas), Muro de Aguas, Comarca Arnedo, La Rioja Spain (08/2002)

Specimen size: 12.6 x 9.7 x 5.6 cm

Main crystal size: 2.7 x 2.4 cm

€180 / US$186 / ¥26030 / AUD$277

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Pyrite (octahedral)

Fluorescent light (daylight)

SM120NHB

Very sharp and lustrous octahedral Pyrite crystal growths. Curiously, octahedral pyrite is quite a rarity in Spanish mineralogy, especially in this case since it comes from a little-known Aragonese locality.

Carmen y Pura Group of mines, Foz-Calanda, Comarca Bajo Aragón, Teruel, Aragon Spain (01/2013)

Specimen size: 10.8 x 9.4 x 5.2 cm

Main crystal size: 1.2 x 0.4 cm

€120 / US$128 / ¥19410 / AUD$200








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