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SM190NC

Silver lamellar and hackly growths, on matrix, with granular Digenite. A great rarity, Silver is not a common species among the long list of species from the prolific Tsumeb mine.

Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia

Specimen size: 2.9 x 2.1 x 1.1 cm

Main crystal size: 1 x 0.4 cm

SM80MA

Aggregate of two twinned crystals, very rich in crystalline forms and extraordinarily shiny. Sculptural.

Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany Italy

Specimen size: 2 x 1.4 x 1.4 cm

Main crystal size: 1.5 x 1.2 cm

SM110NV

Dendritic Copper intergrown with dark red Cuprite. In a way a rarity since, curiously, the Rio Tinto mines do not usually yield crystallized copper.

Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia Spain

Specimen size: 4.5 x 2.2 x 1.8 cm

SM90TR

Short prismatic Pyrargyrite crystals, very well defined and with good terminations. On matrix, with Quartz, plus small crystals and coatings of Miargyrite.

San José Mine, San José del Progreso, Municipìo San José del Progreso, Ocotlán District, Valles Centrales Region, Oaxaca Mexico (01/2018)

Specimen size: 2.4 x 1.7 x 1.2 cm

Main crystal size: 0.7 x 0.6 cm

SM390TH

Leafy and hackly growths of native Gold, very bright, on a surface of Sphalerite crystals that cover the matrix. The specimen comes from a mining area in Colombia that is so far very little known.

Los Delirios claim, Delirios III cut, Municipio Vetas, Soto Province, Santander Department Colombia (04/2017)

Specimen size: 4.5 x 4.3 x 2.3 cm

Main crystal size: 1 x 0.25 cm

SM100MB

Very sharp Kulanite crystals, a rare phosphate from the Yukon, dark, very lustrous and on matrix, with Fluorapatite and Siderite crystals. From the type locality

Crosscut Creek, Kulan Camp area, Rapid Creek area, Dawson mining district, Yukon Territory Canada (07/1995)

Specimen size: 6.3 x 6.1 x 4.2 cm

Main crystal size: 0.9 x 0.4 cm

SM190NR

Aggregate, on matrix, of Quartz crystals (variety amethyst), with spheroidal growths of Quartz (variety chalcedony) of intense violet color.
Former collection of Miguel David Martínez. Number 214

Mamuju area, Sulawesi Barat Province Indonesia

Specimen size: 8.5 x 7.4 x 2.1 cm

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez

SM390TE

Floater gold aggregate (of the electrum variety, very rich in silver) with leafy and hackly growths and crystalline forms visible in some areas. Weight: 1.5 gram

R.J. Roberts lode, Willow Creek District, Pershing County, Nevada USA

Specimen size: 1.5 x 1.4 x 0.7 cm

SM200MF

Aggregate of crystals with curvatures on the faces and edges, brilliant, yellowish green, and on matrix. Better definition of crystal than usual in this locality.

La Vidale Mine (Brezies), Asprières, Saint-Martin de Bouillac, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, Occitanie France (2008)

Specimen size: 4.6 x 3.5 x 3.4 cm

Main crystal size: 0.5 x 0.4 cm

SM540MJ

Elbaite crystal (variety rubellite) of a very intense, deep and uniform color with remnants of feldspar matrix.

Sosedka vein, Malkhan (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai Russia (2018)

Specimen size: 7 x 2.8 x 2 cm

SM590NF

Group of sharp crystals on matrix, brilliant, with an intense and very uniform green color and some of them doubly terminated. A group of high quality pieces from this site.

San Andrés Mine, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia Spain

Specimen size: 5.2 x 4 x 4 cm

Main crystal size: 0.8 x 0.7 cm

SM460TE

Deep blue Shattuckite microcrystal growths, on matrix, with Quartz with green Chrysocolla inclusions.

Milpillas Mine, level 1100, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico

Specimen size: 9.4 x 6.2 x 3.4 cm

SM230NC

Very aerial dendritic growth of Copper with small octahedral crystals of Cuprite, red and lustrous. An English classic.

Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Saint Just District, Cornwall England / United Kingdom

Specimen size: 13.4 x 6 x 2 cm

SM760MA

Group of transparent, shiny crystals, with an intense violet color, on matrix, with Quartz crystals. With a second generation of very cute small transparent crystals on the edges of the larger Fluorite crystals.

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

Specimen size: 13.7 x 8.8 x 5.2 cm

Main crystal size: 2.5 x 2.5 cm

SM680LF

Transparent, brilliant Fluorite crystals, with an intense and deep mauve color and on matrix, with Baryte and Quartz crystals. Unusual color and appearance, very different from what usually appears in Berbes.
Former collection of Carles Millán. Number 351

Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain (±1975)

Specimen size: 12.8 x 11.4 x 5.4 cm

Main crystal size: 0.8 x 0.8 cm

Former collection of Carles Millan

SM340NV

Flat floater plate of Pyrite crystals very rich in faces, extraordinarily bright and on matrix, with small Calcite crystals. Very perfect, which is difficult in such a large piece from this mine.

Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal (±2004)

Specimen size: 23.7 x 12.8 x 2.7 cm

Main crystal size: 1.5 x 1.2 cm

SM120NQ

Partially doubly terminated, transparent, brilliant Quartz crystal, with inclusions and on a crystalline Galena matrix partially altered to light colored lead oxides. Of the best possible quality for this Quartz find.
Former collection of Miguel David Martínez. Number 366

Construction of the Alumbres-Cartagena highway, Alumbres, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia) Spain (2014)

Specimen size: 5.6 x 3.4 x 3.1 cm

Main crystal size: 2.9 x 1 cm

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez