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SM190ND

Complex translucent and bright Calcite crystals on a group of yellow Fluorite crystals with coatings of small groups of globular Pyrite crystals. A curiosity, not from the classic Moscona mine but rather from the less well known Villabona Mines.

Villabona Mines, Barrio de la Estación, Villabona, Llanera, Comarca del Nora, Principality of Asturias (Asturias), Spain Spain (2003)

Specimen size: 11 x 4.2 x 4 cm

Main crystal size: 3.4 x 3.1 cm

SM90NR

Complex Calcite crystals with scalenohedral habit, transparent, lustrous, on matrix, with palisade-like coatings of small Pyrite crystals.

Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias), Spain Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 4.1 x 3.8 x 3.6 cm

Main crystal size: 4 x 3 cm

SM120TY

Parallel growth of octahedral crystals of Magnetite pseudomorphed by Hematite with very well defined skeletal forms.

Payún Matru Volcano, Malargüe, Malargüe Department, Mendoza Province, Argentina Argentina (2008)

Specimen size: 10.3 x 4.3 x 4 cm

SM100TB

Very aerial group of cubo-octahedral crystals of Magnetite pseudomorphed by Hematite, with very well defined skeletal forms and a second generation of small lamellar crystals.

Payún Matru Volcano, Malargüe, Malargüe Department, Mendoza Province, Argentina Argentina (2008)

Specimen size: 6.7 x 3.8 x 2.7 cm

SM180AR

Aggregate of beveled cubic crystals, one of them clearly dominant, transparent, bright, light green, on matrix, with Calcite crystals.

Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China China

Specimen size: 10.9 x 5.8 x 3.7 cm

Main crystal size: 3 x 2.9 cm

SM190N

Complex Sphalerite crystals, one of them dominant, on matrix, with white Dolomite crystals pseudomorphing older Calcite crystals.

Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria, Spain Spain

Specimen size: 9.8 x 7.5 x 3 cm