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TC24300PBV

Polycrystalline and parallel growths of large Ferberite crystals with very sharp habits, associated with a Quartz crystal and with white Calcite-Dolomite coatings and lenticular Siderite crystals.
A monster. Among the best known of this size.

Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal

Specimen size: 20.5 x 17 x 10.5 cm

Main crystal size: 18 x 6.7 cm

Former collection of Jordi Povill

TC2150DRB

Group of Sulphur crystals with a truncated bipyramidal shape and with sharp crystal forms. Translucent, with good luster, a very vivid color and a small matrix with Celestine crystals.
With a label from Lluís Daunis collection.

Racalmuto Mine, Racalmuto, Agrigento (Girgenti) Province, Sicily Italy

Specimen size: 5 x 4.4 x 2.8 cm

Main crystal size: 3.1 x 2.7 cm

With label from the Lluís Daunis Collection

TC2120DLM

Floater Sulphur crystal with a truncated bipyramidal shape, with polycrystalline growths on their faces, translucent, with good luster and a very vivid color and with small white Celestine coatings.
With label from the Lluís Daunis collection.

Racalmuto Mine, Racalmuto, Agrigento (Girgenti) Province, Sicily Italy

Specimen size: 3.4 x 3.2 x 2.1 cm

With label from the Lluís Daunis Collection

Former collection of Carles Curto (duplicates)

TC22200MRT

Fluorite crystal of good size with an octahedral shape, crystalline growths on all its faces. With good luster and a light green color zoned with the white color of the Quartz. On a Quartz matrix with white Calcite coatings and small Pyrite crystals.

Xiefang Mine, Ruijin, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province China (2016)

Specimen size: 16.5 x 10 x 9.8 cm

Main crystal size: 8 x 6.4 cm

TC21400NRT

Arborescent crystals of Silver on a Calcite matrix with Rhodochrosite crystals coating the crystals of Silver, Quartz and small crystalline concretions of Acanthite. The specimen is from a locality where Silver is known but which yields collectable specimens only sporadically, and even more sporadically with this extremely unusual combo of Rhodochrosite coating Silver crystals.
It comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes (number PL-34), whose label we will send to the buyer.

Uchucchacua Mine, Oyón Province, Lima Department Peru (±2009)

Specimen size: 6.3 x 5 x 3.3 cm

Main crystal size: 2 x 0.2 cm

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar

TC2190NLR

Floater group of tabular Vanadinite crystals with very well defined polycrystalline growths. Lustrous, and bright red on the front and with orange tones on the back.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 784), whose label we will send to the buyer.

Mibladen (Mibladen mining district), Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (±2018)

Specimen size: 3.6 x 3 x 2.1 cm

Main crystal size: 2.7 x 2.6 cm

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez

TC2220MBL

Group of Fluorite crystals with a cubic shape and rhombohedral bevels with very well defined polycrystalline growths. The crystals, translucent, have a very marked color zoning between green and an intense violet tone that is concentrated especially on the edges. With small white coatings of Quartz.

Qinglong Mine, Dachang, Qinglong, Qianxi'nan Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province China (10/2021)

Specimen size: 23.5 x 21 x 9 cm

Main crystal size: 3.2 x 3.1 cm