The Core of Tucson Show Virtual 2022

TC2110TRF

Group of very sharp Gypsum crystals with good luster and a reddish color, totally filled with sand inclusions. A geological curiousity.

Great Salt Plains, Jet, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma USA

Specimen size: 8.6 x 7.8 x 6.3 cm

Main crystal size: 5.3 x 4.6 cm

TC2240TFM

Group of complex Calcite crystals very rich in crystal forms, with a spheroidal shape, transparent, with good luster and an intense yellow orange color.

Berry Materials Corp. Quarry, North Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana USA

Specimen size: 6 x 4.7 x 3.2 cm

Main crystal size: 2.2 x 2 cm

Former collection of A. Mayor

TC2190EFG

Group formed by two doubly terminated Quartz crystals, one of them showing an unusual crystal habit. The crystals are transparent, lustrous, and have abundant highly visible hydrocarbon inclusions. An excellent Spanish classic.

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

Specimen size: 9 x 5.8 x 4.7 cm

TC2190NDJ

Druse of Pyromorphite crystals with a prismatic shape and good terminations, with lustrous crystals of an intense green color. These types of specimens can already be considered historic.

Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Allerdale, former Cumberland, Cumbria England / United Kingdom

Specimen size: 6.5 x 5.6 x 3.9 cm

Main crystal size: 0.2 x 0.1 cm

TC2280EPQ

Vug with thick tabular crystals of very bright Hematite, in matrix, with small Quartz crystals (smoky variety). The specimen, from a little-known French locality, comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.

Brézouard, Les Vosges Massif, Lapoutroie, Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est France

Specimen size: 9.3 x 8.4 x 4.7 cm

Main crystal size: 0.2 x 0.1 cm

Former collection of Alain Martaud