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Ferberite with Quartz, Calcite-Dolomite and Siderite

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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

€4300 / US$4593 / ¥695610 / AUD$7220

Sulphur with Celestine

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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

€150 / US$160 / ¥24260 / AUD$250

Sulphur with Celestine

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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)

€120 / US$128 / ¥19410 / AUD$200

Sulphur

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TC290DAM

Group of Sulphur crystals with a truncated bipyramidal shape, with sharp crystal forms, translucent, with good luster and a very vivid color.
With autographed label from the Lluís Daunis collection.

Agrigento (Girgenti) Province, Sicily Italy

Specimen size: 4.2 x 3.4 x 2 cm

Main crystal size: 1.7 x 1.5 cm

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection

€90 / US$98 / ¥11630 / AUD$136

Sold

Fluorite with Quartz, Calcite and Pyrite

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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

€2200 / US$2350 / ¥355890 / AUD$3690

Spessartine with Quartz (variety smoky), Feldspar and Mica

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TC22200EMR

Groups of trapezohedral crystals of Spessartine, transparent, very lustrous and with a vivid orange color. On matrix, also on Quartz (variety smoky) and on a group of Feldspar crystals with related leafy Mica aggregates. These specimens, once abundant, have practically disappeared from the market.

Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province China

Specimen size: 18.8 x 12.3 x 8.7 cm

Main crystal size: 7.2 x 2 cm

Former collection of Jean-Pierre and Nicole Voilhes

€2200 / US$2431 / ¥297770 / AUD$3233

Sold

Elbaite
Elbaite
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TC23900TBA

Floater and doubly terminated Elbaite crystal, with a rough lower termination and an acute upper termination rich in crystal forms, transparent, with good luster and an intense green color in most of the crystal but with a pink-red band at the base.

Rubaya, Bahunde, Masisi Territory, North Kivu Province (Kivu) Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) (2021)

Specimen size: 7.4 x 2.9 x 2.8 cm

Weight: 124.8 grams

€3900 / US$4215 / ¥615220 / AUD$6552

Sold

Silver with Rhodochrosite and Acanthite, Quartz, Calcite
Silver with Rhodochrosite and Acanthite, Quartz, Calcite
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Rhodochrosite and Acanthite, Quartz, Calcite
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Rhodochrosite and Acanthite, Quartz, Calcite
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

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

€1400 / US$1495 / ¥226470 / AUD$2350

Gold with Quartz and Malachite

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TC2460EAK

Dendritic growths of Gold in a Quartz matrix with metallic sulphides and with Malachite concretions. This rare combination of Gold with the green of Malachite is very aesthetic.

Bleida Far West Mine, Tinzouline, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2017-2018)

Specimen size: 5.7 x 5.3 x 4.8 cm

€460 / US$459 / ¥64560 / AUD$674

Sold

Beryl (variety emerald)
Beryl (variety emerald)
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TC22800TGS

Group of very sharp Beryl crystals (emerald variety), transparent, very lustrous, gem quality, and with a more intense and uniform green color than usual, not only in the La Pita area but in any other deposit. Very high quality.

La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia

Specimen size: 2 x 1.8 x 1.3 cm

Main crystal size: 1.1 x 1 cm

€2800 / US$3056 / ¥401770 / AUD$4567

Sold

Zunyite with Hematite
Zunyite with Hematite
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén

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TC2330MPN

Zunyite crystal, a rare aluminum fluoride and sorosilicate, on matrix. The crystal, tetrahedral and beveled by cube faces, has very smooth sharp crystal forms, with a color between reddish and dark brown, and with lamellar inclusions of Hematite, which makes it different from the first zunyites from Iran that reached the world of collecting in Munich 2018.

Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province Iran (07/2019)

Specimen size: 2.6 x 1.6 x 2.3 cm

Main crystal size: 1 x 1 cm

€330 / US$374 / ¥42960 / AUD$519

Sold

Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Pyromorphite
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Pyromorphite
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

TC2180TMM

Prismatic Pyromorphite crystals, on matrix, with very sharp crystal forms, bright luster and an intense and uniform green color. An European classic.

Wheal Alfred, Phillack, Cornwall England / United Kingdom

Specimen size: 4.7 x 3.6 x 2.1 cm

Main crystal size: 0.2 x 0.2 cm

€180 / US$205 / ¥23760 / AUD$286

Sold

Fluorapatite with Microcline and Calcite

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TC2180NRL

Fluorapatite crystals with very sharp crystal forms and excellent terminations. Transparent, with good luster and an intense lemon-yellow color, on a Microcline matrix.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 840), whose label we will send to the buyer.

Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (±2018)

Specimen size: 8.9 x 7.8 x 4.1 cm

Main crystal size: 1 x 0.6 cm

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez

€180 / US$197 / ¥23270 / AUD$272

Sold

Vanadinite
Vanadinite
Front
Vanadinite
Rear

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

€190 / US$202 / ¥30730 / AUD$310

Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite and Schorl
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite and Schorl
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite and Schorl
Rear

TC2230NBR

Very aerial crystal of Beryl (aquamarine variety) with very well defined faces and edges and excellent pinacoid and pyramid faces in the apical zone. Very transparent, with good luster and a vivid and uniform sky-blue color, on an Albite matrix associated with Schorl crystals.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 772), whose label we will send to the buyer.

Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas) Pakistan (±2018)

Specimen size: 3.4 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm

Main crystal size: 2.6 x 1 cm

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez

€230 / US$251 / ¥36570 / AUD$388

Sold

Epidote
Epidote
Front
Epidote
Rear

TC2150NPQ

Floater aggregate of Epidote crystals with a prismatic habit and very sharp crystal forms, which form fan-shaped growths and are translucent, lustrous, with an intense, deep and uniform green color. The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 868), whose label we will send to the buyer.

Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan) Pakistan (±2019)

Specimen size: 4 x 2.5 x 2.1 cm

Main crystal size: 3.1 x 1.6 cm

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez

€150 / US$168 / ¥19440 / AUD$233

Sold

Fluorite bicolor with Quartz
Fluorite bicolor with Quartz
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Fluorite bicolor with Quartz
Photo under intense LED light
Fluorite bicolor with Quartz
Photo under intense LED light

Fluorescent light (daylight)

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

€2200 / US$2350 / ¥355890 / AUD$3690








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