The Core of Tucson Show Virtual 2022

TC2115NLR

Centered group of Quartz crystals (amethyst variety), some of them totally or partially doubly terminated, transparent, very lustrous, with phantoms, geometric color zoning and with small inclusions.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 863) whose label we will send to the buyer.

Piedra Parada (Las Vigas), Municipio Tatatila, Veracruz (Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave) Mexico

Specimen size: 4 x 3.6 x 3 cm

Main crystal size: 3 x 1 cm

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez

€115 / US$128 / ¥14900 / AUD$178

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TC260NBC

Complete floater crystal with well marked parallel growths, lustrous, and with a vivid and uniform color.
The sample comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 787) whose label we will send to the buyer.

Chella, Comarca Canal de Navarrés, Valencia / València, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana Spain (2002)

Specimen size: 3.3 x 1.8 x 1.9 cm

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez

€60 / US$67 / ¥7770 / AUD$93

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TC2220ELT

Spheroidal growths of small lenticular Rhodochrosite crystals, with an intense and uniform pink color and lustrous Quartz crystals and aggregates of Sphalerite microcrystals.

Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department Peru (07/2021)

Specimen size: 11 x 6.3 x 3.8 cm

With analysis copy

€220 / US$251 / ¥29040 / AUD$350

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TC285EBL

Spheroidal growths of small lenticular Rhodochrosite crystals, with an intense and uniform pink color and lustrous Quartz crystals and aggregates of Sphalerite microcrystals.

Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department Peru (07/2021)

Specimen size: 8.1 x 7 x 4.7 cm

With analysis copy

€85 / US$93 / ¥10990 / AUD$128

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TC2140EMX

Spheroidal growths of small lenticular Rhodochrosite crystals, with an intense and uniform pink color and lustrous Quartz crystals and aggregates of Sphalerite microcrystals.

Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department Peru (07/2021)

Specimen size: 6.8 x 3.8 x 3.9 cm

With analysis copy

€140 / US$145 / ¥20240 / AUD$215

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TC2150EBM

Spheroidal growths of small lenticular Rhodochrosite crystals, with an intense and uniform pink color and lustrous Quartz crystals and aggregates of Sphalerite microcrystals.

Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department Peru (07/2021)

Specimen size: 5.3 x 3.7 x 2.8 cm

With analysis copy

€150 / US$159 / ¥24470 / AUD$240

TC280EFR

Spheroidal growths of small lenticular Rhodochrosite crystals, with an intense and uniform pink color and lustrous Quartz crystals and aggregates of Sphalerite microcrystals.

Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department Peru (07/2021)

Specimen size: 4.8 x 3.5 x 2.9 cm

With analysis copy

€80 / US$87 / ¥11620 / AUD$131

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TC2740LMN

Spheroidal growths of lustrous lamellar Baryte crystals, with a snow-white color and implanted on a matrix covered with small Sphalerite crystals.
The specimen comes from the collection of Philippe Morelon (number 479), whose label we will send to the buyer.

Les Malines mining district, Saint-Laurent-le-Minier, Le Vigan, Gard Department, Occitanie France

Specimen size: 22.4 x 14.2 x 6.9 cm

Former collection of Philippe Morelon

€740 / US$788 / ¥120730 / AUD$1210

TC2180DFR

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

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

Specimen size: 5.6 x 3.3 x 2.3 cm

Main crystal size: 2 x 1.3 cm

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection

€180 / US$201 / ¥23330 / AUD$279

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TC2640LAM

Floater aggregate in a rosette of very sharp lenticular Siderite crystals, with good luster and a light cream color.
This very good quality specimen comes from the collection of Philippe Morelon (number 43), whose label we will send to the buyer.

Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage, Vizille, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (01/2002)

Specimen size: 14.8 x 12.5 x 6.2 cm

Main crystal size: 6.5 x 4 cm

Former collection of Philippe Morelon

€640 / US$717 / ¥82960 / AUD$994

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TC2380LNK

Group of Fluorite crystals, between transparent and translucent and with an intense yellow color, with a group of Baryte crystals with sulphide microcrystal coatings. The specimen comes from the collection of Philippe Morelon (number 1121), whose label we will send to the buyer.

Chaillac Mine, rossignol vein, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire France (1995)

Specimen size: 7.8 x 6.9 x 4.6 cm

Main crystal size: 1.7 x 1.7 cm

Former collection of Philippe Morelon

€380 / US$404 / ¥62000 / AUD$620

TC2540LTL

Polysynthetic Vanadinite single crystal very aerial, floater, with good luster and a very vivid color and associated with small white Calcite coatings.
The specimen comes from the collection of Philippe Morelon (number 657), whose label we will send to the buyer.

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

Specimen size: 5.2 x 3 x 2.2 cm

Former collection of Philippe Morelon

€540 / US$583 / ¥85180 / AUD$907

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TC2490NLJ

Floater plate of Arsenopyrite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, very lustrous, with water-clear Quartz crystals and leafy aggregates of Muscovite crystals. The specimen comes from the collection Folch of duplicates, whose autographed label we will send to the buyer.

Minas da Panasqueira, levels 0-1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal (04/2017)

Specimen size: 15.6 x 11.3 x 4.5 cm

Main crystal size: 1.8 x 1.1 cm

With handwritten note from the Folch Collection (duplicates)

€490 / US$517 / ¥67570 / AUD$729

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TC2180NBJ

Fluorapatite crystals with a short prismatic shape, transparent, very lustrous, and pale green in color with geometric zoning, on matrix, with leafy Muscovite aggregates.

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

Specimen size: 9.1 x 7 x 5.3 cm

Main crystal size: 1 x 0.7 cm

€180 / US$191 / ¥29360 / AUD$290

TC280NCG

Siderite crystal with a lenticular shape, with bright luster and light brown color, attached to a Quartz crystal and covered by small Calcite crystals.

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

Specimen size: 8 x 4.7 x 4.6 cm

Main crystal size: 4.7 x 4.3 cm

€80 / US$85 / ¥13050 / AUD$130

TC2170NKL

Group of translucent, lustrous green Fluorapatite crystals, with small Arsenopyrite crystals, lamellar Muscovite crystals and partially covered by spheroidal aggregates of Fluorite with a color between blue and lilac.

Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal (11/2014)

Specimen size: 5 x 4 x 2.8 cm

Main crystal size: 2.9 x 1.6 cm

€170 / US$181 / ¥27730 / AUD$270

TC2380TDH

Spherulitic growths and felted aggregates of Shattuckite, with an intense deep color, enclosed in small Quartz crystals that protect them. They occur on a Quartz matrix, with coatings of acicular Malachite crystals and globular growths of Chrysocolla.
We will send the buyer a copy of the Shattuckite analysis.

Milpillas Mine, level 1100, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (01/2019)

Specimen size: 6.6 x 2 x 3.5 cm

Main crystal size: 0.2 x 0.2 cm

With analysis copy

€380 / US$411 / ¥52750 / AUD$563

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TC2480TEP

Group of thick lenticular Azurite crystals, with very well defined faces and edges, with the intense luster of Milpillas and the famous deep blue color (“electric blue”) of the best specimens from this locality. It sits on matrix with small coatings of fibrous Malachite. The Milpillas mine was closed in June 2020

Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2013)

Specimen size: 4.6 x 3.8 x 2.3 cm

Main crystal size: 2 x 1.6 cm

€480 / US$518 / ¥75720 / AUD$806

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TC2960EXM

Cuboctahedral Galena crystals, very sharp and shiny, implanted on a surface of translucent cubic Fluorite crystals with good luster and an intense violet color. An English classic.

Blackdene Mine, Ireshopeburn, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham England / United Kingdom

Specimen size: 17.5 x 13 x 9.2 cm

Main crystal size: 17.5 x 13 cm

€960 / US$1076 / ¥124450 / AUD$1491

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