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NP27AL5: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Complex Sphalerite crystals with very well defined and slightly curved faces and edges, transparent, very bright and with a very deep toasted honey color. On matrix with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 5 × 3.6 × 3.6 cm = 1.97” × 1.42” × 1.42”
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TBM37AP8: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Very aerial group of complex Sphalerite crystals, translucent and with an intense and uniform orange color, on matrix, with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.9 × 2.7 cm = 1.93” × 1.54” × 1.06”
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NMF27AP6: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Crystals of Sphalerite with sharp crystal forms, very rich in faces and polycrystalline growths. Translucent, lustrous, with an intense honey color and on a matrix of Dolomite crystals. An old Spanish classic.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 5 × 4.9 × 3.5 cm = 1.97” × 1.93” × 1.38”
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JFD97AO2: Sphalerite with Dolomite
A very good example of the quality of the sphalerites from the Troya mine, with the addition that since the matrix is all Dolomite, there are no sulphide stains of any kind and that is why the matrix looks so white, despite the many years that have passed since it was found.
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain (1985)
Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.2 × 1.9 cm = 1.61” × 1.26” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”
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TC24ERX: Sphalerite with Dolomite
A novelty at Munich Virtual 2020. Complex crystals of Sphalerite with equant habit and very well defined faces and edges, translucent, with bright luster and red-orange reflections. On matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with an intense pink color. This material was practically unknown until now, in both the Zelidja mine itself and in the entire Touissit mining district.
Zellidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco
Specimen size: 16.3 × 12.4 × 4.8 cm = 6.42” × 4.88” × 1.89”
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TC240NY: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Polycrystalline growths of complex shapes, with well-defined edges and faces, slightly curved, transparent, very lustrous and with a very deep and uniform honey-brown color, with small coatings of white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This piece comes from some small artisanal finds that were made in this mine after its closure. There is currently no access to the galleries.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.4 × 2.9 cm = 2.52” × 1.73” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2.3 cm = 1.57” × 0.91”
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NF57AM5: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Group of complex crystals of Sphalerite, transparent, with good luster and a very vivid orange color that contrasts with the matrix of rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with a snow-white color. A classic of Spanish mineralogy that comes from the Ignacio Gaspar collection (number BLD-4), whose collection card we will send to the buyer.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 5 × 4.5 × 1.3 cm = 1.97” × 1.77” × 0.51”
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NRR96ASN5: Sphalerite with Dolomite
A delightful miniature of Sphalerite with extraordinarily well-defined and clean polycrystalline growths, twinned, translucent, and displaying an intense, deep, and uniform honey color. It rests on a group of tabular Dolomite crystals of snow-white color, with small remnants of limestone matrix, characteristic of the Áliva Mine. The specimen, a true classic of Spanish mineralogy, is small but of excellent quality and comes from the José Luis Mas collection, whose original label we will send to the buyer.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (+2003)
Specimen size: 4 × 3.3 × 1.6 cm = 1.57” × 1.30” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.43” × 0.35”
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MB28AL0: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Complex crystals of Sphalerite with tetrahedral habit, but very rich in faces and with curvatures on the faces and edges. Transparent with intense color of a different tone from the usual, less red and more greenish-yellow. With inclusions and on a Dolomite encrusted matrix.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.2 × 3.7 cm = 1.85” × 1.65” × 1.46”
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NG37AJ8: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Sphalerite crystals with complex but unusually well defined forms for the locality. They are bright, very transparent and have a very intense and uniform honey yellow color. On matrix with small white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. A small jewel from Las Mánforas that comes from the Carlos González Bargueño collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
The sample has been noted and photographed in the article 'The Áliva Mining District' of the ‘Mineralogical Record‘ magazine on page 410 in the volume 52, number 4, July-August 2021
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 2, Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (2002)
Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.3 × 1.8 cm = 1.38” × 1.30” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.67” × 0.63”
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SV2290NPR: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Group of Sphalerite crystals with small white Dolomite crystals. This Sphalerite is crystallographically complex, twinned, very translucent and transparent and of a delicious apple-green color, a color which, although known at this mine, is rarely seen in specimens of this quality. Comes from the Antonino Bueno collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 1, Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (01/2006)
Specimen size: 4.3 × 3 × 1.6 cm = 1.69” × 1.18” × 0.63”
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SM380ANP: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Group of Sphalerite crystals with pronounced curvatures on their faces and edges, translucent, with good luster and an intense color, on a rock matrix with white Dolomite crystals. The specimens from Las Mánforas, increasingly hard to get, are already a Spanish mineralogical classic.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 10 × 8.7 × 6.1 cm = 3.94” × 3.43” × 2.40”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.59”
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MF98AM5: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Groups of crystals of Sphalerite with the dominant forms of the tetrahedron, transparent, with good luster and a very intense and vivid green color (variety cleiophane) on a matrix covered by white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. The specimen is very different from what is usually seen at this locality both in color and in general appearance.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 13.2 × 8.8 × 6.9 cm = 5.20” × 3.46” × 2.72”
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XM2390TBM: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Group of lustrous and complex twinned crystals of Sphalerite, very deep honey colored, almost dark, sprinkled randomly with Dolomite crystals that give it a very marked color contrast. A classic of Cantabrian mining from Las Mánforas, in a spectacular location next to Picos de Europa National Park.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 7 × 6.9 × 5.2 cm = 2.76” × 2.72” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.4 cm = 0.94” × 0.94”
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SV2420NBA: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Group of twinned Sphalerite crystals of excellent luster and honey color, highlighting the transparency of the piece. The specimen comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar whose handwritten label we will send to the purchaser.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 2, Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (2007)
Specimen size: 6.5 × 4 × 5 cm = 2.56” × 1.57” × 1.97”
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NE50AK4: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Complex crystal of Sphalerite, twinned, with the faces and edges more defined than usual at the locality, between translucent and transparent, very bright and uniform orange shade and on matrix with white Dolomite crystals. The specimen comes from the collection of Carlos González Bargueño, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 1, Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (2004)
Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.1 × 3.5 cm = 2.80” × 1.61” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3.1 cm = 1.77” × 1.22”
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XM2580NTR: Sphalerite with Dolomite
A floater that shows two main complex and interpenetrating spherical groups of Sphalerite, with well defined faces and edges. They are translucent, with marked polysynthetic twins and an intense honey color, and are joined at the base with Dolomite crystals as the matrix. A classic of Cantabrian mining from Las Mánforas, located in a spectacular setting next to the Picos de Europa National Park. It belonged to Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and 90s, assembled an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of Northern Spain.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.2 × 4.1 cm = 2.28” × 1.65” × 1.61”
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SV640NDR: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Polycrystalline growth of complex Sphalerite crystals with curvatures and with smooth tetrahedron forms. The crystals, between transparent and translucent, have a deep and uniform dense caramel color, and are on and between sharp white crystals of Dolomite, with small remnants of a limestone matrix. From a classic Spanish mine for Sphalerite located in a spectacular setting next to Los Picos de Europa National Park, inaccessible already for many years since its galleries were flooded.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (±1990)
Specimen size: 16.6 × 13.5 × 6.2 cm = 6.54” × 5.31” × 2.44”
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SV660NCA: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Very marked polycrystalline growth of complex Sphalerite crystals with curvatures and with smooth tetrahedron forms. The crystals, between transparent and translucent, have a very deep and uniform honey color, and grew on and between sharp white crystals of Dolomite on a limestone matrix. From a classic Spanish mine for Sphalerite, located in a spectacular setting next to Los Picos de Europa National Park, inaccessible already for many years since the galleries were flooded.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (±1990)
Specimen size: 12.8 × 9.5 × 5 cm = 5.04” × 3.74” × 1.97”
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TBR92AP8: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Very aerial group of complex Sphalerite crystals, translucent, with very good luster and a very deep and uniform reddish color, on matrix, with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. The specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection (number BLD-11) and was previously in that of Eugeni Bareche (number 2023).
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (±1984)
Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.3 × 5.5 cm = 2.56” × 1.69” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 3 × 3 cm = 1.18” × 1.18”
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SV740NBB: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Very marked polycrystalline growth of complex Sphalerite crystals with curvatures and with smooth tetrahedron forms. The crystals, between transparent and translucent, have a very deep and uniform honey color, and grew on and between sharp white crystals of Dolomite on a limestone matrix. From a classic Spanish mine for Sphalerite, located in a spectacular setting next to Los Picos de Europa National Park, inaccessible already for many years since the galleries were flooded.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (±1990)
Specimen size: 11.8 × 9 × 8.7 cm = 4.65” × 3.54” × 3.43”
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NM93AE6: Sphalerite with Dolomite
An aggregate of complex Sphalerite crystals with curved faces, some smooth and others with polycrystalline growths. These crystals, between transparent and translucent, are very bright, have a very dense, deep and uniform honey color and are partially coated by white Dolomite rhombohedra.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 13 × 12 × 7 cm = 5.12” × 4.72” × 2.76”

TVA94CD4: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Group of perfectly sharp and profiled Sphalerite crystals with complex crystallography and twinning, with the characteristic honeyed color, transparent, implanted on a rock matrix, on very sharp snow-white Dolomite crystals. The specimen comes from a classic Spanish mine for Sphalerite, located in a spectacular landscape next to the Picos de Europa National Park, and it has been inaccessible for many years due to the galleries being flooded. From the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly who bought it years ago from Jordi Fabre.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.9 × 1.7 cm = 2.48” × 1.93” × 0.67”
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NJ26AL0: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Group of complex crystals of Sphalerite, very rich in faces and with curvatures on the faces and edges, transparent, very lustrous, intense reddish orange and on a matrix partially coated with Dolomite. A Spanish classic that comes from the collection of Carlos González Bargueño, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 4, Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (2005)
Specimen size: 8.7 × 8.3 × 3.5 cm = 3.43” × 3.27” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 5 × 4.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.85”
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NB16AM5: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Druse of complex Sphalerite crystals that are very rich in shapes, from transparent to translucent, with good luster and a very intense and vivid caramel color, coated with white Dolomite crystals. A Spanish classic of good size and quality.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 12.5 × 10.5 × 8 cm = 4.92” × 4.13” × 3.15”

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