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Group of complex Sphalerite crystals, large for the locality, translucent, with very good luster and a very deep and uniform reddish color, on matrix, with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This extraordinary specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection (number BLD-19) and was previously in Raúl Sanabria Orellana's.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 4, Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 11.5 × 10 × 9.5 cm = 4.53” × 3.94” × 3.74”

HM70MB: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Group of complex crystals of Sphalerite, transparent, with good luster and an intense and lively toasted honey color, on matrix, with small white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.7 × 2.1 cm = 1.30” × 1.06” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.06” × 0.67”

MP36T0: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Well individualized crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright, and with intense deep red reflections. On matrix, with white rhombohedral crystals of Dolomite.
Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee USA
Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.4 × 2.4 cm = 2.13” × 2.13” × 0.94”

NK57K9: Sphalerite with Dolomite

An excellent miniature of sharp faces and edges, with a very well defined twin. Excellent transparency, luster and color, which resembles honey. Crystals are partially covered by white Dolomite.
The specimen has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Lapis’ on page 23, volume 36, number 7-8, July-August 2011 and on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section of the March 13, 2008 edition.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 2 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.79” × 0.59” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.28” × 0.24”

NC60I6: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Complex crystals of curved faces and edges, with excellent color and luster. With white Dolomite crystals.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.1 × 2.2 cm = 1.42” × 0.83” × 0.87”

ND11M3: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Translucent Sphalerite crystal with tones clearer than usual with some curved faces other flattened ones. Faces are partially covered by Dolomite crystals.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.2 × 1.5 cm = 1.02” × 0.87” × 0.59”

NT13AB1: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Complex crystal with curvatures on its faces and edges, twinned, with parallel growths, transparent, with an excellent deep honey color and partially coated by small white Dolomite crystals. From a Spanish mine, inaccessible for many of years, that is considered as a classic for the Sphalerite.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 3.5 × 3 × 2.2 cm = 1.38” × 1.18” × 0.87”

RG14V1: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Parallel growths of complex crystals of Sphalerite with a deep honey orange color and on a matrix of Dolomite with Calcite.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 8.8 × 6.1 × 5.6 cm = 3.46” × 2.40” × 2.20”

RX14P1: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Well defined crystals, bright and of good color and transparency, with small coatings of white Dolomite, on matrix.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.6 × 2.8 cm = 1.65” × 1.42” × 1.10”

NB14S0: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Group of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright, transparent, and its color is yellow with very well defined greenish shades. The color is very unusual and different from the more common yellow or orange on most of the samples from this locality.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.9 × 2 cm = 1.22” × 1.14” × 0.79”

NF26F3: Sphalerite with Dolomite

It is very uncommon to find a specimen with the faces so well defined, flat, and as brilliant as this one. The perfection of the edges gives it an unusual esthetic effect.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 5 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm = 1.97” × 1.38” × 0.98”

NB36M9: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Parallel growth of crystals that have excellent transparency and a very good honey color that highly contrasts with the matrix of white Dolomite.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 10 × 6 × 4.2 cm = 3.94” × 2.36” × 1.65”

NF46S0: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Group of crystals with very well defined faces and edges and an area of parallel growth. They are very bright, transparent and have a deep orange color.
The specimen has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Lapis’ on page 23, volume 36, number 7-8, July-August 2011
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 4.8 × 4 × 3.2 cm = 1.89” × 1.57” × 1.26”

NM8AB1: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Complex equidimensional crystals, translucent and with a very deep toasted honey color. They are on matrix, with Dolomite. From a Spanish mine, inaccessible for many of years, that is considered as a classic for the Sphalerite.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.6 × 3 cm = 3.03” × 2.20” × 1.18”

N96DZ8: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Group of Sphalerite crystals with marked curvatures on faces and edges. They are transparent, have an intense honey color and are on white Dolomite crystals on a rocky matrix. Famous worldwide for their color and transparency, this sample is quite different from other “more classic” Sphalerites from Áliva.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 8 × 5.1 × 4.8 cm = 3.15” × 2.01” × 1.89”

NT36AA6: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Polycrystalline growth with slightly curved faces and edges, transparent, very bright, and with a very deep, uniform honey color. The specimen is a product of small finds made intermittently in the mine after its closure. Currently the galleries are not accessible.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 6.6 × 6.1 × 4.4 cm = 2.60” × 2.40” × 1.73”

RH89K9: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Complex Sphalerite crystal group, with multiple faces and curved edges. The color is excellent and contrasts with the snowy white Dolomite matrix.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (±1968)
Specimen size: 10.1 × 7.5 × 6.5 cm = 3.98” × 2.95” × 2.56”

NQ14AB5: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Translucent Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, with a very neat green color (cleiophane variety) which is rare at Áliva, They are very bright and are on matrix, with white, small, Dolomite crystals.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 2, Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (±2012)
Specimen size: 6.7 × 3.6 × 3.3 cm = 2.64” × 1.42” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24” × 0.20”

VB58G8: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Being known from the Moscona Mine, Sphalerite is a species rarely found there. On the piece crystals have an uncommon development (for the mine) for their larger size and bright luster. The dark color contrasts with the snowy white of the Dolomite in classic saddle-shaped crystals.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain
Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.3 × 2.6 cm = 1.34” × 0.91” × 1.02”

SM90NQ: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Group of complex crystals, transparent and on matrix, with white Dolomite crystals...
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Euskadi) Spain (1990)
Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.6 × 3.1 cm = 1.85” × 1.42” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16”

SV180NNG: Sphalerite with Dolomite and Calcite

Druse of complex Sphalerite crystals with curvatures and smooth tetrahedron forms. The crystals, between transparent and translucent, have a dense, deep and uniform caramel color, and are in matrix with white Dolomite crystals and small partially dissolved Calcite crystals. From a classic Spanish mine for Sphalerite, located in a spectacular setting next to Los Picos de Europa National Park, inaccessible for many years already after the galleries were flooded.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (±1990)
Specimen size: 7.8 × 4 × 2.8 cm = 3.07” × 1.57” × 1.10”

NBC96AQ0: Sphalerite with Dolomite and Calcite

Group of Sphalerite crystals with strange curvatures and deformations, between transparent and translucent, with brilliant luster and an intense and deep color, on a matrix of white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with small coatings of Calcite. The specimen comes from the Antonino Bueno collection, 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 (2006)
Specimen size: 3.7 × 3 × 1.8 cm = 1.46” × 1.18” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.71”

NR27AL5: Sphalerite with Dolomite and Calcite

Polycrystalline growth of Sphalerite with slightly curved edges and faces, transparent, very bright and with a very deep honey color, with dominant yellow and orange tones. On matrix, with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals and Calcite crystal coatings.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.9 × 2.8 cm = 1.73” × 1.14” × 1.10”

SV2640NTZ: Sphalerite with Dolomite and Calcite

Group of Sphalerite crystals, with complex crystallography and twinned, perfectly defined, of a very deep toasted honey color, transparent and implanted on a rock matrix, on Dolomite crystals of a snow-white color and small crystals of Calcite. The specimen comes from the Antonino Bueno collection. Áliva is a classic mining district of the Cantabrian Mountains, with hydrothermal mineralization in carbonate rocks, featuring high-quality Sphalerite associated with Dolomite, Calcite and Galena. In the realm of mineral collecting, Áliva is considered one of the most outstanding localities worldwide for Sphalerite.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 3, Áliva mining area, Picos de Europa massif, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (2006)
Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.4 × 4.2 cm = 2.28” × 1.73” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.55” × 0.39”

ET90L1: Sphalerite with Dolomite and Calcite

Very complex Sphalerite crystal groups. Very sharp faces and edges, some of them with interesting curvatures. Crystals are translucent, with a dark honey color, on rhombohedral white Dolomite and scalenohedral yellowish Calcite crystals. Elmwood is one of the great classics of the USA for Calcite crystals, but also it has provided excellent Sphalerite specimens. So, as we said, a great one.
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee USA
Specimen size: 12 × 10.5 × 4.7 cm = 4.72” × 4.13” × 1.85”

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