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Very unusual distorted Quartz, extra-flat and apparently with broken areas, although "in person" it is clear that all faces are complete and undamaged.
Lignarre Valley, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (1991)
Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.6 × 1.7 cm = 3.03” × 2.60” × 0.67”

B9RV6: Quartz (variety faden)

Group of elongated, clear and shiny crystals, with "faden" growths in them.
Lignarre Valley, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (1991)
Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.2 × 3.4 cm = 2.48” × 2.05” × 1.34”

EL96X0: Quartz (variety faden) doubly terminated and with Chlorite inclusions

Very sharp flattened parallel growth of quartz crystals that are transparent, very bright and with a neatly visible "faden" growth that crosses it tip to tip. With minor green inclusions, probably of Chlorite.
Dara Ismael Khan District, South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province Pakistan
Specimen size: 11.6 × 3.4 × 2.4 cm = 4.57” × 1.34” × 0.94”

R76BI7: Quartz (variety faden) with Calcite

Group of extraordinarily elongated, clear and shiny crystals, with "faden" growths in them. On the matrix, a big rough crystal of Calcite stands out.
Lignarre Valley, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (1991)
Specimen size: 10.8 × 8 × 7.5 cm = 4.25” × 3.15” × 2.95”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 0.5 cm = 1.26” × 0.20”

EC27AG7: Quartz (variety faden) with Chlorite

Doubly terminated floater crystal with a closed “faden” and very well defined parallel growths. The sample, very transparent, has a deep and uniform smoky color.
A French classic from the Christophe Marot collection (cat. nr. C8-6), on whose label, that we’ll send with the sample, it is noted that it was acquired in 2008 from Denis Boël.
Aiguille de Talèfre, Mont Blanc Massif, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (±2008)
Specimen size: 4.9 × 2.5 × 1.8 cm = 1.93” × 0.98” × 0.71”

EBC94AN6: Quartz (variety faden) with Chlorite inclusions

Novelty, from a so far unpublished Moroccan locality: Floater growth of large flattened Quartz crystals, doubly terminated, with very marked parallel aggregates with a comb-like morphology, transparent, very lustrous and with abundant oriented Chlorite inclusions.
Ksar Tassemente, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (01/2020)
Specimen size: 12.5 × 9.6 × 9.4 cm = 4.92” × 3.78” × 3.70”

Main crystal size: 10 × 6 cm = 3.94” × 2.36”

TQ68T1: Quartz (variety faden) with Chlorite inclusions

Multiple parallel growth of very flattened crystals progressively turning to the right and crossed by a sharp chloritized ”faden” and contrasting with another group of different shape, very elongated. Very original.
The specimen is from the Denis Boël collection. We will send to the customer the collector’s label.
Les Deux Alpes, Saint Christophe en Oisans, Le Bourg d'Oisans Comune, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France
Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.4 × 1.3 cm = 1.65” × 1.34” × 0.51”

MT36R5: Quartz (variety faden) with inclusions

Echeloned uniaxial growth of Quartz crystals, perfectly clear and bright and with a very notable "faden". The base is rich with fine green acicular inclusions, probably Ferroactinolite.
Miage Glacier, Veny Valley, Monte Bianco Massif (Mont Blanc Massif), Courmayeur, Aosta Valley (Val d'Aosta) Italy (08/2010)
Specimen size: 5.2 × 1.8 × 1.1 cm = 2.05” × 0.71” × 0.43”

RA50R0: Quartz (variety gwindel) with Chlorite inclusions

Doubly terminated, partially chloritized, crystal with parallel polycrystalline terminations. The twisting (gwindel) of the crystal is especially evident on one of the main edges.
Binn Valley (Binntal), Wallis (Valais) Switzerland (±1948)
Specimen size: 12.7 × 6.2 × 3.3 cm = 5.00” × 2.44” × 1.30”

TC290TMR: Quartz (variety hematoide)

Group of Quartz crystals with good development of crystal forms and with a double distribution of Hematite as both coatings and inclusions, which occupy a good part of the interior of the crystals.
Toufassmame (Izizauen), Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (01/2015)
Specimen size: 5.1 × 5 × 3.9 cm = 2.01” × 1.97” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1.4 cm = 1.65” × 0.55”

EX96AE6: Quartz (variety hematoide)

A novelty at Ste. Marie 2016. Drusy growth, on matrix, of crystals with a very short, almost non-existent prism. They are extraordinarily bright and have an unusually intense and deep red color due to very fine Hematite inclusions. Among the best known, for the color, of this Quartz variety.
Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2016)
Specimen size: 11 × 9.4 × 5 cm = 4.33” × 3.70” × 1.97”

TC2190TE: Quartz (variety hematoide)

Group of Quartz crystals with a very short prism, almost non-existent, extraordinarily lustrous and with an unusually vivid and uniform red color due to Hematite inclusions. On a crystalline Quartz matrix.
Jebel Irhoud, Youssoufia Province, Marrakesh-Safi Region Morocco
Specimen size: 8.8 × 5.2 × 3.6 cm = 3.46” × 2.05” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.2 cm = 0.51” × 0.47”

RPA27ASN1: Quartz (variety hematoide)

A group of Quartz (variety hematoide) crystals in a gypsum rock matrix forming an elongated pinecone of very defined and bright crystals without prism development but with perfect terminations. From the well-known outcrops of the Spanish Keuper, specifically from the Triassic of Chella in Valencia.
Keuper outcrop, Chella, Comarca Canal de Navarrés, Valencia / València, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana Spain
Specimen size: 9.6 × 4.9 × 5.8 cm = 3.78” × 1.93” × 2.28”

2L86: Quartz (variety herkimer)

Quartz crystal (herkimer variety) implanted on a small bit of matrix and with a short and poorly developed prism, doubly terminated, with sharp faces and edges, shiny and translucent.
Middleville, Town of Newport, Herkimer County, New York USA (2004)
Specimen size: 5.2 × 7.1 × 5.0 cm = 2.05” × 2.80” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 5.0 × 7.0 × 4.2 cm = 1.97” × 2.76” × 1.65”

TC260NBC: Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela)

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 × 1.8 × 1.9 cm = 1.30” × 0.71” × 0.75”

AR11AM1: Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela)

Group of doubly terminated Quartz crystals (Jacinto de Compostela variety), one of them dominant and very aerial, with sharp faces and edges, and a uniform color, on a Gypsum matrix.
Chella, Comarca Canal de Navarrés, Valencia / València, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana Spain
Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.4 × 2.2 cm = 2.48” × 1.73” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.98” × 0.55”

XM280TLR: Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela)

Floater 'Pineapple' formed of Quartz crystals (jacinto de compostela variety) showing rhombohedral terminations without any prism development, and with a very uniform and deep color. It comes from Chella, in Valencia, where Triassic sediments emerge, specifically the Keuper Formation, in which these specimens are found together with the well-known aragonites. This specimen belonged to Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the eighties and nineties of the last century, assembled an excellent collection.
Chella, Comarca Canal de Navarrés, Valencia / València, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana Spain
Specimen size: 3.7 × 3 × 3 cm = 1.46” × 1.18” × 1.18”

TC90NC: Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela)

Two Quartz crystals (Jacinto de Compostela variety) translucent, with bright luster and an intense red-orange color due to inclusions, on a massive gypsum matrix. A Spanish classic.
Domeño, Comarca Los Serranos, Valencia / València, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana Spain (2011)
Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.6 × 4.1 cm = 2.24” × 1.42” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1 cm = 0.71” × 0.39”

JFD147AO7: Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela)

Like a Quartz Santa Claus, the top crystal acts as a cap for a motley array of crystals. As so often with specimens found by Lluís Daunis, the locality is semi-unknown in the world of mineral collecting.
Aliaguilla, Comarca Serranía Baja, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha Spain
Specimen size: 5.1 × 4 × 3.2 cm = 2.01” × 1.57” × 1.26”

FB76B9: Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela)

Doubly terminated red Quartz on its classic red Gypsum matrix. Very uncommon on matrix this is a very representative sample.
Chelva, Comarca Los Serranos, Valencia / València, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana Spain
Specimen size: 7 × 5.5 × 4.2 cm = 2.76” × 2.17” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.5 cm = 1.18” × 0.59”

NP8Q1: Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela)

Deep red-colored sharp crystal with very well defined faces and edges on a reddish Gypsum matrix. The sample is from a very recent find, February 2010, in a zone well known for the quality of its “Jacintos”.
Domeño, Comarca Los Serranos, Valencia / València, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana Spain (06/02/2010)
Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.2 × 3.4 cm = 2.05” × 1.26” × 1.34”

NA8Q1: Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela)

Sharp, doubly terminated deep red-colored crystal on a reddish Gypsum matrix. The sample is from a very recent find, February 2010, in a zone well known for the quality of its “Jacintos”.
Domeño, Comarca Los Serranos, Valencia / València, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana Spain (06/02/2010)
Specimen size: 6.9 × 5 × 3.4 cm = 2.72” × 1.97” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.7 cm = 0.79” × 0.28”

2A09: Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela) on Gypsum

Quartz crystals (variety jacinto de compostela) without development of the prism, doubly terminated, with well-defined faces and edges, with an intense reddish color and on Gypsum matrix corresponding to the Keuper facies (Triassic).
Keuper outcrop, Montroy, Comarca Ribera Alta, Valencia / València, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana Spain (1981)
Specimen size: 3.1 × 3.9 × 1.6 cm = 1.22” × 1.54” × 0.63”

ND96AK7: Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela) on Gypsum

Elongated spheroidal growth of crystals without prism development and with very sharp rhombohedral faces, brilliant, very intense red, in a gypsum matrix.
The specimen is from the Miguel David Martínez collection (No. 540) whose label we will send to the buyer.
Chella, Comarca Canal de Navarrés, Valencia / València, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana Spain (2018)
Specimen size: 9.2 × 6.2 × 6 cm = 3.62” × 2.44” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 5 × 2.9 cm = 1.97” × 1.14”

JBC27AP8: Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela) on Gypsum

Elongated spheroidal aggregate, on matrix, of small, very lustrous Quartz crystals of intense red color due to inclusions of Hematite (jacinto de compostela variety). A Spanish classic that comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly.
Chella, Comarca Canal de Navarrés, Valencia / València, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana Spain
Specimen size: 7 × 4.4 × 3.5 cm = 2.76” × 1.73” × 1.38”

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