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TM16N6: Calcite with Pyrite, Goethite and Fluorite

Group of white crystals of Calcite with very well defined forms. The crystals consist of two prisms of three alternating faces and the three terminal faces of a flat rhombohedron but their surfaces are very rich in polycrystalline growths. They are on a matrix of botryoidal Goethite partially coated by small iridescent crystals of Pyrite. A very esthetic. piece from a recent find in the El Hammam area.
El Hammam, Ait Mimoune, Khémisset Province, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Region Morocco (11/2008)
Specimen size: 8.7 × 8.6 × 6.8 cm = 3.43” × 3.39” × 2.68”

MTB14CD5: Calcite with Quartz

Calcite crystals with very sharp trigonal shapes, one of them clearly dominant, implanted on a matrix formed by Quartz crystals, with both species stained by iron oxides. The faces of the Calcite crystals are smooth, with delicate growth striations and darker, perfectly defined edges. The specimen comes from a recent limited discovery in the Laohuao area in China.
Laohuao, Zhaogang township, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province China (±09/2023)
Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.5 × 4.4 cm = 2.48” × 1.77” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.6 cm = 0.75” × 0.63”

MTC16CD5: Calcite with Quartz

SM110NKC: Calcite with Quartz

Group of complex Calcite crystals very rich in crystal forms, one of them clearly dominant, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, and with small coatings of Quartz crystals. The specimen comes from the collection of Pedro Hernández, which was a reference for other collectors in the Catalan area.
Sala Quarry (L'Americano Quarry), Puig de Sant Vicenç, Gualba, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 6 × 5 × 3.6 cm = 2.36” × 1.97” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2 cm = 1.18” × 0.79”

MBR46CD5: Calcite with Quartz

Calcite crystals with very sharp trigonal shapes implanted on a matrix formed by Quartz crystals, with both species stained by iron oxides. The faces of the Calcite crystals are smooth, with delicate growth striations and darker, perfectly defined edges. The specimen comes from a recent limited discovery in the Laohuao area in China.
Laohuao, Zhaogang township, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province China (±09/2023)
Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.1 × 1.3 cm = 2.56” × 1.61” × 0.51”

MBT46CD5: Calcite with Quartz

Calcite crystals with very sharp trigonal shapes, one of them clearly dominant, implanted on a matrix formed by Quartz crystals, with both species stained by iron oxides. The faces of the Calcite crystals are smooth, with delicate growth striations and darker, perfectly defined edges. The specimen comes from a recent limited discovery in the Laohuao area in China.
Laohuao, Zhaogang township, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province China (±09/2023)
Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.8 × 2.5 cm = 2.20” × 1.89” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.87” × 0.79”

MBY86CD5: Calcite with Quartz

Calcite crystals with very sharp trigonal shapes, two of them clearly dominant, implanted on a matrix formed by Quartz crystals, with both species stained by iron oxides. The faces of the Calcite crystals are smooth, with delicate growth striations and darker, perfectly defined edges. The specimen comes from a recent limited discovery in the Laohuao area in China.
Laohuao, Zhaogang township, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province China (±09/2023)
Specimen size: 9.5 × 5.6 × 2.8 cm = 3.74” × 2.20” × 1.10”

MBX96CD5: Calcite with Quartz

Calcite crystal with a very sharp trigonal shape, implanted on a matrix formed by Quartz crystals, with both species tinted by iron oxides. The faces of the Calcite crystal are smooth, with delicate growth striations and darker, perfectly sharp edges. The specimen comes from a recent limited discovery in the Laohuao area in China.
Laohuao, Zhaogang township, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province China (±09/2023)
Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.5 × 2 cm = 1.65” × 1.38” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 3.1 cm = 1.42” × 1.22”

ED87AD8: Calcite with Quartz

White rhombohedral Calcite crystals with very sharp faces and edges and coated by a second generation of botryoidal, orange-brown Calcite with fine iridescence and also coating the Quartz crystals. An old sample from the findings in Trepča between the years 1994 and 2002.
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District Kosovo (1994-2002)
Specimen size: 9.7 × 7.8 × 5.7 cm = 3.82” × 3.07” × 2.24”

MB68AE5: Calcite with Quartz

Aggregate of white rhombohedral Calcite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and with echelon growths at the top in the front view. They are on matrix, with clear and colorless Quartz crystals. The sample is from relatively recent finds at Trepča that are producing material that is different from what has been previously known.
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District Kosovo (2015)
Specimen size: 11.2 × 9.2 × 7.4 cm = 4.41” × 3.62” × 2.91”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.2 cm = 1.10” × 0.87”

CC50AE1: Calcite with Quartz

Aggregate of complex equant Calcite crystals that are transparent and very bright, with oriented dark colored inclusions and implanted on a basalt matrix coated by white Quartz microcrystals.
Malad, Mumbai (Bombay), Mumbai District, Maharashtra India
Specimen size: 13.5 × 12.7 × 6 cm = 5.31” × 5.00” × 2.36”

VG76G7: Calcite with Quartz

The growth is very curious. The Calcite forms very long scalenohedrons which are covered by multiple growths of little scalenohedral crystals of the same mineral. Calcite has a nice pale pink color and it’s on a matrix covered by little Quartz crystals.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai Russia
Specimen size: 12 × 9 × 5 cm = 4.72” × 3.54” × 1.97”

MG61N4: Calcite with Quartz

A very esthetic sample with polycrystalline growths on a tabular crystal attached to a group of clear crystals of Quartz.
Madan mining area, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast Bulgaria (1997)
Specimen size: 6.1 × 6 × 2.6 cm = 2.40” × 2.36” × 1.02”

EZ97AA4: Calcite with Quartz

Uniaxial growths of lenticular (flattened rhombohedron) Calcite crystals. They are translucent, have a light pinkish color and are on a matrix of Quartz crystals. A Calcite with a very uncommon shape for the locality.
Madan mining area, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast Bulgaria
Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.7 × 5.3 cm = 3.43” × 3.03” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 2.1 cm = 2.13” × 0.83”

AT87M4: Calcite with Quartz

Very esthetic specimen. This rhombohedron of Calcite, that seems cubic, shows a good honey yellow color, transparency and good brilliance. It has grown over curious snowy white Quartz hooked growths.
Mahodari, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra India (07/2002)
Specimen size: 11.1 × 8.3 × 5.5 cm = 4.37” × 3.27” × 2.17”

TF99J6: Calcite with Quartz (variety amethyst)

Scalenohedral crystal of Calcite completely recovered by a second generation of Quartz. The crystal is implanted in a geode of Quartz (amethyst) which crystals have zonation of color. Very esthetic.
Santiño Quarry, Tres Cerros de Santiño area, Artigas Department Uruguay (2006)
Specimen size: 14 × 11.7 × 10 cm = 5.51” × 4.61” × 3.94”

Main crystal size: 6.5 × 4 cm = 2.56” × 1.57”

TR90X8: Calcite with Quartz (variety amethyst) and Hematite

Partially doubly terminated scalenohedral Calcite crystal with parallel growths on the lower and micro-recrystallization on the surface of its faces. It is implanted on a geode of Quartz (amethyst) crystals that in the area near the Calcite have abundant black Hematite inclusions.
Catalán Grande Quarry, Catalán Grande area, Artigas Department Uruguay (11/2011)
Specimen size: 12 × 10.5 × 8 cm = 4.72” × 4.13” × 3.15”

MF26M5: Calcite with Quartz (variety amethyst) and Hematite

Scalenohedral crystal of Calcite in a geode of Quartz (amethyst). The crystal has three channels that coincide with the acute edges and these contain thin growths of Hematite microcrystals. Within the crystal there is a very well defined inclusion of red Hematite. The sample is from a new quarry in the well known region of Artigas.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 138 in number 2009/2.
Norte Quarry, Catalán Grande area, Artigas Department Uruguay (06/2008)
Specimen size: 7.1 × 7 × 6.2 cm = 2.80” × 2.76” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 7.1 × 2.9 cm = 2.80” × 1.14”

TV87L3: Calcite with Quartz (variety amethyst) and Hematite

Rhombohedral Calcite crystal (due to its false cubic shape it looks like Fluorite) fully covered by small but brilliant and intensely colored Quartz (amethyst) crystals, in a thin crust geode.
Santiño Quarry, Tres Cerros de Santiño area, Artigas Department Uruguay (11/2007)
Specimen size: 11.8 × 7.8 × 5.5 cm = 4.65” × 3.07” × 2.17”

NXF51AP9: Calcite with Quartz and Baryte

Druse of complex Calcite crystals, between transparent and translucent, very lustrous, with coatings of Quartz microcrystals and white Baryte aggregates. Unusual crystallography for the deposit.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain
Specimen size: 15.4 × 14.3 × 8.9 cm = 6.06” × 5.63” × 3.50”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 2.4 cm = 2.13” × 0.94”

TR27AH2: Calcite with Quartz and Fluorite

A novelty at Tucson 2018. Strongly elongated scalenohedral crystals with pinacoidal terminations. They are bright, have fine oriented growth striations, are rich with inclusions at their base and are on a white Quartz matrix with clear green Fluorite. As is usual with most of the new Chinese mineral discoveries the name of the mine (Khen Zhi Kou) that our supplier give us has not yet been checked, so we prefer to only give the known data, that is: Longyan Prefecture, Fujian Province.
Longyan Prefecture, Fujian Province China (2017)
Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.7 × 3.8 cm = 2.95” × 2.24” × 1.50”

BRX89AP6: Calcite with Quartz and Gypsum with Boulangerite inclusions

Polycrystalline growths of brown Calcite crystals with a lenticular habit, with coatings of small white Quartz crystals and prismatic Gypsum crystals with black Boulangerite inclusions. The specimen comes from an important European collection.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures Romania
Specimen size: 14.1 × 7.7 × 4.1 cm = 5.55” × 3.03” × 1.61”

TJB66AP5: Calcite with Quartz and Hematite

Group of very sharp Calcite crystals, platy and with geometric color zoning, on a group of Quartz crystals with Hematite inclusions. This specimen, which is from a very classic English locality, comes from the collection of Robert-Auguste Touchon, whose handwritten label we will send to the buyer.
Levant Mine, Trewellard, Saint Just District, Cornwall England / United Kingdom
Specimen size: 4.4 × 4 × 2.9 cm = 1.73” × 1.57” × 1.14”

SF54AB4: Calcite with Quartz, Dolomite and Chalcopyrite

Scalenohedral Calcite crystals with very acute polycrystalline terminations, with a pale pink color, on matrix with Quartz crystals, small twinned Chalcopyrite crystals and partially coated by white lenticular Dolomite crystals. Very esthetic and, as is the case so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality.
Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures Romania
Specimen size: 13.2 × 10.5 × 6 cm = 5.20” × 4.13” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 6.5 × 3.5 cm = 2.56” × 1.38”

ER86AM2: Calcite with Quartz, Sphalerite and Pyrite

Very esthetic doubly terminated sheaf-like group of deformed and extraordinarily elongated Calcite crystals on a matrix covered by Quartz crystals, with twinned Sphalerite crystals, and Pyrite crystals.
Pachapaqui mining district, Pachapaqui, Aquia District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department Peru
Specimen size: 7 × 4.5 × 4.3 cm = 2.76” × 1.77” × 1.69”

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