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RF11M3: Quartz (variety smoky) with Actinolite

Group of smoky Quartz crystals with well defined edges and very transparent and brilliant faces. Smoky color is very uniform and deep. On a matrix with fibrous Actinolite.
The piece is accompanied by a handwritten label with notes from Mr. Folch.
Val Giuv, side valley, Tujetsch (Tavetsch), Municipality of Tujetsch (Tavetsch), Surselva District, Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden) Switzerland
Specimen size: 5.3 × 4 × 3.1 cm = 2.09” × 1.57” × 1.22”

ERB36AP0: Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite

Group of Quartz crystals (smoky variety) with very sharp crystal forms, with right-handed growth, very transparent and lustrous, and with deep and uniform smoky tones. On matrix, with Albite crystals. A French and European classic that comes from the Gérard Bertrand collection.
North side Les Courtes, Bassin du Talèfre, Mont Blanc Massif, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France
Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.6 × 2.6 cm = 1.65” × 1.42” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1 cm = 0.98” × 0.39”

DP56AJ5: Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite

Group of smoky Quartz crystals with parallel growths, translucent, bright with red Hematite impregnations in some areas and with polycrystalline Albite growths. The sample is very unusual for both the locality and his shape. It is from the Daunis collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
La Arola, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 8.6 × 5.6 × 4.6 cm = 3.39” × 2.20” × 1.81”

DV46AH5: Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite

Two isolated Quartz crystals (smoky variety) with very well defined faces and edges, transparent and bright, with a deep and uniform smoky color. They have grown on a matrix of Albite crystals.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
La Arola, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.6 × 4.4 cm = 2.17” × 1.81” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.85” × 0.67”

EAL89AP1: Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite

Two good sized Quartz crystals, very sharp, transparent, lustrous, with deep, dark, and uniform smoky tones, associated with small Albite crystals at the base.
Wallis (Valais) Switzerland
Specimen size: 13.1 × 7.6 × 4 cm = 5.16” × 2.99” × 1.57”

HM90DC: Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite

Quartz crystal (smoky variety), very aerial, transparent, with good luster and a very deep color, on a matrix of small, sharp white crystals of Albite.
The specimen comes from the Daunis collection, which in the 70-80s was a reference for field collectors, especially for Catalan localities.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.2 × 2.6 cm = 2.01” × 1.26” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 4.9 × 2.5 cm = 1.93” × 0.98”

NA47AM7: Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite and Microcline

Very sharp smoky Quartz crystal, between transparent and translucent, with bright luster and very intense and uniform smoky tones, on a matrix of Albite and Microcline. From a little-known locality from which very few specimens were preserved, this being one of the best.
Els Saulons Quarry, Bigues i Riells, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain (2015)
Specimen size: 11.1 × 6.7 × 6 cm = 4.37” × 2.64” × 2.36”

TA97AG8: Quartz (variety smoky) with Calcite

The Quartz from this Quarry which is already defunct (currently is completely flooded) is a world's reference due its quality and brightness. From the glorious past comes this beautiful group of Quartz crystals, several of them doubly terminated and partially coated with small scalenohedral crystals of Calcite.
Grant Quarry, Greely, Gloucester Township, Carleton County, Ontario Canada (06/2004)
Specimen size: 6.6 × 3.8 × 3 cm = 2.60” × 1.50” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2.4 cm = 1.57” × 0.94”

TH59AD3: Quartz (variety smoky) with Calcite

Aggregate of crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with window (“fenster”) growths in some of their faces and a particularly intense “glassy” luster. The better samples from the Grant Quarry, aside from their scarcity, are especially appreciated by advanced collectors due to their quality, and the neat inner growth forms.
Grant Quarry, Greely, Gloucester Township, Carleton County, Ontario Canada (06/2004)
Specimen size: 7 × 4.5 × 3.8 cm = 2.76” × 1.77” × 1.50”

LK91AK2: Quartz (variety smoky) with Epidote

A good example of what is expected of an Alpine fissure Smoky Quartz, for its transparency, intense luster and depth of color. Associated with some small Epidote crystals. The sample is from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 766), whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Pointe des Périades, Mont Blanc Massif, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (07/2010)
Specimen size: 10.9 × 9.7 × 9.2 cm = 4.29” × 3.82” × 3.62”

Main crystal size: 8.4 × 5.3 cm = 3.31” × 2.09”

RF12AB7: Quartz (variety smoky) with Feldspar

Floater complete Quartz crystal, extraordinarily flat, with a very uncommon shape and bordered and partially coated by small crystals of an indeterminate Feldspar. The locality is very unusual.
La Roca del Vallès, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 10.4 × 6.2 × 1.1 cm = 4.09” × 2.44” × 0.43”

DC89AJ0: Quartz (variety smoky) with Ferberite

Parallel growth of very sharp Quartz (smoky variety) crystals. They are partially doubly terminated, transparent, very bright, with inclusions, and are on a matrix of crystallized Ferberite with small Pyrite crystals.
The sample was in the Desmond Sacco collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Kara-Oba area, Betpak-Dala (Bet-Pak-Dala) Desert, Karaganda Region Kazakhstan
Specimen size: 10.3 × 5.4 × 6.8 cm = 4.06” × 2.13” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 8.8 × 5.7 cm = 3.46” × 2.24”

RQ27R6: Quartz (variety smoky) with Hematite

Group of mostly doubly terminated crystals of Quartz. They are completely clear, very bright and are on matrix with small platy crystals of Hematite. An excellent Alpine classic.
Cavradi gorge (Val Cavradi), Municipality of Tujetsch (Tavetsch), Surselva District, Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden) Switzerland (±1954)
Specimen size: 7.2 × 7 × 4.8 cm = 2.83” × 2.76” × 1.89”

EX76AD2: Quartz (variety smoky) with Hematite inclusions

Single smoky Quartz crystal, transparent, very bright and with a very deep and uniform color, with Hematite inclusions on its terminal faces and with very visible right-handed rhombohedral faces.
Uri Switzerland (1992)
Specimen size: 6.5 × 3.6 × 2.7 cm = 2.56” × 1.42” × 1.06”

SM240GRW: Quartz (variety smoky) with inclusions

Group of Quartz crystals (smoky variety) totally or partially doubly terminated, with very well marked parallel scepter growths, transparent, and with well defined geometric inclusions. The specimen comes from the Pedro Goy collection.
Minas Gerais Brazil
Specimen size: 18.8 × 8 × 5.6 cm = 7.40” × 3.15” × 2.20”

9TN37N4: Quartz (variety smoky) with inclusions and Chlorite

Floater group of crystals, all them doubly terminated, bright, with very well defined faces and edges and very rich in Chlorite inclusions. Highlight the large number of inclusions of an unknown nature. For specialized collectors in minerals rich in inclusions.
Diamantina, Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais Brazil (2007)
Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.4 × 4.2 cm = 3.31”

Main crystal size: 7.1 × 2,0 cm = 2.80”

TM87L0: Quartz (variety smoky) with inclusions and Chlorite

An interesting novelty of Tucson 2008 due to the quality and locality. Group of smoky Quartz crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with well defined faces and edges. Crystals are quite transparent with several inclusions, among others Chlorite.
Diamantina, Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais Brazil (11/2007)
Specimen size: 5.7 × 5.6 × 3.5 cm = 2.24” × 2.20” × 1.38”

TT98L0: Quartz (variety smoky) with inclusions and Chlorite

An interesting novelty of Tucson 2008 due to the quality and locality. Group of smoky Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant and doubly terminated, with well defined faces and edges. Crystals are transparent with several inclusions, among others Chlorite.
Diamantina, Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais Brazil (11/2007)
Specimen size: 9.7 × 6.8 × 5.6 cm = 3.82” × 2.68” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 7.7 × 3.3 cm = 3.03” × 1.30”

TM70P9: Quartz (variety smoky) with inclusions and Chlorite

Doubly terminates crystal of excellent transparency, luster and color and with abundant and esthetic inclusions. We must note slight damage on one of the terminal faces but we are sure it does not detract from the quality of this excellent sample.
Diamantina, Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais Brazil (11/2007)
Specimen size: 15.2 × 4.2 × 3.7 cm = 5.98” × 1.65” × 1.46”

TP92L0: Quartz (variety smoky) with inclusions and Chlorite

An interesting novelty of Tucson 2008 due to the quality and locality. Group of deep smoky Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant and partially doubly terminated, with well defined faces and edges. Crystals are transparent with several inclusions. We particularly like one of the inclusions, located at the top of the main Quartz crystal, of snowy well defined white globular crystals, whose identity we can’t say.
Diamantina, Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais Brazil (11/2007)
Specimen size: 11 × 10.5 × 5.1 cm = 4.33” × 4.13” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 8.2 × 2.7 cm = 3.23” × 1.06”

SM130DAJ: Quartz (variety smoky) with inclusions and Orthoclase

Group of Quartz crystals (smoky variety), one of them clearly dominant and partially doubly terminated, with a normal termination at the lower end and a parallel polycrystalline growth in the upper part. The group, very rich in inclusions, conserves remains of an Orthoclase matrix. The specimen comes from the Lluís Daunis collection.
(La Cabrera pluton), La Cabrera, Comarca Sierra Norte, Community of Madrid Spain (±1970)
Specimen size: 9.6 × 4.3 × 4 cm = 3.78” × 1.69” × 1.57”

TC280DGR: Quartz (variety smoky) with Mica and Microcline

Single crystal of Quartz (smoky variety) bright, transparent, with a dense smoky color and with a little bit of Microcline matrix with Mica. We will send the buyer the autographed label from the Daunis collection.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 6.5 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 2.56” × 0.79” × 0.63”

DE10AL0: Quartz (variety smoky) with Microcline

Quartz crystals (smoky variety) on Microcline matrix, some of them with curious growth forms. The two main crystals, which form a very marked parallel growth, are transparent around the terminations and rich in inclusions in the lower and intermediate parts of the prism. This piece comes from the Daunis collection, a reference for local collectors in the Barcelona area during the 1970s-80s, and whose label we will send to the buyer.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.4 × 1.9 cm = 2.40” × 1.34” × 0.75”

DD16AH2: Quartz (variety smoky) with Microcline

Quartz crystal with very well defined parallel growths, with a very deep smoky color, very bright and with Microcline on the matrix.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.4 × 3.6 cm = 2.68” × 1.73” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 6.8 × 3.9 cm = 2.68” × 1.54”

NTM96AO0: Quartz (variety smoky) with Microcline

Quartz crystal (smoky variety) very sharp, with parallel growths and very marked steps, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform smoky tone. With Microcline at the base of the crystal. The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (nº 853), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain (±2015)
Specimen size: 11.5 × 5 × 4.7 cm = 4.53” × 1.97” × 1.85”

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