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Doubly terminated scalenohedral Calcite crystal, twinned, transparent, bright, with a light yellow color, with inclusions, implanted on a matrix with pink Dolomite crystals.
La Florida mining area, Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Comarca Costa Occidental/Saja-Nansa, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 4.2 × 4.0 × 2.6 cm = 1.65” × 1.57” × 1.02”

2N56: Calcite, Dolomite

Complex crystal, very rich in faces, in which those of a sharp rhombohedron and a flattened scalenohedron stand out, which gives the whole an equidimensional and rounded habit. Above all, the uniform yellow color, the transparency, the luster and the elegant position of the crystal in the pink Dolomite matrix stand out.
La Florida mining area, Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Comarca Costa Occidental/Saja-Nansa, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.9 × 4.5 cm = 2.95” × 2.32” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.8 × 1.8 cm = 0.91” × 0.71” × 0.71”

2N77: Calcite, Dolomite

Complex Calcite crystals, rounded, with the dominant forms of a scalenohedron and a flattened rhombohedron, transparent, bright, with a yellow color, on a rocky matrix, with pink Dolomite.
La Florida mining area, Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Comarca Costa Occidental/Saja-Nansa, Cantabria Spain (2006)
Specimen size: 5.3 × 7.7 × 5.0 cm = 2.09” × 3.03” × 1.97”

2E12: Calcite, Dolomite, Chalcopyrite

Doubly terminated scalenohedral Calcite crystal with very well defined polycrystalline growths. It is translucent, very bright, with an intense yellow color, with Dolomite and Chalcopyrite on matrix.
Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri USA
Specimen size: 6.1 × 2.2 × 4.0 cm = 2.40” × 0.87” × 1.57”

17TRX96: Calcite, Dolomite, Sphalerite, Pyrite

Group of Calcite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, white in color and outlined with slight twists. The crystals of Calcite grew on a matrix of Pyrite and Sphalerite, and on cream-colored rhombohedral Dolomite crystals, clearly differentiating the area of sulfides from that of carbonates, the latter having precipitated later. A very 'geological' specimen.
Boldut Mine, Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures Romania
Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.3 × 5.6 cm = 2.68” × 2.09” × 2.20”

EP47D3: Cobaltoan Calcite

Just as good as the photo suggests. Intense pink color, huge crystals and an agreeable form. Definitive!
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2003)
Specimen size: 5 × 3.3 × 3.6 cm = 1.97” × 1.30” × 1.42”

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

MV14AL3: Cobaltoan Calcite

Group of crystals formed by short six-sided prisms and a very flattened terminal rhombohedron, with parallel vertical growths along the prism. The crystals exhibit great luster and very uniform and deep color.
Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (10/2012)
Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.4 × 3.7 cm = 3.43” × 2.91” × 1.46”

AD7M4: Cobaltoan Calcite

Group of crystals showing well defined rhombohedron terminal faces and excellent color, between mauve to pink.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (01/2006)
Specimen size: 5.8 × 5 × 2.5 cm = 2.28” × 1.97” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.31” × 0.28”

TV96H7: Cobaltoan Calcite

Group of rhombohedral crystals with curved faces and edges. The luster is excellent but the mauve color is extraordinary, very deep and with beautiful shades and reflections.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (01/2006)
Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.5 × 1.6 cm = 1.50” × 1.38” × 0.63”

RB27AE6: Cobaltoan Calcite

Banded growths of cobaltoan Calcite with a very intense color alternating with fine bands of white and yellowish Calcite. The sample, in spite its fine surface, hasn't been acid-etched, as its rough surfaces in most areas and the existence of easily altered carbonates proves.
The sample is from the Joaquín Folch duplicates collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Solita Mine, Peramea, Baix Pallars, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lérida / Lleida, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 14.4 × 9.1 × 5.6 cm = 5.67” × 3.58” × 2.20”

EA14T0: Cobaltoan Calcite

The sample shows two different generations of cobaltoan Calcite, one of them with crystals having a very short prism with rhombohedral terminations and stalagmitic growths, and a second in which the crystals are slightly clear very well defined rhombohedrons with polycrystalline growths on their faces. The color is very intense and the crystals have small black inclusions.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (05/2011)
Specimen size: 8.2 × 6.9 × 4.1 cm = 3.23” × 2.72” × 1.61”

EZ6Y2: Cobaltoan Calcite

A novelty at St. Marie 2013 (because of the scalenohedral crystals). Druse, on matrix, of very acute scalenohedral crystals with rhombohedral terminations. They are between transparent and translucent and have a color between deep pink and mauve, with a second generation of crystals with the same morphology, but with orange shades.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section, report #35, August 14, 2013 edition.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2013)
Specimen size: 7.8 × 7.5 × 5.2 cm = 3.07” × 2.95” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.4 cm = 0.43” × 0.16”

EB86Y2: Cobaltoan Calcite

A novelty at St. Marie 2013 (because of the scalenohedral crystals) Aggregate on Quartz matrix of very acute scalenohedral crystals of Calcite with rhombohedral terminations. They range from transparent to translucent and have a color between deep pink and mauve, with a second generation of crystals of the same morphology but with orange shades.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2013)
Specimen size: 10.8 × 7.6 × 5.2 cm = 4.25” × 2.99” × 2.05”

TQ16L0: Cobaltoan Calcite

A group of scalenohedral crystals, very acute and very rich in accessory faces. Really good transparency, perfect brilliance and intense pink to mauve color.
Ightem Mine, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco
Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.4 × 2.3 cm = 1.38” × 1.34” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1 cm = 0.67” × 0.39”

EP16K3: Cobaltoan Calcite

Group of lenticular crystals with an especially intense color and luster. The base of the specimen is sawn but it doesn’t diminish the esthetic value of the specimen.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba) Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)
Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.2 × 2.6 cm = 2.64” × 2.05” × 1.02”

RA86Y9: Cobaltoan Calcite

Fine banded growths that alternate bands of very intense and deep color contrasting with others that have a very pale color. As a rarity, we note the presence of a small geode with very acute cobaltoan Calcite crystals, very rare for the locality.
Solita Mine, Peramea, Baix Pallars, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lérida / Lleida, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 14.5 × 8.6 × 4.8 cm = 5.71” × 3.39” × 1.89”

RR27V1: Cobaltoan Calcite

Banded growths of cobaltoan Calcite with a very intense color alternating with fine bands of white and yellowish Calcite. The sample, in spite its fine surface, hasn't been acid-etched, as its rough surfaces in most areas and the existence of easily altered carbonates proves.
The sample is with a card from the Folch collection (number 2052) that we'll send to the buyer.
Solita Mine, Peramea, Baix Pallars, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lérida / Lleida, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 13.5 × 10 × 6.5 cm = 5.31” × 3.94” × 2.56”

RJ47W6: Cobaltoan Calcite

Translucent polished section with banded growths and nucleus of very intense color. The sample has on some of its sides the original matrix that contrasts with the deep color of the Calcite.
Solita Mine, Peramea, Baix Pallars, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lérida / Lleida, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 11.2 × 11 × 1.8 cm = 4.41” × 4.33” × 0.71”

RC98Q5: Cobaltoan Calcite

Polished section with concretionary growths with excellent color, very deep. Though we don’t usually present polished samples, in this case we made an exception because of the unusual quality of the color of the Calcite and the collection of precedence, the mine (now totally abandoned and collapsed) was precisely exploited to obtain such pieces.
Solita Mine, Peramea, Baix Pallars, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lérida / Lleida, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain (±1978)
Specimen size: 14.3 × 11.2 × 1.7 cm = 5.63” × 4.41” × 0.67”

EA76AB7: Cobaltoan Calcite

Aggregate, on matrix, of rhombohedral crystals with curved faces and edges. The luster is excellent but the mauve color is extraordinary, very intense and with beautiful shades and reflections.
Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2013)
Specimen size: 10 × 6.2 × 4.3 cm = 3.94” × 2.44” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.43”

RC11Y9: Cobaltoan Calcite on Calcite with Aurichalcite inclusions (variety zeiringite)

Cobaltoan Calcite core with a very intense and deep mallow color included in a very pale green banded Calcite whose color (variety zeiringite) is due to the presence of Aurichalcite inclusions.
Solita Mine, Peramea, Baix Pallars, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lérida / Lleida, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 4.9 × 4 × 4.4 cm = 1.93” × 1.57” × 1.73”

RG47W6: Cobaltoan Calcite with Calcite and Aurichalcite

Botryoidal growths, on matrix, of translucent cobaltoan Calcite. It has a very uniform, intense and deep color and it is with yellowish globular growths of Calcite and thin surfaces of pale greenish Aurichalcite.
Solita Mine, Peramea, Baix Pallars, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lérida / Lleida, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 11.7 × 11.4 × 7.6 cm = 4.61” × 4.49” × 2.99”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.3 cm = 0.31” × 0.12”

TP27Z5: Cuprian Calcite

Rhombohedral Calcite crystals on a limonite matrix with very well defined faces and edges. They are very rich in blue inclusions of an undetermined secondary copper mineral. The crystals have been analyzed and, although their aspect suggests it could be another species, it is an unusual Calcite with inclusions. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango Mexico
Specimen size: 8.6 × 4.4 × 4 cm = 3.39” × 1.73” × 1.57”

DR91AC7: Doubly terminated Calcite

Aggregate of Calcite crystals, some of them doubly terminated and one that is clearly dominant. They consist of a hexagonal prism and very flat terminal rhombohedra. They are colorless, clear, and very bright.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai Russia
Specimen size: 8.6 × 6 × 5.8 cm = 3.39” × 2.36” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 8.2 × 3.4 cm = 3.23” × 1.34”

M82N: Doubly terminated Calcite

Doubly terminated Calcite. Sharp edges and pretty gemmy. A perfect representative sample from Berry Materials quarry.
Berry Materials Corp. Quarry, North Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana USA
Specimen size: 4.2 × 6.5 cm = 1.65” × 2.56”

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