Mineral Specimens - page 3
Spain

NL13AL3: Polycrystalline growths with complex forms, with sharp edges and faces, slightly curved, transparent, very lustrous, with deep and uniform honey-brown color. This piece comes from some small artisanal finds that were made after the mine closed. There is currently no access to the galleries.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.3 × 2.3 cm = 1.42” × 1.30” × 0.91”

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

NBC96AQ0: 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, 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”

XM2130NJB: Floater group of Sphalerite crystals, translucent and of a very uniform honey color, with smooth faces corresponding to the tetrahedron and partially coated by a multitude of very sharp and outlined Dolomite crystals, creating a beautiful color contrast.
A classic of Cantabrian mining from Las Mánforas, located at a spectacular site next to Picos de Europa National Park.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 4 × 2.9 × 2.3 cm = 1.57” × 1.14” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2.1 cm = 0.87” × 0.83”

NRP46AP6: Crystals of Sphalerite that are deformed but with sharp crystal forms, transparent, with good luster and an intense honey color, between yellow and orange.
An old Spanish classic.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.9 × 0.6 cm = 1.61” × 1.14” × 0.24”

XM2160NNB: Floater group of Sphalerite crystals, translucent and of a very deep and uniform honey color, with faces that show polycrystalline growths, partially covered by a multitude of very sharp and profiled Dolomite crystals that give a nice color contrast.
A classic of Cantabrian mining from Las Mánforas, at a spectacular location next to the Picos de Europa National Park.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.3 × 2.9 cm = 1.65” × 1.30” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.7 cm = 1.22” × 1.06”

SV190NBF: Polycrystalline growth of complex Sphalerite crystals with curvatures and with smooth tetrahedron faces. They are translucent, with very bright luster and an intense honey color and with the uncommon peculiarity of being accompanied by a scalenohedral Calcite crystal and rhombohedral crystals of snow-white Dolomite.
A classic of Cantabrian mining from Las Mánforas, located in a spectacular setting next to the Picos de Europa National Park.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (±1991)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.7 × 2.6 cm = 1.89” × 1.46” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 2.1 cm = 1.73” × 0.83”

TBM37AP8: Very aerial group of complex Sphalerite crystals, translucent and with an intense and uniform orange color, on matrix, with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.9 × 2.7 cm = 1.93” × 1.54” × 1.06”

NP27AL5: Complex Sphalerite crystals with very well defined and slightly curved faces and edges, transparent, very bright and with a very deep toasted honey color. On matrix with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 5 × 3.6 × 3.6 cm = 1.97” × 1.42” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.4 cm = 0.67” × 0.55”

XM2190NTX: Floater group of Sphalerite crystals, translucent and of a very uniform honey color, with smooth faces corresponding to the tetrahedron and partially coated by a multitude of very sharp and outlined Dolomite crystals, creating a beautiful color contrast.
A classic of Cantabrian mining from Las Mánforas, located at a spectacular site next to Picos de Europa National Park.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4 × 2.6 cm = 2.09” × 1.57” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 2.7 cm = 1.69” × 1.06”

SV3180NXF: Antonino Bueno, one of the great field collectors in the Áliva area, had it in his collection, and although the crystals are rough, when you shine a little light behind it, the miracle appears!
A floater, complete, and undamaged, we will give the buyer Antonino's original label.

Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 4, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (2002)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4 × 2.1 cm = 2.20” × 1.57” × 0.83”

NV27AM8: Polycrystalline growth of complex shapes, with defined edges and faces and with fine curvatures, transparent, very lustrous and with a very deep and uniform toasted honey color. On matrix, with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. The specimen comes from small artisanal finds in the mine after its closure. There is currently no access to the galleries.
The specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection (number BLD-7) whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4 × 3 cm = 2.17” × 1.57” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.63”

SV160NNP: Polycrystalline growth of complex Sphalerite crystals with curvatures and with smooth tetrahedron forms. The crystals, between transparent and translucent, have a dense, deep and uniform caramel color and grew on a matrix of sharp white Dolomite crystals. From a classic Spanish mine for Sphalerite located in a spectacular setting next to Los Picos de Europa National Park, and which has been inaccessible for many years as the galleries were flooded.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (±1990)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.7 × 2.6 cm = 2.20” × 1.85” × 1.02”

XM2580NTR: A floater that shows two main complex and interpenetrating spherical groups of Sphalerite, with well defined faces and edges. They are translucent, with marked polysynthetic twins and an intense honey color, and are joined at the base with Dolomite crystals as the matrix. A classic of Cantabrian mining from Las Mánforas, located in a spectacular setting next to the Picos de Europa National Park.
It belonged to Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and 90s, assembled an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of Northern Spain.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.2 × 4.1 cm = 2.28” × 1.65” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 3.8 cm = 1.54” × 1.50”

SV2640NTZ: A powerful piece. Perfectly sharp and outlined Sphalerite crystal group, of complex and twinned crystallography, of very deep toasted honey color, transparent and implanted in a rock matrix, on very well defined Dolomite crystals with a snow-white color and small crystals of Calcite.
The specimen comes from the Antonino Bueno collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 3, Áliva mining area, 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”

XM2220NPX: Single crystal of Sphalerite, translucent and with a very uniform honey color, showing smooth tetrahedron faces, very lustrous, with polycrystalline growths and dotted with white Dolomite crystals that give a nice color contrast.
A classic of Cantabrian mining from Las Mánforas, in a spectacular location next to the Picos de Europa National Park.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 6 × 5 × 2.6 cm = 2.36” × 1.97” × 1.02”

JPB37AP8: Group of Sphalerite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, between translucent and transparent, lustrous and honey-yellow. On matrix, with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals and unusual flattened Galena crystals.
This very aesthetic specimen comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (1990)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.8 × 3.8 cm = 2.48” × 2.28” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59”

SV3220NNM: Elegant, with good definition of the main crystal, an undamaged floater.
A great choice by Antonino Bueno to have it in his collection. With the very white Dolomite providing contrast, it reminds us of how splendid a metallic sulfide can be.
We will give Antonino's original label to the buyer.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 2, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (2007)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 3.3 × 2.9 cm = 2.64” × 1.30” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.87”

NA27AL9: Complex crystals of Sphalerite on a Dolomite matrix. The crystal is transparent, lustrous and with an intense and lively honey color. With contacts but no damage. Small parts of the back of the matrix have been cut to reduce the size of the specimen without damage to the crystals.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 7 × 5.5 × 4.4 cm = 2.76” × 2.17” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.87” × 0.63”

XM2390TBM: Group of lustrous and complex twinned crystals of Sphalerite, very deep honey colored, almost dark, sprinkled randomly with Dolomite crystals that give it a very marked color contrast.
A classic of Cantabrian mining from Las Mánforas, in a spectacular location next to Picos de Europa National Park.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 7 × 6.9 × 5.2 cm = 2.76” × 2.72” × 2.05”

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

SV180NFR: Druse of complex Sphalerite crystals, very rich in crystal forms, from transparent to translucent, lustrous, and with a very intense and lively caramel color, covered with white Dolomite crystals. A Spanish classic from a classic mine for Sphalerite located in a spectacular setting next to Picos de Europa National Park, already inaccessible for many years as the galleries were flooded.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (±1990)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 3.9 × 2.6 cm = 2.99” × 1.54” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”

NM8AB1: 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, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.6 × 3 cm = 3.03” × 2.20” × 1.18”

SV180NNG: 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, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (±1990)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 4 × 2.8 cm = 3.07” × 1.57” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.63”

SV740NBB: Very marked polycrystalline growth of complex Sphalerite crystals with curvatures and with smooth tetrahedron forms. The crystals, between transparent and translucent, have a very deep and uniform honey color, and grew on and between sharp white crystals of Dolomite on a limestone matrix. From a classic Spanish mine for Sphalerite, located in a spectacular setting next to Los Picos de Europa National Park, inaccessible already for many years since the galleries were flooded.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (±1990)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 9 × 8.7 cm = 4.65” × 3.54” × 3.43”

SV660NCA: Very marked polycrystalline growth of complex Sphalerite crystals with curvatures and with smooth tetrahedron forms. The crystals, between transparent and translucent, have a very deep and uniform honey color, and grew on and between sharp white crystals of Dolomite on a limestone matrix. From a classic Spanish mine for Sphalerite, located in a spectacular setting next to Los Picos de Europa National Park, inaccessible already for many years since the galleries were flooded.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (±1990)

Specimen size: 12.8 × 9.5 × 5 cm = 5.04” × 3.74” × 1.97”

SV640NDR: Polycrystalline growth of complex Sphalerite crystals with curvatures and with smooth tetrahedron forms. The crystals, between transparent and translucent, have a deep and uniform dense caramel color, and are on and between sharp white crystals of Dolomite, with small remnants of a limestone matrix. From a classic Spanish mine for Sphalerite located in a spectacular setting next to Los Picos de Europa National Park, inaccessible already for many years since its galleries were flooded.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (±1990)

Specimen size: 16.6 × 13.5 × 6.2 cm = 6.54” × 5.31” × 2.44”

TFX13AQ0: Cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena, very sharp and on matrix, with Calcite, Dolomite and transparent orange crystals of Sphalerite.
The specimen comes from the Antonino Bueno collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 2, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.9 × 1.2 cm = 1.73” × 1.54” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.31” × 0.20”

SV390ETY: Floater group of twinned Aragonite crystals, with a thick tabular habit, translucent, lustrous and purple.
A classic of Spanish mineralogy with higher quality than usual.
The specimen has been reinforced to avoid the separation of the crystals from each other due to local changes in climate that cause the clay between the crystals to expand and contract and end up drying out. This procedure is common for this type of Aragonite and it is generally accepted for specimens with very large aerial crystals.
Keuper outcrop, Los Molinillos, Minglanilla, Comarca Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (12/2022)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 4 × 2.8 cm = 1.61” × 1.57” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.2 cm = 1.02” × 0.87”

SV390ETX: Floater group of twinned Aragonite crystals, with a thick tabular habit, translucent, lustrous and purple.
A classic of Spanish mineralogy with higher quality than usual.
The specimen has been reinforced to avoid the separation of the crystals from each other due to local changes in climate that cause the clay between the crystals to expand and contract and end up drying out. This procedure is common for this type of Aragonite and it is generally accepted for specimens with very large aerial crystals.
Keuper outcrop, Los Molinillos, Minglanilla, Comarca Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (12/2022)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.7 × 3.4 cm = 1.81” × 1.46” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.9 cm = 1.22” × 1.14”

EFA14AQ0: Floater group of twinned Aragonite crystals, with a thick tabular habit, translucent, lustrous and purple.
A classic of Spanish mineralogy with higher quality than usual. Unlike most specimens from this find and previous finds, this specimen has not needed to be reinforced to prevent the crystals from separating from each other.
Keuper outcrop, Los Molinillos, Minglanilla, Comarca Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (12/2022)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4 × 4 cm = 2.13” × 1.57” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.9 cm = 1.38” × 1.14”

EFB14AQ0: Floater group of twinned Aragonite crystals, with a short prismatic habit, translucent, lustrous and purple. A classic of Spanish mineralogy with higher quality than usual.
Unlike most specimens from this find and previous finds, this specimen has not needed to be reinforced to prevent the crystals from separating from each other.
Keuper outcrop, Los Molinillos, Minglanilla, Comarca Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (12/2022)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.5 × 4.2 cm = 2.20” × 1.77” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 3.9 cm = 1.85” × 1.54”

TCL96AP9: Group of doubly terminated Aragonite crystals with very defined parallel growths, with good luster and lilac color. Unlike many other such aragonite crystal groups, this one has its crystals in sufficiently stable positions that it has not been necessary to reinforce them.
The specimen comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Keuper outcrops, Enguídanos, Comarca Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain

Specimen size: 9.2 × 6.4 × 6.4 cm = 3.62” × 2.52” × 2.52”

Main crystal size: 8 × 3.9 cm = 3.15” × 1.54”

NTD69AO3: Very aerial reticulated growth of flattened and elongated prismatic Cerussite crystals. The crystals, twinned and with good terminations, are translucent and have a satiny luster.
This specimen comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes (number CER-39) and we will send its catalogue file to the buyer.
Luis Mine, Norte vein, Del General Mines, Cabezarrubias del Puerto, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (10/2013)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.42” × 1.06” × 0.55”

NGX97AP3: Very aerial, reticulated growth of flattened and twinned prismatic Cerussite crystals with a white color. The specimen comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes (number CER-56) whose label we will send to the buyer.
Luis Mine, Norte vein, Del General Mines, Cabezarrubias del Puerto, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (06/11/2013)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm = 1.73” × 0.98” × 0.83”

NJ70AL9: Floater growth of flattened reticulated prismatic twins of Cerussite whose white color shows a slightly brownish-pinkish tinge. In perfect condition, with a rosette-like appearance different from other specimens commonly seen from this locality.
The specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection.
Luis Mine, 88 m.↓ Norte vein, Del General Mines, Cabezarrubias del Puerto, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (10/2013)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.8 × 2.9 cm = 1.85” × 1.50” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 0.6 cm = 1.38” × 0.24”

NQ27AL3: Rhombohedral Cinnabar crystals, one of them clearly dominant and individual, translucent, shiny, very deep in color, on matrix, with small crystals of Calcite and Quartz
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1960-70)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 4 × 1.2 cm = 1.81” × 1.57” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.24” × 0.16”

HM90NR: Group of very sharp crystals of Cinnabar, on a matrix of the same mineral, with coatings of small transparent Quartz crystals and small cubic Pyrite crystals.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain

Specimen size: 6.1 × 5.1 × 2.2 cm = 2.40” × 2.01” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.16” × 0.12”

NR68AM1: Polycrystalline Cinnabar growth with very well defined crystal forms, dominated by the rhombohedron. Transparent, very lustrous, with bright red color, on a matrix with small Quartz crystals.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1960-70)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.1 × 3.8 cm = 2.40” × 1.61” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.6 cm = 0.47” × 0.24”

NT69AI7: Group of crystals with well-defined faces and edges and very well defined skeletal and parallel growths. They are translucent, very bright, have a very vivid color and they are on a matrix of white Quartz microcrystals.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1960-70)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.3 × 1.3 cm = 2.44” × 1.30” × 0.51”

NP89AL3: Polycrystalline growths of transparent rhombohedral Cinnabar crystals, brilliant, on matrix, with aggregates of white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1960-70)

Specimen size: 7 × 6 × 2.5 cm = 2.76” × 2.36” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.43” × 0.39”

NT69AG9: Parallel growth of Cinnabar crystals with polycrystalline surfaces and slight curvatures on the edges. They are translucent, bright, with an intense color and are on matrix with small Quartz crystals. A Spanish classic. The sample is from the Eugeni Bareche collection (num. 692) and we’ll send the label to the buyer.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1960-70)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 5.7 × 4.3 cm = 3.19” × 2.24” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.8 cm = 0.67” × 0.31”

TC280NEE: This specimen shows the very classic morphology of El Horcajo, with typical groups of parallel prismatic crystals that form palisades. It is an intense green color with the classic zoning on the tips.
El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1910)

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.1 × 1.1 cm = 0.63” × 0.43” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.08” × 0.04”

NFT89AQ0: Group, on matrix, of very sharp prismatic crystals of Pyromorphite that in some areas of the specimen form very close parallel aggregates and, in others, short hexagonal crystals with very deep hoppers.
This specimen, from one of the largest classical Spanish deposits, comes from the collection Ignacio Gaspar Sintes (number PiF-49), whose label we will send to the buyer.
El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1910)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.5 × 3 cm = 1.69” × 1.38” × 1.18”

TC2280NMR: Banded growths of Calcite (cobalt-bearing variety) with an intense color that alternates with bands of white and yellowish Calcite.
The specimen has been polished to show the banding and its color more clearly.
Solita Mine, Peramea, Baix Pallars, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lérida / Lleida, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 10.2 × 8 × 0.9 cm = 4.02” × 3.15” × 0.35”

XM140: Druse of fan-like growths of elongated Epidote crystals with sharp crystal forms, good terminations, translucent, lustrous, and with a very deep green color, on an ophitic rock matrix.
Barranc de les Collades, Pantà d'Escales, Casterner de les Olles, Tremp, Comarca Pallars Jussà, Lérida / Lleida, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (03-04/2010)

Specimen size: 9,7 × 6.9 × 4 cm = 3.54” × 2.72” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.3 cm = 0.39” × 0.12”

SM80DFN: Microcline crystal with a prismatic habit and very distinct Baveno-law twinning, with small Quartz crystals and aggregates of acicular Clinozoisite-Epidote crystals.
The specimen comes from the Lluís Daunis collection, a benchmark for Catalan mineralogy in his time.
La Batllòria, Sant Celoni, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 7.6 × 5.1 × 3.9 cm = 2.99” × 2.01” × 1.54”

RV6AM8: Deformed lamellar crystals of Wulfenite (variety chillagite) with a light cream color. On matrix, with crystalline Baryte and Fluorite. A historical classic of Spanish mineralogy.
Teresita Mine, Can Donadeu, Sant Fost de Campsentelles, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (±1955)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.1 × 1.5 cm = 1.06” × 0.83” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.1 cm = 0.63” × 0.43”

RB13AM8: Deformed lamellar crystals of Wulfenite (variety chillagite) with a light cream color. On matrix, with crystalline Baryte and Fluorite. A historical classic of Spanish mineralogy.
Teresita Mine, Can Donadeu, Sant Fost de Campsentelles, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (±1955)

Specimen size: 3 × 2.1 × 1.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.83” × 0.47”

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

RX26AM8: Deformed lamellar crystals of Wulfenite (variety chillagite) with a light cream color. On matrix, with crystalline Baryte and Fluorite. A historical classic of Spanish mineralogy.
Teresita Mine, Can Donadeu, Sant Fost de Campsentelles, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (±1955)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.1 × 1.4 cm = 1.22” × 0.83” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.31” × 0.24”

RD36AM8: Deformed lamellar crystals of Wulfenite (variety chillagite) with a light cream color. On matrix, with Baryte and very small crystals of Fluorite and small crystals of Cerussite associated with Galena. A historical classic of Spanish mineralogy with the peculiarity of the presence of Cerussite that did not usually appear in this deposit and associated with chillagite.
Teresita Mine, Can Donadeu, Sant Fost de Campsentelles, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (±1955)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.1 × 2.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.22” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.63”

RA56AM8: Deformed lamellar crystals of Wulfenite (variety chillagite) with a light cream color. On matrix, with Baryte, Fluorite and small crystals of Cerussite associated with Galena. A historical classic of Spanish mineralogy with the peculiarity of the presence of Cerussite that did not usually appear in this deposit associated with chillagite.
Teresita Mine, Can Donadeu, Sant Fost de Campsentelles, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (±1955)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.6 × 1.8 cm = 2.52” × 1.42” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.87” × 0.35”

RP26AM8: Deformed lamellar crystals of Wulfenite (variety chillagite) with a light cream color. On matrix, with Baryte and very small crystals of Fluorite and small crystals of Cerussite associated with Galena. A historical classic of Spanish mineralogy with the peculiarity of the presence of Cerussite that did not usually appear in this deposit associated with chillagite.
Teresita Mine, Can Donadeu, Sant Fost de Campsentelles, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (±1955)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 5.5 × 3.9 cm = 3.11” × 2.17” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.39” × 0.20”

RQ46AM8: Deformed lamellar crystals of Wulfenite (variety chillagite) with a light cream color. On matrix, with Baryte, Fluorite and small crystals of Cerussite associated with Galena. A historical classic of Spanish mineralogy with the peculiarity of the presence of Cerussite that did not usually appear in this deposit associated with chillagite.
Teresita Mine, Can Donadeu, Sant Fost de Campsentelles, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (±1955)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 4.9 × 4.3 cm = 3.43” × 1.93” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.2 cm = 0.39” × 0.08”

PM96AJ5: The sample on a massive Calcite matrix is uncommonly large. It has dendritic growths of very well defined elongated and bright crystals of native Silver with small crystals and aggregates of Acanthite.
Balcoll Mine, Falset, Comarca Priorat, Tarragona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (11/2004)

Specimen size: 15.2 × 12.6 × 4.7 cm = 5.98” × 4.96” × 1.85”

PAX46AP9: A specimen very rich in dendritic growths of lustrous Silver, with small black Acanthite coatings and Calcite matrix.
This specimen, one of the largest and with the most Silver of any extracted from this deposit, comes from the Jordi Povill collection.
Balcoll Mine, Falset, Comarca Priorat, Tarragona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (02/1999)

Specimen size: 20.5 × 17.2 × 6.6 cm = 8.07” × 6.77” × 2.60”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.08”

NCX13AQ0: Growth, on matrix, of very acute scalenohedral Calcite crystals, water-clear and with a second generation of less well defined crystals, smaller in size and yellowish in color.
Can Palomeres Mines, Malgrat de Mar, Comarca Maresme, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (2017)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 7.2 × 5.7 cm = 2.91” × 2.83” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.6 cm = 0.59” × 0.24”

NG8AL3: Scepter Quartz crystal (variety amethyst), with parallel growths in the lower parts, translucent, lustrous, and with very intense color. On a Microcline matrix.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (10/2004)

Specimen size: 3 × 2.4 × 1.6 cm = 1.18” × 0.94” × 0.63”

NG12S6: Quartz amethyst from the finds of a few years ago, when the workings of the new high-speed train (AVE) crossed a mineralized area of the Montseny Mountains near Barcelona.
Soliva Quarry (AVE Quarry works), Can Sala, Riudarenes, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (07/2006)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.3 × 2.5 cm = 2.44” × 2.09” × 0.98”

MV27R9: Parallel growth of crystals on a base of white Quartz. Crystals are transparent, bright and have an excellent, very deep, color with color zoning specially concentrated on the edges.
Soliva Quarry (AVE Quarry works), Can Sala, Riudarenes, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (2006)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.5 × 6.2 cm = 3.74” × 2.95” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.8 cm = 1.57” × 1.50”

TC2240DKL: Quartz crystals (amethyst variety), partially doubly terminated and forming scepter growths on Quartz (smoky variety), with traces of a Microcline matrix. It comes from a unique find in a place discovered by Lluís Daunis and later lost.
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: 10.4 × 6 × 4.3 cm = 4.09” × 2.36” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 5.7 × 3.5 cm = 2.24” × 1.38”

TC280DGR: 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”

NQ66W4: Single crystal of very deep colored smoky Quartz. It is transparent and bright and it is on a small matrix of Microcline and Albite, with leafy growths of Muscovite. The crystal shows a notable phantom growth at its termination.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (04/2004)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 3.7 × 3.2 cm = 3.58” × 1.46” × 1.26”

JMB12AP8: Two Quartz crystals, intense dark brown (smoky variety), transparent, lustrous, with a small, sharp crystal of Microcline and microcrystals of Clinozoisite-Epidote at the base and at the terminations.
Santa Coloma de Farners, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (1977)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.8 × 2.5  cm = 1.61” × 1.10” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 1.3 cm = 1.61” × 0.51”

NP14AJ5: Microcline crystal with simple forms and skeletal growths and a smoky Quartz crystal with a very deep color and superficial recrystallization of white Quartz.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (2004-2010)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 6.2 × 5.3 cm = 2.44” × 2.44” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 4.1 cm = 2.05” × 1.61”

NJ6AI0: Aggregate of crystals with very well defined parallel growths, Manebach law twinned with a pale pink color.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (±2006)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 8.5 × 3.4 cm = 3.39” × 3.35” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.75”

NF66AI7: Microcline crystals with very well defined Baveno-law twins, with a pale pinkish color, with a parallel smoky Quartz crystal and groups of white Albite crystals. The sample is from the Daunis collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (2004-2010)

Specimen size: 9 × 7.5 × 5.6 cm = 3.54” × 2.95” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 5 × 3.2 cm = 1.97” × 1.26”

NB27AJ5: Very well defined smoky Quartz crystals with shades between gray and brown and on matrix with sharp Microcline crystals. From a more or less well-known locality but where only a few samples of this quality were collected.
Can Berenguer Hill, Gualba, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (2015)

Specimen size: 13.7 × 9.5 × 6.6 cm = 5.39” × 3.74” × 2.60”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 2 cm = 1.77” × 0.79”

NAX89AP9: Vug of tabular Baryte crystals with good sharp terminations, lustrous, transparent and golden in color in most of the crystal, but with translucent white edges.
Excellent specimen for this historic locality, with the added advantage of not having Pyrite whose decomposition over the years could have harmed it.
Osor Mines, Osor, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (1978)

Specimen size: 14.2 × 11.3 × 6.7 cm = 5.59” × 4.45” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.4 cm = 0.47” × 0.16”

JQQ12AP8: Pyrite crystals formed by cube and pyritohedron faces, with both forms very balanced, lustrous, and on matrix, with Quartz.
A quality specimen for this little known locality, it comes to us via the collection of Andrés Jimenez Shelly.
Larrako Quarry, Barrio de Larrasko, Arrigorriaga, Comarca Gran Bilbao, Vizcaya / Bizkaia, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2 × 1.5 cm = 1.26” × 0.79” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.35” × 0.24”

NLA64AO5: Group of Sphalerite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, very lustrous and with small groups of Calcite.
The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, managed to collect many rarities from urban and peri-urban areas of northern Spain, very little disclosed before in the mineral collecting world.

Malaespera Mine, Barrio de la Peña, Bilbao, Comarca Gran Bilbao, Vizcaya / Bizkaia, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 1.10” × 0.71” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.63”

SV290NMP: Group of very sharp Sphalerite crystals, with the crystal faces perfectly defined and very lustrous. With small whitish Quartz crystals in distinct color contrast.
Coming from a current urban area in northern Spain, this type of specimen is very difficult to obtain nowadays and even less with this quality.
Malaespera Mine, Barrio de la Peña, Bilbao, Comarca Gran Bilbao, Vizcaya / Bizkaia, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.4 × 2.4 cm = 2.17” × 1.34” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”

NP27AA6: Druse of small, complex, twinned Sphalerite crystals, extraordinarily bright and transparent and with a very deep honey color. The matrix is partially coated by small, white Dolomite crystals and rhombohedral Siderite crystals. This mine is currently abandoned and flooded, and its old galleries are completely inaccessible.
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain (±1985)

Specimen size: 11.6 × 9.1 × 6.3 cm = 4.57” × 3.58” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.39” × 0.28”

JLB26AP8: Centered growths of acicular Malachite crystals ending in botryoidal terminations, with brilliant luster and an intense color, on a limonite matrix.
The specimen, a rarity for the locality, comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly.
Aizpea claim, Cerain mines, Zerain, Comarca Goyerri, Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.9 × 3.3 × 5.9 cm = 2.72” × 1.30” × 2.32”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.5 cm = 0.47” × 0.20”

NBC12AQ0: Group of very sharp Arsenopyrite crystals, lustrous, with coatings of lamellar Muscovite crystals and with small Quartz crystals.
Somewhat different from what has been known up to now from this locality, it comes from recent discoveries in new work faces. It is very good news that the La Parrilla mine, one of the largest classic Spanish deposits, is yielding collectible specimens again.
La Parrilla Claim (new cut), Santa Amalia, Don Benito-Almoharín, Comarca Vegas Altas, Cáceres, Extremadura  Spain (07/2022)

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.9 × 1.3 cm = 0.83” × 0.75” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.1 cm = 0.51” × 0.43”

NBY14AQ0: Group of very sharp Arsenopyrite crystals, lustrous, with coatings of lamellar Muscovite crystals.
Somewhat different from what has been known up to now from this locality, it comes from recent discoveries in new work faces. It is very good news that the La Parrilla mine, one of the largest classic Spanish deposits, is yielding collectible specimens again.
La Parrilla Claim (new cut), Santa Amalia, Don Benito-Almoharín, Comarca Vegas Altas, Cáceres, Extremadura  Spain (07/2022)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.3 × 1.9 cm = 1.10” × 0.91” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.6 cm = 0.59” × 0.24”

NBT64AQ0: Group of very sharp Arsenopyrite crystals, lustrous, with coatings of lamellar Muscovite crystals.
Somewhat different from what has been known up to now from this locality, it comes from recent discoveries in new work faces. It is very good news that the La Parrilla mine, one of the largest classic Spanish deposits, is yielding collectible specimens again.
La Parrilla Claim (new cut), Santa Amalia, Don Benito-Almoharín, Comarca Vegas Altas, Cáceres, Extremadura  Spain (07/2022)

Specimen size: 3 × 2.7 × 1.1 cm = 1.18” × 1.06” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.7 cm = 0.55” × 0.28”

NBR16AQ0: Group of very sharp Arsenopyrite crystals, lustrous, with coatings of lamellar Muscovite crystals and with small crystals of Quartz and Cassiterite.
Somewhat different from what has been known up to now from this locality, it comes from recent discoveries in new work faces. It is very good news that the La Parrilla mine, one of the largest classic Spanish deposits, is yielding collectible specimens again.
La Parrilla Claim (new cut), Santa Amalia, Don Benito-Almoharín, Comarca Vegas Altas, Cáceres, Extremadura  Spain (07/2022)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.6 × 1.9 cm = 1.34” × 1.02” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.4 cm = 0.71” × 0.55”

SV3140NMP: Polycrystalline growths, with a dipyramidal habit, of translucent Scheelite with an intense and uniform yellow-orange color, on matrix, with very sharp crystals of Arsenopyrite, small twinned Cassiterite crystals and lamellar Muscovite growths. It is very good news that the La Parrilla mine, one of the largest classic Spanish deposits, is yielding collectible specimens again.
La Parrilla Claim (new cut), Santa Amalia, Don Benito-Almoharín, Comarca Vegas Altas, Cáceres, Extremadura  Spain (07/2022)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.9 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.75” × 0.47”

SV390NMM: Polycrystalline growths, with a dipyramidal habit, of translucent Scheelite with an intense and uniform yellow-orange color, on matrix, with very sharp crystals of Arsenopyrite, small twinned Cassiterite crystals and lamellar Muscovite growths. It is very good news that the La Parrilla mine, one of the largest classic Spanish deposits, is yielding collectible specimens again.
La Parrilla Claim (new cut), Santa Amalia, Don Benito-Almoharín, Comarca Vegas Altas, Cáceres, Extremadura  Spain (07/2022)

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 0.83” × 0.67” × 0.47”

NFR66AQ1: A novelty for Spanish mineralogy (see: La extraordinaria paragénesis de minerales de mercurio de Usagre)
Group of Eglestonite crystals -a mineral species produced by the alteration of other mercury minerals - with the dominant forms of the octahedron, on matrix, of a honey color, translucent, and completely filling a vug, as well as being dispersed in the rest of the piece. They are accompanied by Calomel crystals with an adamantine luster, and small Mercury droplets that are sustained thanks to their high surface tension.
Both of the mercury halide species have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
These minerals are photosensitive, blackening easily in sunlight and even under the light of a lamp, so we recommend keeping them in the dark.
Mariquita mining group, Cerro de las Minas, Usagre, Comarca Campiña Sur, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain (2015)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm = 1.10” × 0.71” × 0.59”

NHM27AQ1: A novelty for Spanish mineralogy (see: La extraordinaria paragénesis de minerales de mercurio de Usagre)
Group of Eglestonite crystals -a mineral species produced by the alteration of other mercury minerals - with the dominant forms of the octahedron, on matrix, with a honey color and translucency, completely filling a vug, as well as being dispersed on the rest of the piece. They are associated with Calomel crystals with an adamantine luster, and small Mercury droplets that are sustained thanks to their high surface tension.
Both of the mercury halide species have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
These minerals are photosensitive, blackening easily in sunlight and even under the light of a lamp, so we recommend keeping them in the dark.
The specimen comes from the Antonino Bueno collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Mariquita mining group, Cerro de las Minas, Usagre, Comarca Campiña Sur, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain (2015)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.9 × 3.2 cm = 2.28” × 1.54” × 1.26”

NFF89AQ0: A novelty for Spanish mineralogy (see: La extraordinaria paragénesis de minerales de mercurio de Usagre)
A group of Eglestonite crystals -an alteration mineral, product of other mercury minerals-, on matrix, green-colored and translucent. They are accompanied by small Calomel crystals with an adamantine luster and small drops of Mercury that hold together thanks to their high surface tension. The quality and color of this sample is exceptional, compared to other specimens from the same discovery. Both species of mercury halides have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
These minerals are photosensitive, easily blackening in sunlight and even in the light of a lamp, so we recommend keeping them out of the light.
This sample has been referenced and pictured, as a novelty in Sainte Marie 2023, in the magazine 'Le Règne Minéral' number 172, July-August 2023, page 23
Mariquita mining group, Cerro de las Minas, Usagre, Comarca Campiña Sur, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain (2015)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 3.6 × 5 cm = 4.13” × 1.42” × 1.97”

NQQ16AO0: Group of Quartz crystals with Albite, very aerial, translucent and lustrous. From a little-known locality from which not too many specimens have been preserved.
Embalse de Orellana, Orellana la Vieja, Comarca Vegas Altas, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain

Specimen size: 6.9 × 6.6 × 5.4 cm = 2.72” × 2.60” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 1.1 cm = 1.73” × 0.43”

NP26AM9: Gold nugget of considerable size for the deposit, lustrous, with cavities and small remnants of matrix.
The specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection (number AU-81), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Talarrubias / Casas de Don Pedro area, Comarca La Siberia, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain (±2013)

Specimen size: 1.5 × 1.3 × 0.9 cm = 0.59” × 0.51” × 0.35”

NH50AF0: Complete Gold nugget preserving rough octahedral crystalline forms, with relatively well preserved faces and edges.
Talarrubias / Casas de Don Pedro area, Comarca La Siberia, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.3 × 0.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.51” × 0.16”

NG49AF0: Leafy masses on a white Quartz matrix of skeletal Gold crystals with molds that have preserved the shape of disappeared Quartz crystals.
Talarrubias / Casas de Don Pedro area, Comarca La Siberia, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.5 × 1.9 cm = 0.63” × 0.59” × 0.75”

NT66AL0: Gold nugget with an elongated shape that retains rounded and deformed cubic crystals on the back. A representative of Spanish Golds, seldom easy to get.
The specimen is from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection, whose label and catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Talarrubias / Casas de Don Pedro area, Comarca La Siberia, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.91” × 0.43” × 0.28”

NL11AN2: Rosette aggregate of Calcite pseudomorphs after Gypsum crystals, translucent, with a certain luster and a uniform creamy white color. The specimen comes from a recent find in an area where we were not previously aware of the presence of these curious pseudomorphs. A rarity.
De Los Cazadores Ravine, Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Comarca Área metropolitana de Madrid, Community of Madrid  Spain (09/2020)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 6 × 4.9 cm = 2.99” × 2.36” × 1.93”

EF96AI8: Group of thick tabular Calcite crystals with very well defined geometrical zoning and on a Quartz matrix. The crystals have a considerable size for the locality.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Los Taberneros Quarry, (La Cabrera pluton), Los Taberneros, El Berrueco, Comarca Sierra Norte, Community of Madrid  Spain (05/2004)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 5 × 3.8 cm = 2.01” × 1.97” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2 cm = 1.22” × 0.79”

NRA46AN9: Very aerial group of Prehnite crystals, of good size for the locality, with crystal forms that are unusually sharp for the species, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and a greenish yellow color, on an Orthoclase matrix, associated with crystals of the Clinozoisite-Epidote (Series)
Isabel Quarry (La Saludadora Quarry), La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama, Community of Madrid  Spain

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.7 × 3.2 cm = 2.13” × 1.85” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.39” × 0.35”

SM130DAJ: 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”

Main crystal size: 8.2 × 4.3 cm = 3.23” × 1.69”

SV2240EGX: Group of Quartz crystals (smoky variety) implanted on a matrix of Orthoclase crystals twinned according to the Baveno law, and with a parallel aggregate of lamellar Mica crystals, probably Muscovite.
The specimen, of special interest due to its locality and size, comes from the collection of Raúl Sanabria, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Navazales Quarry (El Berrocal, Los Gallegos), La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco - Bustarviejo, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama, Community of Madrid  Spain (03/2001)

Specimen size: 14.4 × 11.6 × 6.7 cm = 5.67” × 4.57” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3.5 cm = 1.77” × 1.38”

NA6AC1: Radial aggregates of acicular crystals whose chemical composition is between Clinozoisite (dominant) and Epidote. The crystals are implanted on a matrix partially coated by clear green Prehnite aggregates, Orthoclase and Quartz crystals. The sample is from a large famous find in 1999 at the La Saludadora Quarry.
Isabel Quarry (La Saludadora Quarry), La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama, Community of Madrid  Spain (03/1999)

Specimen size: 19.8 × 15.1 × 4.5 cm = 7.80” × 5.94” × 1.77”

EA12AI3: Spheroidal Pyrolusite aggregates on a limonite matrix of bundles of crystals with finely but deeply striated faces. A considerable size and an extraordinarily bright luster contrasting with Romanéchite aggregates, powdery with a deep black color. The sample is of an extraordinary quality for the locality and even for the species.
Haití Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, San Ginés de la Jara, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (10/2017)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.8 × 2.2 cm = 1.73” × 1.50” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.08” × 0.08”

EC11AI3: Spheroidal Pyrolusite aggregates on a limonite matrix of bundles of crystals with finely but deeply striated faces. A considerable size and an extraordinarily bright luster contrasting with Romanéchite aggregates, powdery with a deep black color. The sample is of an extraordinary quality for the locality and even for the species.
Haití Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, San Ginés de la Jara, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (10/2017)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.5 × 3 cm = 2.20” × 1.38” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.08” × 0.08”

SV3220EPP: Although not very famous, the Haiti mine has also yielded botryoidal goethites, sometimes of good quality. This specimen is a perfect example of this, with the Goethite/matrix relationship well balanced, with slight iridescence and a lot of luster in the Goethite groupings.
It was in the collection of Miguel David Martínez with number 1818 and we will send its label to the buyer of the specimen.
Haití Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, San Ginés de la Jara, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2016)

Specimen size: 11.4 × 8 × 5.7 cm = 4.49” × 3.15” × 2.24”

SM220NAA: Botryoidal and stalagmitic growths of Goethite, on a matrix of the same species, exhibiting iridescence of very vivid colors in which blue and reddish tones predominate. Of excellent quality for the deposit.
Haití Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, San Ginés de la Jara, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2016)

Specimen size: 18.8 × 8.7 × 6.2 cm = 7.40” × 3.43” × 2.44”

HM160EK: Group of Gypsum crystals, one of them clearly dominant and doubly terminated, with a very distinct “swallowtail” twin and abundant inclusions, on matrix.
La Dificultad Mine, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Portmán, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (1981-1985)

Specimen size: 13.7 × 7.2 × 4.5 cm = 5.39” × 2.83” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 12 × 5.2 cm = 4.72” × 2.05”

NVA13AN9: Twinned crystals of Sphalerite with very sharp and extraordinarily lustrous crystal forms, on a matrix covered by rhombohedral Siderite crystals. Very unusual for the locality.
This specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 775) whose label we will send to the buyer.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2012)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.5 × 2.2 cm = 1.46” × 1.38” × 0.87”

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

TE76AG0: Group of Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with a very short prism and coated by a second generation of micro-crystalline Quartz. With small Siderite crystals.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.2 × 6 cm = 3.86” × 2.83” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 4.6 cm = 2.17” × 1.81”

HM560NX: Group of Quartz crystals with a very short prism, good luster, and almost completely covered by a thin sheet of Siderite microcrystals.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (nº 601) whose label we will send to the buyer.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (1990)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 9.8 × 7.3 cm = 4.21” × 3.86” × 2.87”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.38” × 1.34”

TT67AG0: Group of Quartz crystals on matrix. They have a very short prism and are translucent with a pale amethyst color, and they are partially encrusted by white Calcite crystals and with small spheroidal Siderites.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 12.2 × 8.2 × 5.8 cm = 4.80” × 3.23” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3.5 cm = 1.46” × 1.38”

SV340NEX: Druse formed by Quartz crystals (amethyst variety), on a Greenalite matrix, with a very short prism,
sharp, transparent, with great luster and a very light violet color, dotted with a multitude of light brown Siderite crystals, some more isolated and others forming spherical aggregates, with a satin luster and velvety appearance, very characteristic for specimens from this emblematic deposit in the La Unión mining district, the San Valentine cut.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 19.2 × 14.8 × 8.4 cm = 7.56” × 5.83” × 3.31”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.6 cm = 1.06” × 1.02”

NA70AN2: Druse of Quartz crystals (amethyst variety) with a very short prism, translucent, with good luster and a pale magenta-violet color, partially covered by small groups of Siderite crystals.
This piece comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 603) whose label we will send to the buyer. Of exceptional quality for the locality.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 19.4 × 13.4 × 7.8 cm = 7.64” × 5.28” × 3.07”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.8 cm = 1.18” × 1.10”

NB89AL3: Powerful group of Quartz crystals displaying a dipyramidal habit, as the prism is mostly absent, covered by an epigenetic growth of small Siderite crystals. The size of the Quartz crystals and the quality of the piece is much higher than what is usually found in this deposit.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection, whose label we will send to the buyer along with a small poster that certifies that this specimen was displayed in the “Minerals of the Mediterranian 2014” exhibition at the 2014 Expominer Show.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (±1990)

Specimen size: 14.7 × 9.3 × 5.5 cm = 5.79” × 3.66” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3.1 cm = 1.38” × 1.22”

ET99AK7: Fans of twinned Cerussite crystals pseudomorphing Anglesite and subsequently coated by iridescent Goethite with a rainbow of colors dominated by yellow. This piece comes from the Mariano Guillén collection and both for the size of the crystals and the intensity of color represents just about the best known for this locality, which in fact is the only one that yields these curious formations.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (±1995)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4 × 4.3 cm = 2.17” × 1.57” × 1.69”

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

HM90NTA: Flattened crystals of Cerussite, very sharp, twinned, between translucent and transparent and with a yellowish white color.On matrix, with Goethite.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (1990)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 6.9 × 5.5 cm = 2.87” × 2.72” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.7 cm = 0.63” × 0.28”

TQ98AI7: Azurite crystals with a lenticular shape, translucent, very bright and implanted on a limonite matrix coated by surfaces and spheroidal aggregates of Malachite with a silky luster. Of the best quality for the locality. The sample is from the collection of La Unión area minerals of Alain Martaud whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
San Juan Bautista concession, San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (1980-1985)

Specimen size: 14.8 × 13.3 × 4.8 cm = 5.83” × 5.24” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.5 cm = 0.43” × 0.20”

NM27AK8: Group of fine tabular Baryte crystals, very sharp, translucent, very lustrous and deep blue. The specimen, a Portman classic of excellent quality, comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez (No. 331) whose label we will send to the buyer.
San Jorge mining group, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Portmán, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2015)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 2.8 × 2.7 cm = 2.13” × 1.10” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.3 cm = 1.22” × 0.91”

SV2160TFX: Aggregate of very sharp Sphalerite crystals (variety marmatite), with very well defined spinel-law twinning, intense black color, very lustrous, and aerial.
Although it might appear that this specimen comes from the Trepča mining complex, its origin is really the José Maestre tunnel in the La Unión-Cartagena mining district, Spain, and it has a high quality compared to the specimens we usually see from there.
José Maestre Tunnel, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Portmán, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.7 × 1.3 cm = 2.28” × 2.24” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59”

MR88AJ5: Groups of complex twinned Sphalerite crystals with the dominant forms of a tetrahedron, bright black and on matrix with small Quartz crystals.
José Maestre Tunnel, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Portmán, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 12.8 × 11.8 × 5.3 cm = 5.04” × 4.65” × 2.09”

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

NE27AK8: Cubic crystals with small octahedron faces, lustrous and on matrix, on Siderite druse with white Calcite coatings. A Galena of excellent quality for the locality that comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez (No. 501) whose label we will send to the buyer.
La Gaviota Mine, Cola de Caballo Cove, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Portmán, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2017)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 5.2 × 5.5 cm = 4.21” × 2.05” × 2.17”

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

SV220NBX: Group of Pyrrhotite crystals with hexagonal outlines, fully pseudomorphed by small, but very bright, Pyrite crystals covering the old crystals of Pyrrhotite, and with small carbonate crystals scattered on top of the Pyrite crystals. This association of sulfides and carbonates is a classic of this old mine in the La Union mining district.
Tomasa Mine, La Fortuna, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.5 × 4.4 cm = 3.31” × 2.56” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.9 cm = 1.18” × 0.75”

TRB66AP9: Growth of white Cerussite microcrystals that completely cover a group of cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena. A genetic curiosity, very unusual, but typical of this deposit.
Mina Rómulo, Collado La Mina, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (±1992)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.8 × 3.6 cm = 2.40” × 1.89” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 3.4 cm = 1.54” × 1.34”

SV2180TBX: Cubo-octahedral crystal of Galena, of considerable size, partially covered by a multitude of tiny Cerussite crystals, hosted in a matrix formed of iron-rich Dolomite and associated with a large group of Quartz crystals, some of them doubly terminated.
A curious specimen due to its genetics and for being from the Rómulo mine in the La Unión-Cartagena mining district, very difficult to get nowadays.
Mina Rómulo, Collado La Mina, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (±1992)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 7.4 × 4 cm = 4.13” × 2.91” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.7 cm = 1.22” × 1.06”

SV440NVX: Interesting specimen formed by Galena crystals with the predominant forms of the cube and partially covered by Cerussite crystals as an alteration product, accompanied by a rich group of small crystals of Dolomite rich in iron with a very deep brown color. Finally, decorated with small, very sharp Quartz crystals on the Dolomite. Very different from what has been known previously from this mine.
Mina Rómulo, Collado La Mina, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 11.8 × 8.8 × 5.2 cm = 4.65” × 3.46” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3.1 cm = 1.61” × 1.22”

TZR48AP9: Group of Quartz crystals, many of them doubly terminated, that have been totally covered by a second generation of milky microcrystals of the same Quartz, leaving highly visible white growths.
The specimen comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez Pérez (number 2666), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Los Pajaritos-Cabezo de Don Juan Ravine, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 10.4 × 9.2 × 4.8 cm = 4.09” × 3.62” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.2 cm = 1.57” × 1.26”

NR67AL5: Group of Quartz crystals (variety amethyst) with a short prism, transparent, very bright and pale violet in color, with a more intense tone at the edges and at the vertices. High quality for the deposit.
The piece comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (no. 610), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Los Pajaritos-Cabezo de Don Juan Ravine, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 9 × 8.4 × 6.1 cm = 3.54” × 3.31” × 2.40”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3.1 cm = 1.46” × 1.22”

XM140TC: Group of crystals, very aerial and on matrix, of Quartz pseudomorphs after Aragonite, an unusual substitution and, in this case, also very aesthetic. The crystals have recognizable crystal shapes, and are translucent and white. The specimen comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Los Pajaritos-Cabezo de Don Juan Ravine, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (1980-1985)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 7.8 × 9 cm = 4.13” × 3.07” × 3.54”

NX86AJ7: Cubo-octahedral Galena crystals in tabular growths, pseudomorphous after Pyrrhotite, with Sphalerite. Although they were previously known in the area the specimen is from a very recent find.
Sultana open pit, Cabezo de Ponce, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (11/2018)

Specimen size: 10.1 × 5.7 × 4.1 cm = 3.98” × 2.24” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.98” × 0.43”

HM190NX: Group on matrix of glossy tabular crystals with a snow-white color. The specimen comes from a mine that has produced very few quality specimens, via the Miguel David Martínez collection (No. 190), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Marisol Mine, Barranco Las Nogueras, Campos de Golf, Atamaría, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2012)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 8.5 × 6.2 cm = 4.41” × 3.35” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 7.5 × 3 cm = 2.95” × 1.18”

NR14AM1: Druse of complex Calcite crystals that are very rich in faces, clearly dominated by scalenohedron faces and rhombohedron terminations, shinier and 'cleaner' than usual in this type of specimen. The crystals are translucent and brownish gray due to the inclusions of Chalcophanite, which also forms the matrix.
Herculano Mine, El Puntal, Campos de Golf, Atamaría, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.2 ×  5 cm = 3.31” × 2.44” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.47”

NT14AM1: Druse of complex Calcite crystals that are very rich in faces, clearly dominated by scalenohedron faces and rhombohedron terminations, shinier and 'cleaner' than usual in this type of specimen. The crystals are translucent and brownish gray due to the inclusions of Chalcophanite, which also forms the matrix.
Herculano Mine, El Puntal, Campos de Golf, Atamaría, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.4 × 7.2 × 4.2 cm = 3.70” × 2.83” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.63” × 0.24”

SV2360NCX: Group of Baryte crystals that form bright leafy aggregates, sharp and interpenetrated with each other. One crystal is adorned at the end by tiny, totally water-clear Quartz crystals.
Comes from a mine that has become swallowed by the peri-urban nucleus of Vista Alegre, in the mining district of La Unión-Cartagena.
San Camilo Mine, Vista Alegre, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 12.2 × 10.9 × 7.6 cm = 4.80” × 4.29” × 2.99”

Main crystal size: 8 × 3 cm = 3.15” × 1.18”

TC260NVA: Druse of white Baryte crystals with a lenticular habit, with Gypsum and coatings of intense green microcrystals of Conichalcite (analyzed)
Santa Isabel cut, De Enmedio Range, Almendricos, Lorca, Comarca Alto Guadalentín, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (12/2020)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5.7 × 5.6 cm = 3.07” × 2.24” × 2.20”

TC290BRB: Druse of white Baryte crystals with a lenticular habit, with Gypsum and coatings of intense green microcrystals of Conichalcite (analyzed)
Santa Isabel cut, De Enmedio Range, Almendricos, Lorca, Comarca Alto Guadalentín, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (12/2020)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.8 × 5 cm = 3.31” × 2.68” × 1.97”

JXE9AP8: Floater tabular Baryte crystal with parallel growths, translucent, with very good luster and an intense and uniform yellow color.
The specimen, from a quarry little known for collection-quality specimens, comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly.
Armasa Quarry, Lesaka, Comarca Cinco Villas, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.8 × 0.7 cm = 1.06” × 0.71” × 0.28”

JBF76AP8: Calcite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial on the matrix, with a very evident, transparent, lustrous and colorless contact twin.
The specimen, from a quarry little known for twinned specimens, comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly.
Arambeltz Quarry, Ziordia (Ciordia), Comarca Barranca, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5 × 3.9 cm = 2.24” × 1.97” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2 cm = 1.26” × 0.79”

JEM96AP8: Rhombohedral Dolomite crystals, transparent, very lustrous, colorless and on matrix, with lenticular Magnesite crystals.
This specimen has a very different crystallography than usual, and comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly and was previously in the Folch collection (duplicates) whose handwritten label we will attach.
Asturreta Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.9 × 3.3 cm = 2.48” × 1.93” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.4 cm = 1.10” × 0.94”

MR90AH7: Aerial group of sharp rhombohedral Dolomite crystals that are twinned and bright, between transparent and translucent, with phantom growths and fine alignments of black globular growths, probably Graphite, a Spanish classic.
Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain

Specimen size: 8 × 7 × 5.5 cm = 3.15” × 2.76” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 3 cm = 1.34” × 1.18”

SV490MRX: Group of very sharp Dolomite crystals, two of them clearly dominant, rhombohedral and
with very marked, transparent and lustrous penetration twins. With internal growth figures and external sprinklings of very tiny Chalcopyrite crystals.
Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (1998)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 9.7 × 9 cm = 4.09” × 3.82” × 3.54”

Main crystal size: 7.5 × 5.4 cm = 2.95” × 2.13”

SV480EFX: Group of very sharp Dolomite crystals, two of them clearly dominant, rhombohedral, with
very marked penetration twins, between transparent and translucent, in rock matrix. Worthy of note is a great dark phantom in the main crystal, quite uncommon in such a size in specimens from this locality. A classic for Spanish mineralogy and especially for this species.
Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain

Specimen size: 12.5 × 11.8 × 10.2 cm = 4.92” × 4.65” × 4.02”

Main crystal size: 6.6 × 4 cm = 2.60” × 1.57”

HM780EM: Group of very sharp rhombohedral Dolomite crystals, transparent, with good luster, a slightly gray color and on matrix. An excellent Spanish classic.


Asturreta Quarry, 'el pozo', Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 11.8 × 6.8 cm = 5.71” × 4.65” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 3 cm = 2.17” × 1.18”

JLX27AP8: Very aerial group of tapered Aragonite crystals with very sharp terminations, between transparent and translucent and cream-colored.
A Spanish classic that comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly.
Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (1999)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 5.9 × 4.2 cm = 4.02” × 2.32” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.1 cm = 1.57” × 0.43”

NXM10AQ0: Very sharp floater crystal of Gypsum, doubly terminated and with an “arrow” habit. Completely transparent and very lustrous.
Segorbe, Comarca Alto Palancia, Castellón / Castelló, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana  Spain

Specimen size: 4.5 × 2 × 1.4 cm = 1.77” × 0.79” × 0.55”

JAF14AP8: Prismatic Gypsum crystals on matrix, many of them very elongated, with good terminations, transparent, with good luster and a deep red color due to clay inclusions stained by Hematite.
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 × 5 × 4.7 cm = 2.91” × 1.97” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 0.1 cm = 1.10” × 0.04”