E16CF6: The complex growth forms of the Chalcopyrite are on a matrix of compact Quartz crystals. During a later phase of crystallization, with a surprising esthetic effect, some curious lenticular crystals of Calcite grew on the matrix.
Boldut Mine, 61 level ↓350m., Cavnic, Maramures  Romania (04/1999)

Specimen size: 12.8 × 8 × 4 cm = 5.04” × 3.15” × 1.57”

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

ER89Z0: Aggregate of white laminar Calcite crystals with fine polycrystalline surfaces. They are on matrix, with twinned Chalcopyrite crystals and small Quartz crystals.
The sample, a classic from the Boldut Mine, Romania, is from a single find in the year 1999
Boldut Mine, 61 level, ↓350 m, Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures  Romania (04/1999)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 10 × 6.5 cm = 5.71” × 3.94” × 2.56”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.8 cm = 0.51” × 0.31”

TC76M7: Groups of small flat crystals, very well defined and bright (which is very rare for this species), on white Quartz crystals and small crystals of Dolomite. A rarity for the Boldut Mine, actually closed. Some time ago we did the analysis that we will send to the buyer.
Boldut Mine, Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures  Romania (2001)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 5.5 × 3.6 cm = 2.80” × 2.17” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.20” × 0.08”

SV2490CXF: Spheroidal groups of small flat crystals of Chalcostibite, very sharp and lustrous, which is extraordinarily unusual in this species, on white Quartz crystals and small Dolomite crystals. A rarity of the Boldut mine, which is currently closed.
This analyzed specimen comes from the collection of duplicates of Carles Curto (number 2008.65), whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Boldut Mine, Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures  Romania (2001)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 5.2 × 3.3 cm = 3.11” × 2.05” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.1 cm = 0.24” × 0.04”

TF46M7: Groups of small flat crystals, very well defined and bright (which is very rare for this species), on white Quartz crystals and small crystals of Dolomite. A rarity for the Boldut Mine, actually closed. Some time ago we did the analysis that we will send to the buyer.
Boldut Mine, Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures  Romania (2001)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.5 × 4.7 cm = 3.43” × 2.56” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.20” × 0.08”

TH36M7: Groups of small flat crystals, very well defined and bright (which is very rare for this species), on white Quartz crystals and small crystals of Dolomite. A rarity for the Boldut Mine, actually closed. Some time ago we did the analysis that we will send to the buyer.
This specimen has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Lapis’ on page 11, volume 39, number 11, Noviembre 2014
Boldut Mine, Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures  Romania (2001)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 6.7 × 4.4 cm = 4.13”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.20”

TR28AM5: Groups of small flat crystals, very sharp and with bright luster (something very unusual for this species), with tetrahedral crystals of Tetrahedrite and on matrix with white Quartz crystals. An analysis of this material was carried out, of which we will send a copy to the buyer.
Boldut Mine, Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 10.9 × 7.3 × 2.4 cm = 4.29” × 2.87” × 0.94”

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

SQ97AD3: Rosette growths of flattened, almost lenticular, rhombohedral Calcite crystals that are snowy white, translucent and are implanted on a matrix of Dolomite crystals.
The sample is from the Francesco S. Stoppani collection (catalog number4012), whose label we’ll send to the buyer. As is the case with so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (2005)

Specimen size: 9 × 8.1 × 6.5 cm = 3.54” × 3.19” × 2.56”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 3.1 cm = 1.30” × 1.22”

NF26AI3: Groups of partially doubly terminated Calcite crystals with very well defined polycrystalline growths, colorless, clear, bright and very aerial and esthetic on a matrix coated by a first generation of Calcite crystals and with Pyrite microcrystals at the back.
The sample is from the Ignacio Hernández collection (num. 81) whose original label we’ll send to the buyer.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 9.3 × 4.7 × 2.9 cm = 3.66” × 1.85” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1.8 cm = 1.65” × 0.71”

EQ14T8: Aggregate of rhombohedral crystals of Calcite with very marked curved faces and edges giving the so-called “saddle” shape. They are on matrix, with abundant “plumosite” (Boulangerite-Jamesonite) inclusions at the back of the sample.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1970-1980)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 8.3 × 5 cm = 3.70” × 3.27” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2.3 cm = 1.57” × 0.91”

MK12AM6: Group of Calcite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with polycrystalline growths and strong curvatures on faces and edges, with a “saddle” habit, and with gray fibrous inclusions, probably of Boulangerite.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 0.98” × 0.91” × 0.71”

MD26AM7: Spheroidal floater group, on matrix, with rosette growths of very sharp rhombohedral Calcite crystals with lenticular habit, with bright luster and a snow-white color.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label, indicating that it was in the Melanson collection.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 3 × 2.5 × 2.4 cm = 1.18” × 0.98” × 0.94”

MC64Y7: Floater group of uniaxial Calcite growths of very flattened rombohedrons that show very distinct color zoning, one with whitish tones, the other grayish black due to Boulangerite inclusions.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (10/2003)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3 × 3.3 cm = 2.09” × 1.18” × 1.30”

TX46H5: Group of rhombohedral crystals of Calcite whose faces and edges are slightly curved. Color is snowy white and contrasts with the matrix of black Sphalerite that forms bright crystals of very well defined faces and edges.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (2003)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 8.5 × 5.6 cm = 4.13” × 3.35” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.55”

EM57AG0: Rosette-like aggregates of laminar Semseyite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a matrix with very bright Sphalerite crystals. An excellent Romanian classic.
The sample is from the René Hubin collection from Neupré in Belgium, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 4.8 × 2 × 2.7 cm = 1.89” × 0.79” × 1.06”

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

ER67F1: This one is very rich in Semseyite, with the tabular crystals forming groups and rosettes. The groups are partially surrounded by a covering of Siderite, which gives the whole specimen good contrast. An old-timer and one of the best for the species.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 6.5 × 6 × 3.5 cm = 2.56” × 2.36” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.2 cm = 0.24” × 0.08”

NR90AE7: Radial aggregates of acicular Semseyite crystals that are very bright and have grown on a druse of very bright cubo-octahedral Galena crystals, also very bright, with curved edges, all on a rocky matrix coated by lenticular Calcite crystals on the back.
The sample is from the Uwe Niemeyer collection.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 14 × 13.7 × 6.8 cm = 5.51” × 5.39” × 2.68”

EJK67AP9: Group of cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena with curious dissolution forms on the edges. Brilliant and on a matrix covered by small Sphalerite crystals and with Calcite.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5 × 5.4 cm = 2.44” × 1.97” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 3.1 cm = 1.30” × 1.22”

TY46AC5: Aggregate of Galena crystals with very evenly balanced cube and octahedron forms. They are on a Sphalerite matrix, with Semseyite and Chalcopyrite.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 6.9 × 5 × 3.3 cm = 2.72” × 1.97” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.42” × 0.94”

TZ47X1: Cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena, bright and well defined, with radial growths of sharp platy crystals of Semseyite. Some of the faces of the Galena show very well marked skeletal growths.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 8 × 6.4 × 5 cm = 3.15” × 2.52” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 3.8 cm = 1.85” × 1.50”

TC150ET: Cubic crystals of Galena with distinct polycrystalline growths, very lustrous, on matrix with crystals of Sphalerite (variety marmatite).
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1970-1980)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 6.1 × 3.2 cm = 3.46” × 2.40” × 1.26”

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

HP47L7: Group of cubic Galena crystals with excellent luster and showing well marked growth striations on the cube faces. Also with very visible spinel twins. There are Chalcopyrite and small Quartz crystals at the rear of the specimen.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 10.9 × 9.8 × 5.4 cm = 4.29” × 3.86” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.47”

TQ57: Pyramid, Pyramid! screamed the Romanian gipsy seller trying to show me the fabulous (for him) quality of this specimen. After a long discussion, I finally purchased it, attracted by its different shape.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (2002)

Specimen size: 12 × 7 × 6.3 cm = 4.72” × 2.76” × 2.48”

BLM49AP9: Group of good sized cubo-octahedral Galena crystals, with very well defined forms, on a quartz matrix.
The specimen comes from an important European collection.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 13.8 × 11.1 × 6.3 cm = 5.43” × 4.37” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 4.5 cm = 1.85” × 1.77”

ML8Z1: Very aerial aggregate of doubly terminated Quartz crystals with polycrystalline terminations and a grey color, due to Boulangerite inclusions.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (02/2001)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.22” × 0.98” × 0.79”

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

MG36Y9: Group of citrine Quartz crystals that have a pale color and dull faces with corroded prism faces. They are reverse sceptered growths with transparent and bright crystals that have a very intense and deep color. Exceptionally rare, it is the first sample of citrine Quartz we have never seen from this locality.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1970)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.2 × 4.2 cm = 1.73” × 1.65” × 1.65”

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

EC86AC4: Parallel aggregates of very flattened rhombohedral Siderite-Dolomite crystals partially coated by Gypsum crystals that have Boulangerite inclusions. We note that this association of Boulangerite and Gypsum is rare.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1960-1970)

Specimen size: 11 × 7.2 × 4.3 cm = 4.33” × 2.83” × 1.69”

TB67AN2: Group of equant Pyrite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, lustrous, on a Sphalerite matrix with small Siderite crystals. Higher quality than most similar pieces from the same area.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 6.9 × 4 × 3 cm = 2.72” × 1.57” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 3.9 cm = 1.69” × 1.54”

EF86Z9: Parallel aggregate of sharp thin tabular Pyrrhotite crystals with intergrown cubic Galena crystals. Despite the age of the sample, its excellent condition suggests it is very stable, probably due a partial substitution by Pyrite.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1960-1970)

Specimen size: 10.9 × 5.5 × 3.9 cm = 4.29” × 2.17” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.55”

EP47T8: Group of sharp tabular crystals of Baryte, very transparent and bright and with zoned red inclusions of small crystals of Realgar.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1970-1980)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 9 × 5.3 cm = 4.65” × 3.54” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.5 cm = 0.83” × 0.59”

MA87AG9: Divergent aggregates of acicular Berthierite crystals, very rarely found on matrix. They are with Siderite and gray aggregates of Calcite crystals. One of the aggregates, on the left in the image, is truncated by a natural contact.
The sample is from the Uwe Niemeyer collection (num. 1965) and we’ll send the label to the buyer.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1956)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 9.8 × 7.7 cm = 4.61” × 3.86” × 3.03”

MB40AK3: Centered aggregate of acicular Berthierite crystals, on matrix, which is very unusual, with Siderite and aggregates of grey-white Calcite crystals.
The specimen is from the Uwe Niemeyer collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1956)

Specimen size: 12.7 × 8.7 × 7.4 cm = 5.00” × 3.43” × 2.91”

ET51AI4: Druse of Bournonite crystals forming cyclic twins with very well defined parallel polycrystalline growths. They are very bright and are with groups of black Sphalerite crystals and small Pyrite crystals.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1960-1970)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 10.2 × 4.1 cm = 4.53” × 4.02” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.59”

ETB76AN9: Botryoidal aggregates of Siderite with a habit traditionally called sphaerosiderite. They are translucent, with good luster, a green to dark honey color, and are on a rocky matrix with lamellar Baryte crystals and small Quartz crystals on the back.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 8.8 × 8.2 × 3.1 cm = 3.46” × 3.23” × 1.22”

MA8AC2: Floater growth of much flattened Calcite rhombohedra with a single axis, so one can clearly see two zones, one of them clear with a hint of reddish Hematite and one darker due to inclusions of Boulangerite. One of the most characteristic curiosities of the Maramures mining area, currently just a memory.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (10/2003)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.5 × 1.8 cm = 0.98” × 0.98” × 0.71”

MR58AC2: Floater growth of very flattened Calcite rhombohedra with a single axis, so one can clearly see two zones, one of them snowy white and one darker due to inclusions of Boulangerite. One of the most characteristic curiosities of the Maramures mining area, currently just a memory.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (10/2003)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.3 × 1.9 cm = 1.02” × 0.91” × 0.75”

MP58AC2: Floater growth of very flattened Calcite rhombohedra with a single axis, so one can clearly see two zones, one of them snowy white and one darker due to inclusions of Boulangerite. One of the most characteristic curiosities of the Maramures mining area, currently just a memory.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (10/2003)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.7 × 2.7 cm = 1.26” × 1.06” × 1.06”

NFF36XXX: A typical specimen from the Calicata Dolores that, apparently, does not present anything out of the ordinary, but which contains a surprise: through careful analysis, the presence in the piece of Lavendulan and Lemanskiite, two very closely related species, has been determined.
This is an association that is little or not at all evident a visu, in which only analytical study allows both species to be distinguished, giving the piece additional mineralogical interest both for the locality and for the simultaneous presence of both species in the same specimen, something that, to our knowledge, is little or very little common.

The Calicata Dolores is a small prospect located in the Pastrana area, within the well-known Mazarrón–Águilas mining district, renowned for its secondary copper mineralizations and great diversity of species. The Calicata Dolores has provided characteristic specimens of this type of paragenesis, sometimes with associations that are not evident to the naked eye.

The mineralization develops in a supergene alteration environment of primary copper and iron sulfides, in volcanic and sedimentary materials associated with the Mazarrón mining complex. Oxidation processes have given rise to a rich paragenesis of copper arsenates and phosphates, among them species such as Lavendulan and Lemanskiite and many other species, some of them type localities.
Dolores outcrop, Pastrana, Mazarrón / Águilas, Comarca Alto Guadalentín, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 8 × 6.2 × 3,4 cm = 3.15” × 2.44” × 1.18”

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

MH60J2: The crystals, which really are very flat rhombohedrons with extremely curved edges, are grouped in a floating rosette that seems divided in two parts due to black zoned inclusions of Boulangerite on one side.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (10/2003)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm = 1.46” × 1.38” × 0.98”

JR76G1: Splendid floating specimen of flat rhombohedral crystals locally forming uniaxial groups. A clear divisionary line separates the specimen in two halves. In one of them the crystals are absolutely white. In the other half inclusions of Boulangerite confer to the sample different shades of gray.
The sample is from an accredited collection. With this specimen we will send to the buyer the original label of the collection.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1996)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.7 × 5 cm = 2.68” × 2.24” × 1.97”

E82H: A lovely group of floater Calcite balls. Extremely original!
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (04/2001)

Specimen size: 7 × 4 cm = 2.76” × 1.57”

TC280EA: Floater spheroidal group with rosette growths of very flattened rhombohedral Calcite crystals with a black color due to the inclusions of fibrous Boulangerite crystals. A typical curiosity of the Maramures mining district, an area that is now only a memory.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 11 × 9.4 × 8.9 cm = 4.33” × 3.70” × 3.50”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.8 cm = 1.57” × 0.71”

TC560CT: Spheroidal rosettes of very flattened rhombohedral Calcite crystals, black in color due to the inclusions of fibrous Boulangerite crystals. A typical curiosity of the Maramures mining area, an area that is now only a memory.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 13.6 × 10.1 × 7.9 cm = 5.35” × 3.98” × 3.11”

BRX89AP6: Polycrystalline growths of brown Calcite crystals with a lenticular habit, with coatings of small white Quartz crystals and prismatic Gypsum crystals with black Boulangerite inclusions.
The specimen comes from an important European collection.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 14.1 × 7.7 × 4.1 cm = 5.55” × 3.03” × 1.61”

TC6AJ1: Cyclic twinned Bournonite crystals with very well defined parallel polycrystalline growth on the prismatic faces and most of them totally or partially doubly terminated. They are very bright and are with groups of black Sphalerite crystals and small Pyrite crystals.
We will send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Shaft 5, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.5 × 1.7 cm = 1.22” × 0.98” × 0.67”

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

TM54: This group of lustrous crystals of Bournonite shows its form very well. The crystals are doubly terminated and they are pretty well placed and aerial on the Quartz and Pyrite matrix.
Shaft 6, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1999)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 3 × 2.8 cm = 1.26” × 1.18” × 1.10”

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

TC420EL: Tabular Baryte crystals, translucent and with an intense blue color, on matrix, with felted aggregates of fibrous Boulangerite crystals (variety plumosite).
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1980)

Specimen size: 12 × 10.7 × 4.8 cm = 4.72” × 4.21” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 2.3 cm = 1.81” × 0.91”

TC26EFX: Columnar growths of tabular Baryte crystals that are transparent, with good luster and a yellowish white color.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1970-1980)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 11.7 × 5.3 cm = 4.88” × 4.61” × 2.09”

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

TAP14AO3: Very aerial group of complex Calcite crystals with a spheroidal shape, extraordinarily transparent and lustrous, completely water-clear and with a uniform faintly violet tone.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.4 × 1.5 cm = 0.94” × 0.94” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 0.67” × 0.47”

EF47X2: Twinned crystals of Chalcopyrite with single forms and very well defined faces and edges. They are bright and are on a matrix of Quartz crystals. The quality is excellent for the locality.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1960-1970)

Specimen size: 12 × 7.8 × 3.2 cm = 4.72” × 3.07” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.87”

EM73X6: Aggregate of disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with pseudotetrahedral shape, with very well defined faces and edges and showing a very intense luster. They are on matrix with growths of white lenticular Calcite crystals. The sample has a great quality for the locality, where good Chalcopyrite crystals are uncommon.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1960-1970)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 9.2 × 4 cm = 5.71” × 3.62” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2 cm = 0.98” × 0.79”

MF27S3: Rosette aggregates of very bright Semseyite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, which is rare for the species, and with very sharp crystals of Sphalerite and small coatings of Pyrite.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 8.3 × 6.7 × 3.3 cm = 3.27” × 2.64” × 1.30”

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

TC180HC: Centered aggregates of acicular Stibnite crystals, with very good luster. Associated with groups of thin tabular Baryte crystals, transparent, colorless, with great luster.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 10.2 × 9.3 × 4 cm = 4.02” × 3.66” × 1.57”

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

TF36H5: Crystals have a not so common habit because are very short and flattened prisms. The definition of their faces and edges is excellent as is the aerial distribution of crystals on the Marcasite matrix.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1984-1985)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 6.5 × 5.8 cm = 4.13” × 2.56” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.9 cm = 0.98” × 0.75”

TC380EA: Centered aggregates of very lustrous acicular crystals of Stibnite, associated with groups of finely tabular, transparent, very lustrous and colorless Baryte crystals. This is a fine example of the old bygone splendors of the mines in the Baia Mare area (‘big mine’ in Romanian language). The specimen is from the Uwe Niemeyer collection.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1960-1970)

Specimen size: 12.7 × 8.2 × 9.1 cm = 5.00” × 3.23” × 3.58”

Main crystal size: 8 × 0.4 cm = 3.15” × 0.16”

MA95E9: This crystal of Scheelite is surprising for the brilliance of the faces and edges of the double pyramid, as well as for the unusual blue color and level of transparency. The position of the crystal on the Quartz and Chalcopyrite makes it even more esthetic.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (10/2004)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4 × 3.7 cm = 1.77” × 1.57” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”

E97XD3: Sharp Ferberite standing upright on the strange matrix of Calcite whose crystals have a very unusual form. They look like fine pasta shells and they are covering Chalcopyrite crystals. All together curious, and not bad either.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1999)

Specimen size: 10 × 8.5 × 3 cm = 3.94” × 3.35” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.9 cm = 0.91” × 0.75”

MB68X5: Curious polysynthetic Ferberite crystals with a leaf shape. They are very bright and are on matrix, with Quartz and Calcite. Ferberite is a very infrequent species at Baia Sprie.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1960-1970)

Specimen size: 11.3 × 8 × 3.9 cm = 4.45” × 3.15” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 0.5 cm = 1.02” × 0.20”

SH47AD3: Botryoidal Siderite (variety sphaerosiderite) on matrix with very sharp platy Baryte crystals that are translucent and have geometric zoning.
The sample is from the Francesco S. Stoppani collection (catalog number 0584), whose label we’ll send to the buyer. As is the case with so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 8.5 × 6.9 × 3.8 cm = 3.35” × 2.72” × 1.50”

MR99AI4: Very sharp tetrahedrons of Tetrahedrite crystals that are extraordinarily bright and are on a matrix of Quartz crystals with groups of Sphalerite crystals and small Pyrite crystals. The sample is from the Uwe Niemeyer collection (Germany) whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1964)

Specimen size: 13.8 × 12.7 × 4.8 cm = 5.43” × 5.00” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.47”

MQ14Y9: Irregular aggregate of very acute Quartz crystals with Chlorite inclusions and with aggregates of very sharp cubic Pyrite crystals. Very unusual and fine.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1990)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.5 × 2.7 cm = 1.46” × 0.98” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 0.3 cm = 1.14” × 0.12”

MH46Y9: Group of very well defined Quartz crystals having two areas of different colors, pale lilac at the top and between colorless and slightly bluish at the base of the sample. They all are partially coated by small, very acute, white scalenohedral Calcite crystals and are with Pyrite.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (12/1993)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 7.3 × 4.4 cm = 3.66” × 2.87” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 0.9 cm = 1.02” × 0.35”

MA7Y9: Fine aggregate on matrix of very transparent crystals with an attractive pale lilac color and the slightly curved shape typical of the best samples from Baia Sprie.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (1990)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 5.6 × 5.4 cm = 3.74” × 2.20” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 0.7 cm = 1.30” × 0.28”