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This page provides a selection of the specimens that have passed through the Fabre Minerals website and, due to their quality,
rarity, or significance as specimens from interesting locations, have been preserved as reference specimens in #MVM



NORWAY


Anatase with Albite
Anatase with Albite. Front
Front
Anatase with Albite. Light behind
Light behind
Anatase with Albite. Top
Top
 

MA51W4: Sharp dipyramidal crystal of Anatase on an Albite matrix. Its termination is a sharp pinacoid. It is very bright and, what is extraordinarily unusual, it has a wide transparent area (easily visible with a light at the back) with reddish-brown color.
Dyrfonni, Viveli, Eidfjord, Hardangervidda, Hordaland  Norway (2000-2005)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.4 × 1.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.55” × 0.71”

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

Anatase with Albite
 

MD46W8: Very sharp dipyramidal crystal, on Albite matrix, of Anatase with its terminations truncated by the faces of the pinacoid. It is very bright and has very vivid blue reflections under a strong light.
Dyrfonni, Viveli, Eidfjord, Hardangervidda, Hordaland  Norway (2000-2005)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.91” × 0.63” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.59” × 0.47”

Anatase with Albite. Front
Front
Anatase with Albite. Side
Side
Anatase with Albite
Anatase with Albite. Front
Front
Anatase with Albite. Top
Top
 

MB37R5: Very aerial doubly terminated crystal of Anatase of considerable size for the species, formed by an acute dipyramid with fine horizontal striations, and the double pinacoidal termination. On matrix, with small crystals of Albite and minor crystals of Anatase with pointed acute terminations.
Dyrfonni, Viveli, Eidfjord, Hardangervidda, Hordaland  Norway (2000-2005)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2 × 2.1 cm = 1.61” × 0.79” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.63” × 0.39”

Anatase on smoky Quartz
 

JJ16G5: Very well positioned on a smoky Quartz crystal with Chlorite inclusions. This Anatase crystal is doubly-terminated, bipyramidal, of considerable size, very sharp and bright, with dark blue color better seen when the sample is under intense light because it is partially transparent. From an accredited collection and we give the original label to the buyer of the piece.
Dyrfonni, Viveli, Eidfjord, Hardangervidda, Hordaland  Norway (1994)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 2.9 × 2.2 cm = 2.28” × 1.14” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.6 cm = 0.55” × 0.24”

Anatase on smoky Quartz. Front
Front
Anatase on smoky Quartz. Side
Side
Anatase on smoky Quartz.
Anatase with Quartz (variety smoky)
Anatase with Quartz (variety smoky). Front
Front
Anatase with Quartz (variety smoky). Side
Side
Anatase with Quartz (variety smoky).
 

MG89AI8: Very sharp Anatase crystals, a lot of them doubly terminated, very bright with bluish reflections and implanted on a matrix of slightly smoky Quartz crystals.
An European classic that was in the Leif Engman collection.
Hardangervidda, Hordaland  Norway

Specimen size: 6.8 × 6.3 × 1.8 cm = 2.68” × 2.48” × 0.71”

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

Silver
 

TL26AH5: Arborescent growth of very elongated octahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges and very bright.
An excellent Norwegian classic that we’ll send in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label in which it appears that it had previously been in the Sullivan collection.
Kongsberg mining district, Kongsberg, Buskerud County  Norway

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.67” × 0.43” × 0.28”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Silver. Silver.
Silver with Calcite
Silver with Calcite.
 

EK97T3: Very fine and elegant, very aerial, miniature, with a group of elongated doubly terminated crystals of Silver and small coatings of white Calcite.
The specimen has been published in the Chinese magazine ‘Mineral Lover’ on page 7 in the volume 9/2011
Kongsberg mining district, Kongsberg, Buskerud County  Norway

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.94” × 0.87” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.94” × 0.16”

Silver with Calcite
 

MG92W4: Group of wire crystals of Silver, very elongated and flattened, forming elegant curved shapes and with small white Calcite crystals. Delicate and aesthetic.

Kongsberg is a classic European mining district, renowned for its Silver specimens. Mining at Kongsberg began in the 17th century and continued for several centuries, making it one of Europe’s most important silver-producing localities.

Geologically, the mineralization consists of low- to moderate-temperature hydrothermal veins hosted in Precambrian metamorphic rocks and gneisses of the Scandinavian basement. Silver occurs associated with silver sulfides and sulfosalts within fracture systems, forming the characteristic wire-like and branching habits for which the locality is famous.

Kongsberg mining district, Kongsberg, Buskerud County  Norway

Specimen size: 3.1 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.22” × 0.67” × 0.47”

Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV
Silver with Calcite. Front
Front
Silver with Calcite. Rear
Rear
Silver with Calcite
Silver with Calcite. Front
Front
Silver with Calcite. Rear
Rear
Silver with Calcite  

MV27AG5: Very aerial growth of curved (“wire”) and hooked native silver crystals that are very elongated with a striated aspect. Small Calcite granules are included in the Silver.
The sample, very typical of Kongsberg, is from the Leif Engman collection, of Sweden, and one of the added labels indicates it was previously in the Axel R. Andersson collection, of Uppsala, three labels that we’ll send to the buyer.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2018, page 101
Kongsberg mining district, Kongsberg, Buskerud County  Norway

Specimen size: 3.6 × 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 1.42” × 0.63” × 0.51”

Silver
 

MG74AF0: A wiry growth of strongly elongated crystals with the very well defined spinel law twin. An excellent European classic.
Kongsberg mining district, Kongsberg, Buskerud County  Norway

Specimen size: 5.9 × 3 × 1 cm = 2.32” × 1.18” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 5.9 × 0.2 cm = 2.32” × 0.08”

Silver. Front
Front
Silver. Rear
Rear
Acanthite with Calcite
Acanthite with Calcite.
Acanthite with Calcite  

TB92J3: A magnificent sample, not only for the crystal size and its well defined forms. It is from a classic locality well known for Silver but where Acanthite was (and is) very uncommon.
It is from Earl L. Calvert collection and we’ll send the label with the specimen, to the buyer.
Kongsberg mining district, Kongsberg, Buskerud County  Norway

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.4 × 1.5 cm = 1.54” × 1.34” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.9 cm = 0.71” × 0.35”

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Hornblende

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Hornblende
 

TBB96AP7: Hornblende floater crystal with sharper terminations than usual in the species. With fibrous-looking surfaces, silky luster and dark green color.
The specimen comes from the old collection of Robert-Auguste Touchon and is accompanied by an old handwritten label which we will send to the buyer.
Kragerř, Telemark, Řstlandet  Norway

Specimen size: 5.5 × 2 × 1.2 cm = 2.17” × 0.79” × 0.47”

Former collection of Robert-Auguste Touchon
Hornblende. Front
Front
Hornblende. Rear
Rear
Calcite
Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Calcite
 

SV3380TFR: Norway has some fame for the calcites from this mine. Their color, luster, and the multiple growths on the crystal faces are very characteristic, just like this piece.
Dalen-Kjřrholt Mine, Kjřrholt, Brevik, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Řstlandet  Norway

Specimen size: 6 × 5.2 × 4 cm = 2.36” × 2.05” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.85” × 0.55”

Former collection of Scott Maylen
Calcite with Pyrite
Calcite with Pyrite  

SE69AB0: Aggregate on matrix of Calcite crystals, very rich in faces, some of them doubly terminated, with some deep hollow terminations and with very acute and extraordinarily sharp scalenohedral phantom growths coated by a layer of dark and very visible Pyrite. As in so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality.
Kjřrholt, Brevik, Porsgrunn, Telemark  Norway

Specimen size: 12.7 × 9 × 5.8 cm = 5.00” × 3.54” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 6.3 × 4.2 cm = 2.48” × 1.65”

Former collection of Francesco S. Stoppani
Calcite with Pyrite. Calcite with Pyrite.
Gadolinite-(Y) with Quartz
Gadolinite-(Y) with Quartz. Gadolinite-(Y) with Quartz.
 

EV68AF7: Crystal that has a definition of faces and edges that is very much better than usual with samples of the rare Gadolinite-(Y). They are, furthermore, very bright and are included in a massive Quartz matrix.
The sample, a Norwegian classic, is from the René Hubin collection from Neupré in Belgium, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Kĺbuland, Iveland, Aust-Agder  Norway

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.3 × 2.7 cm = 1.73” × 1.30” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.4 cm = 0.94” × 0.55”

Former collection of René Hubin
Hydroxylapatite-Fluorapatite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TTG46AQ0: Crystals formed by a short hexagonal prism and a dipyramid, with very sharp crystal forms, lustrous, white, and on matrix. Analyses show a continuous series between Hydroxylapatite and Fluorapatite. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
A Norwegian classic that comes from the old collection of Robert-Auguste Touchon.
Snarum, Modum, Viken  Norway

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.7 × 4.3 cm = 1.73” × 1.46” × 1.69”

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

Former collection of Robert-Auguste Touchon

Analyzed
Hydroxylapatite-Fluorapatite. Hydroxylapatite-Fluorapatite.

POLAND


Baryte
Baryte. Front
Front
Baryte. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EFM66AO0: Very aerial growth with book-like aggregates of lamellar Baryte crystals, flattened, very sharp, with curvatures, translucent and with a color between yellow and brown.
Lubin Mine, Lubin, Lubin District, Legnica, Lower Silesia Voivodeship  Poland

Specimen size: 8.3 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm = 3.27” × 0.98” × 0.59”

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

Pyrite
 

NF46AM5: Druse of cubic Pyrite crystals with very well marked polycrystalline growths, brilliant, and with a reddish patina. This Polish classic comes from the Pedro Hernández collection.
Lubin Mine, Lubin, Lubin District, Legnica, Lower Silesia Voivodeship  Poland

Specimen size: 6.9 × 6.2 × 4.9 cm = 2.72” × 2.44” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

Former collection of Pedro Hernández
Pyrite. Pyrite.
Cerussite on Galena
Cerussite on Galena. Cerussite on Galena.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Cerussite on Galena
 

ELY14AP6: Group of superficially altered Galena crystals covered by small twinned Cerussite crystals, between transparent and translucent and of a light cream color.
A true classic of European mineralogy, which comes from the collection of Michel Perraudin (number 055) and is accompanied by a handwritten note stating that it was obtained in an exchange with the Cracow Mineralogical Group in 1993.
Trzebionka Mine, Trzebinia, Chrzanów District , Małopolskie  Poland

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5.2 × 3.1 cm = 2.20” × 2.05” × 1.22”

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

Former collection of Michel Perraudin
Octahedral Galena with Sphalerite
 

EQ36K3: Groups of octahedral crystals of Galena of very well defined faces and edges, on a base of Sphalerite and on matrix. In addition to the rarity of the crystal shape we add that the locality is a classic, but not so well known.
Trzebionka Mine, Trzebinia, Chrzanów, Malopolskie  Poland (±1980)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 7.5 × 4.3 cm = 4.06” × 2.95” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.02” × 0.94”

Octahedral Galena with Sphalerite.
Octahedral Galena with Sphalerite.
Fluorite with Orthoclase, Albite and Mica
Fluorite with Orthoclase, Albite and Mica. Fluorite with Orthoclase, Albite and Mica.
 

MT13P9: Parallel growth of sharp octahedral crystals of Fluorite of lilac color and with very well defined faces and edges. The matrix is a group of crystals of Orthoclase with small crystals of Albite and leafy aggregates of Mica. The locality is not so well known outside of Poland and Germany
Strzegom (Striegau), Swidnica, Silesia  Poland

Specimen size: 12.8 × 7.5 × 3.7 cm = 5.04” × 2.95” × 1.46”

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

Celestine with Sulphur
 

TX96AN2: Group of Celestine crystals, many of them very elongated and doubly terminated, translucent in most of the prism and completely transparent and very lustrous on the terminations. Partially covered by small crystals of Sulphur.
Machów Mine, Tarnobrzeg, Subcarpathian Voivodeship  Poland

Specimen size: 7.4 × 7.2 × 6.9 cm = 2.91” × 2.83” × 2.72”

Main crystal size: 6.2 × 1.5 cm = 2.44” × 0.59”

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Celestine with Sulphur. Front
Front
Celestine with Sulphur. Side
Side
Celestine with Sulphur.
Celestine with Sulfur
Celestine with Sulfur. Celestine with Sulfur.
 

AR96Q6: Very transparent and bright honey-colored elongated prismatic crystals of Celestine with curvatures and acute terminations and on a base very rich in native Sulfur. The piece is not perfect, having some broken crystals, but its esthetics are very good.
Machów Mine, Tarnobrzeg, Subcarpathian Voivodeship  Poland

Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.4 × 4.6 cm = 3.31” × 2.13” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 0.6 cm = 1.26” × 0.24”

Very fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Josep Amigó (Silvane)
Celestine
 

LM71AL0: Aggregate of thick and extraordinarily elongated Celestine crystals, which form very marked, translucent, parallel growths of very dense golden to smoky color. A classic from Poland that comes from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 1013), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Machów Mine, Tarnobrzeg, Subcarpathian Voivodeship  Poland

Specimen size: 12 × 5.4 × 4.9 cm = 4.72” × 2.13” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 10 × 2.1 cm = 3.94” × 0.83”

Fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Philippe Morelon
Celestine. Front
Front
Celestine. Rear
Rear
Celestine.
Baryte with Sulfur
Baryte with Sulfur. Front
Front
Baryte with Sulfur. Side
Side
Baryte with Sulfur.
 

MP46AL0: Rosette aggregates of platy Baryte crystals, flattened, good luster, translucent and partially covered by small Sulfur crystals.
The specimen is from the Carles Manresa collection (No. 1320), whose label and catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
The specimen is from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 64 in the volume 25, number 2

Tarnobrzeg, Subcarpathian Voivodeship  Poland

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.4 × 3.6 cm = 3.07” × 2.52” × 1.42”

Very fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Carles Manresa

SLOVAK REPUBLIC


Euchroite
Euchroite  

TC55EE: Aggregate on matrix of very sharp lamellar Euchroite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, translucent and with a deep green color. An excellent miniature of this rare species.
Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic (2003)

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.71” × 0.59” × 0.31”

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

Euchroite.
Euchroite
Euchroite.
 

EC36W7: Aggregate of very well defined dipyramidal crystals as usual. They are bright, have a uniform green color and are on a limonite matrix. The sample, from the type locality, comes from an old collection.
Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic

Specimen size: 2.2 × 2 × 0.7 cm = 0.87” × 0.79” × 0.28”

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

Type locality
Euchroite
 

EA46N9: From the Slovakian locality that is a classic for the species. It is group of very well defined crystals with an excellent luster and very good, very deep color.
Svätodušná, Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic (2006)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.6 × 0.9 cm = 0.94” × 0.63” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

Type locality
Euchroite.
Euchroite
Euchroite. Euchroite.
 

ER58Z5: Aggregates of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright, with a very intense and deep green color and scattered on a rocky matrix. The crystals, even though not especially large, are really abundant and have very good quality.
Svätodušná, Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic (2000)

Specimen size: 11 × 4.5 × 6.2 cm = 4.33” × 1.77” × 2.44”

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

Type locality
Euchroite
 

ER74T2: Aggregates of laminar crystals of a very big size for the species. They are very sharp, extraordinarily translucent and with very deep green color. A great miniature.
Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic (07/2003)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.9 × 1.4 cm = 1.34” × 1.14” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.4 cm = 0.71” × 0.16”

Type locality
Euchroite. Front
Front
Euchroite. Rear
Rear
Euchroite
Euchroite. Euchroite.
 

MD88X2: Group of Euchroite crystals on matrix. They are unusually sharp, have a very uniform, intense and deep color and an extraordinary luster for the species.
Svätodušná, Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic (07/2012)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.2 × 3.1 cm = 2.05” × 1.65” × 1.22”

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

Euchroite with Azurite
 

EC14N9: A novelty at Ste. Marie 2009. Very well defined crystals of lenticular form. They are on matrix, with Azurite, and have excellent color, very vivid. The sample is from a recent find in a new Slovakian locality that was only recently discovered.
Farbište, Poniky, Slovenské Rudohorie Mountains, Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (03/2009)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.2 × 2.9 cm = 1.65” × 1.26” × 1.14”

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

Euchroite with Azurite. Euchroite with Azurite.
Euchroite with Azurite
Euchroite with Azurite. Euchroite with Azurite.
 

EA56V1: Euchroite from the type locality. Groups of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, excellent color and luster and on matrix, with concretionary growths of microcrystalline Azurite.
Farbište, Poniky, Slovenské Rudohorie Mountains, Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (10/2011)

Specimen size: 8 × 5.4 × 4.5 cm = 3.15” × 2.13” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

Libethenite with Dolomite
 

VM27AE5: Dipyramidal Libethenite crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are bright, have a very deep color and are on matrix, with rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. The sample is from the type locality for the species.
Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3 × 2.2 cm = 2.17” × 1.18” × 0.87”

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

Type locality
Libethenite with Dolomite. Libethenite with Dolomite.
Pseudomalachite
Pseudomalachite.
 

EB26M2: Botryoidal Pseudomalachite specimen with a deep green color, with a delicate banded brighter green color. On a Quartz matrix. Very esthetic specimen.
Podlipa Mine, Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic (11/2007)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.6 × 1.9 cm = 1.14” × 1.02” × 0.75”

Langite
 

ME14K4: Very rich growth of microcrystals denser than usual for the locality. Bright and of a magnificent blue color, deeper and more intense than usual. On rocky matrix.
Podlipa Mine, Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic (2007)

Specimen size: 8 × 7.5 × 2.4 cm = 3.15” × 2.95” × 0.94”

Langite. Langite.
Langite
Langite. Langite.
 

ME26AG9: A druse on a rocky matrix, very rich in well-defined Langite micro-crystals than are much more isolated than usual. They are very bright and have a magnificent blue color, deeper and more intense tjhan usual with this rare species.
The sample is from the Jordi Vilallonga collection.
Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic (2004)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.1 × 1.1 cm = 2.91” × 1.61” × 0.43”

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

Former collection of Jordi Vilallonga
Chalcophyllite with Azurite
 

TJ58AM5: Group of very sharp lamellar crystals of Chalcophyllite, lustrous, with a vivid color, on matrix, with Azurite. A European classic, of great quality for the species.
Špania Dolina (Herrengrund), Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5 × 3 cm = 2.24” × 1.97” × 1.18”

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

Chalcophyllite with Azurite. Chalcophyllite with Azurite.
Devilline
Devilline. Devilline.
 

VK48AE4: Aggregates, on matrix, of well developed lenticular Devilline crystals with a deep and uniform green color. A World classic.
Špania Dolina (Herrengrund), Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (2004)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.8 × 2.5 cm = 1.77” × 1.50” × 0.98”

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

Devilline
 

EF82G5: Excellent specimen with very definite groups of crystals on matrix. Crystals are laminar and of a very good color and considerable size for this species.
Spania Dolina (Herrengrund), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic (06/2005)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 3.3 × 5.7 cm = 2.72” × 1.30” × 2.24”

Devilline.
Devilline.
Azurite with Malachite
Azurite with Malachite. Azurite with Malachite.
 

EF13AF5: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2017. Spheroidal aggregate on matrix of lenticular Azurite crystals, very bright and with a very vivid and uniform color and partially coated by spheroidal Malachite growths. It is of a very recent find at a locality that is a classic for Slovakian mineralogy.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, report 47, July 21, 2017 edition and in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 72 in the volume 23, number 1
Špania Dolina (Herrengrund), Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (05/2017)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 3.6 × 3.6 cm = 2.91” × 1.42” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

Azurite with Malachite
 

EH6AF5: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2017. Rosette aggregates, on matrix, of lenticular Azurite crystals, very bright and with a very vivid and uniform color and partially coated by spherical Malachite. It is from a very recent find at a locality that is a classic for Slovakian mineralogy.
Špania Dolina (Herrengrund), Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (05/2017)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 4.6 × 1.9 cm = 3.43” × 1.81” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

Azurite with Malachite. Azurite with Malachite.
Kermesite on Calcite
Kermesite on Calcite.
Kermesite on Calcite.
 

EG66G3: From a recent discovery in Pezinok. Centered groups of acicular crystals of Kermesite stand out on Calcite matrix, with a vivid contrast between the two colors.
New Alexander Gallery, Pezinok  Slovak Republic (02/2005)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5 × 4.3 cm = 2.56” × 1.97” × 1.69”

Kermesite
Kermesite  

NT86AM8: Centered groups, on matrix, of very lustrous acicular Kermesite crystals with a deep and vivid red color.
The specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection (number QUR-2) whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Pezinok, Pezinok District, Bratislava Region  Slovak Republic (1998)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.5 × 4.7 cm = 2.20” × 1.38” × 1.85”

Kermesite. Kermesite.
Kermesite with Valentinite and Calcite
Kermesite with Valentinite and Calcite.
Kermesite with Valentinite and Calcite. Kermesite with Valentinite and Calcite.
 

EH66X8: Radial and fanlike aggregates of acicular Kermesite crystals. They are extraordinarily bright and have a reddish color. They are on matrix, with small radial aggregates of white Valentinite crystals and small Calcite crystals.
Pezinok, Malé Karpaty Mts.  Slovak Republic

Specimen size: 9.3 × 7.2 × 4.6 cm = 3.66” × 2.83” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 3 × 0.1 cm = 1.18” × 0.04”

Chalcopyrite with Calcite, Galena and Quartz
 

MJ12F2: From a historic locality where mining activities have ceased, the twinned and brilliant crystals of Chalcopyrite are perfect examples of the species. Two generations of Quartz, which differ in color, partially cover both the Chalcopyrite and the matrix.
Rozália mine, Banská Hodrusa (Hodritsch)  Slovak Republic (1997)

Specimen size: 7 × 5 × 3 cm = 2.76” × 1.97” × 1.18”

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

Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV
Chalcopyrite with Calcite, Galena and Quartz.
Calcite
Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Side
Side
 

EE61K3: Twin of two scalenohedrons, doubly terminated and with an attractive phantom growth. It is esthetically implanted on matrix. The locality is very uncommon, even in major collections.
Gemerská Ves, Revúca County, Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic (07/2004)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 5.9 × 5 cm = 3.62” × 2.32” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 5.3 × 3.3 cm = 2.09” × 1.30”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Aragonite
 

TFG6AN4: Isolated Aragonite crystal, with the typical morphology for the locality but unusual for the species, formed by a prism of decreasing thickness and a pyramidal termination. The crystal is transparent, very lustrous, and colorless.
We will send the specimen, from one of the great classical localities for the species, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label that states that it was previously in the Melanson collection.
Podrečany, Lučenec, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic

Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.4 × 0.8 cm = 1.26” × 0.55” × 0.31”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Aragonite. Aragonite.
Aragonite
Aragonite. Front
Front
Aragonite. Top
Top
Aragonite.
 

MY96AC4: Radial aggregates on matrix of very acute crystals with slightly curved lateral edges. The crystals are transparent, very bright and, unusual for the species, they are untwined. A classic from the Slovak Republic.
Podrečany, Lučenec, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (09/2011)

Specimen size: 14 × 8.7 × 4.5 cm = 5.51” × 3.43” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 4 × 0.7 cm = 1.57” × 0.28”

Quartz with Fe-Mn oxides
 

EQ14R9: Growths of Quartz crystals forming irregular bundles. The crystals are completely coated by intensely bright and iridescent oxides of iron and manganese. On a matrix of Quartz and Limonite.
Banská Štiavnica (Schemnitz), Banská Štiavnica District, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (2009)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 6.4 × 3.5 cm = 3.27” × 2.52” × 1.38”

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

Quartz with Fe-Mn oxides.
Quartz with Fe-Mn oxides
Quartz with Fe-Mn oxides. Quartz with Fe-Mn oxides.
 

EH66R9: Growths of Quartz crystals forming irregular bundles. The crystals are completely coated by intensely bright and iridescent oxides of iron and manganese. On a matrix of Quartz and Limonite.
Banská Štiavnica (Schemnitz), Banská Štiavnica District, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (2009)

Specimen size: 11 × 6.7 × 5.8 cm = 4.33” × 2.64” × 2.28”

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

Quartz with Fe-Mn oxides
 

EG66R9: Growths of Quartz crystals forming irregular bundles. The crystals are completely coated by intensely bright and iridescent oxides of iron and manganese. On a matrix of Limonite.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section of the March 10, 2011 edition.
Banská Štiavnica (Schemnitz), Banská Štiavnica District, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (2009)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 6 × 4 cm = 4.53” × 2.36” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.3 cm = 0.43” × 0.12”

Quartz with Fe-Mn oxides. Quartz with Fe-Mn oxides.
Quartz
Quartz. Front
Front
Quartz. Side
Side
 

EP68T4: Group of parallel growths with successive phases of crystallization, the last one, the most superficial, forming a lot of doubly terminated colorless crystals. The sample, from a very classic locality, is much better than the picture shows.
Banská Štiavnica (Schemnitz), Banská Štiavnica District, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (05/2011)

Specimen size: 18.5 × 7.7 × 5.7 cm = 7.28” × 3.03” × 2.24”

Hauerite
 

EC47AA1: Almost complete cubo-octahedral crystal with very well defined faces and edges and of a considerable size for the locality. It is one of the very rare existing samples from the type locality.
Kalinka, Vígl'ašská-Kalinka, Detva County, Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic

Specimen size: 1.4 × 1.2 × 1.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.47” × 0.47”

Type locality
Hauerite.
Hauerite
Hauerite.
Hauerite  

EE96AA1: Very sharp octahedral crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very well defined faces and edges and on matrix, very uncommon for the species. It is one of the very rare existing samples from the type locality that is with an anonymous label that we will send to the buyer.
Kalinka, Vígl'ašská-Kalinka, Detva County, Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic

Specimen size: 2 × 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.79” × 0.59” × 0.43”

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

Type locality
Telluronevskite
 

EG12P0: Telluronevskite is an extremely rare selenide of Bismuth and Tellurium and its type locality is the Vihorlat Mountains in the Slovak Republic. This specimen comes from there, not so aesthetic but extremely rich (for the species).
We will send to the customer a copy of the analysis where Telluronevskite also appears intergrown with the still more rare species Ingodite and the 'common' mineral Nevskite. The description of Telluronevskite was published in 2001.
Poruba pod Vihorlatom, Vihorlat Mountains, Košice  Slovak Republic (05/2009)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.2 × 1.2 cm = 2.24” × 1.65” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24” × 0.20”

Type locality
Telluronevskite. Telluronevskite.
Gold with Quartz, Pyrite and Sphalerite
Gold with Quartz, Pyrite and Sphalerite. Gold with Quartz, Pyrite and Sphalerite.
 

TF13M9: The piece is not especially showy but it is from a very uncommon locality. The Gold mineralization is a concentrated area of small grains on a Quartz matrix that has small Pyrite crystals and massive Sphalerite.
Banska Hodrusa Mine, Hodrusa-Hámre  Slovak Republic (1997)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.3 × 3.2 cm = 2.60” × 2.09” × 1.26”


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