MC36AM5: These elegant Golds were found for the first time in 2020. The piece shows excellent crystallization, with the dodecahedron as the dominant form and parallel growths of very sharp crystals with a very distinct spinel-law twin. Absolute novelty and of great quality. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a novelty in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 3/2021, page 4
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1.5 × 0.6 × 0.5  cm = 0.59” × 0.24” × 0.20”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.2 cm = 0.28” × 0.08”

TX67AN0: These elegant Golds were first found in 2020. This specimen is different from others of the same find, but it also has excellent crystallization, the dominant crystal forms being the dodecahedron and octahedron, with a sharp spinel-law twin. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1.5 × 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.59” × 0.39” × 0.35”

MN96AM5: These elegant Golds were found for the first time in 2020. The specimen shows excellent crystallization, with the dominant dodecahedron, with some hopper faces, and very sharp and stylized growths and with a very distinct spinel-law twin. Absolute novelty and of great quality. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.91” × 0.24” × 0.20”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.24” × 0.12”

MQ46AM5: These elegant Golds were found for the first time in 2020. The specimen shows excellent crystallization, with the dominant forms of the dodecahedron and the octahedron, with some of the faces forming very sharp and stylized growths that clearly show the distinct spinel-law twinning. Absolute novelty and of great quality. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, report 59, March 7, 2021 edition, page 7
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 0.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.98” × 0.20” × 0.12”

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

MR46AM5: These elegant Golds were found for the first time in 2020. This specimen shows an excellent crystallization, with the dominant octahedron, flattened and very sharp, with slight twists following the main axis, with very distinct spinel-law twinning. Absolute novelty and of great quality. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 0.4 × 0.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.16” × 0.16”

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

EAM66AN7: A Gold with the dominant forms of the octahedron in highly stylized parallel growths, hopper growths and with distinct twinning according to the spinel law. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (09/2021)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.4 × 0.6 cm = 1.10” × 0.55” × 0.24”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 0.4 cm = 0.83” × 0.16”

TDA86AO0: Stylized parallel growths of Gold crystals with a very well defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron in parallel growths and with a very marked spinel-law twin. The piece is very aesthetic and for this reason it has been given the nickname 'The flame' since its shape is reminiscent of a flame moved by the wind. The specimen has been published in the book 'Gold - monograph', by Joaquim Callén, on page 17
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (09/2021)

Specimen size: 3 × 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 1.18” × 0.28” × 0.20”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.4 cm = 0.51” × 0.16”

MK36AM5: These elegant Golds were found for the first time in 2020. This piece shows excellent crystallization, with the dominant octahedron, very sharp and in parallel growths, very stylized and with a very distinct spinel-law twin. Absolute novelty and of great quality. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 1.22” × 0.20” × 0.16”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.3 cm = 0.28” × 0.12”

MJ68AM5: These elegant Golds were found for the first time in 2020. The specimen shows excellent crystallization, with the cube and dodecahedron dominant and the octahedron forming parallel growths, with very sharp lateral growth, and twinned according to the spinel-law. Absolute novelty and of great quality. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 1.22” × 0.35” × 0.20”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 0.2 cm = 0.75” × 0.08”

MG7AM5: These elegant Golds were found for the first time in 2020. The specimen shows excellent crystallization, with a dominant and very sharp octahedron, some parts with hopper formations, in parallel growths, very stylized and with a very distinct spinel-law twin. Absolute novelty and of great quality. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 1.34” × 0.20” × 0.20”

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

ML12AM5: These elegant Golds were found for the first time in 2020. The specimen shows excellent crystallization, with very sharp forms of the octahedron and parallel and stylized growths that form very distinct spinel-law twins, and a hooked termination. Absolute novelty and of great quality. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 0.3 × 0.3 cm = 1.42” × 0.12” × 0.12”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 0.1 cm = 0.75” × 0.04”

EJT27AN7: A Gold with the dominant forms of the octahedron in highly stylized parallel growths, hopper growths and with distinct twinning according to the spinel law. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This sample has been referenced and pictured, as a novelty in Munich 2021, in the magazine 'Le Règne Minéral' number 162, November-December 2021, page 21
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (09/2021)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 0.8 × 0.5 cm = 1.42” × 0.31” × 0.20”

MA52AM5: These elegant Golds were found for the first time in 2020. This piece shows excellent crystallization, with the dominant forms of the dodecahedron, some with skeletal and hopper growths, with the twinning according to the spinel-law very marked. Absolute novelty and of great quality. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 4 × 1 × 1 cm = 1.57” × 0.39” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.28” × 0.24”

ME57AM5: These elegant Golds were found for the first time in 2020. This piece shows excellent crystallization, with the dominant octahedron, very sharp and in parallel growth, very stylized and with a very distinct spinel-law twin. Absolute novelty and of great quality. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 87 in the volume 26/2021, number 1, and it has been published in the book 'Gold - monograph -', by Joaquim Callén, on page 163
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 1.61” × 0.28” × 0.24”

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

MT47AM8: These elegant Golds were found for the first time in 2020. The specimen shows excellent crystallization, with the dominant forms of the dodecahedron and the octahedron, with some of the faces forming very sharp and stylized growths that clearly show the distinct spinel-law twinning. Absolute novelty and of great quality. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 1.81” × 0.20” × 0.16”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.24” × 0.12”

MB58AM5: These elegant Golds were found for the first time in 2020. This specimen shows excellent crystallization, with the dominant dodecahedron and triangular forms of the octahedron, with a growth of very sharp crystals that delineate the spinel-law twin. Absolute novelty and of great quality. The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 1.81” × 0.24” × 0.20”

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

EFR88AO0: Stylized parallel growths of Gold crystals with a very well defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron in parallel growths and with a very marked spinel-law twin. Among the top pieces of those found so far.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (09/2021)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 0.6 × 0.6 cm = 2.20” × 0.24” × 0.24”

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

ED56AL5: Undoubtedly one of the best, if not the best, uncut Grandidierite crystal found in the deposit, both for the perfection of its crystal forms and for its luster, transparency and color intensity, as well as for its gem quality.
All this made it worthy of being on the cover of the German magazine Mineralien Welt, and it was also featured in the Mineralogical Record.
This specimen is on the front cover of the 'Mineralien Welt' edition 06/2019, and has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery of Munich 2019 in the ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 380 in the volume 51, number 2, May-April 2020, and in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 85 in the volume 26/2021, number 1
Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby mining area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region  Madagascar (09-10/2018)

Specimen size: 1.1 × 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.43” × 0.39” × 0.31”

AF86N2: Very aerial group of very transparent crystals of good color on fine crystals of Vesuvianite and on matrix.
Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec  Canada

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.4 × 1.6 cm = 1.38” × 1.34” × 0.63”

MB77AA9: Aggregate of very transparent trapezohedral crystals with a very intense color. They are on matrix, are extraordinarily bright and have fine striations on their faces.
Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec  Canada

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.7 × 1.7 cm = 2.01” × 1.85” × 0.67”

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

TX39AI3: Group of well-developed crystals with a good size, trapezohedral with dodecahedral faces, transparent, very bright with an intense color and on a matrix coated by small Diopside crystals.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 02/2018, page 96
Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec  Canada

Specimen size: 10.6 × 4.4 × 1.9 cm = 4.17” × 1.73” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.6 cm = 0.83” × 0.63”

MK60D3: Extremely gemmy Grossular well displayed on its matrix. Great luster!
Vesper Peak, Sultan Basin, Sultan District, Snohomish County, Washington  USA

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.5 × 5 cm = 2.56” × 2.17” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 0.7 cm = 0.28”

BRB49AO6: Aggregate of tetrahedral crystals with very marked and deep polycrystalline growths, lustrous, dark brown with reddish tones. On matrix with transparent and lustrous Quartz crystals, white platy Calcite crystals and Chlorite coatings.
This specimen has a size and luster superior to that of other pieces, comes from an important European collection, has been analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 6.8 × 6.4 cm = 4.53” × 2.68” × 2.52”

Main crystal size: 7.4 × 5.7 cm = 2.91” × 2.24”

JT46G0: A floater group of laminar crystals which form multiple parallel growths. Both the brightness and the sharpness of the crystals are extraordinary.
The specimen is from an accredited collection. We'll send the label together the specimen.
Nador, Nador Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1993)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.9 × 0.5 cm = 2.64” × 1.93” × 0.20”

TP37AK9: Globular growths of Hemimorphite on matrix, composed of small very sharp crystals with an unusually intense blue color. The specimen is of great quality for the locality and has a curious anthropomorphic appearance, with a shape like a person with a child in his lap.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), chimenea Cox, level 4, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (±2005)

Specimen size: 12 × 6.8 × 5.6 cm = 4.72” × 2.68” × 2.20”

ERT29AN5: Large spheroidal groups of Hemimorphite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, good luster and a uniform sky-blue color, on matrix.
The specimen, from the Pierre Vincent collection, dates from 1957 and is, without a doubt, exceptional for its aesthetics, quality, size and locality of origin.
M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Bouenza Region  Republic of the Congo (1957)

Specimen size: 15.8 × 8.6 × 7 cm = 6.22” × 3.39” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1 cm = 0.91” × 0.39”

EG27D1: An outstanding specimen. The most original Hessite I have ever seen. It looks like a complex latticework. This extremely rare silver telluride was found in the past just in collections of specimens from the Botés Mine. But that said, it is usually not that nice. However the delicate structure of this specimen creates something perfect which really is, due its beauty, top of the scale for this species. Minor crystallized Quartz is also present on the specimen as you can see on the detailed image.
Botés Mountains, Botés, Transilvania  Romania (±1900)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 1.5 × 0.7 cm = 1.89” × 0.59” × 0.28”

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

EJ91AH8: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Very aerial stalagmitic botryoidal growth of Heterogenite, a cobalt hydroxide that is very rare as significant collectible samples. We consider this one, due to its evident quality, between the best known for the species. The sample has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Mindingi Mine (Mindigi Mine), Millele shaft, Swambo, Kambove District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) (05/2018)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 4.1 × 4 cm = 3.78” × 1.61” × 1.57”

ERQ911AQ1: Hibonite crystal of enormous size (for the species) and with excellent definition of its crystal forms. As if all this were not enough, it is on matrix, with Corundum, Calcite and Diopside.
One of the best known hibonites.
Tranomaro-Maromby mining area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region  Madagascar

Specimen size: 7.4 × 6.2 × 6 cm = 2.91” × 2.44” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 5 × 2 cm = 1.97” × 0.79”

ML56I8: Group on matrix of short prismatic crystals of excellent color. They are bright and partially covered by small black crystals of Rockbridgeite and brownish crystals of Correianevesite. A recent study of the crystals from the Cigana Mine that in 2006 were identified as Reddingite has shown the discovery of the rare species Correianevesite. So, the old Reddingite from Cigana must be renamed as Correianevesite, being Cigana Mine, at Galiléia, the type locality. We’ll send a copy of the analysis of the original “Reddingite” to the buyer.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 14 in number 2007/2.
Cigana Mine (Jocão Mine), Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (08-09/2006)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.5 × 2.2 cm = 1.54” × 1.38” × 0.87”

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

TF42AB6: Parallel aggregate of two laminar and very sharp Hydroxylbastnäsite-(Ce) crystals, between transparent and translucent, whose color is between salmon and orange and on a massive Calcite matrix with small Dolomite and Quartz crystal. Formerly classified as Bastnäsite-(Ce), the samples from Trimouns have been recently determined to be Hydroxylbastnäsite-(Ce)
Trimouns Mine, Luzenac, Haute-Ariège, Foix, Ariège Department, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.1 × 2.8 cm = 2.80” × 2.40” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.43” × 0.31”

MFR6AP3: One of the best, if not the best, Imayoshiite of very large size, coming from the 2021 finds that yielded the best known so far for the species. On a good size group of very lustrous twinned Sphalerite crystals several Calcite crystals with dominant scalenohedral forms have been precipitated and then were in turn covered almost entirely by whitish Shinichengite (this new mineral species was initially labeled as possible Tobermorite-Clinotobermorite) and, finally, a large quantity of Imayoshiite crystals of a pale cream color. Thanks to three "windows" in the Calcite crystals we can see the whole process of formation. This very "geological" specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
To learn more about this species and the rest of the paragenesis discovered so far in this mine it is essential to read the article ‘Rare Borate Minerals from the Shijiangshan-Shalonggou Deposits, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia, China', whose authors are César Menor-Salván, Berthold Ottens and Ed Richard, featured in Rocks & Minerals, September/October 2021, volume 96, number 5
Shijiangshan Mine, Shijiangshan village, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (09/2021)

Specimen size: 22.3 × 13.7 × 4.8 cm = 8.78” × 5.39” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.43” × 0.31”

TF76E0: A fan of Inesite crystals with a little bit of Natrolite and Xonotlite. As you can see in the photo, the color and brilliance are great, and it really is very esthetic.
Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (1998)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.7 × 2.2 cm = 1.69” × 1.46” × 0.87”

TC16N9: An exceptionally sharp Isoferroplatinum crystal, floater, complete, with two other twinned crystals. From the old good times for Russian material, pictures say everything : quality, luster and perfection.
Konder Massif, Aldan shield, Ayan-Maya District, Khabarovsk Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 0.6 × 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.24” × 0.24” × 0.16”

TX69S0: A novelty at Tucson 2011. Crystal with a very acute pyramidal polycrystalline termination. The crystal is transparent, bright and a deep sky blue color with slight violet shades. They are floaters with irregular surfaces, having had been formed in channels of dissolution in bigger crystals, now missing.
Ameib Farm 60 (Ameib Farm), Usakos, Karibib District, Erongo Region  Namibia (02-03/2010)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 1.46” × 0.31” × 0.28”

EM17F0: Two rare species in one specimen. The Mushistonite coats a group of Kësterite crystals. The floater crystals of Kësterite are disphenoides, a crystallographic form that is not normally apparent, but which is very well defined in this case.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2003)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.9 × 1.8 cm = 0.79” × 0.75” × 0.71”

TFF27AN4: Extensive group of Kësterite crystals with very sharp crystal forms and a yellowish brown color due to coatings of Mushistonite. The group is on matrix with lamellar Muscovite crystals, and small very lustrous water-clear crystals of Fluorapatite in the front, and larger crystals of pink Fluorapatite in the back, together with white rhombohedral Calcite crystals. An especially elegant specimen in which the perfection and the absence of damage to the crystals and their harmonious arrangement on the matrix make it aesthetically pleasing, something that does not normally occur in this species.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.9 × 4.1 cm = 3.07” × 2.72” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.35” × 0.31”

EJB27AQ0: New at Sainte-Marie 2023
A specimen that represents, apart from its evident aesthetics and its world novelty, a complete treatise on mineralogy, starting with a cobalt-bearing Dolomite (which has since disappeared during the process), followed by successive substitutions in which more copper was added, leaving as a final result Kolwezite-Malachite in pseudomorphic shapes after crystals of the initial cobalt-bearing Dolomite, and greenish blue Chrysocolla pseudomorphs after Baryte, with a stage of Malachite growth, also pseudomorphic after Baryte.
The discovery of this morphological and chemical complexity will soon be reported more extensively in an upcoming article in the French magazine Le Règne Minéral.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 663 in the volume 54, number 5, September-October 2023 and by the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 52 in the volume 28/2023, number 3
Tenke-Fungurume area, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) (02-03/2023)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.7 × 4.3 cm = 2.64” × 1.85” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.43” × 0.28”

EJA97AQ0: New at Sainte-Marie 2023
A specimen that represents, apart from its evident aesthetics and its world novelty, a complete treatise on mineralogy, starting with a cobalt-bearing Dolomite (which has since disappeared during the process), followed by successive substitutions in which more copper was added, leaving as a final result Kolwezite-Malachite in pseudomorphic shapes after crystals of the initial cobalt-bearing Dolomite, and greenish blue Chrysocolla pseudomorphs after Baryte, with a stage of Malachite growth, also pseudomorphic after Baryte.
The discovery of this morphological and chemical complexity will soon be reported more extensively in an upcoming article in the French magazine Le Règne Minéral.
Tenke-Fungurume area, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) (02-03/2023)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.3 × 5.5 cm = 3.62” × 2.87” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0..7 cm = 0.28” × 0.00”

MC47AL5: Kulanite crystals with very well defined crystal forms, large for the species, highly lustrous and on matrix, with rhombohedral Siderite crystals, small water-clear Quartz crystals, and white crystals, many of them doubly terminated, of Fluorapatite. The specimen, from the type locality, is one of the best that has been found.
Crosscut Creek, Kulan Camp area, Rapid Creek area, Dawson mining district, Yukon Territory  Canada (07/1995)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.3 × 3.4 cm = 2.56” × 2.09” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.4 cm = 0.39” × 0.16”

TC26AL0: A new discovery at Tucson 2020. This new mineral species displays, among other notable characteristics, a dichroism: blue "Paraíba" color viewed from the front and yellow with green tints seen from the side (with focused light)
Given its hardness, color and transparency, the mineral falls into the gem category and this, together with the fact that it is a new species as well as its rarity, inevitably makes its price high. Another reason for interest is the high content of Scandium in its composition (around 3.8%)
Laurent Thomas, the person whose name the species carries, presented it at Tucson 2020 and explained to us that although the first news of this new species went out in 2018, the most important find was that of April 2019 and that is the one from which this piece comes.
Together with the specimen we will give the buyer an original label from Laurent Thomas, signed by him.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a reference for the Laurentthomasite species in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 09/2020, page 49 as well as in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 62 in the volume 25, number 2
Beravina, Ambaro, Tsaraitso, Betroka District, Anosy Region  Madagascar (04/2019)

Specimen size: 1.4 × 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.55” × 0.47” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1 × 0.4 cm = 0.55” × 0.39” × 0.16”

TR98AL5: Hexagonal floater crystal, with very marked polycrystalline growths, shiny, transparent and with an intense deep blue color. The species, a magnesium-potassium cyclosilicate, is a rarity recently (2019) approved by the IMA. The specimen comes from the type locality for the species. Accompanied by an original label signed by Laurent Thomas, after whom the species is named.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 42 of the 2020/02 edition.
Beravina, Ambaro, Tsaraitso, Betroka District, Anosy Region  Madagascar (04/2019)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.71” × 0.20”

N58ME1: In Spain people have found the most well defined crystals of Lavendulan known worldwide. As well as the good crystal definition, this one has a great color and has three associated minerals: Azurite, Conichalcite, and Pharmacosiderite
Dolores outcrop, Pastrana, Mazarrón / Águilas, Comarca Alto Guadalentín, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (±1995)

Specimen size: 1.1 × 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.43” × 0.24” × 0.16”

TJ14D3: We are proud to offer this superb Legrandite which stands upright on its matrix and is extremely sharp. A thumbnail collector's dream!
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango  Mexico

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.7 × 1.4 cm = 0.98” × 0.67” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.35”

TF96AI3: Fan-like aggregates of elongated crystals with very well defined faces and edges, with good terminal faces, very luminous and with a very intense color. A Mexican classic from the famous F. John Barlow collection.
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango  Mexico

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.3 × 1.3 cm = 1.06” × 0.91” × 0.51”

TF53L5: This Legrandite is from the type locality for this species and, probably, could be one of the first samples found of this rare zinc arsenate. Good sized crystal, well defined, showing excellent luster and color. The upper termination is a contact with some traces of Limonite. On the right one can see a small Legrandite crystal with well defined faces and edges and perfect termination faces. On a Limonite matrix.
With a wide "pedigree" as the Evan James (Arizona) collection file and label shows, together with a previous old label. We'll send these labels to the buyer of the specimen.
Flor de Peña Mine, Lampazos (Lampazos de Naranjo), Municipio Lampazos (Lampazos de Naranjo), Nuevo Leon  Mexico (±1963)

Specimen size: 3 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm = 1.18” × 0.98” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1 cm = 0.83” × 0.39”

TA67AB5: Radial aggregates of acicular Legrandite crystals. They are very bright, with a very deep color and they have a morphology and matrix that is very unusual for samples from the Ojuela mine. The sample has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango  Mexico

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3 × 1.2 cm = 1.81” × 1.18” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.1 cm = 0.12” × 0.04”

TT27X4: Very esthetic and well marked botryoidal growth, on matrix, with the color brighter than usual, very uniform and with an excellent silky luster.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 5 × 2.3 cm = 2.09” × 1.97” × 0.91”

EFL31AO0: Botryoidal and stalagmitic growth of Malachite with very aesthetic forms, banded with different shades of green and with an intense silky luster, which give it a peculiar chatoyant appearance. Among the best stalagmites found at the locality.
Shilu Mine, Yangchun, prefecture-level city Yangjiang, Guangdong Province  China (±1995)

Specimen size: 16.5 × 8.5 × 6.8 cm = 6.50” × 3.35” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 12,8 × 3 cm = 4.72” × 1.18”

MLR97AP3: Spherical aggregates formed of a multitude of acicular Malachite crystals of excellent, very deep and uniform green color, with their well-known velvety appearance, becoming darker in the center of the spheres, with a lighter colored edging at the ends of the needles. In rock matrix, the light colored Dolomite crystals stand out at the base of the piece creating a nice color contrast. Coming from a world class deposit, the Tsumeb Mine, at which two people, both now deceased, played a key role in the supply of quality specimens: Charles Key and Sidney Pieters, the latter having been the original source of this specimen, which was later in a French collection. We will send both labels to the buyer of the piece.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 9 × 7.7 × 3.5 cm = 3.54” × 3.03” × 1.38”

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

EG98AE2: Malachite pseudomorphous after Cuprite, one clearly dominant, beveled by the faces of the dodecahedron and with spherical Azurite aggregates. It is a nice miniature, an excellent French classic.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.3 × 1.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.51” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.51”

ET86AM2: Sharp octahedral Malachite pseudomorphs after Cuprite crystals, lustrous, on very well defined Azurite crystals with a lot of luster and a more vivid color than usual in this type of specimen. The quality of both the Malachite pseudomorphs and the Azurite is superior to others from this locality. A high quality French classic.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 3.1 × 3 × 1.6 cm = 1.22” × 1.18” × 0.63”

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

TD56AJ2: Very aerial parallel growth on matrix of Malachite after Azurite crystals that are flattened and very sharp with very well defined faces and edges.
An excellent Bisbee classic that is very well documented by labels of the Richard Graeme and the Lee Hogg collections, labels that we will send to the buyer.
Sacramento Pit, Sacramento Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.89” × 1.69” × 0.98”

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

TF48AL1: Very 3-dimensional growth of Malachite pseudomorphing equidimensional crystals of Azurite, with very well defined faces and edges, intense color, on matrix. Before the Azurite started altering to Malachite a thin dark coating, probably Cuprite, formed on the faces of the crystals, as suggested by the mineralogy of the locality and some of the crystalline forms, apparently octahedral, present in the matrix.
This great quality piece comes from the collection of Rock H. Currier (No. 4667) whose label 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
New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo District, Pima County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.2 × 4.9 cm = 3.03” × 2.05” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 1.26” × 0.98”

TF37AM5: Very aerial aggregate of sharp Azurite crystals with an unusual morphology for the deposit. They are lustrous, have a very deep and vivid color and are partially covered by fibrous Malachite. The Milpillas mine closed in June 2020.
Milpillas Mine, level 1100, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (01/2020)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 6.1 × 3.8 cm = 4.09” × 2.40” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.6 cm = 0.91” × 0.63”

T37GE9: In these crystals the prisms and the terminations have very contrasting surfaces. The faces of the prisms have a rough look due to multiple growth patterns, but the faces of the hexagonal pyramids which make up the terminations are flat and brilliant. The excellent yellow color, good esthetics and the fact that they are on matrix make it an outstanding specimen.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.3 × 2.4 cm = 1.22” × 0.91” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 0.6 cm = 0.91” × 0.24”

DF60E4: A good specimen with complete, luminous crystals that are well positioned on the matrix. It also has the form of "Mickey Mouse" in the main crystal with its two associated little crystals. Overall it is very neat and unusual.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (12/03)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.5 × 1.6 cm = 1.26” × 0.98” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.43” × 0.28”

TA60D6: Like a tree this very unusual Mimetite grows on a thin matrix plate. So it shows off both its surprising form and is size and perfection. A really unique specimen – we have never seen another like it or even similar to it.
Shaft 5, level 8, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4 × 4 cm = 2.56” × 1.57” × 1.57”

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

KR76L9: An excellent Mimetite specimen showing well marked hoppered growth. Some of the crystals are doubly terminated and with an interesting and intense yellow color zoning, deepest in the central zone. The good brilliance and intense color contrast with the light and dark colors of the matrix. Really, really esthetic!
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with it.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (2003)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 6.3 × 4.4 cm = 3.27” × 2.48” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.4 cm = 0.51” × 0.16”

ET50AM5: Mimetite crystals (campylite variety) on matrix, much more individualized than usual, with a very distinct twinning, which gives them a different appearance than usual. Orange in color with yellow edges and a bright luster, on a Quartz matrix. An excellent and unusual English classic from the Anna and Danilo Rolando collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Allerdale, former Cumberland, Cumbria  England / United Kingdom

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.2 × 3.1 cm = 2.68” × 1.65” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.35” × 0.31”

TB79H1: A magnificent combination of the two uncommon species. Both the prismatic crystals of Neptunite and the flat crystals of Benitoite have very sharp well-defined faces and edges, with excellent terminal faces completely free of damage. Color and luster of both minerals are also excellent.
California State Gem Mine (Benitoite Gem Mine), San Benito River headwaters area, Santa Rita Peak, New Idria District, San Benito County, California  USA

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.1 × 1 cm = 1.65” × 1.22” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.24”

EP96R1: Group of extraordinarily well defined crystals with a dominant orthorhombic prism. A large size for the species, they are translucent and bright and have an excellent reddish color, deeper than usual in this kind of sample. An exceptional specimen.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 45 in number 2011/1
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (04/2010)

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

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.43” × 0.31”

MA91AA9: Very aerial aggregate of very sharp Pearceite crystals (polytype T2ac). They are thick tabular, have a very well defined pseudohexagonal shape, are extraordinarily bright, are on a group of Proustite crystals and are on matrix, with Rhodochrosite. Both the Pearceite and Proustite, as well as the Rhodochrosite, have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the three analyses to the buyer. Even bigger Pearceite crystals exist, very few of them as aesthetic as this one.
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyón Province, Lima Department  Peru

Specimen size: 7.1 × 5.2 × 2.8 cm = 2.80” × 2.05” × 1.10”

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

MM67E9: This is a great specimen with the pseudo-cubic crystal on matrix. It shows a curious bumpiness caused by the combination of the pseudo-cube with the pesudo-dodecahedron, which is a crystal form we have seen before in this species. The luster is also excellent.
Perovskitovaya Mine, Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Ural Federal District  Russia (07/2004)

Specimen size: 3 × 2 × 2 cm = 1.18” × 0.79” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.51”

MK50AL3: Very sharp crystal of Pezzottaite, a rare species of the Beryl Group, translucent, with a very intense and uniform color, set on a Quartz matrix with short, elongated Schorl crystals.
It comes from its type locality, Sakavalana Mine.
Sakavalana Mine, Ambatovita, Mandrosonoro, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania Region  Madagascar

Specimen size: 5.9 × 5.1 × 4.6 cm = 2.32” × 2.01” × 1.81”

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

MF47M5: Group of very sharp crystals with clear terminations. The crystals are exceptionally transparent for the species and we note their luster and color. The group is on matrix with small crystals of Cerussite also partially covering some faces of the Phosgenite crystals. Very good esthetics.
Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Sud Sardegna Province, Sardinia/Sardegna  Italy (1990-1995)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3 × 2.8 cm = 1.85” × 1.18” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.1 cm = 0.98” × 0.83”

EG66L9: A wonderful and complete Phosphophyllite floater, with an excellent color, brilliance and an unprecedented transparence. In one word: a gem. The specimen is from a find made in 1968 in Cerro Rico, not in the well-known Siglo XX Mine, but in the oldest Pailaviri Mine.
Pailaviri Mine, Krauser vein, Cerro de Potosí (Cerro Rico), Potosí City, Potosí Department  Bolivia (1968)

Specimen size: 1.3 × 1.2 × 0.5 cm = 0.51” × 0.47” × 0.20”

TV66H3: A curved crystal of quality both for its size and sharpness and its detached position on the matrix with small prismatic crystals of Epidote. A classic Alpine specimen.
La Combe de la Selle, Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans, Le Bourg d'Oisans Comune, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (1998)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4 × 2.4 cm = 2.05” × 1.57” × 0.94”

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

EG91AM1: Very sharp, transparent, brilliant Proustite crystals with an intense and vivid color that partially cover hooked Silver wires. On matrix, with white Quartz crystals and small but very sharp octahedral crystals of Acanthite. In Imiter, it is very rare to find free-standing specimens in a vug like this one, which also has the unusual detail of the Silver wire coated with red Proustite crystals.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 43 of the 2020/02 edition.

Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2019)

Specimen size: 17.3 × 8.5 × 6.7 cm = 6.81” × 3.35” × 2.64”

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

EMM16AQ1: Group of Proustite crystals rich in faces, with prismatic habit and pyramidal terminations. Translucent, with good luster and an intense color, on matrix with Dolomite. From a German locality considered to be a great classic for the species.

The Himmelsfürst Mine is part of the famous historical Freiberg mining district, one of the classic silver-mining centers of Central Europe, active since the 12th century. This district lies in the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), a Variscan massif with polymetallic hydrothermal veins rich in silver, lead, zinc, cobalt and nickel, with mineralizing phases between the Late Paleozoic and later hydrothermal episodes.
Himmelsfürst reached particular importance in the 17th–19th centuries due to its high silver contents and for being an enclave linked to the Freiberg Mining Academy. After the cessation of mining work, thanks to local seekers, secondary crystallization has been found in cavities and oxidation zones that has produced very appreciated mineral specimens.
Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Erzgebirgskreis District, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 3.6 × 1.9 × 1.5 cm = 1.42” × 0.75” × 0.59”

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

MJ86D5: The perfection of the form, and so well placed on its minor Hematite pedestal... Just one minor ding on one of the bottom corners, but basically we can describe it as perfect on all its sides. Extremely eudral oldie!
Rio Marina, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany  Italy

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3 × 3.4 cm = 1.38” × 1.18” × 1.34”

EMF96AO1: Floater group of complex Pyrite crystals, with the dominant shapes of the cube, the pyritohedron and the octahedron, lustrous and with small equant Sphalerite crystals. A high-quality specimen from a very classic Italian locality for the species, but from which there are not many specimens of such quality.
Niccioleta Mine, Massa Marittima, Grosseto Province, Tuscany  Italy

Specimen size: 13.3 × 8.7 × 8.3 cm = 5.24” × 3.43” × 3.27”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 3.7 cm = 1.73” × 1.46”

TM37AE9: Complex Pyrite crystal, very rich in faces, with a dominant octahedron, very bright and on matrix. A rarity at Milpillas, very interesting from a morphological point of view.
This specimen has been reviewed and published in the special "Milpillas" of the magazine ‘Lapis’ number 07-08/2017, page 35 and in the monograph 'The Milpillas Mine' of the ‘Mineralogical Record‘ magazine on page 612 in the volume 52, number 5, September-October 2021
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (04/2016)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.6 × 3 cm = 1.46” × 1.42” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.2 cm = 1.22” × 0.87”

NA58G8: Splendid miniature, very esthetical. Pyrite growth as an elegant aggregate of cubic crystals lightly curved associated with globular formations of lenticular crystals of white Calcite. The piece represents a good reference of the species from Panasqueira.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Region  Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.77” × 1.38” × 0.59”

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

CF67D6: Great brilliance and complex crystallography, with multiple combinations of cubes and octahedrons. It is a floater and as good as the photo suggests. Note the curious forms of the octahedral growth patterns that are present on all the front faces of the Pyrite.
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department  Peru

Specimen size: 8.4 × 8 × 9.5 cm = 3.31” × 3.15” × 3.74”

Main crystal size: 9 × 8 cm = 3.54” × 3.15”

NP6M3: A classic specimen from one of the most famous Spanish mineral localities. Group of crystals formed by the prism and terminal pinacoids. Prism faces show color zoning, darker at the base. These Pyromorphites, which are now very difficult to obtain, were collected in the early 20th century.
El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1910)

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.3 × 0.9 cm = 0.63” × 0.51” × 0.35”

MBL98AP3: Group of prismatic Pyromorphite crystals, many of them doubly terminated and with color zoning in the center of the crystals, some of them thicker and with hopper terminations. With small traces of matrix formed by tiny Galena crystals. In LED light, the specimen exhibits the greenish tones so typical of this deposit. From a classic locality for the mineralogy of Spain and the European Union, Minas de El Horcajo evokes splendid times in which green lead shone in the darkness of the Malacate and Argentífero shafts. Specimens from this locality and with this quality are increasingly difficult to obtain.
El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1910)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.8 × 3.2 cm = 2.64” × 1.89” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 0.6 cm = 0.83” × 0.24”

NT92AL5: Centered aggregates of acicular Pyromorphite crystals, with a very vivid green color and good luster. The specimen, from a time period and locality that is historic for both Spanish and European mineralogy, exhibits the most classic habit for this deposit. These specimens are very difficult to obtain because, having only been found at the beginning of the last century, very few specimens have survived.
This specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 154/2020, page 45, and the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 84 in the volume 26/2021, number 1
El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1910)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.8 × 5.3 cm = 2.95” × 2.68” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.2 cm = 0.67” × 0.08”

NF88AM2: Druse of Pyromorphite crystals with well defined faces and edges, many of them with lustrous, deeply hoppered faces and olive-green color. The specimen, an old Spanish classic from the Joaquín Folch duplicate collection, was sold by J. Fabre to J.H. Marshall, from where it ended up in a Spanish collection and from there back to us. The labels of the Folch collection, the previous Fabre Minerals collection, the label and the record of the Marshall collection and the label of the last collection of provenance will be delivered to the buyer.
El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1910)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 7.4 × 6 cm = 3.31” × 2.91” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.9 cm = 0.63” × 0.35”

N96EX3: Fine miniature, very aerial and esthetic, with crystals formed by a short prism and the pinacoide, with very well defined faces and edges and showing apple-green color and a very intense luster. Some of the crystals are doubly terminated. The sample is from the excellent, and already famous, find in 1997.
San Andrés Mine, Realces pocket (Victoria), Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (10/11-1997)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.5 × 1 cm = 1.46” × 0.98” × 0.39”

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

N86NQ7: Group on matrix of multiple subparallel growths of very acute elongated crystals, a very unusual habit at San Andrés, similar to the samples from El Horcajo. This kind of crystal which dominates, co-exists with another generation of darker but well-developed small crystals. A glory of the past, from one of the best pockets ever found at the San Andrés Mine.
San Andrés Mine, del tunel pocket, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (11/1998)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 4.7 × 4.3 cm = 2.72” × 1.85” × 1.69”

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

ER88AD3: Druse of Pyromorphite crystals on a limonite matrix, with very well defined faces and edges, with an extraordinary color and luster, of the best quality for the locality. A French classic.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3 × 4.2 cm = 2.44” × 1.18” × 1.65”

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

MXF92AP6: Very aerial group of Pyromorphite crystals with sharp crystal forms, translucent, lustrous, and of a very deep green color, of the quality that characterizes the best specimens from this deposit. The back of the specimen shows casts left by ancient Fluorite crystals which later disappeared, and which add some originality.

Les Farges is a Pb-Zn deposit associated with the Ussel granite, within the French Massif Central. Pyromorphite occurs as a secondary mineral in the oxidation zone of lead sulfides, related to fractures and cavities within the granite, forming well-defined and intensely colored crystals that have given the locality great fame.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.3 × 2.2 cm = 2.87” × 2.09” × 0.87”

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

TPQ46ASN2: The pyromorphites from Les Farges are considered a major classic in European mineralogy. This elegant specimen features spherical clusters of prismatic Pyromorphite crystals, growing airily on a matrix of white Barite crystals, with well-defined color zoning: brown in the prisms and yellowish at the polycrystalline terminations. A small, but perfectly defined, orange Wulfenite crystal in the upper section adds further interest to the piece.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.5 × 2.9 cm = 2.91” × 1.77” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: Wulfenite: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.00” × 0.08”

ETR47AQ1: Large group of prismatic crystals of Pyromorphite on Baryte, with very good luster and an unusually deep and uniform green color.
On the Baryte matrix there are small tabular crystals of the same Baryte but with a very orange color, probably due to inclusions of iron oxides.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 17 × 17 × 7.5 cm cm = 6.69” × 6.69” × 2.95”

RA50F8: A group of elongated crystals with the typical color for the locality, excellent brilliance, extraordinary crystal definition and good crystal size. A venerable label from S. Henson (London) accompanies it.
Bad Ems, Bad Ems District, Lahn Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz  Germany (±1920)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.2 × 2.1 cm = 1.30” × 0.87” × 0.83”

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

E84J: During 2000 the most important mineral 'explosion' has been the Pyromorphite found in China. This comes from this exceptional find.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (05/2000)

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

EP91K6: Polysynthetic growths of prismatic crystals with a very deep hollow termination. Color and luster are excellent.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2004)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 2.1 × 1.8 cm = 1.69” × 0.83” × 0.71”

TVA97AO4: Group of slightly tapered Pyromorphite crystals, with very deep hopper terminations, partially coated and replaced by Plumbogummite with an intense sky-blue color. Of the best known quality for that historic find.
Yangshuo / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 12.2 × 7.1 × 6.2 cm = 4.80” × 2.80” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 2.1 cm = 1.69” × 0.83”

EK89AL6: Very aerial group of Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant and twinned by the japan-law, with double terminations. The crystals are water-clear and very shiny, with inclusions and negative forms of Quartz inside. Exceptional.
Municipio La Belleza, Vélez Province, Santander Department  Colombia (01/2020)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 6 × 5 cm = 3.23” × 2.36” × 1.97”

TP92L0: An interesting novelty of Tucson 2008 due to the quality and locality. Group of deep smoky Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant and partially doubly terminated, with well defined faces and edges. Crystals are transparent with several inclusions. We particularly like one of the inclusions, located at the top of the main Quartz crystal, of snowy well defined white globular crystals, whose identity we can’t say.
Diamantina, Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (11/2007)

Specimen size: 11 × 10.5 × 5.1 cm = 4.33” × 4.13” × 2.01”

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

EFG99AN6: Group of Quartz crystals (smoky variety), one of them clearly dominant and well centered on the matrix, doubly terminated, with parallel growths and very marked 'gwindel' twisting. The crystals are very transparent and lustrous, have an intense and deep smoky color, and are accompanied by small Albite crystals.
Greater perfection, transparency and color than other similar specimens.

Grimsel corresponds to a high-mountain alpine area located in the Hasli region, in the Bernese Oberland, mainly known for the Grimsel mountain pass and for its numerous alpine clefts where high-quality mineral specimens have been found. The Hasli region is a historical and geographical entity within Bern Canton.

From a geological point of view, the area belongs to the Aar Massif, dominated by metamorphic crystalline rocks such as granites, gneisses and schists. Alpine fissures developed in these rocks have produced associations of Quartz (often smoky variety and 'gwindel' forms), Albite and other minerals typical of low-pressure, moderate-temperature alpine hydrothermal environments.
Grimsel area, Hasli Valley, Bern  Switzerland (±1990)

Specimen size: 19 × 11.2 × 8.6 cm = 7.48” × 4.41” × 3.39”

Main crystal size: 9.7 × 6 cm = 3.82” × 2.36”

EQ27: Doubly terminated, sceptered on the first generation milky Quartz. Great architecture.
Don Nicolás Mine, Villa Rafael Benegas (Villa Benegas), Mina Clavero, San Alberto Department, Córdoba Province  Argentina (01-06/2000)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.4 × 3 cm = 2.05” × 1.34” × 1.18”

TF30L3: From a locality not yet well known by mineral collectors, the crystal presents a very curious flattened morphology, where two parallel prism faces have virtually disappeared. We would like to call your attention on the extraordinary transparency and the attractive distribution of intense violet cloudy forms inside the specimen.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 22 in number 2008/2
Antanimbaribe (Antany- Ambaribe), Vakinankaratra Region  Madagascar (2007)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 1.9 × 1.1 cm = 3.35” × 0.75” × 0.43”

TR93K1: Elegant group of Quartz (amethyst) crystals that form scepters and inverse scepters. They are bright and have a deep and uniform color and Hematite inclusions. We note that such large and high quality specimens from Tamil Nadu are very scarce and we feel happy to have the opportunity to offer this one.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a reference for the locality in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 01/2022, page 36
Kakamunurle Quarry, Karur District, Tamil Nadu  India (09-10/2006)

Specimen size: 13.5 × 11.8 × 7 cm = 5.31” × 4.65” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 0.6 cm = 1.69” × 0.24”

TC96D9: Pink Quartz that has good color, in fact it is almost red. But the best feature of the specimen is the definition, as the upper crystals have perfect forms, which is unusual in this Quartz.
This was from the Luis Leite collection, so we will send Luis’ label to the person that buys it.
Galiléia, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 6 × 2 × 2 cm = 2.36” × 0.79” × 0.79”

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

EJ38D5: Well, I feel that the photo says everything. Maybe I should just add that the matrix is not Quartz but Sphalerite with some well formed crystals. As is well known, the small white areas on the red crystals are a second generation of white Quartz.
Second Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (2001)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 6.5 × 6.4 cm = 2.56” × 2.56” × 2.52”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 0.7 cm = 1.26” × 0.28”

TP93E2: This red Quartz is an elegant floater with all the crystals doubly terminated and partially covered by a second generation of white Quartz. This is one of the most esthetic specimens of this type that we have seen.
Second Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (2003)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 7 × 5 cm = 4.13” × 2.76” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 6.2 × 0.5 cm = 2.44” × 0.20”

EA62AL5: Groups of red Quartz crystals, elongated, many of them doubly terminated, intergrown, and forming very "sculptural" groups - a very different habit from the usual. Finds of this type of Quartz in Dalnegorsk were quite ephemeral and as they appeared, they quickly disappeared too, so it is not easy to get such elegant specimens as this one. The red Quartz is partially covered by a second generation of white Quartz.
Second Sovetskii Mine, 230↓, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (±1998)

Specimen size: 15.5 × 11.4 × 6.4 cm = 6.10” × 4.49” × 2.52”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 0.25 cm = 1.34” × 0.10”

AC66D4: Floater, complete, damage free, sweet red color, associated with Ferberite, Pyrite, and Mica, and the more important point: it is unusual. Only a few specimens are found from time to time at the Yao-gan-xian Mine and it is rare that they are damage free and esthetic.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2002)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.2 × 1.4 cm = 1.97” × 1.26” × 0.55”

ER92AM2: Two rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystals with polycrystalline growths, with a very vivid and uniform pink color and of a good size for the locality. Implanted on a doubly terminated Quartz crystal and covered by small elongated and brilliant Arsenopyrite crystals. High quality for the deposit.
Cassandra Mines, Chalkidiki Prefecture, Macedonia Department  Greece

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.6 × 4.4 cm = 2.52” × 1.81” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 2.6 cm = 1.30” × 1.02”

SD87AC1: An extraordinary sample. An aggregate of rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very large for the species. The crystals, on matrix, are very well defined, coated by small crystals of Quartz, and they have a soft pink color in daylight and a very intense pink shade under any incandescent or LED lamp.
Cassandra Mines, Chalkidiki Prefecture, Macedonia Department  Greece

Specimen size: 14.5 × 11.3 × 8.9 cm = 5.71” × 4.45” × 3.50”

Main crystal size: 10 × 3.9 cm = 3.94” × 1.54”

MA16F0: The deep pink color of these sprays is very noticeable. The crystals are flattened rhombohedra that have a lenticular look. The base of small crystals of Quartz contrasts neatly with the Rhodochrosite.
Boldut Mine, Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures  Romania (±1999)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.8 × 1.5 cm = 2.17” × 1.89” × 0.59”

MFT86AN9: Druse with translucent, lustrous botryoidal Rhodochrosite growths with an exceptionally intense and uniform color. A very elegant and rare specimen to have such quality.
This specimen was from the Bernd Jarmer collection.
Ushkatyn deposits, Zhayrem, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 11.7 × 8.7 × 3.7 cm = 4.61” × 3.43” × 1.46”

ND27D4: Clean, perfect Rhodochrosite, aerial crystals with very good contrast with their black manganese oxide matrix.
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyón Province, Lima Department  Peru

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.5 × 2.9 cm = 1.77” × 1.38” × 1.14”

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

MC50G9: Crystals are rhombohedrons with very sharp faces and edges of a splendid size and we call your attention to its great color and the elegant grouping.
Manuelita Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department  Peru (10/2005)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.7 × 3.7 cm = 2.13” × 1.46” × 1.46”

EL37P5: Rhombohedral crystals with a very well marked color zoning, deeper in the central area of each crystal. The matrix of Pyrite crystals makes the piece especially esthetic.
Manuelita Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department  Peru (11/2008)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.6 × 3.1 cm = 2.52” × 2.20” × 1.22”

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

EM99AD9: A novelty at Ste. Marie 2016. Spheroidal and rosette aggregates of Rhodochrosite microcrystals that have a very vivid and uniform pink color. They are on matrix, with tetrahedral Tennantite-Tetrahedrite series crystals with very well-defined extraordinarily bright faces and edges. The sample has great quality for the locality and it is very different to the more common Rhodochrosite previously found there.
Quiruvilca Mine (La Libertad Mine), Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department  Peru (01-02/2016)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 6.3 × 3.9 cm = 2.87” × 2.48” × 1.54”

MC27H1: A perfect thumbnail. The single rhombohedral crystal has an excellent transparency and a very deep color and it’s on a small matrix with three small Quartz crystals, very transparent and esthetically positioned.
Sweet Home Mine, Hedgehog pocket, Main Stope drift, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park County, Colorado  USA (09/1996)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.79” × 0.59” × 0.51”

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

EX16G4: Splendid miniature from a now closed source. Color and the crystal definition are excellent. The group is very aerial, on matrix of Tetrahedrite with small Quartz crystals.
Sweet Home Mine, Corner pocket, Watercourse raise, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park County, Colorado  USA (09/1994)

Specimen size: 4 × 2.8 × 2.5 cm = 1.57” × 1.10” × 0.98”

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

T980A: Rhodochrosite with Quartz, Tetrahedrite, Chalcopyrite and Fluorite. This Rhodochrosite is special because of the size and perfection of the crystal, and above all for the excellent position it has on the complex matrix (with four different associated minerals). A very 'showy' specimen which would display well in any cabinet.
Sweet Home Mine, Rivas pocket, Fluorite raise, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park County, Colorado  USA (1998)

Specimen size: 8 × 8 cm = 3.15” × 3.15”

EN87AI8: Rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystals that are translucent and bright with a very intense and deep color. They are with Galena, Pyrite and small Quartz crystals and, furthermore, there are Fluorite crystals, something uncommon at the locality.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Sweet Home Mine, main stope, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park County, Colorado  USA (1993)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 7 × 3.6 cm = 3.19” × 2.76” × 1.42”

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

EE47G3: An excellent miniature. Crystals are scalenohedrons, clear and of a magnificent color. A classic.
N'Chwaning I Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa

Specimen size: 2 × 1.9 × 1.3 cm = 0.79” × 0.75” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.5 cm = 0.55” × 0.20”

TE16AN2: A historical piece, since the first 'top' Rhodochrosites from the Kalahari area were found in Hotazel before they were also found in N'Chwaning.
It is a druse of very sharp and well separated scalenohedral crystals, between transparent and translucent, lustrous and with a very intense and uniform color. A magnificent classic of African mineralogy in which some crystals have cleavages, something very difficult to avoid in specimens of this type and size, although it does not affect the general aesthetics of the piece, considering its global quality.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 42 of the 2020/02 edition.


Hotazel Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa

Specimen size: 8.8 × 6.4 × 4 cm = 3.46” × 2.52” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.47” × 0.31”

TA56J6: Very nice miniature with excellent color and transparency and great esthetic due the Rhodonite crystals standing up on the white Calcite crystals.
San Martín Mine, Chiurucu (Chiuruco), Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department  Peru (03/2007)

Specimen size: 2.1 × 2.1 × 1.6 cm = 0.83” × 0.83” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.7 cm = 0.51” × 0.28”

MA51K6: Group of flattened Rhodonite crystals of excellent color and luster. We especially note the intensity of the color, nearer to red more than pink, which is characteristic of the July-August 2007 samples.
San Martín Mine, Chiurucu (Chiuruco), Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department  Peru (07/2007)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.34” × 1.26” × 0.94”

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

TBR93AP7: Doubly terminated Rhodonite crystals with unusually well developed crystal forms, translucent and intense pink in color, on a Calcite matrix.
The specimen, of extraordinary quality for the locality, comes from the collection of José Navarrete and was previously in the Jesús Talabán collection.
Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey  USA

Specimen size: 6 × 5.5 × 4.2 cm = 2.36” × 2.17” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.51”

TW26L0: Excellent Rhodonite crystal groups on matrix. Very bright, flattened and of a magnificent color, more red than pink. Partially covered with small Quartz crystals.
San Martín Mine, Chiurucu (Chiuruco), Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department  Peru (09/2007)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 6 × 4.8 cm = 2.68” × 2.36” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.28” × 0.24”

MK36K6: Group of flattened Rhodonite crystals of excellent color and luster with small crystals of Quartz and Pyrite. We especially note the intensity of the color, nearer to red more than pink, which is characteristic of the July-August 2007 samples.
San Martín Mine, Chiurucu (Chiuruco), Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department  Peru (08/2007)

Specimen size: 8 × 5 × 3.7 cm = 3.15” × 1.97” × 1.46”

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

TQ66V5: Flattened botryoidal aggregate on limonite matrix, with intense and uniform bluish green color. As a curiosity we note that the nodule resembles vaguely the outline of USA.
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango  Mexico (2010)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.6 × 1 cm = 2.13” × 1.42” × 0.39”

ML6AK3: Group of crystals on matrix, with very well defined and notably curved faces and edges, some of them doubly terminated, translucent, very lustrous, with an intense deep red color.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2018)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.4 × 1.9 cm = 1.10” × 0.55” × 0.75”

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

EB13AA4: Isolated crystals of magnesian Roselite, one of them clearly dominant, translucent with a lenticular shape and a very intense, deep and uniform color and are on matrix with Dolomite, Calcite, dark spheroidal aggregates of cuprian Cobaltaustinite and small isolated crystals of Cobaltlotharmeyerite. The magnesian Roselite, the cuprian Cobaltaustinite and the Cobaltlotharmeyerite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Aghbar Mine (Arhbar Mine), Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.3 × 1.6 cm = 1.26” × 0.91” × 0.63”

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

EA16AF9: Rosette aggregate of laminar Roweite crystals of great size and quality for what has been known of this species. It is on matrix, with colorless and transparent Olshanskyite crystals. The Roweite crystals, that are well differentiated, have a light creamy color with very well defined faces and edges. The quality of the specimens is undoubtedly superior to what was previously known, both for the individuality of the crystals and for their sharpness, but also for the size of the crystals and their association with first class Olshanskyite which makes them deserving to be in the best private collections and museums. We have analyzed specimens to confirm the identity of the species and we will send a copy of the different species to buyers.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Munich 2017’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 72 of number 1/2018, the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 404 in the volume 96, number 5, Sep/Oct 2021 and in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 62 of the 2017/02 edition
Shijiangshan Mine, Shijiangshan village, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.2 × 1.9 cm = 1.54” × 1.26” × 0.75”

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

EA66E2: Large, thick Rutile crystals oriented with the Hematite. This is a really beautiful floater.
Caí bom Mine, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil (02/04)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 3.1 × 0.3 cm = 1.30” × 1.22” × 0.12”

MF47L1: Very sharp Quartz crystal group, with acicular Rutile crystal inclusions. Rutile crystals are epitaxic on laminar Hematite, some of them included in the Quartz, some not. Very esthetic specimen.
Caí bom Mine, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil (07/2005)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.5 × 3.9 cm = 1.93” × 1.77” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 2 cm = 1.46” × 0.79”