Ste. Marie 2020 (Virtual)

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TT96AL5: Complete, highly profiled, bright, transparent tabular crystal with color zoning, more concentrated in the central area, on a Quartz matrix.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Sapo Mine, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.75” × 0.31”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.67” × 0.63”

TY48AL5: Floater crystal (sharp for the species) of Wodginite, a rare oxide of tin, tantalum and manganese, with sharp faces and edges, shiny and large for the species.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Itatiaia, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2 × 1 cm = 1.06” × 0.79” × 0.39”

TL48AL5: Group of Brazilianite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, transparent, very lustrous, with a uniform and vivid color and on a matrix of lamellar Muscovite crystals.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Telírio claim, Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 1.34” × 0.87” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 1.5 cm = 1.34” × 0.59”

MF30AL5: Elongated Elbaite crystal with polycrystalline terminations, transparent, bright, deep bluish green and with small coatings of lamellar 'lepidolite' crystals at the base and on the terminations.
Pederneira claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.6 × 1 × 1 cm = 2.99” × 0.39” × 0.39”

TA97AL5: Group of crystals of Quartz (variety rose quartz), very lustrous, transparent and with an intense and vivid pink color. What stands out most in the piece, in addition to its beauty, is how sharp the crystals are since rose Quartz very rarely presents so much definition. A Brazilian classic from the Rock Currier collection (No. 5105), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Berilo Branco claim, Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 11.1 ×5.9 × 3.9 cm = 4.37” × 2.32” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 1.1 cm = 1.34” × 0.43”

TA88AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Group of Quartz crystals covered by botryoidal growths of Chrysocolla with an intense greenish blue color. From a well-known Peruvian locality but from which this type of specimen had not previously been found.
Tentadora Mine, Ullpac Mountain, Huancano District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (03/2020)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.8 × 3 cm = 1.30” × 1.10” × 1.18”

TD89AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Group of Quartz crystals covered by botryoidal growths of Chrysocolla with an intense greenish blue color. From a well-known Peruvian locality but from which this type of specimen had not previously been found.
Tentadora Mine, Ullpac Mountain, Huancano District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (03/2020)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.8 × 2.8 cm = 2.28” × 1.50” × 1.10”

TE89AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Group of Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, covered by botryoidal growths of Chrysocolla with an intense greenish blue color. From a well-known Peruvian locality from which this type of specimen had not been previously found.
Tentadora Mine, Ullpac Mountain, Huancano District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (03/2020)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 6 × 3.1 cm = 3.58” × 2.36” × 1.22”

TB99AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Quartz crystals covered by botryoidal growths of Chrysocolla with a very intense greenish blue color, in turn partially covered by a second generation of Quartz with dissolution figures. From a well known Peruvian locality but one from which this type of specimen had not previously been found.
Tentadora Mine, Ullpac Mountain, Huancano District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (03/2020)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 3 × 2.1 cm = 2.60” × 1.18” × 0.83”

TC90AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, covered by two generations of very vivid greenish blue chrysocolla, the first forming a smooth and uniform cover and the other, later, in botryoidal growths. From a well known Peruvian locality but one from which this type of specimen had not been found before.
Tentadora Mine, Ullpac Mountain, Huancano District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (03/2020)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.5 × 3.9 cm = 2.52” × 1.38” × 1.54”

TR26AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, covered by two generations of very vivid greenish blue chrysocolla, the first forming a smooth and uniform cover and the other, later, in botryoidal growths. From a well known Peruvian locality but one from which this type of specimen had not been found before.
This sample has been referenced and pictured, as a novelty in Ste. Marie Virtual 2020, in the magazine 'Le Règne Minéral' number 154, page 45
Tentadora Mine, Ullpac Mountain, Huancano District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (03/2020)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 3.8 × 3.5 cm = 4.41” × 1.50” × 1.38”

TX56AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: vivid greenish blue Chrysocolla coating almost completely Quartz crystals. The coat has two generations of Chrysocolla, the first forming a smooth and uniform cover and the other, later, in botryoidal growths. From a well known Peruvian locality but one from which this type of specimen had not been found before.
Tentadora Mine, Ullpac Mountain, Huancano District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (03/2020)

Specimen size: 15 × 7.8 × 7.7 cm = 5.91” × 3.07” × 3.03”

ED46AL5: Scepter growth, partially doubly terminated Quartz (variety amethyst) crystal, transparent, with good luster, and with an intense violet color on a white Quartz crystal.
Don Nicolás Mine, Villa Rafael Benegas (Villa Benegas), Mina Clavero, San Alberto Department, Córdoba Province  Argentina (2004)

Specimen size: 3 × 1.4 × 1 cm = 1.18” × 0.55” × 0.39”

NQ14AL5: Descloizite crystals with an equidimensional habit very different from those known in other localities, with very sharp faces and edges, a very dark green color, almost black, on matrix, with Quartz. The specimen is accompanied by two old handwritten labels in which the original collection does not appear.
Los Pilones, Cruz del Eje Department, Córdoba Province  Argentina

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.6 × 2.6 cm = 1.85” × 1.42” × 1.02”

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

TB98AL5: Very aerial arborescent growth of Silver with crystalline surfaces, bright, on matrix, with deformed Calcite crystals.
This high quality specimen comes from the private collection of Marc Mitterman, whose signed label we will send to the buyer.
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyón Province, Lima Department  Peru

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.1 × 3 cm = 1.42” × 1.22” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1 cm = 0.98” × 0.39”

NE91AL5: Flattened rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystals, almost lenticular, a rare habit in the deposit, with polycrystalline growths on the faces. On matrix, between transparent and translucent, bright red and with good luster.
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyón Province, Lima Department  Peru

Specimen size: 8.3 × 4.9 × 4.4 cm = 3.27” × 1.93” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.59” × 0.39”

TG66AL5: Very elongated parallel polycrystalline growths of lenticular Calcite crystals, of a more intense pink than usual in these specimens. On matrix, with groups of cubic Pyrite crystals. Altogether a beauty.
Pachapaqui mining district, Pachapaqui, Aquia District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department  Peru

Specimen size: 15.4 × 14 × 7.6 cm = 6.06” × 5.51” × 2.99”

TC92AL5: Groups of crystals of Veszelyite with fairly well defined crystalline forms, intense color, randomly distributed in a matrix with white botryoidal coatings of Hemimorphite.
The specimen comes from the Rock Currier collection (no. 8979), whose label we will send to the buyer. It has a sawn matrix on the rear.
Laochang ore field, Gejiu, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan  China

Specimen size: 7.5 × 7.4 × 2.6 cm = 2.95” × 2.91” × 1.02”

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

TE49AL5: A sharp lustrous brownish floater bipyramidal Scheelite crystal, partially covered by what appears to be a gray colored sulfide, perhaps Molybdenite. Among the best known for the locality.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Xianghualing Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.6 × 2 cm = 1.38” × 1.02” × 0.79”

MR47AL5: Multiple growth of dipyramidal crystals with sharp faces and edges, excellent color, very intense, on matrix with leafy aggregates of Muscovite crystals. Large size of both the piece as a whole and the Scheelite crystals, which at the time were a relatively abundant species and which today have become difficult to obtain, especially in pieces like this.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China

Specimen size: 13.2 × 11.6 × 8.6  cm = 5.20” × 4.57” × 3.39”

Main crystal size: 7.2 × 6.6 cm = 2.83” × 2.60”

TC87AL5: Very sharp dipyramidal Powellite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with sharp crystal forms, translucent, shiny, orange in color, on matrix, with small Stilbite-Ca crystals.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Pandulena Hills, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.6 × 2.5 cm = 1.34” × 1.02” × 0.98”

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

NV68AL5: Centered growths of very fine and elongated prismatic crystals, almost acicular but with very well defined faces and edges, with excellent color and luster. On a basaltic matrix with small white Stilbite-Ca crystals. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (±2016)

Specimen size: 9 × 8.2 × 3.6 cm = 3.54” × 3.23” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.08”

NL90AL5: Bright, reniform malachite growth with silky surfaces and intense color changes, which can range from darker, denser green to lighter, brighter green.
Khanong open pit, Sepon Mine, Vilabouly District, Savannakhét Province  Laos (Lao P.D.R.)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 8.2 × 3.5 cm = 4.53” × 3.23” × 1.38”

TF69AL5: Very sharp Phenakite crystal formed by a hexagonal prism with pyramidal terminations. The crystal is colorless, transparent and very shiny.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma)

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.71” × 0.47” × 0.39”

TH27AL5: Group of very sharp Clinozoisite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, transparent, very bright and with an intense and uniform brownish green color.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.6 × 1.4 cm = 1.34” × 1.02” × 0.55”

NR51AL5: Two Elbaite crystals (variety rubellite) rich in very well defined terminal faces, transparent, bright, deep red in color and with aggregates of 'lepidolite' crystals at the base. Very elegant.
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 6.4 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 2.52” × 0.79” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 6.4 × 1 cm = 2.52” × 0.39”

TQ87AL5: Shiny, cream-colored, Chlorargyrita-(Br) crystal coatings on matrix. The richness of the material and the excellent state of conservation of the specimen are surprising. We will send it in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales  Australia

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.4 × 2.2 cm = 1.02” × 0.94” × 0.87”

TE91AL5: Fine prismatic crystals of Raspite, a very rare lead wolframate, isolated and in groups, most of them doubly terminated, with sharp faces and edges, transparent, very lustrous, with an intense and uniform color, on matrix. We will send the specimen, which comes from the type locality for the species, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales  Australia

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.9 × 1.9 cm = 0.94” × 0.75” × 0.75”

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