August 2020 Update

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TV96AL7: Group of crystals, one of them clearly dominant, very rich in faces and perfect sharp terminations. Shiny and extremely transparent. We will send the specimen, from a classic American locality for the species, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, where it is stated that it had previously been in the Frank Melanson collection.
Book Cliffs area, Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.5 × 1.4 cm = 1.02” × 0.98” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.8 cm = 0.83” × 0.71”

EM96AL7: Arborescent growth of very well defined octahedral Gold crystals, which includes small fragments of Quartz matrix. Of the best quality for a mine that is not too well known and from which specimens are rarely seen.
Atlantic Cable Mine, Georgetown Sub-district, Deer Lodge County, Montana  USA

Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.02” × 0.59” × 0.59”

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

TR69AL7: Group of flattened Azurite crystals, sharp, translucent, lustrous and with a very vivid color. The best quality for what is known from here, a mine where quality specimens are not so common.
Bluebird Mine, Miami, Miami-Inspiration District (Globe-Miami District), Gila County, Arizona  USA

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

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

TE16AL7: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Druse of bipyramidal Creedite crystals with sharp pointed terminations, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, and with a light violet color. On matrix with crystallized green and violet Fluorite. This specimen is quite different from the others known from this locality in recent years, although some old collection have similar specimens from the same place, which coincides with the indications that this find was made in old mine galleries.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 494 in the volume 51, number 3, May-June 2020 and in the monograph 'Mexico X' on page 873 in the volume 55, number 6, November-December 2024
Navidad Mine, Abasolo, Rodeo, Municipio de Rodeo, Durango  Mexico (10-12/2019)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.6 × 4.9 cm = 2.83” × 2.60” × 1.93”

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

TB27AL7: A novelty at Tucson 2020: Druse, on matrix, of bipyramidal Creedite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with sharp pointed terminations, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, and light violet in color. The specimen is quite different from those known from this locality in recent years, although in some old collections there are similar specimens from the same source, which coincides with the indications that this find was made in old galleries of the mine.
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.
Navidad Mine, Abasolo, Rodeo, Municipio de Rodeo, Durango  Mexico (10-12/2019)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 6.2 × 5.5 cm = 3.39” × 2.44” × 2.17”

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

TC69AL7: A novelty at Tucson 2019: Spherulitic growths and felty aggregates of Shattuckite with an intense deep color, encompassed in small Quartz crystals that protect them. On matrix with light blue Shattuckite. We highlight, apart from the beauty of the specimen, the presence of crystallized Quartz, a very rare species in Milpillas. We will send the buyer a copy of the Shattuckite analysis.
Milpillas Mine, level 1100, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (01/2019)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 7.1 × 3.9 cm = 3.07” × 2.80” × 1.54”

TE27AL7: Arborescent groups on matrix of primary Malachite crystals between acicular and fibrous, with a silky luster and color changes from bright green to darker green. A different kind of specimen from what is usual from the locality.
Milpillas Mine, level 1100, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (01/2020)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 7.1 × 8.2 cm = 3.78” × 2.80” × 3.23”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3.3 cm = 1.38” × 1.30”

NM27AL7: Complex Sphalerite crystal twinned and translucent with good luster and a dominant toasted honey color. On a matrix of Quartz crystals. Sphalerite is a rarity in the otherwise prolific La Viesca Mine.
This aesthetic specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (nº. 433), whose label we will send to the buyer.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2016)

Specimen size: 8 × 4.1 × 2.8 cm = 3.15” × 1.61” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.8 cm = 0.79” × 0.71”

NB46AL7: Fluorapatite crystals sharp and rich in faces and with perfect terminations. Transparent, lustrous, with an intense and uniform yellow color with slightly greenish reflections. On a volcanic rock matrix together with small white Calcite crystals and lamellar Hematite crystals.
The specimen, a Spanish classic, comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (No. 33), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Nuestra Señora del Carmen Mines, La Celia, Jumilla, Comarca Altiplano, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2003)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 5.7 × 4.2 cm = 2.80” × 2.24” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.4 cm = 0.43” × 0.16”

NJ48AL7: Druse of complex Calcite crystals very rich in faces with clear predominance of the scalenohedron. Of an uniform grey-brown color due to inclusions of Chalcophanite, which also forms the matrix.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (nº. 614), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Herculano Mine, El Puntal, Campos de Golf, Atamaría, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2019)

Specimen size: 9 × 8.9 × 6.5 cm = 3.54” × 3.50” × 2.56”

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

NF98AL7: Group of highly profiled scalenohedral Calcite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and doubly terminated, translucent, with very good luster and size, and with an unusual appearance for the locality, from which no such individual large Calcite scalenohedra are common.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (nº. 281), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2015)

Specimen size: 15.4 × 9.6 × 6 cm = 6.06” × 3.78” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 14.3 × 5.1 cm = 5.63” × 2.01”

NJ50AL7: Group of almost colorless, very slightly bluish crystals of Fluorite, with the extraordinary transparency that characterizes the best specimens from the Emilio Mine. With scalenohedral white Calcite crystals, phantoms, and small Dolomite crystals.
This very perfect specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (No. 215), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2008)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 7.4 × 4.7 cm = 3.78” × 2.91” × 1.85”

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

EG14AL7: Cubic Pyrite crystals with curious stepped projections on the edges, on a group of outstanding tabular Baryte crystals partially covered with small white Siderite crystals with the so-called “saddle” habit.
Rivet Quarry, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France (11/2018)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.6 × 2.6 cm = 1.65” × 1.42” × 1.02”

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

EF36AL7: Globular Pyrite growths composed of multiple cubic crystals, whose faces are perfectly visible. Shiny and on matrix, with lenticular white transparent Calcite crystals with recrystallizations on the prism faces.
Rivet Quarry, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France (11/2018)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.2 × 1.8 cm = 2.60” × 1.65” × 0.71”

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

MA96AL7: Floater group of Pyromorphite crystals many of them doubly terminated, with slight curvatures on the faces and edges, lustrous and with the green color that characterizes the best specimens from this locality.
The specimen comes from the Wendell E. Wilson collection, as attested by the label on the back of the specimen. We will send the buyer the original collection tag.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

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

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.39” × 0.24”

EF99AL7: Gastropod (Helix ramondi) fossilized in Opal-CT (variety lussatite) translucent, with a pearly luster and colors varying from white to sky blue. In its original matrix, without glue or repairs of any kind. Very good quality for the locality, a French classic.
Les Rois Mine, Mur-sur-Allier, Pont-du-Château, Clermont-Ferrand District, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 6.9 × 5.1 × 3.2 cm = 2.72” × 2.01” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.87” × 0.79”

MF27AL7: Very well defined dodecahedral crystals, one of them clearly dominant, lustrous, brown with reddish tones. The crystals, on a Muscovite-rich metamorphic rock matrix, contrary to common practice, are neither glued nor do they have their faces retouched or polished, preserving the natural surface. It is an old piece and comes from the José Navarrete collection.
Ziller Valley (Zillertal), North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol  Austria

Specimen size: 10.4 × 6.1 × 4.8 cm = 4.09” × 2.40” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 6 × 5.4 cm = 2.36” × 2.13”

EH48AL7: Ilvaite crystals with very sharp faces and edges, many of them doubly terminated and with excellent terminal faces. On matrix and with small Quartz crystals. We emphasize how unusual its quality is for this locality where Ilvaite, although well known, very rarely appears in crystals so sharp and of this size.
Serifos Island, Cyclade Islands, Kykládes Prefecture, Aegean Islands Department (Aiyaíon)  Greece

Specimen size: 7.6 × 4.6 × 2.5 cm = 2.99” × 1.81” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1 cm = 1.02” × 0.39”

EF66AL7: Partially new after the Sainte Marie Virtual Show 2020. From a classic Turkish locality but with a different transparency and color, intense yellow-green under focused natural light, but yellower under halogen light and with an easily visible dichroism changing between soft red and green.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 2.7 × 1.2 cm = 3.27” × 1.06” × 0.47”

EV96AL7: Partially new after the Sainte Marie Virtual Show 2020. A doubly terminated and floater crystal with polycrystalline terminations that have intergrowths of Mica (probably Margarite) and small acicular crystals of Rutile. The specimen comes from a classic Turkish locality but is distinguished by its great transparency and color, an intense yellow-green under focused natural light and a more yellow under halogen light and with an easily visible dichroism changing between soft red and green tones.
This specimen has been photographed and published in the front cover of the Bulletin ‘MiniBul A.G.A.B.’ number 3/2021
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 3.3 × 1.5 cm = 3.39” × 1.30” × 0.59”

TL96AL7: Parallel growth of two octahedral crystals beveled by the dodecahedron, very sharp, transparent, colorless and on a matrix of Pyrrhotite.
The specimen comes from the Robert J. Noble collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Second Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 1.02” × 0.87” × 0.71”

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

TR37AL7: Flattened crystal between translucent and transparent with a fibrous appearance and a pearly luster and with curious very aerial polycrystalline recrystallizations. The specimen, of great quality for the species, comes from the prestigious Rock Currier collection (No. 6722), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Pamir Mountains, Viloyati Mukhtori Gorno-Badakhshan  Tajikistan

Specimen size: 10.3 × 2.3 × 0.8 cm = 4.06” × 0.91” × 0.31”

EF94AL7: Very aerial group of sharp flattened Azurite crystals with good luster and translucent edges that transmit a vivid color. With a very curious morphology, it well represents the great quality of the specimens from this locality, unknown until about 2018-2019.
El Fecht prospects, El Fecht, Oumjrane, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2018)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 2.3 × 3.7 cm = 3.27” × 0.91” × 1.46”

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

TF99AL7: Druse of crystals with rhombohedral habit, staggered edges, translucent and very lustrous. An African classic.
Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 7.2 × 2.7 cm = 2.87” × 2.83” × 1.06”

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

ET87AL7: Druse of rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with the so-called “saddle” habit and different shades of mauve, intense and lively and with Heterogenite coatings.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)

Specimen size: 10.6 × 6.2 × 2.2 cm = 4.17” × 2.44” × 0.87”

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

MA27AL7: Andradite crystals (demantoid variety) of good size and with a balance between trapezohedron and rhombododecahedron faces. Between transparent and translucent, with good luster and a very intense and uniform green color. On matrix, with aggregates of small Calcite crystals.
Antetezambato outcrop, Antetezambato, Maherivaratra Commune, Ambanja District, Antsiranana Province  Madagascar (2010)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.4 × 4.7 cm = 2.60” × 2.13” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.1 cm = 0.67” × 0.43”

MD99AL7: Groups of acicular crystals of primary Malachite with a fibrous appearance and a silky luster, very vivid, and with color shade changes from lighter to darker green depending on the area. On matrix, with complex Calcite crystals in which scalenohedron forms predominate. An excellent Namibian classic.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.2 × 2.6 cm = 2.20” × 1.65” × 1.02”

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

TP47AL7: Transparent Elbaite crystal with good luster and a uniform lilac color. We will send the specimen, from a classic Brazilian locality, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, stating that it was previously in the Sullivan collection.
Virgem da Lapa, Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 3 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 1.18” × 0.24” × 0.20”

NC66AL7: Cuboctahedral Galena crystals with a good balance of cube and octahedron faces and shiny hopper growths. On a matrix of Quartz crystals. Excellent quality for the locality.
Palomo Mine, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department  Peru

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4 × 3.5 cm = 2.20” × 1.57” × 1.38”

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

TG37AL7: A novelty from the Sainte Marie Virtual Show 2020. Quartz crystal selectively covered by botryoidal Chrysocolla growths with an intense blue color, slightly greenish tones and very light blue concretions. A 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: 6.5 × 2.7 × 2.6 cm = 2.56” × 1.06” × 1.02”

TB87AL7: A novelty from the Sainte Marie Virtual Show 2020. Quartz crystal selectively covered by botryoidal Chrysocolla growths with an intense blue color, slightly greenish tones and very light blue concretions. A 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: 8.1 × 4.1 × 3.6 cm = 3.19” × 1.61” × 1.42”

EK87AL7: A novelty from the Sainte Marie Virtual Show 2020. Group of Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, covered by botryoidal growths of Chrysocolla with a very intense greenish blue color. A 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: 9.2 × 9.1 × 4.5 cm = 3.62” × 3.58” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 8.3 × 2.7 cm = 3.27” × 1.06”

TD53AL7: Rosette-like growths of very flattened sharp lenticular Hematite crystals with good luster and on a matrix of Quartz crystals. A modern classic which is now scarce due to the disappearance of the locality where they used to be found.
Jinlong Hill, Longchuan, Heyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China

Specimen size: 18.1 × 10.2 × 7.3 cm = 7.13” × 4.02” × 2.87”

TM69AL7: Very aerial and aesthetic specimen with growths of highly stylized Silver crystals, with hooked terminations and lateral twists. The luster and state of preservation are excellent. On matrix with deformed pseudo-octahedral crystals of Acanthite.
Hongda Mine, Xiaoqinggou, Lingqiu, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province  China (10/2017)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.2 × 2.7 cm = 2.87” × 2.05” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 0.2 cm = 1.42” × 0.08”

FF67AL7: Group on matrix of sharp, transparent and very shiny Fluorite crystals with an intense and uniform yellow color. The specimen, from a locality where it is currently difficult to find high quality pieces, comes from the Jan Buma collection (number 020703) whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
May Stone and Sand Quarry (Hoosier Sand and Gravel Quarry), Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana  USA

Specimen size: 5.2 × 5.1 × 2.6 cm = 2.05” × 2.01” × 1.02”

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

FD97AL7: Dodecahedral Fluorite crystal, translucent, with a violet color and good luster, implanted on a Quartz crystal with coatings of small scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
The specimen comes from the Jan Buma collection (number 060501) whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
San Martín Mine, San Martín, San Martín-Sabinas District, Municipio Sombrerete, Zacatecas  Mexico

Specimen size: 5.1 × 1.9 × 2.1 cm = 2.01” × 0.75” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 0.71” × 0.67”

FB66AL7: Small crystals of Fluorite translucent and with a uniform violet color. Implanted on a matrix of white Feldspar crystals (valencianite variety) and transparent and colorless Quartz crystals.
The specimen comes from the Jan Buma collection (number 070502) whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Valenciana Mine, Guanajuato, Municipio Guanajuato  Mexico

Specimen size: 7.3 × 4.5 × 2.8 cm = 2.87” × 1.77” × 1.10”

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

FA37AL7: Group of crystals with good balance between the cube and rhombododecahedron forms, transparent and with a uniform light green color and good luster. With small inclusions of Chalcopyrite, coatings of small white scalenohedral Calcite crystals and on a Sphalerite matrix. The specimen comes from the Jan Buma collection (number 070301) whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Naica Mine, Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua  Mexico (±2007)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5.3 × 4 cm = 2.20” × 2.09” × 1.57”

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

FJ47AL7: Small complex crystals of Fluorite, colorless, transparent and very lustrous. On a matrix of manganese oxides and with scalenohedral Rhodochrosite crystals, a rare association.
The specimen comes from the Jan Buma collection (number 041205) whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyón Province, Lima Department  Peru (±2004)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.4 × 2.8 cm = 1.46” × 0.94” × 1.10”

FL89AL7: Very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, with good luster and a uniform violet color much more intense on the edges. On a matrix of water-clear Quartz crystals partially covered with small white Dolomite crystals. The specimen comes from the Jan Buma collection (number 040704) whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2004)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 8.4 × 6.1 cm = 3.82” × 3.31” × 2.40”

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

FQ68AL7: Clusters of very sharp and shiny Fluorite crystals, sky-blue in color with distinct phantoms and covered with small white Dolomite rhombohedra that also appear as inclusions inside some of the Fluorite crystals.
The specimen comes from the Jan Buma collection (number 070403), whose base with the locality and the collection number we will send to the buyer but not the usual Jan Buma collection card, since in this case we do not have it.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China

Specimen size: 12.3 × 6 × 8 cm = 4.84” × 2.36” × 3.15”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.67” × 0.59”