Tucson Show Virtual 2022

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NQQ16AO0: Group of Quartz crystals with Albite, very aerial, translucent and lustrous. From a little-known locality from which not too many specimens have been preserved.
Embalse de Orellana, Orellana la Vieja, Comarca Vegas Altas, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain

Specimen size: 6.9 × 6.6 × 5.4 cm = 2.72” × 2.60” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 1.1 cm = 1.73” × 0.43”

NNB61AO0: Coralloid Calcite growths with two growth phases, the first, with a uniform blue-green color due to inclusions of Copper salts, covered by a later one with finer forms and very pale blue colorations. From a mine that is little known so far.
Santa Isabel Mine, De Enmedio Range, Almendricos, Lorca, Comarca Alto Guadalentín, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (12/2020)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 6.6 × 5.1 cm = 2.91” × 2.60” × 2.01”

NRX16AO0: Floater group of tabular Baryte crystals, one of them clearly dominant, translucent and with an intense and uniform sea-blue color.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (nº 870), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Teresita Mine, Campos de Golf, Atamaría, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.8 × 3.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.50” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.6 cm = 1.22” × 1.02”

NVV26AO0: Group of Quartz crystals on matrix, with a very short prism, translucent, with a very pale amethyst color, coated by a second generation of Quartz (chalcedony variety) and with small spheroidal growths of Siderite.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (nº 768), whose label we will send to the buyer. It was previously in the collection of Mariano Guillén.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5 × 4.4 cm = 2.52” × 1.97” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 2.5 cm = 1.61” × 0.98”

NFG47AO0: Siderite druse covering Galena crystals. The Siderite has spheroidal growths of small rhombohedral crystals with curvatures on their faces and edges, satiny luster and uniform brown color.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (nº 794), whose label we will send to the buyer. It was previously in the collection of Mariano Guillén.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 11.7 × 9.9 × 4.4 cm = 4.61” × 3.90” × 1.73”

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

NTM96AO0: Quartz crystal (smoky variety) very sharp, with parallel growths and very marked steps, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform smoky tone. With Microcline at the base of the crystal.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (nº 853), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (±2015)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 5 × 4.7 cm = 4.53” × 1.97” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 9.7 × 5 cm = 3.82” × 1.97”

NAF72AO0: Very sharp Chalcocite crystals that form very well defined twins, lustrous, with a metallic grey tone. On matrix with coatings of Pyrite microcrystals which are very lustrous and with vivid iridescent metallic tones. The specimen, very unusual, comes from the last find before the final closure of this open pit mine. Specimens from this find have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2022, page 74
Las Cruces Mine, Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain (01/2020)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 10.5 × 8.7 cm = 4.92” × 4.13” × 3.43”

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

NTV64AO0: Fluorite crystals of cubic shape with finely polycrystalline faces, and one of them aerial and clearly dominant, between translucent and transparent, with an intense lilac color, with geometric color zoning, on matrix, and partially covered by small crystals of Quartz.
The specimen, of excellent quality for the locality, comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 580) whose label we will send to the buyer.
San Roque Mine, Alumbres, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.4 × 2.6 cm = 1.46” × 1.34” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.55” × 0.43”

NPA26AO0: Two sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals with small and very well defined cubic polycrystalline recrystallizations, translucent, with good luster and a uniform green color and covered by small water-clear Quartz crystals. Of good quality and size for a deposit from which it is not common to see specimens like this.
Gloria Mine, La Hortezuela, Hornachuelos-Espiel, Comarca Valle Medio del Guadalquivir, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.1 × 3.6 cm = 1.93” × 1.61” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 3.2 cm = 1.65” × 1.26”

NMX14AO0: Very aerial growth of Fluorite crystals with the cube clearly beveled by rhombododecahedron crystal forms, transparent, with good luster and a uniform blue color, with violet hues and fine coatings of Pyrite microcrystals.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 9 × 5.7 × 3.9 cm = 3.54” × 2.24” × 1.54”

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

NPR89AO0: Fluorite crystals with a cubic shape finely beveled by dodecahedron faces, transparent, with good luster and a blue color with areas of very intense violet tones and partially coated by small Quartz crystals. The specimen is of great quality by its transparency and luster.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2008)

Specimen size: 15.7 × 9.8 × 3.8 cm = 6.18” × 3.86” × 1.50”

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

EFX96AO0: Very sharp Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and finely beveled by the dodecahedron, transparent, with good luster and a marked geometric color zoning which varies from lilac to intense violet, and with a group of white lamellar Baryte crystals.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.6 × 3.4 cm = 2.28” × 1.81” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.2 cm = 1.02” × 0.87”

MFT66AO0: Druse of Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit, with very deep dissolution forms that seem to outline the edges of an old large crystal that has disappeared. Transparent, with a marked geometric color zoning which varies from lilac to intense violet and with small coatings of Quartz crystals.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 12.8 × 9.4 × 5 cm = 5.04” × 3.70” × 1.97”

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

TMP26AO0: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, with good luster and a marked geometric color zoning, which varies from lilac to intense violet, and with a very aerial group of white lamellar Baryte crystals. A specimen of great quality.
La Cabaña, Valdelmar, Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 22.5 × 15.8 × 5.7 cm = 8.86” × 6.22” × 2.24”

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

EBR99AO0: Pyromorphite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, some with very deep hopper terminations and many of them doubly terminated. Brilliant, with the characteristic brown-greenish color in Des Farges, on a group of very sharp white Baryte crystals.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 7 × 4.7 × 3.8 cm = 2.76” × 1.85” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.35” × 0.20”

EJB48AO0: Coatings of Pyromorphite crystals with a tapered shape with pyramidal terminations, transparent, with good luster and an intense and uniform green color and covering a matrix of transparent and very lustrous cubic Fluorite crystals. High quality for the deposit.
Chaillac Mine, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire  France

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.1 × 3.2 cm = 1.50” × 1.22” × 1.26”

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

EXM57AO0: Coatings of Pyromorphite crystals with a tapered shape with pyramidal terminations, transparent, with good luster and an intense and uniform green color and covering a matrix of transparent and very lustrous cubic Fluorite crystals. High quality for the deposit.
Chaillac Mine, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire  France

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.2 × 2.1 cm = 2.13” × 1.65” × 0.83”

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

EFT27AO0: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and an intense yellow color with a fine geometric zoning of blue-violet color on the edges. Of great quality for what is known at this mine, it comes from a very limited find.
La Barre Mine, Saint-Jacques-d'Ambur, Pontgibaud, Saint-Ours, Riom, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (09/2020)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 5.5 × 2.4 cm = 2.40” × 2.17” × 0.94”

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

EGB46AO0: Two Fluorite crystals with a not very common flattened shape. Between translucent and brilliant, with white inclusions (most likely Quartz) and a lemon-yellow color that cannot be easily seen as the crystals are covered by an epigenetic growth of water-clear Quartz crystals.
Peyrebrune Mine, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 7.9 × 7.2 × 3.6 cm = 3.11” × 2.83” × 1.42”

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

EFJ50AO0: Group of Fluorite crystals with a cubic shape and polycrystalline forms on some of their faces. Between transparent and translucent, with the particularly intense and uniform blue color characteristic of Puy-St-Gulmier, on the also characteristic base of crystalline Fluorite in lilac tones. The color is really exceptional.
Puy-Saint-Gulmier, Saint-Ours, Riom, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 7.1 × 5 × 5.2 cm = 2.80” × 1.97” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2  cm = 1.18” × 0.79”

EJK96AO0: Group of Fluorite crystals with a cubic shape, very sharp, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and a uniform green color with a geometric growth of a more yellow color. The specimen comes from the Figuier vein, which is reputed to have produced the best quality fluorites in this deposit.
Fontsante Mine, Figuier vein, Tanneron Massif, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur  France

Specimen size: 10.6 × 4.4 × 2 cm = 4.17” × 1.73” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.9 cm = 0.51” × 0.35”

EXA68AO0: Group of Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit, very sharp, transparent, with good luster and a very intense uniform green color and covered by small transparent lamellar Baryte crystals. The specimen comes from the Figuier vein, which is reputed to have produced the best quality fluorites in this deposit.
Fontsante Mine, Figuier vein, Tanneron Massif, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur  France

Specimen size: 10 × 9 × 3 cm = 3.94” × 3.54” × 1.18”

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

TFA16AO0: Fluorite crystals with a cubic shape and stepped edges, translucent, with good luster and an intense violet color, on a Quartz matrix.
This specimen, from a not so usual locality, comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bois le Duc, Foisches, Charleville-Mézières District, Ardennes, Grand Est  France (±1980)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 8.6 × 4.2 cm = 3.70” × 3.39” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.59” × 0.43”

EFA97AO0: Fluorite crystals, on matrix, with dodecahedron and cube shapes, translucent, with a uniform green color with areas of intense violet color.
The specimen, from a not so usual locality, comes from an old French collection.
Bois le Duc, Foisches, Charleville-Mézières District, Ardennes, Grand Est  France

Specimen size: 13.4 × 7.7 × 5.1 cm = 5.28” × 3.03” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2 cm = 1.57” × 0.79”

ETB87AO0: Lenticular and very flattened crystals of Siderite, with the typical curvatures and undulations seen in specimens from this deposit, with good luster and a very light and uniform brown color. On matrix, with Quartz crystals. An excellent French classic.
La Mure coal mines, La Mure, Matheysine-Trièves, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 12.4 × 6.1 × 2.5 cm = 4.88” × 2.40” × 0.98”

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

TTX63AO0: Prehnite crystals on matrix with good development of crystal forms, not very common in this species, translucent, and with a very pale yellowish green color. A rarity both for the locality and for its crystal development.
Radau Valley, Bad Harzburg, Goslar District, Harz, Lower Saxony/Niedersachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 6 × 4.2 × 2 cm = 2.36” × 1.65” × 0.79”

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

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

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

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

MF96AO0: Chalcopyrite crystals of good size, with curvatures on the edges and very well defined polycrystalline growths. Brilliant, and implanted on a matrix of twinned Sphalerite crystals.
Turt Mine, Turt, Negresti-Oas, Oas Mountains, Satu Mare  Romania

Specimen size: 6.7 × 6 × 4.2 cm = 2.64” × 2.36” × 1.65”

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

NRM29AO0: Sphalerite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, in which the forms of the tetrahedron and the polysynthetic twinning typical of this species predominate. On matrix, with fine, very lustrous, water-clear Quartz crystals and small groups of brown rhombohedral Siderite crystals.
Very fine and elegant piece.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.4 × 3.4 cm = 2.05” × 1.73” × 1.34”

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