Post-Tucson Virtual 2022 Update

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JFD85AO1: As I have commented on other occasions, a collection is a set and not only of selected pieces, but it can also have modest pieces to simply represent a locality. This very isolated Galena crystal is representative and, furthermore, its matrix is very white, which gives it a certain contrast.
Galena's mine, Vegacervera, Comarca Ribera del Torío, León, Castile and León  Spain

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4 × 3.6 cm = 1.65” × 1.57” × 1.42”

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

JFD87AO1: The color and luster are amazing. Although not on matrix, due to the transparency, intensity of color and good definition of the crystal, I have seen few of such quality. A very old piece in my collection, I bought it from the historic Andrés Puente in 1979. Andrés was the one who had the best Áliva pieces at that time.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2022, page 74
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (1979)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 4.4 × 3.4 cm = 3.78” × 1.73” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 5.1 × 3.8 cm = 2.01” × 1.50”

JFD88AO1: A watermark piece. Very transparent, with a small matrix of tiny quartzes that gives it less of a “floater” appearance than these Berbes quartzes usually have.
Of course, hydrocarbon inclusions are present too, but in a very minor role, so as not to take away the beauty of the piece...
La Cabaña, Valdelmar, Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1987)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 1.85” × 1.50” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.4 cm = 0.91” × 0.55”

JFD89AO1: The Josefa-Veneros vein yielded many fluorites and although they typically exhibit large cubes with color zoning on the edges of the crystals, rough, with dodecahedral faces and predominantly violet colors, there can be notable variations within this pattern, as in this case, in which the color is much bluer than usual, as well as its high transparency that makes it different from the usual Josefa-Veneros standards but no less beautiful for that.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1970-75)

Specimen size: 8 × 5.6 × 2.5 cm = 3.15” × 2.20” × 0.98”

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

JFD90AO1: One of the myths of Berbes is that there are also light blue fluorites like those from La Viesca and this piece is one of the very few proofs of this. The characteristic leafy Baryte clearly proves its origin, as well as a small violet rim of 'Berbes color' on the edges of the crystals and small doubly terminated quartzes on the rear of the piece.
I got the piece from Martín Oliete at the Bilbao Fosminer Show in 1995, and he could only tell me that he had it for 'a long time' and that he did not know in which part of Berbes it had been found. Legend says that these blue fluorites came out in the Valdelmar area, but for this piece we are not able to be sure.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 8.6 × 8 × 3.4 cm = 3.39” × 3.15” × 1.34”

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

JFD91AO1: These columnar fluorapatites are called in Panasqueira “hydroxylapatites”, unfortunately without any foundation since all the ones I have had analyzed were all textbook fluorapatites. This does not stop them from being very showy, as this one is, and very different from the usual patterns.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±2005)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.3 × 2.6 cm = 1.69” × 1.30” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 0.2 cm = 0.83” × 0.08”

JFD92AO1: I do feel a little love for the siderites of Panasqueira. With much less fame than other mineral species from this mine, its variety of forms and its frequent association with other species always attracted me. This specimen well represents what I want to say - The crystal is sharp, its color is pleasant and it shows in its center a kind of growth phantom of trigonal symmetry. In addition, it is associated with Muscovite and Arsenopyrite, both of good quality.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (03/1995)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.1 × 2.6 cm = 2.44” × 2.01” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 5.1 × 4.2 cm = 2.01” × 1.65”

JFD93AO1: Calcite with an intense color, very characteristic of those that came out many years ago in the Bou Azzer Mine.
I bought it from Ali Moudoud when he, along with his brother, practically controlled all the specimens that came out of the mines in the Bou Azzer area. Those were very difficult years but, in a way, also exciting and attractive.
Bou Azzer Mine, Bou Azzer mining district, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (09/1994)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.1 × 0.9 cm = 1.42” × 1.22” × 0.35”

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

JFD94AO1: For many years the best Erythrite in my collection. Although the color of the Erythrite is so attractive, it has never been easy to obtain attractive collection specimens since it is difficult to find pieces with well-developed crystals and well-arranged on the matrix. It has accompanied me since 1988 when I got it, and I hope it finds a place where its new owner appreciates it as much as I have until now.
Bou Azzer Mine, Bou Azzer mining district, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1992)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 5.8 × 2 cm = 3.23” × 2.28” × 0.79”

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

TMP14AO1: Botryoidal aggregate of Strontianite microcrystals, with a slightly satiny luster and an intense and uniform pink color.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Saint-Dominique, Les Maskoutains RCM, Montérégie Region, Québec  Canada

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.2 × 1.7 cm = 1.34” × 0.87” × 0.67”

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

TQA47AO1: Druse on matrix of Grossular crystals (hessonite variety), with very sharp trapezohedron crystal forms, transparent, with extraordinary luster and an intense and uniform color.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label, stating that it was previously in the Sullivan collection.

Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec  Canada

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.1 × 2.5 cm = 1.34” × 0.83” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.35” × 0.28”

TTR9AO1: Complete floater pentadodecahedral Pyrite crystal, with very sharp crystal forms, something unusual in specimens from this locality in which combined forms predominate.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label, stating that it was previously in the Melanson collection.

Ambas Aguas (Ambasaguas), Muro de Aguas, Comarca Arnedo, La Rioja  Spain

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

TXF96AO1: Complete octahedral floater Cuprite crystal, very sharp, with parallel growths, good luster, intense reddish sparkling reflections on the edges and related small Copper crystals.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.79” × 0.63”

TAM16AO1: Very sharp and shiny disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystal, with Arsenopyrite crystals and on a metallic matrix,
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Sarbaiskoe deposit, Rudny, Kostanay Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.4 × 1.9 cm = 1.26” × 0.94” × 0.75”

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

TXF26AO1: Single crystal of Cerussite, very sharp and with unusually sharp terminations. Transparent, very lustrous and colorless.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.

Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.87” × 0.39” × 0.28”

TLB66AO1: Group on matrix of rhombohedral Smithsonite crystals, two of them clearly dominant, very sharp, between transparent and translucent, with very bright luster and an intense and uniform mauve color (cobalt-bearing variety)
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label, stating that it was previously in the Sullivan collection.

Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.3 × 1.5 cm = 1.06” × 0.91” × 0.59”

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

TRM96AO1: Very sharp pyramidal Wurtzite crystals, translucent, with good luster and reddish color. On matrix, with Quartz crystals.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.

Pachapaqui mining district, Pachapaqui, Aquia District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department  Peru

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.91” × 0.87” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.3 cm = 0.67” × 0.51”

TCR6AO1: Floater group of two thick tabular crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very sharp crystal forms, yellowish brown color and lustrous.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.

Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2 × 1.4 × 0.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.55” × 0.24”

TGB13AO1: Doubly terminated Quartz crystals, with very well defined parallel growths, transparent, with good luster and an intense smoky color with darker zoning on the terminations. On a colorless Quartz matrix.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.

Mooralla, Southern Grampians Shire, Victoria  Australia

Specimen size: 3.6 × 1.8 × 1.4 cm = 1.42” × 0.71” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.55”

CPM86AO1: Groups on matrix of very sharp rhombohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite. Transparent, with great luster and an intense pink color.
Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (±1986)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.2 × 2.1 cm = 1.69” × 1.26” × 0.83”

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

CCB56AO1: Vug of acicular Aurichalcite crystals, in some areas of the specimen forming centered aggregates, with a bright luster and intense bluish green color. On a limonite matrix.
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango  Mexico (±1986)

Specimen size: 5 × 3 × 2.4  cm = 1.97” × 1.18” × 0.94”

CBF71AO1: Group of Copper crystals, cubic with octahedral faces, lustrous, and with excellent definition (for the species) on faces and edges.
Very aesthetic specimen from a Mexican locality that has provided few quality specimens.

Veta Rica Mine, Sierra Mojada mining district, Municipio Sierra Mojada, Coahuila (Coahuila de Zaragoza)  Mexico (±1987)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.0 × 5.4 cm = 3.31” × 1.97” × 2.13”

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

CDP63AO1: Group of very sharp tabular Celestine crystals, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and a uniform light blue color. A Spanish classic.
Minerama II claim, Puente Tablas, Jaén city, Jaén, Comarca Metropolitana de Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (±1984)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5 × 4 cm = 2.48” × 1.97” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.1 cm = 1.06” × 0.43”

CMN27AO1: Very sharp double floater twin of flattened Cerussite crystals with sharp, transparent, lustrous and colorless terminations. A high quality Tsumeb classic.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia (±1973)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.3 × 2.1 cm = 1.73” × 1.30” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 2.1 cm = 1.54” × 0.83”

CMP68AO1: Doubly terminated floater crystal of Elbaite (verdelite variety) with very flattened shapes and transparent. With great luster and an intense and uniform green color.
Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.3 × 0.7 × 0.3 cm = 2.87” × 0.28” × 0.12”

CPQ37AO1: Doubly terminated Elbaite crystal with very sharp crystal forms and perfect terminations, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, and zoned in two halves, green at the top and pastel pink tones at the bottom. On matrix, with Quartz crystals and lamellar 'lepidolite' crystals.
Mawi Pegmatite, Nilaw-Kolum, Du Ab District, Nuristan Province  Afghanistan (±1991)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.2 × 2.2 cm = 1.22” × 0.87” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 0.5 cm = 1.10” × 0.20”

MML91AO1: Spheroidal growths of Smithsonite. On matrix, translucent, with an intense satiny luster for the species and an intense and uniform bluish green color. The mineral's banded growth is visible on the side. An excellent American classic.
Kelly Mine, Magdalena, Magdalena District, Socorro County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 9.5 × 6 × 3.6 cm = 3.74” × 2.36” × 1.42”

TMF99AO1: Dipyramidal Cumengeite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with great luster and an intense color. A rarity, from the type locality for the species,
Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico

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

NTB86AO1: Radial groups of Adamite crystals on limonite matrix, translucent, with good luster and an intense yellow color. A Mexican classic.
The specimen comes from the Carlos Prieto Paramio collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango  Mexico

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.4 × 2.4 cm = 2.17” × 1.73” × 0.94”

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

NNP87AO1: Spheroidal growths of Adamite crystals on a limonite matrix, translucent, with a bright luster and intense yellow color with green hues. The specimen, very aerial, has the curiosity of some crystals that seem to be individualized from the group. They are transparent and have very sharp crystal forms.
The specimen comes from the Carlos Prieto Paramio collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango  Mexico

Specimen size: 7.1 ×  3.2 × 1.9 cm = 2.80” × 1.26” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.1 cm = 0.75” × 0.43”

MBB56AO1: Very sharp Wardite crystals, with a dipyramidal shape, translucent, on matrix and with some of their faces partially covered by small Childrenite crystals.
Stoneman Mountain, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon Territory  Canada (07/1995)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.97” × 1.46” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.51” × 0.39”

NRB96AO1: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, with good luster and an intense honey-yellow color with a very evident geometric zoning outlined by oriented Pyrite inclusions, especially on the edges.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2019)

Specimen size: 12.7 × 8.7 × 2.6 cm = 5.00” × 3.43” × 1.02”

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

NMR27AO1: Crystal of Fluorite on a small matrix and beveled by the dodecahedron. With very marked polycrystalline growths, translucent, lustrous and with geometric color zoning that varies between lilac and violet.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2010)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 7 × 4.4 cm = 2.99” × 2.76” × 1.73”

NAB88AO1: Very aerial groups of Fluorite crystals with smooth cube faces, beveled by dodecahedron faces and with polycrystalline growths. Translucent, with good luster, a very deep and intense color and with geometric color zoning. On matrix partially covered by Quartz crystals.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2010)

Specimen size: 18.8 × 9.8 × 4.3 cm = 7.40” × 3.86” × 1.69”

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

EXF14AO1: Botryoidal growth, with a particularly intense and uniform blue color, covering a rock matrix. It comes from a little known locality.
The specimen was from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.

Germs-sur-l'Oussouet, Argelès-Gazost, Hautes-Pyrénées Département, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.6 × 2.1 cm = 2.13” × 1.81” × 0.83”

EPP76AO1: Botryoidal growths of Aragonite with an extraordinary color, which varies between the deepest violet and mauve, which contrast with a second generation of Aragonite with a white color.
The specimen comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Les Cabesses, Rivèrenert, Saint-Girons, Ariège Department, Occitanie  France (2017)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3 × 0.6 cm = 2.44” × 1.18” × 0.24”

EXH37AO1: Group of flattened Azurite crystals on matrix, with great luster and an intense and deep color. With iron oxides and Malachite coatings. Of the best possible quality and size for the deposit.
The specimen comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Le Moulinal Mine, Saint-Jean-de-Jeannes, Alban, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.8 × 4.1 cm = 2.52” × 1.89” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1 cm = 0.67” × 0.39”

EEF47AO1: Group of Fluorite crystals with polycrystalline growths on some of their faces, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, pale green in color with geometric zoning of a more intense tone on the edges. It is an old piece and therefore its appearance and quality are different from what was found later in the mine. Excellent for the locality.
Mont-Roc Mine, Mont-Roc, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 9.4 × 7.8 × 3.2 cm = 3.70” × 3.07” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.2 cm = 0.94” × 0.87”

EQM13AO1: Very aerial coralloidal growths of Aragonite with an uniform sky-blue color that coexists with areas of white Aragonite. The specimen, from a well known French locality, has a more intense color than usual in specimens from this provenance.
A French classic that comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.

Arrigas Mines, Arrigas, Le Vigan, Gard Department, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4.1 × 1.3 cm = 1.65” × 1.61” × 0.51”

ERB47AO1: Calcite crystals, on matrix, in which the forms of a prism and the terminal rhombohedron predominate. The crystals are translucent to transparent, lustrous, and have a uniform yellow color and very visible scalenohedral phantom growths inside. Of excellent quality for the deposit.
This specimen was exhibited in the exhibition ¨Les Malines et les mines des Cévennes”, at the Musée Cévenol, in Vigan, Gard, in 2014, and comes from the collection of Alain Martaud, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Anduze Quarry, Anduze, Alès, Gard, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 14.8 × 9.5 × 4.6 cm = 5.83” × 3.74” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 1.8 cm = 1.10” × 0.71”

ELP66AO1: Botryoidal growths in the cavities of a limonitic matrix of lustrous Olivenite microcrystals with an intense deep green color. The specimen comes from one of the great classic localities for the species.
From the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.

Cap Garonne Mine, Le Pradet, Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur  France

Specimen size: 7.9 × 5.8 × 4.7 cm = 3.11” × 2.28” × 1.85”

ELT16AO1: Vug with Celestine crystals with a prismatic habit, sharp, transparent, lustrous, and light blue in color. The specimen, from a little-known locality, comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Oppedette, Reillanne, Forcalquier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur  France (±1978)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.8 × 4.7 cm = 2.52” × 1.89” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.7 cm = 0.59” × 0.28”

EBT47AO1: Group, on a small matrix, of Pyromorphite crystals, some of them doubly terminated. With sharp crystal forms, with parallel growths and very deep hopper terminations, with a very bright luster and a simply extraordinary “Farges green” color.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.83” × 0.63” × 0.59”

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

EBY57AO1: Floater group of short prismatic Azurite crystals, almost equant, with very sharp crystal forms, good luster and a more vivid blue color than usual for the locality. The classic French type locality for the species.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2005-2009)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.1 × 2.4 cm = 1.61” × 1.22” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.71”

EFM14AO1: Centered aggregates on matrix of acicular Orthoserpierite crystals, with bright luster and a bluish green color. The specimen, a rare hydrated calcium, copper and zinc sulfate, is from the type locality for the species and comes from the collection of Alain Martaud, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 6.9 × 5 × 3.9 cm = 2.72” × 1.97” × 1.54”

ETT66AO1: Group of tabular twinned Bournonite crystals, with very sharp crystal forms, of a good size for the species, lustrous, and on a base of Tetrahedrite crystals.
This specimen comes from a locality from which few specimens of this quality are known, and was in the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage, Vizille, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.30” × 0.98” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 0.4 cm = 0.75” × 0.16”

EJK99AO1: Octahedral Fluorite crystals, translucent, with good luster and a uniform pink color. On a parallel growth of partially doubly terminated Quartz crystals (smoky variety). An alpine classic which comes from the Ginette Verax collection.
Mont Blanc Massif, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.1 × 1.5 cm = 1.61” × 1.22” × 0.59”

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

EJL2AO1: Matrix group of complex equant Calcite crystals, with very sharp scalenohedron and flattened rhombohedron forms, very aerial, translucent and lustrous. The specimen has a light pink hue, is of high quality and is very different from what is generally known from this locality, since it comes from the first very superficial prospecting in an area relatively far from the current workings. As an added documentary detail, the name of the person who found it, a miner named Lucien Schaguene, has been preserved. Exceptional for the locality.
Largentière Mines, Largentière, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (±1970)

Specimen size: 10 × 8.5 × 6.6 cm = 3.94” × 3.35” × 2.60”

Main crystal size: 5.9 × 5 cm = 2.32” × 1.97”

EPR46AO1: Quartz crystals with small Hematite crystals forming a 'cast' (coating) with very bright crystalline forms of Hematite in the inner part of that 'cast'.
A classic from the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines area.
Bernardstein, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Colmar-Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est  France

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.1 × 2 cm = 2.91” × 1.61” × 0.79”

ERW86AO1: Arborescent growth of Copper crystals with the dominant crystal forms of the octahedron, almost completely pseudomorphed by Malachite, with a very deep green color. From a virtually unknown deposit in the world of collecting.
Mérétrice Mine, Diahot River Valley, Northern Province, New Caledonia  France

Specimen size: 7 × 2.7 × 0.8 cm = 2.76” × 1.06” × 0.31”

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

MFM89AO1: A very aerial floater group of sharp Pyrite crystals, with a slightly flattened habit and an uncommonly intense luster. This very aesthetic specimen is from a classic Italian locality for the species, but from which there are not many quality specimens.
Niccioleta Mine, Massa Marittima, Grosseto Province, Tuscany  Italy

Specimen size: 8.4 × 7.8 × 3.6 cm = 3.31” × 3.07” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2 cm = 1.26” × 0.79”

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”

EPR16AO1: Druse with water-clear Calcite crystals, with the dominant forms of the prism and very acute scalenohedral terminations, sharp and very lustrous. An excellent English classic, both for the morphology and for the deposit.
The specimen is accompanied by a very old label from the Comptoir Central d'Histoire Naturelle, a business founded by the naturalist Nerée Boubée (1806-1862) in Paris, and has several collection numbers and an old label with the number 325 glued to its back.

Bigrigg Mine, Bigrigg, West Cumberland Iron Field, former Cumberland, Cumbria  England / United Kingdom

Specimen size: 11.7 × 9.9 × 6.7 cm = 4.61” × 3.90” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.2 cm = 0.63” × 0.47”

ARM36AO1: Very aerial group, on matrix, of thick tabular Vanadinite crystals, with very bright luster and a very vivid and uniform red color. The specimen comes from the Lluís Daunis collection.
ACF Mine, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 3 × 2.4 × 1.7 cm = 1.18” × 0.94” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.51” × 0.39”

EPR66AO1: Group of Roselite crystals larger than usual with very well defined faces and edges and marked curvatures. With an intense deep color and very good luster. On matrix, with Calcite.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.1 × 2.9 cm = 1.93” × 1.61” × 1.14”

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

EXM27AO1: Complete octahedral floater crystal of Senarmontite, with sharp crystal forms. The crystal has extraordinary dimensions, both for the species and for the deposit, the type locality for this mineral.
Djebel Hammimat Mine, Aïn Babouche, Oum El Bouaghi Province  Algeria

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2.1 × 1.7 cm = 0.91” × 0.83” × 0.67”

EFF73AO1: Divergent group of Quartz crystals with a very well defined La Gardette habit, completely water-clear and very lustrous. The world famous quartzes from Corinto have an impressive aesthetic and even more so when, as in this case, they are perfect floaters.
Corinto, Curvelo, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 10.1 × 8.4 × 4.8 cm = 3.98” × 3.31” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 7.3 × 1.7 cm = 2.87” × 0.67”

MMR37AO1: Rosettes of very sharp tabular 'Pearceite' crystals with a hexagonal outline and extraordinary luster. On matrix, with small white Calcite crystals and small Chalcopyrite coatings.
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyón Province, Lima Department  Peru (±2008)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 2.44” × 1.50” × 1.26”

MXB29AO1: Floater group of octahedral Gold crystals, very elongated due to the formation of parallel growths. An especially aesthetic specimen.
Santa Elena de Uairén, Gran Sabana, Bolívar State  Venezuela

Specimen size: 1.3 × 1.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.51” × 0.51” × 0.08”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.15 cm = 0.39” × 0.06”

MRM99AO1: Arborescent growth of octahedral Gold crystals, with very sharp and elongated crystal forms.
Santa Elena de Uairén, Gran Sabana, Bolívar State  Venezuela

Specimen size: 2.1 × 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.83” × 0.28” × 0.20”

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

MJK94AO1: Skeletal crystals and leafy growths of Gold, very lustrous and with good contrast to their rock matrix. The specimen comes from a discovery a few years ago in a mining district of Colombia that was little known until now.
From the Raúl Sanabria collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Potosí claim, La Tosca cut, Municipio Vetas, Soto Province, Santander Department  Colombia (2021)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 3.9 × 3.5 cm = 2.80” × 1.54” × 1.38”

MXM99AO1: Group of very sharp Veszelyite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with very bright luster and an extraordinarily intense and uniform color. On matrix with white globular Hemimorphite growths that partially cover small Quartz crystals. High quality for the species.
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 4 × 2.7 × 3.2 cm = 1.57” × 1.06” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16”

TAX15AO1: Botryoidal growth of Plumbogummite with a very deep and intense greenish blue color and with velvety surfaces that cover a matrix of yellow Pyromorphite crystals. Both the Plumbogummite and the Pyromorphite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of both analyses to the buyer.
Yangshuo / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.75” × 0.71” × 0.47”

MHZ90AO1: Botryoidal aggregate of translucent Plumbogummite with a very vivid and uniform blue color. On Quartz matrix with Pyromorphite impregnations. Both the Plumbogummite and the Pyromorphite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of both analyses to the buyer.
Yangshuo / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (02/2014)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.6 × 3.3 cm = 3.03” × 2.60” × 1.30”

NMR97AO1: Very aesthetic group of Quartz crystals elongated by parallel growths, with good luster and an intense green color (prase variety), probably due to inclusions of Actinolite and/or Hedenbergite. Becomes clearer and more translucent, until reaching colorless, in the terminations.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2019)

Specimen size: 14.8 × 10.6 × 5.8 cm = 5.83” × 4.17” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 0.8 cm = 1.73” × 0.31”

EFB74AO1: Acute rhombohedral Cinnabar crystals, twinned, doubly terminated, of a very considerable size, very aerial and on a matrix with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals and small water-clear Quartz crystals. Great quality.
Tongren Mine, Tongren, Tongren Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China

Specimen size: 4 × 3.1 × 2.6 cm = 1.57” × 1.22” × 1.02”

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

MFF94AO1: Two large, extraordinarily sharp, translucent, rhombohedral Calcite crystals with fine Hematite coatings that are in turn coated by very lustrous and completely colorless Quartz microcrystals. Extraordinary aesthetics.
Liangxi mining district, Datian, Sanming Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 9.8 × 7 cm = 4.88” × 3.86” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 5.7 × 5.6 cm = 2.24” × 2.20”

GHT91AO1: Stalactitic and globular growths of Fluorite, very aerial and aesthetic, translucent and with a very deep blue color. Some of the growths were interrupted, probably due to contact with the rock walls of the vein, as evidenced by the relicts of Quartz that emerge from the Fluorite, which they most likely served as guides during their growth.
The specimen comes from the collection of Casado Margolles, (number FRM-259) whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Guxian, Tongbai, Nanyang Prefecture, Henan Province  China (±2007)

Specimen size: 16 × 11.4 × 7.8 cm = 6.30” × 4.49” × 3.07”

Main crystal size: 10 × 3 cm = 3.94” × 1.18”

NTX74AO1: Very aerial bipyramidal crystal of Powellite of very good size. Sharp, with very well defined parallel growths, translucent, with good luster and a light cream color and on a matrix of pink Stilbite-Ca crystals. High quality for the species.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.2 × 3.3 cm = 2.64” × 1.65” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.46” × 0.98”