May 2022 Update

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JFD126AO5: Not all the pieces in a collection have to be 'top'. There are pieces like this, that without being anything special, you like them. Because of their shape, or because it was one of the very first ones found, or whatever. A collection can have anything, it is enough that we like it! 😉
Oficarsa Quarry, De las Culebras Hill, Carchelejo, Cárcheles, Comarca Sierra Mágina, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (2000)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.6 × 1.7 cm = 1.10” × 1.02” × 0.67”

JFD127AO5: Specimens from the Josefa-Veneros vein always have that special air, even the smallest ones. So different...
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.7 × 1.5 cm = 1.46” × 1.06” × 0.59”

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

JFD128AO5: From the first years of exploitation of the Emilio Mine, which amazed us all for the clarity of its Fluorite crystals and for having some other good quality species associated with it, as in this case Chalcopyrite, very lustrous and shiny.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2005)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.7 × 2.2 cm = 1.65” × 1.06” × 0.87”

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

JFD129AO5: What to say about specimens from the El Horcajo mining district that has not already been said? Always attractive, always special, with that color and that fibrous structure. A delight.
This one in particular was photographed by the much-missed Bocamina magazine and appears on page 64 of Volume 13, published in April 2004.
El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1914)

Specimen size: 3 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 1.18” × 0.91” × 0.71”

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

JFD130AO5: Bought from a well-known collector in Murcia in 1994, I was right to buy it since the Victoria Mine, although prolific, does not usually produce specimens as fine as this one, very clean and with a lot of definition to the crystals, not very large, but more individualized than on other pieces from that mine. The color, as is often the case with Victoria's barytes, is excellent.
Victoria Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, El Estrecho de San Ginés, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (04/1994)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 6.6 × 5.8 cm = 4.41” × 2.60” × 2.28”

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

JFD131AO5: The Panasqueira mines have been active for many years and even in 1964 notable specimens were already coming out. Somewhat different from the current ones, but also attractive. In this case, the Arsenopyrite has a different crystal habit from the one we usually see today and an Arsenopyrite-Chalcopyrite-Cassiterite-Sphalerite association that is not normally seen today either, and yet it is still easy to recognize the Panasqueira signature.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1964)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.7 × 3 cm = 3.03” × 2.24” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2 cm = 0.94” × 0.79”

JFD132AO5: Imiter's proustites are not widely recognized in the world of collecting because very large crystals are not found there, but they can have high quality, both because of how sharp the crystals are and because of their luster and color, which are both extraordinary in this piece.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2006)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 7.1 × 3.2 cm = 3.39” × 2.80” × 1.26”

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

JFD133AO5: Relatively recently found and very showy, these scalenohedral Calcite crystals, with the most concentrated color at the base of the crystals, have something as unreal.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2013)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5.1 × 3 cm = 2.24” × 2.01” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.20” × 0.12”

JFD134AO5: This is one of the first fluorites I saw from the El Hammam Mine, which at that time was off limits, in a very isolated place. It was an adventure to find out where the deposit really was, go there, and get specimens from the miners, although the specimens were almost always very beaten up due to the miners' lack of knowledge. Things have changed a lot since then and the current miners are much more careful. This is the one I was able to save for my collection from that remote time.
El Hammam, Ait Mimoune, Khémisset Province, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Region  Morocco (1985)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 9.1 × 3.7 cm = 4.41” × 3.58” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.9 cm = 0.94” × 0.75”

JFD135AO5: With a bad reputation for containing a lot of mercury (kongsbergite variety), if carefully protected from light they do not turn black and they retain that slightly reddish tone so characteristic of Imiter. With some matrix, very good size and that arborescent appearance, it is still a remarkable specimen despite the 32 years that have passed since it was found and I bought it.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (1990)

Specimen size: 13.3 × 9.5 × 2.9 cm = 5.24” × 3.74” × 1.14”

TMA96AO5: Benitoite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and of very large size for the species, with sharp crystal forms, translucent, with good luster and an intense blue color, with some paler areas. On matrix, with white Natrolite and lustrous Neptunite crystals with good terminations. A piece of high quality due to the size of the Benitoite crystal, and from the type locality for the species.
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: 5.2 × 5 × 3.8 cm = 2.05” × 1.97” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3 cm = 1.46” × 1.18”

TFM47AO5: Very aerial group of good sized native Copper crystals with sharp and lustrous crystal forms, with darker coatings of Tenorite in some areas, and with small complex Calcite crystals with inclusions of the same Copper.
Kearsarge Mine, Kearsarge, Houghton County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 11.2 × 8.7 × 4.4 cm = 4.41” × 3.43” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.8 cm = 0.98” × 0.71”

TDM71AO5: Group on matrix of water-clear and very sharp Quartz crystals, some, including the main one, doubly terminated, lustrous, and with phantom growths perfectly outlined by small spherulitic inclusions of Muscovite. The specimen comes from a locality not widely disclosed in European collecting.
PC Mine, Cataract District , Jefferson County, Montana  USA

Specimen size: 10.1 × 7.4 × 6 cm = 3.98” × 2.91” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 5 × 2.4 cm = 1.97” × 0.94”

TLP97AO5: Witherite crystals formed by a thick prism and very flattened and slightly curved rhombohedral terminations with marked polycrystalline growths, translucent, and yellow in color. On matrix with Calcite and Fluorite crystals. A very characteristic specimen for this classic locality, both for the USA and for the species.
Minerva I Mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois  USA

Specimen size: 11.3 × 9.7 × 6.7 cm = 4.45” × 3.82” × 2.64”

TFL26AO5: Botryoidal growth of Mimetite, translucent, with orange color and on matrix. The specimen comes from a Mexican locality that is little known to collectors.
Bilbao Mine, La Blanca, Ojocaliente Municipality, Zacatecas  Mexico

Specimen size: 7 × 4.7 × 3.3 cm = 2.76” × 1.85” × 1.30”

BBR46AO5: Aggregate on matrix of elongated crystals of Brochantite that form groups of parallel growths, with good terminations, very sharp, with bright luster and a very deep color.
Due to their characteristics, in our opinion, they can be considered among the best known specimens for the species.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (07-08/2014)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.8 × 4.7 cm = 2.83” × 2.28” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.12”

NFF66AO5: Group of rhombohedral crystals of Calcite on matrix, with well defined faces, with curvatures on the edges, translucent, with good luster and a reddish color, more intense than usual for the locality, due to inclusions of iron oxides.
The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, put together an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of northern Spain.

Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 11.2 × 7.2 × 4.3 cm = 4.41” × 2.83” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.2 cm = 1.34” × 0.87”

NFY67AO5: Trapezohedral crystals of Grossular (variety hessonite) with very sharp crystal forms, transparent, extraordinarily lustrous, on a matrix covered by small Chlorite crystals.
Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec  Canada

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.61” × 1.02” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.47” × 0.35”

NAY13AO5: Small sharp Arsenopyrite crystals, lustrous and on matrix, with gray Jamesonite and aggregates of white Valentinite crystals with Senarmontite. A Spanish rarity that we have analyzed and for which we will send a copy of the analyses of the Valentinite, the Senarmontite and the Jamesonite to the buyer.
Carlés-Norte cut, Carlés Mine, Ballotal-El Fuxaco, Carlés, Salas, Comarca Valle del Narcea, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2002)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.4 × 1.7 cm = 2.40” × 1.73” × 0.67”

NLA27AO5: Reticulated growth of flattened and elongated prismatic crystals of Cerussite. The crystals, twinned and with good terminations, are translucent and have a satin luster.
The specimen comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes (number CER-50) whose label we will send to the buyer.
Luis Mine, Norte vein, Del General Mines, Cabezarrubias del Puerto, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (11/04/2014)

Specimen size: 3 × 2 × 0.8 cm = 1.18” × 0.79” × 0.31”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 0.7 cm = 1.02” × 0.28”

NLA64AO5: Group of Sphalerite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, very lustrous and with small groups of Calcite.
The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, managed to collect many rarities from urban and peri-urban areas of northern Spain, very little disclosed before in the mineral collecting world.

Malaespera Mine, Barrio de la Peña, Bilbao, Comarca Gran Bilbao, Vizcaya / Bizkaia, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 1.10” × 0.71” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.63”

NLL16AO5: Iron-bearing Dolomite crystals with a very pronounced saddle shape, with strong curvatures and polycrystalline growths, with good luster and a color between light brown and pink, on matrix.
The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, managed to collect many rarities from urban and peri-urban areas of Northern Spain, very little disclosed before in the mineral collecting world.
El Covarón mines, Covarón (Kobaron), Muskiz, Comarca Gran Bilbao, Vizcaya / Bizkaia, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain

Specimen size: 10 × 7.8 × 3.1 cm = 3.94” × 3.07” × 1.22”

NEA97AO5: Pyrite crystal with a very sharp parallelepiped shape, lustrous, undamaged and very aerial on its matrix. No repairs or reinforcements.
The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, put together an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of northern Spain.
Valdeperillo, Cornago, Comarca Arnedo, La Rioja  Spain

Specimen size: 8.2 × 6.7 × 3.9 cm = 3.23” × 2.64” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.3 cm = 1.57” × 0.51”

NBF76AO5: Orthoclase crystal with very sharp faces and edges and a very well defined double Baveno-Manebach twin.
The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, put together an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of northern Spain.
Bustarviejo, Comarca Sierra Norte, Community of Madrid  Spain

Specimen size: 7.6 × 3.3 × 2.8 cm = 2.99” × 1.30” × 1.10”

NBZ46AO5: Sharp Microcline crystal with distinct and smooth crystal forms, salmon pink, on matrix, with doubly terminated, transparent, lustrous and very deep colored Quartz crystals (smoky variety) associated with white Albite crystals.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (09/2007)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 6.1 × 6.8 cm = 3.27” × 2.40” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 7.8 × 5.7 cm = 3.07” × 2.24”

TRX89AO5: Group of doubly terminated crystals with very balanced pyramidal and prismatic shapes, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, with hydrocarbon inclusions, some of them mobile. A Spanish classic of good size and in good condition.
La Cabaña, Valdelmar, Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 10.3 × 9.2 × 6.6 cm = 4.06” × 3.62” × 2.60”

Main crystal size: 7.7 × 5.2 cm = 3.03” × 2.05”

NLB27AO5: Very aerial group on matrix of crystals with a sharp cubic shape, very transparent, lustrous and completely colorless.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.6 × 3 cm = 1.89” × 1.81” × 1.18”

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

NFH59AO5: Druse on matrix of transparent Fluorite crystals, with good luster and a bright yellow color, and partially covered by polycrystalline Pyrite growths. The specimen corresponds to relatively recent finds of fluorites with Pyrite in Minas de Villabona (not to be confused with the Moscona Mine)
Villabona Mines, Barrio de la Estación, Villabona, Llanera, Comarca del Nora, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2010)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.3 × 2.8 cm = 1.50” × 1.30” × 1.10”

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

NFG14AO5: Druse on matrix of transparent Fluorite crystals, with good luster and a bright yellow color, and partially covered by polycrystalline Pyrite growths. The specimen corresponds to relatively recent finds of fluorites with Pyrite in Minas de Villabona (not to be confused with the Moscona Mine)
Villabona Mines, Barrio de la Estación, Villabona, Llanera, Comarca del Nora, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.3 × 6.3 × 4.8 cm = 3.66” × 2.48” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.20” × 0.12”

TLB96AO5: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, with good luster and a honey-yellow color and with very distinct geometric zoning outlined by oriented Pyrite inclusions, concentrated especially around the edges.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9 × 8.2 × 2.3 cm = 3.54” × 3.23” × 0.91”

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

NBM70AO5: Group of cubic crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with polycrystalline growths on the edges, very transparent, with good luster and a light blue color on the peripheral areas and with different shades of intense violet, with geometric zoning that forms a phantom growth.
An excellent Spanish classic.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2015)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.9 × 3.3 cm = 1.93” × 1.93” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.4 cm = 1.57” × 1.34”

NCT88AO5: Group of Fluorite crystals with fine polycrystalline growths on the edges, transparent, with good luster and a blue color with green tones, on a matrix of scoriaceous Quartz with small crystallized vugs. Unusual looking for the locality.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2010)

Specimen size: 11.3 × 9.4 × 5.1 cm = 4.45” × 3.70” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 3.1 cm = 1.30” × 1.22”

NNR86AO5: Very aerial and aesthetic growth of Fluorite crystals beveled by dodecahedron faces, transparent, with good luster and a color between violet and blue, with geometric zoning of more intense tones. The specimen, with its numerous very transparent crystals, is a Spanish classic of excellent quality.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2010)

Specimen size: 14.7 × 14.5 × 8.4 cm = 5.79” × 5.71” × 3.31”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.3 cm = 0.87” × 0.51”

TMB66AO5: Floater group of acute rhombohedral Calcite crystals with sand inclusions. An excellent French classic.
Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.6 × 2.9 cm = 2.20” × 1.42” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.3 cm = 1.26” × 0.91”

TMA14AO5: Floater group of acute rhombohedral Calcite crystals with sand inclusions. An excellent French classic.
Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.3 × 3 cm = 2.01” × 1.69” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.1 cm = 0.94” × 0.83”

TMC96AO5: Floater group of acute rhombohedral Calcite crystals with sand inclusions. An excellent French classic.
Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.8 × 2.9 cm = 2.13” × 1.50” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 1.4 cm = 1.14” × 0.55”

TMD27AO5: Floater group of acute rhombohedral Calcite crystals with sand inclusions. An excellent French classic.
Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.1 × 3.5 cm = 1.73” × 1.61” × 1.38”

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

ETF88AO5: Group of Fluorite crystals, one of them dominant, very sharp, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform lemon-yellow color, selectively covered by small water-clear Quartz crystals. Thanks to their color, brilliance and crystal size, these are among the best French fluorites. A discovery due to the hard work of amateurs, recovered in an unexpected place, the Four de Cluzel mine, now abandoned.
Four de Cluzel Mine, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France (04-08/2018)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 6.6 × 3 cm = 2.91” × 2.60” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 5.7 × 4 cm = 2.24” × 1.57”

ECA86AO5: Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform lemon-yellow color, selectively coated by small water-clear Quartz crystals. Owing to their color, brilliance and crystal size, these are among the best French fluorites. A discovery due to the hard work of amateurs, recovered in an unexpected place, the Four de Cluzel mine, now abandoned.
Four de Cluzel Mine, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France (04-08/2018)

Specimen size: 14.6 × 9.5 × 7.1 cm = 5.75” × 3.74” × 2.80”

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

EGX53AO5: Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform lemon-yellow color, selectively coated by small water-clear Quartz crystals. Owing to their color, brilliance and crystal size, these are among the best French fluorites. A discovery due to the hard work of amateurs, recovered in an unexpected place, the Four de Cluzel mine, now abandoned.
Four de Cluzel Mine, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France (04-08/2018)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 9 × 5.1 cm = 4.41” × 3.54” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 7.4 × 6.2 cm = 2.91” × 2.44”

TVA92AO5: Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform lemon-yellow color, selectively coated by small water-clear Quartz crystals. Owing to their color, brilliance and crystal size, these are among the best French fluorites. A discovery due to the hard work of amateurs, recovered in an unexpected place, the Four de Cluzel mine, now abandoned.
Four de Cluzel Mine, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France (04-08/2018)

Specimen size: 13.3 × 9.1 × 4.7 cm = 5.24” × 3.58” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 3.5 cm = 1.73” × 1.38”

TTB10AO5: Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform lemon-yellow color, selectively coated by small water-clear Quartz crystals. Owing to their color, brilliance and crystal size, these are among the best French fluorites. A discovery due to the hard work of amateurs, recovered in an unexpected place, the Four de Cluzel mine, now abandoned.
Four de Cluzel Mine, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France (04-08/2018)

Specimen size: 15.1 × 11.8 × 5 cm = 5.94” × 4.65” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.1 cm = 1.57” × 1.22”

TZL48AO5: Short prismatic Pyromorphite crystals, many of them totally or partially doubly terminated, translucent, with good luster and a uniform green color with yellow hues. On a sandstone matrix.
A high-quality rarity for the locality.
Beim Stollen Mine, Tanzfleck, Freihung, Amberg-Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate/Oberpfalz, Bavaria/Bayern  Germany

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.1 × 2.9 cm = 2.44” × 2.01” × 1.14”

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

BLL70AO5: Centered fan-shaped groups of acicular Stibnite crystals, with excellent luster and an intense bluish metallic iridescence, on matrix, with Quartz. A Czech classic from an important collection.
Příbram, Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia  Czech Republic

Specimen size: 14.9 × 10.1 × 4.7 cm = 5.87” × 3.98” × 1.85”

TLP27AO5: Very aerial group of crystals of Quartz with the typical tapered profile of Seriphos specimens, translucent, with a uniform green color (prase variety) due to inclusions of pyroxenes. On matrix.
Serifos Island, Cyclade Islands, Kykládes Prefecture, Aegean Islands Department (Aiyaíon)  Greece

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.8 × 6.3 cm = 2.87” × 2.28” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 1.1 cm = 1.50” × 0.43”

NFB76AO5: Grossular crystals (variety hessonite) with dominant trapezohedron forms together with minor rhombododecahedron forms, transparent, with great luster and a very deep color. On matrix, with tabular Clinochlore crystals with a hexagonal outline, and small pale green prismatic Diopside crystals.
Lanzo Valleys (Valli di Lanzo), Metropolitan City of Turin Province, Piedmont (Piemonte)  Italy

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.9 × 2 cm = 2.01” × 1.54” × 0.79”

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

CCB14AO5: Group of very sharp pseudohexagonal crystals of Aragonite, one of them clearly dominant, with very distinct channels and dissolution forms, translucent, and with a uniform snow-white color.
This specimen comes from the collection of Carles Curto (duplicates), whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Cianciana Mines, Cianciana, Agrigento (Girgenti) Province, Sicily  Italy (±1976)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.0 × 2.6 cm = 2.17” × 1.57” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 2.9 cm = 1.42” × 1.14”

NVX68AO5: Isolated Sulphur crystals with very sharp crystal forms and with polycrystalline growths, translucent, with good luster and a very vivid color. On a matrix of Calcite microcrystals.
The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, put together an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of northern Spain.
Agrigento (Girgenti) Province, Sicily  Italy

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.6 × 3.7 cm = 3.31” × 2.60” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.3 cm = 0.98” × 0.91”

TLM96AO5: Druse of very sharp rhombohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite, with good luster and a uniform pink color, associated with very lustrous, black, twinned Sphalerite crystals.
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District  Kosovo (2000-2021)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.8 × 2.7 cm = 2.28” × 1.50” × 1.06”

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

TFA66AO5: Shiny cubo-octahedral Galena crystals, with very sharp crystal forms, on matrix, with very sharp and lustrous Arsenopyrite crystals and small rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystals.
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District  Kosovo (2000-2021)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.4 × 4.2 cm = 3.31” × 2.13” × 1.65”

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

TXA86AO5: Group of very sharp and extraordinarily shiny Pyrite crystals, with coatings of lenticular rhombohedral Calcite crystals, translucent, lustrous, and white in color with geometric zoning on the edges.
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District  Kosovo (2000-2011)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 5.4 × 4.3 cm = 2.99” × 2.13” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.7 cm = 1.02” × 0.67”

TGG46AO5: Group of very sharp Pyrite crystals, shiny and with a very uniform iridescence of bronze tones, lustrous, on matrix, associated with Quartz crystals and small lenticular rhombohedral Calcite crystals.
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District  Kosovo (2000-2021)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 6 × 3.5 cm = 4.21” × 2.36” × 1.38”

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

TBR96AO5: Twinned Cassiterite crystals, with very sharp crystal forms, lustrous, on matrix, with Quartz crystals. A classic English example of the "old school", very difficult to find today.
Camborne - Redruth - Saint Day District, Cornwall  England / United Kingdom

Specimen size: 9.4 × 7.8 × 4.4 cm = 3.70” × 3.07” × 1.73”

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

TVR90AO5: Group of very sharp tabular Baryte crystals, translucent, lustrous, white in color and partially covered by white microcrystals of Quartz. An excellent English classic, very difficult to find nowadays.
The specimen comes from the famous collection of Lindsay Greenbank.
Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite, Keswick, Allerdale District, former Cumberland, Cumbria  England / United Kingdom

Specimen size: 11.4 × 9.1 × 4.3 cm = 4.49” × 3.58” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 6.7 × 2.2 cm = 2.64” × 0.87”

NLR67AO5: Two doubly terminated Fluorapatite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with good luster and a yellow-green color, on a matrix of pink Calcite.
The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, put together an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of northern Spain.

Slyudyanka (Sludyanka), Lake Baikal area, Irkutsk Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6 × 3.2 cm = 3.03” × 2.36” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 1 cm = 1.61” × 0.39”

LFY94AO5: Cuboctahedral Galena crystals, very shiny, on matrix, with twinned Sphalerite crystals and lustrous trapezohedral Chalcopyrite crystals.
This 'museum size' specimen comes from the collection of Philippe Morelon (number 780), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 21 × 16 × 7.5 cm = 8.27” × 6.30” × 2.95”

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

TBX14AO5: Parallel growths and polycrystalline forms of very sharp tabular Vanadinite crystals, translucent and with an intense and uniform color.
Unusual quality for the locality.
Tadaout, vein 12, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 3 × 2.1 cm = 1.26” × 1.18” × 0.83”

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

TMR46AO5: Groups and isolated crystals of Vanadinite, many of them doubly terminated, with a short prismatic habit, sharp crystal shapes and some hopper terminations.Translucent, with an intense and uniform color and on a matrix of manganese oxides.
Unusual quality for the locality.
Tadaout, vein 12, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.7 × 3 cm = 1.81” × 1.46” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.4 cm = 0.31” × 0.16”

TFB96AO5: Groups and isolated crystals of Vanadinite, many of them doubly terminated, with a short prismatic habit, sharp crystal shapes and some hopper terminations.Translucent, with an intense and uniform color and on a matrix of manganese oxides. Unusual quality for the locality.
Tadaout, vein 12, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.7 × 3 cm = 1.65” × 1.46” × 1.18”

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

TBB16AO5: Isolated globular aggregates of Vanadinite formed of very sharp tabular crystals, with an intense color and luster, dispersed on a matrix of manganese oxides.
Unusual quality for the locality.
Tadaout, vein 12, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 3.6 × 3.5 cm = 2.83” × 1.42” × 1.38”

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

TMA66AO5: Groups and isolated crystals of Vanadinite, many of them doubly terminated, with a short prismatic shape, translucent, with an intense and uniform color and on a matrix of manganese oxides.
Unusual quality for the locality.
Tadaout, vein 12, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 6 × 5.8 × 4.4 cm = 2.36” × 2.28” × 1.73”

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

TRR86AO5: Parallel growths and polycrystalline forms of Vanadinite whose habit varies from tabular to short prismatic, very sharp, translucent, with an intense and uniform color and on a Quartz matrix with manganese oxides. Unusual quality for the locality.
Tadaout, vein 12, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.4 × 3.4 cm = 2.28” × 2.13” × 1.34”

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

TVL47AO5: Parallel growths and polycrystalline forms of Vanadinite whose habit varies from tabular to short prismatic, very sharp, translucent, with an intense and uniform color and on a Quartz matrix with manganese oxides.
Unusual quality for the locality.
Tadaout, vein 12, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 6.2 × 5.8 cm = 3.27” × 2.44” × 2.28”

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

TMF47AO5: Spheroidal aggregates of Vanadinite crystals with a short prismatic habit. Translucent, with an intense and uniform color and on an unusual matrix of weathered rhombohedral Siderite crystals.
Unusual quality for the locality.
Tadaout, vein 12, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 6.2 × 4.2 cm = 3.39” × 2.44” × 1.65”

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

TFR71AO5: A floater piece with very good size of parallel growths and polycrystalline forms of skeletal Vanadinite crystals, translucent and with an intense and uniform color.
Unusual quality for the locality.
Tadaout, vein 12, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 10.1 × 6.8 × 5.4 cm = 3.98” × 2.68” × 2.13”

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

EXJ92AO5: Very stylized parallel growth of octahedral Gold crystals, with a very sharp crystal morphology, a very distinct spinel-law twin and a hooked termination.
This 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 × 0.5 × 0.3 cm = 1.18” × 0.20” × 0.12”

MZY45AO5: Parallel growth, very stylized, of octahedral Gold crystals, with very sharp crystal morphology and a marked spinel-law twin.
This 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 × 0.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.31” × 0.20”

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

TZD66AO5: Matrix groups of two very distinct generations of Picropharmacolite. The first is made up of groups of microcrystals that form spheres which get their deep red color from the presence of cobalt salts, and the second are centered groups of very pale pink, almost white, acicular crystals.
The specimen, from a 2021 find in the Bou Azzer area, has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Bou Azzer Mine, Bou Azzer mining district, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4 × 2.9 cm = 2.60” × 1.57” × 1.14”

EGB93AO5: Centered, fan-shaped groups of flattened Erythrite crystals that are translucent, with good luster and an intense, deep and uniform color. On matrix.
Excellent Moroccan classic from the historical times of the great Bou Azzer mine.
Bou Azzer Mine, Bou Azzer mining district, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 10.1 × 6.2 × 3.4 cm = 3.98” × 2.44” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 0.5 cm = 0.94” × 0.20”

TEX14AO5: Parallel growths of large profiled tabular Baryte crystals, with very well defined faces and edges; translucent, very lustrous and with a marked geometric zoning. Overall very aesthetic.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 11.4 × 10.8 × 5.4 cm = 4.49” × 4.25” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 9 × 4.5 cm = 3.54” × 1.77”

TRB27AO5: Very sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and a uniform green color adn with inclusions. On a matrix of white Quartz crystals that do not seem to have been acid-etched, showing a very "fresh" appearance.
Riemvasmaak, Orange river area, Kakamas, ZF Mgcawu District, Northern Cape Province  South Africa

Specimen size: 8.4 × 5 × 3.1 cm = 3.31” × 1.97” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.9 cm = 0.55” × 0.35”

TGR69AO5: Druse of flattened rhombohedral Smithsonite crystals, almost lenticular, very sharp, translucent, with good luster and a uniform pale cream color.
Great quality for Berg Aukas.
Berg Aukas, Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.2 × 3 cm = 2.28” × 2.05” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.59” × 0.31”

BFR37AO5: Druse of rhombohedral Smithsonite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with good luster and a uniform green color (cuprosmithsonite variety)
With aerial growths that built up on neat Cerussite crystals. It is a very fine specimen that comes from an important collection.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 12.8 × 8.3 × 5.2 cm = 5.04” × 3.27” × 2.05”

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

NFB48AO5: Beryl crystal (aquamarine variety) with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, lustrous, sea-green in color and with inclusions. On matrix, with aggregates of lamellar Muscovite crystals.
The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, put together an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of northern Spain.

Alto do Giz pegmatite, Equador, Parelhas, Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5.4 × 6.3 cm = 3.07” × 2.13” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 6.5 × 5.5 cm = 2.56” × 2.17”

TFF67AO5: Parallel growths of Calcite crystals with very sharp prism forms, terminated by flattened rhombohedron faces, transparent, lustrous, with very pronounced phantom growths, colorless and with pink inclusions.
Leiping Mine, Leiping, Guiyang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China

Specimen size: 9.3 × 8.6 × 6.6 cm = 3.66” × 3.39” × 2.60”

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

TVR93AO5: Very aerial and aesthetic growth of sharp rhombohedral crystals of Calcite, colored red by inclusions of iron oxides. A small part on the back of the piece has been sawn off.
Leiping Mine, Leiping, Guiyang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±11/2021)

Specimen size: 13.4 × 9.6  6.8 cm = 5.28” × 3.80”

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

TBL27AO5: A novelty on the 2022 market. Very aerial arborescent Silver growths, with a very distinct spinel-law twin plane and with small Calcite crystals that differentiate it from the classic Hongda silvers.
These pieces come from a find made in a small gold working, currently closed, and from which until now there was no evidence that such good silvers could be found there.

Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.5 × 3.5 cm = 2.05” × 1.38” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.08”

TBM88AO5: A novelty on the 2022 market. Very aerial arborescent Silver growths, with a very distinct spinel-law twin plane and with small Calcite crystals that differentiate it from the classic Hongda silvers.
These pieces come from a find made in a small gold working, currently closed, and from which until now there was no evidence that such good silvers could be found there.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.5 × 2.8 cm = 2.64” × 1.77” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 0.3 cm = 1.02” × 0.12”

TXF73AO5: A novelty on the 2022 market. Very aerial arborescent Silver growths, with a very distinct spinel-law twin plane and with small Calcite crystals that differentiate it from the classic Hongda silvers.
These pieces come from a find made in a small gold working, currently closed, and from which until now there was no evidence that such good silvers could be found there.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 7.1  × 6 × 3.9 cm = 2.80” × 2.36” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 0.1 cm = 1.73” × 0.04”

BLA86AO5: Very sharp octahedral crystal of Spinel (ruby spinel variety), whose growth appears flattened by one of the faces being more developed than the rest. Between transparent and translucent, with good luster and a very vivid and uniform red color, on Calcite matrix.
Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 5 × 4.5 cm = 2.01” × 1.97” × 1.77”

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

MNX87AO5: Isolated Zunyite crystal, a rare aluminum sorosilicate and fluoride, on a Hematite matrix. The crystal, tetrahedral and beveled on the faces of the cube, has very well defined and smooth faces. With a color between reddish and dark brown and with lamellar Hematite inclusions, which distinguish it from the first Iranian zunyites found.
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (07/2019)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.02” × 0.98” × 0.79”

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

EJB27AO5: Floater and partially doubly terminated Stibnite crystal, with good terminations and parallel growths with slight twists, lustrous, and finely vertically striated. High quality for the deposit.
Eleanora Mine (Hillgrove Mine), Hillgrove, Sandon County, New South Wales  Australia

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.9 × 2.1 cm = 2.60” × 1.93” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.94” × 0.08”