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TC2240DKL: Quartz (variety amethyst) and Quartz (variety smoky)

Quartz crystals (amethyst variety), partially doubly terminated and forming scepter growths on Quartz (smoky variety), with traces of a Microcline matrix. It comes from a unique find in a place discovered by Lluís Daunis and later lost. We will send the buyer the autographed label from the Daunis collection.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 10.4 × 6 × 4.3 cm = 4.09” × 2.36” × 1.69”
Price: €240 / US$255 / ¥39150 / AUD$390

EJ97AL0: Quartz (variety amethyst) doubly terminated

Group of doubly terminated Quartz crystals (amethyst variety), with very well defined faces and edges, forming parallel growths. The crystals are translucent and display an intense deep color, deeper at the ends of the crystal. It is getting less and less common to find specimens from this locality, which was worked for only a brief time.
La Francesa Mine, Villa Rafael Benegas (Villa Benegas), Mina Clavero, San Alberto Department, Córdoba Province Argentina (01-06/2002)
Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.4 × 3.7 cm = 2.87” × 2.13” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 6.1 × 3.8 cm = 2.40” × 1.50”
Price: €260 / US$276 / ¥42420 / AUD$420

TC60NG: Quartz (variety amethyst) on Quartz (variety smoky)

Scepter growth of a Quartz crystal (amethyst variety), with parallel growths in the lower part, translucent, with bright luster and an intense color, embedded in a Quartz crystal (smoky variety)
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain (2008)
Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.8 × 3.2 cm = 1.81” × 1.10” × 1.26”
Price: €60 / US$63 / ¥9780 / AUD$90

SV2100TPA: Quartz (variety amethyst) with Calcite

Group of Quartz crystals (variety amethyst) growing preferentially in two directions, on matrix with small globular Calcite crystals, with good luster and uniform color. The specimen comes from finds made in the Capurru quarry during the year 2008.
Capurru Quarry, Osilo, Sassari Province, Sardinia/Sardegna Italy (±2008)
Specimen size: 7.2 × 4.6 × 4.6 cm = 2.83” × 1.81” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.71” × 0.28”
Price: €100 / US$106 / ¥16310 / AUD$160

TPT67AQ1: Quartz (variety amethyst) with Calcite

Isolated crystals of Quartz (variety amethyst), one of them clearly dominant, with parallel growths and some scepters, very transparent, with good luster and a very uniform color. In matrix with small Calcite crystals.
Capurru Quarry, Osilo, Sassari Province, Sardinia/Sardegna Italy
Specimen size: 10.2 × 9.5 × 6.7 cm = 4.02” × 3.74” × 2.64”
Price: €220 / US$234 / ¥35890 / AUD$360

TC740EB: Quartz (variety amethyst) with Calcite and Hematite

Druse of Quartz crystals (amethyst variety) translucent, shiny, and partially covered by two generations of what appear to be Calcite crystals, a first generation with hexagonal outlines, polycrystalline surfaces and a reddish color due to the presence of abundant Hematite crystals, and covered by a second generation of Calcite which formed pale yellow equant crystals.
Mojarra Quarry, La Bolsa area, Artigas Department Uruguay (15/01/2007)
Specimen size: 14.8 × 9.7 × 9.6 cm = 5.83” × 3.82” × 3.78”

Main crystal size: 7.5 × 5 cm = 2.95” × 1.97”
Price: €740 / US$788 / ¥120730 / AUD$1210

BXF92AP4: Quartz (variety amethyst) with Epidote

Druse on matrix of transparent Quartz crystals (amethyst variety), with very bright luster and an intense violet color. There is Epidote on the matrix, very characteristic of old specimens. The specimen comes from an important European collection.
Piedra Parada (Las Vigas), Municipio Tatatila, Veracruz (Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave) Mexico
Specimen size: 14.8 × 12.5 × 2.7 cm = 5.83” × 4.92” × 1.06”
Price: €780 / US$830 / ¥127260 / AUD$1280

NG8AL3: Quartz (variety amethyst) with Microcline

Scepter Quartz crystal (variety amethyst), with parallel growths in the lower parts, translucent, lustrous, and with very intense color. On a Microcline matrix.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain (10/2004)
Specimen size: 3 × 2.4 × 1.6 cm = 1.18” × 0.94” × 0.63”
Price: €45 / US$47 / ¥7340 / AUD$70

NG12S6: Quartz (variety amethyst) with Microcline

Quartz amethyst from the finds of a few years ago, when the workings of the new high-speed train (AVE) crossed a mineralized area of the Montseny Mountains near Barcelona.
Soliva Quarry (AVE Quarry works), Can Sala, Riudarenes, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain (07/2006)
Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.3 × 2.5 cm = 2.44” × 2.09” × 0.98”
Price: €55 / US$58 / ¥8970 / AUD$90

MV27R9: Quartz (variety amethyst) with Quartz

Parallel growth of crystals on a base of white Quartz. Crystals are transparent, bright and have an excellent, very deep, color with color zoning specially concentrated on the edges.
Soliva Quarry (AVE Quarry works), Can Sala, Riudarenes, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain (2006)
Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.5 × 6.2 cm = 3.74” × 2.95” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.8 cm = 1.57” × 1.50”
Price: €225 / US$239 / ¥36710 / AUD$360

3N03: Quartz (variety amethyst) with Quartz (variety smoky)

The most notable thing about these crystals is the way the rhombohedral faces of the termination are much larger than the prism faces. The color is intense and displays unevenly distributed zoning. The back side has re-crystallized.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain (09/2005)
Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.0 × 2.2 cm = 2.68” × 1.97” × 0.87”
Price: €80 / US$85 / ¥13050 / AUD$130

DR96AI8: Quartz (variety amethyst) with Quartz (variety smoky) and Microcline

Scepter polycrystalline growth with one of the crystals clearly dominant. The crystals are translucent, bright and have a diffuse color distribution, very much more intense in the central areas of the crystal. It is from an historic place where the first good quality amethyst finds were made, before the more recent workings.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 7.2 × 5 × 4.8 cm = 2.83” × 1.97” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 6.6 × 5 cm = 2.60” × 1.97”
Price: €190 / US$202 / ¥31000 / AUD$310

SV340NEX: Quartz (variety amethyst) with Siderite

Druse formed by Quartz crystals (amethyst variety), on a Greenalite matrix, with a very short prism, sharp, transparent, with great luster and a very light violet color, dotted with a multitude of light brown Siderite crystals, some more isolated and others forming spherical aggregates, with a satin luster and velvety appearance, very characteristic for specimens from this emblematic deposit in the La Unión mining district, the San Valentine cut.
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: 19.2 × 14.8 × 8.4 cm = 7.56” × 5.83” × 3.31”
Price: €340 / US$362 / ¥55470 / AUD$550

NA70AN2: Quartz (variety amethyst) with Siderite

Druse of Quartz crystals (amethyst variety) with a very short prism, translucent, with good luster and a pale magenta-violet color, partially covered by small groups of Siderite crystals. This piece comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 603) whose label we will send to the buyer. Of exceptional quality for the locality.
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: 19.4 × 13.4 × 7.8 cm = 7.64” × 5.28” × 3.07”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.8 cm = 1.18” × 1.10”
Price: €540 / US$575 / ¥88100 / AUD$880

2M09: Quartz (variety amethyst), Calcite

Crystals and groups of crystals, some of them doubly terminated, very transparent, bright and of a very uniform color, on globular Calcite and matrix. The Quartz exhibits good transparency. The sample is from a recent find on May 1, 2008.
Capurru Quarry, Osilo, Sassari Province, Sardinia/Sardegna Italy (01/05/2008)
Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.3 × 1.7 cm = 1.65” × 1.30” × 0.67”
Price: €60 / US$63 / ¥9780 / AUD$90

9MY17Q1: Quartz (variety amethyst), Quartz (variety smoky), Microcline

Very esthetic Group, with parallel growths and very deep color especially concentrated on the zones near the edges. This type of pieces, in this deposit, correspond in origin to myarolytic cavities, so small cavities within a granitic rock where pneumatolytic minerals has developed, Quartz in this case.
Soliva Quarry (AVE Quarry works), Can Sala, Riudarenes, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain (2005)
Specimen size: 10.5 × 7.0 × 4.0 cm = 4.13”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.46”
Price: €190 / US$202 / ¥31000 / AUD$310

TC260NK: Quartz (variety citrine)

Transparent crystal, with a good natural citrine color, very uniform. A Spanish classic.
Amistad Mine, Villasbuenas, Comarca La Ramajería, Salamanca, Castile and León Spain (08/2004)
Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.1 × 2 cm = 1.73” × 0.83” × 0.79”
Price: €60 / US$63 / ¥9780 / AUD$90

TXA88AO7: Quartz (variety faden quartz) with Chlorite inclusions

Group of very sharp Quartz crystals on matrix with a flattened shape and most of them being doubly terminated. With parallel growths, very lustrous and transparent and with a very visible faden thread and Chlorite inclusions.
Ksar Tassemente, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (01/2020)
Specimen size: 11.7 × 9.4 × 4.1 cm = 4.61” × 3.70” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 6.8 × 3.4 cm = 2.68” × 1.34”
Price: €380 / US$404 / ¥62000 / AUD$620

TMP88AO7: Quartz (variety faden quartz) with Chlorite inclusions

Group of very sharp Quartz crystals, with a flattened habit, one of them clearly dominant and very centered. With parallel growths, partially doubly terminated, very lustrous and transparent and with a very visible faden thread and dendritic Chlorite inclusions.
Ksar Tassemente, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (01/2020)
Specimen size: 13.7 × 7.2 × 3.4 cm = 5.39” × 2.83” × 1.34”
Price: €380 / US$404 / ¥62000 / AUD$620

SV295TMX: Quartz (variety faden)

Group of translucent and very lustrous Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, arranged parallel to each other and oriented preferentially, flattened and doubly terminated, with a very marked longitudinal faden perpendicular to the crystal growth axis. A typical specimen of alpine fissures.
La Lauzière Massif, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France
Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.3 × 1.9 cm = 2.28” × 1.69” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.5 cm = 1.22” × 0.98”
Price: €95 / US$101 / ¥15500 / AUD$150

TC2260EAA: Quartz (variety faden)

Group of water-clear Quartz crystals, one of them dominant with a flattened habit and a very visible "faden" thread. The specimen comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Le Freney-d'Oisans, Oisans-Romanche, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (1980)
Specimen size: 9.3 × 7.7 × 5.6 cm = 3.66” × 3.03” × 2.20”
Price: €260 / US$276 / ¥42420 / AUD$420

R57FV6: Quartz (variety faden)

Very unusual distorted Quartz, extra-flat and apparently with broken areas, although "in person" it is clear that all faces are complete and undamaged.
Lignarre Valley, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (1991)
Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.6 × 1.7 cm = 3.03” × 2.60” × 0.67”
Price: €90 / US$95 / ¥14680 / AUD$140

TC290TMR: Quartz (variety hematoide)

Group of Quartz crystals with good development of crystal forms and with a double distribution of Hematite as both coatings and inclusions, which occupy a good part of the interior of the crystals.
Toufassmame (Izizauen), Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (01/2015)
Specimen size: 5.1 × 5 × 3.9 cm = 2.01” × 1.97” × 1.54”
Price: €90 / US$95 / ¥14680 / AUD$140

ML16AN0: Quartz (variety prase)

Group of Quartz crystals (prase variety) with distinct polycrystalline surfaces, with good luster and a deep and uniform color, and with small Andradite crystals at the base. We will ship the specimen in the original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Second Sovetskii Mine, 230↓, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai Russia
Specimen size: 3.6 × 1.7 × 1.8 cm = 1.42” × 0.67” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1 cm = 1.18” × 0.39”
Price: €110 / US$117 / ¥17940 / AUD$180

MT66AL5: Quartz (variety prase) with Andradite

Very aerial crystals of prase Quartz with polycrystalline surfaces with the typical tapered shape of local specimens, deep in color, on matrix, with small Andradite crystals.
Sinerechenskoe, Primorsky Krai Russia
Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.7 × 3.9 cm = 2.40” × 1.46” × 1.54”
Price: €170 / US$181 / ¥27730 / AUD$270

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