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TXB66AP9: Andradite (variety demantoid) with Diopside

Andradite crystals (demantoid variety) on matrix. One of them is clearly dominant and large, with very sharp trapezohedron and dodecahedron forms, translucent, lustrous, and of an intense deep green color. Also noteworthy is the abundance of crystals, since these Iranian demantoids usually occur as isolated crystals.
Belqeys Mountain, Takab, West Azerbaijan Province Iran
Specimen size: 8.6 × 8.3 × 4.2 cm = 3.39” × 3.27” × 1.65”
Price: €1500 / US$1597 / ¥244740 / AUD$2460

TC80TL: Andradite (variety topazolite) with Clinochlore

Andradite crystals (variety topazolite) with the dominant crystal forms of the rhombohedron, with accessory cube and trapezohedron faces. Translucent, with a bright luster and very uniform honey-yellow color. On a rock matrix, with small spheroidal aggregates of Clinochlore of a very deep green color, almost black. An American classic.
Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California USA (11/1998)
Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.81” × 1.50” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.08” × 0.08”
Price: €80 / US$85 / ¥13050 / AUD$130

TC85TE: Andradite (variety topazolite) with Clinochlore

Andradite crystals (variety topazolite) with the dominant crystal forms of the rhombohedron, with accessory cube and trapezohedron faces. Translucent, with a bright luster and very uniform honey-yellow color. On a rock matrix, with small spheroidal aggregates of Clinochlore of a very deep green color, almost black. An American classic.
Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California USA (11/1998)
Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.2 × 2.2 cm = 1.81” × 1.26” × 0.87”
Price: €85 / US$90 / ¥13860 / AUD$130

T29NAK3: Andradite (variety topazolite) with Clinochlore

Andradite crystals (topazolite variety) with the dominant crystal forms of the rhombohedron, combined with cube and trapezohedron faces, transparent, very bright and uniform honey-yellow. On a rock matrix, with abundant spheroidal aggregates of very deep green, almost black, Clinochlore. An American classic.
Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California USA (11/1998)
Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.2 × 2.9 cm = 3.62” × 2.83” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.08” × 0.08”
Price: €240 / US$255 / ¥39150 / AUD$390

TC85TV: Andradite (variety topazolite) with Clinochlore

Andradite crystals (variety topazolite) with the dominant crystal forms of the rhombohedron, with accessory cube and trapezohedron faces. Translucent, with a bright luster and very uniform honey-yellow color. On a rock matrix, with small spheroidal aggregates of Clinochlore of a very deep green color, almost black. An American classic.
Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California USA (11/1998)
Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.1 × 1.4 cm = 1.46” × 1.22” × 0.55”
Price: €85 / US$90 / ¥13860 / AUD$130

T89GH5: Andradite (variety topazolite) with Clinochlore

This variety of Andradite is from the plentiful (and the only one known to date) find in the Yellow Cat Mine, November, 1998. It has a surface rich with dodecahedra with very well-defined faces and edges, bright and having an excellent color.
Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California USA (11/1998)
Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.2 × 3.2 cm = 2.56” × 1.65” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”
Price: €220 / US$234 / ¥35890 / AUD$360

TQ94Q0: Andradite (variety topazolite) with Stilbite

A novelty at Tucson 2010. Druse on matrix of crystals very rich of faces, with the dominant forms of the dodecahedron and the trapezohedron and brown color, slightly greenish. Their luster is extraordinary and they are with small white concretions of Stilbite. The Topazolite variety has been well defined on this kind of samples and this will be reflected in a future article in The Mineralogical Record.
Antetezambato outcrop, Antetezambato, Maherivaratra Commune, Ambanja District, Antsiranana Province Madagascar (05-06/2009)
Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.2 × 2.9 cm = 3.43” × 2.83” × 1.14”
Price: €980 / US$1043 / ¥159890 / AUD$1600

SM140TFV: Andradite on Microcline

Dodecahedral Andradite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with well defined faces and edges, with good luster and a very deep reddish brown color evident especially on the edges. On a Microcline matrix.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2021)
Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.2 × 1.7 cm = 2.24” × 1.65” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.51”
Price: €140 / US$149 / ¥22840 / AUD$220

HM140NG: Andradite with Calcite

Very aerial group of Andradite crystals with polycrystalline growths on its lustrous faces. Significantly larger and sharper than usual for this locality. Partially included on a Calcite matrix.
Cala Mines, Cala, Comarca Sierra de Huelva, Huelva, Andalusia Spain
Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.7 × 3.4 cm = 2.17” × 1.85” × 1.34”
Price: €140 / US$149 / ¥22840 / AUD$220

GM66R9: Andradite with Clinochlore

Group of dodecahedral crystals slightly beveled by trapezohedral faces and partially coated by Clinochlore.
Vizze Valley, Bolzano Province, Trentino-Alto Adige (Trentino-Südtirol) Italy (±1984)
Specimen size: 7.8 × 5.2 × 3.8 cm = 3.07” × 2.05” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.28” × 0.16”
Price: €160 / US$170 / ¥26100 / AUD$260

SM70TYW: Andradite with Epidote

Dodecahedral Andradite crystals with trapezohedral faces, lustrous, on matrix, with small acicular Epidote crystals.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2021)
Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.2 × 2.7 cm = 2.60” × 1.65” × 1.06”
Price: €70 / US$74 / ¥11420 / AUD$110

TC290TVH: Andradite with Epidote and Microcline

Rhombododecahedral Andradite crystals, with good luster and a very deep reddish brown color, especially evident on the edges. On a Microcline matrix, with small acicular crystals of transparent Epidote with a pistachio-green color.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2021)
Specimen size: 8.1 × 3.4 × 4.7 cm = 3.19” × 1.34” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”
Price: €90 / US$95 / ¥14680 / AUD$140

SV190TZM: Andradite with Epidote, Albite and Titanite

Group of very sharp dodecahedral Andradite crystals, interpenetrating, with well defined faces and edges, fine polycrystalline surfaces, with good luster and a very deep brown color, with a second generation of Andradite crystals of smaller size but very sharp, orange and translucent, accompanied by crystals of Epidote, Albite and Titanite.
Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan) Pakistan (±2011)
Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.1 × 3.1 cm = 1.50” × 1.22” × 1.22”
Price: €190 / US$202 / ¥31000 / AUD$310

ETP67AQ1: Andradite with Feldspar

Very sharp dodecahedral Andradite crystal, black in color and very large, on which some aesthetic 'watermarks' of lighter tones are superimposed, for which we are unaware of the cause. The specimen, with fragments of Feldspar matrix, comes from a find in May 2023 in the Imilchil area.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (05/2023)
Specimen size: 4.6 × 4 × 4 cm = 1.81” × 1.57” × 1.57”
Price: €260 / US$276 / ¥42420 / AUD$420

TKX11AO7: Andradite with Microcline

Black, rhombododecahedral Andradite crystal beveled by trapezohedron faces, lustrous, on a matrix of small Microcline crystals.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2021)
Specimen size: 8 × 4.9 × 3.1 cm = 3.15” × 1.93” × 1.22”
Price: €70 / US$74 / ¥11420 / AUD$110

TC2100TEJ: Andradite with Microcline

Rhombohedral Andradite crystals, with good luster and a very deep reddish brown color. On a Microcline matrix.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2021)
Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.2 × 2.1 cm = 1.89” × 1.65” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.2 cm = 0.63” × 0.47”
Price: €100 / US$106 / ¥16310 / AUD$160

TH16AN2: Andradite with Microcline

Very aerial group of dodecahedral Andradite crystals, sharp, lustrous, on a Microcline matrix.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2021)
Specimen size: 5 × 4.4 × 2.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.73” × 1.06”
Price: €110 / US$117 / ¥17940 / AUD$180

TQ96AN2: Andradite with Microcline

Brilliant dodecahedral Andradite crystals, with a very deep reddish brown color, on a Microcline matrix.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2021)
Specimen size: 8.7 × 5.6 × 2.4 cm = 3.43” × 2.20” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.39” × 0.35”
Price: €220 / US$234 / ¥35890 / AUD$360

TF48AF2: Anglesite

A group of very sharp elongated Anglesite crystals, between translucent and transparent, very bright and with plenty of dark Galena inclusions.
An excellent Italian classic that is with a label of the Eugeni Bareche collection (number 744).
Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Sud Sardegna Province, Sardinia/Sardegna Italy (03/1979)
Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.6 × 2.5 cm = 2.52” × 1.81” × 0.98”
Price: €380 / US$404 / ¥62000 / AUD$620

MA47AL4: Anglesite with Galena

Group of Anglesite crystals, two of them clearly dominant, rich in faces, much more transparent and lustrous than usual for the locality and on a matrix of granular Galena. A European classic both for the species and the locality.
The specimen comes from an old WWII era German collection. Along with the specimen we will send the buyer the old label.
Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Sud Sardegna Province, Sardinia/Sardegna Italy
Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.1 × 2.6 cm = 2.09” × 1.61” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”
Price: €220 / US$234 / ¥35890 / AUD$360

LQ88AE6: Anglesite with Galena

Pair of short blocky crystals, one of them clearly dominant and partially doubly terminated, with very well defined dipyramidal terminations. The crystals, between transparent and translucent, have an intense lemon-yellow color, are very bright and they are on a Galena matrix.
The sample is from the Carles Millán collection whose catalog card we’ll send to the buyer.
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (±2001)
Specimen size: 5.4 × 4 × 2.4 cm = 2.13” × 1.57” × 0.94”
Price: €360 / US$383 / ¥58730 / AUD$590

ER90AL8: Anglesite with Galena

Extraordinarily elongated dipyramidal Anglesite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and doubly terminated, translucent, with a slightly yellowish white color and on a granular and microcrystalline Galena matrix. A rare Monteponi classic. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Sud Sardegna Province, Sardinia/Sardegna Italy
Specimen size: 12.1 × 7.6 × 7.5 cm = 4.76” × 2.99” × 2.95”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 0.5 cm = 0.94” × 0.20”
Price: €540 / US$575 / ¥88100 / AUD$880

GV96R9: Anhydrite with Calcite and Pyrite

A fanlike group of flat prismatic crystals. They have uniform sky blue color and good terminations.
Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua Mexico (±1987)
Specimen size: 14 × 7.7 × 3.6 cm = 5.51” × 3.03” × 1.42”
Price: €220 / US$234 / ¥35890 / AUD$360

EFA14AQ0: Aragonite

Floater group of twinned Aragonite crystals, with a thick tabular habit, translucent, lustrous and purple. A classic of Spanish mineralogy with higher quality than usual. Unlike most specimens from this find and previous finds, this specimen has not needed to be reinforced to prevent the crystals from separating from each other.
Keuper outcrop, Los Molinillos, Minglanilla, Comarca Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha Spain (12/2022)
Specimen size: 5.4 × 4 × 4 cm = 2.13” × 1.57” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.9 cm = 1.38” × 1.14”
Price: €90 / US$95 / ¥14680 / AUD$140

EFB14AQ0: Aragonite

Floater group of twinned Aragonite crystals, with a short prismatic habit, translucent, lustrous and purple. A classic of Spanish mineralogy with higher quality than usual. Unlike most specimens from this find and previous finds, this specimen has not needed to be reinforced to prevent the crystals from separating from each other.
Keuper outcrop, Los Molinillos, Minglanilla, Comarca Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha Spain (12/2022)
Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.5 × 4.2 cm = 2.20” × 1.77” × 1.65”
Price: €90 / US$95 / ¥14680 / AUD$140

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