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Large pineapple-like groups of thick terminated Descloizite crystals, with good luster and dark brown color tones, and of great size. It comes from a classic deposit for the species, Berg Aukas, in Namibia, mined until 1978 for zinc, lead and vanadium.
Berg Aukas, Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region Namibia
Specimen size: 11.4 × 11.2 × 7 cm = 4.49” × 4.41” × 2.76”
Price: €560 / US$596 / ¥91360 / AUD$910

TM67X2: Descloizite

Elongated spheroidal growths, on matrix, of small dipyramidal crystals. They are very bright and have a color between dark brown and reddish brown.
The sample, very significant and of excellent quality for the mine, is with a Schortmann’s Minerals label that we'll send to the buyer.
Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona USA
Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.73” × 1.65” × 1.06”
Price: €220 / US$234 / ¥35890 / AUD$360

NZ63V8: Descloizite with Calcite

Very aerial and esthetic columnar growths of small but extraordinarily defined and bright crystals. Those are dipyramidal and have very well defined faces and edges and most of them are doubly terminated. The matrix is a group of crystals of white Calcite.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo Portugal (2005-2006)
Specimen size: 7.7 × 3.8 × 2.7 cm = 3.03” × 1.50” × 1.06”
Price: €75 / US$79 / ¥12230 / AUD$120

ND26T4: Descloizite with Calcite

Columnar growths of small dipyramidal crystals of Descloizite, partially coated by white crystals of Calcite and on a matrix of limonite.
The specimen has been published in the Chinese magazine ‘Mineral Lover’ on page 6 in the volume 9/2011
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo Portugal (2005-2006)
Specimen size: 7 × 5.7 × 3.8 cm = 2.76” × 2.24” × 1.50”
Price: €125 / US$133 / ¥20390 / AUD$200

NF26J1: Descloizite with Calcite

Group of extraordinarily defined and bright small crystals. These crystals are dipyramidal, of very well defined faces and edges and many of them doubly terminated. In this case Descloizite is the base of a group of scalenohedral crystals of white Calcite.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo Portugal (2005-2006)
Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.9 × 3.7 cm = 2.64” × 2.32” × 1.46”
Price: €125 / US$133 / ¥20390 / AUD$200

NR56T4: Descloizite with Calcite

Aggregate of dipyramidal crystals of Descloizite with very well defined faces and edges and very bright, with crystals of Calcite, between colorless and white, on limonite matrix.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo Portugal (2005-2006)
Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.1 × 4.1 cm = 2.87” × 2.01” × 1.61”
Price: €135 / US$143 / ¥22020 / AUD$220

NY66M9: Descloizite with Calcite

Group, on Limonite matrix, of small crystals, very bright and most of them doubly terminated and forming dipyramids of very well defined faces and edges. The group is partially covered by a "nest" of white crystals of Calcite.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo Portugal (2005-2006)
Specimen size: 7.8 × 7.6 × 4.9 cm = 3.07” × 2.99” × 1.93”
Price: €145 / US$154 / ¥23650 / AUD$230

NK86T4: Descloizite with Calcite

Columnar growths of small dipyramidal crystals of Descloizite with very well defined faces and edges and very bright. On stalagmitic botryoidal growths of Calcite and crystals of the same mineral, clear and very bright.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo Portugal (2005-2006)
Specimen size: 10.9 × 4.3 × 3.4 cm = 4.29” × 1.69” × 1.34”
Price: €185 / US$197 / ¥30180 / AUD$300

NR47I7: Descloizite with Calcite

Group on Limonite matrix of small very bright crystals, most of them doubly terminated, forming dipyramids with very well-defined faces and edges. The specimen is very esthetic because of its attractive crests and vugs. A wide surface of the sample is covered by a layer of acute scalenohedron of white Calcite.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo Portugal (2005-2006)
Specimen size: 14 × 11.8 × 6.2 cm = 5.51” × 4.65” × 2.44”
Price: €490 / US$521 / ¥79940 / AUD$800

VK48AE4: Devilline

Aggregates, on matrix, of well developed lenticular Devilline crystals with a deep and uniform green color. A World classic.
Špania Dolina (Herrengrund), Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region Slovak Republic (2004)
Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.8 × 2.5 cm = 1.77” × 1.50” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”
Price: €290 / US$308 / ¥47310 / AUD$470

ER98AL9: Diaspore

Mostly new after the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual Show, from a classic Turkish locality but with a different transparency and color. The crystal is incomplete at the bottom, but has very sharp polycrystalline upper terminations. It is transparent, lustrous, deep yellow-green in focused natural light and more yellow under halogen lights, with very clearly visible dichroism shifting between soft red and green.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region Turkey (2020)
Specimen size: 5.7 × 1.8 × 1 cm = 2.24” × 0.71” × 0.39”
Price: €360 / US$383 / ¥58730 / AUD$590

EL26AM2: Diaspore

Two crystals of Diaspore, one of them clearly dominant, with good terminal faces and recrystallization forms. The crystals are transparent, very lustrous, and have an intense and uniform greenish yellow color.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region Turkey (2020)
Specimen size: 7 × 4.1 × 3.1 cm = 2.76” × 1.61” × 1.22”
Price: €1100 / US$1171 / ¥179470 / AUD$1800

EXX67AP2: Diaspore with Ilmenite, Rutile and Margarite

Flattened prismatic Diaspore crystal, large, transparent to translucent, with bright luster and an intense greenish yellow color and with steps at the base of the crystal and on a specific area of the rear where it is difficult to know whether they are stepped growth or cleavages. Its terminations are covered by Ilmenite crystals, with Rutile microcrystals and leafy aggregates of Margarite. The Ilmenite has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region Turkey (2020)
Specimen size: 14.2 × 5 × 2.2 cm = 5.59” × 1.97” × 0.87”
Price: €2200 / US$2343 / ¥358950 / AUD$3610

ER94AM1: Diaspore with Margarite

A large doubly terminated scepter and stepped crystal of Diaspore with polycrystalline terminations, transparent, lustrous, yellow with green reflections and partially covered in some areas by leafy growths of Margarite. A very remarkable specimen both for its size and color and for its perfection.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 86 in the volume 26/2021, number 1
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region Turkey (2020)
Specimen size: 14.9 × 3.6 × 1.7 cm = 5.87” × 1.42” × 0.67”
Price: €9800 / US$10438 / ¥1598960 / AUD$16080

TPP27AO4: Diaspore with Margarite and Ilmenite

Floater crystal of Diaspore, doubly terminated and twinned, with parallel growths and excellent terminations. Very transparent and limpid, lustrous, and of a peculiar yellow color with green reflections, partially covered by lamellar Margarite crystals, and with some small Ilmenite crystals too.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region Turkey (11-12/2020)
Specimen size: 8.9 × 2.6 × 2.1 cm = 3.50” × 1.02” × 0.83”
Price: €2200 / US$2343 / ¥358950 / AUD$3610

TZ37AK9: Dioptase

Druze of small rhombohedral Dioptase crystals, transparent and extraordinarily brilliant, on matrix, with small water-clear crystals of Calcite. Dioptase is a rarity in Milpillas. One more surprise from a locality which is accustoming us to surprises.
Milpillas Mine, level 890, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (12/2018)
Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.5 × 1.3 cm = 1.42” × 1.38” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.1 cm = 0.12” × 0.04”
Price: €220 / US$234 / ¥35890 / AUD$360

TXX47AP9: Dioptase

Group of Dioptase crystals on matrix, with a prismatic habit and the terminations of an acute rhombohedron. Very lustrous, with very deep color.
Mindouli, Mindouli District, Pool Department Republic of the Congo
Specimen size: 3.4 × 3 × 2.4 cm = 1.34” × 1.18” × 0.94”
Price: €250 / US$266 / ¥40790 / AUD$410

TJB67AP9: Dioptase

Group of Dioptase crystals on matrix, with a prismatic habit and the terminations of an acute rhombohedron. Very lustrous, with very deep color.
Mindouli, Mindouli District, Pool Department Republic of the Congo
Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.9 × 2.1 cm = 1.65” × 1.14” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.43” × 0.31”
Price: €260 / US$276 / ¥42420 / AUD$420

TXX97AP9: Dioptase

Group of Dioptase crystals on matrix, one of them clearly dominant, with a prismatic habit and acute rhombohedral terminations. Very lustrous, with very deep color.
Mindouli, Mindouli District, Pool Department Republic of the Congo
Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.1 × 2.5 cm = 2.40” × 1.61” × 0.98”
Price: €290 / US$308 / ¥47310 / AUD$470

TR89AD1: Dioptase

Aggregate of very elongated crystals that are transparent, very bright and have a very intense color. On matrix, with Calcite. We especially note the locality, very unusual for the species.
Cobrellama deposit, Ica Department Peru (2004)
Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.8 × 3.1 cm = 2.64” × 1.89” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.2 cm = 0.35” × 0.08”
Price: €460 / US$489 / ¥75050 / AUD$750

TT93AL1: Dioptase

A novelty at Tucson 2019. Druze of small elongated Dioptase crystals, with rhombohedral terminations, transparent and with bright luster, on matrix with pale blue shattuckite. Dioptase is a rarity in Milpillas, another surprise like many to which this locality has accustomed us.
The sample has been noted and photographed in the monograph 'The Milpillas Mine' of the ‘Mineralogical Record‘ magazine on page 585 in the volume 52, number 5, September-October 2021 and in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 42 of the 2020/02 edition.
Milpillas Mine, level 1100, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2019)
Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.4 × 3.1 cm = 2.40” × 1.73” × 1.22”
Price: €860 / US$916 / ¥140310 / AUD$1410

TR93AF6: Dioptase

Druse of rhombohedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges, extraordinarily bright and on matrix.
The sample is from the Vallecillo collection, Madrid.
Renéville, Kindanba District, Pool Department Republic of the Congo
Specimen size: 7.2 × 5 × 2.5 cm = 2.83” × 1.97” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.55”
Price: €860 / US$916 / ¥140310 / AUD$1410

TF50AC2: Dioptase with Calcite

Small crystals, very bright, formed by the prism and acute rhombohedral terminations. They selectively occupy the surfaces of some of the faces of the white Calcite rhombohedrons on the matrix.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia (±1975)
Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.9 × 2.9 cm = 2.44” × 2.32” × 1.14”
Price: €480 / US$511 / ¥78310 / AUD$780

DM49AC8: Dioptase with Plancheite

Aggregate of very well defined Dioptase crystals. They are aerial, translucent, and bright. They have a very deep color and are on a rocky matrix partially coated by fibrous Plancheite aggregates. The crystals have a better luster and color than usual for the locality.
Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba) Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)
Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.2 × 4.2 cm = 2.20” × 1.65” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.4 cm = 0.47” × 0.16”
Price: €460 / US$489 / ¥75050 / AUD$750

MLT67AP3: Dioptase with Plancheite

Group of Dioptase crystals, some of them doubly terminated and large, on matrix, with bright blue Plancheite. The specimen comes from a very little known locality. The Plancheite has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Ngouedi mission village, Loutete, Mouyondzi District, Bouenza Department Republic of the Congo (2022)
Specimen size: 9.5 × 5.8 × 2.9 cm = 3.74” × 2.28” × 1.14”
Price: €2600 / US$2769 / ¥424210 / AUD$4260

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