Mineral Specimens - page 16
The Daunis Collection

Previous Page Previous Page Next Page Next Page

Display all pieces

(para ver esta página en español)

   
 

Photos by Fabre Minerals. Under Creative Commons license

Page bottom

The Euro / US$ / Yen exchange rates are the official ones and we update them regularly. You can check the exchange rate details by placing your cursor over the price, or by clicking on it.


Carles Curto Text: Carles Curto (formerly curator of the Geology Museum, Barcelona) & Jordi Fabre
Assistance from John S. White (former Smithsonian curator) John S. White

 


      Lluís Daunis Montada (1916-1979) began his passion for mineralogy when elderly, as a family father, and his love was due in large part to the love he always had for the mountains, wanting to spend as much time as possible in contact with Nature.
      Self taught, he learned by buying books and meeting in his spare time with the collectors and merchants of the time: Joaquín Folch, Josep Cervelló, Enric Kucera, Soler i Pujol (Josep Palaus), S.E.C. (Suministros Escolares y Científicos), Figueras...
      He began to gather his first minerals on weekends in outings to localities near Barcelona, and gradually expanded his range of action in Catalonia and then also throughout Spain, taking advantage of summer and Easter vacations. He was fortunate to live the golden age of searching for minerals (Montseny, Sierra de Madrid, Sallent de Gállego, Eugui...) and also had the success of being a great searcher. He was always accompanied by his wife Maria Ruscalleda and during many years also by his daughter Núria, to whom he passed his hobby, so that the two became his best and most faithful collaborators.
      He was well known to have obtained very good Catalan specimens, being one of the pioneers in locating and finding good pieces of amethyst in Montseny, in the Les Mallorquines area, long before the modern discoveries, as well as very good examples of Quartz and Feldspars from both Catalonia and the Sierra de Madrid as well as Huesca.
      Unfortunately he could never realize his dream: to retire and to devote all his time to minerals. He wanted to get started in microscope photography and also wanted to better document and organize the collection, but a disease took him at 63 years of age.
      His wife Maria Ruscalleda maintained and expanded the collection until the last years of her life and passed it on to her daughter
Núria, who has kept it until the end of 2017.

Núria Daunis

 

Lluís Daunis and his wife Maria Ruscalleda

Lluís Daunis with his wife Maria Ruscalleda in 1972 in an exceptional geode in the Madrid mountain range that produced more than 25 boxes of specimens of Quartz and Orthoclase and in which they were finding more samples throughout several years.
Photo: Núria Daunis

 

Quartz amethyst
Beryl aquamarine
Quartz

 

America

Silver with Copper
Silver with Copper. Front
Front
Silver with Copper. Rear
Rear
 

DM48AI0: Floater and dendritic growth of very well defined and bright Silver crystals partially coated, especially at the tips of each crystal, by native Copper.
White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2 × 0.2 cm = 1.14” × 0.79” × 0.08”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Copper
 

DF96AM2: Very aerial dendritic growth of Copper, with remnants of Quartz matrix and flat surfaces that correspond to casts of Quartz crystals that have disappeared.
The specimen is from the Lluís Daunis collection.
Caledonia Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 13.2 × 7.4 × 3.5 cm = 5.20” × 2.91” × 1.38”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Copper. Front
Front
Copper. Rear
Rear

Spain

Catalonia

Quartz with Chlorite
Quartz with Chlorite. Quartz with Chlorite.
 

DZ14AH6: A prominent very clear and bright Quartz crystal that is partially coated by spheroidal Chlorite aggregates.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
Llavorsí, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lérida / Lleida, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.8 × 7.5 cm = 2.83” × 2.28” × 2.95”

Main crystal size: 5 × 2.3 cm = 1.97” × 0.91”

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Schorl
Schorl  

HM90D: Elongated Schorl crystal with a very well defined termination. The specimen, coming from the Daunis collection, which in the 70-80s was a reference for local field collectors especially for Catalan localities, is a classic of the mineralogy of this region. It comes from the Cap de Creus an area currently closed to mineral collecting.
Cap de Creus, Cadaqués-Port de La Selva-Roses, Comarca Alt Empordà, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 1.26” × 0.63” × 0.59”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Schorl. Front
Front
Schorl. Top
Top
Quartz
Quartz.
Quartz  

HM70DF: Quartz scepter growth, with a partially doubly terminated cap of the amethyst variety, polycrystalline, in parallel growth, with bright luster and deep in color, with a base of the smoky variety.
Former collection of Lluís Daunis

Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 7.2 × 4.2 × 3 cm = 2.83” × 1.65” × 1.18”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

minID: 6CE-GRX



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

DR96AI8: 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”

With copy of the handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Quartz (variety amethyst) with Quartz (variety smoky) and Microcline. Front
Front
Quartz (variety amethyst) with Quartz (variety smoky) and Microcline. Rear
Rear
Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite
Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite.
Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite  

HM90DC: Quartz crystal (smoky variety), very aerial, transparent, with good luster and a very deep color, on a matrix of small, sharp white crystals of Albite.
The specimen comes from the Daunis collection, which in the 70-80s was a reference for field collectors, especially for Catalan localities.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.2 × 2.6 cm = 2.01” × 1.26” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 4.9 × 2.5 cm = 1.93” × 0.98”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

minID: WPG-52K



Quartz (variety smoky)
Quartz (variety smoky)  

DH26AK4: Full crystal, with highly profiled polycrystalline terminations with the base recrystallized as the start of a scepter growth. The specimen, transparent, bright and of a very deep and uniform smoky color, comes from a completely lost locality and is from the Daunis collection, which in the 1970s to ‘80s was a reference collection for local field collectors in the Barcelona area.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 6.7 × 3 × 2.6 cm = 2.64” × 1.18” × 1.02”

With copy of the handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Quartz (variety smoky). Front
Front
Quartz (variety smoky). Light behind
Light behind
Quartz (variety smoky). Top
Top
Quartz (variety smoky) with Microcline
Quartz (variety smoky) with Microcline. Quartz (variety smoky) with Microcline.
 

DD16AH2: Quartz crystal with very well defined parallel growths, with a very deep smoky color, very bright and with Microcline on the matrix.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.4 × 3.6 cm = 2.68” × 1.73” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 6.8 × 3.9 cm = 2.68” × 1.54”

With copy of the handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Quartz (variety smoky)
Quartz (variety smoky)  

DX66AL3: Group of very transparent smoky Quartz crystals on matrix, one of them clearly dominant and partially doubly terminated, with a group of smaller crystals, some of which are also doubly terminated, from the historic Montseny locality where the first finds of amethyst and quality smoky Quartz were made before the recent finds. The Daunis collection was, in the 70s-80s, a reference for local field collectors in the Barcelona area.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 8 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm = 3.15” × 0.98” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 6 × 2.1 cm = 2.36” × 0.83”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

minID: R4X-GQC



Quartz (variety smoky). Front
Front
Quartz (variety smoky). Rear
Rear
Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite
Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite. Front
Front
Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite. Side
Side
Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite  

DP56AJ5: Group of smoky Quartz crystals with parallel growths, translucent, bright with red Hematite impregnations in some areas and with polycrystalline Albite growths. The sample is very unusual for both the locality and his shape. It is from the Daunis collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
La Arola, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 8.6 × 5.6 × 4.6 cm = 3.39” × 2.20” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 8.4 × 4 cm = 3.31” × 1.57”

With copy of the handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection




Madrid

Quartz (variety smoky) with Orthoclase
 

DL13AH2: Two partially doubly terminated Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, very flattened, with fine superficial recrystallization of the same Quartz, and with parallel growths of Orthoclase crystals.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
(La Cabrera pluton), La Cabrera, Comarca Sierra Norte, Community of Madrid  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.8 × 2.7 cm = 2.48” × 1.89” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 6.3 × 3 cm = 2.48” × 1.18”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Quartz (variety smoky) with Orthoclase. Front
Front
Quartz (variety smoky) with Orthoclase. Rear
Rear

Castilla-La Mancha

Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Pyromorphite.
Pyromorphite  

DQ68AG0: Very well defined crystals with a simple hexagonal shape, on matrix, with a bright yellow color. Although in some aspect they resemble samples from the San Andrés mine, their matrix corresponds to El Horcajo and, furthermore, the sample was collected prior to the productive period at San Andrés.
The sample is with a handwritten original label that we’ll send to the buyer.
El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (± 1910)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.9 × 2.7 cm = 1.73” × 1.54” × 1.06”

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

Minor fluorescence short UV

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection





Navarre

Twinned Dolomite
Twinned Dolomite  

HM160DQ: Group of very sharp rhombohedral Dolomite crystals, transparent, lustrous and colorless. A classic of the Spanish mineralogy.
Former collection of Lluís Daunis


Asturreta Quarry, 'el pozo', Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.1 × 2.9 cm = 1.73” × 1.61” × 1.14”

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

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

minID: PA4-KWH



Twinned Dolomite. Front
Front
Twinned Dolomite. Rear
Rear

Europe

Cassiterite with Quartz and Siderite
Cassiterite with Quartz and Siderite.
 

DJ27AF9: Group of very bright Cassiterite crystals with very visible multiple twinning, on matrix with clear Quartz crystals and partially coated by Siderite.
It was previously in the Folch collection and it probably was an exchange.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.8 × 2.4 cm = 1.26” × 1.10” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.59” × 0.47”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Hematite
Hematite  

DP66AG7: Druse of very sharp lenticular Hematite crystals that are extraordinarily bright and are coating a botryoidal growth of primary Hematite. An English classic, very typical for the locality.
Beckermet Mine, Egremont, West Cumberland Iron Field, former Cumberland, Cumbria  England / United Kingdom

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.6 × 1.6 cm = 2.17” × 1.81” × 0.63”

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

With label from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Hematite. Hematite.

Africa

Azurite with Dolomite
Azurite with Dolomite. Azurite with Dolomite.
Azurite with Dolomite  

DR37AG3: Parallel growth of two very sharp Azurite crystals that are translucent, on matrix, with a very deep color with vivid transparencies and reflections and on rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with limonite coatings. A classic from Touissit, very probably, one of the latest to be incorporated in the Daunis collection by Daunis’ wife Maria. We’ll send to the buyer an old commercial label that is with the sample.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 7 × 3.9 × 3.8 cm = 2.76” × 1.54” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.6 cm = 0.47” × 0.24”

With label from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Twinned Cerussite
 

DC90AF6: Very aerial, complete Cerussite cyclic twin with transparent, very bright and slightly smoky crystals, with small coatings of massive Galena.
The sample, a classic from Tsumeb, is from the Daunis collection (a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area during the period 1970-1980).
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.4 × 3.6 cm = 1.77” × 1.73” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.87”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Twinned Cerussite. Front
Front
Twinned Cerussite. Rear
Rear


   Previous Page Previous Page Next Page Next Page  Page top

Back to Home

 
USA
US
Minerals
Mexico - Canada
Mexico & Canada
Minerals
Spain (general)
Spanish
Minerals
Spanish Fluorite
Spanish Fluorite
Portugal - Panasqueira
Portugal - Panasqueira
France
French
Minerals
Europe (excl. Spain, Portugal and France)
European
Minerals
FSU
FSU
Minerals
Morocco
Moroccan
Minerals
Africa (excl. Morocco) - Tsumeb
African
Minerals
Brazil
Brazilian
Minerals
South America (excl. Brazil)
South American
Minerals
China
Chinese
Minerals
Asia (excl. China) - Australia - Turkey
Tukey, Asia
& Australia
Minerals
Joaquim Callen's Photo Gallery
Joaquim Callen's
Photo Gallery
The Daunis Collection
The Daunis
Collection
The Jan Buma Collections
The Jan Buma
Collections
The Carles Curto Collection (duplicates)
The Carles Curto
Collection
The Jordi Fabre Collection (duplicates)
The Jordi Fabre Collection
The Vault
The
Vault
Express Minerals by Carles Manresa
Express Minerals
by C. Manresa
Expominerals (Virtual Shows)
Expominerals
Updates
Updates
Minerals - Virtual Museum (#MVM)
Minerals - Virtual Museum
(#MVM)
Home page - Minerals  About us  Client Comments  Friends of Minerals Forum  Feedback Form  Search  
Home
page
Minerals
 About
us
 Client
Comments
 Friends
of
Minerals
Forum
 Feedback
Form
 Search