Mineral Specimens - page 5
Portugal - Panasqueira

HF27P8: Group of crystals of good size, thick, with unusual very acute terminations of velvety luster and very bright, not cleaved, lateral faces with subtle polycrystalline growths. The sample is with a numbered collection label without a name reference.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal

Specimen size: 12.7 × 5.9 × 3.8 cm = 5.0” × 2.3” × 1.5”

NH66M8: A curious Ferberite crystal group with multiple and irregular growths, and good luster. The crystals, on matrix, are with well defined and bright crystals of Arsenopyrite, laminar crystals of Muscovite and small crystals of Apatite-(CaF).
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (2002)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 9 × 7.5 cm = 3.7” × 3.5” × 3.0”

N11YK9: Prismatic Ferberite crystal, doubly terminated and thicker than usual for this locality. Partially recovered by Muscovite and Siderite.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.4 × 3.3 cm = 2.1” × 1.3” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.8 cm = 1.3” × 1.1”

NB6E6: Very well defined, floater crystals of Ferberite. There is also some Mica and Siderite with them. Given their brilliance and perfection you can consider them to be one of the better quality Ferberites from the Panasqueira mines.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5.3 × 2.5 cm = 2.2” × 2.1” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 3.4 cm = 2.2” × 1.3”

N13BIK9: Parallel growth of prismatic crystals of Ferberite partially covered (totally on the rear) by Siderite crystals, most of them doubly terminated.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1995)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 4.7 × 3.8 cm = 3.0” × 1.9” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.7” × 1.1”

NF36K9: Excellent group of Ferberite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, partially covered by small Siderite crystals and tabular Apatite-(CaF).
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (2001)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 6.6 × 5 cm = 4.6” × 2.6” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3.8 cm = 1.8” × 1.5”

NE61G8: Good group enhancing the front crystals with very acute terminations. The back of the piece is totally covered by little crystals of Siderite also covering a doubly terminated prismatic crystal of Quartz.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (2001)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.6 × 3.5 cm = 3.1” × 2.6” × 1.4”

E10FE2: Brilliant crystals of Apatite-(CaF) that are very aerial on the crystal of Siderite. With small sprays of Mica all over the specimen. As is so often the case in Panasqueira this is a floater.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal

Specimen size: 5 × 3.4 × 3 cm = 2.0” × 1.3” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.2 cm = 0.5” × 0.5”

N36JK9: Tabular crystals of Apatite-(CaF) on matrix, well defined faces and edges and with an excellent luster. Partially covered by Siderite and Dolomite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (2000)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.3 × 3.7 cm = 2.4” × 1.7” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.7” × 0.3”

N14CKF4: A neat group of brilliant, sharp Quartz crystals, some of which are doubly terminated, accompanied by tabular green Apatite-(CaF) and small lenticular crystals of Siderite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1994)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.5 × 5.5 cm = 2.8” × 2.2” × 2.2”

TP47H9: The crystal is tabular, very aerial and with a very marked zonation of its color. It is esthetically implanted on a matrix with Muscovite and Siderite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.2 × 2.7 cm = 3.7” × 2.8” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 0.9” × 0.7”

N58WA0: Apatite-(CaF) well positioned on its matrix of quartz covered with siderite. Although the color of the Apatite-(CaF) is not intense the photo does not do it justice.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 13 × 4.5 × 6.6 cm = 5.1” × 1.8” × 2.6”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.6 cm = 0.6” × 0.2”

TM76H4: The crystal has a very special and very rare habit. It is extraordinarily flat, and it has a tabular appearance. It is also partially doubly terminated because its lower termination is only interrupted by the small group of crystals at left.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.5 × 1.4 cm = 1.3” × 1.0” × 0.6”

N88GK9: Group of crystals of Apatite-(CaF), with an attractive pale green color and excellent brilliance, on matrix, with Muscovite and Siderite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (2000)

Specimen size: 13.3 × 7.8 × 5.6 cm = 5.2” × 3.1” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.8 cm = 0.6” × 0.3”

NE43E7: Look out for this one: it is marvelous. The prismatic Apatite-(CaF) crystals are large, aerial and have a great color that is somewhere between blue and green. That said please note that, as you can see in the detailed photo, there is a significant contact on one of the upper faces of crystals. This is where there used to be some Siderite (I know this as I removed it). When you display this specimen the contact is not visible, but you see it when you hold it in your hands. So the importance you give to this contact will affect your wish to have this one in your collection. For me, given the beauty and quality, the fact that there is a contact (this is not damage) due to the former Siderite is acceptable, especially given that it is very difficult to find such specimens at a reasonable price.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (2001)

Specimen size: 11 × 7.5 × 5.2 cm = 4.3” × 3.0” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2 cm = 1.1” × 0.8”

JM97E9: A parallel growth of three crystals. Although it is Apatite-(CaF), its transparency gives it a gentle color, the crystals are tabular and the prism is quite thin. The elegant layout of the crystals on the matrix of Muscovite gives it a nice touch.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 7 × 3 cm = 3.3” × 2.8” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.7 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

JC94F0: A great classic. Flat crystals, perfect, excellent color and brilliance, and on a base of fine needle like crystals of Schorl-Dravite. We have analyzed these crystals and they show a composition that is somewhere between Schorl and Dravite. We will give the purchaser a copy of the analysis.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1998)

Specimen size: 11 × 7.3 × 2.5 cm = 4.3” × 2.9” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”

N47F2: The size of the crystal is not that large, but the very gentle violet color is magnificent and the partial coating of small crystals of Siderite make this an attractive specimen.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3 × 1.5 cm = 1.5” × 1.2” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

TG27P3: Parallel growth of two large crystals of Chalcopyrite with excellent luster (for the locality) whose matrix is a group of prismatic crystals of Arsenopyrite, some of them doubly terminated, with lenticular crystals of Siderite and leafy aggregates of Muscovite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.2 × 4.1 cm = 2.5” × 2.0” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3.2 cm = 1.4” × 1.3”

TP88P3: Epitaxial growths of very well defined crystals of Marcasite, with excellent luster, on prismatic crystals of Arsenopyrite and with thin coatings of small crystals of Siderite in some areas.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 13 × 8.2 × 6.2 cm = 5.1” × 3.2” × 2.4”

RF96N4: Multiple parallel growths of Arsenopyrite and Marcasite of very sharp and well defined forms, epigenetic on Pyrite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (±1982)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.9 × 5.2 cm = 3.1” × 2.7” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.8 cm = 0.7” × 0.7”

NB11M9: Aggregates of sharp cubic crystals of Pyrite with groups of Marcasite and all in a matrix of Arsenopyrite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.7 × 4.4 cm = 3.4” × 2.6” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.2 cm = 1.0” × 0.5”

TV47K9: Doubly terminated and well-defined Arsenopyrite crystals, partially covered by Muscovite, and small crystals of Siderite and Sphalerite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal

Specimen size: 9.2 × 5.7 × 3.4 cm = 3.6” × 2.2” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 1.7 cm = 1.3” × 0.7”

N11CG1: A group of prismatic crystals partially covered by Pyrite crystals, locally iridescent and positioned on a Muscovite matrix.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1988)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 8.5 × 5.5 cm = 3.3” × 3.3” × 2.2”

TF56H4: The group, very aerial, is a floater group of prismatic crystals of Arsenopyrite, most of them doubly terminated and forming a kind of wall with small crystallized nucleus of Pyrite and Siderite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal

Specimen size: 7.1 × 3.5 × 2.8 cm = 2.8” × 1.4” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”

CK36D3: Colored Pyrite with curved cubes covering a flat Calcite matrix.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal

Specimen size: 12 × 10 × 1.3 cm = 4.7” × 3.9” × 0.5”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

NQ60F4: A curious and unusual form. The crystals of Sphalerite have such curved edges and faces that they appear to be almost spherical. The Chalcopyrite is a fine epitaxial coating, which makes the Sphalerite appear satin. At the base there are some prismatic, well-developed crystals of Arsenopyrite that make this one seem aerial and esthetic.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.7” × 1.3” × 1.1”

N14QM9: Lenticular, creamy crystals of Siderite that partially cover a Quartz crystal. On the Siderite there are small growths of Muscovite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1999)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 5 × 4.7 cm = 4.6” × 2.0” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.7 cm = 0.5” × 0.3”

N9FK9: Flattened rhombohedral Siderite crystal, well defined, partially covered by prismatic Apatite-(CaF) crystals on Quartz matrix.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1998)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.8 × 4 cm = 2.2” × 1.9” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 4 cm = 1.8” × 1.6”

N14CK9: Barrel-shaped crystals of Siderite on a group of Quartz crystals and small crystals of Arsenopyrite and Pyrite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.4 × 5.2 cm = 2.8” × 2.5” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.2 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”

E12EK9: Flattened rhombohedral Siderite crystal group, covering Quartz and small crystals of Arsenopyrite and Pyrite some of them included on the Quartz.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 8.6 × 5.5 cm = 4.6” × 3.4” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

N47CK9: Group of flattened rhombohedral and well defined Siderite crystals, partially covered by Arsenopyrite, with epigenetic Chalcopyrite on Sphalerite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 16 × 11.3 × 4.8 cm = 6.3” × 4.4” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.7 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

N7CK0: Crystal of tabular habit partially covered by small Pyrite crystals. The base is a group of Quartz crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.1 × 6.2 cm = 2.3” × 2.0” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3.5 cm = 1.6” × 1.4”

N12GK0: Two tabular crystals on a base of smaller crystals of the same mineral, also present on the surface of the biggest ones. On the lower part of the group there are small Pyrite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1998)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 5.6 × 2.9 cm = 3.5” × 2.2” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 5.7 × 3.7 cm = 2.2” × 1.5”

NC64G8: An encrustation of little crystals of Siderite covers the rhombohedral terminal faces of a Quartz prism. Two of the crystals have a big size enhancing from the group.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 11.1 × 6.2 × 5 cm = 4.4” × 2.4” × 2.0”

NE36G8: Magnificent formation of lenticular crystals of Siderite, very clear cream colored and covering a matrix of Quartz crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (2002)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 9.8 × 4.4 cm = 4.2” × 3.9” × 1.7”

N32MA0: Perfect Siderite crystals perched on a also perfect Quartz. Great esthetics.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1998)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 4 × 4.5 cm = 3.0” × 1.6” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.6 cm = 1.2” × 1.0”

N16EF2: The Quartz prisms are transparent and many are outlined by small crystals of Muscovite. On the upper left there are two crystals of Apatite-(CaF).
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 8 × 6.5 × 4 cm = 3.1” × 2.6” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 1.2 cm = 1.1” × 0.5”

TA46H4: Typical crystal from Panasqueira. On the termination on a bed of Siderite crystals there is a group of green, very bright and short prismatic crystals of Apatite-(CaF).
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal

Specimen size: 8.5 × 4.8 × 3.3 cm = 3.3” × 1.9” × 1.3”

E13DE2: Neat and brilliant Quartz with neat and brilliant Siderite. A floater with the base of the Quartz and Siderite re-crystallized.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 7 × 5 × 4.5 cm = 2.8” × 2.0” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 4.5 cm = 2.2” × 1.8”

NH61E2: Doubly terminated Quartz, perfect, with associated Arsenopyrite, and also with inclusions of Arsenopyrite and Ferberite. It is partially covered by Siderite and has small crystals of Galena on the rear face, which while a quite common sulfide elsewhere is not very common at Panasqueira.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (2002)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 4.5 × 3.7 cm = 4.9” × 1.8” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 12.5 × 2.6 cm = 4.9” × 1.0”

N4ACA0: A very transparent doubly terminated quartz crystal.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1996)

Specimen size: 6 × 3.5 cm = 2.4” × 1.4”

NB36F4: A floater, doubly-terminated and with all the terminations perfect. In the center there is a very curious inclusion of small crystals of black Ferberite and others of Schorl-Dravite, which is acicular and a lighter color.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 17 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm = 6.7” × 1.4” × 1.0”

N14YE2: A very clean and well defined Quartz Crystal. The upper termination is very unusual, with one of the faces far better developed than is normally the case. So overall it looks like the termination is flat. It also has some small crystals of Apatite-(CaF) and Mica on the rear of the Quartz.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1999)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 2.2 × 1.9 cm = 3.3” × 0.9” × 0.7”

P14ZF2: A crystal of Quartz that is partially coated by Siderite acts as the base for the prisms of doubly-terminated Apatite-(CaF), which is light lilac and has internal zoning.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 15 × 3.5 × 3 cm = 5.9” × 1.4” × 1.2”

MN12M9: Irregular aggregate of black crystals, small but very well defined and bright, of this very uncommon species. They are on a matrix of globular Calcite whose color is between orange and white.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (03/2007)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 6.9 × 4 cm = 4.1” × 2.7” × 1.6”

MT60M9: Irregular aggregate of small but very well defined and bright crystals of this very uncommon species, with a "nest" of globular Calcite whose color is between orange and creamy.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (03/2007)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 5.3 × 5.2 cm = 2.3” × 2.1” × 2.0”

NY11M9: Columnar growths of small crystals that are extraordinarily well defined and bright. The crystals are dipyramidal, most of them doubly terminated, and are very sharp. The growths of Descloizite are partially covered by white Calcite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.3 × 2.6 cm = 2.2” × 1.7” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NZ26M9: Group on matrix of Limonite of small, very bright crystals, a lot of them doubly terminated, that form sharp dipyramids.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7 × 4.2 × 2.4 cm = 2.8” × 1.7” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.1” × 0.0”

NV86M9: Very aerial and esthetic columnar growths of small, extraordinarily sharp and very bright crystals. They are dipyramidal and most of them doubly terminated. A group of white crystals of Calcite is on the Descloizite groups.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.5 × 2.7 cm = 2.6” × 2.2” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 1 cm = 0.0” × 0.4”

NZ62M9: Very aerial and esthetic columnar growths of small, extraordinarily sharp and very bright crystals. They are dipyramidal and most of them doubly terminated. A group of white crystals of Calcite is on the Descloizite groups.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5 × 2.8 cm = 2.9” × 2.0” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NY66M9: 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.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 7.6 × 4.9 cm = 3.1” × 3.0” × 1.9”

NX47M9: Growth of dypyramidal crystals, most of them doubly terminated, of Descloizite. They have good luster and very well defined faces and edges. Grown on Limonite matrix, they were later covered by a generation of scalenohedral crystals of Calcite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 6.9 × 3.8 cm = 4.0” × 2.7” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 01 × 0.1 cm = 0.4” × 0.0”

NF26J1: 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.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.9 × 3.7 cm = 2.6” × 2.3” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NA10J1: 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.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.3 × 2.1 cm = 1.5” × 0.9” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NA26J1: Columnar growths of very bright small crystals, many of them doubly terminated and forming dipyramids of very well defined faces and edges. The groups contrast on a wall of scalenohedral crystals of white Calcite on a matrix of Limonite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 5 × 3 cm = 2.0” × 2.0” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NC57J1: 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. Between the columnar growths there are notable small groups of crystals of white Calcite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.8 × 3.9 cm = 1.9” × 1.9” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NE6I8: Columnar, very aerial growths of dipyramidal crystals, most of them doubly terminated, with very well-defined faces and edges. They have good luster and are on white Calcite crystals.
The specimen has been published in the magazine ‘Mineral up’ on page 19 in number 2008/2.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.6 × 2.5 cm = 2.3” × 1.8” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NV9I8: Columnar and arborescent groups, very aerial and esthetic, of dipyramidal crystals, most of them doubly terminated, with very well-defined faces and edges. They have good luster.
This specimen was photographed in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 75, page 23.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.8 × 1.4 cm = 1.7” × 1.1” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NB46I7: Flattened group of columnar growths of small, very bright, crystals most of them doubly terminated, forming dipyramids with very well-defined faces and edges. On one of its sides there is an esthetic growth of very acute scalenohedral crystals of white Calcite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 9.9 × 5.8 × 3.6 cm = 3.9” × 2.3” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NX60I8: Columnar, very aerial growths of dipyramidal crystals, most of them doubly terminated, with very well-defined faces and edges. They have good luster and are on white Calcite crystals.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 2.3 × 2 cm = 2.5” × 0.9” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

ND66I7: Group of columnar growths of small, very bright crystals, most of them doubly terminated, forming dipyramids with very well defined faces and edges. On one of the growths there is an esthetic group of lenticular crystals of white Calcite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 4.9 × 5 cm = 2.9” × 1.9” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NX96J1: Groups of very bright crystals, many of them doubly terminated and forming dipyramids of very well defined faces and edges. Those groups contrast on a base of very acute scalenohedral crystals of white Calcite on Limonite matrix.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.7 × 4.5 cm = 3.3” × 3.0” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NR47I7: 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.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 14 × 11.8 × 6.2 cm = 5.5” × 4.6” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”