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TJ27H7: The crystal is doubly terminated and its faces and edges have an excellent definition, much better than most usual for this classic material. The matrix of white Calcite contrasts with the darker shades of the crystal.
The sample is from Thomas Moore collection.
Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey  USA

Specimen size: 2 × 2 × 1.4 cm

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.5 cm

TF86H7: Crystals occupy the vugs on the clearer matrix. They are very well defined, bright and transparent. The locality is, furthermore, a classic.
Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.5 × 4.8 cm

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.2 cm

EC90H7: Group of rhombohedral crystals whose faces have excellent color, luster and transparency, contrasting with the bevels on the edges which are more frosted. The group contrasts with the associated species, the well defined tetrahedral crystals of Tetrahedrite, the Chalcopyrite and small crystals of Quartz. The locality is now one of the great classics for Rhodochrosite.
Corner Pocket, Watercourse Raise, Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado  USA (09/94)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.8 × 3.3 cm

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm

TA36H7: An elegant specimen formed by pine cone-shaped scalenohedral crystals whose terminations have higher transparency and intensity of color. On the base, there are few defined black crystals of Sphalerite and transparent blue crystals of Fluorite.
Minerva I Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois  USA

Specimen size: 9.1 × 5.9 × 3.5 cm

EL30H7: The sample is very esthetic, formed by prismatic crystals of Danburite, one of them clearly dominant, with very sharp faces and edges and clear terminations. On the base of the specimen there are groups of Amethyst Quartz of a nice color, contrasting with the white Danburite.
This sample has been reviewed, photographed and published as news from Ste. Marie 2006 by the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ on page 47, number 70.
Mina San Bartolo, Charcas, San Luis Potosí  Mexico (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.5 × 4.5 cm

Main crystal size: 8.3 × 2.2 cm

NG8H7: A group of complex crystals with predominating forms of the rhombohedron on the terminations and the scalenohedron. We like the attractive color, pink with violet shades, and the excellent definition of crystals.
Arhbar Mine, Bou-Azzer  Morocco (09/2005)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.3 × 3.8 cm

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.5 cm

EG13H7: Group of scalenohedral crystals, well defined, with faces and edges slightly curved. The color is excellent, but we specially like the velvet luster on the surface of the faces due to fine striations.
Arhbar Mine, Bou-Azzer  Morocco (09/2005)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 7 × 5.5 cm

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.4 cm

TV96H7: Group of rhombohedral crystals with curved faces and edges. The luster is excellent but the mauve color is extraordinary, very deep and with beautiful shades and reflections.
Arhbar, Bou-Azzer area  Morocco (01/2006)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.5 × 1.6 cm

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.5 cm

EV16H7: Crystals show a very rare double habit where two phases of growth co-exist. Both phases are very well marked by the differences of color and luster. The first phase forms an inner octahedron, bright and of very deep violet color, only distinguishable because the second phase, whitish and less bright, formed the cube and the triangular faces of the octahedron that allowed the tips of the primitive octahedron to project as small pyramids.
Tounfit, Boumia  Morocco (2006)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 6.6 × 3.5 cm

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.4 cm

EZ66H7: Crystals show a very rare double habit where two phases of growth co-exist. Both phases are very well marked by the differences of color and luster. The first phase forms an inner octahedron, bright and of very deep violet color, only distinguishable because the second phase, whitish and less bright, formed the cube and the triangular faces of the octahedron that allowed the tips of the primitive octahedron to project as small pyramids.
Tounfit, Boumia  Morocco (2006)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.5 × 4 cm

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.5 cm

EM6H7: A group of cubic crystals that have very sharp and bright faces and edges. The violet color is exceptionally intense and it even hides, due to its intensity, the magnificent transparency, visible under an intense spotlight.
Tounfit, Boumia  Morocco (2006)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.2 × 3.4 cm

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 3.1 cm

EQ56H7: A group of cubic crystals that have very sharp and bright faces and edges. The violet color is exceptionally intense and it even hides, due to its intensity, the magnificent transparency, visible under an intense spotlight.
Tounfit, Boumia  Morocco (2006)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.8 × 2.9 cm

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2 cm

TR26H7: Prismatic, doubly terminated crystal with perfect terminations and excellent color and luster. There are some other crystals on it, smaller but also perfect. The surface of the prism is partially transformed to Malachite, adding esthetic quality to the specimen, absolutely undamaged. The matrix has adequate size, not too big, nor too small, and offers a touch of perfect equilibrium.
Kerrouchen, Khénifra  Morocco (2004)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3 × 2 cm

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.1 cm

TX16H7: The main crystal, rising on a surface of smaller crystals, can be considered as a giant. Its faces and edges are perfectly defined, bright and partially pseudomorphed by another (undetermined) copper mineral. The matrix is a very rich blue mineral described as Chrysocolla on the label but it must be Plancheite. Please note that although the original labels state that the locality is "near Gouloukoutou River", we have labeled it as Tantara because we believe that this is the right locality.
The sample is with two old labels, of Burminco (Monrovia, California) and from D.E. Boydston collection.
Tantara Mine, Kakounde, Likasi, Shaba  Congo D.R.

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4 × 3.2 cm

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 1.7 cm

TY56H7: An extraordinary specimen. A group of two crystals, one of them twinned, dominant and bigger, showing parallel growth following the twin plane. The definition of the crystal is magnificent. Although its color is not red the analysis determined it is really Tantalite-(Mn). We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Also, this specimen was photographed for the ‘what’s new at St Marie 2006’ section of the magazine ‘Minéraux et Fossiles’ and appears on page 21 of number 353. We will send the purchaser a copy of the magazine.
Murrua Mine, Gile, Quelimane, Alto Ligonha  Mozambique (2005)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 6.2 × 4.4 cm

TP16H7: A very fine specimen, elegant and original. Crystals are doubly terminated, have excellent color and luster, and they are formed of the prism and the acute rhombohedron on terminations. They cover a stalactitic growth of Calcite that gives a very aerial shape to the sample.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb  Namibia

Specimen size: 6 × 3.2 × 2.3 cm

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.3 cm

TH46H7: Globular aggregate of short prismatic crystals that have very well defined faces and edges and very good color and luster. The specimen is from a classic locality and actually is very difficult to obtain good samples from there.
Chessy-les-Mines, Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.3 × 2.7 cm

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm

EC58H7: A typical rosette aggregate of white, bright, laminar crystals, on a matrix partially covered by small, black and bright crystals of Sphalerite.
Mine des Malines, St. Laurent-le-minier  France

Specimen size: 8.8 × 7.5 × 3.5 cm

TM96H7: The sample from a classic locality is high quality. It is formed by transparent cubic crystals, blue, but slightly greenish and with geometric zonations of deep sky blue outlining the orientation of the edges.
Le Burc, Alban, Tarn  France (2005)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.2 × 3.4 cm

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.9 cm

TH12H7: Group of very well-defined and bright crystals. They have a high degree of transparency and on both sides, more clearly at the left, the Baveno twin, typical of alkaline Feldspars, is present.
Zagradski Potok Mine, Busovaca  Bosnia-Herzegovina (2004)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.3 × 2.2 cm

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.4 cm