Post-Munich 2007 Update

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EB1K6: Translucent crystal of excellent color, very uniform, and perfectly terminated with the pedion and the three faces of the rhombohedron. It is implanted on Feldspar matrix, which is not very usual for the locality.
Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California  USA

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.8 × 2.5 cm

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 2.7 cm

HF50K6: Group of doubly terminated crystals with near parallel growths and with an excellent color. The main crystal is very big; its size is really unusual.
Las Vigas, Veracruz  Mexico (±1975)

Specimen size: 12.9 × 5.7 × 3.6 cm

Main crystal size: 10.4 × 4.7 cm

VD26K6: Scalenohedral crystal of Calcite with parallel growths, on a matrix of transparent cubic crystals of Fluorite of honey yellow color partially covered by crystals of white Dolomite and with sulfide inclusions.
Mina Moscona, Solís, Corvera, Asturias  Spain (1990-2000)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.6 × 3.3 cm

Main crystal size: 7.5 × 3.9 cm

VG66K6: Group of doubly terminated scalenohedral crystals of Calcite on matrix of transparent cubic crystals of honey yellow color with small crystals of white Dolomite crystals.
Mina Moscona, Solís, Corvera, Asturias  Spain (1990-2000)

Specimen size: 11 × 8.5 × 6.4 cm

Main crystal size: 6.3 × 4 cm

VV96K6: Yellow tabular crystals covering a group of complex crystals of Calcite; yellow is an unusual color for Barite from this locality.
Mina Moscona, Solís, Corvera, Asturias  Spain (1990-2000)

Specimen size: 10 × 8.8 × 7 cm

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.1 cm

HB72K6: Group of very sharp, bright and excellently preserved crystals. On the crystals, and very localized, there are two small concretions of white Calcite.
Agrigento, Sicilia  Italy

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.3 × 5.5 cm

Main crystal size: 4 × 2 cm

ED27K6: Group of very transparent crystals forming parallel growths, slightly twisted (gwindel) and with a neat “faden” growth. At the base of the piece there is a thin Albite matrix.
Cavradi, Curnera, Tavetsch, Grisons  Switzerland

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.8 × 3.5 cm

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.8 cm

EQ67K6: Group of doubly terminated crystals, one of them clearly dominant, extraordinarily flattened because the accentuated growth of two opposite faces of the rhombohedron. The specimen is absolutely clear and has, as a curiosity, some slightly curved faces. At the same time, we suspect, due the position of the small faces on the top, it is twinned.
Cavradi, Curnera, Tavetsch, Grisons  Switzerland

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.2 × 0.8 cm

EF99K6: The size of the crystals is very unusual for the locality, that usually produces smaller specimens, because the matrix is easily fragmented. The group of cubic crystals has a deep color, between orange and yellow, and is partially covered by Pyrite.
Pivoul, Barjac, Lozère  France

Specimen size: 11.9 × 6.5 × 3.2 cm

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.1 cm

EP27K6: Cubic crystal of good size and color. The cube faces are paved by re-growths of smaller cubes.
Rogerley Mine, Frosterley, Weardale, Durham, England  United Kingdom

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.8 × 4.7 cm

Main crystal size: 6.7 × 5.8 cm

HA29K6: The specimen is from a very uncommon locality. It is rounded but has diffuse crystalline forms on the back.
Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk, East Siberia  Russia

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.1 × 0.8 cm

NC96K6: Excellent sample from Bou Bekker, a locality that you mustn’t confuse with Touissit. It is a group of crystals, some of them doubly terminated and better defined than usual for the locality, on a Malachite matrix.
Bou Bekker, Touissit District, Oujda  Morocco (1988)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 5 × 3.8 cm

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.6 cm

EF16K6: Eudidymite forms a parallel growth of delicate white and doubly terminated crystals implanted on a doubly terminated black crystal of Aegirine.
Mount Malosa, Zomba  Malawi (2006)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.1 × 1.7 cm

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.2 cm

EC99K6: Group of Aquamarine crystals of good color with an unusual morphology; clear curvatures of the prism faces, and terminated by a small pyramid. On Albite matrix with Muscovite.
Mimoso do Sul, Espirito Santo  Brazil (±1990)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.1 × 3.9 cm

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 1.1 cm

ED47K6: Doubly terminated crystal. One of the two terminations, very curious, is formed by a very acute re-growth of the pyramid faces.
Pica Pau, Padre Paraiso, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2007)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 0.7 × 0.5 cm

EC68K6: Doubly terminated crystal with very different terminations. One of them is formed by the faces, with very well marked curvature, of a very acute pyramid; the opposite is multiple and has forms and channels of dissolution.
Pica Pau, Padre Paraiso, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2007)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 1.2 × 1 cm

TF14K6: An esthetic growth of short prismatic crystals of delicate pink color comprises the base of a group of crystals of milky Quartz, some of them with scepter terminations.
Lavra da Ilha, Taquaral, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 5.9 × 2.8 × 2.2 cm

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm