Post-Ste. Marie 2008 Update

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RA46L9: Group of prismatic Pyrrhotite crystals with excellent terminations, partially covered by small Dolomite crystals.
The piece is accompanied by a handwritten label and a card (nr. 9812) from the Folch Collection, where we can read that it was purchased in 1966.
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua  Mexico (1966)

Specimen size: 12.6 × 7.4 × 4.4 cm

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm

RL64L9: A miniature from a classic locality. Arborescent growth of Copper crystals, some of them well defined.
The piece is accompanied by a handwritten label from the Folch collection that we will send to the buyer.
Bisbee, Warren District, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm

RV13L9: Group of well defined and very bright Adamite crystals. A gentle yellow to greenish color, on a Limonite matrix.
The specimen is with a commercial label of John S. Albanese, from New Jersey. We will send the label to the buyer.
Mina Ojuela, Mapimí, Municipio de Mapimí, Durango  Mexico

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.5 × 2.8 cm

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm

RF16L9: Topaz crystal with good color and transparence from a Spanish locality that has became a classic. Well defined faces and edges, with thin vertical striations.
The piece is accompanied by a handwritten label from the Folch collection that we will send to the buyer.
Mina San Nicolás, Valle de la Serena, Badajoz  Spain (±1976)

Specimen size: 2.1 × 2 × 1.5 cm

RV6L9: Group of Cinnabar crystals with well defined faces and edges, with a honey-colored Barite crystal (that we have analyzed) on a black quartzite matrix and grey Quartz.
The piece is accompanied by a handwritten label from the Folch collection.
Pozo de San Teodoro, Almadén, Ciudad Real  Spain (±1973)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.8 × 3.3 cm

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm

RF86L9: Very sharp Sphalerite crystal with some curved edges. A translucent sample with a good honey to red intense color.
The piece is accompanied by a handwritten label from the Folch collection.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 7.3 × 6 × 3 cm

RM64L9: Thick tabular Apatite-(CaF) crystal showing with excellent definition the unusual, for the Panasqueira Mine, pyramid faces. With very marked concentric color zoning. There is a chip at the upper right corner.
The piece is accompanied by a handwritten label from the Folch collection.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (±1972)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2 × 1.4 cm

RF66L9: This sample is a rarity. A very curious combination in one piece of green and blue to violet Apatite-(CaF) crystals. With some slight pyramidal faces less transparent than the prism faces. Crystals are on a matrix.
The piece is accompanied by a handwritten label from the Folch collection.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.8 × 2.3 cm

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.3 cm

RV12L9: Totally flattened Calcite crystal (“papierspat”) with pyramid shape and very marked striations. The specimen is from a classic locality for this kind of Calcite crystal.
The piece is accompanied by a handwritten label from the Folch collection.
Maderannertal  Switzerland (±1947)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.5 × 0.8 cm

RL46L9: Group of doubly terminated Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with excellent transparency and good brilliance. The crystal that serves as a base seems broken but is undamaged, with curious face growths.
The piece is accompanied by a handwritten label from the Folch collection.
Voralp Valley, Uri  Switzerland

Specimen size: 7.1 × 4 × 2 cm

Main crystal size: 6.6 × 2.2 cm

RH86L9: Small crystals of this rare hydrated zinc phosphate: Hopeite. Crystals show very sharp faces and edges, with some internal zoning, probably inclusions of Goethite, on a Smithsonite matrix.
The piece is accompanied by a commercial label of Burminco, from Monrovia, California.
Broken Hill, Kabwe  Zambia (±1958)

Specimen size: 13.3 × 9.7 × 3.7 cm

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm