September 2009 Update

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TY96P1: A very esthetic group of crystals on matrix. The crystals have very well defined faces and edges and are very transparent, bright and a uniform and intense color.
Piedra Parada, Las Vigas, Veracruz  Mexico

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.4 × 3.7 cm = 2.5” × 1.7” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1 cm = 0.9” × 0.4”

NK13P1: Cubic crystals with polysynthetic growths on some of their faces and geometric color zoning, deeper at the center of the crystal. The group is very aerial and it has grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Barite.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 4 × 2.3 × 2.7 cm = 1.6” × 0.9” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.9” × 0.8”

NG13P1: Cubic crystals with polysynthetic growths on some of their faces and geometric color zoning of the color, deeper at the center of the crystal. The crystals, perfectly individualized, it has grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Barite.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 7.2 × 2.9 × 3.6 cm = 2.8” × 1.1” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

NJ63P1: Cubic crystals with polysynthetic growths on some of their faces and geometric color zoning, deeper at the center of the crystal. The crystals it has grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Barite.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.5 × 3.6 cm = 1.9” × 1.4” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.5”

NH14P1: Cubic crystals with polysynthetic growths on some of their faces and geometric color zoning, deeper at the center of the crystal. The crystals it has grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Barite.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 4.8 × 1.9 × 2.9 cm = 1.9” × 0.7” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

NP63P1: Cubic crystals with growths of clear, very uniform lilac color The crystals have grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Barite.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 8.5 × 6.2 × 4.5 cm = 3.3” × 2.4” × 1.8”

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

NL14P1: Cubic crystals with polysynthetic growths on some of their faces and geometric color zoning, deeper at the center of the crystal. The crystals it has grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Barite.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 7.9 × 5.2 × 3.9 cm = 3.1” × 2.0” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

NM14P1: Group of cubic crystals with polysynthetic growths on some of their faces and geometric color zoning, deeper at the center of the crystal. The crystals it has grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Barite.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 8.6 × 6.5 × 4 cm = 3.4” × 2.6” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.5 cm = 0.9” × 0.6”

NR6P1: Cubic crystals with polysynthetic growths on some of their faces and geometric color zoning, deeper at the center of the crystal. On the back side the group is partially well crystallized and it is partially recrystallized by a contact.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.7 × 2.1 cm = 1.5” × 1.5” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.1 cm = 1.1” × 0.8”

NF26P1: Group of cubic crystals with polysynthetic growths on some of their faces and geometric color zoning, deeper at the center of the crystal. The crystals it has grown on a small matrix of white laminar crystals of Barite.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.7 × 3 cm = 2.2” × 1.9” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 3 cm = 1.1” × 1.2”

ND46P1: Group of cubic crystals with polysynthetic growths on some of their faces, having a deep color and geometric color zoning. The crystals it has grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Barite.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.9 × 3.8 cm = 2.5” × 1.9” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.8 cm = 1.3” × 1.1”

NE66P1: Group of cubic crystals with polysynthetic growths on some of their faces. Of very deep color, the crystals have a very well marked geometric color zoning. The crystals it has grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Barite.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 6.9 × 5 × 3.7 cm = 2.7” × 2.0” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.9” × 0.8”

NC56P1: Group of cubic crystals of excellent transparency, very deep color and a marked geometrical zoning. The group has grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Barite.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.8 × 2.9 cm = 2.6” × 1.9” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.7 cm = 1.1” × 1.1”

NB66P1: Group of cubic crystals of excellent transparency, very deep color and a marked geometrical zoning. The group has grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Barite.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.6 × 6.1 cm = 2.6” × 1.8” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 1.9 cm = 1.3” × 0.7”

NA66P1: Group of cubic crystals of excellent transparency, very deep color and a marked geometrical zoning. The group has grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Barite.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 6 × 4.4 × 3.1 cm = 2.4” × 1.7” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2 cm = 1.3” × 0.8”

NQ10P1: Esthetic group of white laminar crystals, one of them clearly dominant. The crystals have the morphology typical of Berbes, being clearly thicker at the center and very much thinner on the edges.
La Cabaña, Berbes, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 9 × 5.9 × 5.7 cm = 3.5” × 2.3” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 4.9 × 2.6 cm = 1.9” × 1.0”

TD99P1: The crystals have the very neat forms of the dodecahedron; very unusual, as isolated forms, for Cuprite. They are bright and have reddish reflections, contrasting with the white matrix of Quartz.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 280 in number 2009/4
Onganja, Seeis, Windhoek, Khomas  Namibia

Specimen size: 8.2 × 6.2 × 2.7 × cm = 3.2” × 2.4” × 1.1”

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

TP29P1: Groups of rhombohedral crystals, very well defined and slightly curved. Their color is intensely pink and they contrast against a matrix coated by Quartz crystals.
Mina Manuelita, Morococha, Yauli, Junín  Peru (2007)

Specimen size: 11 × 9.8 × 8 cm = 4.3” × 3.9” × 3.1”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”

TV64P1: Excellent sample whose penetrating angles had been molded by the faces of another preexisting mineral, probably Quartz. Those surfaces, then, aren’t real geometrical forms of Bismuth, but the small scales, echeloning and striations coating the surfaces correspond to crystalline growths of the mineral.
This specimen was photographed as a novelty at the 2009 Ste. Marie Show for the ‘Sainte-Marie Show 2009’ section of the magazine ‘Minéraux et Fossiles’ page 22, number 383 and also in the ‘Mineral up’ magazine, on page 29, number 2009/2 and in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 60 in the volume 14, number 3.
Laikeng, Chongyi County, Ganzhou, Jiangxi  China (2009)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.8” × 1.4” × 1.3”