September 2009 Update

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RC62P1: Very well defined twins of flat prismatic crystals whose color is between white and clear brown, and they are on a massive Galena matrix. We especially note that the mine is well documented on the label, which is unusual on most of the samples of the epoch.
Mina Raimunda, El Molar, Priorat, Tarragona  Spain (±1923)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.3 × 3.8 cm = 2.5” × 2.1” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

RB63P1: Very well defined twins of flat prismatic crystals whose color is between white and clear brown, and they are on a massive Galena matrix. We especially note that the mine is well documented on the label, which is unusual on most of the samples of the epoch.
Mina Raimunda, El Molar, Priorat, Tarragona  Spain (±1923)

Specimen size: 7 × 3.6 × 5.1 cm = 2.8” × 1.4” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.2 cm = 0.3” × 0.1”

RK64P1: Butterfly and cyclic twins of well defined crystals on a massive Galena matrix. We especially note that the mine is well documented on the label, which is unusual on most of the samples of the epoch. The label notes the year of the find of the specimen - 1923.
Mina Raimunda, El Molar, Priorat, Tarragona  Spain (±1923)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 7.5 × 5.2 cm = 3.1” × 3.0” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

RZ9P1: Creamy beveled laminar crystals, some of them very well defined, of this very rare Wulfenite variety, rich in tungsten. The crystals contrast with a matrix of clear greenish Fluorite with nucleus of Galena.
Sant Fost de Campsentelles, Vallès oriental, Barcelona  Spain (01/1955)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5.9 × 4.3 cm = 3.1” × 2.3” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

RM14P1: Group of cubical crystals of sharp, very well defined, faces and edges of slightly greenish yellow color. The sample, with the edges areas more transparent than the central areas of the faces, is absolutely representative of this Catalan locality.
Sant Marçal, Montseny, Barcelona  Spain

Specimen size: 11.2 × 11 × 3.2 cm = 4.4” × 4.3” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.1” × 0.7”

RV8P1: Deep green aggregates of thin laminar crystals on dark brown matrix.
Mina Delfina, Ortiguero, Cabrales, Asturias  Spain (04/1960)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.3 × 2.9 cm = 2.1” × 1.7” × 1.1”

RT9P1: Aggregates of thin laminar crystals of Tyrolite. They are bright and the color is very deep. On matrix with Chrysocolla and Tetrahedrite-Tennantite.
On the back of the label it is cited that it was collected by D. Joaquín Folch on the dumps of the mine in 1960.
Mina Delfina, Ortiguero, Cabrales, Asturias  Spain (04/1960)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.7 × 3.2 cm = 2.0” × 1.9” × 1.3”

RC11P1: Excellent sample both for its size and for the definition of the dodecahedral form.
The label shows that it was collected by Mr. Marçal Lloria in 1973.
Peña Grajera, Hornachuelos, Córdoba  Spain (±1973)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 6.4 × 6.5 cm = 3.0” × 2.5” × 2.6”

Main crystal size: 6.5 × 5.5 cm = 2.6” × 2.2”

RX14P1: Well defined crystals, bright and of good color and transparency, with small coatings of white Dolomite, on matrix.
Mina Las Manforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.6 × 2.8 cm = 1.7” × 1.4” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

RA11P1: Group of very well defined crystals that came from a small well-documented Pyrite mine not known for well-crystallized samples of Sphalerite.
The citation A. d'Aboin on the label seems to refer to an engineer of the mine.
Mina San Miguel, Almonaster la Real, Huelva  Spain

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.3 × 2 cm = 1.9” × 1.3” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

RP66P1: Bright Sphalerite crystal with deep striations and triangular echeloning on its faces. It is with massive Chalcopyrite, Siderite, Muscovite and Calcite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal (±1967)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.7 × 5.7 cm = 2.8” × 2.6” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 3.4 cm = 1.9” × 1.3”

RE27P1: Aggregates of small very well defined crystals, very bright and of deep color filling vugs in a Quartz matrix.
The sample is from the collection of Sir Arthur Russell and previously from the collection of J.J. Couzens.
Wheal Phoenix, Linkinhorne, Liskeard, Cornwall  United Kingdom

Specimen size: 7.9 × 6.1 × 2 cm = 3.1” × 2.4” × 0.8”

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

RB97P1: Group of Quartz crystals with very well defined phantom growths, underlined by the inner coatings of Chlorite. Some of the crystals are partially coated by a second generation of Quartz crystals forming rosettes and very clear and bright small crystals.
Viaplana, Sils, Thusis, Domleschg, Hinterrhein Valley, Grisons  Switzerland

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.3 × 5.4 cm = 2.7” × 1.7” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 1.4 cm = 1.8” × 0.6”

RR66P1: Group of Quartz crystals of excellent brilliance, transparency and color, very deep. Some of the faces selectively have inclusions of Chlorite and, on the base, there also are fibrous aggregates of an indeterminate amphibole, probably Actinolite (Byssolite).
Val Giuf, Tavetsch, Grisons  Switzerland

Specimen size: 9.8 × 5.3 × 3.3 cm = 3.9” × 2.1” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 1.1 cm = 1.3” × 0.4”

AV14P1: Laminar crystals with very well defined faces and edges. Them are transparent, bright and with an excellent deep yellow color and very aerial on a Calcite matrix.
Sierra de Los Lamentos, Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2 × 1.5 cm = 1.0” × 0.8” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

AZ50P1: Two doubly terminated Fluorapatite crystals with the dipyramidal faces very well marked by color zoning. On Muscovite matrix, with small crystals of Arsenopyrite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal

Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 1.9” × 1.0” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.7” × 0.5”

AR36P1: Group of sharp very well defined crystals. They are transparent, bright and have an excellent color that resembles the good samples from Asbestos. We specially note the locality in which specimens of Vesuvianite of such quality are very infrequent.
Lajetto, Condove, Val di Susa, Piemonte  Italy

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.9 × 2.6 cm = 2.3” × 2.3” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

AC16P1: Relatively abundant just some years ago, these samples of Celestine from this locality are becoming rare. The crystals, very acute and of deeper color on the terminations, are very bright, transparent and have grown with groups of small crystals of Sulfur, a species also present on the matrix.
Machów Mine, Tarnobrzeg, Podkarpackie  Poland

Specimen size: 8.2 × 7.2 × 6 cm = 3.2” × 2.8” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.3 cm = 0.4” × 0.1”

AC86P1: Parallel growth of very well defined Elbaite crystals. They are bright, of excellent and very uniform deep green color and terminated by a smooth and also bright pinacoid. On Albite matrix, with Muscovite.
Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.4 × 3.6 cm = 2.0” × 1.3” × 1.4”

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

AH92P1: Very well defined Elbaite (Rubellite) crystal, not thick, with good uniform color, transparency and luster. The crystal grew implanted on a doubly terminated curious crystal of Quartz. The upper termination of the Elbaite crystal is recrystallized and the termination below is broken.
Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2007)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.1 × 1.7 cm = 2.4” × 1.2” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 1.1 cm = 1.8” × 0.4”

AX27P1: Parallel growths of Tetrahedrite crystals of very well defined faces and edges, extraordinarily bright, with Chalcopyrite and small crystals of Galena with hollow growths. Very original.
Mina Mercedes, Huallanca, Dos de Mayo, Huánuco  Peru

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.5 × 2.8 cm = 2.7” × 1.8” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

AA46P1: Very aerial and esthetic group of sharp, flat prismatic and very well defined crystals. They have an excellent luster and an extraordinary color, surely the best among the Rhodonite samples from the locality.
Mina San Martín, Chiuruco, Huallanca, Ancash  Peru (11/2006)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.2 × 3 cm = 1.6” × 1.3” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”