October 2009 Update

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EC86P2: Very aerial aggregate of big, bright crystals whose faces are very well defined for the species and contrasting with the white coatings of Calcite.
The sample is with an old label of the collection of the Museum of Mineralogy and Petrology of Berlin University.
Lake Superior, Keweenaw County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 6.9 × 3.8 × 3.4 cm = 2.7” × 1.5” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2 cm = 1.1” × 0.8”

ED27P2: The crystals are formed by a elongated prism and a very acute dipyramid. Most of them are doubly terminated and have multiple terminations. Implanted on Limonite matrix, they are with deep green botryoidal Mimetite.
San Juan Poniente, Level 6, Mina Ojuela, Mapimí, Durango  Mexico (2009)

Specimen size: 9 × 7.2 × 3.5 cm = 3.5” × 2.8” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.5 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

NP60P2: Doubly terminated crystal. It is very bright and with abundant carbonaceous inclusions. The sample is from a recent find of a big geode in the locality. Unfortunately only a few specimens were saved and complete. The Emilio mine is very well known for colorless Fluorite crystals but Quartz is very uncommon there.
Coquera Norte, Zona Norte, Mina Emilio, El Fito, Loroñe, Asturias  Spain (03/2009)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.5 × 2.4 cm = 2.0” × 1.4” × 0.9”

NQ46P2: Group of crystals, one of them clearly dominant, very bright and with abundant carbonaceous inclusions, on a small matrix of Barite. The sample is from a recent find of a big geode in the locality. Unfortunately only a few specimens were saved and complete. The Emilio mine is very well known for colorless Fluorite crystals but Quartz is very uncommon there.
Coquera Norte, Zona Norte, Mina Emilio, El Fito, Loroñe, Asturias  Spain (03/2009)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.8 × 4.1 cm = 2.3” × 1.9” × 1.6”

NK17P2: Doubly terminated crystal. It is very bright and has abundant carbonaceous inclusions. It also has neat "window" and parallel growths and dissolution forms. The sample is from a recent find of a big geode in the locality. Unfortunately only a few specimens were saved and complete. The Emilio mine is very well known for colorless Fluorite crystals but Quartz is very uncommon there.
Coquera Norte, Zona Norte, Mina Emilio, El Fito, Loroñe, Asturias  Spain (03/2009)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 4.1 × 4.8 cm = 3.5” × 1.6” × 1.9”

NB87P2: Two very bright and well defined doubly terminated crystals with abundant inclusions and with a small concretion of Pyrite. The sample is from a recent find of a big geode in the locality. Unfortunately only a few specimens were saved and complete. The Emilio mine is very well known for colorless Fluorite crystals but Quartz is very uncommon there.
Coquera Norte, Zona Norte, Mina Emilio, El Fito, Loroñe, Asturias  Spain (03/2009)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.2 × 4.7 cm = 2.8” × 2.0” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 7 × 4 cm = 2.8” × 1.6”

NM87P2: Two very bright and well defined doubly terminated crystals with abundant inclusions and with Barite. The secondary crystal is slightly flattened by an overgrowth of two opposite faces of one of the terminal rhombohedrons. The sample is from a recent find of a big geode in the locality. Unfortunately only a few specimens were saved and complete. The Emilio mine is very well known for colorless Fluorite crystals but Quartz is very uncommon there.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Sainte-Marie Show 2009’ section of the magazine ‘Minéraux et Fossiles’ and appears on page 17 of number 383.
Coquera Norte, Zona Norte, Mina Emilio, El Fito, Loroñe, Asturias  Spain (03/2009)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 6.5 × 5.7 cm = 3.5” × 2.6” × 2.2”

NC62P2: Clear green globular aggregates with very well defined and bright terminal faces, which are not typical for the samples from this locality, actually now closed. The Prehnite is on a serpentine matrix.
Cantera Oficarsa, Carchelejo, Jaén  Spain (2004)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.7 × 2.5 cm = 2.6” × 2.2” × 1.0”

NF6P2: Aggregate of rhombohedral crystals with very well marked interpenetration twins. Faces and edges are also very well defined and the group is on matrix and has small coatings of Aragonite.
Cantera Azkarate, Eugui, Navarra  Spain (1990)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5 × 3.7 cm = 2.1” × 2.0” × 1.5”

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

EG46P2: The sample is formed by two doubly terminated and complete crystals. The smallest has an unusual crystallographic habit. Both crystals are bright and have abundant mobile hydrocarbon inclusions. A magnificent classic of Berbes.
Berbes, Ribadesella, Asturias  Spain (12/1995)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.4 × 3.3 cm = 2.2” × 1.7” × 1.3”

ND62P2: Group of cubic crystals slightly beveled by the dodecahedron. They have an excellent transparency, luster and color, lilac with mauve shades. The group is partially surrounded by scalenohedral, very acute and doubly terminated, crystals of Calcite
Cantera de Yanci, Yanci (Igantzi), Navarra  Spain (03/2009)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3 × 2.4 cm = 2.1” × 1.2” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

ER49P2: A specimen of excellent quality in its rarity, with a perfect growth of oriented crystals, very bright and more well-defined than usual for these "graphic" Sylvanites, and on Quartz matrix. A great classic.
Sacarîmb (Nagyág), Hunedoara County  Rumania

Specimen size: 9.6 × 6.6 × 3.4 cm = 3.8” × 2.6” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.1 cm = 0.2” × 0.0”

EQ56P2: A fine piece with globular growths of good yellow color, on matrix and with Calcite crystals. These samples from this locality are destined to become the classics for the species.
Cava Ugas, Monte Oladri, Monastir, Cagliari, Sardegna  Italy (2005)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 2.5 × 0.8 cm = 1.8” × 1.0” × 0.3”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

ER67P2: Very defined and separate globular growths on a concretion of white Calcite that coat the rocky matrix. The especially deep orange color belongs to the magnesian species, even considering that the sample has not been analyzed.
Cava Ugas, Monte Oladri, Monastir, Cagliari, Sardegna  Italy (2005)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.3 × 3.5 cm = 2.3” × 1.3” × 1.4”

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

EL16P2: Parallel floater group of tabular crystals with very well developed pinacoidal faces. The prism faces are very thin. They are translucent and have and excellent color and luster. A classic among classics.
Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Iglesiente, Cagliari, Sardegna  Italy (1989-1992)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.4 × 1.8 cm = 2.2” × 1.7” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 4 cm = 2.0” × 1.6”