Fabre Minerals / Mineral specimens / James Catmur Collection

Rhodochrosite with Tetrahedrite

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JT94W0: Sharp, individual, rhombohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite. They are translucent, very bright and have a great intensity of color. Furthermore, they are implanted on an aggregate of sharp tetrahedral crystals of Tetrahedrite, an uncommon association. The Rhodochrosite from Sweet Home Mine has become, in just a few years, one of the great classics due to their quality and the permanent closing of the mine.
Corner Pocket, Watercourse Raise, Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado USA (1994)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.3 × 2.3 cm = 2.0” × 1.3” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

With label number B122 from the James Catmur Collection

Microcline (amazonite)

JA46W0: Parallel aggregate of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, some of them doubly terminated and with a neat color zoning, intense bluish green on the terminations and clearer on the dominant faces.
Park County Claims, Tarryall, Park County, Colorado USA (±1990)

Specimen size: 9 × 7 × 4.5 cm = 3.5” × 2.8” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 7 × 2.5 cm = 2.8” × 1.0”

With label number B240 from the James Catmur Collection

Andradite (Topazolite)

JD90W0: Grouped and isolated crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright, with a very intense and uniform color and implanted on a matrix of Clinochlore. One of the best examples of the 1998 find.
Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria District, San Benito County, California USA (11/1998)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.2 × 1.8 cm = 2.8” × 2.4” × 0.7”

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

With label number B523 from the James Catmur Collection

Sphalerite with Galena, Chalcopyrite and Quartz

JR7W0: Unusually sharp crystals of Sphalerite, formed by two opposite tetrahedrons beveled by the dodecahedron, with fine growth striae, with crystals of Galena that have dissolution forms, and small crystals of Chalcopyrite, all this on a matrix of Quartz crystals.
Madan, Smolyan, Rhodope Mountains Bulgaria (1969)

Specimen size: 12 × 12 × 6.5 cm = 4.7” × 4.7” × 2.6”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.9”

With label number B320 from the James Catmur Collection

Sphalerite with Galena, Chalcopyrite and Quartz.

Grossular with Chlorite

JV60W0: Aggregate of crystals that combine, in a balanced way, the faces of the dodecahedron and the trapezohedron. They are translucent, very bright, have an orange color and are on matrix, with leafy aggregates of Chlorite.
Val d'Aosta Italy

Specimen size: 7 × 6.3 × 4.5 cm = 2.8” × 2.5” × 1.8”

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

With label number 0037 from the James Catmur Collection

Galena with Calcite and Quartz

JB67W0: Growths of very flat crystals of Galena, twinned on the Spinel law, partially coated by small crystals of Quartz, tabular crystals of Calcite with hexagonal shape, and small crystals of Pyrite. This morphology of the Galena is uncommon on the samples from the Boldut Mine and resembles the ones from Dalnegorsk.
Boldut Mine, 61 level ↓350m., Cavnic, Maramures Rumania (04/01/1999)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 7.5 × 5.2 cm = 4.1” × 3.0” × 2.0”

With label number B665 from the James Catmur Collection

Galena with Sphalerite and Calcite

JL28W0: Polycrystalline growth, extraordinarily flattened, of Galena.Very bright, on Calcite matrix and with small crystals of Sphalerite.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskij Kraj Russia

Specimen size: 7.8 × 7.5 × 4.5 cm = 3.1” × 3.0” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV

With label number B845 from the James Catmur Collection

Cerussite

JH56W0: Group of twinned crystals of Cerussite that are very flattened, with perfect, acute, terminations, between transparent and translucent, bright and with a slightly smoky color. A fine miniature from Touissit.
Puit IX, Touissit, Oujda Morocco

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.7 × 2.1 cm = 1.3” × 1.1” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.2 cm = 0.8” × 0.5”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

With label number B208 from the James Catmur Collection

Anglesite

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JL92W0: A very sharp crystal that has an extraordinarily intense and uniform yellow color. It is very bright and transparent and has inclusions of Galena. Another magnificent classic of Touissit's golden age.
Puit IX, Touissit, Oujda Morocco (02/1995)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.4 × 1.6 cm = 2.0” × 1.3” × 0.6”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

With label number B102 from the James Catmur Collection

Carrollite with Calcite

JF54W0: Cubo-octahedral crystals that in some faces show the forms of the tetrahexahedron. The crystals, from the famous find of April 2001, are perfectly sharp and are on matrix, with Calcite.
Kamoya South Mine, Kambove Congo D.R. (04/01/2001)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 5.5 × 4.2 cm = 2.7” × 2.2” × 1.7”

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

With label number B763 from the James Catmur Collection

Wulfenite with Dolomite

JF10W0: Tabular crystals of Wulfenite with very well developed faces of the pinacoid and the dipyramid. They are between transparent and translucent, yellow in color with orange shades, very bright and on matrix.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb Namibia

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5 × 3.3 cm = 2.2” × 2.0” × 1.3”

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

Dolomite fluorescent short UV

With label number B923 from the James Catmur Collection

Cassiterite with Muscovite

JK48W0: Very sharp twinned crystal of Cassiterite. The crystal, black, is very bright, has parallel growths, a considerable size for the locality and it's partially coated by a leafy aggregate of Muscovite.
Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais Brazil

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.3 × 3.9 cm = 1.9” × 1.3” × 1.5”

With label number B313 from the James Catmur Collection

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Pyromorphite

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JA89W0: Aggregate on matrix of elongated crystals with their faces and edges slightly curved and edged terminations. The color is especially intense, deep and uniform.
Daoping Mine, Guilin, Guangxi China (05/01/2000)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 5.4 × 3.3 cm = 3.5” × 2.1” × 1.3”

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

With label number B737 from the James Catmur Collection

Twinned Spinel with Calcite

JG27W0: Single crystal neatly twinned on the law typical for the species. It is implanted on a white Calcite matrix, is transparent and has an especially intense and uniform red color. A miniature very representative of the species.
Pein Pyit, Mogok, Mandalay Burma (1999)

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

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

Fluorescent long & short UV

With label number B594 from the James Catmur Collection

Axinite-(Fe) with Albite

JK97W0: The sample is very representative of the first finds of Axinite-(Fe) in Pakistan (1993), with sharp, flattened and quite individual crystals. They are transparent, brown with mauve shades and on matrix.
Tormiq Valley, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu District, Baltistan Pakistan (1993)

Specimen size: 7 × 5 × 5.5 cm = 2.8” × 2.0” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 3.2 cm = 1.3” × 1.3”

With label number B298 from the James Catmur Collection

Fluorite with Calcite

JX68W0: A curious crystal of bicolor Fluorite, whose inner part is yellow and its core is blue, with forms of dissolution extraordinarily well marked, really uncommon for the samples from this locality. It is partially coated by an aggregate of very elongated white scalenohedral crystals of Calcite.
The sample is with a label from the Tom Wiesner collection that we'll send to the buyer.
Annabel Lee Mine, Hardin County, Illinois USA (17/05/1985)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.2 × 3.1 cm = 3.1” × 2.4” × 1.2”

Fluorescent long & short UV

With label number B941 from the James Catmur Collection

Fluorite with Galena

JF53W0: Octahedral crystal of Fluorite with minor faces of the cube and beveled by the dodecahedron. Translucent, with clear green color, it is implanted on a druse of cubo-octahedral crystals of bright Galena twinned on the Spinel law.
The sample is with a previous label of the Jan Buma collection (num. 040715), that we'll send to the buyer.
Naica, Saucillo, Chihuahua Mexico (03/2004)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 7.7 × 3.7 cm = 4.3” × 3.0” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.4 cm = 1.1” × 0.9”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

With label number 040715 from the James Catmur Collection

Fluorite with Quartz and Goethite

JJ86W0: Floater cubic crystal, extraordinarily transparent, colorless, neat and bright. It is impaled by a crystal of Quartz coated by Goethite. The corners show very small faces of the cube surrounded by the trisoctahedron. A small jewel.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskij Kraj Russia (05/1996)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.9” × 0.6” × 0.5”

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

With label number B295 from the James Catmur Collection

Fluorite with Galena and Calcite

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JC40W0: Colorless, transparent and bright crystal formed by the clearly dominant faces of the dodecahedron, a very infrequent occurrence on Fluorite crystals, with minor faces of the cube and octahedron. It is on matrix, with Calcite and twinned crystals of Galena on Calcite. Neither the photos nor the 3D imagegive a perfect vision of the crystal, since it is extraordinarily transparent and very luminous.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskij Kraj Russia (2003)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.2 × 3.6 cm = 2.5” × 2.0” × 1.4”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV

With label number B893 from the James Catmur Collection

Fluorite with Quartz and Pyrite

JE49W0: Aggregate of cubic crystals with polycrystalline growths on the corners that insinuate the forms of the octahedron, reinforced by the presence of oriented small crystals of Quartz and Pyrite partially coating them.
El Hamman, Meknès Morocco (±2004)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.8 × 4 cm = 3.0” × 2.3” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 2.5 cm = 1.5” × 1.0”

Very fluorescent long & short UV

With label number B871 from the James Catmur Collection

Fluorite with Calcite

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JX90W0: Aggregate of cubic crystals with polycrystalline growths on the faces, with a deep density of color typical of the samples from the locality that requires them to be observed with a strong light.
Tounfit, Boumia Morocco (±2006)

Specimen size: 11 × 8.5 × 3.8 cm = 4.3” × 3.3” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.7 cm = 1.6” × 1.5”

With label number B934 from the James Catmur Collection

Fluorite with Scheelite and Calcite

JE51W0: Cubic crystals of Fluorite, transparent and extraordinarily bright, with a phantom growth in their core. They are on a group of Quartz crystals, with Calcite and sharp dipyramidal crystals of Scheelite, transparent and brown.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan China (2003)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.7 × 4 cm = 3.3” × 2.6” × 1.6”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV. Scheelite fluorescent short UV & low fluorescence long UV

With label number B878 from the James Catmur Collection

Fluorite with Calcite

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JJ89W0: Very well defined octahedral crystals that are translucent and have a very nice blue color. They are on a matrix of lenticular crystals of Calcite.
Sichuan China (±1997)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.5 × 4.5 cm = 3.0” × 2.6” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.6 cm = 1.1” × 1.0”

First generation Fluorite fluorescent long & short UV

With label number B455 from the James Catmur Collection

Fluorite with Calcite

JB49W0: Group of cubic crystals of Fluorite. They are bright, transparent, with very well marked phantom growths delineated by an intense violet color and partially coated by white lenticular crystals of Calcite. The main crystal has a surface of exfoliation in one of its vertexes but, nonetheless, the sample is really attractive.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan China (±1997)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 9.8 × 4.7 cm = 4.6” × 3.9” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 4 cm = 2.1” × 1.6”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

With label number B464 from the James Catmur Collection

Fluorite

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JT51W0: Very aerial group of sharp transparent cubic crystals, some of them showing white inclusions in their central area. The crystals are extraordinarily bright, have a clear green color, intense and uniform, and are on a small matrix of limonite.
Xianghuapu Mine, Linwu, Chenzhou, Hunan China (2006)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 8.5 × 8.5 cm = 4.2” × 3.3” × 3.3”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.8” × 0.6”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

With label number B946 from the James Catmur Collection

Fluorite with Quartz, Dolomite and Pyrite

JH93W0: Aggregate of cubic crystals of Fluorite clearly beveled by the dodecahedron, extraordinarily bright, transparent, with an especially intense and deep violet color, with phantom growths and on matrix, with small crystals of Quartz, Dolomite and Pyrite. The main crystal has minor damage on one of its edges.
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang, Hunan China (±2004)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 8.7 × 5 cm = 4.9” × 3.4” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

With label number B875 from the James Catmur Collection

Fluorite with Quartz, Dolomite and Pyrite.

Fluorite with Quartz and Calcite

JV64W0: Spheroidal crystals of Fluorite with very intense red color growing on the faces of a yellow scalenohedral crystal of Calcite, all this in a cavity of Quartz crystals.
Mahodari, Nasik, Maharashtra India (2003)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.3 × 5.5 cm = 3.6” × 2.9” × 2.2”

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

With label number B886 from the James Catmur Collection

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