August 2012 Update

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JR66W3: Thick tabular crystal with simple forms, isolated and practically a floater. It is large, translucent, bright and has a color between yellow and brown depending of the zones. The sample is from a locality that is rarely represented in most of the good mineralogical collections.
Sherman Mine, Upper Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado  USA (±1988)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 8.7 × 3.2 cm = 4.5” × 3.4” × 1.3”

JB14W3: Flattened doubly terminated crystal of Calcite implanted on a polycrystalline growth of small cubic crystals of Fluorite. Transparent, it has pale yellow color.
The sample was previously in the collection of Jan Buma (num. 050115), whose card we’ll send with the Catmur label to the buyer.
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee  USA

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.1 × 2.8 cm = 2.0” × 1.2” × 1.1”

JA28W3: Flattened drusy growth of very transparent cubic crystals with a very uniform violet color. An American classic of very good quality.
The sample was previously in the collection of Tom Wiesner (num. 73572074), whose label we’ll send with the Catmur label to the buyer.
Spivey Shaft, Minerva I Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois  USA (1974)

Specimen size: 13.7 × 10.3 × 1.7 cm = 5.4” × 4.1” × 0.7”

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

JC99W3: Irregular aggregate of very sharp octahedral crystals, between translucent and transparent, bright, with a very uniform lilac color and on matrix. They are with small yellow crystals of Vesuvianite and brown dodecahedral crystals of Grossular.
Naica, Saucillo, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 6 × 3.7 × 2.5 cm = 2.4” × 1.5” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

JD86W3: Parallel growths of cuboctahedral crystals of Galena that are extraordinarily bright, especially bearing in mind that they are from Rumania. Some of them show skeletal growths, and with white lenticular crystals of Calcite and small crystals of Siderite and Pyrite.
Boldut Mine, 61 level, ↓350m., Cavnic, Maramures  Rumania (04/01/1999)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 5.5 × 5.2 cm = 3.3” × 2.2” × 2.0”

JE9W3: Unusual combination of species with complete cyclic twins of Cerussite, translucent and bright, and prismatic crystals of Azurite, some of them doubly terminated, and small spherical growths of Malachite.
Puit IX, Touissit, Oujda  Morocco (1994)

Specimen size: 6 × 3.8 × 5.4 cm = 2.4” × 1.5” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.7” × 0.2”

JD73W3: Aggregate of crystals, large for the species, bright and with an intense and vivid red color. They have poorly developed prismatic faces, one of their terminations is polycrystalline, and with predominating pyramidal faces. The back sides of the crystals are almost flat.
Coud'a, Mibladen, Midelt, Khénifra  Morocco (10/2001)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.5 × 3.2 cm = 2.1” × 1.8” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.6 cm = 1.1” × 1.0”

JG37W3: Aggregate of cubic crystals, on matrix, with polycrystalline growths on their vertices. They have a deep green color and are bright and transparent, with mossy looking inclusions.
Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo District  Namibia (±2003)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 7.1 × 3.2 cm = 2.9” × 2.8” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.3 cm = 1.0” × 0.9”

JF64W3: Divergent aggregate of very bright Stibnite crystals. They have neat simple terminations and very well marked and curious growth twisting. They are partially coated by small globular growths of Calcite.
Xikuangshan Mine, Lengshuijiang, Hunan  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 7 × 4.2 × 2.6 cm = 2.8” × 1.7” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 5.8 × 0.7 cm = 2.3” × 0.3”

JM96W3: Divergent aggregate of bright crystals of Stibnite that have very acute and very well defined terminations. They are partially coated by Quartz crystals.
Xikuangshan Mine, Lengshuijiang, Hunan  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 12.2 × 5 × 2 cm = 4.8” × 2.0” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 10 × 0.7 cm = 3.9” × 0.3”

JP93W3: Divergent aggregates of flat and very elongated crystals that are on matrix, which is very slightly rare with such samples. They have very marked reddish reflections under a strong light and are slightly coated by small white growths of Gypsum and very thin acicular crystals of Stibnite.
Caiwa Mine, Danfeng County, Shangluo, Shaanxi  China (2002)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 4.8 × 3.1 cm = 3.5” × 1.9” × 1.2”

JT50W3: Group of cubic crystals that are beveled by the faces of the dodecahedron. They are very aerial as usual, bright, very transparent, and have a very uniform clear green color, with white selective micro-recrystallizations on some of the cube faces.
Xianghuapu Mine, Linwu, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (2005)

Specimen size: 13.2 × 9.8 × 7.5 cm = 5.2” × 3.9” × 3.0”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 1.3” × 1.0”

GM47W3: Aggregate of colorless laminar crystals. They are very transparent and bright and have inclusions of limonite around their edges. A Polish classic, relatively common some decades ago, but hard to find today.
Stanisławów, Jawor, Lower Silesia  Poland (±1982)

Specimen size: 11.6 × 7.5 × 7 cm = 4.6” × 3.0” × 2.8”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.8 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

GQ26W3: Prismatic crystals that have very well defined faces and edges, with very bright terminations, on a matrix of Ilvaite and with Quartz crystals. Very good quality for the locality, an Italian classic for the species though they are not so well known as those that are from Elba.
Campiglia Marittima, Livorno, Toscana  Italy (±1980)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 5.5 × 5.7 cm = 3.7” × 2.2” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.6” × 0.2”

GE90W3: Group of unusually sharp prismatic crystals on limonite matrix. They are doubly terminated and one of them is clearly dominant. The sample, of great quality due to the perfection and sharpness of the crystalline forms, has a small geometric contact on one of the terminations of the main crystal, a contact that we clearly show in the close-up photography.
Touissit, Oujda  Morocco (±1981)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 3.6 × 4.2 cm = 2.3” × 1.4” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 5.9 × 1.8 cm = 2.3” × 0.7”

GP98W3: Gemmy blue Topaz, with a very rich color, very sharp but with several "scars" (contacts, rehealing...) that are typical of pegmatite minerals.

Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais  Brazil (±1980)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.9 × 3.7 cm = 1.9” × 1.9” × 1.5”

GB27W3: Group of Hübnerite crystals that are elongated and with perfect terminations. They have a dark red color, with intense vivid red reflections under a strong light, and are with a group of thin crystals of Quartz on the back. A Peruvian classic.
Mina Huallapon, Pasto Bueno, Pallasca, Ancash  Peru (±1985)

Specimen size: 8 × 3.1 × 2.4 cm = 3.1” × 1.2” × 0.9”

GH14W3: Very aerial group of short prismatic crystals beveled by the faces of a dipyramid. They are translucent, with yellow color and on matrix. An excellent miniature from a locality that is classic for this species.
Mount Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill, Victoria-Daley Shire, Northern Territory  Australia (±1980)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.8” × 0.6” × 0.5”

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