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A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Complex crystals of Sphalerite with equant habit and very well defined faces and edges, translucent, shiny, and with intense orange-red reflections. On matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zelidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Bekker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (±1970)
Specimen size: 5.5 × 4 × 3.9 cm = 2.17” × 1.57” × 1.54”
Price: [SOLD]

SV160NNP: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Polycrystalline growth of complex Sphalerite crystals with curvatures and with smooth tetrahedron forms. The crystals, between transparent and translucent, have a dense, deep and uniform caramel color and grew on a matrix of sharp white Dolomite crystals. From a classic Spanish mine for Sphalerite located in a spectacular setting next to Los Picos de Europa National Park, and which has been inaccessible for many years as the galleries were flooded.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (±1990)
Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.7 × 2.6 cm = 2.20” × 1.85” × 1.02”
Price: €160 / US$172 / ¥23920 / AUD$250

XM2160NNB: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Floater group of Sphalerite crystals, translucent and of a very deep and uniform honey color, with faces that show polycrystalline growths, partially covered by a multitude of very sharp and profiled Dolomite crystals that give a nice color contrast. A classic of Cantabrian mining from Las Mánforas, at a spectacular location next to the Picos de Europa National Park.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.3 × 2.9 cm = 1.65” × 1.30” × 1.14”
Price: €160 / US$172 / ¥23920 / AUD$250

NRM66AO8: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Group of very sharp Sphalerite crystals with very well defined crystal forms, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and an intense honey color. On matrix, with white scalenohedral Dolomite crystals. The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and 90s, assembled an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of northern Spain.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.9 × 2.3 cm = 1.65” × 1.54” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 1.26” × 0.98”
Price: €160 / US$172 / ¥23920 / AUD$250

TC160NG: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Polycrystalline growths of complex shapes, with well-defined edges and faces, slightly curved, transparent, very lustrous and with a very deep and uniform honey-brown color, with small coatings of white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This piece comes from some small artisanal finds that were made in this mine after its closure. There is currently no access to the galleries.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.8 × 2.2 cm = 2.13” × 1.50” × 0.87”
Price: [SOLD]

EC66AM1: Sphalerite with Dolomite

A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Complex crystal of Sphalerite with equidimensional habit. With abundant polycrystalline growths and sharp faces and edges, translucent, shiny, on matrix, covered by pale pink rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zelidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Bekker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco
Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.5 × 3 cm = 1.85” × 1.77” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 0.59” × 0.59”
Price: [SOLD]

TA66AD4: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Aggregate of complex Sphalerite crystals, some with smooth faces and others with echeloned forms due to parallel growth. The crystals, partially coated by small white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals, are translucent, very bright and have a uniform honey color. A Spanish classic.
Las Mánforas Mine, level 2, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 5 × 4.9 × 3.4 cm = 1.97” × 1.93” × 1.34”
Price: [SOLD]

TC170NY: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Polycrystalline growths of complex shapes, with well-defined edges and faces, slightly curved, transparent, very lustrous and with a very deep and uniform honey-brown color, with small coatings of white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This piece comes from some small artisanal finds that were made in this mine after its closure. There is currently no access to the galleries.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.6 × 2.8 cm = 1.54” × 1.42” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.5 cm = 0.98” × 0.98”
Price: €170 / US$183 / ¥25420 / AUD$270

SV180NFR: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Druse of complex Sphalerite crystals, very rich in crystal forms, from transparent to translucent, lustrous, and with a very intense and lively caramel color, covered with white Dolomite crystals. A Spanish classic from a classic mine for Sphalerite located in a spectacular setting next to Picos de Europa National Park, already inaccessible for many years as the galleries were flooded.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (±1990)
Specimen size: 7.6 × 3.9 × 2.6 cm = 2.99” × 1.54” × 1.02”
Price: €180 / US$194 / ¥26910 / AUD$290

DE14AI0: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Very well defined twinned Sphalerite crystals that are transparent (gem quality), very bright and with a very intense and uniform honey color. On a matrix of Dolomite crystals. An excellent miniature, very aerial and esthetic.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 2.2 × 2 × 1.2 cm = 0.87” × 0.79” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.43” × 0.31”
Price: [SOLD]

XM2190NTX: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Floater group of Sphalerite crystals, translucent and of a very uniform honey color, with smooth faces corresponding to the tetrahedron and partially coated by a multitude of very sharp and outlined Dolomite crystals, creating a beautiful color contrast. A classic of Cantabrian mining from Las Mánforas, located at a spectacular site next to Picos de Europa National Park.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 5.3 × 4 × 2.6 cm = 2.09” × 1.57” × 1.02”
Price: €190 / US$205 / ¥28410 / AUD$300

SM190N: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Complex Sphalerite crystals, one of them dominant, on matrix, with white Dolomite crystals pseudomorphing older Calcite crystals.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.5 × 3 cm cm = 3.86” × 2.95” × 1.18”
Price: €190 / US$205 / ¥28410 / AUD$300

EN96AM1: Sphalerite with Dolomite

A novelty at the 2020 Munich Virtual show. Groups of complex Sphalerite crystals with equant habit and sharply defined faces and edges, translucent, lustrous, on a matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with a pale pink color. This material was practically unknown until now.
Zelidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Bekker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco
Specimen size: 9.4 × 8 × 3.2 cm = 3.70” × 3.15” × 1.26”
Price: €190 / US$205 / ¥28410 / AUD$300

XM2220NPX: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Single crystal of Sphalerite, translucent and with a very uniform honey color, showing smooth tetrahedron faces, very lustrous, with polycrystalline growths and dotted with white Dolomite crystals that give a nice color contrast. A classic of Cantabrian mining from Las Mánforas, in a spectacular location next to the Picos de Europa National Park.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 6 × 5 × 2.6 cm = 2.36” × 1.97” × 1.02”
Price: €220 / US$237 / ¥32900 / AUD$350

NA27AL9: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Complex crystals of Sphalerite on a Dolomite matrix. The crystal is transparent, lustrous and with an intense and lively honey color. With contacts but no damage. Small parts of the back of the matrix have been cut to reduce the size of the specimen without damage to the crystals.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 7 × 5.5 × 4.4 cm = 2.76” × 2.17” × 1.73”
Price: €220 / US$237 / ¥32900 / AUD$350

NP27AL5: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Complex Sphalerite crystals with very well defined and slightly curved faces and edges, transparent, very bright and with a very deep toasted honey color. On matrix with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 5 × 3.6 × 3.6 cm = 1.97” × 1.42” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.4 cm = 0.67” × 0.55”
Price: €220 / US$237 / ¥32900 / AUD$350

TBM37AP8: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Very aerial group of complex Sphalerite crystals, translucent and with an intense and uniform orange color, on matrix, with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.9 × 2.7 cm = 1.93” × 1.54” × 1.06”
Price: €230 / US$248 / ¥34390 / AUD$370

NMF27AP6: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Crystals of Sphalerite with sharp crystal forms, very rich in faces and polycrystalline growths. Translucent, lustrous, with an intense honey color and on a matrix of Dolomite crystals. An old Spanish classic.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 5 × 4.9 × 3.5 cm = 1.97” × 1.93” × 1.38”
Price: €230 / US$248 / ¥34390 / AUD$370

JFD97AO2: Sphalerite with Dolomite

A very good example of the quality of the sphalerites from the Troya mine, with the addition that since the matrix is all Dolomite, there are no sulphide stains of any kind and that is why the matrix looks so white, despite the many years that have passed since it was found.
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Euskadi) Spain (1985)
Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.2 × 1.9 cm = 1.61” × 1.26” × 0.75”
Price: [SOLD]

TC24ERX: Sphalerite with Dolomite

A novelty at Munich Virtual 2020. Complex crystals of Sphalerite with equant habit and very well defined faces and edges, translucent, with bright luster and red-orange reflections. On matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with an intense pink color. This material was practically unknown until now, in both the Zelidja mine itself and in the entire Touissit mining district.
Zelidja Mine, Touissit-Bou Bekker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco
Specimen size: 16.3 × 12.4 × 4.8 cm = 6.42” × 4.88” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.8 cm = 0.79” × 0.71”
Price: [SOLD]

TC240NY: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Polycrystalline growths of complex shapes, with well-defined edges and faces, slightly curved, transparent, very lustrous and with a very deep and uniform honey-brown color, with small coatings of white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. This piece comes from some small artisanal finds that were made in this mine after its closure. There is currently no access to the galleries.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.4 × 2.9 cm = 2.52” × 1.73” × 1.14”
Price: [SOLD]

NF57AM5: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Group of complex crystals of Sphalerite, transparent, with good luster and a very vivid orange color that contrasts with the matrix of rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with a snow-white color. A classic of Spanish mineralogy that comes from the Ignacio Gaspar collection (number BLD-4), whose collection card we will send to the buyer.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 5 × 4.5 × 1.3 cm = 1.97” × 1.77” × 0.51”
Price: [SOLD]

MB28AL0: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Complex crystals of Sphalerite with tetrahedral habit, but very rich in faces and with curvatures on the faces and edges. Transparent with intense color of a different tone from the usual, less red and more greenish-yellow. With inclusions and on a Dolomite encrusted matrix.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.2 × 3.7 cm = 1.85” × 1.65” × 1.46”
Price: [SOLD]

NG37AJ8: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Sphalerite crystals with complex but unusually well defined forms for the locality. They are bright, very transparent and have a very intense and uniform honey yellow color. On matrix with small white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. A small jewel from Las Mánforas that comes from the Carlos González Bargueño collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
The sample has been noted and photographed in the article 'The Áliva Mining District' of the ‘Mineralogical Record‘ magazine on page 410 in the volume 52, number 4, July-August 2021
Las Mánforas Mine, level 2, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (2002)
Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.3 × 1.8 cm = 1.38” × 1.30” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.67” × 0.63”
Price: [SOLD]

SV2290NPR: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Group of Sphalerite crystals with small white Dolomite crystals. This Sphalerite is crystallographically complex, twinned, very translucent and transparent and of a delicious apple-green color, a color which, although known at this mine, is rarely seen in specimens of this quality. Comes from the Antonino Bueno collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Las Mánforas Mine, level 1, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (01/2006)
Specimen size: 4.3 × 3 × 1.6 cm = 1.69” × 1.18” × 0.63”
Price: [RESERVED]

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