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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.
Áliva Mine (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”
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SM190N: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Complex Sphalerite crystals, one of them dominant, on matrix, with white Dolomite crystals pseudomorphing older Calcite crystals.
Áliva Mine (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”
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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”
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SV3220NNM: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Elegant, with good definition of the main crystal, an undamaged floater. A great choice by Antonino Bueno to have it in his collection. With the very white Dolomite providing contrast, it reminds us of how splendid a metallic sulfide can be. We will give Antonino's original label to the buyer.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 2, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (2007)
Specimen size: 6.7 × 3.3 × 2.9 cm = 2.64” × 1.30” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.87”
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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.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 6 × 5 × 2.6 cm = 2.36” × 1.97” × 1.02”
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NV27AM8: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Polycrystalline growth of complex shapes, with defined edges and faces and with fine curvatures, transparent, very lustrous and with a very deep and uniform toasted honey color. On matrix, with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. The specimen comes from small artisanal finds in the mine after its closure. There is currently no access to the galleries.
The specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection (number BLD-7) whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 5.5 × 4 × 3 cm = 2.17” × 1.57” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.63”
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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.
Áliva Mine (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”
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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
Áliva Mine (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”
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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.
Áliva Mine (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”
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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.
Áliva Mine (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”
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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”
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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”
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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.
Áliva Mine (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”
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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.
Áliva Mine (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”
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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.
Áliva Mine (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”
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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
Áliva Mine (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”
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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.
Áliva Mine (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”
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SM380ANP: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Group of Sphalerite crystals with pronounced curvatures on their faces and edges, translucent, with good luster and an intense color, on a rock matrix with white Dolomite crystals. The specimens from Las Mánforas, increasingly hard to get, are already a Spanish mineralogical classic.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 10 × 8.7 × 6.1 cm = 3.94” × 3.43” × 2.40”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.59”
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MF98AM5: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Groups of crystals of Sphalerite with the dominant forms of the tetrahedron, transparent, with good luster and a very intense and vivid green color (variety cleiophane) on a matrix covered by white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. The specimen is very different from what is usually seen at this locality both in color and in general appearance.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 13.2 × 8.8 × 6.9 cm = 5.20” × 3.46” × 2.72”
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XM2390TBM: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Group of lustrous and complex twinned crystals of Sphalerite, very deep honey colored, almost dark, sprinkled randomly with Dolomite crystals that give it a very marked color contrast. A classic of Cantabrian mining from Las Mánforas, in a spectacular location next to Picos de Europa National Park.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 7 × 6.9 × 5.2 cm = 2.76” × 2.72” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.4 cm = 0.94” × 0.94”
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SV2420NBA: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Group of twinned Sphalerite crystals of excellent luster and honey color, highlighting the transparency of the piece. The specimen comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar whose handwritten label we will send to the purchaser.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 2, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (2007)
Specimen size: 6.5 × 4 × 5 cm = 2.56” × 1.57” × 1.97”
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NE50AK4: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Complex crystal of Sphalerite, twinned, with the faces and edges more defined than usual at the locality, between translucent and transparent, very bright and uniform orange shade and on matrix with white Dolomite crystals. The specimen comes from the collection of Carlos González Bargueño, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 1, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (2004)
Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.1 × 3.5 cm = 2.80” × 1.61” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3.1 cm = 1.77” × 1.22”
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XM2580NTR: Sphalerite with Dolomite
A floater that shows two main complex and interpenetrating spherical groups of Sphalerite, with well defined faces and edges. They are translucent, with marked polysynthetic twins and an intense honey color, and are joined at the base with Dolomite crystals as the matrix. A classic of Cantabrian mining from Las Mánforas, located in a spectacular setting next to the Picos de Europa National Park. It belonged to Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and 90s, assembled an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of Northern Spain.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain
Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.2 × 4.1 cm = 2.28” × 1.65” × 1.61”
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SV640NDR: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Polycrystalline growth of complex Sphalerite crystals with curvatures and with smooth tetrahedron forms. The crystals, between transparent and translucent, have a deep and uniform dense caramel color, and are on and between sharp white crystals of Dolomite, with small remnants of a limestone matrix. From a classic Spanish mine for Sphalerite located in a spectacular setting next to Los Picos de Europa National Park, inaccessible already for many years since its galleries were flooded.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (±1990)
Specimen size: 16.6 × 13.5 × 6.2 cm = 6.54” × 5.31” × 2.44”
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SV660NCA: Sphalerite with Dolomite
Very marked polycrystalline growth of complex Sphalerite crystals with curvatures and with smooth tetrahedron forms. The crystals, between transparent and translucent, have a very deep and uniform honey color, and grew on and between sharp white crystals of Dolomite on a limestone matrix. From a classic Spanish mine for Sphalerite, located in a spectacular setting next to Los Picos de Europa National Park, inaccessible already for many years since the galleries were flooded.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (±1990)
Specimen size: 12.8 × 9.5 × 5 cm = 5.04” × 3.74” × 1.97”

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