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Complex crystal with curvatures on its faces and edges, twinned, with parallel growths, transparent, with an excellent deep honey color and partially coated by small white Dolomite crystals. From a Spanish mine, inaccessible for many of years, that is considered as a classic for the Sphalerite.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 3.5 × 3 × 2.2 cm = 1.38” × 1.18” × 0.87”
Price: €90 / US$105 / JPY11060 / AUD$140

NM8AB1: Sphalerite with Dolomite

Complex equidimensional crystals, translucent and with a very deep toasted honey color. They are on matrix, with Dolomite. From a Spanish mine, inaccessible for many of years, that is considered as a classic for the Sphalerite.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.6 × 3 cm = 3.03” × 2.20” × 1.18”
Price: €190 / US$222 / JPY23350 / AUD$310

EF50AJ5: Sphalerite with Dolomite and Chalcopyrite

Complex Sphalerite crystals, very large for the locality, transparent, very bright with a deep and intense honey color and partially coated by bright Chalcopyrite microcrystals.
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Gipuzkoa / Guipúzcoa, Euskadi Spain
Specimen size: 14 × 11.3 × 7.8 cm = 5.51” × 4.45” × 3.07”
Price: €540 / US$631 / JPY66370 / AUD$880

NP27AA6: Sphalerite with Dolomite and Siderite

Druse of small, complex, twinned Sphalerite crystals, extraordinarily bright and transparent and with a very deep honey color. The matrix is partially coated by small, white Dolomite crystals and rhombohedral Siderite crystals. This mine is currently abandoned and flooded, and its old galleries are completely inaccessible.
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Gipuzkoa / Guipúzcoa, Euskadi Spain (±1985)
Specimen size: 11.6 × 9.1 × 6.3 cm = 4.57” × 3.58” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.39” × 0.28”
Price: €220 / US$257 / JPY27040 / AUD$360

N96EK0: Sphalerite with Galena and Dolomite

Group of very sharp, twinned crystals of excellent color and luster on a matrix very rich in Galena and Dolomite. Due to the appearance and the association with Galena it looks different that the usual specimens from Áliva, but it is really from there.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 9.4 × 6.6 × 4.6 cm = 3.70” × 2.60” × 1.81”
Price: €195 / US$227 / JPY23960 / AUD$320

TV50AJ9: Sphalerite with Galena and Quartz

Very well known in mineral collecting the beauty of these complex Sphalerite crystals never ceases to amaze us. They are translucent, very bright and with a very deep color, on a matrix coated bay small Quartz crystals and cubo-octahedral Galena crystals with very well defined faces and edges.
Tongren Mine, Tongren, Tongren Prefecture, Guizhou Province China
Specimen size: 14.5 × 10.4 × 8.3 cm = 5.71” × 4.09” × 3.27”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.3 cm = 1.57” × 1.30”
Price: €480 / US$561 / JPY58990 / AUD$780

TR51AE1: Sphalerite with Galena and Quartz

Equant complex Sphalerite crystals that are transparent, very bright with a very intense color and on a matrix coated by microcrystalline Quartz and cubo-octahedral Galena crystals that have very well defined faces and edges.
Rucheng Mine, Caojia, Nuanshui, Rucheng, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province China
Specimen size: 10.5 × 7 × 5.5 cm = 4.13” × 2.76” × 2.17”
Price: €540 / US$631 / JPY66370 / AUD$880

NB26AK9: Sphalerite with Pyrite

Outstanding matrix group of Sphalerite crystals of complex habit, translucent and intense orange. A good specimen from a well known Canadian locality but one from which Sphalerite of good quality for collections is rare.
Flamboro Quarry, West Flamborough, Hamilton, Wentworth County, Ontario Canada
Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.8 × 2.1 cm = 1.69” × 1.50” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24” × 0.20”
Price: €120 / US$140 / JPY14740 / AUD$190

MV6AJ0: Sphalerite with Quartz

A novelty at Munich 2018. This is one of the first mentions of Sphalerite as a collectible species at Aït Ahmane. It is a druse of not so well defined complex but translucent and bright crystals with a very deep honey color. They are with small Quartz crystals.
Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (05/2018)
Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.8 × 3.4 cm = 2.80” × 1.89” × 1.34”
Price: €90 / US$105 / JPY11060 / AUD$140

MR88AJ5: Sphalerite with Quartz

Groups of complex twinned Sphalerite crystals with the dominant forms of a tetrahedron, bright black and on matrix with small Quartz crystals.
José Maestre Tunnel, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Portmán, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain
Specimen size: 12.8 × 11.8 × 5.3 cm = 5.04” × 4.65” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.43”
Price: €220 / US$257 / JPY27040 / AUD$360

NM27AL7: Sphalerite with Quartz

Complex Sphalerite crystal twinned and translucent with good luster and a dominant toasted honey color. On a matrix of Quartz crystals. Sphalerite is a rarity in the otherwise prolific La Viesca Mine.
This aesthetic specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (nº. 433), whose label we will send to the buyer.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (2016)
Specimen size: 8 × 4.1 × 2.8 cm = 3.15” × 1.61” × 1.10”
Price: €220 / US$257 / JPY27040 / AUD$360

MJ16R4: Sphalerite with Quartz

Aggregate of complex crystals, very rich of faces, bright, translucent and with good color. Partially covered by microcrystals of Quartz.
Rucheng Mine, Caojia, Nuanshui, Rucheng, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province China (2009)
Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.4 × 2.8 cm = 1.46” × 1.34” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.43” × 0.31”
Price: €90 / US$105 / JPY11060 / AUD$140

HK26S9: Sphalerite with Quartz

Druse of complex Sphalerite crystals. They are transparent, very bright, and have a very intense orange color with red shades being partially coated by microcrystalline Quartz.
Rucheng Mine, Caojia, Nuanshui, Rucheng, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province China (2009)
Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.2 × 3.8 cm = 1.93” × 1.26” × 1.50”
Price: €120 / US$140 / JPY14740 / AUD$190

MA47N8: Sphalerite with Quartz

Complex isolated crystals of good luster and transparency and a very deep color, on a matrix coated by very small Quartz crystals.
Rucheng Mine, Caojia, Nuanshui, Rucheng, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province China (2008)
Specimen size: 9.7 × 9.6 × 4.8 cm = 3.82” × 3.78” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.71”
Price: €210 / US$245 / JPY25810 / AUD$340

EB13J0: Sphalerite with Quartz

A practically spherical group of small crystals of bright and very well defined faces and edges, on a matrix of prismatic crystals of Quartz. The specimen is much more esthetic than the picture suggests.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province China
Specimen size: 4 × 3.3 × 2.6 cm = 1.57” × 1.30” × 1.02”
Price: €80 / US$93 / JPY9830 / AUD$130

NE62X7: Sphalerite with Quartz and Calcite

Aggregate of complex equant crystals, translucent, bright, and with a very deep dark honey color. They are on matrix, with small Quartz crystals and white scalenohedral Calcite crystals on the back side. It has been discovered in a recent find on an abandoned mine, well known for Calcite and Baryte and now offering this Sphalerite samples of very much better quality than all previously known.
María Jesús Mine (Lobeto Mine), Sol Viejo, Cabanzón, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria Spain (2012-2013)
Specimen size: 6 × 5 × 3.4 cm = 2.36” × 1.97” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.35” × 0.24”
Price: €75 / US$87 / JPY9210 / AUD$120

MV29AG9: Sphalerite with Quartz, Pyrite and Galena

Very sharp and twinned Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are very bright and are on matrix with small Quartz and Pyrite crystals, and colorless very clear Fluorite crystals. The shape of this Sphalerite is quite different than other Sphalerites from this mine.
Naica Mine, Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua Mexico
Specimen size: 11.5 × 6.3 × 6 cm = 4.53” × 2.48” × 2.36”
Price: €380 / US$444 / JPY46700 / AUD$620

ER27AE4: Sphalerite with Rhodochrosite, Pyrite, Galena and Arsenopyrite

Aggregate of very sharp Sphalerite (marmatite variety) crystals with a very well defined spinel law twin. They have an intense black color and are very bright and partially coated by botryoidal Rhodochrosite with small Arsenopyrite crystals and a base of Galena with small Pyrites The sample is from a relatively recent find in Trepča.
Stan Trg (Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District Kosovo (2015)
Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.4 × 4.2 cm = 2.56” × 1.73” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.6 cm = 1.02” × 0.63”
Price: €220 / US$257 / JPY27040 / AUD$360

EZ86AE7: Sphalerite with Rhodochrosite, Quartz and Pyrite

Very sharp Sphalerite (marmatite variety) crystals with a very well defined spinel law twin. They have an intense black color and are very bright, partially coated by botryoidal Rhodochrosite and on matrix with small Quartz crystals. The sample is from a relatively recent find in Trepča.
Stan Trg (Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District Kosovo (2015)
Specimen size: 10.7 × 7.8 × 3.4 cm = 4.21” × 3.07” × 1.34”
Price: €220 / US$257 / JPY27040 / AUD$360

EC86AL4: Sphalerite with Siderite

Group of twinned Sphalerite crystals, very well defined, with good luster and partially covered by light brown spherulitic-botryoidal Siderite.
Stan Trg (Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District Kosovo (2014)
Specimen size: 9.1 × 5.4 × 3.3 cm = 3.58” × 2.13” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.4 cm = 0.91” × 0.55”
Price: €180 / US$210 / JPY22120 / AUD$290

3N15: Sphalerite, Dolomite

Parallel polycrystalline growths with slightly curved faces and edges, transparent, shiny and with a deep honey color. Faces are partially covered by Dolomite crystals.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 4.2 × 7.0 cm = 1.65” × 2.76”
Price: €95 / US$111 / JPY11670 / AUD$150

4N26: Sphalerite, Dolomite

Parallel growths of complex Sphalerite crystals with a deep orange color, on a matrix of Dolomite with Calcite.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 3.7 × 5.2 cm = 1.46” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.4 cm = 0.98” × 0.94”
Price: €125 / US$146 / JPY15360 / AUD$200

3N96: Sphalerite, Dolomite, Siderite

Druse of small, complex, twinned Sphalerite crystals, shiny and transparent and with a very deep honey color. The matrix is partially coated by small, white Dolomite crystals and rhombohedral Siderite crystals. This mine is currently abandoned and flooded, and its old galleries are completely inaccessible.
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Gipuzkoa / Guipúzcoa, Euskadi Spain (1985)
Specimen size: 10.2 × 9.8 × 5.5 cm = 4.02” × 3.86” × 2.17”
Price: €180 / US$210 / JPY22120 / AUD$290

6EA27R3: Sphalerite, Galena, Calcite

Group of complex, transparent, brilliant Sphalerite crystals with excellent color. The crystals are on matrix, partially covered by white lenticular Calcite crystals and small cube-octahedral crystals of Galena, exhibiting good contrast between the three species.
Rucheng Mine, Caojia, Nuanshui, Rucheng, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province China (2010)
Specimen size: 8.2 × 7.7 × 3.3 cm = 3.23”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.43”
Price: €180 / US$210 / JPY22120 / AUD$290

3N13: Sphalerite, Quartz

Complex sphalerite crystals, dark in color, shiny, on small very bright Quartz crystals, on limestone matrix. From a not so well-known locality.
María Luisa Mine, La Mesa y Cortijo del Perete, La Nava, Comarca Sierra de Huelva, Huelva, Andalusia Spain (09/2014)
Specimen size: 11.2 × 8.0 × 3.5 cm = 4.41” × 3.15” × 1.38”
Price: €80 / US$93 / JPY9830 / AUD$130

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