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Group of crystals, very aerial and on matrix, of Quartz pseudomorphs after Aragonite, an unusual substitution and, in this case, also very aesthetic. The crystals have recognizable crystal shapes, and are translucent and white. The specimen comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Los Pajaritos-Cabezo de Don Juan Ravine, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain (1980-1985)
Specimen size: 10.5 × 7.8 × 9 cm = 4.13” × 3.07” × 3.54”
Price: €140 / US$170 / ¥18490 / AUD$210

TC190TR: Quartz double terminated with inclusions

Floater doubly terminated Quartz crystal, transparent, lustrous, and with abundant hydrocarbon inclusions. A Spanish classic.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain
Specimen size: 8.4 × 4 × 3.3 cm = 3.31” × 1.57” × 1.30”
Price: €190 / US$231 / ¥25100 / AUD$290

TC50NM: Quartz on Microcline

Doubly terminated Quartz crystal with curiously deformed faces in which different growth phases can be appreciated, marked by changes in transparency and coloration. On a Microcline matrix with highly recrystallized faces.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia Spain (2003-2008)
Specimen size: 7.1 × 4 × 2.9 cm = 2.80” × 1.57” × 1.14”
Price: €50 / US$60 / ¥6600 / AUD$70

EB16AL8: Quartz scepter (variety amethyst)

Scepter growth of a transparent Quartz crystal very lustrous, with phantom growths, abundant inclusions and a very vivid amethyst color with smoky colored areas distributed irregularly in the crystal. Of the best possible quality for the locality, which is not very well known.
Chibuku Mine, Zambezi Valley, Mashonaland West Zimbabwe (2018)
Specimen size: 4.2 × 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 1.65” × 0.55” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.4 cm = 1.02” × 0.55”
Price: €110 / US$133 / ¥14530 / AUD$170

EG66AL8: Quartz scepter (variety amethyst)

Scepter growth of a transparent Quartz crystal very shiny, with phantom growths, abundant inclusions and a very vivid color, between dominant smoky tones and amethyst violet irregularly distributed in the crystal. On a doubly terminated crystal of colorless Quartz with abundant inclusions. Of the best possible quality for the locality, which is not very well known.
Chibuku Mine, Zambezi Valley, Mashonaland West Zimbabwe (2018)
Specimen size: 7.4 × 2.1 × 1.4 cm = 2.91” × 0.83” × 0.55”
Price: €160 / US$194 / ¥21130 / AUD$240

EE76AL8: Quartz scepter (variety amethyst)

Scepter growth of a dominant Quartz crystal with a smaller doubly terminated lateral crystal, both transparent. Very lustrous, with phantom growths, abundant inclusions and a very vivid color distributed unevenly in the crystal. Of the best possible quality for the locality, which is not very well known.
Chibuku Mine, Zambezi Valley, Mashonaland West Zimbabwe (2018)
Specimen size: 6 × 2.2 × 1.7 cm = 2.36” × 0.87” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2 cm = 1.22” × 0.79”
Price: €170 / US$206 / ¥22460 / AUD$260

EC36AL8: Quartz scepter (variety smoky and amethyst)

Scepter growth of a transparent Quartz crystal with good luster and phantom growths, abundant inclusions and a very vivid amethyst color with smoky colored areas distributed irregularly in the crystal. Of the best possible quality for the locality, which is not very well known.
Chibuku Mine, Zambezi Valley, Mashonaland West Zimbabwe (2018)
Specimen size: 4.7 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm = 1.85” × 0.71” × 0.59”
Price: €130 / US$158 / ¥17170 / AUD$200

TA26AH1: Quartz with Anatase and Chlorite inclusions

A novelty at Tucson 2018. Group of Quartz crystals that are transparent, bright, have cavernous forms on some of their faces and one of them a very well defined scepter. They have Chlorite inclusions and small and very bright Anatase crystals on their surfaces. Just superb!
Sainj Valley, Manihar Valley, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh India (06/2017)
Specimen size: 20 × 11.3 × 8.3 cm = 7.87” × 4.45” × 3.27”

Main crystal size: 15.5 × 6.8 cm = 6.10” × 2.68”
Price: €1100 / US$1338 / ¥145330 / AUD$1700

NK96AJ5: Quartz with Arsenopyrite, Marcasite, Siderite, Calcite and Muscovite

Single Quartz crystal with a very aerial growth of Marcasite-Arsenopyrite, leafy Muscovite growths, and crystals of small lenticular Siderite and white Calcite.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal (2004)
Specimen size: 10.1 × 8.8 × 3.9 cm = 3.98” × 3.46” × 1.54”
Price: €170 / US$206 / ¥22460 / AUD$260

TC220MF: Quartz with Calcite and Dolomite

Parallel growths of Quartz crystals with dipyramidal habit and scepter terminations. Some of the crystals apparently lack prism faces, which has sometimes led to the erroneous belief that they are β-Quartz. The crystals, rich in inclusions, are partially covered by small white Calcite-Dolomite crystals.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region China (2014)
Specimen size: 12.4 × 4.4 × 2.8 cm = 4.88” × 1.73” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 12.4 × 2.6 cm = 4.88” × 1.02”
Price: €220 / US$267 / ¥29060 / AUD$340

TT67AG0: Quartz with Calcite and Siderite

Group of Quartz crystals on matrix. They have a very short prism and are translucent with a pale amethyst color, and they are partially encrusted by white Calcite crystals and with small spheroidal Siderites.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain
Specimen size: 12.2 × 8.2 × 5.8 cm = 4.80” × 3.23” × 2.28”
Price: €230 / US$279 / ¥30380 / AUD$350

HM140EQ: Quartz with Chalcopyrite and Sphalerite

Water-clear Quartz crystals on a matrix of twinned Sphalerite crystals (variety marmatite) with very sharp disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite
Former collection of Ignacio Hernández
Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures Romania
Specimen size: 8.3 × 4.5 × 2.3 cm = 3.27” × 1.77” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 7.2 × 1.2 cm = 2.83” × 0.47”
Price: €140 / US$170 / ¥18490 / AUD$210

DZ14AH6: Quartz with Chlorite

A prominent very clear and bright Quartz crystal that is partially coated by spheroidal Chlorite aggregates.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
Llavorsí, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lleida / Lérida, Catalonia Spain
Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.8 × 7.5 cm = 2.83” × 2.28” × 2.95”
Price: €120 / US$146 / ¥15850 / AUD$180

DB96AF9: Quartz with Chlorite

Parallel growth of doubly terminated, colorless and very clear crystals with a very visible faden nucleus and small Chlorite coatings. The area where these quartzes were found is currently buried by roadwork.
Llavorsí, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lleida / Lérida, Catalonia Spain
Specimen size: 6.3 × 6.2 × 3.9 cm = 2.48” × 2.44” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 5 × 1.2 cm = 1.97” × 0.47”
Price: €190 / US$231 / ¥25100 / AUD$290

TP62AD2: Quartz with Chlorite and Chlorite inclusions

Aggregate of Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant. They are very rich in Chlorite inclusions except in the terminal areas, where they are free of inclusions and completely transparent.
Ganesh Himal, Dhading District, Bagmati Pradesh Nepal (2014)
Specimen size: 8 × 3.1 × 2.5 cm = 3.15” × 1.22” × 0.98”
Price: €80 / US$97 / ¥10560 / AUD$120

TB88AJ3: Quartz with Chlorite inclusions

Group of Quartz crystals, two of them clearly dominant and having very different morphologies, some of them doubly terminated and flattened, and the other with de “Dauphiné” shape and rich with Chlorite inclusions.
Ganesh Himal, Dhading District, Bagmati Pradesh Nepal (12/2018)
Specimen size: 10.7 × 8.2 × 2.6 cm = 4.21” × 3.23” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 9.4 × 4.1 cm = 3.70” × 1.61”
Price: €340 / US$413 / ¥44920 / AUD$520

EQ14R9: Quartz with Fe-Mn oxides

Growths of Quartz crystals forming irregular bundles. The crystals are completely coated by intensely bright and iridescent oxides of iron and manganese. On a matrix of Quartz and Limonite.
Banská Štiavnica (Schemnitz), Banská Štiavnica District, Banská Bystrica Region Slovak Republic (2009)
Specimen size: 8.3 × 6.4 × 3.5 cm = 3.27” × 2.52” × 1.38”
Price: €90 / US$109 / ¥11890 / AUD$130

EF92AA2: Quartz with Fluorapatite inclusions and with Muscovite, Siderite and Calcite

Thin laminar Fluorapatite crystal included in a Quartz crystal partially coated by Siderite and Muscovite. Visible crystalline inclusions of Fluorapatite are very rare. In this the sample, approximately half of a crystal can be seen and it has concentric geometrical color zones with a dominant yellowish-green color.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal (05/2014)
Specimen size: 9.5 × 5.1 × 3.8 cm = 3.74” × 2.01” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.94” × 0.43”
Price: €690 / US$839 / ¥91160 / AUD$1070

SM120NQ: Quartz with Galena

Partially doubly terminated, transparent, brilliant Quartz crystal, with inclusions and on a crystalline Galena matrix partially altered to light colored lead oxides. Of the best possible quality for this Quartz find.
Former collection of Miguel David Martínez. Number 366
Works of the Alumbres-Cartagena highway, Alumbres, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain (2014)
Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.4 × 3.1 cm cm = 2.20” × 1.34” × 1.22”
Price: €120 / US$146 / ¥15850 / AUD$180

MT87AL3: Quartz with Hematite

Single crystal of Quartz, very large and also very special for two reasons: it comes from a deposit from which only a few pieces are known and the Hematite inclusions give it a very attractive reddish color. The presence of small Hematite iron roses also completes its appeal.
East Ujimqin Banner (Dongwu Qi), Xilin Gol League (Xilinguole Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region China (2016)
Specimen size: 23 × 4.8 × 4.6 cm = 9.06” × 1.89” × 1.81”
Price: €280 / US$340 / ¥36990 / AUD$430

MR50AE9: Quartz with Hematite

A novelty at Tucson 2017. Translucent quartz crystals that are between white and colorless, with zones of intense pinkish color due to Hematite staining, and with rosette aggregates (iron rose variety) of laminar Hematite crystals. We’ll send a copy of the Hematite analysis to the buyer. Due to their similarity to the samples from the Huanggang mines they can easily be confused with those.
East Ujimqin Banner (Dongwu Qi), Xilin Gol League (Xilinguole Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region China (2016)
Specimen size: 21.5 × 8.5 × 7.8 cm = 8.46” × 3.35” × 3.07”
Price: €490 / US$596 / ¥64730 / AUD$750

MX76AL3: Quartz with Hematite and Dolomite

Druze of Quartz crystals with bipyramidal habit, with almost non-existent prisms, with inclusions of small lenticular crystals of Hematite, on matrix with rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. An English classic.
Florence Mine, Egremont, West Cumberland Iron Field, former Cumberland, Cumbria England / United Kingdom
Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.4 × 3.3 cm = 2.13” × 2.13” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”
Price: €160 / US$194 / ¥21130 / AUD$240

EA49AK0: Quartz with inclusions

Group of Quartz crystals with very well defined faces and one of them, clearly dominant, with polycrystalline terminations. The crystals, mostly colorless and clear, are very rich in inclusions of a clayey aspect and yellow-orange color in the terminal part. It has been said that these inclusions were Humboldtine but this has already been discredited (see: Quartz and Humboldtine? from Colombia )
Cabiche, Quípama, Boyacá Department Colombia (01/2019)
Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.1 × 1.9 cm = 2.05” × 1.22” × 0.75”
Price: €440 / US$535 / ¥58130 / AUD$680

EV97AJ9: Quartz with inclusions, Calcite-Dolomite and Magnetite

Perhaps simply Quartz but it has a surprising variety of forms and morphological changes, with parallel growths on the scepter terminations, dipyramidal, with a short prism (in some cases those faces are nonexistent or poorly visible and such crystals have sometimes been erroneously described as β-Quartz). The Quartz group is very rich in inclusions and partially coated by small, white Calcite-Dolomite crystals.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region China (2014)
Specimen size: 11.2 × 3.5 × 4.8 cm = 4.41” × 1.38” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 9.7 × 3.1 cm = 3.82” × 1.22”
Price: €260 / US$316 / ¥34350 / AUD$400

EF97AA5: Quartz with inclusions, Calcite-Dolomite and Magnetite

Parallel growths of dipyramidal Quartz crystals with sceptered terminations, some of them doubly terminated. Some of the crystals have no prism faces and such crystals have sometimes been erroneously described as β-Quartz. The crystals are very rich in inclusions and are partially coated by aggregates of acicular carbonate crystals and by Magnetite.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region China (2014)
Specimen size: 11.6 × 6.9 × 4.2 cm = 4.57” × 2.72” × 1.65”
Price: €320 / US$389 / ¥42270 / AUD$490

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