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Spheroidal growths of Smithsonite. On matrix, translucent, with an intense satiny luster for the species and an intense and uniform bluish green color. The mineral's banded growth is visible on the side. An excellent American classic.
Kelly Mine, Magdalena, Magdalena District, Socorro County, New Mexico USA
Specimen size: 9.5 × 6 × 3.6 cm = 3.74” × 2.36” × 1.42”
Price: €680 / US$726 / ¥110000 / AUD$1140

TC21600TGR: Smithsonite

Botryoidal Smithsonite growths, with remnants of rock matrix, translucent, lustrous and green with bluish tones. The specimen comes from a find in the year 2020 made at a location not known until now in the world of collecting for quality specimens of Smithsonite. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aladağ Mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyalı District, Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region Turkey (2020)
Specimen size: 26 × 19 × 7 cm = 10.24” × 7.48” × 2.76”
Price: €1600 / US$1709 / ¥258830 / AUD$2680

TC22600TFA: Smithsonite

Botryoidal Smithsonite growths, with remnants of rock matrix, translucent, lustrous and green with bluish tones. The specimen comes from a find in the year 2020 made at a location not known until now in the world of collecting for quality specimens of Smithsonite. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aladağ Mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyalı District, Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region Turkey (2020)
Specimen size: 23 × 21 × 6 cm = 9.06” × 8.27” × 2.36”
Price: €2600 / US$2777 / ¥420600 / AUD$4360

TM27AB5: Smithsonite

Aggregate, on matrix, of translucent rhombohedral Smithsonite crystals with a deep brown color and slightly orange shades. A classic from Namibia with great quality.
Berg Aukas, Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region Namibia
Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.2 × 2.9 cm = 1.89” × 1.65” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”
Price: €230 / US$245 / ¥37200 / AUD$380

TFB48AN9: Smithsonite (variety Co-bearing smithsonite)

Druse of small rhombohedral Smithsonite crystals that are very sharp, lustrous, and have a reddish color that is quite rare for Tsumeb specimens.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 8.9 × 5.6 × 4.1 cm = 3.50” × 2.20” × 1.61”
Price: €330 / US$352 / ¥53380 / AUD$550

MR50AL6: Smithsonite (variety cobaltoan) with Quartz and Pyrite

Group of rhombohedral crystals, with a lenticular habit, of Smithsonite with slight curvatures on faces and edges and of a uniform and intense pink color (cobalt-bearing variety), on matrix. Associated with small crystals of transparent Quartz and Pyrite.
This high quality specimen comes from the prestigious Desmond Sacco collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia (±1980)
Specimen size: 10 × 8.8 × 3.7 cm = 3.94” × 3.46” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.39” × 0.35”
Price: €4600 / US$4914 / ¥744140 / AUD$7720

EM92AA5: Smithsonite after Calcite

Perimorphic microbotryoidal Smithsonite growths, very rich in reddish inclusions, very probably of Hematite, coating the scalenohedral forms of a group of Calcite crystals. Like so many specimens in this collection, this one is of great quality for the locality.
Tiny-Arenas Mine, Oridda Valley, Fluminimaggiore, Sud Sardegna Province, Sardinia/Sardegna Italy
Specimen size: 11 × 8.8 × 4.5 cm = 4.33” × 3.46” × 1.77”
Price: €780 / US$833 / ¥126180 / AUD$1310

TZ260AL4: Smithsonite after Calcite with Calcite

Smithsonite pseudomorphic growths after scalenohedral Calcite crystals. The specimen shows growth of a successive series of layers that indicate that the Calcite was partially replaced in a first phase and finally ended up being totally replaced by Smithsonite.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), level 8, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua Mexico (04/2013)
Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.4 × 2.4 cm = 1.26” × 0.94” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.94” × 0.47”
Price: €120 / US$128 / ¥19410 / AUD$200

TG66AL4: Smithsonite after Calcite with Calcite

Smithsonite as pseudomorphic growths after scalenohedral Calcite crystals. The specimen shows the growth of a successive series of layers that indicate that the Calcite was partially replaced in a first phase, then later ended up being totally replaced by Smithsonite, and with Calcite crystallizing again in a final phase, in the form of small white rhombohedral crystals.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), level 8, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua Mexico (04/2013)
Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.8 × 3.4 cm = 1.73” × 1.50” × 1.34”
Price: €150 / US$160 / ¥24260 / AUD$250

NK14AF0: Smithsonite after Calcite with Hemimorphite

A novelty at MineralExpo Sants (Barcelona) 2017. Smithsonite replacing Calcite crystals. It is yellowish and partially coated by small white Hemimorphite crystals. Both the Smithsonite and the Hemimorphite have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Moriazo Mine, Casamaría, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria Spain (2016)
Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.8 × 2.7 cm = 2.52” × 2.28” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.2 cm = 1.34” × 0.87”
Price: €90 / US$96 / ¥14550 / AUD$150

NL16AE8: Smithsonite after Calcite with Hemimorphite

A novelty at MineralExpo Sants (Barcelona) 2017. Aggregate of Smithsonite replacing and partially coating Calcite crystals. It is yellowish and partially coated by small white Hemimorphite crystals. Both the Smithsonite and the Hemimorphite have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Moriazo Mine, Casamaría, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria Spain (2016)
Specimen size: 7.1 × 5 × 4.4 cm = 2.80” × 1.97” × 1.73”
Price: €110 / US$117 / ¥17790 / AUD$180

NG56AF0: Smithsonite after Calcite with Hemimorphite

A novelty at MineralExpo Sants (Barcelona) 2017. Smithsonite replacing Calcite crystals. It is yellowish and partially coated by small white Hemimorphite crystals. Both the Smithsonite and the Hemimorphite have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Moriazo Mine, Casamaría, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria Spain (2016)
Specimen size: 6.2 × 6 × 3 cm = 2.44” × 2.36” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.1 cm = 0.67” × 0.43”
Price: €150 / US$160 / ¥24260 / AUD$250

XM60NG: Smithsonite after Calcite with Hemimorphite

A novelty at MineralExpo Sants (Barcelona) 2017: Aggregate of Smithsonite pseudomorphs after scalenohedral Calcite crystals, with a color between brown and yellow, partially covered by small white Hemimorphite crystals. Both the Smithsonite and Hemimorphite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Herrerías area, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria Spain (2016)
Specimen size: 6 × 4.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.36” × 1.73” × 1.26”
Price: €60 / US$64 / ¥9700 / AUD$100

XM120NM: Smithsonite after Calcite with Hemimorphite

A novelty at MineralExpo Sants (Barcelona) 2017: Aggregate of Smithsonite pseudomorphs after scalenohedral Calcite crystals, with a color between brown and yellow, partially covered by small white Hemimorphite crystals. Both the Smithsonite and Hemimorphite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Herrerías area, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria Spain (2016)
Specimen size: 9.4 × 9 × 3.2 cm = 3.70” × 3.54” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.65” × 0.94”
Price: €120 / US$128 / ¥19410 / AUD$200

TC89AD5: Smithsonite pseudo Calcite with Calcite

Aggregate of Smithsonite crystals replacing Calcite. They show successive replacement shells indicating that the Calcite was only partially replaced during a first phase, and later completely replaced by Smithsonite. We'll send a copy of the analysis of the Smithsonite to the buyer.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), level 8, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua Mexico (04/2013)
Specimen size: 8.5 × 6.3 × 3.5 cm = 3.35” × 2.48” × 1.38”
Price: €460 / US$491 / ¥74410 / AUD$770

ME14AJ6: Smithsonite with Calcite

Fine and aerial botryoidal growth of rhombohedral crystals that are between yellow and orange, contrasting nicely with white Calcite coatings.
Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture Greece (±1985)
Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.1 × 3.2 cm = 2.09” × 1.61” × 1.26”
Price: €90 / US$96 / ¥14550 / AUD$150

SV280MXB: Smithsonite with Calcite

Globular aggregates of rhombohedral Smithsonite crystals with very rounded faces and edges, its yellowish green tones displaying a predominance of the latter, with velvety appearance and satiny luster, dotted with small but very sharp scalenohedral crystals of snow-white Calcite, giving a beautiful color contrast to the specimen. Smithsonite had not been reported from this mine before, so this specimen helps to expand its paragenesis.
Leiping Mine, Leiping, Guiyang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province China (2019)
Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.9 × 3.3 cm = 2.64” × 1.93” × 1.30”
Price: €280 / US$299 / ¥45290 / AUD$470

NQ66W4: Smoky Quartz with Microcline and Albite

Single crystal of very deep colored smoky Quartz. It is transparent and bright and it is on a small matrix of Microcline and Albite, with leafy growths of Muscovite. The crystal shows a notable phantom growth at its termination.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain (04/2004)
Specimen size: 9.1 × 3.7 × 3.2 cm = 3.58” × 1.46” × 1.26”
Price: €160 / US$170 / ¥25880 / AUD$260

NLA64AO5: Sphalerite

Group of Sphalerite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, very lustrous and with small groups of Calcite. The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, managed to collect many rarities from urban and peri-urban areas of northern Spain, very little disclosed before in the mineral collecting world.
Malaespera Mine, Barrio de la Peña, Bilbao, Comarca Gran Bilbao, Vizcaya / Bizkaia, Basque Country (Euskadi) Spain
Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 1.10” × 0.71” × 0.47”
Price: €85 / US$90 / ¥13750 / AUD$140

TZX14AN2: Sphalerite

Floater twinned Sphalerite crystal, flattened, sharp and very lustrous. We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province China
Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.7 × 1.1 cm = 1.10” × 0.67” × 0.43”
Price: €90 / US$96 / ¥14550 / AUD$150

TC100NV: Sphalerite

Druse of complex equant crystals of Sphalerite, translucent, with good luster and a very deep toasted honey color, on matrix, with Calcite. From a find from the beginning of the second decade of this century in an abandoned mine whose Calcites and Barytes were already known, and which has now offered these specimens of Sphalerite of better quality than previous ones.
María Jesús Mine (Lobeto Mine), Sol Viejo, Cabanzón, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria Spain (2012-2013)
Specimen size: 8.1 × 6.4 × 4.4 cm = 3.19” × 2.52” × 1.73”
Price: €100 / US$106 / ¥16170 / AUD$160

NRP46AP6: Sphalerite

Crystals of Sphalerite that are deformed but with sharp crystal forms, transparent, with good luster and an intense honey color, between yellow and orange. An old Spanish classic.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.9 × 0.6 cm = 1.61” × 1.14” × 0.24”
Price: €140 / US$149 / ¥22640 / AUD$230

SV3180NXF: Sphalerite

Antonino Bueno, one of the great field collectors in the Áliva area, had it in his collection, and although the crystals are rough, when you shine a little light behind it, the miracle appears! A floater, complete, and undamaged, we will give the buyer Antonino's original label.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 4, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (2002)
Specimen size: 5.6 × 4 × 2.1 cm = 2.20” × 1.57” × 0.83”
Price: €180 / US$192 / ¥29110 / AUD$300

NB7AM5: Sphalerite

Polycrystalline growth of complex Sphalerite crystals with curvatures and with the smooth forms of the tetrahedron. The crystals, between transparent and translucent, have a very dense, deep and uniform caramel color.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.4 × 2.7 cm = 1.50” × 1.34” × 1.06”
Price: €190 / US$202 / ¥30730 / AUD$310

NR12R9: Sphalerite

A complex crystal with curvatures on its faces and edges. It is transparent and has an excellent deep honey color. The back side shows exfoliated surfaces.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain
Specimen size: 2.9 × 2 × 1 cm = 1.14” × 0.79” × 0.39”
Price: €70 / US$74 / ¥11320 / AUD$110

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