Mineral specimens search results

(para ver esta página en español)

Mineral specimens search results for [ ]

2M09: Quartz (variety amethyst), Calcite

Crystals and groups of crystals, some of them doubly terminated, very transparent, bright and of a very uniform color, on globular Calcite and matrix. The Quartz exhibits good transparency. The sample is from a recent find on May 1, 2008.
Capurru Quarry, Osilo, Sassari Province, Sardinia/Sardegna Italy (01/05/2008)
Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.3 × 1.7 cm = 1.65” × 1.30” × 0.67”
Price: €60 / US$64 / ¥8510 / AUD$90

9MY17Q1: Quartz (variety amethyst), Quartz (variety smoky), Microcline

Very esthetic Group, with parallel growths and very deep color especially concentrated on the zones near the edges. This type of pieces, in this deposit, correspond in origin to myarolytic cavities, so small cavities within a granitic rock where pneumatolytic minerals has developed, Quartz in this case.
Soliva Quarry (AVE Quarry works), Can Sala, Riudarenes, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain (2005)
Specimen size: 10.5 × 7.0 × 4.0 cm = 4.13”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.46”
Price: €190 / US$203 / ¥26970 / AUD$300

TC260NK: Quartz (variety citrine)

Transparent crystal, with a good natural citrine color, very uniform. A Spanish classic.
Amistad Mine, Villasbuenas, Comarca La Ramajería, Salamanca, Castile and León Spain (08/2004)
Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.1 × 2 cm = 1.73” × 0.83” × 0.79”
Price: €60 / US$64 / ¥8510 / AUD$90

TXA88AO7: Quartz (variety faden quartz) with Chlorite inclusions

Group of very sharp Quartz crystals on matrix with a flattened shape and most of them being doubly terminated. With parallel growths, very lustrous and transparent and with a very visible faden thread and Chlorite inclusions.
Ksar Tassemente, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (01/2020)
Specimen size: 11.7 × 9.4 × 4.1 cm = 4.61” × 3.70” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 6.8 × 3.4 cm = 2.68” × 1.34”
Price: €380 / US$406 / ¥53940 / AUD$610

TMP88AO7: Quartz (variety faden quartz) with Chlorite inclusions

Group of very sharp Quartz crystals, with a flattened habit, one of them clearly dominant and very centered. With parallel growths, partially doubly terminated, very lustrous and transparent and with a very visible faden thread and dendritic Chlorite inclusions.
Ksar Tassemente, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (01/2020)
Specimen size: 13.7 × 7.2 × 3.4 cm = 5.39” × 2.83” × 1.34”
Price: €380 / US$406 / ¥53940 / AUD$610

TC2260EAA: Quartz (variety faden)

Group of water-clear Quartz crystals, one of them dominant with a flattened habit and a very visible "faden" thread. The specimen comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Le Freney-d'Oisans, Oisans-Romanche, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (1980)
Specimen size: 9.3 × 7.7 × 5.6 cm = 3.66” × 3.03” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 8 × 4.1 cm = 3.15” × 1.61”
Price: €260 / US$278 / ¥36900 / AUD$410

R57FV6: Quartz (variety faden)

Very unusual distorted Quartz, extra-flat and apparently with broken areas, although "in person" it is clear that all faces are complete and undamaged.
Lignarre Valley, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (1991)
Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.6 × 1.7 cm = 3.03” × 2.60” × 0.67”
Price: €90 / US$96 / ¥12770 / AUD$140

TC290TMR: Quartz (variety hematoide)

Group of Quartz crystals with good development of crystal forms and with a double distribution of Hematite as both coatings and inclusions, which occupy a good part of the interior of the crystals.
Toufassmame (Izizauen), Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (01/2015)
Specimen size: 5.1 × 5 × 3.9 cm = 2.01” × 1.97” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1.4 cm = 1.65” × 0.55”
Price: €90 / US$96 / ¥12770 / AUD$140

ML16AN0: Quartz (variety prase)

Group of Quartz crystals (prase variety) with distinct polycrystalline surfaces, with good luster and a deep and uniform color, and with small Andradite crystals at the base. We will ship the specimen in the original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Second Sovetskii Mine, 230↓, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai Russia
Specimen size: 3.6 × 1.7 × 1.8 cm = 1.42” × 0.67” × 0.71”
Price: €110 / US$117 / ¥15610 / AUD$170

TC2220NEC: Quartz (variety prase)

Very aerial group of transparent Quartz crystals, with phantom growths and green inclusions. The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (nº 794), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Mina Balsa Depositaria, El Pino, El Gorguel, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia) Spain
Specimen size: 16.3 × 11.8 × 6.3 cm = 6.42” × 4.65” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2.3 cm = 1.57” × 0.91”
Price: €220 / US$235 / ¥31230 / AUD$350

MT66AL5: Quartz (variety prase) with Andradite

Very aerial crystals of prase Quartz with polycrystalline surfaces with the typical tapered shape of local specimens, deep in color, on matrix, with small Andradite crystals.
Sinerechenskoe, Primorsky Krai Russia
Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.7 × 3.9 cm = 2.40” × 1.46” × 1.54”
Price: €170 / US$182 / ¥24130 / AUD$273

DR67AC4: Quartz (variety prase) with Andradite

Aggregate of crystals that have polycrystalline surfaces and with the tapered shape typical of the samples from the locality. The sample, very aerial and esthetic, is bordered, at the base, by small Andradite crystals. The sample is from the Desmond Sacco collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Sinerechenskoe, Primorsky Krai Russia
Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.5 × 3.3 cm = 2.56” × 2.17” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 5.8 × 2 cm = 2.28” × 0.79”
Price: €260 / US$278 / ¥36900 / AUD$410

EA62AL5: Quartz (variety red quartz) with Quartz

Groups of red Quartz crystals, elongated, many of them doubly terminated, intergrown, and forming very "sculptural" groups - a very different habit from the usual. Finds of this type of Quartz in Dalnegorsk were quite ephemeral and as they appeared, they quickly disappeared too, so it is not easy to get such elegant specimens as this one. The red Quartz is partially covered by a second generation of white Quartz.
Second Sovetskii Mine, 230↓, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai Russia (±1998)
Specimen size: 15.5 × 11.4 × 6.4 cm = 6.10” × 4.49” × 2.52”
Price: €7500 / US$8029 / ¥1064700 / AUD$12040

18ERT14: Quartz (variety rose quartz)

Peculiar polycrystalline growths and crystal rosettes of translucent, lustrous Quartz in a rock matrix corresponding to a volcanic tuff. The intense pink color is its natural intrinsic color, not due to inclusions of iron oxides.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department Peru (2021)
Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.7 × 3.6 cm = 2.01” × 1.46” × 1.42”
Price: €60 / US$64 / ¥8510 / AUD$90

SM60MHZ: Quartz (variety rose quartz)

A novelty at Tucson Virtual 2021: Unlike other pieces from this find, the crystals here are of good size and their color is more pink. The precise name of the mine is not yet known, but it will surely become known with the passage of time.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department Peru (2020)
Specimen size: 3 × 2.5 × 1.7 cm = 1.18” × 0.98” × 0.67”
Price: €60 / US$64 / ¥8510 / AUD$90

SM60MFY: Quartz (variety rose quartz)

A novelty at Tucson Virtual 2021: Unlike other pieces from this find, the crystals here are of good size and their color is more pink. The precise name of the mine is not yet known, but it will surely become known with the passage of time.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department Peru (2020)
Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.8 × 2.6 cm = 1.85” × 1.50” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 1.2 cm = 1.26” × 0.47”
Price: €60 / US$64 / ¥8510 / AUD$90

MC11AM9: Quartz (variety rose quartz)

A novelty at Tucson Virtual 2021. Unusual fan-shaped growths on matrix of translucent, lustrous and deep pink Quartz crystals whose color is not due to inclusions of iron oxides but rather is inherent to the Quartz itself. The exact name of the mine is not yet known, but it will surely become known with the passage of time.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department Peru (2020)
Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.4 × 1.9 cm = 2.01” × 1.34” × 0.75”
Price: €60 / US$64 / ¥8510 / AUD$90

18EGP12: Quartz (variety rose quartz)

Peculiar polycrystalline growths and crystal rosettes of translucent, lustrous Quartz in a rock matrix corresponding to a volcanic tuff. The intense pink color is its natural intrinsic color, not due to inclusions of iron oxides. The precise name of the mine is not yet known, but it will surely become known in future.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department Peru (2020)
Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.5 × 3.3 cm = 2.20” × 1.38” × 1.30”
Price: €70 / US$74 / ¥9930 / AUD$110

18EMB13: Quartz (variety rose quartz)

Peculiar polycrystalline growths and crystal rosettes of translucent, lustrous Quartz in a rock matrix corresponding to a volcanic tuff. The intense pink color is its natural intrinsic color, not due to inclusions of iron oxides. The precise name of the mine is not yet known, but it will surely become known in future.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department Peru (2020)
Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.81” × 1.46” × 0.67”
Price: €75 / US$80 / ¥10640 / AUD$120

MF11AM9: Quartz (variety rose quartz)

A novelty at Tucson Virtual 2021. Unusual fan-shaped growths on matrix of translucent, lustrous and deep pink Quartz crystals whose color is not due to inclusions of iron oxides but rather is inherent to the Quartz itself. The exact name of the mine is not yet known, but it will surely become known with the passage of time.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department Peru (2020)
Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.9 × 2 cm = 1.69” × 1.54” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.24” × 0.12”
Price: €80 / US$85 / ¥11350 / AUD$120

SV90EBB: Quartz (variety rose quartz)

Group of Quartz crystals (variety rose quartz) with deep and uniform tones, in two distinct habits, one forming aerial spherical aggregates with sharp crystal terminations, and one more massive with stalactitic and columnar shapes, all on a rock matrix. The pink color in this type of specimen is not due to inclusions of iron oxides but is the natural color of the quartz. The exact location of the find is not yet known.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department Peru (2021)
Specimen size: 5 × 4 3.7 cm = 1.97” × 17.20”
Price: €90 / US$96 / ¥12770 / AUD$140

TXY16AP6: Quartz (variety rose quartz)

Group of Quartz crystals (rose quartz variety) with very sharp bipyramidal terminations, translucent, lustrous and deep pink, its natural color, not due to iron oxide inclusions. The size of the crystal is very large compared to previous finds from the same locality.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department Peru (02/2022)
Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.2 × 3.1 cm = 2.28” × 1.26” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 2 cm = 1.73” × 0.79”
Price: €110 / US$117 / ¥15610 / AUD$170

TBB16AO6: Quartz (variety rose quartz)

Unique fan-shaped growths on a matrix of translucent, lustrous and intense pink Quartz crystals whose color is not due to inclusions of iron oxides, but is their natural color. Much larger crystal size than previous finds. The precise name of the mine is not yet known, but surely with the passage of time we will find out.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department Peru (02/2022)
Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.9 × 2.2 cm = 1.61” × 1.14” × 0.87”
Price: €110 / US$117 / ¥15610 / AUD$170

TPX16AO4: Quartz (variety rose quartz)

Spheroidal growths on a matrix of translucent, lustrous and intense pink Quartz crystals, whose color is not due to inclusions of iron oxides, but is their natural color.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department Peru (02/2022)
Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.6 × 3.1 cm = 2.91” × 2.20” × 1.22”
Price: €120 / US$128 / ¥17030 / AUD$190

TPX36AP6: Quartz (variety rose quartz)

Group of Quartz crystals (rose quartz variety) with very sharp bipyramidal terminations, translucent, lustrous and deep pink, its natural color, not due to iron oxide inclusions. The size of the crystal is very large compared to previous finds from the same locality.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department Peru (02/2022)
Specimen size: 5 × 4.4 × 2.8 cm = 1.97” × 1.73” × 1.10”
Price: €130 / US$139 / ¥18450 / AUD$200

We work with the IMA approved names for minerals. If you are not sure of the IMA name for the mineral you are looking for you can select it from the following list


US Minerals	Mexico & Canada Minerals	Spanish Minerals	Spanish Fluorite	Portugal - Panasqueira	French Minerals
European Minerals	FSU Minerals	Moroccan Minerals	African Minerals	Brazilian Minerals	South American Minerals
Chinese Minerals	Tukey, Asia & Australia Minerals	Joaquim Callen's Photo Gallery	The Daunis Collection	The Jan Buma Collections	The Carles Curto Collection