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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: 7.0 × 4.2 cm = 2.76” × 1.65”
Price: €95 / US$109 / ¥12440 / AUD$140

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”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.43” × 0.28”
Price: €180 / US$207 / ¥23570 / AUD$280

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”
Price: €180 / US$207 / ¥23570 / AUD$280

9N96EK0: Sphalerite, Galena, Dolomite

Group of very sharp, twinned crystals of excellent honey 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”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.20”
Price: €170 / US$195 / ¥22260 / AUD$260

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$92 / ¥10470 / AUD$120

9HK26S9: Sphalerite, 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 translucent Quartz.
Rucheng Mine, Caojia, Nuanshui, Rucheng, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province China (2009)
Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.2 × 3.8 cm = 1.93”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.59”
Price: €115 / US$132 / ¥15060 / AUD$170

DX70AF2: Spinel with Calcite

A single octahedral crystal that has some extraordinarily elongated faces that confer to it its prismatic shape. The crystal, on a Calcite matrix, is translucent, bright and has a deep red color, especially vivid when it is under an intense light. An excellent sample, very esthetic.
Pein-Pyit, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division) Myanmar (Burma)
Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.6 × 3.3 cm = 1.89” × 1.42” × 1.30”
Price: €640 / US$737 / ¥83820 / AUD$990

9AF27Q0: Stannite, Arsenopyrite, Quartz

Botryoidal growths of Stannite crystals whose faces and edges have very pronounced curvatures, of deep grey color, with very well defined crystals of Arsenopyrite and Quartz. The piece has a slight fissure but the matrix is stable. The Stannite, which in this locality is easily confused with Sphalerite, has been properly analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. A mine that has produced excellent world-class examples of Fluorite and interesting sulphides.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province China (2004)
Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.4 × 3.9 cm = 2.44”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12”
Price: €190 / US$218 / ¥24880 / AUD$290

10EE58: Staurolite

Staurolite crystals showing the typical cross-shaped twin with well defined faces and edges, doubly terminated, with a deep brown color highlighting the contrast with the whitish mica-schist matrix. Specimens of Staurolite from this locality in most cases exhibit cross-shaped twins at 90 or 120 degrees, as is the case here, there being few specimens of non-twinned crystals.
Semiostrov'e, Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region Russia
Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.0 × 1.4 cm = 1.54” × 1.18” × 0.55”
Price: €40 / US$46 / ¥5230 / AUD$60

10ED58: Staurolite

MV13AM8: Stellerite

Floater aggregate with a sheaf-like habit of Stellerite crystals with sharp crystal forms, translucent, white in color and with a pearly luster.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Aurangabad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra India
Specimen size: 3 × 2.2 × 1.9 cm = 1.18” × 0.87” × 0.75”
Price: €80 / US$92 / ¥10470 / AUD$120

TC13AN2: Stellerite

Spheroidal growth of Stellerite on matrix, translucent, lustrous and opaline white. We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Aurangabad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra India
Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.8 × 2.2 cm = 1.10” × 1.10” × 0.87”
Price: €85 / US$97 / ¥11130 / AUD$130

MD87AH7: Stibiconite with Calcite

Stibiconite pseudomorph after a previous Stibnite crystal with an elongated prismatic shape, with a double termination and partially coated by small Calcite crystals. Because the definitive species designation is still under discussion, we prefer to use the classic name Stibiconite for these samples, a Mexican classic.
Real de Catorce (Catorce), Catorce Mountains, Municipio Catorce, San Luis Potosí Mexico
Specimen size: 19 × 2 × 1.4 cm = 7.48” × 0.79” × 0.55”
Price: €280 / US$322 / ¥36670 / AUD$430

MA13AM9: Stibnite

Isolated crystal of Stibnite with its faces and edges defined by strong mechanical distorsion produced during its formation, lustrous, and finely striated along the prism.
We will send the specimen, which comes from the Robert J. Noble collection, in its original Perky box from that collection, which also contains the label.
Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province China
Specimen size: 3.2 × 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 1.26” × 0.20” × 0.16”
Price: €90 / US$103 / ¥11780 / AUD$140

4J88: Stibnite

Very elongated Stibnite crystal with polycrystalline growths, perfect termination and an intense metallic luster. There's a slight twist in the upper part of the crystal.
Dahegou Mine, Lushi, Sanmenxia Prefecture, Henan Province China (1995)
Specimen size: 18.0 × 4.5 cm = 7.09” × 1.77”
Price: €460 / US$529 / ¥60250 / AUD$710

TR46AH4: Stibnite on Quartz

Irregular aggregates of fine acicular Stibnite crystals, a lot of them doubly terminated. They are very bright, on a rock matrix coated by Quartz microcrystals. The sample is from a very poorly known locality.
McLaughlin Mine, Knoxville, Knoxville District, Napa County, California USA
Specimen size: 3 × 2.8 × 3.3 cm = 1.18” × 1.10” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.43” × 0.04”
Price: €145 / US$167 / ¥18990 / AUD$220

TC380EA: Stibnite with Baryre

Centered aggregates of very lustrous acicular crystals of Stibnite, associated with groups of finely tabular, transparent, very lustrous and colorless Baryte crystals. This is a fine example of the old bygone splendors of the mines in the Baia Mare area (‘big mine’ in Romanian language). The specimen is from the Uwe Niemeyer collection.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures Romania (1960-1970)
Specimen size: 12.7 × 8.2 × 9.1 cm = 5.00” × 3.23” × 3.58”
Price: €380 / US$437 / ¥49770 / AUD$590

XM130EC: Stibnite with Calcite

Very aerial radial aggregate of Stibnite crystals, on a Calcite matrix, with very well defined crystal forms, excellent terminations and with the typical Baiut habit, short and flattened.
The specimen comes from the Uwe Niemeyer collection.
Baiut, Maramures Romania (±1970)
Specimen size: 6 × 4.8 × 3.8 cm = 2.36” × 1.89” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.35”
Price: €130 / US$149 / ¥17020 / AUD$200

EJ27AC5: Stibnite with Calcite

Aggregate of very bright Stibnite crystals on a Calcite matrix, with very well defined faces and edges and showing the characteristic habit of the crystals of Stibnite from this mine, very short, flattened and with excellent terminations. They are on a Calcite matrix, with Baryte.
Baiut, Maramures Romania (±1970)
Specimen size: 5.6 × 5.4 × 5.6 cm = 2.20” × 2.13” × 2.20”
Price: €220 / US$253 / ¥28810 / AUD$340

XM80EA: Stibnite with Calcite

Very aerial radial aggregate of Stibnite crystals, on a Calcite matrix, with very well defined crystal forms, excellent terminations and with the typical Baiut habit, short and flattened.
The specimen comes from the Uwe Niemeyer collection.
Baiut, Maramures Romania (±1970)
Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.8 × 3 cm = 2.24” × 1.89” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 1 cm = 1.10” × 0.39”
Price: €80 / US$92 / ¥10470 / AUD$120

2M10: Stilbite-Ca, Fluorapophyllite-(K)

Aggregates of Stilbite-Ca crystals, one of them clearly dominant and doubly terminated, slightly pinkish white in color, on a matrix full of smaller but well-defined Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals from the well-known Deccan Traps basalt quarries in India.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra India
Specimen size: 11.6 × 8.0 × 7.0 cm = 4.57” × 3.15” × 2.76”
Price: €35 / US$40 / ¥4580 / AUD$50

NA13AL9: Stokesite on Microcline with Albite

Aggregate of very sharp, colorless, transparent and shiny Stokesite crystals on a little Microcline matrix with Albite. These Stokesites, found in 1999 and featured in an article in The Mineralogical Record in 2012, are considered the best crystallized Stokesites in the world and were found in a single pocket from which very few specimens were recovered.
Isabel Quarry (La Saludadora Quarry), La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama, Madrid, Community of Madrid Spain (1999)
Specimen size: 1 × 0.8 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.31” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”
Price: €180 / US$207 / ¥23570 / AUD$280

CP86AN1: Strontianite with Calcite

Group of twinned Strontianite crystals with a prismatic habit and a clearly hexagonal outline, with excellent terminations, translucent, with bright luster and a light cream color, on matrix with Calcite. The specimen comes from the Carles Curto collection, whose label and computer catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Oberdorf an der Laming, Laming valley, Bruck an der Mur, Styria/Steiermark Austria
Specimen size: 4.9 × 4 × 2.9 cm = 1.93” × 1.57” × 1.14”
Price: €180 / US$207 / ¥23570 / AUD$280

HM220TA: Strontianite with Dolomite and Calcite

Parallel growths of Strontianite crystals, many of them doubly terminated, translucent, with bright luster, and slightly yellow color. On a matrix covered by rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with small twinned Chalcopyrite crystals.
Dreislar Mine, Dreislar, Winterberg, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia/Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.4 × 3.5 cm = 2.87” × 2.13” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.3 cm = 0.39” × 0.12”
Price: €220 / US$253 / ¥28810 / AUD$340

SR29AL8: Strontianite with Magnesite

Centered aggregate of Strontianite crystals with a very acute dipyramidal habit unusual in this deposit that is a great classic for the species and on Magnesite matrix.
The specimen is from the Francesco S. Stoppani collection (no. 1089), whose label we will send to the buyer. As is usual in this collection, the specimen is of high quality for the locality.
Oberdorf an der Laming, Laming valley, Bruck an der Mur, Styria/Steiermark Austria
Specimen size: 10.7 × 6.8 × 4.2 cm = 4.21” × 2.68” × 1.65”
Price: €360 / US$414 / ¥47150 / AUD$560

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