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SV2640NTZ: Sphalerite with Dolomite and Calcite

A powerful piece. Perfectly sharp and outlined Sphalerite crystal group, of complex and twinned crystallography, of very deep toasted honey color, transparent and implanted in a rock matrix, on very well defined Dolomite crystals with a snow-white color and small crystals of Calcite. The specimen comes from the Antonino Bueno collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 3, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (2006)
Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.4 × 4.2 cm = 2.28” × 1.73” × 1.65”
Price: €640 / US$691 / ¥100960 / AUD$1070

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, Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (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$237 / ¥34700 / AUD$360

JFD155AO7: Sphalerite with Fluorapatite and Muscovite

Look out! A specimen like this is rare in Panasqueira. Sphalerite is not usually found there in good specimens, but moreover, when it is, it is almost always associated with other sulphides, which yields less luminous groups. In this case, the association with Fluorapatite, well crystallized and with a fibrous appearance, and Muscovite with a good color, results in a very unusual specimen, a real curiosity for those who specialise in this mine.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal (±2005)
Specimen size: 10.4 × 6.6 × 3.7 cm = 4.09” × 2.60” × 1.46”
Price: €520 / US$562 / ¥82030 / AUD$870

EE67AM3: Sphalerite with Galena

Druse of complex twinned Sphalerite crystals with sharp crystal forms, lustrous, and yellow in color. Transparent under strong light. On matrix, with cubo-octahedral Galena crystals. The back of the piece has been partially sawn.
Madan mining area, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast Bulgaria
Specimen size: 9.4 × 6.4 × 4 cm = 3.70” × 2.52” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.59” × 0.43”
Price: €240 / US$259 / ¥37860 / AUD$400

MTL89AO0: Sphalerite with Galena and Chalcopyrite

Druse of twinned Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright and with dominant orange tones, with yellow reflections. On matrix, with small Galena crystals and twinned Chalcopyrite crystals. An American classic from a locality from which it is currently very difficult to obtain good specimens.
Commodore Mine, Creede District, Mineral County, Colorado USA
Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.4 × 2.8 cm = 3.31” × 2.52” × 1.10”
Price: €540 / US$583 / ¥85180 / AUD$900

TC180ND: Sphalerite with Galena and Dolomite

A very unusual piece that comes from Touissit's remote past. Druse of lustrous Sphalerite crystals with cubo-octahedral Galena crystals, partially covered by large groups of white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. In so many years of going there, I only saw a piece like this once.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (1997)
Specimen size: 11.7 × 8.9 × 4.8 cm = 4.61” × 3.50” × 1.89”
Price: €180 / US$194 / ¥28390 / AUD$300

JPB37AP8: Sphalerite with Galena and Dolomite

Group of Sphalerite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, between translucent and transparent, lustrous and honey-yellow. On matrix, with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals and unusual flattened Galena crystals. This very aesthetic specimen comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (1990)
Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.8 × 3.8 cm = 2.48” × 2.28” × 1.50”
Price: €230 / US$248 / ¥36280 / AUD$380

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$518 / ¥75720 / AUD$800

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.
Kangjianwan Mine, Shuikoushan ore field, Changning, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province China
Specimen size: 10.5 × 7 × 5.5 cm = 4.13” × 2.76” × 2.17”
Price: €540 / US$583 / ¥85180 / AUD$900

SM890TTP: Sphalerite with Galena, Dolomite and Quartz (variety citrine)

Monumental group of twinned Sphalerite crystals with sharp crystal forms, lustrous, on matrix, with cubo-octahedral Galena crystals, white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals and small Quartz crystals (citrine variety). The specimen comes from the collection of José Luis Vallecillo from Madrid, and the Citrine variety Quartz gives it a different aspect from the usual specimens from this locality.
Naica Mine, Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua Mexico
Specimen size: 23 × 15 × 9.5 cm = 9.06” × 5.91” × 3.74”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.5 cm = 1.38” × 0.98”
Price: €890 / US$961 / ¥140390 / AUD$1490

EPR87AQ1: Sphalerite with Marcasite and Chalcopyrite

Sphalerite crystals with different growth zones, somewhat more transparent and colored inside the crystal and black and polycrystalline on the surface. In matrix, with very sharp and lustrous crystals of Marcasite and iridescent Chalcopyrite on the base. The specimen comes from a 2023 find in the Bou Nahas Mine where such large and sharp crystals of Sphalerite had not so far been reported.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (02/2023)
Specimen size: 12 × 9.8 × 5.8 cm = 4.72” × 3.86” × 2.28”
Price: €260 / US$281 / ¥41010 / AUD$436

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 Township, Hamilton, 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$129 / ¥18930 / AUD$200

TC260ED: Sphalerite with Pyrite and Pyrite after Pyrrhotite

Twinned crystal of Sphalerite (variety marmatite) on matrix with very well defined faces and edges. It occurs with Pyrite crystals with a deformed cubic habit and with other Pyrites that are pseudomorphs after hexagonal Pyrrhotite crystals.
Stan Trg (Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District Kosovo (2012)
Specimen size: 9.1 × 7.3 × 7.4 cm = 3.58” × 2.87” × 2.91”
Price: €260 / US$281 / ¥41010 / AUD$430

EMA37AQ0: Sphalerite with Pyrite, Calcite and Quartz

Twinned Sphalerite crystals with the dominant forms of the tetrahedron, translucent and of orange color, on matrix, with spheroidal aggregates of Pyrite crystals, groups of white Calcite crystals and small groups of Quartz crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province China (12/2021)
Specimen size: 12.5 × 10.3 × 6 cm = 4.92” × 4.06” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.9 cm = 0.87” × 0.75”
Price: €230 / US$248 / ¥36280 / AUD$380

SV290NMP: Sphalerite with Quartz

Group of very sharp Sphalerite crystals, with the crystal faces perfectly defined and very lustrous. With small whitish Quartz crystals in distinct color contrast. Coming from a current urban area in northern Spain, this type of specimen is very difficult to obtain nowadays and even less with this quality.
Malaespera Mine, Barrio de la Peña, Bilbao, Comarca Gran Bilbao, Vizcaya / Bizkaia, Basque Country (Euskadi) Spain
Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.4 × 2.4 cm = 2.17” × 1.34” × 0.94”
Price: €90 / US$97 / ¥14190 / AUD$150

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, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining 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$97 / ¥14190 / AUD$150

SV2160TFX: Sphalerite with Quartz

Aggregate of very sharp Sphalerite crystals (variety marmatite), with very well defined spinel-law twinning, intense black color, very lustrous, and aerial. Although it might appear that this specimen comes from the Trepča mining complex, its origin is really the José Maestre tunnel in the La Unión-Cartagena mining district, Spain, and it has a high quality compared to the specimens we usually see from there.
José Maestre Tunnel, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Portmán, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia) Spain
Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.7 × 1.3 cm = 2.28” × 2.24” × 0.51”
Price: €160 / US$172 / ¥25240 / AUD$260

SV210MLH: Sphalerite with Quartz

Complex crystals of Sphalerite, equant, transparent, with very good luster and an intense color, with defined edges and faces, some of them showing polycrystalline growths, on a matrix partially covered by small Quartz crystals, from a skarn deposit with Cu-Pb-Zn enrichment. The specimen is of better quality and luster than what usually appears at this mine.
Shuikoushan Mine, Shuikoushan ore field, Changning, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province China (11/2022)
Specimen size: 6.8 × 6.3 × 4.2 cm = 2.68” × 2.48” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.59” × 0.43”
Price: €210 / US$226 / ¥33120 / AUD$350

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, Region of Murcia (Murcia) Spain
Specimen size: 12.8 × 11.8 × 5.3 cm = 5.04” × 4.65” × 2.09”
Price: €220 / US$237 / ¥34700 / AUD$360

TC890ER: Sphalerite with Quartz

Druse of complex, transparent, very lustrous Sphalerite crystals with an intense orange color with reddish tones, partially covered by microcrystalline Quartz. The specimen comes from the Raúl Sanabria Orellana collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Shuikoushan Mine, Shuikoushan ore field, Changning, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province China (±2005)
Specimen size: 18.7 × 13.4 × 10.2 cm = 7.36” × 5.28” × 4.02”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 2 cm = 0.83” × 0.79”
Price: €890 / US$961 / ¥140390 / AUD$1490

EF36AM6: Sphalerite with Quartz

Very sharp crystals of Sphalerite (variety marmatite), with the dominant forms of a tetrahedron beveled by minor crystal forms, extraordinarily lustrous, on matrix, with water-clear Quartz crystals. A very aesthetic specimen, from a classic locality.
Madan mining area, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast Bulgaria
Specimen size: 20.8 × 15.2 × 4.4 cm = 8.19” × 5.98” × 1.73”
Price: €1300 / US$1405 / ¥205070 / AUD$2180

MJ16R4: Sphalerite with Quartz

Aggregate of complex crystals, very rich of faces, bright, translucent and with good color. Partially covered by microcrystals of Quartz.
Kangjianwan Mine, Shuikoushan ore field, Changning, Hengyang 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$97 / ¥14190 / AUD$150

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.
Kangjianwan Mine, Shuikoushan ore field, Changning, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province China (2008)
Specimen size: 9.7 × 9.6 × 4.8 cm = 3.82” × 3.78” × 1.89”
Price: €210 / US$226 / ¥33120 / AUD$350

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”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.75”
Price: €80 / US$86 / ¥12620 / 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”
Price: €75 / US$81 / ¥11830 / AUD$120

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