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Group of Calcite crystals formed by a prism with slightly curved faces, with parallel polycrystalline growths on the surface and with the terminal faces being a smooth rhombohedron. The crystals, translucent and honey yellow, exhibit very well defined phantom scalenohedral growths. The specimen is from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 644), whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Bouismas Mine, Bouismas, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (2010)
Specimen size: 10.3 × 8.2 × 2.5 cm = 4.1” × 3.2” × 1.0”
Price: €260 / US$288 / Yen 31800 / AUD$410

EB88AG7: Calcite

Aggregate of Calcite crystals, very rich with faces and whose length is very much larger than usual for this quarry. The crystals show predominant scalenohedron and rhombohedron forms with slight curvatures on their faces and edges. They are colorless and between translucent and transparent.
The sample is from the Christophe Marot collection (cat. nr.. C7-8), whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Bagard Quarry, Bagard, Anduze, Alès, Gard, Occitanie France
Specimen size: 13.8 × 8.3 × 7.7 cm = 5.4” × 3.3” × 3.0”

Main crystal size: 5.7 × 5.7 cm = 2.2” × 2.2”
Price: €260 / US$288 / Yen 31800 / AUD$410

MR88AG1: Calcite

Yes, it is Calcite, a very common species, but check out the crystallographic habit of this group of crystals and their light pink color. Different…
Fuzichong, Cenxi, Wuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region China (± 2002)
Specimen size: 11.5 × 8 × 5 cm = 4.5” × 3.1” × 2.0”
Price: €360 / US$399 / Yen 44030 / AUD$580

MB29AI8: Calcite

Group of Calcite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and with the clearly dominant scalenohedron but very rich in other minor forms. The crystals are of great quality and are transparent and very bright.
The sample is from the Jordi Vilallonga collection.
Verkhnii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region Russia (1992)
Specimen size: 9.6 × 5.8 × 6 cm = 3.8” × 2.3” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 9.6 × 4.5 cm = 3.8” × 1.8”
Price: €420 / US$466 / Yen 51370 / AUD$670

DM89AE3: Calcite

The crystal, very large for the locality, combines a prism and a terminal rhombohedron, with very well defined polycrystalline faces. I It is translucent and bright with a very intense and uniform pink color. There is a small bit of Sphalerite at its base.
Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region Russia
Specimen size: 10.2 × 8.8 × 7.8 cm = 4.0” × 3.5” × 3.1”
Price: €460 / US$510 / Yen 56260 / AUD$740

TG93AJ2: Calcite

A novelty at Tucson 2017. Parallel growths of thick lenticular Calcite crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are clear pink colored and coated by dark brown manganese oxides. There is a second botryoidal Calcite growth with a lovely pastel-pink color.
Palmarejo Mine, Palmarejo, Municipio Chinipas, Chihuahua Mexico (10/2016)
Specimen size: 10.2 × 6.9 × 4 cm = 4.0” × 2.7” × 1.6”
Price: €880 / US$977 / Yen 107630 / AUD$1410

EC70AA1: Calcite

Aggregate of Calcite crystals, on limonite matrix, with very well defined faces and edges, colorless, transparent and bright and formed by a prism and terminal scalenohedron and rhombohedron. The sample is very typical for the locality, one of the great English classics.
Bigrigg Mine, Bigrigg, West Cumberland Iron Field, former Cumberland, Cumbria England, United Kingdom
Specimen size: 9 × 7.6 × 3.7 cm = 3.5” × 3.0” × 1.5”
Price: €560 / US$622 / Yen 68490 / AUD$900

M17L: Calcite

Calcite with an unusual habit.
Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region Russia (1997)
Specimen size: 8 × 6 cm = 3.1” × 2.4”
Price: €95 / US$105 / Yen 11610 / AUD$150

T13RAX7: Calcite

Scalenohedral crystals with slightly curved faces and edges. On a rock matrix, they are transparent and extraordinarily bright. Some of the crystals are colorless, strongly contrasting with other honey color Calcite crystals. Of a great quality and among the best well known for this locality.
Espira-de-l'Agly, Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie France
Specimen size: 15.5 × 10.5 × 6.5 cm = 6.1” × 4.1” × 2.6”
Price: €80 / US$88 / Yen 9780 / AUD$120

EP87AA5: Calcite

Druse, on matrix, of complex, twinned Calcite crystals with the dominant faces of a scalenohedron, a prism and a terminal rhombohedron. The crystals are lustrous and transparent and have an intense and uniform yellow color. As in so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality.
La Sambre Quarry, Landelies, Montigny-le-Tilleul, Hainaut Province, Wallonia Region Belgium
Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.9 × 6.1 cm = 3.9” × 3.1” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 2.7 cm = 1.6” × 1.1”
Price: €280 / US$311 / Yen 34240 / AUD$450

JR96X9: Calcite

Cluster of very acute scalenohedral Calcite crystals. They are translucent and bright and are on matrix. The sample is from a not well known mine at Taxco from where such fine samples are scarce.
Remedios Mine, Taxco de Alarcón, Municipio Taxco, Guerrero Mexico (±1988)
Specimen size: 12.5 × 7.8 × 8.2 cm = 4.9” × 3.1” × 3.2”
Price: €190 / US$211 / Yen 23230 / AUD$300

TX16R0: Calcite

Parallel growth of beveled rhombohedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges and having different phases of crystallization underlined by different degrees of transparency.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province South Africa
Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.1 × 3.1 cm = 1.9” × 1.2” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 1.8 cm = 1.2” × 0.7”
Price: €90 / US$99 / Yen 11000 / AUD$140

TF67S1: Calcite

Group of crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very well defined faces and edges, between white and clear, the main one very transparent and with inclusions of crystallized Hematite. The sample is considerably better than the picture shows.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province South Africa (1998)
Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.1 × 5 cm = 2.8” × 2.0” × 2.0”
Price: €240 / US$266 / Yen 29350 / AUD$380

ML67V7: Calcite

Group of sharp rhombohedral crystals slightly modified by the scalenohedron. The crystals are colorless, bright and between transparent and translucent. The sample is from the Desmond Sacco collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
N'Chwaning II Mine, upper levels, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape South Africa
Specimen size: 6.5 × 6 × 4.9 cm = 2.6” × 2.4” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 2.6 cm = 1.8” × 1.0”
Price: €230 / US$255 / Yen 28130 / AUD$370

FT86: Calcite

Two generations of Calcite. The first generation was stalactitical and the second generation was the classic locality crystal form. Both first and second generation have brilliant crystals, and both are partially colored by brown iron oxides. Great esthetics in this decorative specimen.
Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua Mexico
Specimen size: 13.5 × 9 × 7.8 cm = 5.3” × 3.5” × 3.1”
Price: €160 / US$177 / Yen 19560 / AUD$250

MX16W1: Calcite

Group of translucent and very bright crystals that combine the forms of a quite flattened rhombohedron and a very short prism. This combination creates an unexpected and curious shape, quite similar to a pyritohedron. The sample is from the Desmond Sacco collection, whose label we'll send to the buyer.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia (1970-1985)
Specimen size: 3.4 × 3.4 × 2.2 cm = 1.3” × 1.3” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”
Price: €100 / US$111 / Yen 12230 / AUD$160

TA66Q0: Calcite

Very aerial polycrystalline botryoidal growths with white, slightly pinkish, color, on Limonite matrix.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.9 × 2.2 cm = 1.9” × 1.1” × 0.9”
Price: €140 / US$155 / Yen 17120 / AUD$220

TR94R9: Calcite

Group of acute scalenohedral crystals of Calcite that formed on a stalactitic growth with a very neat central cannel.
Wenshan area, Yunnan China (09/2008)
Specimen size: 16.2 × 10.4 × 10.4 cm = 6.4” × 4.1” × 4.1”

Main crystal size: 7.2 × 2.7 cm = 2.8” × 1.1”
Price: €980 / US$1088 / Yen 119860 / AUD$1570

VF37AE7: Calcite (variety "papierspat") with Chlorite, Orthoclase and Quartz

Floater aggregate of Calcite crystals with oriented faces forming parallel growths of extraordinarily flattened crystals (a habit that is well known as “papierspat.” The aggregate is partially coated, mainly on the back, by Chlorite, very sharp Orthoclase (adularia variety) crystals and small Quartz crystals.
The sample is from the duplicates collection of Joaquín Folch, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Griesseren Valley, Maderanertal, Uri Switzerland (±1952)
Specimen size: 9.7 × 6.2 × 5 cm = 3.8” × 2.4” × 2.0”
Price: €230 / US$255 / Yen 28130 / AUD$370

DR9AI0: Calcite (variety cobaltoan)

Botryoidal growths on matrix of Calcite (cobaltoan variety) with an intense and deep color with areas that have lighter shades.
Solita Mine, Peramea, Baix Pallars, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lleida / Lérida, Catalonia Spain
Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.7” × 1.5” × 0.9”
Price: €50 / US$55 / Yen 6110 / AUD$80

1E13: Calcite (variety cobaltoan)

Banded growths of pink cobaltoan Calcite alternating with fine bands of white and yellowish Calcite above Permo-Triassic age conglomerate rock matrix. The specimen, despite its fine surface, has not been acid-etched, as its rough surfaces in most areas and the existence of easily altered carbonates proves.
Solita Mine, Peramea, Baix Pallars, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lleida / Lérida, Catalonia Spain (2016)
Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.0 cm = 2.6” × 2.0”
Price: €80 / US$88 / Yen 9780 / AUD$128

ET14AK4: Calcite (variety kanonenspat) with Chlorite

New at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019. Very aerial and aesthetic growths of Calcite in small rhombohedral crystals that have completely replaced pre-existing crystals that were shown to have been Calcite too, assumed to be an earlier generation of Calcite. With small crystals of Prehnite and lamellar growths of Chlorite. We have not been able to publicize these specimens until now due to their genetic complexity. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region Morocco (2019)
Specimen size: 10.7 × 3 × 2.4 cm = 4.2” × 1.2” × 0.9”
Price: €90 / US$99 / Yen 11000 / AUD$140

EG9AK4: Calcite (variety kanonenspat) with Chlorite and Prehnite

New at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019. Very aerial and aesthetic growths of Calcite in small rhombohedral crystals that have completely replaced an earlier generation of Calcite crystals (analyzed). With small crystals of Prehnite and lamellar growths of Chlorite. We have not been able to publicize these specimens until now due to their genetic complexity. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region Morocco (2019)
Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.3 × 2.6 cm = 2.8” × 1.7” × 1.0”
Price: €40 / US$44 / Yen 4890 / AUD$60

EK11AK4: Calcite (variety kanonenspat) with Chlorite and Prehnite

New at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019. Very aerial and aesthetic growths of Calcite in small rhombohedral crystals that have completely replaced an earlier generation of Calcite crystals (analyzed). With small crystals of Prehnite and lamellar growths of Chlorite. We have not been able to publicize these specimens until now due to their genetic complexity. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region Morocco (2019)
Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.4 × 3.9 cm = 2.6” × 1.7” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.9” × 0.6”
Price: €60 / US$66 / Yen 7330 / AUD$90

EJ11AK4: Calcite (variety kanonenspat) with Chlorite and Prehnite

New at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019. Very aerial and aesthetic growths of Calcite in small rhombohedral crystals that have completely replaced pre-existing crystals that Calcita has also given in Calcite analysis, so it can be assumed that it was a first generation of Calcite . With small crystals of Prehnite and lamellar growths of Chlorite. We have not been able to publicize these specimens until now due to their genetic complexity. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region Morocco (2019)
Specimen size: 9.7 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 3.8” × 1.5” × 1.3”
Price: €70 / US$77 / Yen 8560 / AUD$110

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