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Topaz crystal with very sharp crystal forms, rich in terminal faces, very transparent, with good luster and a very pale salmon color.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Nyet-Bruk, Nyet, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas) Pakistan
Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.1 × 1 cm = 1.14” × 0.43” × 0.39”
Price: €90 / US$96 / ¥12770 / AUD$140

CTB96AP7: Topaz

Water-clear Topaz crystal, very rich in crystal forms, transparent and very lustrous. The specimen, from an African locality that is already a classic for the species, comes from the Carles Curto collection's duplicates (number 1984.63), whose label and digital file we will send to the buyer.
Ropp Tin Mines, Bukuru, Jos Plateau, Ropp District, Plateau State Nigeria
Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.6 × 1.7 cm = 1.02” × 0.63” × 0.67”
Price: €190 / US$203 / ¥26970 / AUD$305

ERB46AP3: Topaz

Isolated Topaz crystal of good size, on matrix, with very sharp crystal forms, between transparent and translucent depending on the area, lustrous and pale blue, a rarity in China with this quality and size.
Daguishan, Babu District, Hezhou Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region China (10/2021)
Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.1 × 6.8 cm = 2.87” × 2.01” × 2.68”
Price: €1400 / US$1498 / ¥198740 / AUD$2240

XM2180NHB: Topaz 'saramenha'

Doubly terminated floater crystal of 'saramenha' Topaz with well-defined faces and edges, between transparent and translucent, with a deep uniform color, very lustrous, with inclusions. The specimen belonged to Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and 90s, assembled an excellent collection.
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais Brazil
Specimen size: 2.8 × 1 × 0.9 cm = 1.10” × 0.39” × 0.35”
Price: €180 / US$192 / ¥25550 / AUD$280

XM220ED: Topaz 'saramenha'

Topaz crystal with sharp crystal forms, excellent terminations, transparent, with good luster and an intense color. Of the saramenha type ("imperial", in Spanish language)
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais Brazil
Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.98” × 0.59” × 0.39”
Price: €220 / US$235 / ¥31230 / AUD$350

NB27AF2: Topaz with Arsenopyrite, Fluorite, Muscovite and Chlorite

Topaz crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between transparent and translucent, with very well defined faces and edges, a slightly bluish color and with very sharp and bright Arsenopyrite crystals, small Fluorite crystals, leafy Muscovite aggregates and partially coated by Chlorite. The upper levels of Panasqueira are currently offering surprising and pleasant novelties, with samples that are very different from what has been known from this mine.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal (2015)
Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.6 × 2 cm = 2.40” × 1.81” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.55”
Price: €220 / US$235 / ¥31230 / AUD$350

NB76AB6: Topaz with Arsenopyrite, Muscovite and Quartz

Flattened Topaz crystals, one of them clearly dominant. They are white, between translucent and transparent, and they are on a Quartz and Arsenopyrite matrix partially coated by Chlorite, with small Muscovite aggregates. The upper levels of Panasqueira are currently offering surprising and pleasant novelties, with samples that are very different from what has been known from this mine.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal (03/2015)
Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.1 × 3.8 cm = 2.80” × 2.40” × 1.50”
Price: €160 / US$171 / ¥22710 / AUD$250

NJ96AC4: Topaz with Chlorite, Muscovite, Pyrite, Fluorapatite and Siderite

Irregular aggregate of Topaz crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are colorless, very bright and are on matrix, with Chlorite, Muscovite, Fluorapatite, Siderite and Pyrite. The upper levels of Panasqueira are currently offering surprising and pleasant novelties, with samples that are different from what is already known.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal (03/2015)
Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.5 × 2.6 cm = 2.24” × 1.77” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.28” × 0.24”
Price: €190 / US$203 / ¥26970 / AUD$300

TRM16AP5: Tourmaline (Group) with Hematite (variety iron rose), Quartz and Feldspar

Radial group of elongated Tourmaline group crystals, black and very lustrous, in a Quartz and Feldspar matrix, with small lamellar Hematite crystals. The specimen, a rarity for this well-known Swiss locality, comes from the collection of Robert-Auguste Touchon, whose handwritten label we will send to the buyer.
Cavradi, Curnera Valley, Tujetsch (Tavetsch), Vorderrhein Valley, Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden) Switzerland
Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.6 × 4.1 cm = 2.40” × 1.81” × 1.61”
Price: €100 / US$107 / ¥14190 / AUD$160

SV290MXR: Tremolite

Very sharp doubly terminated Tremolite crystal, with rounded faces and edges in the upper termination, very lustrous and transparent and implanted in a cavity of a calc-silicate rock with abundant small colorless crystals which are also Tremolite. An interesting perfectly crystallized amphibole, something not very common for a mineral species like Tremolite. The species has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Madagascar
Specimen size: 8.2 × 5.6 × 4.4 cm = 3.23” × 2.20” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.59” × 0.43”
Price: €290 / US$310 / ¥41160 / AUD$460

TR37AL7: Tremolite

Flattened crystal between translucent and transparent with a fibrous appearance and a pearly luster and with curious very aerial polycrystalline recrystallizations. The specimen, of great quality for the species, comes from the prestigious Rock Currier collection (No. 6722), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Pamir Mountains, Viloyati Mukhtori Gorno-Badakhshan Tajikistan
Specimen size: 10.3 × 2.3 × 0.8 cm = 4.06” × 0.91” × 0.31”
Price: €2200 / US$2355 / ¥312310 / AUD$3530

TX14AL2: Tremolite with Dolomite

A novelty at Tucson 2020. Group of three doubly terminated Tremolite crystals, with very well defined faces and edges. The crystals, with a little white Dolomite matrix, have an intense luster between vitreous and silky, are much more transparent than usual in specimens from this area and are green-gray with bluish tints. From a very recent find, the quality is superior to that generally known in the St. Lawrence County area.
Big Mole claim, West Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, New York USA (06/2019)
Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.4 × 0.8 cm = 0.63” × 0.55” × 0.31”
Price: €90 / US$96 / ¥12770 / AUD$140

TC86AL6: Tremolite with Dolomite (consolidated)

A novelty at Tucson 2020. Elongated Tremolite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, on a Dolomite matrix, with marked scepter growth. They have very well defined faces and edges, good terminal faces and an intense luster between crystalline and silky. It exhibits greater transparency than usual in specimens from this area and a beautiful gray-green color with bluish tints. From a recent find, the quality is also far superior to what is generally known from the St. Lawrence County area. The crystal was reinforced, already at origin, in two spots on the prism to avoid its possible separation.
Big Mole claim, West Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, New York USA (06/2019)
Specimen size: 15.7 × 6.5 × 4 cm = 6.18” × 2.56” × 1.57”
Price: €1700 / US$1820 / ¥241330 / AUD$2730

TC67J3: Twinned Calcite

Group of crystals from the August 2004, find. The aggregate is very attractive and we note the clearness of the crystals, the color and luster and, especially, the existence of twins formed by the contact of two rhombohedrons.
Basalt Quarry, Ambariomiambana, Sambava District, Sava Region Madagascar (08/2004)
Specimen size: 6.7 × 4 × 3.7 cm = 2.64” × 1.57” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3 cm = 1.77” × 1.18”
Price: €240 / US$256 / ¥34070 / AUD$380

TN56AL3: Twinned Cerussite

Floater reticulated Cerussite aggregate with multiple twinned crystals between lamellar and tabular, highly profiled, transparent, bright and more limpid and perfect than is usually the case in the Cerussites from this deposit.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓180 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province Iran (03/2016)
Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.3 × 1.9 cm = 1.73” × 1.30” × 0.75”
Price: €170 / US$182 / ¥24130 / AUD$270

TQ96AL3: Twinned Cerussite

Floater reticulated Cerussite aggregate with multiple twinned crystals between lamellar and tabular, highly profiled, transparent, bright and more limpid and perfect than is usually the case in the Cerussites from this deposit.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓180 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province Iran (03/2016)
Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.73” × 1.26” × 0.94”
Price: €190 / US$203 / ¥26970 / AUD$300

NJ70AL9: Twinned Cerussite

Floater growth of flattened reticulated prismatic twins of Cerussite whose white color shows a slightly brownish-pinkish tinge. In perfect condition, with a rosette-like appearance different from other specimens commonly seen from this locality.
The specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection.
Luis Mine, 88 m.↓ Norte vein, Del General Mines, Cabezarrubias del Puerto, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha Spain (10/2013)
Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.8 × 2.9 cm = 1.85” × 1.50” × 1.14”
Price: €480 / US$513 / ¥68140 / AUD$770

DC90AF6: Twinned Cerussite

Very aerial, complete Cerussite cyclic twin with transparent, very bright and slightly smoky crystals, with small coatings of massive Galena.
The sample, a classic from Tsumeb, is from the Daunis collection (a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area during the period 1970-1980).
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.4 × 3.6 cm = 1.77” × 1.73” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.87”
Price: €560 / US$599 / ¥79490 / AUD$890

EB11AK1: Twinned Cerussite

An extraordinary specimen that brings together various morphological habits of Cerussite, with very sharp arrow twins, parallel growths of elongated crystals and lattice growths. The crystals are translucent and very bright.
A superb example from the René Hubin collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco
Specimen size: 11.1 × 8.3 × 3.7 cm = 4.37” × 3.27” × 1.46”
Price: €5600 / US$5995 / ¥794970 / AUD$8990

JM37AF3: Twinned Cerussite with Galena

Very sharp twinned crystals, between transparent and translucent, with whitish phantom growths, very bright, with a golden brown color and small Galena inclusions. The tip of the main twin, is slightly rough but free of damage. The termination of one of the secondary crystals is fractured.
The sample is from the James Catmur collection (number B120/A23AC) whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (± 1993)
Specimen size: 4.3 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.69” × 0.98” × 0.59”
Price: €250 / US$267 / ¥35490 / AUD$400

ET29AM1: Twinned Diaspore

Two flattened and doubly terminated crystals of Diaspore that form a markedly angular twin, with polycrystalline terminations and fine striations on the prism faces. The two crystals are transparent to translucent, lustrous, and greenish-yellow in color.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region Turkey (2020)
Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.4 × 2 cm = 2.52” × 1.34” × 0.79”
Price: €420 / US$449 / ¥59620 / AUD$670

HM160DQ: Twinned Dolomite

Group of very sharp rhombohedral Dolomite crystals, transparent, lustrous and colorless. A classic of the Spanish mineralogy.
Former collection of Lluís Daunis
Asturreta Quarry, 'el pozo', Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarra) Spain (±1970)
Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.1 × 2.9 cm = 1.73” × 1.61” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.3 cm = 0.98” × 0.91”
Price: €160 / US$171 / ¥22710 / AUD$250

SV180MBR: Tyrolite with Theisite

Groups of crystals in radial fibrous aggregates composed of Tyrolite crystals, with bluish green tones, arranged on a matrix partially covered by a thin crystalline crust of Theisite. From a Chinese locality, Sanguozhuang, where lead and zinc are extracted, and which is the type locality for 5 new mineral species.
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province China
Specimen size: 3.4 × 3 × 1.8 cm = 1.34” × 1.18” × 0.71”
Price: €180 / US$192 / ¥25550 / AUD$280

ML27AM7: Valentinite

Group of Valentinite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and large (for the species), very sharp, doubly terminated, and colored grey by micro-inclusions of Galena and other sulphides.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department Bolivia
Specimen size: 3 × 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 1.18” × 0.71” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.31”
Price: €210 / US$224 / ¥29810 / AUD$330

MA89AG7: Valentinite with Quartz

Spheroidal aggregates of radial Valentinite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright, with a color between yellow and orange, both intense and uniform. On a rocky matrix with Quartz coatings.
Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province China (2016)
Specimen size: 9.1 × 8.9 × 3.5 cm = 3.58” × 3.50” × 1.38”
Price: €480 / US$513 / ¥68140 / AUD$770

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