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Parallel growth of Cinnabar crystals with polycrystalline surfaces and slight curvatures on the edges. They are translucent, bright, with an intense color and are on matrix with small Quartz crystals. A Spanish classic. The sample is from the Eugeni Bareche collection (num. 692) and we’ll send the label to the buyer.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha Spain (±1960-70)
Specimen size: 8.1 × 5.7 × 4.3 cm = 3.2” × 2.2” × 1.7”
Price: Euro:450 / US$513 / Yen:56150 / AUD$710

EA90AI4: Cinnabar with Quartz

Very sharp rhombohedral Cinnabar crystals with very well defined faces and the interpenetration twin. They have a very vivid color and are on matrix with small Quartz crystals. This specimen has an extraordinary quality for the locality, well known for the species but where good Cinnabars are rare.
Snowshoe Mine, Paradise Valley, Poverty Peak District, Humboldt County, Nevada USA (±1954)
Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.6 × 4.1 cm = 2.2” × 1.4” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”
Price: Euro:480 / US$547 / Yen:59890 / AUD$760

TR96AG9: Cinnabar with Quarz and Dolomite

Isolated Cinnabar crystals on matrix, with very well defined faces and edges, clearly twinned, translucent, very bright and with a very intense color. A Spanish classic.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha Spain
Specimen size: 6.3 × 5 × 2.2 cm = 2.5” × 2.0” × 0.9”
Price: Euro:220 / US$250 / Yen:27450 / AUD$340

NA6AC1: Clinozoisite-Epidote with Prehnite, Microcline and Quartz

Radial aggregates of acicular crystals whose chemical composition is between Clinozoisite (dominant) and Epidote. The crystals are implanted on a matrix partially coated by clear green Prehnite aggregates, Orthoclase and Quartz crystals. The sample is from a large famous find in 1999 at the La Saludadora Quarry.
Isabel Quarry (La Saludadora Quarry), La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama, Madrid, Community of Madrid Spain (03/1999)
Specimen size: 19.8 × 15.1 × 4.5 cm = 7.8” × 5.9” × 1.8”
Price: Euro:95 / US$108 / Yen:11850 / AUD$150

RB27AE6: Cobaltoan Calcite

Banded growths of cobaltoan Calcite with a very intense color alternating with fine bands of white and yellowish Calcite. The sample, in spite its fine surface, hasn't been acid-etched, as its rough surfaces in most areas and the existence of easily altered carbonates proves.
The sample is from the Joaquín Folch duplicates collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Solita Mine, Peramea, Baix Pallars, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lleida/Lérida, Catalonia Spain
Specimen size: 14.4 × 9.1 × 5.6 cm = 5.7” × 3.6” × 2.2”
Price: Euro:230 / US$262 / Yen:28690 / AUD$360

DD47AH7: Cobaltoan Calcite

Druse, on matrix, of lenticular crystals with predominant flattened rhombohedra. They are translucent, very bright and with an extraordinary color due to its liveliness and depth.
Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba) Congo DR (Zaire)
Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.2 × 4.4 cm = 2.2” × 1.7” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”
Price: Euro:230 / US$262 / Yen:28690 / AUD$360

EY63Y2: Cobaltoan Calcite

A novelty at St. Marie 2013 (because of the scalenohedral crystals). Druse, on matrix, of very acute scalenohedral crystals with rhombohedral terminations. They are between transparent and translucent and have a color between deep pink and mauve, with a second generation of crystals with the same morphology, but with orange shades.
Agoudal Mines, Agoudal, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (2013)
Specimen size: 7.9 × 7.2 × 4.5 cm = 3.1” × 2.8” × 1.8”
Price: Euro:95 / US$108 / Yen:11850 / AUD$150

EG96W2: Cobaltoan Calcite with Calcite and Pyrite

Irregular aggregate of crystals formed by a short prism with six faces and a flattened terminal rhombohedron, with vertical parallel growths all along the prism. The crystals are bright and have a deep and uniform mauve color.
Agoudal Mines, Agoudal, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (2012)
Specimen size: 8 × 7.5 × 3.3 cm = 3.1” × 3.0” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”
Price: Euro:190 / US$216 / Yen:23700 / AUD$300

EK12AH7: Copper

Arborescent growths of slightly deformed cubo-octahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges and on matrix. The sample is from a locality that is not well known by collectors.
Cobriza Mine, Churcampa, San Pedro de Coris District, Churcampa Province, Huancavelica Department Peru (01-03/2014)
Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.3 × 2.2 cm = 1.5” × 1.3” × 0.9”
Price: Euro:70 / US$79 / Yen:8730 / AUD$110

TJ13AH7: Copper

Very aerial dendritic growth with dodecahedral crystals that have very well defined faces and edges, with slight curvatures.
Ogonja (Onganja), Seeis, Windhoek District, Khomas Region Namibia
Specimen size: 3.7 × 1.9 × 1.1 cm = 1.5” × 0.7” × 0.4”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”
Price: Euro:80 / US$91 / Yen:9980 / AUD$120

TA76AE8: Copper

A novelty at Tucson 2017. Dendritic aggregate of elongated octahedral crystals, with parallel growths and slight curvatures on the edges. It is from a locality not yet well known for collectible Copper samples.
Acari Mine, Caraveli Province, Arequipa Department Peru (2015)
Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.4 × 2 cm = 2.3” × 1.3” × 0.8”
Price: Euro:170 / US$193 / Yen:21210 / AUD$260

TL27AE8: Copper

A novelty at Tucson 2017. Dendritic aggregate of elongated octahedral crystals with parallel growths and slight curvatures on the edges. It is from a locality not yet well known for collectible Copper samples.
Acari Mine, Caraveli Province, Arequipa Department Peru (2015)
Specimen size: 7.6 × 2.6 × 0.9 cm = 3.0” × 1.0” × 0.4”
Price: Euro:220 / US$250 / Yen:27450 / AUD$340

TF66AH5: Copper

Dendritic growth with a clearly dominant crystal of a good size, with the well-developed faces of the dodecahedron and the octahedron.
We’ll send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label in which it appears that it had previously been in the “Bunk” Melanson collection.
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Houghton County, Michigan USA
Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.1” × 0.9” × 0.6”
Price: Euro:850 / US$969 / Yen:106060 / AUD$1340

MF70Q1: Copper

Very aerial group of crystals better formed than usual, some of them with very well defined crystalline forms, of good size and luster.
Central Mine, Central, Keweenaw County, Michigan USA
Specimen size: 3.3 × 3.1 × 1.5 cm = 1.3” × 1.2” × 0.6”
Price: Euro:480 / US$547 / Yen:59890 / AUD$760

TK69L5: Copper

A classic specimen from a classic locality. Dendritic growth of crystals of considerable size, elongated, with some well defined faces. Nice floater.
Houghton County, Michigan USA
Specimen size: 10.6 × 8.2 × 2 cm = 4.2” × 3.2” × 0.8”
Price: Euro:460 / US$524 / Yen:57390 / AUD$720

TF86H5: Copper

Excellent crystallization clearly showing the faces of the dodecahedron, even considering the typical deformation and elongation of crystals.
The sample is from an old collection of Northwestern University and we’ll include the label.
Keweenaw County, Michigan USA
Specimen size: 6 × 3.6 × 3.4 cm = 2.4” × 1.4” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.7” × 0.3”
Price: Euro:185 / US$210 / Yen:23080 / AUD$290

ET86AF7: Copper (neoformed)

Aggregate of deformed and rounded crystals. A curious growth that is the result of the removal of copper during the mining in which the copper recrystallizes sometimes acquiring the shapes of the objects and machines it has grown on.
In other words, this copper has been formed naturally but is "neoformed" since its origin may be due to human activity in an old abandoned mine.
Zlaté Hory, Olomouc Region, Moravia Czech Republic (04/2014)
Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.3 × 3.1 cm = 3.3” × 2.1” × 1.2”
Price: Euro:160 / US$182 / Yen:19960 / AUD$250

EX27AF7: Copper (neoformed)

Aggregate of deformed and rounded crystals. A curious growth that is the result of the removal of copper during the mining in which the copper recrystallizes sometimes acquiring the shapes of the objects and machines it has grown on.
In other words, this copper has been formed naturally but is "neoformed" since its origin may be due to human activity in an old abandoned mine.
Zlaté Hory, Olomouc Region, Moravia Czech Republic (04/2014)
Specimen size: 12.2 × 7.2 × 3.5 cm = 4.8” × 2.8” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”
Price: Euro:220 / US$250 / Yen:27450 / AUD$340

TA89S0: Copper after Cuprite and with Cuprite

A novelty at Tucson 2011. Group of very well developed crystals of native Copper, some of them perimorphs after Cuprite and coated by aggregates of octahedral crystals of the same species that are very bright and with slightly curved faces and edges.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovskoe, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Kray, Western-Siberian Region Russia (20-25/11/2010)
Specimen size: 6.8 × 6.2 × 3.4 cm = 2.7” × 2.4” × 1.3”
Price: Euro:480 / US$547 / Yen:59890 / AUD$760

TT73AF0: Copper with Cuprite

Dendritic Copper crystals that are very elongated and bright with well-defined faces and edges with very visible spinel law twinning. They are partially coated by reddish Cuprite.
The sample is with an old Copper City Rock Shop label that we’ll send to the buyer.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona USA
Specimen size: 9 × 5.2 × 4.3 cm = 3.5” × 2.0” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.2 cm = 0.8” × 0.1”
Price: Euro:840 / US$957 / Yen:104810 / AUD$1330

EM96AA5: Copper with Cuprite

Very aerial dendritic growth of elongated and flattened Copper crystals showing very well defined Spinel-law twins and partially coated by cubo-octahedral Cuprite crystals. An excellent American classic.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona USA
Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.1 × 0.8 cm = 1.5” × 1.2” × 0.3”
Price: Euro:190 / US$216 / Yen:23700 / AUD$300

VF99AI8: Copper with Cuprite and Silver

Native Copper crystals that have very well defined faces and edges with the dominant octahedral form, very bright, associated with groups of octahedral Cuprite crystals that have coatings of Silver.
The sample is from the Jordi Vilallonga collection.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovskoe, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Kray, Western-Siberian Region Russia (06-08/2008)
Specimen size: 5 × 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 2.0” × 1.3” × 1.1”
Price: Euro:460 / US$524 / Yen:57390 / AUD$720

TJ87AF6: Copper with Cuprite, Calcite and Malachite

Arborescent growth of native Copper crystals on matrix, with small octahedral Cuprite crystals which are very bright and intensely red. The Copper has coatings of Calcite and Malachite.
The sample is from the Vallecillo collection, Madrid.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 9.5 × 6.3 × 3.8 cm = 3.7” × 2.5” × 1.5”
Price: Euro:250 / US$285 / Yen:31190 / AUD$390

MG64AG3: Corkite on Plumbogummite

Coatings of very well defined micro-crystals of Corkite, a rare lead and iron sulfate-phosphate. They have an olive-green color, are very bright and are implanted on a clearer grayish-green Plumbogummite and on a limonite matrix.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘‘Mineral Up’’ on page 64 in number 2017/2
Serra da Mina Mine, Cercal, Santiago do Cacém, Setúbal District Portugal (2016-2017)
Specimen size: 6.1 × 5.4 × 4.6 cm = 2.4” × 2.1” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”
Price: Euro:115 / US$131 / Yen:14340 / AUD$180

MP51AF0: Creedite

Acute Creedite crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are transparent, very bright, with an intense and uniform violet color and, in some areas on the sample there are reddish Hematite inclusions. The sample is from the famous cavity opened at Santa Eulalia in 1984 that provided the best Creedite samples at the locality.
Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua Mexico (1984)
Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.5 × 4.3 cm = 2.5” × 1.8” × 1.7”
Price: Euro:580 / US$661 / Yen:72370 / AUD$910

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