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A single floater crystal that has extraordinarily well defined faces and edges. It is translucent, white and has small black acicular crystals on its base. Due to the singularity and perfection of the crystal it has been analyzed to positively identify the species. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Machinga, Machinga District Malawi (02/2017)
Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.6 × 0.9 cm = 0.6” × 0.6” × 0.4”
Price: Euro:180 / US$202 / Yen:22000 / AUD$290

EA86S9: Epidote

A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. Group of crystals, of pistachio green color, with very simple forms but with a very uncommon habit, the predominance of a very well developed frontal pinacoid that results in the crystal being really smooth. The crystals are bright and deep green, almost black.
Raywoo Mine, Quetta District, Balochistan (Baluchistan) Pakistan (2011)
Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.9 × 3 cm = 2.0” × 1.9” × 1.2”
Price: Euro:190 / US$214 / Yen:23230 / AUD$300

EF87T2: Epidote

A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. Floater group of pistachio green color but with a very unusual habit, pseudo-octahedral, and with a feebly developed frontal pinacoid.
Raywoo Mine, Quetta District, Balochistan (Baluchistan) Pakistan (2011)
Specimen size: 9.6 × 6.4 × 6.4 cm = 3.8” × 2.5” × 2.5”
Price: Euro:240 / US$270 / Yen:29340 / AUD$380

TB67AF6: Epidote with Stilbite-Ca

Group of dark green (almost black), doubly terminated, very aerial Epidote crystals that are partially coated by small white crystals, most of them doubly terminated, of Stilbite-Ca.
The sample is from the Vallecillo collection, Madrid.
Commune Diakon, Arrondissement Diakon, Bafoulabé Circle, Kayes Region Mali
Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.5 × 5.4 cm = 3.9” × 3.0” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 7 × 2.5 cm = 2.8” × 1.0”
Price: Euro:230 / US$259 / Yen:28120 / AUD$370

EV69V9: Erythrite

Fanlike aggregates, on matrix, of sharp flattened prismatic crystals with a very deep color and intense luster.
Agoudal Centre Quarry, Agoudal, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (04-05/2010)
Specimen size: 10.7 × 7.7 × 7.4 cm = 4.2” × 3.0” × 2.9”
Price: Euro:460 / US$518 / Yen:56240 / AUD$740

E84LA5: Erythrite

The small pink rosettes associated with the main crystals are a second generation of Erythrite.
Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (06/2000)
Specimen size: 4.5 × 5 cm = 1.8” × 2.0”
Price: Euro:210 / US$236 / Yen:25670 / AUD$330

MA16AI0: Erythrite with Bariopharmacosiderite

Druse of very Sharp Erythrite crystals on matrix. They have a very vivid color and some of them are coated by greenish white Bariopharmacosiderite microaggregates. The Bariopharmacosiderite has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco
Specimen size: 13.6 × 7.3 × 4.4 cm = 5.4” × 2.9” × 1.7”
Price: Euro:1100 / US$1240 / Yen:134490 / AUD$1770

EF16AC2: Erythrite with Phlogopite

A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2015. Aggregate of very elongated crystals that have a quite different shape than the better known Erythrite from Bou Azzer. These crystals in a Phlogopite-rich matrix are notable by their luster and color, very intense and uniform.
Tazalarht mining area, Taroudant Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (01/2015)
Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.2 × 3.2 cm = 2.4” × 1.7” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.1 cm = 0.6” × 0.0”
Price: Euro:110 / US$124 / Yen:13440 / AUD$170

EX87AC2: Erythrite with Phlogopite

A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2015. Aggregate of very elongated crystals, of good size, that has a quite different shape than the better known Erythrite from Bou Azzer. These crystals in a Phlogopite-rich matrix, are notable by their luster and color, very intense and uniform.
Tazalarht mining area, Taroudant Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (01/2015)
Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.1 × 4.2 cm = 2.5” × 1.6” × 1.7”
Price: Euro:280 / US$315 / Yen:34230 / AUD$450

EA77AE1: Erythrite with Phlogopite

A novelty at Ste. Marie 2015, a new worldwide locality for fine Erythrite! The very thin and elongated Erythrite crystals are in radial aggregates whose shape is quite different from those from the better known Bou Azzer. The crystals, on a matrix partially coated by Phlogopite (analyzed) have very good transparency, luster and color, very intense and uniform.
Tazalarht mining area, Taroudant Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (01/2015)
Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.1 × 3.5 cm = 2.3” × 1.6” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.5” × 0.0”
Price: Euro:280 / US$315 / Yen:34230 / AUD$450

EY88AC2: Erythrite with Phlogopite

A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2015. Aggregate of very elongated crystals that have a quite different shape than the better known Erythrite from Bou Azzer. These crystals in a Phlogopite-rich matrix and with iridescent metallic sulphides, are notable by their luster and color, very intense and uniform.
Tazalarht mining area, Taroudant Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (01/2015)
Specimen size: 6 × 5.6 × 3.7 cm = 2.4” × 2.2” × 1.5”
Price: Euro:360 / US$405 / Yen:44010 / AUD$580

EC37AB9: Erythrite with Phlogopite and Quartz

A novelty at Ste. Marie 2015, a new worldwide locality for fine Erythrite! Although it looks very similar to the famous Bou Azzer ones, the deposit of this specimen is located about 500 Km. from the Bou Azzer Mine and in a different geological environment. As far as we know these Erythrites were not known before and they come not from the Tazalarht quarries but in a new shaft/prospect located very close to the Tazalarht quarries. Related species are Quartz, Phlogopite (analyzed) and a mix of Chalcocite-Djurleite-Digenite in the matrix.
Tazalarht mining area, Taroudant Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (01/2015)
Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.2 × 2.9 cm = 1.9” × 1.7” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.3 cm = 0.4” × 0.1”
Price: Euro:210 / US$236 / Yen:25670 / AUD$330

ED86AB9: Erythrite with Phlogopite and Quartz

A novelty at Ste. Marie 2015, a new worldwide locality for fine Erythrite! Although it looks very similar to the famous Bou Azzer ones, the deposit of this specimen is located about 500 Km. from the Bou Azzer Mine and in a different geological environment. As far as we know these Erythrites were not known before and they come not from the Tazalarht quarries but in a new shaft/prospect located very close to the Tazalarht quarries. Related species are Quartz, Phlogopite (analyzed) and a mix of Chalcocite-Djurleite-Digenite in the matrix.
Tazalarht mining area, Taroudant Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (01/2015)
Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.2 × 3 cm = 2.1” × 1.7” × 1.2”
Price: Euro:220 / US$248 / Yen:26890 / AUD$350

EN83: Erythrite with Quartz

Brilliant crystals in a Quartz pocket.
Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (06/2000)
Specimen size: 7.2 × 7 cm = 2.8” × 2.8”
Price: Euro:380 / US$428 / Yen:46460 / AUD$610

GC17Q5: Erythrite with Skutterudite

Aggregate of bright crystals, very well defined and with good color, that fill in a cavity in a matrix of metallic sulphides.
Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (±1980)
Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.8 × 5.4 cm = 3.0” × 2.7” × 2.1”
Price: Euro:190 / US$214 / Yen:23230 / AUD$300

M24LA7: Erythrite with Skutterudite

Large crystals of this lustrous Erythrite on Skutterudite matrix.
Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (06/2000)
Specimen size: 7 × 4.5 cm = 2.8” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 1.5 cm = 0.6”
Price: Euro:240 / US$270 / Yen:29340 / AUD$380

ER58Z5: Euchroite

Aggregates of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright, with a very intense and deep green color and scattered on a rocky matrix. The crystals, even though not especially large, are really abundant and have very good quality.
Svätodušná, Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica Slovak Republic (2000)
Specimen size: 11 × 4.5 × 6.2 cm = 4.3” × 1.8” × 2.4”
Price: Euro:290 / US$326 / Yen:35450 / AUD$460

NB26AF1: Euclase with Calcite

Parallel aggregate of very sharp Euclase crystals with very well defined faces and edges, transparent, bright, with a nice and uniform blue color. Partially coated by small white Calcite crystals. An excellent miniature.
La Marina Mine, Municipio Pauna, Boyacá Department Colombia (06-07/2015)
Specimen size: 3.1 × 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 1.2” × 0.6” × 0.3”

Main crystal size: 3 × 0.8 cm = 1.2” × 0.3”
Price: Euro:1200 / US$1352 / Yen:146720 / AUD$1940

N13BIK9: Ferberite with Siderite

Parallel growth of prismatic crystals of Ferberite partially covered (totally on the rear) by Siderite crystals, most of them doubly terminated.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal (1995)
Specimen size: 7.5 × 4.7 × 3.8 cm = 3.0” × 1.9” × 1.5”
Price: Euro:125 / US$140 / Yen:15280 / AUD$200

NT86AA4: Ferberite with Siderite and Muscovite

Parallel growth of flattened Ferberite crystals partially coated by leafy Muscovite aggregates and small tabular Siderite crystals with concentric geometric color zoning.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal (07/2014)
Specimen size: 5.8 × 6.1 × 1.3 cm = 2.3” × 2.4” × 0.5”
Price: Euro:190 / US$214 / Yen:23230 / AUD$300

TL90AF5: Florencite-(Ce) with Milarite and Quartz

Very sharp dipyramidal Florencite-(Ce) crystals, with a very good length for the species, very well defined faces and edges and a clear cream color. They are implanted on Quartz crystals with colorless transparent Milarite crystals, a lot of them doubly terminated.
Pomba Pit, Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Northeast Region Brazil
Specimen size: 7.9 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 3.1” × 1.3” × 1.0”
Price: Euro:480 / US$541 / Yen:58680 / AUD$770

MK96AE6: Fluorapatite

A Fluorapatite crystal, unusual due to its very elongated shape. It has very well defined faces and edges, is between transparent and translucent, and has a pale green color with geometric color zones having different green shades that appear as “phantom” growths. It is with small Arsenopyrite crystals on the prism faces.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal
Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.9 × 1.2 cm = 1.7” × 1.1” × 0.5”
Price: Euro:180 / US$202 / Yen:22000 / AUD$290

NB11M7: Fluorapatite

A group of two violet crystals, with zoned color and a cluster of small crystals on its side. On the back, there is a neat contact. The crystals have small damage on the edges.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal
Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.7” × 0.5”
Price: Euro:55 / US$62 / Yen:6720 / AUD$80

MV29AG3: Fluorapatite on Prehnite

A novelty at Munich 2017. Elongated Fluorapatite crystal, translucent with a very bright upper pinacoid and the lower part recrystallized. The crystal has an unusual genesis, being in a micro-crystalline Prehnite nodule. Another aspect to note, it closely remains a Tourmaline because it is polychromic, mainly pink and with a green termination.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Munich 2017’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 71 of number 1/2018, and for the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 335 in the volume 49, number 2
Anemzi, Imilchil, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (10/2017)
Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.1 × 4.8 cm = 1.9” × 1.6” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.1 cm = 1.2” × 0.4”
Price: Euro:390 / US$439 / Yen:47680 / AUD$630

EP92AH7: Fluorapatite with Arsenopyrite and Muscovite

Single Fluorapatite crystal with a thin tabular shape and with a very well defined concentric color zoning. On a matrix of Arsenopyrite crystals with botryoidal Muscovite aggregates. At Panasqueira this kind of concentric growth, differentiated on the periphery and the central area, is well known as “olho de boi” (ox eye), a particularity that is especially obvious on this sample.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Portugal (12/2012)
Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.5 × 2.6 cm = 2.9” × 2.2” × 1.0”
Price: Euro:690 / US$777 / Yen:84360 / AUD$1110

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