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Aggregate on a limonite matrix of white acicular Cerussite crystals with a silky luster and fibrous aspect resembling the so-called “jackstraw” variety. It is from a locality where samples of such quality are very scarce.
Lescure Mine, Mayres, Thueyts, Largentière, Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France
Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.4 × 1.5 cm = 2.13” × 1.34” × 0.59”
Price: €90 / US$92 / ¥12250 / AUD$130

EB56AC9: Cerussite

Parallel aggregates of Cerussite crystals with a fibrous aspect, a white color and small black Goethite coatings. Good quality for the locality.
Chaillac Mine, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire France (±1980)
Specimen size: 4.5 × 2.5 × 1.6 cm = 1.77” × 0.98” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.7 cm = 1.57” × 0.67”
Price: €140 / US$143 / ¥19070 / AUD$200

TQ27AG5: Cerussite

Group of translucent crystals with very elongated prisms and dipyramidal terminations with the cyclic twin. The shape is different and better defined than usual for samples from the locality.
Lescure Mine, Mayres, Thueyts, Largentière, Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (± 2014)
Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.8 × 1 cm = 1.26” × 0.71” × 0.39”
Price: €220 / US$225 / ¥29960 / AUD$320

NTD69AO3: Cerussite

Very aerial reticulated growth of flattened and elongated prismatic Cerussite crystals. The crystals, twinned and with good terminations, are translucent and have a satiny luster. This specimen comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes (number CER-39) and we will send its catalogue file to the buyer.
Luis Mine, Norte vein, Del General Mines, Cabezarrubias del Puerto, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha Spain (10/2013)
Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.42” × 1.06” × 0.55”
Price: €460 / US$470 / ¥62660 / AUD$670

TP90AG5: Cerussite

Group of translucent crystals with very elongated prisms and dipyramidal terminations forming a scepter, and with cyclic twins. The shape is different and better defined than usual for samples from the locality.
Lescure Mine, Mayres, Thueyts, Largentière, Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (± 2014)
Specimen size: 2.8 × 4 × 1.7 cm = 1.10” × 1.57” × 0.67”
Price: €480 / US$491 / ¥65380 / AUD$700

ER89Z1: Cerussite

Very aerial spray of so- called "jackstraw" aggregates of acicular Cerussite crystals. They have a velvety luster and snowy white color that strongly contrasts against the dark limonite matrix.
Montevecchio Mines, Arbus, Medio Campidano Province, Sardinia/Sardegna Italy
Specimen size: 9.2 × 3.5 × 3.5 cm = 3.62” × 1.38” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.1 cm = 0.79” × 0.04”
Price: €460 / US$470 / ¥62660 / AUD$670

EC61V9: Cerussite

Very aerial, transparent and bright, twinned crystal. It is implanted on a Quartz matrix rich in small clear green crystals of Smithsonite.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 5.8 × 4 × 4.3 cm = 2.28” × 1.57” × 1.69”
Price: €580 / US$593 / ¥79000 / AUD$850

HM130TZ: Cerussite (twinned)

Floater reticulated aggregate of Cerussite crystals with multiple twinning, between lamellar and tabular. Very sharp, transparent, lustrous and more limpid and perfect than is usual for specimens from this deposit.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓180 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province Iran (03/2016)
Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.4 × 1.2 cm = 1.34” × 0.94” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.63” × 0.39”
Price: €130 / US$133 / ¥17700 / AUD$190

SM760M: Cerussite after Anglesite on Goethite

Elongated prismatic crystals of Cerussite after Anglesite. Translucent, white in color and on an iridescent Goethite matrix. A classic of the San Valentin mine and Spanish mineralogy.
Former collection of Miguel David Martínez. Number 633
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain (±1995)
Specimen size: 13.7 × 13.3 × 5.2 cm cm = 5.39” × 5.24” × 2.05”
Price: €760 / US$777 / ¥103520 / AUD$1110

ET99AK7: Cerussite after Anglesite with Goethite

Fans of twinned Cerussite crystals pseudomorphing Anglesite and subsequently coated by iridescent Goethite with a rainbow of colors dominated by yellow. This piece comes from the Mariano Guillén collection and both for the size of the crystals and the intensity of color represents just about the best known for this locality, which in fact is the only one that yields these curious formations.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain (±1995)
Specimen size: 5.5 × 4 × 4.3 cm = 2.17” × 1.57” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2 cm = 1.18” × 0.79”
Price: €480 / US$491 / ¥65380 / AUD$700

NRF89AN8: Cerussite on Goethite

Cyclic twins of second generation yellowish white tabular crystals of Cerussite, with very sharp and translucent crystal forms that contrast with the Goethite matrix that presents low iridescence with mostly reddish brown colors. This specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 822), whose label we will send to the buyer.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain (±1995)
Specimen size: 12 × 7.3 × 8.5 cm = 4.72” × 2.87” × 3.35”
Price: €480 / US$491 / ¥65380 / AUD$700

HM90NTA: Cerussite on Goethite

Flattened crystals of Cerussite, very sharp, twinned, between translucent and transparent and with a yellowish white color.On matrix, with Goethite.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain (1990)
Specimen size: 7.3 × 6.9 × 5.5 cm = 2.87” × 2.72” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.7 cm = 0.63” × 0.28”
Price: €90 / US$92 / ¥12250 / AUD$130

JFD80AO0: Cerussite on Quartz with iron oxides inclusions

Less famous than Touissit or Mibladen, Taouz cerussites can be attractive too. In this case, although the very aerial crystals are small, their snow-white color contrasts with the dark matrix in which there are small Quartz crystals with inclusions of iron oxides.
Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (±1990)
Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.7 × 2 cm = 2.52” × 1.46” × 0.79”
Price: €110 / US$112 / ¥14980 / AUD$160

HM170NA: Cerussite with Galena

Groups of Cerussite crystals with good terminations, translucent, shiny and on a Galena matrix. The specimen comes from one of the great classical localities of the Spanish mineralogy.
La Cruz mining group, La Cruz vein, shaft 5, Linares, Comarca Sierra Morena, Jaén, Andalusia Spain
Specimen size: 5.4 × 3 × 2.1 cm = 2.13” × 1.18” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.4 cm = 0.55” × 0.55”
Price: €170 / US$173 / ¥23150 / AUD$250

DF86AM1: Cerussite with Galena and Dolomite

Twinned crystals with a prismatic habit, with very well defined faces and edges and excellent terminations. They are translucent, shiny, and on Galena and Dolomite matrix. A fine miniature.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco
Specimen size: 3.9 × 3 × 2.7 cm = 1.54” × 1.18” × 1.06”
Price: €190 / US$194 / ¥25880 / AUD$270

NBR27AO8: Cerussite with limonite

Twinned Cerussite crystals with very well defined crystal forms, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, and covering a stalactitic growth of limonite. Not so common in this quality from the Ojuela Mine. It comes from the Santiago Jiménez collection, which not only had specimens from Spain but also a good representation of minerals from all over the world.
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango Mexico
Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.4 × 2.1 cm = 2.91” × 1.73” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.43” × 0.35”
Price: €220 / US$225 / ¥29960 / AUD$320

THM14AN9: Cerussite with Malachite

Twinned crystals of Cerussite with very sharp, translucent and lustrous crystal forms. They are white in color and on matrix with Malachite. We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Brown's Open Pit, Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory Australia
Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.1 × 1.6 cm = 0.98” × 0.83” × 0.63”
Price: €95 / US$97 / ¥12940 / AUD$130

TT48AL5: Cerussite with Malachite

Group of flattened, twinned crystals, with lattice growths, colorless, transparent, with good luster and small inclusions of Malachite. Of the best quality for a historical locality, especially for its perfection since these specimens are usually very fragile, often have damage, but this piece is nevertheless perfect. The sample comes from the Dick Norris collection (no. 179) whose label, together with a previous one by Dave Bunk, we will send to the buyer.
Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona USA
Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.4 × 3.2 cm = 1.85” × 1.34” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 3.1 cm = 1.81” × 1.22”
Price: €3400 / US$3479 / ¥463140 / AUD$5000

MR6AC9: Cerussite with Mimetite and Malachite

Single Cerussite crystal with slightly curved faces and edges, translucent, with a rough aspect on its faces, on matrix with minor Malachite and small yellow Mimetite crystals. The sample is from the Desmond Sacco collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 9.1 × 8.9 × 6.2 cm = 3.58” × 3.50” × 2.44”
Price: €120 / US$122 / ¥16340 / AUD$170

TGR14AN7: Chalcocite

Stalactitic growths of Chalcocite covered by a thin film of Chalcopyrite, with dominant blue and magenta tones. The existing bibliography suggests that in some cases Chalcocite may be partially substituted by Djurleite.
Tongshankou Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province China (2019)
Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 1.34” × 0.98” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.3 cm = 0.28” × 0.12”
Price: €110 / US$112 / ¥14980 / AUD$160

NX16AL4: Chalcocite

Very sharp Chalcocite crystals that form hexagonal cyclic twins with well defined faces and edges, flattened, shiny, on matrix. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Las Cruces Mine, Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia Spain
Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.9 × 0.3 cm = 1.10” × 0.75” × 0.12”
Price: €110 / US$112 / ¥14980 / AUD$160

EGR46AN4: Chalcocite

New discovery: very aerial floater group of very sharp platy crystals of Chalcocite, with a pseudo-hexagonal outline, lustrous, with parallel and polycrystalline growths. The specimen, of high quality for the species, comes from new workings in the M'Passa area where a group of small mines used to yield, in their glorious past, specimens with big sharp crystals. With the cessation of exploitation in the 1980s, that glory was lost, but fortunately it has now returned with specimens as magnificent as those and, moreover, with a great variety of crystallographic habits.
M'Passa Mines, Mindouli District, Pool Department Republic of the Congo (2021)
Specimen size: 5.5 × 5.2 × 3.1 cm = 2.17” × 2.05” × 1.22”
Price: €1400 / US$1432 / ¥190700 / AUD$2050

ERB96AN4: Chalcocite

New discovery: very aerial group of Chalcocite crystals, huge for the species, between platy and tabular, very sharp, with a pseudo-hexagonal outline and great luster. This specimen, of high quality for the species, comes from new workings in the M'Passa area where a group of small mines used to produce, in their glorious past, specimens with large sharp crystals. With the closure of the workings in the 1980s, that glory was lost, although fortunately it has now returned with specimens as magnificent as those and, moreover, with a great variety of crystallographic habits.
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the 'What's New' section, report 61, August 30, 2021 edition, page 10
M'Passa Mines, Mindouli District, Pool Department Republic of the Congo (2021)
Specimen size: 6.6 × 5 × 1.2 cm = 2.60” × 1.97” × 0.47”
Price: €1900 / US$1944 / ¥258810 / AUD$2790

NC27AL4: Chalcocite on Pyrite

Very sharp Chalcocite crystals, twinned, with well defined faces and edges, flattened, shiny, and on matrix. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Las Cruces Mine, Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia Spain
Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.6 × 3.2 cm = 1.61” × 1.42” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.4 cm = 0.35” × 0.16”
Price: €190 / US$194 / ¥25880 / AUD$270

NF13AL4: Chalcocite with Calcite

Very sharp Chalcocite crystals that form flattened twins with well defined faces and edges, brilliant, on matrix, with coatings of Calcite crystals. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Las Cruces Mine, Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia Spain
Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.9 × 2.4 cm = 1.73” × 1.54” × 0.94”
Price: €90 / US$92 / ¥12250 / AUD$130

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