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Floater Copper pseudomorph after a twinned Aragonite crystal with sharp prismatic habit and well defined faces and edges.
San Agustín Mine, Corocoro, Pacajes Province, La Paz Department Bolivia
Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 1.06” × 0.87” × 0.71”
Price: €70 / US$83 / JPY9110 / AUD$100

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., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai Russia (20-25/11/2010)
Specimen size: 6.8 × 6.2 × 3.4 cm = 2.68” × 2.44” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.35” × 0.24”
Price: €480 / US$571 / JPY62490 / AUD$740

MV37AJ6: Copper with Calcite and Malachite

Surely this ample offers the most classic image of what a native Copper sample should be, with delicate and very well balanced arborescent growths of crystals with rounded faces and edges and with the precise matrix to give it the necessary esthetic character.
Manto Cuba Mine, San Pedro de Cachiyuyo, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region Chile
Specimen size: 7 × 4.5 × 3.4 cm = 2.76” × 1.77” × 1.34”
Price: €220 / US$261 / JPY28640 / AUD$343

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 = 3.54” × 2.05” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.08”
Price: €840 / US$999 / JPY109360 / AUD$1310

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 = 1.50” × 1.22” × 0.31”
Price: €190 / US$226 / JPY24730 / AUD$290

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., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai Russia (06-08/2008)
Specimen size: 5 × 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.26” × 1.06”
Price: €460 / US$547 / JPY59890 / AUD$710

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 = 3.74” × 2.48” × 1.50”
Price: €250 / US$297 / JPY32540 / AUD$390

EB66AK9: Copper with Quartz

Outstanding double arborescent growth of deformed and flattened copper crystals, three-dimensional and sharp on the octahedral terminations, in a crystalline Quartz matrix.
The specimen is from the Christian Mondeilh collection (No. 0755/2014), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2014)
Specimen size: 13.2 × 6.8 × 4.3 cm = 5.20” × 2.68” × 1.69”
Price: €170 / US$202 / JPY22130 / AUD$260

MB36AJ5: Corkite on Goethite

Small flattened dipyramidal Corkite crystals with a pale brown color on a matrix of botryoidal Goethite.
Serra da Mina Mine, Cercal, Santiago do Cacém, Setúbal District Portugal (2016-2017)
Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.6 × 3.4 cm = 3.31” × 2.20” × 1.34”
Price: €130 / US$154 / JPY16920 / AUD$200

ME12AM2: Corkite with Plumbogummite

Coatings of very sharp and lustrous microcrystals of Corkite, a rare sulfate-phosphate of lead and iron, of olive-green color, implanted on greyish green plumbogummite that is somewhat lighter than the Corkite, on a Goethite - limonite matrix.
Serra da Mina Mine, Cercal, Santiago do Cacém, Setúbal District Portugal (2016-2017)
Specimen size: 9.3 × 3.9 × 4.1 cm = 3.66” × 1.54” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”
Price: €80 / US$95 / JPY10410 / AUD$120

EX88AM1: Corundum with Calcite

Doubly terminated crystals of red Corundum, one of them clearly dominant, with very well defined faces and edges and curvatures on the edges. They are embedded in a gneissic rock matrix.
Mysore District, Karnataka India
Specimen size: 10.4 × 8.7 × 7.6 cm = 4.09” × 3.43” × 2.99”
Price: €380 / US$452 / JPY49470 / AUD$590

MC51AM3: Covellite with Quartz

Aggregates of sharp lamellar Covellite crystals, with edges in an excellent state of preservation, with an intense and vivid metallic blue color, on matrix and with Quartz. High quality for the locality.
The specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar collection (number COV-2), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Summitville Mine, Summitville District, Rio Grande County, Colorado USA
Specimen size: 5.2 × 4 × 3.5 cm = 2.05” × 1.57” × 1.38”
Price: €640 / US$761 / JPY83320 / AUD$990

EV26AM1: Cr-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite)

Druse on matrix of twinned crystals of Chromium-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite) They have a bipyramidal habit, translucent, with good luster and an intense deep mauve color. A classic of Turkish mineralogy.
Kop Krom Mine, Kop Daglari, Erzurum Province, Eastern Anatolia Region Turkey
Specimen size: 8 × 6.8 × 3.1 cm = 3.15” × 2.68” × 1.22”
Price: €140 / US$166 / JPY18220 / AUD$210

EP27AM1: Cr-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite)

Druse on matrix of twinned crystals of Chromium-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite) They have a bipyramidal habit, translucent, with good luster and an intense deep mauve color. A classic of Turkish mineralogy.
Kop Krom Mine, Kop Daglari, Erzurum Province, Eastern Anatolia Region Turkey
Specimen size: 7.2 × 4.3 × 1.9 cm = 2.83” × 1.69” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.3 cm = 0.31” × 0.12”
Price: €220 / US$261 / JPY28640 / AUD$340

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 = 2.48” × 1.77” × 1.69”
Price: €580 / US$690 / JPY75510 / AUD$900

TB27AL7: Creedite

A novelty at Tucson 2020: Druse, on matrix, of bipyramidal Creedite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with sharp pointed terminations, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, and light violet in color. The specimen is quite different from those known from this locality in recent years, although in some old collections there are similar specimens from the same source, which coincides with the indications that this find was made in old galleries of the mine.
Navidad Mine, Abasolo, Rodeo, Municipio de Rodeo, Durango Mexico (10-12/2019)
Specimen size: 8.6 × 6.2 × 5.5 cm = 3.39” × 2.44” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.24” × 0.12”
Price: €1900 / US$2261 / JPY247370 / AUD$2960

TC760TD: Creedite with Fluorite

A novelty at Tucson 2020. Druse of sharp short prismatic Creedite crystals, with very sharp terminations, with bright luster and a light violet color, on matrix, with crystallized Fluorite that is bicolor green and violet. The specimen is very different from others that have come from this locality in recent years, although some old collections have similar specimens from this mine, which coincides with the indications that this find was made in old galleries of the mine.
Navidad Mine, Abasolo, Rodeo, Municipio de Rodeo, Durango Mexico (10-12/2019)
Specimen size: 7 × 6.3 × 4.2 cm = 2.76” × 2.48” × 1.65”
Price: €760 / US$904 / JPY98950 / AUD$1180

TR13AL1: Creedite with Fluorite

A novelty at Tucson 2020. Fan-shaped growths of short prismatic crystals of light violet Creedite, with very sharply pointed terminal faces, good luster, on matrix, with green Fluorite. This specimen is quite different from those that were known from this locality in recent years, although there are similar pieces from this mine in some old collections, which supports the indications that this find was made in old galleries of the mine.
Navidad Mine, Abasolo, Rodeo, Municipio de Rodeo, Durango Mexico (10-12/2019)
Specimen size: 8 × 6.3 × 3.2 cm = 3.15” × 2.48” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0..4 cm = 0.71” × 0.00”
Price: €780 / US$928 / JPY101550 / AUD$1210

TE16AL7: Creedite with Fluorite

A novelty at Tucson 2020. Druse of bipyramidal Creedite crystals with sharp pointed terminations, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, and with a light violet color. On matrix with crystallized green and violet Fluorite. This specimen is quite different from the others known from this locality in recent years, although some old collection have similar specimens from the same place, which coincides with the indications that this find was made in old mine galleries.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 494 in the volume 51, number 3, May-June 2020
Navidad Mine, Abasolo, Rodeo, Municipio de Rodeo, Durango Mexico (10-12/2019)
Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.6 × 4.9 cm = 2.83” × 2.60” × 1.93”
Price: €1300 / US$1547 / JPY169250 / AUD$2020

HM90DC: Cuarzo (variedad ahumado) con Albita

Quartz crystal (smoky variety), very aerial, transparent, with good luster and a very deep color, on a matrix of small, sharp white crystals of Albite.
The specimen comes from the Daunis collection, which in the 70-80s was a reference for field collectors, especially for Catalan localities.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia Spain
Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.2 × 2.6 cm = 2.01” × 1.26” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 4.9 × 2.5 cm = 1.93” × 0.98”
Price: €90 / US$107 / JPY11710 / AUD$140

TR96AD6: Cuprite

A novelty at Tucson 2016. Polycrystalline aggregate of Cuprite crystals showing the dominant octahedron beveled by the dodecahedron, with very well defined faces and edges. The crystals, on a rocky matrix with massive Cuprite, are translucent and have a very deep red color that is partially masked by their extraordinary luster.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (12/2015-01/2016)
Specimen size: 2.1 × 1 × 1.1 cm = 0.83” × 0.39” × 0.43”
Price: €160 / US$190 / JPY20830 / AUD$240

ME86AM6: Cuprite

Floater group of octahedral Cuprite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, beveled by the faces of the rhombic dodecahedron. Translucent, lustrous and deep red in color. We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai Russia
Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.7 × 2 cm = 1.02” × 0.67” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.87” × 0.63”
Price: €180 / US$214 / JPY23430 / AUD$280

TC190TG: Cuprite

Very sharp Cuprite crystals, dominated by the octahedron and the cube and beveled by the dodecahedron and with very well defined faces and edges. The crystals, which are on a matrix of rock and massive Cuprite, are translucent and have a deep red color partially masked by their extraordinary luster.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (12/2015-01/2016)
Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.3 × 2.1 cm = 2.24” × 1.30” × 0.83”
Price: €190 / US$226 / JPY24730 / AUD$290

MR96AM9: Cuprite

Group of very sharp cubo-octahedral Cuprite crystals, with clearly dominant octahedron faces, translucent, with bright luster and vivid reddish reflections.
We will send the specimen, which comes from the Robert J. Noble collection, in its original Perky box from that collection, which also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai Russia
Specimen size: 2.3 × 2.2 × 2.5 cm = 0.91” × 0.87” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.1 cm = 0.51” × 0.43”
Price: €190 / US$226 / JPY24730 / AUD$296

TA49AH5: Cuprite

Polycrystalline surface of crystals with the dominant octahedron, but also with the faces of the dodecahedron and the cube. The crystals are translucent, very bright with a vivid red color and are on matrix. Of the best quality for that mine.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2012-2013)
Specimen size: 3.3 × 3.1 × 2.6 cm = 1.30” × 1.22” × 1.02”
Price: €440 / US$523 / JPY57280 / AUD$680

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