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Arborescent growth formed by well-defined Copper crystals showing dominant dodecahedral shapes of intense color and luster. From a classic locality in Namibia, the specimen comes from the collection of duplicates of Carles Curto (number 1978.20), whose digital record we will send to the buyer.
Onganja (Emke) Mine, Helen Farm 235, Onganja mining area, Seeis, Windhoek District, Khomas Region Namibia
Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.3 × 1.5 cm = 2.17” × 1.30” × 0.59”
Price: €170 / US$181 / ¥27500 / AUD$280

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 = 2.28” × 1.34” × 0.79”
Price: €170 / US$181 / ¥27500 / AUD$280

CY96AM5: Copper

Arborescent growth of very shiny Copper crystals with very well defined dodecahedron forms. An excellent miniature that comes from the Carles Curto collection (number 1984.24), whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Corocoro, Pacajes Province, La Paz Department Bolivia
Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.7 × 1.6 cm = 1.26” × 1.06” × 0.63”
Price: €180 / US$192 / ¥29110 / AUD$300

SV3180TPT: Copper

These Hamiltonban coppers are not very attractive, but of remarkable size and very difficult to get. A historical part of the US mining heritage.
Blue Ridge Summit, Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania USA
Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.9 × 1.6 cm = 2.95” × 2.72” × 0.63”
Price: €180 / US$192 / ¥29110 / AUD$300

DF96AM2: Copper

Very aerial dendritic growth of Copper, with remnants of Quartz matrix and flat surfaces that correspond to casts of Quartz crystals that have disappeared.
The specimen is from the Lluís Daunis collection.
Caledonia Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan USA
Specimen size: 13.2 × 7.4 × 3.5 cm = 5.20” × 2.91” × 1.38”
Price: €190 / US$202 / ¥30730 / AUD$310

GA96AK5: Copper

Very aerial arborescent growth of native Copper crystals with defined faces and edges, some of them perfectly profiled, on matrix.
The sample is from the Casado Margolles collection (No. V 35), whose file we will send to the buyer.
Keweenaw County, Michigan USA
Specimen size: 4.9 × 2.7 × 2.8 cm = 1.93” × 1.06” × 1.10”
Price: €190 / US$202 / ¥30730 / AUD$310

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 = 2.99” × 1.02” × 0.35”
Price: €220 / US$235 / ¥35580 / AUD$360

MRA67AP5: Copper

Dendritic growth with parallel aggregates of Copper crystals with a very profiled cubic habit. A little treasure that comes from a very classic locality.
Wheal Gorland, Saint Day, Camborne - Redruth - Saint Day District, Cornwall England / United Kingdom
Specimen size: 4 × 2.4 × 1.4 cm = 1.57” × 0.94” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.08” × 0.08”
Price: €240 / US$256 / ¥38820 / AUD$400

EFB69AP3: Copper

Very aerial arborescent aggregate of Copper in which sharp crystals coexist with lamellar forms, with two different metallic tones, one more yellowish and the other more reddish.
Chengmenshan Mine, Jiujiang Co., Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province China (2021)
Specimen size: 10.3 × 6.4 × 4.8 cm = 4.06” × 2.52” × 1.89”
Price: €460 / US$491 / ¥74410 / AUD$770

TPP48AQ1: Copper

Extraordinarily flattened floater plate of elongated Copper microcrystals. The specimen comes from the collection of William Severance.
Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan USA
Specimen size: 16.4 × 8.2 × 1.1 cm = 6.46” × 3.23” × 0.43”
Price: €480 / US$512 / ¥77640 / AUD$800

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 Frank Melanson collection.
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Houghton County, Michigan USA
Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.06” × 0.87” × 0.63”
Price: €850 / US$908 / ¥137500 / AUD$1420

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 = 4.17” × 3.23” × 0.79”
Price: €460 / US$491 / ¥74410 / AUD$770

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 = 3.31” × 2.09” × 1.22”
Price: €160 / US$170 / ¥25880 / AUD$260

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$235 / ¥35580 / AUD$360

ETW74AP3: Copper with Cuprite

Arborescent aggregate of native Copper, very aerial, with well defined crystals for the species, with good luster and partially coated by very sharp octahedral Cuprite crystals, lustrous and deep red.
Liufengshan Mine, Guichi District, Chizhou Prefecture, Anhui Province China (06/2022)
Specimen size: 11.4 × 12.3 × 4.8 cm = 4.49” × 4.84” × 1.89”
Price: €940 / US$1004 / ¥152060 / AUD$1570

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”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.12”
Price: €190 / US$202 / ¥30730 / AUD$310

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$267 / ¥40440 / AUD$410

SV3340EPZ: Copper with Malachite

Floater Copper group of good size, twisted and partially replaced by Malachite, very characteristic of the Bou Nahas Mine. It is one of those pareidolia-generating pieces whose shape strongly resembles that of a horse (or a dragon)
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2023)
Specimen size: 10.3 × 8.2 × 5.1 cm = 4.06” × 3.23” × 2.01”
Price: €340 / US$363 / ¥55000 / AUD$570

SV2110TDR: Corundum with Mica

Floater crystal of Corundum with a very marked pseudo-hexagonal outline and a very deep and uniform mauve color, flattened, with triangular growth striations and remnants of Mica matrix. The specimen was set in a jewelry-type box with a handwritten label from an unknown collection attached, which will be delivered to the buyer of the piece.
Madagascar
Specimen size: 1.1 × 1 × 0.3 cm = 0.43” × 0.39” × 0.12”
Price: €110 / US$117 / ¥17790 / AUD$180

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$235 / ¥35580 / AUD$360

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”
Price: €780 / US$833 / ¥126180 / AUD$1310

BFM69AO6: Crocoite

Aggregate of very well defined crystals, with very acute terminations that cover a limonite matrix. Their luster and color are excellent and the locality, a classic for the species, has produced few samples of this quality.
Callenberg North open cut (No. 1), Callenberg, Zwickau, Saxony/Sachsen Germany (1977)
Specimen size: 9.4 × 4.7 × 5 cm = 3.70” × 1.85” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.3 cm = 0.47” × 0.12”
Price: €460 / US$491 / ¥74410 / AUD$770

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$170 / ¥25880 / AUD$260

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$192 / ¥29110 / AUD$300

TLL96AO4: Cuprite

Polycrystalline growth of Cuprite with very sharp octahedral faces, with slight curvatures on the edges, with good luster and intense reddish internal reflections. We will ship 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: 2.9 × 2.2 × 2.2 cm = 1.14” × 0.87” × 0.87”
Price: €190 / US$202 / ¥30730 / AUD$310

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