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Aerial group of sharp rhombohedral Dolomite crystals that are twinned and bright, between transparent and translucent, with phantom growths and fine alignments of black globular growths, probably Graphite, a Spanish classic.
Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarra) Spain
Specimen size: 8 × 7 × 5.5 cm = 3.15” × 2.76” × 2.17”
Price: €480 / US$513 / ¥68140 / AUD$770

SV490MRX: Dolomite

Group of very sharp Dolomite crystals, two of them clearly dominant, rhombohedral and with very marked, transparent and lustrous penetration twins. With internal growth figures and external sprinklings of very tiny Chalcopyrite crystals.
Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarra) Spain (1998)
Specimen size: 10.4 × 9.7 × 9 cm = 4.09” × 3.82” × 3.54”

Main crystal size: 7.5 × 5.4 cm = 2.95” × 2.13”
Price: €490 / US$524 / ¥69560 / AUD$780

NLL16AO5: Dolomite (Fe-bearing dolomite)

Iron-bearing Dolomite crystals with a very pronounced saddle shape, with strong curvatures and polycrystalline growths, with good luster and a color between light brown and pink, on matrix. The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, managed to collect many rarities from urban and peri-urban areas of Northern Spain, very little disclosed before in the mineral collecting world.
El Covarón Mines, Covarón (Kobaron), Muskiz, Comarca Gran Bilbao, Vizcaya / Bizkaia, Basque Country (Euskadi) Spain
Specimen size: 10 × 7.8 × 3.1 cm = 3.94” × 3.07” × 1.22”
Price: €110 / US$117 / ¥15610 / AUD$170

SV480EFX: Dolomite (twinned)

Group of very sharp Dolomite crystals, two of them clearly dominant, rhombohedral, with very marked penetration twins, between transparent and translucent, in rock matrix. Worthy of note is a great dark phantom in the main crystal, quite uncommon in such a size in specimens from this locality. A classic for Spanish mineralogy and especially for this species.
Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarra) Spain
Specimen size: 12.5 × 11.8 × 10.2 cm = 4.92” × 4.65” × 4.02”

Main crystal size: 6.6 × 4 cm = 2.60” × 1.57”
Price: €480 / US$513 / ¥68140 / AUD$770

HM780EM: Dolomite (twinned)

Group of very sharp rhombohedral Dolomite crystals, transparent, with good luster, a slightly gray color and on matrix. An excellent Spanish classic.
Asturreta Quarry, 'el pozo', Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarra) Spain (±1970)
Specimen size: 14.5 × 11.8 × 6.8 cm = 5.71” × 4.65” × 2.68”
Price: €780 / US$835 / ¥110720 / AUD$1253

EE87AL4: Dolomite with Calcite

Floater group of white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals that form parallel polycrystalline aggregates and are partially coated with some Calcite crystals.
Stan Trg (Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District Kosovo (2002)
Specimen size: 14.3 × 8.9 × 4.4 cm = 5.63” × 3.50” × 1.73”
Price: €240 / US$256 / ¥34070 / AUD$380

EJ89AG8: Dolomite with Calcite, Pyrite, Arsenopyrite and Quartz

The great mining region of Trepča is one of the largest polymetal deposits in the world and it has given for many years exceptional pieces of Sphalerite as well as varied combinations of sulfides and carbonates. This old piece, found before the mine went back to work in 2005, presents an architectural group of large rhombohedral Dolomite crystals partially coated by Calcite crystals and with a cluster of Pyrite crystals on one side of the piece. Small crystals of Arsenopyrite dot the large Dolomite crystals and also some small Quartz crystals complete the combo.
Stan Trg (Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District Kosovo (1994-2002)
Specimen size: 18.5 × 11.5 × 7.7 cm = 7.28” × 4.53” × 3.03”
Price: €460 / US$492 / ¥65300 / AUD$730

SC7AD6: Dolomite with Chalcopyrite and Quartz

Very sharp white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals implanted on a matrix of Quartz crystals with small twinned Chalcopyrite crystals on both the Quartz and the Dolomite. An excellent German classic.
Eupel Mine, Niederhövels, Wissen, Flammersfeld, Altenkirchen (Westerwald), Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz Germany
Specimen size: 16.8 × 10.5 × 6.5 cm = 6.61” × 4.13” × 2.56”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.43” × 0.39”
Price: €180 / US$192 / ¥25550 / AUD$280

HM110EV: Dolomite with Quartz

White rhombohedral Dolomite crystals on matrix, among which a clearly dominant group stands out in the upper part of the specimen. An Italian alpine classic.
Traversella Mine, Traversella, Chiusella Valley, Canavese District, Metropolitan City of Turin Province, Piedmont (Piemonte) Italy
Specimen size: 12.2 × 7.3 × 3.3 cm = 4.80” × 2.87” × 1.30”
Price: €110 / US$117 / ¥15610 / AUD$176

NJ89AM5: Doubly terminated Azurite with Malachite and Dolomite

Doubly terminated crystal of Azurite, very sharp and with well defined crystal forms. With coatings of Malachite, on a matrix with coatings of pinkish rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. The specimen, a Moroccan classic, comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes (number AZU-10), whose collection card we will send to the buyer.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco
Specimen size: 6 × 4.5 × 3 cm = 2.36” × 1.77” × 1.18”
Price: €480 / US$513 / ¥68140 / AUD$770

6TC27K9: Doubly terminated Beryl (variety aquamarine)

Two doubly terminated crystals in parallel growth, light blue in color. Both retain their terminations, partially perforated by dissolution channels that pass through both crystals as far as their mid-sections.
Medina, Minas Gerais Brazil
Specimen size: 8.4 × 1.8 × 1.1 cm = 3.31”
Price: €190 / US$203 / ¥26970 / AUD$300

TR28AF6: Doubly terminated Beryl (variety emerald)

Doubly terminated floater crystal with very well defined faces and edges and excellent terminations, one of them simple and pinacoidal, the other showing an unusual polycrystalline growth with a deep structural incision that seems to break the crystal longitudinally into two symmetrical parts. The sample is transparent, bright and vividly colored.
Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia
Specimen size: 3.3 × 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 1.30” × 0.31” × 0.28”
Price: €2900 / US$3104 / ¥411680 / AUD$4650

8TF130Y4: Doubly terminated Calcite with inclusions

Doubly terminated crystal, on matrix, with very complex forms. It is bright and transparent and shows a phantom growth in its central zone.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra India
Specimen size: 4.3 × 4.1 × 3.2 cm = 1.69”
Price: €130 / US$139 / ¥18450 / AUD$200

TH16AI9: Doubly terminated Malachite after Azurite

This is a single, sharp, doubly terminated floater of Malachite pseudomorphous after Azurite, apparently simple, but the polycrystalline growths are full of interesting details.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2009)
Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.3 × 1.9 cm = 1.65” × 0.91” × 0.75”
Price: €110 / US$117 / ¥15610 / AUD$170

EV16H2: Doubly terminated Quartz (variety amethyst)

Doubly terminated floater. The color is deeper at the terminations, whose luster is also more intense than in the other faces. The crystal grew on other small crystals of Quartz (amethyst)
Don Nicolás Mine, Villa Rafael Benegas (Villa Benegas), Mina Clavero, San Alberto Department, Córdoba Province Argentina (01-06/2002)
Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.3 × 2.8 cm = 2.05” × 1.30” × 1.10”
Price: €100 / US$107 / ¥14190 / AUD$160

EC96G1: Doubly terminated Quartz (variety amethyst) scepter

Parallel growth of two prismatic, doubly-terminated crystals. They are well developed, of an intense color and simple forms, growing as a scepter on a little matrix of white Quartz.
Don Nicolás Mine, Villa Rafael Benegas (Villa Benegas), Mina Clavero, San Alberto Department, Córdoba Province Argentina (01-06/2002)
Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.1 × 3 cm = 2.68” × 1.61” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.31” × 0.31”
Price: €160 / US$171 / ¥22710 / AUD$250

ERM27AN5: Doubly terminated Quartz (variety faden) with Chlorite

Parallel growth of flattened Quartz crystals, all of them doubly terminated, traversed inside by a very distinct faden growth. They are shiny, transparent, colorless and rich in Chlorite (Group) inclusions.
Plan-du-Lac, Saint Christophe en Oisans, Le Bourg d'Oisans Comune, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (±1995)
Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.4 × 1 cm = 2.05” × 1.34” × 0.39”
Price: €220 / US$235 / ¥31230 / AUD$350

EP61AB8: Doubly terminated Quartz with hydrocarbon inclusions and Baryte

Aggregate of Quartz crystals, most of them doubly terminated, with a considerable length for the locality and very rich in fluid hydrocarbide inclusions, some of them mobile.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain
Specimen size: 12.2 × 7.9 × 6.5 cm = 4.80” × 3.11” × 2.56”

Main crystal size: 8.1 × 7.1 cm = 3.19” × 2.80”
Price: €580 / US$620 / ¥82330 / AUD$930

NE16M3: Doubly terminated Quartz with inclusions and Baryte

Complete Quartz crystal, with irregularly grown faces and dissolution forms (no fractures) on the back side. This crystal shows inclusions and small matrix fragments with laminar Baryte crystals on its surface.
Emilio Mine, 'zona intermedia', Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain (09-11/2004)
Specimen size: 8.8 × 5.1 × 4 cm = 3.46” × 2.01” × 1.57”
Price: €110 / US$117 / ¥15610 / AUD$170

9JR16: Doubly terminated Topaz (repaired)

Topaz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, doubly terminated, of excellent luster and very transparent, with remnants of rhyolitic rock matrix. The smallest crystals are very rich in crystal faces as can be seen in the close-up photo. The piece is repaired on the left side of the main crystal, being a fracture perpendicular to the axis of the prism, but it does'nt affect to the beauty of the specimen as a whole. The sample is from the James Catmur collection (number B667) whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah USA (1999)
Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.85” × 1.38” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.85” × 0.55”
Price: €140 / US$149 / ¥19870 / AUD$220

CCF46AO0: Dravite with Muscovite

Isolated Dravite crystals with a flattened bipyramidal shape, with perfectly sharp crystal forms, translucent, with good luster and a nice brown color with orange tones, on a Muscovite matrix.
Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province Afghanistan (±2011)
Specimen size: 4.0 × 5.6 × 2.3 cm = 1.57” × 2.20” × 0.91”
Price: €145 / US$155 / ¥20580 / AUD$232

11TRM14: Dufrénite, Quartz, Albite

Quartz crystal (smoky variety), doubly terminated and partially covered by a large group of snowy white Albite crystals. On top of the Albite sits a younger mass of very small dark Dufrenite crystals, which is normally a secondary mineral in iron deposits. Metasomatic fluid circulation and weathering processes gave rise to the formation of secondary phosphates, such as Dufrenite, in this lithium-rich pegmatite.
Galiléia, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais Brazil
Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.9 × 3.8 cm = 2.68” × 2.32” × 1.50”
Price: €90 / US$96 / ¥12770 / AUD$140

MG11X2: Duftite with Calcite

Botryoidal growths of micro-crystals of Duftite, some of them very well defined under a binocular microscope. They are clear green to slightly darker green and their luster varies from bright to dull, with transparent and colorless crystals of Calcite, and they coat a limonite matrix. Due to the absence of previous data about notable samples of Duftite at the Ojuela mine, we consider this find as an interesting "novelty" for this mine. The samples have been analyzed, and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango Mexico (2012)
Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.3 × 2.6 cm = 2.52” × 1.69” × 1.02”
Price: €60 / US$64 / ¥8510 / AUD$90

MT12X2: Duftite with Calcite

Botryoidal growths of micro-crystals of Duftite, some of them very well defined under a binocular microscope. They are clear green to slightly darker green and their luster varies from bright to dull, with transparent and colorless crystals of Calcite, and they coat a limonite matrix. Due to the absence of previous data about notable samples of Duftite at the Ojuela mine, we consider this find as an interesting "novelty" for this mine. The samples have been analyzed, and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango Mexico (2012)
Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.7 × 2.2 cm = 1.50” × 1.46” × 0.87”
Price: €65 / US$69 / ¥9220 / AUD$100

MP12X2: Duftite with Calcite

Botryoidal growths of micro-crystals of Duftite, some of them very well defined under a binocular microscope. They are clear green to slightly darker green and their luster varies from bright to dull, with transparent and colorless crystals of Calcite, and they coat a limonite matrix. Due to the absence of previous data about notable samples of Duftite at the Ojuela mine, we consider this find as an interesting "novelty" for this mine. The samples have been analyzed, and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango Mexico (2012)
Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.4 × 2.9 cm = 1.93” × 1.73” × 1.14”
Price: €70 / US$74 / ¥9930 / AUD$110

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