Mineral Specimens - page 10
Africa (excl. Morocco) - Tsumeb

NB37AL5: Crystal very rich in faces, very sharp, transparent, bright and with a very intense color. The specimens from this locality, the most classic for gem Olivine, are considered authentic historical oddities. The specimen is accompanied by an old handwritten label (which we will send to the buyer) in which the original collection does not appear.
St John's Island (Zebirget), Red Sea  Egypt

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.3 × 0.7 cm = 0.67” × 0.51” × 0.28”

TB87AL5: Alabandite crystal, highly profiled, practically a floater, with light contacts that conserve remains of Calcite matrix and formed by the dominant octahedron with the vertices truncated by the faces of the cube.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region  Tanzania

Specimen size: 2.2 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.87” × 0.87” × 0.63”

TE86AL4: Group of tabular Prehnite crystals with well defined faces and edges, translucent, with an intense and uniform light blue color, good luster and a small group of Calcite crystals.
The specimen comes from the inventory of John Sampson White (# 23-10-17) whose label we will send to the buyer.
Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region  Tanzania

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 1.34” × 0.91” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.94” × 0.16”

MF68AK7: Spheroidal growth of Prehnite crystals with very well defined terminal faces, translucent, very bright and very intense yellow. On rock matrix, with Calcite.
Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region  Tanzania (2019)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.7 × 4.2 cm = 1.85” × 1.85” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.5 cm = 0.51” × 0.20”

ML90AG7: Dodecahedral Grossular (tsavorite variety) crystal, translucent, very bright, with a very well defined green color and on matrix, with Pyrite crystals and radial aggregates of Graphite crystals.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2018, page 90
Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region  Tanzania

Specimen size: 3 × 1.9 × 3.5 cm = 1.18” × 0.75” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.51”

LA73AK0: Zoisite (variety tanzanite) with very well defined crystalline forms, perfect terminal faces, transparent, extraordinarily bright and with a very intense, deep and uniform lavender blue color. A little gem from the Philippe Morelon collection (number 422) whose label, which includes more information on the back, will be sent to the buyer.
Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region  Tanzania (2013)

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.1 × 1.2 cm = 0.71” × 0.43” × 0.47”

EB26AK7: Parallel growth of Zoisite crystals (Tanzanite variety), of gem quality, transparent, very bright, and exhibiting dichroic color, deep and uniform navy blue that turns reddish according to the orientation of the light.
D-Block Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region  Tanzania (2016)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 1.9 × 0.9 cm = 1.34” × 0.75” × 0.35”

TG66AI8: Group of trapezohedral Spessartine crystals with very well defined faces and edges, with a very intense orange color and on orange Kyanite with small Muscovite crystals.
The sample is from the mineral reserve of John S. White whose label we will send to the buyer.
Sangulungulu Hill (Nani Hill), Naan village, Loliondo, Ngorongoro District, Arusha Region  Tanzania

Specimen size: 3 × 2.5 × 1.7 cm = 1.18” × 0.98” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59”

TA37AL5: Very aerial group of highly profiled Tarbuttite crystals, unusually transparent and sharp and on matrix. We will send the specimen, from the type locality for the species, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, on which it appears that it was previously in the Jim & Dawn Minette collection.
Kabwe Mine (Broken Hill Mine), Kabwe (Kabwe-Ka Mukuba), Kabwe District, Central Province  Zambia

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2 × 2.7 cm = 1.22” × 0.79” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

TV6AK7: Group of tetrahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges, lustrous, very deep and uniform green color, on matrix. A Zambian classic that we will send in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also includes a label indicating that the piece was previously in the Sullivan collection.
Nkana Mine, Kitwe, Kitwe Dstrict, Copperbelt Province  Zambia

Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 1.26” × 0.75” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”

MJ62K7: Epitaxial Rutile reticulated growth on a tabular former Ilmenite crystal pseudomorphed by Rutile and Hematite.
Mwinilunga District, North-Western Province  Zambia (05/2007)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.8 × 2 cm = 2.68” × 1.89” × 0.79”

TA91AL5: Perimorphic growth of Prehnite crystals with defined crystal forms, translucent and of a vivid and uniform green color. The Prehnite maintains the outline of the Anhydrite crystal on which it was formed, which later disappeared.
The specimen comes from the Rock Currier collection (no. 7271), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bendougou village, Commune Diakon, Arrondissement Diakon, Bafoulabé Circle, Kayes Region  Mali

Specimen size: 12.5 × 7.8 × 4.6 cm = 4.92” × 3.07” × 1.81”

TL96AF8: Group, on a rocky matrix, of dodecahedral crystals finely beveled by the trapezohedron, with a dark brown color, translucent and bright.
Bendougou village, Commune Diakon, Arrondissement Diakon, Bafoulabé Circle, Kayes Region  Mali

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.1 × 2.4 cm = 2.13” × 1.61” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 3.2 ×2.4 cm = 1.26” × 0.94”

TB67AF6: 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 = 3.86” × 2.95” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 7 × 2.5 cm = 2.76” × 0.98”

MD94AL5: The Madagascar Tourmalines that have become famous for their coloration and brightness have an excellent representative in this specimen of bicolor Elbaite, with parallel growths, very rich in well defined terminal faces, transparent, with good luster and a magnificent gradation of tones, from the more intense pink at the base up to the different gradations of green in the prism and the upper termination.
Bevaondrano pegmatite, Ikalamavony District, Matsiatra Region, Fianarantsoa Province  Madagascar

Specimen size: 5 × 2.5 × 2.3 cm = 1.97” × 0.98” × 0.91”

MQ26AL5: An excellent example of Malagasy polychrome Fluor-liddicoatite, with very well defined faces and edges, rich in termination faces, between transparent and translucent, and with a splendid gradation of hues, from the purple tones around the termination and the base to the caramel colors of the center of the prism. A gem.
Anjanabonoina, Ambohimanambola, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province  Madagascar

Specimen size: 9.8 × 5 × 4.8 cm = 3.86” × 1.97” × 1.89”

TG16AD4: Single crystal formed by the dominant faces of a ditrigonal prism and the terminal faces of a pyramid and pinacoid that are all very well defined. The crystal is between translucent and transparent, very bright and has an intense and uniform color, between red and mauve.
Camp Robin area, Manandriana District, Amoron'i Mania Region, Fianarantsoa Province  Madagascar (02/2006)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 2 × 2.1 cm = 2.28” × 0.79” × 0.83”

TT56AL5: Hexagonal floater crystal, with very marked polycrystalline growths, shiny, transparent and with an intense deep blue color. The species, a magnesium-potassium cyclosilicate, is a rarity recently (2019) approved by the IMA. The specimen comes from the type locality for the species. Accompanied by an original label signed by Laurent Thomas, after whom the species is named.
Beravina, Ambaro, Tsaraitso, Betroka District, Anosy Region  Madagascar (04/2019)

Specimen size: 1.4 × 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.55” × 0.39” × 0.20”

TR98AL5: Hexagonal floater crystal, with very marked polycrystalline growths, shiny, transparent and with an intense deep blue color. The species, a magnesium-potassium cyclosilicate, is a rarity recently (2019) approved by the IMA. The specimen comes from the type locality for the species. Accompanied by an original label signed by Laurent Thomas, after whom the species is named.
Beravina, Ambaro, Tsaraitso, Betroka District, Anosy Region  Madagascar (04/2019)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.71” × 0.20”

TB92AL0: A new discovery at Tucson 2020. This new mineral species displays, among other notable characteristics, a dichroism: blue "Paraíba" color viewed from the front and yellow with green tints seen from the side (with focused light)
Given its hardness, color and transparency, the mineral falls into the gem category and this, together with the fact that it is a new species as well as its rarity, inevitably makes its price high. Another reason for interest is the high content of Scandium in its composition (around 3.8%)
Laurent Thomas, the person whose name the species carries, presented it at Tucson 2020 and explained to us that although the first news of this new species went out in 2018, the most important find was that of April 2019 and that is the one from which this piece comes.
Together with the specimen we will give the buyer an original label from Laurent Thomas, signed by him.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a novelty at the 2020 Tucson Show in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 3/2020, page 31
Beravina, Ambaro, Tsaraitso, Betroka District, Anosy Region  Madagascar (04/2019)

Specimen size: 1.1 × 0.9 × 0.2 cm = 0.43” × 0.35” × 0.08”

TA91AL0: A new discovery at Tucson 2020. This new mineral species displays, among other notable characteristics, a dichroism: blue "Paraíba" color viewed from the front and yellow with green tints seen from the side (with focused light)
Given its hardness, color and transparency, the mineral falls into the gem category and this, together with the fact that it is a new species as well as its rarity, inevitably makes its price high. Another reason for interest is the high content of Scandium in its composition (around 3.8%)
Laurent Thomas, the person whose name the species carries, presented it at Tucson 2020 and explained to us that although the first news of this new species went out in 2018, the most important find was that of April 2019 and that is the one from which this piece comes.
Together with the specimen we will give the buyer an original label from Laurent Thomas, signed by him.
Beravina, Ambaro, Tsaraitso, Betroka District, Anosy Region  Madagascar (04/2019)

Specimen size: 1.1 × 1.1 × 0.3 cm = 0.43” × 0.43” × 0.12”

TD94AL0: A new discovery at Tucson 2020. This new mineral species displays, among other notable characteristics, a dichroism: blue "Paraíba" color viewed from the front and yellow with green tints seen from the side (with focused light)
Given its hardness, color and transparency, the mineral falls into the gem category and this, together with the fact that it is a new species as well as its rarity, inevitably makes its price high. Another reason for interest is the high content of Scandium in its composition (around 3.8%)
Laurent Thomas, the person whose name the species carries, presented it at Tucson 2020 and explained to us that although the first news of this new species went out in 2018, the most important find was that of April 2019 and that is the one from which this piece comes.
Together with the specimen we will give the buyer an original label from Laurent Thomas, signed by him.
Beravina, Ambaro, Tsaraitso, Betroka District, Anosy Region  Madagascar (04/2019)

Specimen size: 1.3 × 1.1 × 0.3 cm = 0.51” × 0.43” × 0.12”

TC26AL0: A new discovery at Tucson 2020. This new mineral species displays, among other notable characteristics, a dichroism: blue "Paraíba" color viewed from the front and yellow with green tints seen from the side (with focused light)
Given its hardness, color and transparency, the mineral falls into the gem category and this, together with the fact that it is a new species as well as its rarity, inevitably makes its price high. Another reason for interest is the high content of Scandium in its composition (around 3.8%)
Laurent Thomas, the person whose name the species carries, presented it at Tucson 2020 and explained to us that although the first news of this new species went out in 2018, the most important find was that of April 2019 and that is the one from which this piece comes.
Together with the specimen we will give the buyer an original label from Laurent Thomas, signed by him.
Beravina, Ambaro, Tsaraitso, Betroka District, Anosy Region  Madagascar (04/2019)

Specimen size: 1.4 × 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.55” × 0.47” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1 × 0.4 cm = 0.55” × 0.39” × 0.16”

ED56AL5: Undoubtedly one of the best, if not the best, uncut Grandidierite crystal found in the deposit, both for the perfection of its crystal forms and for its luster, transparency and color intensity, as well as for its gem quality. All this made it worthy of being on the cover of the German magazine Mineralien Welt, and it was also featured in the Mineralogical Record.
This specimen is on the front cover of the 'Mineralien Welt' edition 06/2019, and has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery of Munich 2019 in the ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 380 in the volume 51, number 2, May-April 2020
Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region (Fort Dauphin Region), Toliara Province (Tuléar)  Madagascar (09-10/2018)

Specimen size: 1.1 × 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.43” × 0.39” × 0.31”

TG29AD0: A novelty at Tucson 2016. An isolated crystal on matrix. It is translucent, bright, with a uniform and intense bluish-green color and with very well defined prismatic faces. Of an excellent quality for this rare silicate.
Grandidierite deposit, Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region (Fort Dauphin Region), Toliara Province (Tuléar)  Madagascar (05-12/2015)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.6 × 1.4 cm = 1.02” × 1.02” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.98” × 0.55”

EZ86AK7: Grandidierite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with the faces and edges of the prism well defined, translucent, brilliant and a deep uniform greenish-blue. Of excellent quality for this rare silicate due to the upper termination that, although somewhat rough, is complete.
Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region (Fort Dauphin Region), Toliara Province (Tuléar)  Madagascar

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.2 × 1.2 cm = 1.26” × 0.87” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.8 cm = 1.02” × 0.71”

MY87AE2: A novelty at Tucson 2016. An isolated crystal, translucent, bright, with a uniform and intense bluish-green color, with very well defined and deeply striated prismatic faces for the species. Of an excellent quality for this rare silicate.
Grandidierite deposit, Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region (Fort Dauphin Region), Toliara Province (Tuléar)  Madagascar (05-12/2015)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.2 × 1 cm = 0.94” × 0.87” × 0.39”

TR49AD0: A novelty at Tucson 2016. An isolated crystal on matrix. It is translucent, bright, with a uniform and intense bluish-green color and with very well defined prismatic faces. Of an excellent quality for this rare silicate.
Grandidierite deposit, Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region (Fort Dauphin Region), Toliara Province (Tuléar)  Madagascar (05-12/2015)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.4 × 0.8 cm = 1.10” × 0.94” × 0.31”

TP50AH2: Very sharp flattened and complete crystal (on the base it has small fragments of a feldspar matrix) with very well defined faces and edges and a perfect termination, slightly rough but free of damage. It is translucent and has a very deep and uniform bluish-green color. Among the best for this very rare species, a classic from Madagascar.
Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region (Fort Dauphin Region), Toliara Province (Tuléar)  Madagascar (02-06/2017)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.3 × 0.8 cm = 1.14” × 0.91” × 0.31”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 1.6 cm = 1.14” × 0.63”

TC71AD0: A novelty at Tucson 2016. Parallel growth, on matrix, of translucent and bright crystals with a uniform bluish green color and with very well defined prismatic faces. Of an excellent quality for this rare silicate.
Grandidierite deposit, Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region (Fort Dauphin Region), Toliara Province (Tuléar)  Madagascar (05-12/2015)

Specimen size: 4 × 2.6 × 2.3 cm = 1.57” × 1.02” × 0.91”

TC69AD0: A novelty at Tucson 2016. Parallel growth, on matrix, of translucent and very bright crystals with a uniform and intense bluish green color and with very well defined prismatic faces. Of an excellent quality for this rare silicate.
Grandidierite deposit, Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region (Fort Dauphin Region), Toliara Province (Tuléar)  Madagascar (05-12/2015)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.3 × 2.5 cm = 2.20” × 1.30” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.8 cm = 1.57” × 0.71”

MX51AD5: A novelty at Tucson 2016. Single crystals on a massive Quartz matrix. The crystals have some very well developed faces and edges on the prism, which is very uncommon for the species. The crystal is translucent and bright and has a uniform greenish blue color. Of an excellent quality for this rare silicate.
Grandidierite deposit, Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region (Fort Dauphin Region), Toliara Province (Tuléar)  Madagascar (05-12/2015)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 3.5 × 4 cm = 2.56” × 1.38” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.4 cm = 1.57” × 0.55”

EP66AA1: Very sharp thick tabular crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with well developed dipyramidal and pinacoidal faces and a very short prism. Their color is very intense and uniform and they are on matrix, something very uncommon with such samples. It is from the type locality.
Sakavalana Mine, Ambatovita, Mandrosonoro, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania Region, Fianarantsoa Province  Madagascar

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.4 × 1.7 cm = 0.94” × 0.55” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.24” × 0.24”

MK50AL3: Very sharp crystal of Pezzottaite, a rare species of the Beryl group, translucent, with a very intense and uniform color, implanted on a Quartz matrix with short elongated Schorl crystals.
Sakavalana Mine, Ambatovita, Mandrosonoro, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania Region, Fianarantsoa Province  Madagascar

Specimen size: 5.9 × 5.1 × 4.6 cm = 2.32” × 2.01” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.24” × 0.24”

TP10AH1: Group of very clear Quartz crystals, very transparent and bright and with very well defined phantom growths that show their inner pyramidal faces that are coated by clear green microcrystalline Muscovite (variety fuchsite). Great esthetic appearance.
Anovitra, Itremo, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania Region, Fianarantsoa Province  Madagascar (07/2017)

Specimen size: 14.3 × 11 × 5.4 cm = 5.63” × 4.33” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 5 × 2.2 cm = 1.97” × 0.87”

MQ90AE7: Two very well defined crystals on matrix formed by a prism and a dipyramid. The main crystal is partially doubly terminated.
Betroka District, Anosy Region  Madagascar

Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 1.26” × 0.59” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.98” × 0.51”

MG56AL4: Columbite crystal, very rich in crystal faces and with very well defined faces and edges. Rich in terminal faces too and with a clear scepter habit in the Columbite crystal itself.
District Analalava, Sofia Region  Madagascar

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.1 × 1 cm = 1.54” × 0.83” × 0.39”

TP28AH0: A novelty at Tucson 2018. A group of Fluorite crystal cubes between translucent and transparent, with a very deep green color and marine-blue dichroism clearly visible in sunlight. The locality is totally new and, even though Madagascar is a well-known mineralogical paradise, there were no other references to Fluorite occurrences other than the small crystals included in Quartz from Mandronarivo.
Mandronarivo area, Beroroha District, Atsimo Andrefana Region, Toliara Province (Tuléar)  Madagascar (08-11/2017)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.8 × 4.8 cm = 2.32” × 1.89” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.4 cm = 0.98” × 0.94”

TB87AH0: A novelty at Tucson 2018. A group of Fluorite crystal cubes between translucent and transparent, with white inclusions, a very deep green color and marine-blue dichroism, clearly visible in sunlight. The locality is totally new and, even though Madagascar is a well-known mineralogical paradise, there were no more references to Fluorite occurrences other than the small crystals included in Quartz from Mandronarivo.
Mandronarivo area, Beroroha District, Atsimo Andrefana Region, Toliara Province (Tuléar)  Madagascar (08-11/2017)

Specimen size: 15.8 × 12.4 × 6.8 cm = 6.22” × 4.88” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 5 × 3 cm = 1.97” × 1.18”

EA64AK0: Fluor-liddicoatite crystal with very well defined and perfect prism faces as well as both terminal faces, the pinacoid and the rhombohedron. Very transparent and bright with micro inclusions and a mauve color that is very intense and uniform, different from the usual color of the Fluor-liddicoatites of Madagascar. Also with a small Quartz coating.
Sahatany Valley (Mt. Ibity), Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province  Madagascar (03/2019)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.7 × 1.3 cm = 0.98” × 0.67” × 0.51”

EG87AK9: Group of Fluor-liddicoatite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, doubly terminated, translucent, with high luster and intense, uniform and deep purple red color, in Feldspar matrix. A great classic from Madagascar, of unusual size and quality for a matrix specimen.
Sahatany Valley (Mt. Ibity), Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province  Madagascar

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.5 × 4.5 cm = 2.95” × 2.17” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 6.5 × 4.5 cm = 2.56” × 1.77”

MG67AJ1: Floater twinned Chrysoberyl crystals with very well defined parallel polycrystalline growths. It is translucent, bright and has an intense yellowish green color.
Ambatondrazaka District, Alaotra-Mangoro Region, Toamasina Province (Tamatave)  Madagascar

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3 × 1.5 cm = 1.81” × 1.18” × 0.59”

MJ99AJ1: Very sharp dodecahedral Rhodizite crystals, well known by its high content of rubidium, translucent, bright, with a pale greenish yellow color and on matrix with Quartz, Feldspar and red Elbaite (rubellite variety) crystals.
Antsogombato Mine, Antsentsindrano, Anosiarivo Manapa, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region  Madagascar

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.4 × 5.2 cm = 2.60” × 2.13” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.2 cm = 0.51” × 0.47”

TA27AB5: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Parallel aggregates and polycrystalline growths of bright and translucent Albite crystals that have an unusual and beautiful clear sky blue color and are with small aggregates of laminar Muscovite. The sample has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Manakana, Vohambohitra pegmatite, Tsaratanàna District, Betsiboka Region, Mahajanga (Majunga) Province  Madagascar (2014)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.9 × 5.5 cm = 2.36” × 1.93” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 3 cm = 1.50” × 1.18”

TP67AB2: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Parallel aggregates and polycrystalline growths of bright and translucent Albite crystals that have an unusual and beautiful clear sky blue color and are with small aggregates of laminar Muscovite. The sample has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Manakana, Vohambohitra pegmatite, Tsaratanàna District, Betsiboka Region, Mahajanga (Majunga) Province  Madagascar (2014)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.8 × 4.9 cm = 2.95” × 2.68” × 1.93”

TC67J3: Group of crystals from the August 2004, find. The aggregate is very attractive and we note the clearness of the crystals, the color and luster and, especially, the existence of twins formed by the contact of two rhombohedrons.
Basalt Quarry, Ambariomiambana, Sambava District, Sava Region  Madagascar (08/2004)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4 × 3.7 cm = 2.64” × 1.57” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3 cm = 1.77” × 1.18”

MT87AL5: Brown greenish Andradite crystals (variety topazolite) on matrix, of good size, very rich in faces, with the dominant forms of the rhombododecahedron combined with those of the trapezohedron. The transparent crystals have an extraordinary luster.
Antetezambato outcrop, Antetezambato, Maherivaratra Commune, Ambanja District, Antsiranana Province  Madagascar (2010)

Specimen size: 16.2 × 9.4 × 8.7 cm = 6.38” × 3.70” × 3.43”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.2 cm = 0.63” × 0.47”

TK52S9: Transparent complex crystals of intense green color, on matrix. They have dominant forms of the trapezohedron and the dodecahedron, but they also show cube faces, small but perfectly visible. Some of the crystals have curious deformations, to the degree that one of them is almost completely flattened.
Antetezambato outcrop, Antetezambato, Maherivaratra Commune, Ambanja District, Antsiranana Province  Madagascar (08/2009)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 6.3 × 4.8 cm = 2.87” × 2.48” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.71” × 0.47”

MT86AL3: Andradite crystals (demantoid variety) of good size with equally developed trapezohedral and rhombododecahedral forms, between transparent and translucent, lustrous and with an intense and uniform green color. On matrix, with aggregates of small Calcite crystals.
Antetezambato outcrop, Antetezambato, Maherivaratra Commune, Ambanja District, Antsiranana Province  Madagascar (2010)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 5.9 × 2.9 cm = 3.39” × 2.32” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.51”

TQ94Q0: A novelty at Tucson 2010. Druse on matrix of crystals very rich of faces, with the dominant forms of the dodecahedron and the trapezohedron and brown color, slightly greenish. Their luster is extraordinary and they are with small white concretions of Stilbite. The Topazolite variety has been well defined on this kind of samples and this will be reflected in a future article in The Mineralogical Record.
Antetezambato outcrop, Antetezambato, Maherivaratra Commune, Ambanja District, Antsiranana Province  Madagascar (05-06/2009)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.2 × 2.9 cm = 3.43” × 2.83” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.59” × 0.47”

TJ88AL5: Thick tabular Hematite crystal, very sharp, shiny and rich in faces.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa

Specimen size: 3 × 2.3 × 1 cm = 1.18” × 0.91” × 0.39”

ML68AC5: Laminar crystals of this rare species. They have a sharp hexagonal shape, deep red-brown color and they are translucent, very bright, and are implanted on a matrix of Rhodochrosite crystals with a very intense luster and color and mainly formed by the prism and the scalenohedron.
N'Chwaning I Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2006)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.3 × 1.3 cm = 1.97” × 1.30” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.3 cm = 0.12” × 0.12”

MT27AC8: Very aerial aggregate of laminar Shigaite crystals. They are bright and transparent, with a color between yellow and orange, and have a considerable size for the species. The Shigaite, on matrix, is implated on a botryoidal Rhodochrosite aggregate and it is with crystalline Siderite. Not bad for the species.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2016, page 80
N'Chwaning I Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2007)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 3.8 × 3.6 cm = 2.80” × 1.50” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.28” × 0.20”

TP27AL0: Spheroidal growth of platy Manganite crystals, very sharp and with great luster.
The specimen is from the Desmond Sacco collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2002)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.9 × 2.5 cm = 1.81” × 1.54” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2.2 cm = 0.87” × 0.87”

NM66AL0: Double fan-like growth of white acicular crystals, with good terminations visible with a loupe, and with a satin luster.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.8 × 1.8 cm = 2.48” × 2.28” × 0.71”

MD64AK3: Group of very sharp Bixbyite crystals, of cubic habit, very bright, on matrix, with Calcite and small Sturmanite crystals.
The specimen is from the Carles Manresa collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
N'Chwaning III Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.8 × 2.7 cm = 1.73” × 1.50” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

TR11Z1: A novelty at Tucson 2013. Groups of sharp, brilliant, well defined octahedral crystals on a matrix of Calcite crystals with small Andradite crystals. The Jacobsite crystals strongly contrast with the white Calcite and make this specimen nicer than usual.
N'Chwaning III Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (±08/2012)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.6 × 1.8 cm = 1.10” × 1.02” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.08” × 0.04”

TL11Z1: A novelty at Tucson 2013. Groups of sharp, brilliant, well defined octahedral crystals on a matrix of Calcite crystals with small Andradite crystals. The Jacobsite crystals strongly contrast with the white Calcite and make this specimen nicer than usual.
N'Chwaning III Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (±08/2012)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 2.9 × 2.8 cm = 1.50” × 1.14” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”

TA47Z9: Groups of sharp, bright and well defined octahedral crystals on a matrix of scalenohedral Calcite crystals with small Andradite crystals. The Jacobsite crystals strongly contrast with the white Calcite and make this specimen nicer than samples from other finds. We will send a copy of the Jacobsite and Andradite analyses to the buyer.
N'Chwaning III Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (±08/2012)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.1 × 4.2 cm = 2.83” × 2.01” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”

TP86N0: Group of very sharp octahedral crystals. They are transparent, bright and have an excellent, very intense green color. From a recent find in Riemvasmaak in 2008.
Riemvasmaak, Orange river area, Kakamas, ZF Mgcawu District, Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2008)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.7 × 2.1 cm = 2.13” × 1.85” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.3 cm = 0.71” × 0.51”

FF27AC3: Aggregate, on matrix, of very sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals that are translucent, have an intense and very uniform green color and are on a group of Quartz crystals with simple forms, and with very well defined phantom growths. The sample was in the Jan Buma collection who’s catalog card we’ll send to the buyer.
Riemvasmaak, Orange river area, Kakamas, ZF Mgcawu District, Northern Cape Province  South Africa (±2005)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5.5 × 3.9 cm = 2.24” × 2.17” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 3 cm = 1.22” × 1.18”

MF37AC3: Aggregate of very sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals. They are between transparent and translucent and have an intense and very uniform green color.
Riemvasmaak, Orange river area, Kakamas, ZF Mgcawu District, Northern Cape Province  South Africa (±2005)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 4.2 × 5.5 cm = 2.87” × 1.65” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 4.8 cm = 1.89” × 1.89”

MT56AG7: Very sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals, between transparent and translucent, bright and with a very intense, deep and uniform green color. They are on a Quartz matrix.
Riemvasmaak, Orange river area, Kakamas, ZF Mgcawu District, Northern Cape Province  South Africa (±2015)

Specimen size: 17.4 × 9.5 × 4.6 cm = 6.85” × 3.74” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.75”

TM46S1: A novelty at Tucson 2011. Sceptered, and partially windowed growth of transparent crystals, very bright in deep smoky shades and on a parallel group of crystals of white Quartz.
Steinkopf, Namakwa District (Namaqualand), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (08/2010)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 2.8 × 2.4 cm = 2.44” × 1.10” × 0.94”

MG96AL5: Group of extraordinarily defined rhombic habit crystals, of a good size for the species, translucent and shiny and with an excellent reddish color, much more intense than usual in this type of specimen. With small Calcite crystals and globular white Oyelite aggregates.
N'Chwaning II Mine, level 45 south, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (13-15/08/2009)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.14” × 0.63” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.5 cm = 0.71” × 0.59”

EG6K9: Excellent miniature. The prismatic crystals are similar to a wheatsheaf with good brilliance and color. On rocky matrix.
N'Chwaning II Mine, section 5 south, stope 46-47 roof, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (01/2002)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2 × 1.4 cm = 0.98” × 0.79” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.47” × 0.31”

EC97AK3: Group of crystals of short prismatic habit, well developed, of good size for the species, translucent and lustrous, color between pink and reddish, as was typical of the first finds of this species.
N'Chwaning II Mine, section 5 south, stope 46-47 roof, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (01/2002)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.8 × 2.1 cm = 1.26” × 1.10” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.20” × 0.20”

EP67AK3: Well defined crystals of short prismatic habit, with phantoms, of good size for the species, on matrix. Some of the crystals are doubly terminated. Color between pink and reddish, typical of the first finds of this species.
N'Chwaning II Mine, section 5 south, stope 46-47 roof, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (01/2002)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3 × 2 cm = 1.61” × 1.18” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.8 cm = 0.55” × 0.31”

EM46R1: Fanlike groups of snowy white acicular crystals of Bultfonteinite replacing the faces of short elongated crystals of Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) which has a pseudocubic habit. In some cases the replacement is deeper and forms a more or less complete pseudomorph of the preexisting Hydroxyapophyllite-(K). All are on a matrix of clear, complex, crystals of Calcite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the piece.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2006)

Specimen size: 2 × 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.79” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.67” × 0.59”

EC63R1: Fanlike groups of snowy white acicular crystals of Bultfonteinite replacing the faces of short elongated crystals of Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) which has a pseudocubic habit. In some cases the replacement is deeper and forms a more or less complete pseudomorph of the preexisting Hydroxyapophyllite-(K). All are on a matrix of clear, complex, crystals of Calcite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the piece.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2006)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.7 × 2.9 cm = 1.34” × 1.06” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.28” × 0.28”

EV13R1: Fanlike groups of snowy white acicular crystals of Bultfonteinite replacing the faces of short elongated crystals of Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) which has a pseudocubic habit. In some cases the replacement is deeper and forms a more or less complete pseudomorph of the preexisting Hydroxyapophyllite-(K). All are on a matrix of clear, complex, crystals of Calcite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the piece.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2006)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.3 × 2 cm = 1.38” × 1.30” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.43”

EZ63R1: Fanlike groups of snowy white acicular crystals of Bultfonteinite replacing the faces of short elongated crystals of Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) which has a pseudocubic habit. In some cases the replacement is deeper and forms a more or less complete pseudomorph of the preexisting Hydroxyapophyllite-(K). All are on a matrix of clear, complex, crystals of Calcite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the piece.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2006)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.1 × 2.8 cm = 1.42” × 1.22” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.28” × 0.24”

EW26R1: Fanlike groups of snowy white acicular crystals of Bultfonteinite replacing the faces of short elongated crystals of Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) which has a pseudocubic habit. In some cases the replacement is deeper and forms a more or less complete pseudomorph of the preexisting Hydroxyapophyllite-(K). All are on a matrix of clear, complex, crystals of Calcite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the piece.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 51 in number 2011/1
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2006)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.6 × 2.5 cm = 1.61” × 1.02” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”

EV12R1: Fanlike groups of snowy white acicular crystals of Bultfonteinite replacing the faces of short elongated crystals of Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) which has a pseudocubic habit. In some cases the replacement is deeper and forms a more or less complete pseudomorph of the preexisting Hydroxyapophyllite-(K). All are on a matrix of clear, complex, crystals of Calcite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the piece.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2006)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.6 × 3 cm = 1.65” × 1.02” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.31” × 0.24”

ET64R1: Fanlike groups of snowy white acicular crystals of Bultfonteinite replacing the faces of short elongated crystals of Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) which has a pseudocubic habit. In some cases the replacement is deeper and forms a more or less complete pseudomorph of the preexisting Hydroxyapophyllite-(K). All are on a matrix of clear, complex, crystals of Calcite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the piece.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2006)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.7 × 2.1 cm = 1.65” × 1.46” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.9 cm = 0.35” × 0.35”

ER14R1: Fanlike groups of snowy white acicular crystals of Bultfonteinite replacing the faces of short elongated crystals of Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) which has a pseudocubic habit. In some cases the replacement is deeper and forms a more or less complete pseudomorph of the preexisting Hydroxyapophyllite-(K). All are on a matrix of clear, complex, crystals of Calcite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the piece.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2006)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.4 × 3.7 cm = 1.73” × 1.34” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.35” × 0.31”

EL13R1: Fanlike groups of snowy white acicular crystals of Bultfonteinite replacing the faces of short elongated crystals of Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) which has a pseudocubic habit. In some cases the replacement is deeper and forms a more or less complete pseudomorph of the preexisting Hydroxyapophyllite-(K). All are on a matrix of clear, complex, crystals of Calcite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the piece.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2006)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.8 × 1.8 cm = 1.73” × 1.50” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.7 cm = 0.47” × 0.28”

EH16R1: Fanlike groups of snowy white acicular crystals of Bultfonteinite replacing the faces of short elongated crystals of Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) which has a pseudocubic habit. In some cases the replacement is deeper and forms a more or less complete pseudomorph of the preexisting Hydroxyapophyllite-(K). All are on a matrix of clear, complex, crystals of Calcite.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2006)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.7 × 2.3 cm = 1.85” × 1.06” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.35” × 0.31”

EK26R1: Fanlike groups of snowy white acicular crystals of Bultfonteinite replacing the faces of short elongated crystals of Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) which has a pseudocubic habit. In some cases the replacement is deeper and forms a more or less complete pseudomorph of the preexisting Hydroxyapophyllite-(K). All are on a matrix of clear, complex, crystals of Calcite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the piece.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2006)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.4 × 2.7 cm = 1.85” × 1.34” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.4 cm = 0.55” × 0.55”

ED36R1: Fanlike groups of snowy white acicular crystals of Bultfonteinite replacing the faces of short elongated crystals of Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) which has a pseudocubic habit. In some cases the replacement is deeper and forms a more or less complete pseudomorph of the preexisting Hydroxyapophyllite-(K). All are on a matrix of clear, complex, crystals of Calcite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the piece.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2006)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 3.7 × 3.4 cm = 3.82” × 1.46” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”

NY77AL5: Aggregate of sharp Smithsonite crystals with a rhombohedral habit, between translucent and transparent and much brighter than usual in Smithsonite. A Namibian classic from a historic locality.
Berg Aukas, Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 5 × 4.3 × 2.9 cm = 1.97” × 1.69” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.51”

MD99AL4: Group of cubo-octahedral crystals with sharp faces and edges, between transparent and translucent, lustrous and deep green color with fine zones in shades of violet parallel to the edges of the crystals. Some areas of the specimen are partially covered by small white Calcite crystals.
The specimen, which comes from the Peter Rosewarne collection was previously in the Claus Hedegaard collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo District, Otjozondjupa Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 8.8 × 7.5 × 3.2 cm = 3.46” × 2.95” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 5.6 × 5.1 cm = 2.20” × 2.01”

TA89Z3: Druse of cubic crystals beveled by the dodecahedron and hollow growths on the octahedral faces. The crystals are translucent, bright and have a very intense and deep mauve color, clearer on the octahedral faces.
Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo District, Otjozondjupa Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 10.5 × 6.6 × 1.9 cm = 4.13” × 2.60” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.7 cm = 0.47” × 0.28”

EG16AL5: Very sharp Dioptase crystals, aerial, lustrous and implanted on matrix, with very light blue Planchéite coatings.
Kandesei Mine, Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene Region  Namibia (±2007)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 1.14” × 0.63” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.7 cm = 0.59” × 0.28”

ED90AI5: Isolated Dioptase crystals, one of them clearly dominant, that are partially doubly terminated, bright, with a deep color and on a matrix of crystalline Quartz partially coated by Planchéite.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Kandesei Mine, Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene Region  Namibia (±2007)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.5 × 4.1 cm = 2.20” × 1.77” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.8 cm = 0.63” × 0.31”

MB37AL5: Concretionary and globular Shattuckite growths, with a felted surface and radial growths on the edges of the specimen. The light blue color is intense and uniform.
Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 8.2 × 7.1 × 2.2 cm = 3.23” × 2.80” × 0.87”

TR16AL2: Botryoidal coating of Shattuckite with a velvety appearance, on Quartz matrix and highlighting a centered aggregate of very good size sharp primary Malachite crystals.
Kandesei Mine, Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 8.2 × 6.2 × 4.8 cm = 3.23” × 2.44” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 1 cm = 1.34” × 0.39”

TX6AL4: Group of Prehnite crystals that partially cover a water-clear Quartz crystal. The Prehnite crystals, more individualized than usual for the species, with defined faces and edges, are translucent, shiny, and have a uniform pale green color.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg area, Erongo Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 3.6 × 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 1.42” × 0.59” × 0.43”

MB99AL5: Druze on matrix of Prehnite crystals with polycrystalline growths, translucent, bright and with a vivid and uniform green color. The specimen comes from the Claus Hedegaard collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg area, Erongo Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 11.8 × 10.9 × 2.4 cm = 4.65” × 4.29” × 0.94”

TX71AF0: Very bright Quartz crystal with a very sharply defined amethyst colored phantom and an aesthetic color gradation, clearer near the base and the termination and very intense in the central zone. It is with Prehnite and Calcite and is on matrix, which is very rare with samples from this region. Badly popularized as Brandberg, the true locality is Gobobos, another nearby volcano. The sample was from Charles Key.
Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg area, Erongo Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 7 × 6.3 × 5.3 cm = 2.76” × 2.48” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 6.4 × 2.3 cm = 2.52” × 0.91”

TP6AL3: Very sharp Topaz crystal very rich in faces, transparent, with excellent luster and implanted on a Quartz matrix. We will deliver the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Kleine Spitzkoppe, Spitzkopje area, Karibib District, Erongo Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.5 × 1.7 cm = 0.98” × 0.98” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.59” × 0.43”

TG13AJ8: Very aerial and doubly terminated Schorl crystals formed by a short prism and terminal flat rhombohedral faces. They are very bright and are on matrix with small Quartz crystals. Sculptural, extraordinarily esthetic.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2020, page 59
Erongo Mountain, Usakos, Erongo Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.1 × 3.3 cm = 2.44” × 2.01” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.51” × 0.51”

MF96AI4: Very aerial aggregate of Schorl crystals that have very well defined crystalline forms with polycrystalline growths and they are very bright.
Davib East Farm 61 (Davib Ost Farm), Karibib District, Erongo Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 8.9 × 7.1 × 5.6 cm = 3.50” × 2.80” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.8 cm = 1.57” × 1.50”

TP66AF0: Scepter growth of an octahedral Fluorite crystal with polycrystalline growths on its faces. It is bright, between transparent and translucent, and has a pale green color, more intense at the base. The sample was from Charles Key.
Erongo Mountain, Usakos, Erongo Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.6 × 1.7 cm = 0.94” × 0.63” × 0.67”

TM48AF0: Scepter growth of an octahedral Fluorite crystal with polycrystalline growths on its faces. It is bright, between transparent and translucent, has a pale green color and it is on a irregular Fluorite base that has a deeper and more intense green color. The sample was from Charles Key.
Erongo Mountain, Usakos, Erongo Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.4 × 2.8 cm = 1.42” × 0.94” × 1.10”

TM56AL4: Group of primary Malachite crystals, with sharp faces and edges and fine polycrystalline terminations, lustrous, with a very intense color and implanted in a matrix of Calcite crystals.
We will deliver the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, stating that it came from the Melanson collection (Denver 2013)
Emke Mine, Ogonja (Onganja), Seeis, Windhoek District, Khomas Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.4 × 2 cm = 1.06” × 0.94” × 0.79”

TD89AJ3: Groups of acicular Malachite crystals with a fibrous aspect, with a very vivid silky luster and with color changes from a clearer to a darker green depending on orientation. On matrix with pinkish scalenohedral Calcite crystals. An excellent classic from Namibia.
Ogonja (Onganja), Seeis, Windhoek District, Khomas Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 10 × 4 × 4.4 cm = 3.94” × 1.57” × 1.73”

TE89AH4: Fan-like growths of very Sharp Tarbuttite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, bright and with a very uniform green color. The sample is of great quality both for the species and for its locality.
Skorpion Mine, Rosh Pinah, Lüderitz District, Karas Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.4 × 2.2 cm = 1.77” × 1.73” × 0.87”

MF9AC6: Botryoidal aggregates of small white Smithsonite crystals on a matrix coated by small and very bright Hemimorphite crystals.
Skorpion Mine, Rosh Pinah, Lüderitz District, Karas Region  Namibia (2007-2010)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 5.9 × 5.9 cm = 2.80” × 2.32” × 2.32”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.59” × 0.43”

TX68AL1: Extraordinary specimen of this very rare Yttrium phosphate, as white spherulitic growths that stand out in very well defined fashion on the blackish matrix.
Skorpion Mine, Rosh Pinah, Lüderitz District, Karas Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.5 × 1.7 cm = 1.54” × 1.38” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

TT27AF1: Group of crystals, some of them partially doubly terminated, with very well defined phantom growths of red Hematite inclusions. They have an amethystine nucleus visible under a strong light.
Orange River, Warmbad, Karasburg District, Karas Region  Namibia (± 1980)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.7 × 5.3 cm = 1.89” × 1.46” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 0.71” × 0.67”

TM27AB5: Aggregate, on matrix, of translucent rhombohedral Smithsonite crystals with a deep brown color and slightly orange shades. A classic from Namibia with great quality.
Berg Aukas, Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.2 × 2.9 cm = 1.89” × 1.65” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”

MB36AL4: Group of highly profiled, translucent and brilliant Dioptase crystals, on matrix and with pale blue-green Chrysocolla. Excellent specimen, classic and very aesthetic.
Mindouli, Mindouli District, Pool Department  Congo DR (Zaire)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 5.4 × 6.9 cm = 4.13” × 2.13” × 2.72”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.55” × 0.16”

LR88AK2: Group of very sharp crystals, some of them partially doubly terminated, of good size, brilliant, with very deep color and partially covered by a second generation of small crystals of the same mineral Dioptase. The sample is from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 805), whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
'Mbumba, Pimbi hill, Mindouli, Mindouli District, Pool Department  Congo DR (Zaire) (2011)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.6 × 2.9 cm = 1.77” × 1.42” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.47”

DM49AC8: Aggregate of very well defined Dioptase crystals. They are aerial, translucent, and bright. They have a very deep color and are on a rocky matrix partially coated by fibrous Plancheite aggregates. The crystals have a better luster and color than usual for the locality.
Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.2 × 4.2 cm = 2.20” × 1.65” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.4 cm = 0.47” × 0.16”

ME89AK9: Druze of rhombohedral Dioptase crystals, translucent, very bright and intense in color. With bluish coatings of Shattuckite and an aggregate of flat Malachite crystals.
Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire) (2006)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 4.9 × 2.6 cm = 3.07” × 1.93” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.28” × 0.28”

TP91Y3: Dioptase crystals of a considerable size, on matrix, with very well defined faces and edges and partially coated by small botryoidal growths of yellowish-green Bayldonite.
Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.7 × 5.7 cm = 3.74” × 3.03” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.2 cm = 0.83” × 0.47”

TC48AK9: Botryoidal Chrysocolla on matrix, with very aerial shapes and a sharper profile than usual and with a very clear and uniform greenish blue color. A Congo classic.
Kambove District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.2 × 3.4 cm = 2.13” × 1.26” × 1.34”

EB56Y6: Group, of very sharp octahedral Cuprite crystals that are extraordinarily bright and have a deep red color. On matrix with Calcite and Chrysocolla.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.26” × 0.87” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.28” × 0.28”

TC90AJ8: Group of crystals formed by the octahedron and the dodecahedron, partially flattened and deformed, translucent with a very deep red color, and on matrix with Malachite.
The sample is from the Edward L. Loye collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.1 × 3.3 cm = 2.17” × 1.61” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2.2 cm = 0.87” × 0.87”

MB67AF2: Very sharp octahedral Cuprite crystals. They are very bright, and have a very intense and deep red color visible under an intense light. The Cuprite esthetically contrasts with the white Calcite coating the vug on a rocky matrix.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5 × 4.4 cm = 2.56” × 1.97” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.28” × 0.24”

TR16AE1: Very sharp and slightly elongated octahedral crystal with very well defined faces and edges and fine polycrystalline growths. The crystals are perfectly individualized and on matrix, and they show a very vivid red color when backlit by an intense light beam.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 4.8 × 2.4 cm = 2.87” × 1.89” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.55”

AH16Q6: Groups of octahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges and a deep red color on internal reflection. They are in a cavity that protects them.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire) (1994)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.4 × 5.4 cm = 3.35” × 2.91” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16”

TQ91AI8: Malachite Druse of very well defined primary Malachite crystals that are rich with polycrystalline growths that are bright and have a very deep color. We note that, curiously, the Congo is not well known for its primary Malachite specimens.
The sample is from the A.J. & S. Koster collections and, previously, it was in the Gilbert Gauthier collection. We will send the labels of the two collections to the buyer.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire)

Specimen size: 7 × 4.6 × 3.2 cm = 2.76” × 1.81” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.51” × 0.51”

ND92AK9: Tabular Baryte floater crystal with parallel growths, transparent, with very marked geometric growths, very lustrous and with an intense toasted honey color.
An excellent specimen that comes from the Carlos Prieto Paramio collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire) (±1990)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.8 × 1 cm = 2.56” × 2.28” × 0.39”

TA86AK4: Aggregates centered on matrix, of fine acicular crystals of Plancheite, with a satiny luster and uniform light blue color. A Musonoi classic.
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire) (06-08/2010)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.4 × 4.6 cm = 2.52” × 1.73” × 1.81”

TH43AH0: A novelty at Tucson 2018. Very sharp and aerial cubo-octahedral crystal, complete and on matrix, with Mica. It has two small contacts on the left side, recrystallized by the Carrollite itself. The sample is from a recent find of samples of a great quality.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 44 of the 2018/01 edition.
Kamoya South II Mine, Kamoya, Kambove District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire) (2016-2017)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.8 × 1.8 cm = 0.94” × 0.71” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.9 cm = 0.75” × 0.75”

TM27AH0: A novelty at Tucson 2018. Single, very aerial and very sharp cubo-octahedral crystal, slightly elongated, complete and on a tiny bit of Mica matrix. The sample is from a recent find of samples of great quality.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 02/2018, page 88
Kamoya South II Mine, Kamoya, Kambove District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire) (2016-2017)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3 × 2.6 cm = 1.42” × 1.18” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.42” × 0.94”

EX93AH9: Floater group of rosette growths of flattened crystals that are very bright with a very vivid color. The sample has an extraordinary quality for the best well known at the locality.
Kimbwé, Kinsevere District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Congo DR (Zaire)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5 × 3.4 cm = 2.28” × 1.97” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.31” × 0.20”

MF46AI4: Single and partially doubly terminated Microcline (amazonite variety) crystal with very well defined faces and edges, a good green color, not as bluish as the classic Colorado amazonites, and on a matrix of Quartz and Albite. The sample is from the Carles Manresa collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 02/2018, page 87
Kenticha, Sidamo Province, SNNPR Region  Ethiopia

Specimen size: 5.5 × 5 × 2.8 cm = 2.17” × 1.97” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 4.2 cm = 1.89” × 1.65”

EH16AD7: Aggregate of very acute scalenohedral crystals. They are between transparent and translucent, with a color between red and mauve, very intense, deep and uniform, and are on a matrix of manganese oxides. A great classic although the locality is not well known for samples as fine as this one.
Moanda Mine, Moanda, Léboumbi-Leyou Department, Haut-Ogooué Province  Gabon

Specimen size: 8.3 × 4.4 × 4.6 cm = 3.27” × 1.73” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.28” × 0.16”

MR99AL4: A novelty at Munich 2019. Very sharp, doubly-terminated floater crystal of Eudidymite with good terminations and marked parallel growths. The crystal is translucent, white, with pearly luster, accompanied by an Aegirine crystal and a doubly-terminated Quartz crystal, smoky in the terminal areas. Eudidymite rarely appears in such well-defined crystals, which is why the specimens of this find fall into the category of exceptional.
This specimen has been referenced and pictured, as a novelty in Munich 2019 in the magazine "Le Règne Minéral" number 150, page 42. It has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Mount Malosa, Zomba District  Malawi (09/2019)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.9 × 3.4 cm = 1.89” × 1.54” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 1.6 cm = 1.69” × 0.63”

MF48AK7: New in Munich 2019: Parallel growth of well defined and doubly terminated white Eudidymite crystals on matrix, associated with smoky Quartz and Aegirine crystals. Eudidymite is a species that very rarely occurs in sharp well-terminated crystals and that is why the specimens from this find are so exceptional. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Mount Malosa (Northwest side), Zomba District  Malawi (09/2019)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 1.26” × 0.98” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.16”

MG49AK7: New in Munich 2019: Parallel growth of sharp, doubly terminated white Eudidymite crystals on matrix, associated with doubly terminated smoky Quartz crystals and very sharp and shiny Aegirine crystals. Eudidymite is a species that very rarely occurs in sharp and well-terminated crystals and that is why the specimens from this find are so exceptional. This specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Mount Malosa (Northwest side), Zomba District  Malawi (09/2019)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.14” × 1.06” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.7 cm = 1.02” × 0.67”

MG50AK7: New in Munich 2019: Parallel growth of sharp white Eudidymite crystals, doubly terminated and implanted in a group of Aegirine crystals. Eudidymite is a species that very rarely occurs in sharp and well-terminated crystals and that is why the specimens from this find are so exceptional. This specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This sample has been referenced and pictured, as a novelty in Munich 2019, in the magazine 'Le Règne Minéral' number 150, page 42 and published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, report 54, December 13, 2019 edition, page 3 as well as in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 52 of the 2020/01 edition.
Mount Malosa (Northwest side), Zomba District  Malawi (09/2019)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3 × 2.3 cm = 1.73” × 1.18” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.5 cm = 0.91” × 0.59”

MH89AK7: New in Munich 2019: Parallel growth of sharp white Eudidymite crystals, doubly terminated and implanted in a group of Aegirine crystals. Eudidymite is a species that very rarely occurs in sharp and well-terminated crystals and that is why the specimens from this find are so exceptional. This specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Mount Malosa (Northwest side), Zomba District  Malawi (09/2019)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 2.2 × 1.7 cm = 2.13” × 0.87” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.5 cm = 0.55” × 0.20”

MF51AK7: New in Munich 2019: Groups of doubly terminated Eudidymite crystals, with good terminations and very marked parallel growths. They are translucent, colored white, and are implanted in a group of doubly terminated Aegirine crystals with small smoky Quartz crystals. Eudidymite is a species that rarely occurs in sharp and well-terminated crystals and that is why the specimens from this find are so exceptional. This specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Mount Malosa (Northwest side), Zomba District  Malawi (09/2019)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 3.6 × 4.2 cm = 2.60” × 1.42” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.47”

EB14AC5: Aggregate of laminar very well shaped crystals with acute terminations in parallel growth. Eudidymite is a very uncommon species but characteristic of Mount Malosa. The sample has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Mount Malosa, Zomba District  Malawi (2005)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 1.5 × 0.2 cm = 1.65” × 0.59” × 0.08”

LQ86AL0: Two crystals, one of them partially doubly terminated, with very well defined faces and edges, with good terminations, on a matrix of white Orthoclase crystals. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Mount Malosa, Zomba District  Malawi (07/2007)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.6 × 3.8 cm = 2.40” × 1.42” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 2.6 cm = 1.73” × 1.02”

EC90AH4: Very well defined Arfvedsonite crystals with acute polycrystalline terminations. They are bright with a very deep green color and are on a matrix of Orthoclase crystals that very well defined Baveno twins, and black prismatic Aegirine crystals around the base of the Arfvedsonite crystal.
Mount Malosa, Zomba District  Malawi (2014)

Specimen size: 14 × 10.5 × 6.8 cm = 5.51” × 4.13” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 9 × 1.2 cm = 3.54” × 0.47”

EA76AE4: Very curious doubly terminated smoky Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, flattened and with very sharp and well defined faces and edges. The Quartz is with Aegirine crystals, some of them doubly terminated, and small Orthoclase and Zircon crystals.
Mount Malosa, Zomba District  Malawi (2014)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.6 × 2.3 cm = 1.97” × 1.42” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 1.1 cm = 1.38” × 0.43”

EP66AG9: 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 = 0.63” × 0.63” × 0.35”

MX70AG3: A novelty at Munich 2017. Parallel growths, with a fibrous aspect, of Lepidolite (series) pseudomorphous after an Elbaite crystal, with doubly terminated Tantalite-(Mn) crystals with very well defined faces and edges, transparent and with a very vivid red color.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Munich 2017’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 70 of number 1/2018
Naipa Mine, Alto Ligonha District, Zambezia Province  Mozambique (07/2017)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 2.8 × 2.4 cm = 1.93” × 1.10” × 0.94”

NV69AI8: Isolated Tantalite-(Mn) crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent with a very vivid red color and implanted on a Lepidolite (after Elbaite) crystal with a fibrous aspect, also with Feldspar.
This sample has been referenced and figured as a novelty in Munich 2018, in the magazine "Le Règne Minéral" number 144, page 36
Naipa Mine, Alto Ligonha District, Zambezia Province  Mozambique (07/2017)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 2.6 × 2.4 cm = 3.07” × 1.02” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.28” × 0.16”

NX51AH2: A novelty at Munich 2017. Parallel growths of Lepidolite (series) crystals pseudomorphous after Elbaite. They are bright with a rich pink color, with channels and other dissolution forms and with the crystalline remains of Elbaite (verdelite variety) on the upper end.
Naipa Mine, Alto Ligonha District, Zambezia Province  Mozambique (07/2017)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 3.8 × 3.7 cm = 4.13” × 1.50” × 1.46”

EP88AE4: A single crystal with very well defined terminal faces consisting of a dominant pinacoid and a rhombohedron. It is transparent, with an intense red color at the base and a blue termination, popularly known as a blue cap. It is different from what is usually found at this mine.
Naipa Mine, Alto Ligonha District, Zambezia Province  Mozambique (08/2016)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.67” × 0.63”

ER70AE4: Single crystal with very well defined parallel growth and terminal faces. It is transparent and has colored zones alternating between pink and bluish green. It is different from what is usually found at this mine.
Naipa Mine, Alto Ligonha District, Zambezia Province  Mozambique (08/2016)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 1.65” × 0.87” × 0.55”

MA87AJ1: Doubly terminated crystal with two different terminations, one of them polycrystalline, with pyramidal faces, and the opposite flat and slightly rough. The crystal is very transparent and bright, has an excellent color of the best quality for the locality.
Jos Plateau, Plateau State  Nigeria

Specimen size: 5.7 × 1.2 × 0.8 cm = 2.24” × 0.47” × 0.31”

MA69AA9: Two isolated Wulfenite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, translucent, with an intense orange color and partially coated and fringed by Quartz crystals, also present on the rocky matrix. Excellent quality for the locality.
Mindouli, Mindouli District, Pool Department  Democratic Republic of the Congo (2012)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.4 × 3 cm = 2.44” × 2.13” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.59” × 0.43”

TR93AF6: Druse of rhombohedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges, extraordinarily bright and on matrix.
The sample is from the Vallecillo collection, Madrid.
Renéville, Kindanba District, Pool Department  Democratic Republic of the Congo

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5 × 2.5 cm = 2.83” × 1.97” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.55”

EH46AC2: Very rich Senegalite vug coated by very sharp and lustrous crystals with an intense yellow color and high transparency. Between the matrix and the Senegalite, one can see a thin blue layer of Turquoise that is coating other small vugs in the matrix, accompanied by white Crandallite. The sample, from the type locality for the species, is from a very well known and find in 2008.
Kourou Diakouma Mount, Saraya, Tambacounda Region  Senegal (2007-2008)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.5 × 2.7 cm = 2.64” × 1.77” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”

LP89AK0: Group of very sharp, transparent and very bright crystals with small inclusions, almost colorless but with intense and fine violet colors on the edges. The specimen, of extraordinary quality for what is known at the site, is from the Philippe Morelon collection (number 803) whose label, which includes more information on the back, will be sent to the buyer.
Hammam-Zriba Mine, Zriba, Zaghouan Governorate  Tunisia (2008)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.3 × 4.5 cm = 2.44” × 1.69” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.7 cm = 0.67” × 0.67”

TB90AL4: Curious botryoidal Dolomite, uncommon in this locality, with smooth and silk-shiny surfaces and a soft pink color. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send the buyer a copy of the analysis.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 21.2 × 11.9 × 8 cm = 8.35” × 4.69” × 3.15”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.8 cm = 1.06” × 0.71”

TL26AL4: Polycrystalline growths of Mimetite, on matrix, with the forms of the prism and an acute pyramidal termination, translucent, very shiny and yellow color with orange tones.
A very typical Tsumeb specimen that we will deliver in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which states that it came from the Sullivan collection.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.6 × 1.1 cm = 0.87” × 0.63” × 0.43”

LR86AK7: Very elongated crystals of Mimetite, with excellent terminations, transparent, lustrous, intense yellow, on matrix.
This piece is from the collection of Philippe Morelon (No. 1100) whose label we will send to the buyer.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 3 × 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 1.18” × 0.87” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.1 cm = 0.12” × 0.04”

ER56X5: Very aerial group of well defined crystals, some of them partially doubly terminated. They have a very clear yellow color and an unusually big size for Tsumeb Mimetite crystals.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia (1966)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.4 × 2.1 cm = 1.38” × 0.94” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.7 cm = 0.79” × 0.28”

EL96AC5: Aggregate of crystals with very well defined forms of the prism and dipyramid. The larger ones have a considerable length; they are very bright and have a small Galena matrix.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.6 × 2.8 cm = 1.46” × 1.42” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 1.4 cm = 1.26” × 0.55”

EC64AK7: Polycrystalline growths of sharp Mimetite crystals with excellent pyramidal terminations and slightly curved faces and edges, translucent and with good luster, intense and uniform orange-yellow color, on limonite matrix. A Tsumeb classic of great quality.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.7 × 4.4 cm = 2.87” × 2.24” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.6 cm = 0.51” × 0.24”

EA28X5: Polycrystalline “bundled” growths of crystals with acute pyramidal micro-terminations. They are bright, have a clear yellow color and are on matrix.
The sample is from the collection of Claus Hedegaard, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 9 × 5.5 × 5 cm = 3.54” × 2.17” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16”

TK11AK8: Spherical aggregates of Malachite that have grown on a surface of sharp crystals of Adamite (copper-bearing variety) on matrix, with small Quartz crystals.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains a label stating that the specimen was previously in the Sullivan collection.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 3 × 2.3 × 1.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.91” × 0.47”