Mineral Specimens - page 14
Asia (excl. China) - Australia - Turkey

TPB16AN3: Complete floater nodule of lustrous and deep colored Atacamite crystals. An Australian classic.
We will ship the piece in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
House East pit, Mount Gunson Copper mines, Pernatty Lagoon, Stuart Shelf, South Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2 × 2.4 cm = 1.14” × 0.79” × 0.94”

TP68AJ3: Aerial group of Malachite crystals after Azurite. They are very sharp and flattened, with polycrystalline growths.
We will send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Sir Dominick Mine, Yudnamutana District, Arkaroola Region, South Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.6 × 2 cm = 1.42” × 1.02” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.7 cm = 0.79” × 0.67”

TY69AN2: Pyromorphite crystals, many of them doubly terminated, with an elongated prismatic habit, slight curvatures on the edges and some hopper terminations. The crystals, on a limonite matrix, are of a uniform yellowish cream color. The specimen is old and of great quality for the locality.
Black Star pit, Mount Isa, City of Mount Isa, Queensland  Australia

Specimen size: 7.8 × 7 × 3.9 cm = 3.07” × 2.76” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.3 cm = 0.39” × 0.12”

TGB13AO1: Doubly terminated Quartz crystals, with very well defined parallel growths, transparent, with good luster and an intense smoky color with darker zoning on the terminations. On a colorless Quartz matrix.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.

Mooralla, Southern Grampians Shire, Victoria  Australia

Specimen size: 3.6 × 1.8 × 1.4 cm = 1.42” × 0.71” × 0.55”

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

TPP27AO0: Coating, on matrix, of Smithsonite crystals with very pronounced curvatures, the so-called “rice grain” habit, translucent and greenish in color due to copper salts. An excellent Australian classic.
Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales  Australia

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.6 × 2.4 cm = 2.32” × 1.81” × 0.94”

TZB14AN3: Lenticular crystals of Calcite, doubly terminated, with the dominant forms of a terminal flattened rhombohedron and a short prism. Translucent, with good luster and a pale yellow-white color, on matrix with cubo-octahedral Galena crystals. Among the best quality for the locality.
We will ship the piece in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Cadjebut Mine, Fitzroy Crossing, Derby-West Kimberley Shire, Western Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 3 × 2.8 × 1.8  cm = 1.18” × 1.10” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.87” × 0.79”

TA16AJ8: Floater group of very well defined octahedral crystals, some of them also showing the forms of the dodecahedron. The sample is from an Australian locality that is not well known. We will send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label on which appears “Kalgoorlie 2015” and that it had previously been in the Bill Powell collection.
Burbanks Gold Mine, Coolgardie, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 1.5 × 1.2 × 1.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.47” × 0.51”

TB73AK8: Very elongated growth, with parallel growths and slight twists, of Gold crystals with defined terminal faces, from one of the great classic Australian localities.
We will send the specimen in the original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Slug Hill, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 2.5 × 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.12” × 0.08”

TG49AD2: Complete flattened Azurite nodule on matrix. It’s contour resembles a medallion, a shape typical of the locality, with diffuse rosette growths on its surface and a very intense and uniform color. Due to the intensity of its color and the excellent definitions of the nodule this sample is better than usual for the locality.
Malbunka copper Mine, Western Aranda, Ltalaltuma  Australia (2015)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 7 × 1.8 cm = 3.11” × 2.76” × 0.71”

TMA61AN3: Floater group of sharp Heulandite-Ca crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between transparent and translucent and with an intense pearly luster.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Aurangabad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm = 1.10” × 0.94” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.2 cm = 1.02” × 0.47”

TC13AN2: Spheroidal growth of Stellerite on matrix, translucent, lustrous and opaline white.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Aurangabad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.8 × 2.2 cm = 1.10” × 1.10” × 0.87”

MV13AM8: Floater aggregate with a sheaf-like habit of Stellerite crystals with sharp crystal forms, translucent, white in color and with a pearly luster.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Aurangabad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 3 × 2.2 × 1.9 cm = 1.18” × 0.87” × 0.75”

TC16AN2: Spheroidal growth of Epistilbite on matrix, translucent, with good luster and a uniform pale blue color.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.4 × 1.8 cm = 1.10” × 0.94” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.87”

HM47AN2: Group of Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals with the forms of a prism and a very steep sharp bipyramid, transparent, with a bright luster and an extraordinarily vivid and intense green color. On a basalt matrix covered with white spheroidal aggregates of Stilbite-Ca and white lamellar crystals, with a silky luster, of Heulandite-Ca. Old piece, from the 1970s.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 14.4 × 10.4 × 5.8 cm = 5.67” × 4.09” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.7 cm = 0.55” × 0.28”

TV91AE1: Aggregates of very sharp Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals that are very transparent and bright, with an intense and uniform green color and on a basalt matrix coated by nice pink Stilbite-Ca crystals.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 23 × 16 × 7 cm = 9.06” × 6.30” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2 cm = 1.38” × 0.79”

HA37AM6: Centered groups of fine prismatic Scolecite crystals, with visible terminal faces, translucent, with a silky luster and a snow-white color. Very elegant.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 11.4 × 9.8 × 10.2 cm = 4.49” × 3.86” × 4.02”

Main crystal size: 11 × 0.9 cm = 4.33” × 0.35”

HM280HR: Centered groups of acicular white Scolecite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with bright luster, and partially covered by small crystals of Fluorapophyllite-(K). On a basalt matrix.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 15 × 9.5 × 7 cm = 5.91” × 3.74” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 0.2 cm = 1.77” × 0.08”

NNM49AN7: Very well defined spheroidal growth of small dipyramidal Cavansite crystals, with sharp crystal forms, centered on a basalt matrix covered by Stilbite-Ca crystals.
This piece comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 711), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (2004)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.6 × 4.2 cm = 3.31” × 2.20” × 1.65”

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

CC50AE1: Aggregate of complex equant Calcite crystals that are transparent and very bright, with oriented dark colored inclusions and implanted on a basalt matrix coated by white Quartz microcrystals.
Malad, Mumbai (Bombay), Mumbai District (Bombay District),, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 13.5 × 12.7 × 6 cm = 5.31” × 5.00” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 2.8 cm = 1.30” × 1.10”

LV29AK6: Spheroidal crystalline growth of Fluorite with fine radial striations and curious deformations, very unusual in this type of specimen. The Fluorite, translucent and with yellow tones, has grown on a matrix of Quartz crystals (amethyst variety), with growths of white microcrystalline Quartz.
This unusual piece comes from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 374), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Mahodari, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 9.4 × 6.8 × 6.3 cm = 3.70” × 2.68” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 4.6 cm = 2.13” × 1.81”

NTX74AO1: Very aerial bipyramidal crystal of Powellite of very good size. Sharp, with very well defined parallel growths, translucent, with good luster and a light cream color and on a matrix of pink Stilbite-Ca crystals. High quality for the species.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.2 × 3.3 cm = 2.64” × 1.65” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.46” × 0.98”

EK92AF9: Very sharp Powellite crystals in parallel growth, translucent with a cream color. They are on a basalt matrix with Stilbite-Ca crystals, partially doubly terminated white Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals and transparent rhombohedral Calcite crystals, one of them clearly dominant.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (± 2010)

Specimen size: 12.8 × 9.7 × 6.3 cm = 5.04” × 3.82” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.47”

TR47AH1: A novelty at Tucson 2018. Group of Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, transparent, with included acicular Rutile crystals and small leafy Mica aggregates.
Sainj Valley, Manihar Valley, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh  India (06/2017)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 6.9 × 4.5 cm = 3.50” × 2.72” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 6 × 2.4 cm = 2.36” × 0.94”

TA26AH1: A novelty at Tucson 2018. Group of Quartz crystals that are transparent, bright, have cavernous forms on some of their faces and one of them a very well defined scepter. They have Chlorite inclusions and small and very bright Anatase crystals on their surfaces. Just superb!
Sainj Valley, Manihar Valley, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh  India (06/2017)

Specimen size: 20 × 11.3 × 8.3 cm = 7.87” × 4.45” × 3.27”

Main crystal size: 15.5 × 6.8 cm = 6.10” × 2.68”

MQ62AL4: Group of highly profiled lamellar crystals of Wulfenite on matrix, very rich in crystal forms, translucent, very lustrous and with an extremely vivid and intense red color.
Chah Kharboze Mine, Chah Kharboze, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 1.2 × 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.47” × 0.39” × 0.28”

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

MR62AL4: Group of highly profiled lamellar crystals of Wulfenite on matrix, one of them clearly dominant, very rich in crystal forms, translucent, with very good luster and with an extremely vivid and intense red color.
Chah Kharboze Mine, Chah Kharboze, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 1.3 × 1.1 × 0.5 cm = 0.51” × 0.43” × 0.20”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.43” × 0.39”

MF6AC5: Aggregate of two tabular crystals. They are translucent, very bright, have an extraordinarily vivid and intense red color and are on a small matrix.
Chah Kharboze Mine, Chah Kharboze, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.63” × 0.43” × 0.28”

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

TE57AE7: Very sharp Mimetite crystals that are mostly tabular, with a yellowish-orange color, translucent, extraordinarily bright and on a matrix of white Calcite crystals.
Gowd Mine, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.9 × 3.5 cm = 1.42” × 1.14” × 1.38”

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

TA87AD4: Aggregate, on matrix, of thick tabular Mimetite crystals, many of them doubly terminated. They have a bright lemon yellow color with slightly orange shades. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Gowd Mine, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.2 × 2.3 cm = 2.05” × 1.65” × 0.91”

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

TP96AL3: Very sharp tabular crystals, with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, bright, with an intense yellow color and on matrix.
Gowd Mine, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 6 × 5.9 × 1.9 cm = 2.36” × 2.32” × 0.75”

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

TB88AD4: Aggregate, on matrix, of thick tabular Mimetite crystals, many of them doubly terminated. They have a bright lemon yellow color with slightly orange shades. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Gowd Mine, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.5 × 3.2 cm = 2.52” × 2.17” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”

MJ67AF0: Arborescent growths of Willemite crystals pseudomorphous after Descloizite that have partial coatings of small barrel-shaped Mimetite crystals with an intense reddish yellow color.
Chah Milleh Mine, Chah Milleh, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.8 × 2.9 cm = 2.24” × 1.89” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.7 cm = 1.18” × 0.67”

MC60AC6: A novelty at Munich 2015. Arborescent growths of Willemite crystal pseudomorphous after Descloizite that, as a novelty, have partial coatings of small barrel-shaped Mimetite crystals with an intense reddish yellow color.
Chah Milleh Mine, Chah Milleh, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.6 × 7.4 cm = 3.86” × 2.99” × 2.91”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 3.4 cm = 1.69” × 1.34”

TXB66AP9: Andradite crystals (demantoid variety) on matrix. One of them is clearly dominant and large, with very sharp trapezohedron and dodecahedron forms, translucent, lustrous, and of an intense deep green color. Also noteworthy is the abundance of crystals, since these Iranian demantoids usually occur as isolated crystals.
Belqeys Mountain, Takab, West Azerbaijan Province  Iran

Specimen size: 8.6 × 8.3 × 4.2 cm = 3.39” × 3.27” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 2.8 cm = 1.46” × 1.10”

HM90EJ: Group of shiny trapezohedral crystals of Analcime, with very well defined faces and edges and on a rock matrix. The color, between white and reddish orange, is selectively distributed on some faces.
Mount Kahovan, Moalleman, Qohab-e Rastaq, Amirabad District, Damghan, Torud Region, Semnan Province  Iran (90)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.4 × 3 cm = 2.24” × 1.73” × 1.18”

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

HM130TZ: Floater reticulated aggregate of Cerussite crystals with multiple twinning, between lamellar and tabular. Very sharp, transparent, lustrous and more limpid and perfect than is usual for specimens from this deposit.

Nakhlak Mine, ↓180 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (03/2016)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.4 × 1.2 cm = 1.34” × 0.94” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.63” × 0.39”

TQ96AL3: Floater reticulated Cerussite aggregate with multiple twinned crystals between lamellar and tabular, highly profiled, transparent, bright and more limpid and perfect than is usually the case in the Cerussites from this deposit.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓180 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (03/2016)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.73” × 1.26” × 0.94”

TN56AL3: Floater reticulated Cerussite aggregate with multiple twinned crystals between lamellar and tabular, highly profiled, transparent, bright and more limpid and perfect than is usually the case in the Cerussites from this deposit.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓180 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (03/2016)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.3 × 1.9 cm = 1.73” × 1.30” × 0.75”

EMX89AP7: Aggregate of Cerussite crystals, between lamellar and tabular, transparent and very lustrous, that form multiple twins, sharper and more perfect than usual, and in matrix, something really rare in specimens from this locality.
The specimen comes from the former collection of Michel Perraudin.
Nakhlak Mine, Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.5 × 3.8 cm = 2.52” × 2.17” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.7 cm = 1.10” × 1.06”

EL38AL3: Reticulated Cerussite aggregates with cyclic twins. The Cerussite crystals, between lamellar and tabular, are outlined by very fine and sharp elongated microcrystals of Mimetite with a very vivid orange-red color. These Mimetites have been analyzed in detail and turned out to be the rare chromium-bearing variety. We will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer of the specimen.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓200 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (01/2015)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.9 × 2.6 cm = 1.73” × 1.14” × 1.02”

EH48AC2: Different and aesthetic. Aggregates of cyclic twins with Cerussite crystals that are laminar and tabular, and are finely bordered by very thin and acute Mimetite microcrystals with a very vivid orange-red color. These Mimetites have been analyzed in depth and have proven to be the rare chromium-rich variety. We'll send copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓200 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (01/2015)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.7 × 2.7 cm = 2.40” × 1.46” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.69” × 0.98”

HM380EE: Reticulated Cerussite aggregates with cyclic twins. The Cerussite crystals, between lamellar and tabular, are outlined by very fine and sharp elongated microcrystals of Mimetite with a very vivid orange-red color. These Mimetites have been analyzed in detail and turned out to be the rare chromium-bearing variety. We will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer of the specimen.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓200 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (01/2015)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4 × 3.6 cm = 2.40” × 1.57” × 1.42”

MA70AI7: Aggregates of cyclic twins of Cerussite crystals, between laminar and tabular, that are finely bordered by very thin and prismatic-shaped Mimetite microcrystals with a very vivid orange-red color. These Mimetites have been analyzed and shown to be a rare chromium-rich variety. We'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓200 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (01/2015)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 4.8 × 4.4 cm = 3.43” × 1.89” × 1.73”

MM88AN0: Floater crystal of Zunyite, a rare aluminum sorosilicate-fluoride, tetrahedral and beveled by cube faces, of good size, has very well defined and smooth faces and a color between reddish and dark brown. With lamellar inclusions of Hematite, which makes it different from the first Zunyites from Iran that came to the world of collecting at Munich 2018.
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (07/2019)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2.2 × 1.9 cm = 0.91” × 0.87” × 0.75”

MNX87AO5: Isolated Zunyite crystal, a rare aluminum sorosilicate and fluoride, on a Hematite matrix. The crystal, tetrahedral and beveled on the faces of the cube, has very well defined and smooth faces. With a color between reddish and dark brown and with lamellar Hematite inclusions, which distinguish it from the first Iranian zunyites found.
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (07/2019)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.02” × 0.98” × 0.79”

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

TC200MQ: Zunyite crystal, a rare aluminum sorosilicate-fluoride, on matrix. The crystal, tetrahedral and beveled by cube faces, has very well defined and smooth faces, a color between reddish and dark brown, with lamellar inclusions of Hematite, different from the first Zunyites from Iran that reached the world of collecting in Munich 2018.
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (07/2019)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.2 × 1.3 cm = 1.14” × 0.87” × 0.51”

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

ML49AK6: Zunyite crystal, a rare aluminum fluoride and sorosilicate, on matrix. The crystal, tetrahedral and bevelled by cube faces, has very defined and smooth reddish-brown faces, with dark lamellar inclusions of Hematite, which makes it different from the first Zunyites from Iran that came to the world of collecting in Munich 2018.
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (07/2019)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.4 × 2 cm = 1.22” × 0.94” × 0.79”

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

MG38AM3: Zunyite, a rare aluminum sorosilicate-fluoride, on matrix. One of the dominant crystals, tetrahedral and beveled by cube faces, with very well defined and smooth faces, a color between reddish and dark brown and with lamellar inclusions of Hematite, which makes it different from the first Zunyites from Iran that came to the world of collecting at Munich 2018.
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (07/2019)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.8 × 3.8 cm = 1.97” × 1.50” × 1.50”

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

TAM87AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.3 × 0.8 cm = 0.67” × 0.51” × 0.31”

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

TAB48AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2 × 0.9 cm = 0.91” × 0.79” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.16” × 0.12”

TBM69AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.71” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.24” × 0.12”

TXM87AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.34” × 1.06” × 0.47”

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

TFB64AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 4.8 × 2.4 × 1.7 cm = 1.89” × 0.94” × 0.67”

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

ET67AM2: Group of very sharp Axinite-(Fe) crystals with very well defined faces and edges, and large for the locality. Translucent, shiny, and brown with mauve tones. A Japanese classic.
Obira Mine, Bungo-Ohno City, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu Region  Japan

Specimen size: 6.3 × 3.6 × 2 cm = 2.48” × 1.42” × 0.79”

EF26AM4: Sharp, doubly terminated crystal of Phlogopite, translucent, with good luster and a bronze color that contrasts with the intense white of the Calcite matrix.
Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.9 × 4.2 cm = 2.68” × 1.93” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.59”

TZ26Y0: Elbaite polycrystalline growths with a shape well known as “mushroom”, with a very deep and uniform red color and on Calcite matrix.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)

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

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.4 cm = 0.67” × 0.55”

TG96E2: Brilliant spheres of Elbaite that stand out on the white matrix.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)

Specimen size: 3 × 2.7 × 1.9 cm = 1.18” × 1.06” × 0.75”

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

TP88E2: Very appealing with a lively color. One of the spheres of Elbaite is not complete (but it is re-crystallized) while the others are.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.8 × 2.1 cm = 1.65” × 1.10” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.8 cm = 0.79” × 0.71”

MB14J5: Globular growth, almost botryoidal, uncommon for the species, on Calcite matrix. The color, between red and pink, is enhanced by the magnificent luster.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.4 × 3.5 cm = 2.17” × 1.34” × 1.38”

TA47AK3: Polycrystalline aggregate of Elbaite (rubellite variety) with a curious morphology known as a "mushroom", translucent, with very deep and uniform color. In a matrix of massive Quartz and with some Quartz crystals partially covering the rubellite.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.2 × 3.1 cm = 2.20” × 1.26” × 1.22”

TD76Y0: Botryoidal aggregate, very rare for Elbaite, bright, with an intense and uniform pink color, and on matrix.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.4 × 3.7 cm = 2.60” × 1.73” × 1.46”

TC27E2: An arborescent Elbaite on Calcite with two colors: pink and deep red. An unusual specimen.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)

Specimen size: 7 × 3.8 × 4.2 cm = 2.76” × 1.50” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.87” × 0.79”

TB88AJ3: Group of Quartz crystals, two of them clearly dominant and having very different morphologies, some of them doubly terminated and flattened, and the other with de “Dauphiné” shape and rich with Chlorite inclusions.
Ganesh Himal, Dhading District, Bagmati Pradesh  Nepal (12/2018)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 8.2 × 2.6 cm = 4.21” × 3.23” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 9.4 × 4.1 cm = 3.70” × 1.61”

TJ88AB2: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Extraordinarily sharp japan law twin with very well defined and transparent crystals. We note that the japan law twin, already rare, is even more rare in Alpine type crevices where this Quartz is formed. The sample is a floater with a recrystallized base.
Arun Valley, Mount Makalu, Mahalangur Himalayas  Nepal (2014)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.6 × 1.5 cm = 2.52” × 2.20” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 6 × 3 cm = 2.36” × 1.18”

TH29AB2: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Extraordinarily sharp japan law twin with very well defined and transparent crystals. We note that the japan law twin, already rare, is even more rare in Alpine type crevices where this Quartz is formed. The sample is a floater with a recrystallized base.
Arun Valley, Mount Makalu, Mahalangur Himalayas  Nepal (2014)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 6 × 3.4 cm = 2.52” × 2.36” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 5.6 × 3.4 cm = 2.20” × 1.34”

MFE47AP6: Growth of two doubly terminated Elbaite crystals with excellent terminations, between transparent and translucent, of a uniform yellowish green color and on an Albite matrix.
Shengus (Shingus), Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.65” × 1.65” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1 cm = 1.65” × 0.39”

TD96AL4: Titanite crystal with a clearly evident contact twin, very sharp, and with well defined crystal faces. Translucent, lustrous, with an intense greenish-yellow color and just a little bit of matrix.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Biensla, Haramosh Mountains, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.87” × 0.55” × 0.39”

SV460TBM: Rosette of small, very sharp tabular crystals of Ilmenite forming a spherical aggregate with very bright metallic bluish reflections, in a matrix formed by a large quantity of translucent, sharp and well-defined crystals of Albite with zones of dark color in the center of the crystals.
Tormiq Valley, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.8 × 4.3 cm = 3.86” × 3.07” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.8 cm = 0.75” × 0.71”

MC14AM7: Topaz crystal with very sharp crystal forms, rich in terminal faces, very transparent, with good luster and a very pale salmon color.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Nyet-Bruk, Nyet, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.1 × 1 cm = 1.14” × 0.43” × 0.39”

MY16AM7: Two isolated crystals of Fluorapatite with sharp crystal forms, translucent, lustrous, colorless and implanted in a group of lamellar Muscovite crystals.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Dassu, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

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

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

MR66AI8: Very sharp, flattened and twinned Titanite crystal that is translucent, has a greenish-yellow color and is on a group of Quartz crystals, the main one doubly terminated. All are transparent and rich with Chlorite inclusions.
The sample is from the Carles Manresa collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.4 × 3.7 cm = 3.31” × 2.52” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.55” × 0.43”

MRH69AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 1.3 × 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.51” × 0.08” × 0.08”

MRD89AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 0.7 × 0.2 cm = 0.67” × 0.28” × 0.08”

MRG69AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 0.8 × 0.3 cm = 0.67” × 0.31” × 0.12”

MRF70AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.67” × 0.63” × 0.16”

MRE87AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 1.8 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.71” × 0.04” × 0.04”

MRJ67AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.75” × 0.08” × 0.08”

MRC69AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.75” × 0.20” × 0.08”

MRB98AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 0.4 × 0.1 cm = 0.94” × 0.16” × 0.04”

TV46J3: A group of prismatic, naturally broken and rehealed, crystals. They have abundant curvatures and crystalline fibrous shaped sutures. Crystals are doubly terminated, with very different terminations. On one of the tips appear well defined and bright rhombohedron faces, on the other it finishes with a flat rough pedion. The quarry from which the sample came is not well known and, probably it has been recently opened.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2020, page 59
Chhappu, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2006)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 3 × 3.3 cm = 3.46” × 1.18” × 1.30”

ML46M9: Group of crystals formed by an equilibrate growth of the cube and the octahedron that are beveled by the faces of a rhombohedron. The sample has two clearly differentiate coloration, pale green and pale pink.
Nagar, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (09-10/2007)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.5 × 4 cm = 2.28” × 1.77” × 1.57”

XM90NBA: Botryoidal aggregates of Brucite on matrix with visible crystal forms, which is unusual for the species. Apart from the excellent luster, the unusual quality and intensity of the uniform lemon-yellow color stands out. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2016)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.9 × 2.4 cm = 1.30” × 1.14” × 0.94”

NR46AE9: Botryoidal aggregates, on matrix, with some quite well defined (more than usual for the species) crystal faces and edges. Besides the good luster we note the special quality and intensity of the color, a uniform lemon yellow. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2016)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.2 × 2.6 cm = 1.50” × 1.26” × 1.02”

NL86AE9: Botryoidal aggregates, on matrix, with some quite well defined (more than usual for the species) crystal faces and edges. Besides the good luster we note the special quality and intensity of the color, a uniform lemon yellow. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2016)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 5.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.77” × 2.05” × 0.63”

NBM92AP1: Floater growths of Brucite, very elongated and esthetic, with botryoidal shapes but with visible crystal forms too, better defined than usual for the species. Translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform lemon-yellow color and with lighter-colored Dypingite growths. The Dypingite has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. This specimen comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez (number 827), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2017)

Specimen size: 12.3 × 6.8 × 2 cm = 4.84” × 2.68” × 0.79”

EM16AM4: Botryoidal aggregates of Brucite on matrix with visible and better defined crystal forms than usual in the species. Translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform lemon-yellow color.
The specimen comes from the collection of Peter Rosewarne (number Rc953), whose label we will send to the buyer, along with a copy of the analysis.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 13.2 × 7.8 × 2 cm = 5.20” × 3.07” × 0.79”

NT47AL4: Floater group of two Bastnäsite-(Ce) crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with sharp faces and edges, translucent, with reddish-brown reflections and associated with small white Orthoclase (variety adularia) crystals.
Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2 × 1.7 cm = 1.06” × 0.79” × 0.67”

SV190TZM: Group of very sharp dodecahedral Andradite crystals, interpenetrating, with well defined faces and edges, fine polycrystalline surfaces, with good luster and a very deep brown color, with a second generation of Andradite crystals of smaller size but very sharp, orange and translucent, accompanied by crystals of Epidote, Albite and Titanite.
Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (±2011)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.1 × 3.1 cm = 1.50” × 1.22” × 1.22”

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

MZ76H2: Translucent and of nice color, the Brookite crystals, incomplete but unbroken, sit on a bed of Quartz and Albite crystals. Some of the Quartz crystals have green inclusions enhancing the specimen.
Zard Mountain, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.5 × 2 cm = 1.81” × 1.38” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.51” × 0.39”

SM280EKF: Parallel growth of two very sharp Brookite crystals, flattened, with good definition of faces and edges, lustrous, on a matrix of Quartz crystals.
Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2005)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.1 × 3 cm = 1.85” × 1.22” × 1.18”

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

MK17E9: The laminar crystals have great color and the Quartz that they sit on is well crystallized.
Zard Mountain, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.8 × 3 cm = 2.36” × 1.89” × 1.18”

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

EPB89AP2: Group of crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with extraordinarily bright luster and intense reddish brown tones. More transparency and general quality than what we've known until now of these axinites-(Fe) from Pakistan.
Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 7 × 5.2 × 4.5 cm = 2.76” × 2.05” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2.4 cm = 1.57” × 0.94”

MLM26AP7: Fan-shaped growths of prismatic Epidote crystals with very sharp and profiled crystal forms and with excellent terminations. They are translucent, with good luster and an intense, deep and uniform green color, on a matrix of water-clear Quartz crystals, one of them dominant.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 2394), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (±2015)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 6.5 × 3.4 cm = 4.88” × 2.56” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.91” × 0.51”

TV47AA2: Very sharp floater Axinite-(Fe) crystal with small remnants of a feldspar matrix. The crystal is translucent, bright and has a considerable length for the locality.
Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2012)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.9 × 1.7 cm = 2.44” × 1.54” × 0.67”

TXM56AO0: Complete floater crystal of Spodumene with very sharp crystal forms, transparent, pale green with yellowish tones, and with a bright luster.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Kunar Valley, Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 3.2 × 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 1.26” × 0.35” × 0.28”

TLP28AP2: Growth on Calcite matrix of rhombododecahedral crystals of Lazurite, of great size for the deposit. The crystal forms are not perfect, but are sharp, with an intense and vivid color.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 8.8 × 7.1 × 4.4 cm = 3.46” × 2.80” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.77” × 1.34”

MQ13AM9: Isolated Beryl crystal with a flattened prismatic habit and pyramidal faces beveling the dominant terminal pinacoid. Completely transparent, shiny, and with inclusions at the base.
We will send the specimen, which comes from the Robert J. Noble collection, in its original Perky box from that collection, which also contains the label, which shows that it was previously in the Bob Sullivan collection.
Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 1.5 × 1.3 × 0.6 cm = 0.59” × 0.51” × 0.24”

MTL87AP3: Beryl crystal (aquamarine variety) that displays a highly developed prism with dipyramid faces truncated by the pinacoid. In the upper central part of the crystal, two growth rings perpendicular to the prism can be seen. The aquamarine crystal has a uniform blue-green color and is lustrous and translucent. The termination of the crystal is very curious as it is formed by a multitude of very fine fibrous crystals that make it totally opaque if we look vertically down at the crystal from the top. It is partially embedded in a matrix of snow-white Albite crystals.
From a classic locality for this species.
Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 4.9 × 1 × 1.4 cm = 1.93” × 0.39” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 4.9 × 1 cm = 1.93” × 0.39”

TZ26AL4: Polychrome Elbaite crystal with sharp faces and edges and rich in terminal faces. Very bright and with different degrees of transparency depending on the color zones: very dark olive green at the base, lighter green in the intermediate area and colorless and transparent around the termination.
We will deliver the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 3.2 × 0.8 × 0.4 cm = 1.26” × 0.31” × 0.16”

NR51AL5: Two Elbaite crystals (variety rubellite) rich in very well defined terminal faces, transparent, bright, deep red in color and with aggregates of 'lepidolite' crystals at the base. Very elegant.
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 6.4 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 2.52” × 0.79” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 6.4 × 1 cm = 2.52” × 0.39”

MTB94AP3: Floater group of Gold crystals with recognizable crystal shapes and faces dominated by the octahedron, very shiny and aesthetic, coming from a locality from which such well-crystallized specimens are rarely seen.
Mount Kare Mine, Mount Kare Valley, Mount Hagen, Mount Hagen District, Western Highlands Province  Papua New Guinea

Specimen size: 1.5 × 1.1 × 0.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.43” × 0.12”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.24” × 0.16”

XM2230RTF: Triplet of Quartz (amethyst variety) scepter crystals on Quartz (smoky variety) crystals with well-defined faces and edges and an intense amethyst hue on the crystal termination. A curiosity, since the specimen comes from an abandoned locality that has now been converted into an amusement park.
Eonyang, Gyeongsangnam-do  South Korea

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.34” × 0.98” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.6 cm = 1.02” × 0.63”

VB37Z4: Translucent dipyramidal deep brown Scheelite crystal. It is bright, has polycrystalline growths and is on a white Calcite matrix with small Quartz crystals. Before the Chinese samples appeared, these Korean pieces were the "top" for the species.
Tae Hwa Mine, Neungam-ri, Angseong-myeon, Chungju, Chungcheongbukdo  South Korea

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.5 × 2.6 cm = 1.06” × 0.98” × 1.02”

TFL99AO8: Group of very sharp Scheelite crystals, dipyramidal, with very marked parallel growths, translucent, lustrous, and dark brown. In matrix, with Muscovite. A South Korean classic.
Tae Hwa Mine, Neungam-ri, Angseong-myeon, Chungju, Chungcheongbukdo  South Korea

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.5 × 2.3 cm = 1.61” × 1.38” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 1.7 cm = 1.14” × 0.67”

TA70AH4: Elongated dipyramidal Scheelite crystals with parallel growths, more transparent than usual for Korean samples, and they are on a matrix of Quartz crystals with aggregates of Muscovite crystals. Different than other Scheelites from this mine.
The sample is from the Vallecillo collection, in Madrid.
Tae Hwa Mine, Neungam-ri, Angseong-myeon, Chungju, Chungcheongbukdo  South Korea

Specimen size: 20.5 × 17.3 × 7.7 cm = 8.07” × 6.81” × 3.03”

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

TBM37AP4: Short prismatic crystals of Mimetite, much more isolated and visible than usual in specimens from this locality, and many of them doubly terminated. They are translucent, lustrous, and have a very vivid and uniform orange color, and are on matrix.
This specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 765), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Guatomo Mine (Hat Yai), Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province  Thailand

Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.5 × 2 cm = 2.20” × 1.38” × 0.79”

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

EAR26AP3: Floater group of very sharp octahedral Spinel crystals, translucent, with good luster and an intense pink color and with small white coatings of Clintonite.
Its “architecture” is great!
An Phu, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province  Vietnam (±2006)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.9 × 3 cm = 2.05” × 1.54” × 1.18”

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

TD89AN0: A novelty from Turkey. Botryoidal Smithsonite growths, with remnants of rock matrix, translucent, lustrous and of a uniform greenish blue color with white areas. The specimen comes from a 2020 find made in a locality not known until now in the world of collecting for quality Smithsonite specimens. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the 'What's New' section, report 60, May 23, 2021 edition, page 4
Aladağ Mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyalı District, Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 10.6 × 9.4 × 3.1 cm = 4.17” × 3.70” × 1.22”

TF11AM9: A novelty post-Easter 2021: Aggregates of very sharp crystals of Hydroboracite, highly elongated and with perfect terminations, water-clear, very lustrous, and on matrix. Of excellent quality for the species. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Hisarcik Mine, Emet Borate deposit, Emet, Emet District, Kütahya Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.6 × 0.8 cm = 0.98” × 0.63” × 0.31”

TA27AM9: New post-Easter 2021: Centered groups of acicular Hydroboracite crystals, transparent, on matrix, with bright luster and a white color. With minor Celestine. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Hisarcik Mine, Emet Borate deposit, Emet, Emet District, Kütahya Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 9.6 × 6.5 cm = 4.41” × 3.78” × 2.56”

ER98AL9: Mostly new after the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual Show, from a classic Turkish locality but with a different transparency and color. The crystal is incomplete at the bottom, but has very sharp polycrystalline upper terminations. It is transparent, lustrous, deep yellow-green in focused natural light and more yellow under halogen lights, with very clearly visible dichroism shifting between soft red and green.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 1.8 × 1 cm = 2.24” × 0.71” × 0.39”

ET29AM1: Two flattened and doubly terminated crystals of Diaspore that form a markedly angular twin, with polycrystalline terminations and fine striations on the prism faces. The two crystals are transparent to translucent, lustrous, and greenish-yellow in color.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.4 × 2 cm = 2.52” × 1.34” × 0.79”

EL26AM2: Two crystals of Diaspore, one of them clearly dominant, with good terminal faces and recrystallization forms. The crystals are transparent, very lustrous, and have an intense and uniform greenish yellow color.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 7 × 4.1 × 3.1 cm = 2.76” × 1.61” × 1.22”

TPP27AO4: Floater crystal of Diaspore, doubly terminated and twinned, with parallel growths and excellent terminations. Very transparent and limpid, lustrous, and of a peculiar yellow color with green reflections, partially covered by lamellar Margarite crystals, and with some small Ilmenite crystals too.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (11-12/2020)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 2.6 × 2.1 cm = 3.50” × 1.02” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 8.9 × 2.6 cm = 3.50” × 1.02”

EXX67AP2: Flattened prismatic Diaspore crystal, large, transparent to translucent, with bright luster and an intense greenish yellow color and with steps at the base of the crystal and on a specific area of the rear where it is difficult to know whether they are stepped growth or cleavages. Its terminations are covered by Ilmenite crystals, with Rutile microcrystals and leafy aggregates of Margarite.
The Ilmenite has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 14.2 × 5 × 2.2 cm = 5.59” × 1.97” × 0.87”

TCA52AO6: Very aerial group of thick tabular Hematite crystals with a very sharp hexagonal outline, great luster, with small red Rutile crystals, transparent Margarite crystals and green Chloritoid coatings.
These specimens have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (11-12/2020)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 6.3 × 4.4 cm = 3.27” × 2.48” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.3 cm = 1.22” × 0.91”

EP27AM1: 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”