Mineral Specimens - page 11
Brazil

TH46AK5: A very free-standing crystal of Elbaite (verdelite variety) on Quartz matrix, with excellent termination, transparent, very bright and green with zoning of different
The specimen will be sent mounted in the original Perky box from the Bob Noble collection, which also contains the label that says Bob bought it in 1997 in Tucson from the Sullivan collection.
Santa Rosa Mine, Itambacuri, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 3.3 × 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 1.3” × 0.7” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 3 × 0.4 cm = 1.2” × 0.2”

MT54AI8: A crystal with two very different terminations, one of them with excellent terminal pyramidal faces and the other has a hoppered acicular polycrystalline growth and small Feldspar crystals. It is transparent and bright and with a very intense green color.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Santa Rosa Mine, Itambacuri, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9 × 2.2 × 2 cm = 3.5” × 0.9” × 0.8”

TZ69AE9: Very elongated crystals with very well defined fine parallel growths that have a fibrous aspect, an intense silky luster, a bluish olive-green color on prism faces and between red and pink on the termination,
Santa Rosa Mine, Itambacuri, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 11.8 × 2.7 × 2.8 cm = 4.6” × 1.1” × 1.1”

VE27Z4: Well developed prism with a rhombohedral termination. It has a very well defined color zoning, green on its very bright terminal faces, pink up on the prism and blue at the bottom.
Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 4 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm = 1.6” × 0.7” × 0.6”

TV47H5: Classic prismatic crystal from Pederneira terminated wit three faces of a very acute rhombohedron. Color is very deep and the transparency is excellent. The esthetic equilibrium is due to the coverage of Muscovite on the right side of the sample.
Pederneira Claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 2.5 × 1.4 cm = 2.3” × 1.0” × 0.6”

TV37AF5: Doubly terminated crystal with very well defined parallel growths and clearly hemihedral forms, with one of its terminations flat and bright and the opposite pyramidal and polycrystalline. It is very bright, translucent and has an intense green color with pink areas.
The sample is from the Vallecillo collection, Madrid.
Araçuaí, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 8.9 × 4.1 × 2.6 cm = 3.5” × 1.6” × 1.0”

NF74AA8: Very aerial and esthetic aggregate of elongated crystals with defined terminations, translucent, bright and with a dominant green color and areas with pink shades.
Cruzeiro Mine, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (03-04/2008)

Specimen size: 12.3 × 5 × 2.5 cm = 4.8” × 2.0” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 9.2 × 1.9 cm = 3.6” × 0.7”

MB67AI8: Elbaite crystal (rubellite variety) with excellent terminal faces, transparent and bright with an intense and uniform color. On matrix with leafy Lepidolite growths. It is from the famous “Jonas pocket”
Jonas pocket, Itatiaia, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.9” × 0.4” × 0.4”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 0.3 cm = 0.9” × 0.1”

TA77H3: A curious and interesting sample not easy to define. A close study reveals a multiple prismatic growth forming a scepter. Color is very deep and luster is very good.
Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.6 × 2.5 cm = 1.6” × 1.4” × 1.0”

ER67AC9: Very aerial aggregate of prismatic crystals, most of them doubly terminated, bright, translucent and with a very deep blue color, with geometric growths.
Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.2 × 3.2 cm = 2.8” × 2.0” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 6 × 0.6 cm = 2.4” × 0.2”

TJ10AE9: Single Elbaite crystal with flattened forms and very well defined parallel growths. The crystal, partially coated by Muscovite, is translucent, with an intense and uniform blue color on the prism faces and is greenish yellow on terminal faces. Very unusual.
It is with the labels of Hamel Mining & Minerals and Scott Williams Mineral Company, that we’ll send to the buyer.
Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.5 × 2.2 cm = 2.2” × 1.8” × 0.9”

EY46AK0: Druse of equidimensional crystals of Ludlamite with very well defined faces and edges, transparent, bright, with a very intense green color and on matrix. With spheroidal Siderite. A relative novelty in Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019, with better quality than the previous ones seen so far from this locality.
Cabeça do Cachorro claim, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas  Brazil (2019)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.1 × 1.2 cm = 1.0” × 0.8” × 0.5”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

ER87AK0: Ludlamite crystals with parallel growths and very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright, with a very intense green color and on matrix. With spheroidal Siderite. A relative novelty in Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019, with better quality than the previous ones seen so far from this locality.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, report 53, August 10, 2019 edition, page 10
Cabeça do Cachorro claim, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas  Brazil (2019)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.3” × 0.9” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.5” × 0.3”

EV96AK0: Ludlamite crystals with parallel growths and very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright, with a very intense green color and on matrix. With spheroidal Siderite. A relative novelty in Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019, with better quality than the previous ones seen so far from this locality.
Cabeça do Cachorro claim, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas  Brazil (2019)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.4 × 2.1 cm = 1.9” × 1.3” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

EX47AK0: Ludlamite crystals with parallel growths and very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright, with a very intense green color and on matrix. With spheroidal Siderite. A relative novelty in Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019, with better quality than the previous ones seen so far from this locality.
Cabeça do Cachorro claim, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas  Brazil (2019)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 2.7 × 2.2 cm = 2.0” × 1.1” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.6” × 0.3”

EZ87AK0: Ludlamite crystals with parallel growths and very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright, with a very intense green color and on matrix. With spheroidal Siderite. A relative novelty in Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019, with better quality than the previous ones seen so far from this locality.
Cabeça do Cachorro claim, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas  Brazil (2019)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.2 × 2.4 cm = 2.5” × 2.0” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.9 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

ET88AK0: Ludlamite crystals with parallel growths and very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright, with a very intense green color and on matrix. With spheroidal Siderite. A relative novelty in Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019, with better quality than the previous ones seen so far from this locality.
Cabeça do Cachorro claim, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas  Brazil (2019)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.2 × 2.4 cm = 2.6” × 1.7” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

NJ87AJ8: A floater and complete Chrysoberyl cyclic twin (“sixling”) that is transparent, bright, and has an intense greenish-yellow color.
The sample is from the Carlos Prieto collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.1 × 1.1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4” × 0.4”

NA89AJ8: A Chrysoberyl crystal with an unusual, not twinned, elongated prismatic shape with perfect terminal faces. It is between translucent and transparent, and is very bright.
The sample is from the Carlos Prieto collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Colatina, Espirito Santo  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.9” × 0.5” × 0.4”

TB27AJ8: Doubly terminated complete and twinned Bertrandite crystal with very well defined polycrystalline growths. It has a pearly luster with a snowy white color and it is on matrix with Albite. Really exceptional.
Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (12/2016)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.4 × 3.7 cm = 3.0” × 2.5” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2 cm = 1.1” × 0.8”

TA16AB8: Floater and flattened dendritic growth with very well defined crystals on the edges, some of them with hollowed faces.
Fanado river claims, Minas Novas, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2013)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.3 × 0.3 cm = 0.9” × 0.9” × 0.1”

TP96AB8: Very aerial dendritic growth with slightly defined crystalline forms and very deep cavities and hollows.
Fanado river claims, Minas Novas, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2014)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.4 × 1.8 cm = 1.1” × 0.6” × 0.7”

TD67H3: The crystals of Eosphorite are prismatic and doubly terminated and are more individualized than usual. The base is a doubly terminated crystal of Smoky Quartz. At one end it is progressively milky and at the opposite end it has a crown of pink crystals. The specimen is completed by a fine white matrix of Feldspar (probably Orthoclase)
Lavra da Ilha, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.3 × 3.7 × 4 cm = 2.9” × 1.5” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.1 cm = 0.3” × 0.0”

GF27AD4: Floater and doubly terminated crystal. It is transparent and colorless, very bright and has polycrystalline forms on both terminations, suggesting that it must be from Teófilo Otoni area, although we cannot be sure of the locality.
Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 6.2 × 2.7 × 1.5 cm = 2.4” × 1.1” × 0.6”

TA73AJ1: A novelty at Tucson 2019. Group of very well defined crystals, some of them completely or partially doubly terminated, formed by a prism and a terminal bipyramid, translucent, extraordinarily bright with a dark brown color with golden reflections due to abundant Rutile inclusions. An excellent miniature.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2019 Tucson Show in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 348 in the volume 50, number 3, the magazine "Lapis" number 03/2019, page 37 and the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2019, page 79
Ibiajara District, Rio do Pires, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil (2018)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.2 × 1.3 cm = 1.0” × 0.9” × 0.5”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.7” × 0.2”

TV68Q8: A floater flattened dodecahedral crystal with parallel faces due to etching typical for the specimens from this locality. The crystal is transparent and has a very deep and uniform color that acquires a special quality under an intense light.
Navegadora claim (Orozimbo claim), Penha do Norte, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (10-11/2006)

Specimen size: 4 × 2.7 × 1.9 cm = 1.6” × 1.1” × 0.7”

NH66AI3: Group of platey and very aerial Hematite crystals. They have a curious outline with a rectangular aspect. They are complete, very bright and are with small and transparent rhombohedral Magnesite crystals.
The sample is from the Ignacio Hernández collection (num. 28) whose original label we’ll send to the buyer.
Brumado, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4.1 × 2.1 cm = 1.7” × 1.6” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.4 cm = 0.9” × 0.9”

TL90AF5: Very sharp dipyramidal Florencite-(Ce) crystals, with a very good length for the species, very well defined faces and edges and a clear cream color. They are implanted on Quartz crystals with colorless transparent Milarite crystals, a lot of them doubly terminated.


Pomba Pit, Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.9 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 3.1” × 1.3” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

NB98AF2: Floater parallel growth of Quartz crystals with fibrous blue Dumortierite inclusions grouped in stripes with very well defined different color intensities.
Vaca Morta Quarry, Serra da Vereda, Boquira, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil (10/2016)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 2.2 × 0.9 cm = 2.1” × 0.9” × 0.4”

GB52AD4: Epitaxial growths on platy Hematite crystals of thin Rutile crystals with finely striated prismatic faces and good terminations. They have a golden color and are very bright. The sample is from the first finds of this type of Rutile from the locality.
Caí bom Mine, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3 × 0.9 cm = 1.8” × 1.2” × 0.4”

MC69AE6: Epitaxial overgrowths of needlelike rutile crystals on platy Hematite crystals. They have a yellow color with golden reflections, are very bright and have grown oriented in the shape of starbursts following the structure of the tabular Hematite crystal.
Caí bom Mine, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.9” × 1.7” × 0.9”

MD69AE6: Epitaxial overgrowths of needlelike rutile crystals on platy Hematite crystals. They have a yellow color with golden reflections, are very bright and have grown oriented in the shape of starbursts following the structure of the tabular Hematite crystal.
Caí bom Mine, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.8 × 1.7 cm = 1.9” × 1.5” × 0.7”

ME49AE6: Epitaxial overgrowths of needlelike rutile crystals on platy Hematite crystals. They have a yellow color with golden reflections, are very bright and have grown oriented in the shape of starbursts following the structure of the tabular Hematite crystal.
Caí bom Mine, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 5 × 3.5 × 2.6 cm = 2.0” × 1.4” × 1.0”

TW48AI3: Floater and very aerial aggregate of strongly elongated octahedral crystals with Spinel twins and very well defined hooked and skeletal growths. Luster and color are excellent. Such samples seem destined to be, in a short time, a worldwide classic. We analyzed these Gold samples and they are really special. They contain 99.1% Gold and about 0.5 % Rhodium which is quite uncommon. We’ll send a copy of the analysis of these Golds to the buyer.
If you want to know more about these Golds you can use this link
Serra do Caldeirão claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil (9-12/2015)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.4” × 0.6” × 0.6”

TN9AF0: Floater specimen of octahedral crystals with very well defined spinel law twinning and deep skeletal growths. The site is currently not supplying new specimens for collectors so new finds are not expected. We analyzed these Golds and they are really special. They contains a 99.1% Gold and about a 0.5 % Rhodium, which is quite uncommon. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
If you want to know more about these Golds you can use this link
Serra do Caldeirão claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil (9-12/2015)

Specimen size: 1.3 × 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.5” × 0.4” × 0.3”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

TH9AF0: Floater specimen of octahedral crystals with very well defined spinel law twinning and deep skeletal growths. The site is currently not supplying new specimens for collectors so new finds are not expected. We analyzed these Golds and they are really special. They contains a 99.1% Gold and about a 0.5 % Rhodium, which is quite uncommon. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
If you want to know more about these Golds you can use this link
Serra do Caldeirão claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil (9-12/2015)

Specimen size: 1.3 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.5” × 0.3” × 0.2”

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

TC86AD5: A novelty at Tucson 2016. Parallel aggregates of very sharp and well defined octahedral crystals, with sharp skeletal growths. According to our sources the site is not supplying new specimens for collectors so new finds are not expected. We analyzed these Golds and they are really special. They contains a 99.1% Gold and about a 0.5 % Rhodium, which is quite uncommon. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
If you want to know more about these Golds you can use this link
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 40 of the 2016/02 edition.
Serra do Caldeirão claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil (2015)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.9 × 0.9 cm = 0.8” × 0.7” × 0.4”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.7” × 0.2”

EE97AE5: Very aerial floater of elongated and spinel law twinned octahedral crystals with very well defined skeletal growths. The luster and color are both excellent. Such samples seem destined to be, in a short time, a World Classic. We analyzed these Golds and they are really special. They contains a 99.1% Gold and about a 0.5 % Rhodium, which is quite uncommon. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
If you want to know more about these Golds you can use this link
Serra do Caldeirão claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil (9-12/2015)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.7 × 1.1 cm = 0.9” × 0.7” × 0.4”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.2 cm = 0.3” × 0.1”

TQ57AH2: Floater sample with arborescent growths of very elongated octahedral crystals with very sharp skeletal parallel forms. The site is currently not supplying new specimens for collectors so new finds are not expected. We analyzed these Golds and they are really special. They contain 99.1% Gold and about 0.5 % Rhodium, which is quite uncommon. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
If you want to know more about these Golds you can use this link
Serra do Caldeirão claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil (9-12/2015)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.1 × 1.2 cm = 1.1” × 0.8” × 0.5”

TB87AF7: Very aerial floater and complete specimen with deep skeletal growths of octahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges. The site is currently not supplying new specimens for collectors so new finds are not expected. We analyzed these Golds and they are really special. They contains a 99.1% Gold and about a 0.5 % Rhodium, which is quite uncommon. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
If you want to know more about these Golds you can use this link
Serra do Caldeirão claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil (9-12/2015)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 0.9” × 0.6” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.6” × 0.3”

TR68AH2: Floater sample with arborescent growths of very elongated octahedral crystals with very sharp skeletal parallel forms. The site is currently not supplying new specimens for collectors so new finds are not expected. We analyzed these Golds and they are really special. They contain 99.1% Gold and about 0.5 % Rhodium, which is quite uncommon. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
If you want to know more about these Golds you can use this link
Serra do Caldeirão claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil (9-12/2015)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2 × 0.6 cm = 1.5” × 0.8” × 0.2”

TB91AH0: A novelty at Tucson 2018. The sample is from a new place, not so far from the better known Serra do Caldeirão where the gold samples have different morphological characteristics. In this case this is a single floater and complete crystal with very well defined faces and edges and a Spinel law twin.
Serra Dourada, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil (12/2017)

Specimen size: 1.2 × 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.5” × 0.3” × 0.2”

TH28AH0: A novelty at Tucson 2018. The sample is from a new place, not so far from the better known Serra do Caldeirão where the gold samples have different morphological characteristics. In this case this is a great floater group of crystals with dominant dodecahedron and octahedron faces and very well defined skeletal growths.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 42 of the 2018/01 edition.
Serra Dourada, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil (12/2017)

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.7 × 1 cm = 0.8” × 0.7” × 0.4”

TE60AB5: Mossy and dendritic growths on a Quartz matrix. The sample was found at the beginning of the twenties of the last century in a rural area, at this time, on the São Paulo periphery, an area that was afterwards absorbed and built up with the quick growth of the city. It is obviously a rarity, very difficult to obtain today.
Morro Doce area, Jaraguá, Perus, São Paulo, São Paulo State  Brazil (±1920)

Specimen size: 0.6 × 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2” × 0.2”

TM17Z2: A novelty at Tucson 2014. Complex group of Fluorapatite crystals, very rich with crystalline forms including a translucent, extraordinarily bright dominant prism and with white small Bertrandite crystals. The color, clearly pink in daylight, acquires brownish shades under electric lightning.
Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (11/2013)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.8 × 1.6 cm = 1.4” × 1.1” × 0.6”

TA47Z2: A novelty at Tucson 2014. Complex group of Fluorapatite crystals, very rich with crystalline forms including a translucent dominant prism with parallel growths and with small Tourmaline crystals. The color, clearly pink in daylight, acquires brownish shades under electric lightning.
Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (11/2013)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.8 × 1.5 cm = 1.7” × 1.1” × 0.6”

TR49Z2: A novelty at Tucson 2014. Aggregate of prismatic Fluorapatite crystals with a dominant prism and complex terminations, very rich with crystalline forms. They are translucent, extraordinarily bright and are with small Tourmaline crystals. The color, clearly pink in daylight, acquires brownish shades under electric lightning.
The sample has been noted and photographed in the monograph "Golconda!" of the Mineralogical Record magazine on page 664 in the volume 50, number 5, September-October 2019
Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (11/2013)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.7” × 1.3” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.2 cm = 1.2” × 0.9”

TP29Z2: A novelty at Tucson 2014. Complex group of Fluorapatite crystals, very rich with crystalline forms including a extraordinarily bright dominant prism with tourmaline and small white Bertrandite crystals. The color, clearly pink in daylight, acquires brownish shades under electric lightning.
Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (11/2013)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.9 × 1.9 cm = 1.7” × 1.5” × 0.7”

TC30Z2: A novelty at Tucson 2014. Aggregate of prismatic Fluorapatite crystals with a dominant prism and complex terminations, very rich with crystalline forms. They are translucent, extraordinarily bright and are with small Tourmaline crystals. The color, clearly pink in daylight, acquires brownish shades under electric lightning.
Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (11/2013)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 4.3 × 3.4 cm = 1.8” × 1.7” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.8 cm = 1.6” × 1.5”

ET6R4: Aggregates of small crystals of Fluorapatite, most of them doubly terminated. The crystals are very bright and have a vivid blue color. They are with Quartz, Muscovite and crystals of Albite partially coated by small groups of Bertrandite crystals, visible under a magnifying glass, that are of excellent quality, clear, bright and many of them doubly terminated. We'll send a copy of the Bertrandite analysis to the buyer.
Machadão pegmatite, Pegmatita Golconda, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (05/2010)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.7 × 2.7 cm = 1.5” × 1.5” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

ED6R4: Aggregates of small crystals of Fluorapatite, most of them doubly terminated. The crystals are very bright and have a vivid blue color. They are with Quartz, Muscovite and crystals of Albite partially coated by small groups of Bertrandite crystals, visible under a magnifying glass, that are of excellent quality, clear, bright and many of them doubly terminated. We'll send a copy of the Bertrandite analysis to the buyer.
Machadão pegmatite, Pegmatita Golconda, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (05/2010)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.9 × 2.1 cm = 2.2” × 1.9” × 0.8”

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

EF12R4: Aggregates of small crystals of Fluorapatite, most of them doubly terminated. The crystals are very bright and have a vivid blue color. They are with Quartz, Muscovite and crystals of Albite partially coated by small groups of Bertrandite crystals, visible under a magnifying glass, that are of excellent quality, clear, bright and many of them doubly terminated. We'll send a copy of the Bertrandite analysis to the buyer.
Machadão pegmatite, Pegmatita Golconda, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (05/2010)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.2 × 2 cm = 2.4” × 1.7” × 0.8”

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

EC66R4: Aggregates of small crystals of Fluorapatite, most of them doubly terminated. The crystals are very bright and have a vivid blue color. They are with Quartz, Muscovite and crystals of Albite partially coated by small groups of Bertrandite crystals, visible under a magnifying glass, that are of excellent quality, clear, bright and many of them doubly terminated. We'll send a copy of the Bertrandite analysis to the buyer.
Machadão pegmatite, Pegmatita Golconda, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (05/2010)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.4 × 2.2 cm = 2.5” × 1.7” × 0.9”

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

EL14R4: Aggregates of small crystals of Fluorapatite, most of them doubly terminated. The crystals are very bright and have a vivid blue color. They are with Quartz, Muscovite and crystals of Albite partially coated by small groups of Bertrandite crystals, visible under a magnifying glass, that are of excellent quality, clear, bright and many of them doubly terminated. We'll send a copy of the Bertrandite analysis to the buyer.
Machadão pegmatite, Pegmatita Golconda, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (05/2010)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.9 × 3.1 cm = 2.5” × 1.5” × 1.2”

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

EG80R4: Aggregates of small crystals of Fluorapatite, most of them doubly terminated. The crystals are very bright and have a vivid blue color. They are with Quartz, Muscovite and crystals of Albite partially coated by small groups of Bertrandite crystals, visible under a magnifying glass, that are of excellent quality, clear, bright and many of them doubly terminated. We'll send a copy of the Bertrandite analysis to the buyer.
Machadão pegmatite, Pegmatita Golconda, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (05/2010)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.3 × 4.9 cm = 2.9” × 2.1” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

TC66AJ3: A cluster of Huréaulite crystals that have very well defined faces and edges. They are translucent and bright with a very intense salmon-pink color and are on matrix, with small black Rockbridgeite crystals.
We’ll send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Cigana Mine (Jocão Mine), Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.1” × 1.1” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

TQ87Y0: Druse, on rocky matrix, of very Sharp crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are translucent, bright and with an unusual and changing color, between clear pink and slightly yellowish pink.
Fazenda Pomarolli, Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.7 × 4.7 cm = 1.9” × 1.9” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

EH6Y0: Druse, on Quartz matrix, of short prismatic Huréaulite crystals. They are transparent and bright and have an excellent salmon pink color, with darker terminations on some areas on the sample.
Cigana Mine (Jocão Mine), Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (04-05/2006)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.6 × 3.7 cm = 2.2” × 1.4” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.1” × 0.0”

MA37I5: Very well defined bright crystals, between translucent and transparent and having an exceptional color, that have grown on a base of crystalline, very deep blue, Strengite.
Cigana Mine (Jocão Mine), Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (08-09/2006)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 7 × 3.8 cm = 3.0” × 2.8” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.3 cm = 0.3” × 0.1”

TE95H9: Group of quite well defined crystals, deep pink, on a matrix of Quartz partially covered by botryoidal deep green, almost black, Rockbridgeite.
Fazenda Pomarolli, Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 9 × 7 × 5 cm = 3.5” × 2.8” × 2.0”

TQ94AH4: Beryl (emerald variety) crystals with very well defined faces and edges and with a very deep color. They are on a rock matrix, partially imbedded in Quartz and with laminar Molybdenite crystals, a very uncommon association.
The sample is from the Vallecillo collection, in Madrid.
Carnaíba mining district, Campo Formoso ultramafic complex, Pindobaçu, Centro-Norte Baiano, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 12.3 × 12 × 5.7 cm = 4.8” × 4.7” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.1 cm = 1.0” × 0.4”

TT93AH1: A complete floater Beryl (aquamarine variety) crystal with parallel growths and rich with dissolution surfaces and very sharp edges. The crystal, with small black oxide inclusions, has a very vivid and uniform blue color.
Xanda Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 6 × 4.6 × 3.2 cm = 2.4” × 1.8” × 1.3”

VD49AD9: Floater and doubly terminated crystal with a pinacoidal termination at one end and with polycrystalline regrowth at the other end. It is transparent, has a uniform green color and inclusions of leafy Muscovite aggregates. The original information has no specific data on the locality but, due the characteristics of the sample we believe it must be from the Virgem da Lapa area. From the A. Mayor collection.
Minas Gerais  Brazil (±1977)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.9 × 3,7 cm = 2.1” × 1.5” × 1.2”

MR67I8: Very well-defined prismatic crystal with small pyramidal faces and the flat termination of the pinacoid. In its core there are a lot dissolution channels with very visible bubbles.
Colatina, Espirito Santo  Brazil (±1970)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 2.4” × 0.6” × 0.4”

TD69J7: Doubly terminated prismatic crystal, transparent and of an good color. The main termination is very rich in pyramidal faces, combined with the flat pinacoidal face. The other termination is more complex and it is partially hidden by a second crystal, smaller and with abundant faces of dissolution.
Pancas, Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2005)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 2.6 × 3 cm = 2.8” × 1.0” × 1.2”

TC27K9: Two doubly terminated crystals with parallel growth. Both core crystals are hollow showing dissolution channels within them, but preserving the terminal faces.
Medina, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 8.4 × 1.8 × 1.1 cm = 3.3” × 0.7” × 0.4”

VF86AA7: Single crystal with very well defined faces and edges, complete on both terminations, translucent and with a very well defined color zoning on the upper termination, that has fine dissolutions fissures on the pinacoid.
Minas Gerais  Brazil (±1973)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 2.6 × 1.8 cm = 2.0” × 1.0” × 0.7”

TN37N4: Floater group of crystals, all them doubly terminated, bright, with very well defined faces and edges and very rich in Chlorite inclusions.
Diamantina, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (11/2007)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.4 × 4.2 cm = 3.3” × 2.5” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 7.1 × 2 cm = 2.8” × 0.8”

MC14F5: One can see different crystals that have grown in various directions. To me it looks like it is the very complex crystallization that gives the specimen so many faces, which means that any movement creates numerous reflections. It is a very original floater with zones of smoky color and multi-colored reflection from its interior.
Sâo Geraldo do Baixio, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais  Brazil (09/2002)

Specimen size: 9 × 5 × 7 cm = 3.5” × 2.0” × 2.8”

TT46Z7: Very aerial druse aggregate with crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with deformations and curvatures on their faces and edges and with an especially intense color for such samples.
The specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 283 in the volume 90, number 3, May/June 2015
Alto da Pitorra, Laranjeiras, Galiléia, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.7 × 1.9 cm = 1.7” × 1.5” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

CB99AD3: Very aerial drusy aggregate of partially doubly terminated crystals with parallel growths and deformations and curvatures on their faces and edges and with an intense color and a coating a matrix of smoky Quartz.
Lavra da Ilha, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2002)

Specimen size: 7 × 5 × 3.7 cm = 2.8” × 2.0” × 1.5”

TC93Z9: Sharp scalenohedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges, partially coated by small Quartz (amethyst) crystals and implanted on a cavity of the same mineral but with larger crystals. A sample special for the exhibit case, very elegant.
Ametista do Sul, Alto Uruguai region, Rio Grande do Sul  Brazil (2011)

Specimen size: 15.2 × 10.9 × 7 cm = 6.0” × 4.3” × 2.8”

Main crystal size: 5.3 × 3 cm = 2.1” × 1.2”

ET87I1: The crystals are prismatic, and quite thick. Some of them are doubly terminated. Due to their color and luster they have a strong contrast with the matrix of Feldspar. The analysis confirms it is Childrenite. Roscherite, also analyzed, is present as very small crystals covering the Childrenite.
Lavra Poço Dantas, Piauí Valley, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (09/2006)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 6.8 × 5 cm = 3.9” × 2.7” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.7” × 0.2”

EA11C9: Although the camera don't show it very well, the color is very nice, sort of a golden bronze, and its luster is very special with a lot of reflections. As with the other specimens that we had selected this one is floater, doubly terminated and great!
Anatase-Rutile occurrence, Cuiabá District, Gouveia, Minas Gerais  Brazil (03/2003)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 1.1” × 0.6” × 0.6”

AT47Q6: Floater growth of Anatase crystals, most of the doubly terminated and in parallel growths. The Anatase crystals are completely coated by epitaxial Rutile that gives to the piece its characteristics color and luster.
Anatase-Rutile occurrence, Cuiabá District, Gouveia, Minas Gerais  Brazil (03/2003)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 1.6 × 1.9 cm = 1.3” × 0.6” × 0.7”

EA8C9: Although the camera doesn't show it very well, the color is very nice, sort of a golden bronze, and its luster is very special with a lot of reflections. As with the other specimens that we had selected this one is floater, doubly terminated and great!
Anatase-Rutile occurrence, Cuiabá District, Gouveia, Minas Gerais  Brazil (03/2003)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 1.3” × 0.7” × 0.6”