Mineral Specimens - page 11
Brazil

MP12AM8: Very aerial group on matrix of Pyrite crystals with cubic habit, with iridescence and very bright luster.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Roger Quarries, João Pessoa, Paraíba  Brazil

Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.8 × 1.4 cm = 1.26” × 0.71” × 0.55”

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

MM86AM6: Group of Chrysoberyl crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with the complete cyclic twins known as “sixlings”. Transparent, lustrous, and deep yellow in color. We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Itaguaçu, Espirito Santo  Brazil

Specimen size: 1.4 × 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.55” × 0.51” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.39” × 0.28”

GM47AM9: Isolated crystal of Marialite with sharp and finely striated prisms and polycrystalline terminations, transparent (gem quality), with good luster and an intense yellow color. This specimen, from a classic Brazilian locality, comes from the Pedro Goy collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Aracruz, Espirito Santo  Brazil (±1980)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 1.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.61” × 0.67” × 0.67”

MG14AM6: Elongated rhombohedral crystal of Magnesite, very sharp, transparent, very lustrous, colorless and with a small complete lenticular crystal, translucent and lustrous, of green Uvite series tourmaline. We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Brumado, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 1.02” × 0.71” × 0.67”

MQ14AM8: Polycrystalline rosette growths, with parallel stacks of very sharp lamellar Hematite crystals, with rough prismatic faces. A Brazilian classic that we will send to the buyer in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Pedra Preta pit, Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.4 × 1.6 cm = 1.06” × 0.94” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.8 cm = 0.94” × 0.71”

TN66AK8: Aggregate of extraordinarily profiled thin tabular crystals with marked parallel growths.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains a label stating that the piece was previously in the Sullivan collection, with the annotation "Tucson 1997"
Pomba Pit, Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.7 × 0.2 cm = 1.22” × 1.06” × 0.08”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.94”

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 = 1.65” × 1.61” × 0.83”

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

MF76AM6: Parallel group of very sharp Xenotime crystals, one of them doubly terminated, with excellent terminations, good luster and the intense color characteristic of the best Brazilian specimens. Based on the locality we suppose that it must be Xenotime-(Y). We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.1 × 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.83” × 0.28” × 0.28”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 0.4 cm = 0.83” × 0.16”

MP66AN0: Star-shaped epitaxial growths of Rutile crystals, between acicular and finely prismatic, with very bright luster, yellow color with golden reflections, oriented according to the structure of tabular Hematite crystals.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.3 × 2.1 cm = 0.94” × 0.91” × 0.83”

MM96AM9: Floater group of Hematite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, lustrous, and with epitaxial growths of flattened Rutile crystals.
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 Frank Melanson collection.
Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 3 × 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 1.18” × 0.71” × 0.63”

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

MR12AM8: Transparent and lustrous Quartz crystal with abundant oriented inclusions of acicular Rutile crystals. A Brazilian classic that we will send to the buyer in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.7 × 2.6 cm = 1.22” × 1.06” × 1.02”

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 = 1.77” × 1.18” × 0.35”

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 = 1.85” × 1.65” × 0.94”

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 = 1.93” × 1.50” × 0.67”

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 = 1.97” × 1.38” × 1.02”

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 = 2.09” × 0.87” × 0.35”

MP96AM9: Very aerial group of sharp tabular crystals of Pyrrhotite, extraordinarily lustrous, on matrix with white lenticular crystals of Magnesite.
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 Martin Zinn collection.
Morro Velho Mine, Nova Lima, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.6 × 1.7 cm = 1.14” × 1.02” × 0.67”

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

TG46AM5: Polycrystalline radial aggregates of Zanazziite, a rare phosphate of calcium, magnesium, and beryllium, translucent and pink and on an Albite matrix with Elbaite crystals. The analysis, of which we will send a copy to the buyer, shows an almost complete substitution of manganese for the normal subordinate iron, which is why we call it manganese-rich Zanazziite.
Jenipapo District, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2002-2003)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 5.4 × 4.2 cm = 2.72” × 2.13” × 1.65”

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

TF27AM7: Coatings of many small salmon-colored Zanazziite crystals with good luster, on a Muscovite matrix with Quartz crystals.
Murundu Mine, Jenipapo District, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9.4 × 7.2 × 4.7 cm = 3.70” × 2.83” × 1.85”

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

MV92AL4: Complete floater crystal of Spodumene (var. Kunzite), with polycrystalline growths, typical of specimens from this locality, very transparent, gem quality, brilliant and with a very intense color.
Urucum Mine, Galiléia, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 6 × 4.6 × 4.6 cm = 2.36” × 1.81” × 1.81”

TH28AM5: Globular growths of Stokesite with well-formed lenticular crystals on an Albite matrix, with Microlite and Cookeite. Stokesite is a rare calcium tin silicate.
Urucum Mine, Galiléia, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.4 × 3.9 cm = 2.48” × 1.73” × 1.54”

TL48AL5: Group of Brazilianite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, transparent, very lustrous, with a uniform and vivid color and on a matrix of lamellar Muscovite crystals.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Marcel Telirio Mine, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 1.34” × 0.87” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 1.5 cm = 1.34” × 0.59”

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 = 2.87” × 1.46” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.1 cm = 0.28” × 0.04”

MR92AL3: Elongated crystals of Eosphorite, many of them doubly terminated, with very well defined crystalline forms and easily visible terminations, transparent, bright, with an intense and uniform brown color with violet shades, on a matrix of crystallized rose Quartz.
Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.9 × 4.9 × 4.1 cm = 3.11” × 1.93” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.1 cm = 0.28” × 0.04”

TB89AM9: Centered groups of Eosphorite crystals, transparent, lustrous, brown with orange tones, on a matrix of Quartz crystals. Associated are multiple small rosette growths of Greifensteinite, a rare calcium iron phosphate. Both the Eosphorite and Greifensteinite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of both analyses to the buyer.
Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9.2 × 5.3 × 3.1 cm = 3.62” × 2.09” × 1.22”

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

TY48AL5: Floater crystal (sharp for the species) of Wodginite, a rare oxide of tin, tantalum and manganese, with sharp faces and edges, shiny and large for the species.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Itatiaia, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2 × 1 cm = 1.06” × 0.79” × 0.39”

MK26AM7: Very aerial group of sharp tetrahedral crystals of Helvine. From a classic Brazilian locality for the species.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Navegadora claim (Orozimbo claim), Penha do Norte, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.7 × 0.9 cm = 0.98” × 0.67” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.31” × 0.28”

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 = 1.57” × 1.06” × 0.75”

MQ13AN0: Two thick tabular crystals with very aerial growth on a matrix of white Albite crystals. The crystals have very sharp crystal forms, and are translucent, with bright luster, deep green color, with geometric color zoning.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Sapo Mine, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

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

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.39” × 0.35”

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 = 1.38” × 1.10” × 0.63”

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 = 1.65” × 1.10” × 0.59”

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 = 1.69” × 1.26” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.87”

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 = 1.73” × 1.54” × 0.75”

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 = 1.81” × 1.69” × 1.34”

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

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, Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (05/2010)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.7 × 2.7 cm = 1.54” × 1.46” × 1.06”

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

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, Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (05/2010)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.9 × 2.1 cm = 2.24” × 1.93” × 0.83”

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

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, Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (05/2010)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.2 × 2 cm = 2.36” × 1.65” × 0.79”

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

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, Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (05/2010)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.4 × 2.2 cm = 2.48” × 1.73” × 0.87”

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

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, Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (05/2010)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.9 × 3.1 cm = 2.52” × 1.54” × 1.22”

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

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, Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (05/2010)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.3 × 4.9 cm = 2.91” × 2.09” × 1.93”

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

MJ96AM7: Very sharp crystal of Columbite-(Fe) with excellent crystal forms, partially doubly terminated, lustrous.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label. It also contains the label, which indicates that it was in the Melanson collection.
Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.3 × 0.8 cm = 1.10” × 0.51” × 0.31”

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 = 3.03” × 2.52” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2 cm = 1.10” × 0.79”

TT36AM9: Calcite crystal with a hexagonal prismatic habit, pinacoid termination and very distinct parallel growths, a form that is unusual in isolated Calcites. The crystal is transparent, lustrous, colorless and is on matrix.
Iraí, Alto Uruguai region, Rio Grande do Sul  Brazil

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

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 1.6 cm = 1.81” × 0.63”

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 = 5.98” × 4.29” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 5.3 × 3 cm = 2.09” × 1.18”

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 = 2.36” × 1.81” × 1.26”

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 = 2.01” × 1.02” × 0.71”

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 = 2.09” × 1.54” × 1.18”

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 = 4.84” × 4.72” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.98” × 0.43”

MR26AL2: Crystal with very well defined faces and edges, with perfect termination, clear and much richer in crystalline forms than usual. The crystal, transparent and with very good luster, is polychrome, with two very marked color zones, red at the base and green at the terminal zone, and is partially covered with small Lepidolite crystals. A beauty.
Pederneira Claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

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

EF89AM4: Sharp Elbaite crystal with parallel growths and a sharp pinacoidal termination. Translucent, with good luster and an intense green color, on a matrix of Albite with 'lepidolite' Mica.
The specimen is from the Peter Rosewarne collection (number Rc550), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Urubu Mine, Monte Belo, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.7 × 4.5 cm = 2.95” × 2.64” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 1.8 cm = 1.61” × 0.71”

TP47AL7: Transparent Elbaite crystal with good luster and a uniform lilac color. We will send the specimen, from a classic Brazilian locality, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, stating that it was previously in the Sullivan collection.
Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 3 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 1.18” × 0.24” × 0.20”

EG49AK8: Doubly terminated floater polychrome Elbaite crystal, transparent and lustrous, more blue in the center of the crystal and green at the ends, together with a sharp Hydroxylherderite crystal.
Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 6.5 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 2.56” × 0.28” × 0.24”

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 = 2.83” × 2.05” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 6 × 0.6 cm = 2.36” × 0.24”

MT67AL6: Prismatic crystal of Elbaíte (verdelite variety), extraordinarily flat, with very well defined faces and edges of the prism and excellent terminal faces. Transparent, shiny, and with a very intense green color.
Xanda Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 8.5 × 1.8 × 0.5 cm = 3.35” × 0.71” × 0.20”

EF46AM5: Group of Elbaite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, and with geometric color zoning. The main crystal is complete and several of the secondary ones show the typical pegmatite formation fractures. This piece comes from the Peter Rosewarne collection (number Rc560) whose label we will send to the buyer.

Cruzeiro Mine, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9.3 × 5.6 × 5 cm = 3.66” × 2.20” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 8.1 × 2 cm = 3.19” × 0.79”

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 = 4.84” × 1.97” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 9.2 × 1.9 cm = 3.62” × 0.75”

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 = 1.61” × 1.42” × 0.98”

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 = 3.50” × 1.61” × 1.02”

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 = 3.54” × 0.87” × 0.79”

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 = 4.65” × 1.06” × 1.10”

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 = 0.94” × 0.43” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 0.3 cm = 0.87” × 0.12”

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 = 1.57” × 0.75” × 0.63”

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 = 2.24” × 1.77” × 0.87”

MW13AM7: Parallel floater growth of two smoky Quartz crystals, transparent, with great luster and a very deep smoky color which is distributed in zones of variable intensity.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label, indicating that it was in the Melanson collection.
Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.2 × 1.9 cm = 0.94” × 0.87” × 0.75”

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 = 3.54” × 1.97” × 2.76”

TR14AM2: Coralloid growth, very aerial and aesthetic, of Quartz, chalcedony variety. Translucent and uniform white in color.
Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 14.8 × 3.3 × 3.3 cm = 5.83” × 1.30” × 1.30”

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 = 3.31” × 2.52” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 7.1 × 2 cm = 2.80” × 0.79”

TV73AM9: Group of Quartz crystals (pink variety) with irregular crystal forms, something typical in this type of specimen, but nevertheless sharp, between transparent and translucent, with bright luster and an intense and uniform color, and capped by a group of doubly terminated white translucent Quartz crystals. Very aesthetic.
Berilo Branco claim, Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 6.9 × 4.7 × 3.6 cm = 2.72” × 1.85” × 1.42”

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 = 2.76” × 1.97” × 1.46”

TA97AL5: Group of crystals of Quartz (variety rose quartz), very lustrous, transparent and with an intense and vivid pink color. What stands out most in the piece, in addition to its beauty, is how sharp the crystals are since rose Quartz very rarely presents so much definition. A Brazilian classic from the Rock Currier collection (No. 5105), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Berilo Branco claim, Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 11.1 ×5.9 × 3.9 cm = 4.37” × 2.32” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 1.1 cm = 1.34” × 0.43”

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 = 0.51” × 0.28” × 0.24”

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

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 = 0.51” × 0.43” × 0.31”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.39” × 0.20”

EF96AM0: Polycrystalline floater of octahedral crystals with marked hopper growths on the faces. These Caldeirão Golds are very special as they contain 99.1% gold and around 0.5% rhodium, which is a greatv rarity. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Serra do Caldeirão claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil (9-12/2015)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.79” × 0.63” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24” × 0.20”

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 = 0.79” × 0.75” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.24”

TT46AL4: Floater specimen with arborescent growths of elongated octahedral-rhombododecahedral crystals and with highly profiled parallel skeletal forms. The deposit is no longer in production and new specimens from there will be hard to come by. We have analyzed these Golds and they are very special, containing 99.1% Gold and about 0.5% Rhodium, which is rare. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Serra do Caldeirão claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil (09-12/2015)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.59” × 0.31”

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 = 0.87” × 0.67” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.2 cm = 0.28” × 0.08”

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 = 0.94” × 0.59” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.59” × 0.31”

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 = 1.38” × 0.59” × 0.59”

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 = 1.46” × 0.79” × 0.24”

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 = 0.47” × 0.28” × 0.20”

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 = 0.94” × 0.91” × 0.12”

TB38AL4: Dendritic floater, flattened in the form of a leaf, with identifiable crystal faces, especially on the edges of the specimen and some of them with hopper growths.
Fanado river claims, Minas Novas, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2013)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 0.9 × 0.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.35” × 0.16”

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 = 1.10” × 0.55” × 0.71”

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 = 1.02” × 0.83” × 0.47”

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

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 = 1.26” × 0.87” × 0.63”

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

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 = 1.85” × 1.34” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.6 cm = 0.43” × 0.24”

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 = 2.05” × 1.06” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.59” × 0.31”

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 = 2.48” × 2.05” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.9 cm = 0.51” × 0.35”

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 = 2.60” × 1.65” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.39” × 0.24”

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 = 1.10” × 1.06” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.35” × 0.20”

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 = 1.93” × 1.85” × 1.85”

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

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 = 2.17” × 1.42” × 1.46”

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

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 = 2.95” × 2.76” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.3 cm = 0.28” × 0.12”

MC48AM7: Prismatic Childrenite crystals, with very well defined faces and edges, some of them doubly terminated, translucent, lustrous, with spheroidal Roscherite growths on a Quartz matrix. We will send the buyer a copy of the Childrenite and Roscherite analyses.
Lavra Poço Dantas, Piauí Valley, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (09/2006)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.9 × 3.3 cm = 2.64” × 2.32” × 1.30”

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

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 = 3.86” × 2.68” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.67” × 0.16”

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 = 1.06” × 0.63” × 0.59”