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”

MMB14AN9: Isolated and aerial crystal of Tapiolite-(Fe), with fine parallel growth striations, lustrous, and of good size for this rare species, contrasting with the Quartz and Muscovite matrix.
Joaquim Cigano claim, Quixabá, Paraíba, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.8 × 3.2 cm = 1.85” × 1.10” × 1.26”

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

NXX96AO0: Floater group of Chrysoberyl crystals that form cyclic twins, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and an intense yellow color with greenish reflections. Excellent specimen. The specimen is a historical classic that comes from the Carlos Prieto collection, whose handwritten label we will send to the buyer.
Espirito Santo, Sudeste Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2 × 1.5 cm = 1.02” × 0.79” × 0.59”

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, Sudeste Region  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”

TXR61AN3: Group of Uvite crystals formed by a very short prism, with sharp dipyramid terminations. Transparent, yellowish green, and on matrix.
We will ship the specimen 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: 2.5 × 1.9 × 1 cm = 0.98” × 0.75” × 0.39”

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

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”

TVR46AN9: Aggregate of lamellar crystals of lustrous Hematite, extraordinarily sharp and with very marked parallel growths.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the R.J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.1 × 0.7 cm = 1.30” × 0.83” × 0.28”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2 cm = 0.94” × 0.79”

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”

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”

NFB27AP1: Epitaxial growths of acicular Rutile crystals, with very bright luster and golden reflections, on lamellar crystals of Hematite, and on matrix, something uncommon in this type of specimen.
Caí bom Mine, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil (±2007)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.4 × 2.7 cm = 1.81” × 1.34” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.3 cm = 1.06” × 0.91”

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”

EPP89AQ1: Floater group of transparent and very lustrous Phenakite crystals with sharp crystal forms of short prismatic habit.
A Brazilian classic that comes from the Edmond Landais collection.
Rio Piracicaba (São Miguel de Piracicaba), Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.6 × 3 cm = 1.65” × 1.42” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.5 cm = 0.47” × 0.20”

XM220ED: Topaz crystal with sharp crystal forms, excellent terminations, transparent, with good luster and an intense color. Of the saramenha type ("imperial", in Spanish language)
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.98” × 0.59” × 0.39”

XM2180NHB: Doubly terminated floater crystal of 'saramenha' Topaz with well-defined faces and edges, between transparent and translucent, with a deep uniform color, very lustrous, with inclusions.
The specimen belonged to Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and 90s, assembled an excellent collection.
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1 × 0.9 cm = 1.10” × 0.39” × 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”

TTM14AO0: Complete floater of a very sharp double twin of Rutile, rich in crystal forms, translucent, with great luster and a deep red color visible in transmitted light.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Diamantina, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 1.3 × 0.9 × 0.3 cm = 0.51” × 0.35” × 0.12”

TAH93AN3: Parallel growth of two very sharp Topaz crystals, one of them clearly dominant. Between translucent and transparent, lustrous, with an intense and uniform sky-blue color, and with some inclusions of Elbaite crystals.
Xanda Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil (1978)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.9 × 4.5 cm = 2.52” × 1.54” × 1.77”

TTX49AQ0: Large twinned floater crystal of Titanite with an extraordinarily flattened habit, but with a very well defined twin plane on the fine lateral faces. Transparent and uniform green with shades of yellow, and darker inclusions in some areas.
Capelinha, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 4.5 × 2.4 × 1 cm = 1.77” × 0.94” × 0.39”

MFA51AO3: Groups and isolated crystals of Titanite, twinned, with a very well defined twin plane and sharp crystal forms. Translucent, with a bright luster and an intense and uniform green color with yellow tones. On matrix, with small Quartz crystals.
Excellent Brazilian classic, of high quality and difficult to obtain nowadays.
Capelinha, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9.6 × 6.1 × 2.1 cm = 3.78” × 2.40” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 0.7 cm = 1.02” × 0.28”

EBP66AP3: Spheroidal aggregates of Zanazziite microcrystals with a greenish brown color on a group of Quartz crystals (pink quartz variety) that has grown on an isolated crystal of white Quartz.
This specimen comes from the type locality for the species.
Ilha claim, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.6 × 1.6 cm = 1.81” × 1.02” × 0.63”

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

TZB13AO0: Centered growths of elongated and flattened Eosphorite crystals with good terminations, transparent, lustrous, with a brown color with intense and uniform violet tones, on a Quartz matrix.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Poço Dantas Mine, Piauí Valley, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.9 × 1.7 cm = 0.83” × 0.75” × 0.67”

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”

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”

TFR96AO4: Spheroidal aggregates of Zanazziite microcrystals, a rare phosphate of calcium, magnesium and beryllium, translucent, lustrous, and light cream in color. On matrix with Elbaite crystals and small Microcline coatings.
Ponte do Piauí Mine, Piauí Valley, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9.9 × 4.6 × 3.7 cm = 3.90” × 1.81” × 1.46”

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”

TPQ27AP9: Thick prismatic crystal of Brazilianite, transparent, with good luster and an intense color, on matrix with leafy aggregates of lamellar Muscovite crystals.
João Lopes Claim, Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 3 × 2.6 × 2.9 cm = 1.18” × 1.02” × 1.14”

XM180TE: Incomplete crystal of Brazilianite but with very well defined crystal forms, translucent, extraordinarily shiny and with an intense yellow color, with a small leafy aggregate of Muscovite.
Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 6 × 4.2 × 2.2 cm = 2.36” × 1.65” × 0.87”

TRL56AO4: Floater group of very sharp Columbite-(Fe) crystals, one of them clearly dominant and doubly terminated, twinned and with very sharp crystal forms.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label, stating that it was previously in the Melanson collection.
João Modesto dos Santos Mine, Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2 × 1.1 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.43” × 0.47”

EZR90AP2: Sharp and elongated crystals of Brazilianite, one of them clearly dominant and perfectly terminated, transparent, with a color between yellow and greenish and an intense luster, in Albite matrix. Coming from the well-known pegmatite region of Aimores in Brazil, one of the classic deposits for this type of specimen.
Telírio claim, Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.7 × 3.8 cm = 2.28” × 2.24” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 1.4 cm = 1.69” × 0.55”

TBR91AO8: Group of Brazilianite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with good luster and an intense green color, with a base of lamellar Muscovite crystals.
From the type locality for the species.
Córrego Frio Mine, Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.9 × 5.8 × 3.3 cm = 3.11” × 2.28” × 1.30”

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

GMG67AN3: Group of very sharp Brazilianite crystals with an unusually sharp habit, translucent, with bright luster and an intense yellow color. A Brazilian classic that comes from the Pedro Goy collection.
Divino das Laranjeiras, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9.4 × 5.6 × 2.9 cm = 3.70” × 2.20” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 6.2 × 2.2 cm = 2.44” × 0.87”

TRT37AO8: Doubly terminated floater crystal of Spodumene (hiddenite variety) with unusually complete and sharp terminations, transparent, with good luster and a uniform green color. Very complete and high quality specimen.
Resplendor, Aimorés, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 20.4 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 8.03” × 0.98” × 0.79”

TR14AN2: Complete and doubly terminated crystal of Schorl, with a lustrous and water-clear Quartz crystal, also doubly terminated.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which shows that it was previously in the Melanson collection.
Goiabeira, Aimorés, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2 × 1.8 × 1.1 cm = 0.79” × 0.71” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.3 cm = 0.79” × 0.51”

TZB37AN5: Isolated crystal of Euclase, very rich in faces and with excellent terminations. It is transparent, very lustrous, rich in inclusions, colorless and with small white coatings of matrix.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.8 × 1.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.71” × 0.55”

TPB27AO4: Group of very sharp crystals of Wodginite, a rare oxide of tin, tantalum and manganese. One of the crystals is clearly dominant and aerial, with very well defined crystal forms, lustrous, and of a very large size and good definition 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.
Itatiaia, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.4 × 1.4 cm = 1.14” × 0.94” × 0.55”

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”

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”

TN16AN2: Very rich Topaz crystal with sharp terminations. Colorless and with a selectively variable luster, very intense on the prism faces and more matte on the terminations.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which shows that it was previously in the Melanson collection.
Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.67” × 0.47”

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”

MJX69AP4: Beryl crystal with very sharp crystal forms and excellent terminations, transparent, with great luster and an intense pink color (morganite variety), on a matrix of snow-white Albite crystals (cleavelandite variety) with small Columbite-Tantalite crystals associated with it.
Pederneira claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 13.5 × 9.5 × 8.7 cm = 5.31” × 3.74” × 3.43”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.1 cm = 0.91” × 0.83”

TFA99AP3: Beryl crystal (morganite variety) with a hexagonal profile etched in some parts by natural dissolution channels. The crystal is between transparent and translucent, with concentric geometric color zoning and good luster. An old Brazilian classic.
Urucum Mine, Galiléia, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.2 × 3.9 cm = 2.48” × 2.05” × 1.54”

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”

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”

NFB48AO5: Beryl crystal (aquamarine variety) with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, lustrous, sea-green in color and with inclusions. On matrix, with aggregates of lamellar Muscovite crystals.
The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, put together an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of northern Spain.

Alto do Giz pegmatite, Equador, Parelhas, Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5.4 × 6.3 cm = 3.07” × 2.13” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 6.5 × 5.5 cm = 2.56” × 2.17”

EPM68AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Beryl (variety heliodor) crystal with very sharp crystal forms, with a termination that combines the pinacoid with pyramid faces. Transparent, with bright luster and an intense golden yellow color.
Catuji, Mucuri Valley, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 5.6 × 1.3 × 1.2 cm = 2.20” × 0.51” × 0.47”

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”

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”

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”

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”

MTF90AO3: Group of doubly terminated Elbaite crystals with very well defined polycrystalline growths, transparent, with good luster and a blue color with violet tones along the prism and green around the pyramid faces. With a small crystal of the same Elbaite, green with yellow tones and a very different appearance, in the area where the two main crystals meet.
Very curious is the great curvature of one of the crystals, elongated and thin, which seems to have suffered extreme pressures to be born and die in another, thicker, crystal.
Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9.1 × 5.9 × 2 cm = 3.58” × 2.32” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 6.9 × 1.3 cm = 2.72” × 0.51”

ETB16AN7: A bundle of Elbaite crystals, translucent, with bright luster and a deep green color, on a matrix of transparent Albite crystals. Very aesthetic.
Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9.4 × 6.5 × 5 cm = 3.70” × 2.56” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 7 × 2.3 cm = 2.76” × 0.91”

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”

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, Santa Maria do Suaçui, 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”

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”

NTM69AO7: Crystal of Elbaite with a prismatic habit, with simple shapes on the prism and excellent terminations with two rhombohedral forms. Between translucent and transparent, with very good luster and vivid color (rubellite variety), more intense on the terminations, and with small white crystallizations of Albite at the base of the tourmaline crystal.
The specimen comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez (number 872), whose label
we will send to the buyer.
Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2 × 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.39” × 0.35”

TXM98AP9: Transparent Elbaite crystal with excellent termination, transparent, with great luster and an intense red-pink color along the prism and green tones on the termination.
São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.94” × 0.39” × 0.31”

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”

TXL37AP8: Elbaite crystal (rubellite variety) with excellent terminations, transparent, with good luster and a color between red and pink.
Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

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

TMR74AP9: Transparent Elbaite crystal with excellent termination, transparent, with great luster and an intense and uniform red (burgundy) color throughout the crystal.
São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 4 × 1 × 0.9 cm = 1.57” × 0.39” × 0.35”

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”

TXM51AP8: Two Elbaite crystals (rubellite variety), one of them clearly dominant, with very smooth pinacoidal termination, transparent, lustrous, and with the intensity of color and excellent quality that distinguishes specimens from this find.
Jonas pocket, Itatiaia, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 4.8 × 1.3 × 0.9 cm = 1.89” × 0.51” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 0.9 cm = 1.89” × 0.35”

NRT96AO4: Parallel growth of two elongated Elbaite crystals with excellent pinacoidal and finely polycrystalline terminations. Translucent, lustrous and deep red, almost mauve (rubellite variety), especially concentrated in the terminations.
Pederneira claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (±2000)

Specimen size: 9 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 3.54” × 0.98” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 8.2 × 8 cm = 3.23” × 3.15”

EMR26AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Elbaite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, with very well defined faces and edges and very rich in faces on the terminations. Transparent, very lustrous, uniform blue with greenish reflections and implanted in a Quartz crystal.
Santa Rosa Mine, Itambacuri, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 4 × 1.9 × 1.7 cm = 1.57” × 0.75” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 0.5 cm = 1.42” × 0.20”

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, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.5 × 2.2 cm = 2.24” × 1.77” × 0.87”

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”

XM2180NTL: Druse of Quartz (amethyst variety) crystals, on a small matrix of basalt rock. Thick aerial crystals, with very sharp faces and edges and an intense amethyst color, with partial coatings of small Calcite crystals very visible on the back of the piece.
The specimen belonged to Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and 90s, assembled an excellent collection.
Rio Grande do Sul  Brazil

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.4 × 7.2 cm = 3.35” × 2.91” × 2.83”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.7 cm = 1.18” × 1.06”

EFF73AO1: Divergent group of Quartz crystals with a very well defined La Gardette habit, completely water-clear and very lustrous. The world famous quartzes from Corinto have an impressive aesthetic and even more so when, as in this case, they are perfect floaters.
Corinto, Curvelo, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 10.1 × 8.4 × 4.8 cm = 3.98” × 3.31” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 7.3 × 1.7 cm = 2.87” × 0.67”

NMP87AO6: Very elongated individual Quartz crystal, with the characteristic Dauphine habit. Transparent, lustrous, with inclusions and very aerial and complex Calcite crystals with selective color zoning, implanted between the prism and the terminations of the Quartz.The specimen comes from the Santiago Jiménez collection, basically dedicated to Spanish localities but with good specimens from other countries too.
Diamantina, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 13.7 × 2.9 × 2.3 cm = 5.39” × 1.14” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 13.3 × 1.9 cm = 5.24” × 0.75”

TC46AN1: Group of Quartz crystals (variety pink quartz) of greater size and with much better defined faces and edges than usual in specimens from this locality. They are between transparent and translucent, with bright luster and an intense and uniform pink color.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which shows that it was previously in the Melanson collection.
Pitorra claim, Alto da Pitorra, Laranjeiras, Galiléia, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.8 × 1 cm = 1.10” × 0.71” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.24”

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”

ELL93AP2: Very aerial polycrystalline growth of Quartz (pink quartz variety) with transparent crystals, very lustrous and deep pink, which seem to grow around an isolated and centered crystal of transparent Quartz (variety smoky quartz).
A classic, fine and elegant Brazilian specimen.
Ilha claim, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7 × 6.7 × 3.6 cm = 2.76” × 2.64” × 1.42”

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

THA67AP8: Druse of transparent Quartz crystals, with very good luster and an intense pink color (variety pink quartz), with small spherical aggregates of Eosphorite.
Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.7 × 4.8 × 1.8 cm = 3.03” × 1.89” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.43” × 0.28”

TLR66AP9: Group of Quartz crystals (variety rose quartz) with very marked polycrystalline growths, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform pink color, associated with small transparent brown Eosphorite crystals.
The specimen, which has very large crystals for this quartz variety, comes from the Paul Muse collection.
Ilha claim, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 11 × 8.8 × 3.2 cm = 4.33” × 3.46” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 2.1 cm = 1.46” × 0.83”

TGR10AO2: Group of Quartz crystals (variety pink quartz), many of them doubly terminated, with an intense pink color, with transparent terminations and on a slightly smoky Quartz matrix.
Galiléia, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.1 × 4.1 cm = 3.07” × 2.40” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 1 cm = 1.22” × 0.39”

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, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

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

HM390LW: Floater growth of parallel Quartz crystals, with twists, transparent, with great luster and a very intense smoky color.
Former collection of Philippe Morelon
Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 18.5 × 7.3 × 4.5 cm = 7.28” × 2.87” × 1.77”

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”

EYA26AP1: Specimen from a deposit discovered in 2017 and located at some distance from the previously known locality in Serra do Caldeirão, but with different characteristics. In this case a floater group of well-formed elongated Gold crystals, with curvatures on some of their faces and edges and with spinel-law twinning.
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Serra Dourada, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil

Specimen size: 1 × 0.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.39” × 0.31” × 0.24”

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.
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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”

EZR62AP1: Floater Gold specimen with arborescent growths of elongated octahedral-rhombododecahedral crystals and with very sharp parallel skeletal forms. The deposit is no longer productive and it will be difficult for new specimens from there to appear on the market. 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.
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

Specimen size: 2 × 1.3 × 0.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.51” × 0.35”

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.
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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.
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 (09-12/2015)

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

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.
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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”

EXB90AP1: Specimen from a deposit close to the one already known in 2017, but with some different features. A floater group of well-formed crystals for the species, with curvatures on some of their faces and edges and with spinel-law twinning.
If you want to know more about these Golds you can use this link
Bananal claims, Serra do Caldeirão claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.2 × 0.7 cm = 0.67” × 0.47” × 0.28”

ETX36AP1: Specimen from a deposit close to the one already known in 2017, but with some different features. A floater group of well-formed crystals for the species, with curvatures on some of their faces and edges and with spinel-law twinning.
If you want to know more about these Golds you can use this link
Bananal claims, Serra do Caldeirão claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil

Specimen size: 2 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.67” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.3 cm = 0.79” × 0.51”

ETR3AP1: Specimen from a deposit close to the one already known in 2017, but with some different features. A floater group of well-formed crystals for the species, with curvatures on some of their faces and edges and with spinel-law twinning.
If you want to know more about these Golds you can use this link
Bananal claims, Serra do Caldeirão claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Alto Guaporé District, Mato Grosso  Brazil

Specimen size: 2 × 1.8 × 1 cm = 0.79” × 0.71” × 0.39”

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”

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, Cabeça do Cachorro area, 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”

MFT69AP3: Group of very sharp Ludlamite crystals which are large for the species, some of them doubly terminated, with parallel growths, translucent, with bright luster and a very deep dark color, in a limonite matrix.
Cabeça do Cachorro claim, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Cabeça do Cachorro area, Amazonas  Brazil

Specimen size: 4 × 3.9 × 2.6 cm = 1.57” × 1.54” × 1.02”

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

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, Cabeça do Cachorro area, 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”

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, 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”

TMR87AO0: Druse of very well defined and sharp Hureaulite crystals, from translucent to transparent, lustrous and with an intense pink color. On matrix, with small black Rockbridgeite crystals.
Cigana Mine (Jocão Mine), Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2021)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.1 × 3.7 cm = 2.60” × 1.61” × 1.46”

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

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.
Poço Dantas Mine, 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”

EA97AN2: Floater parallel growth of very acute dipyramidal Anatase crystals completely epitaxially covered by fibrous Rutile crystals, with a reddish yellow color.
Anatase-Rutile occurrence, Cuiabá District, Gouveia, Minas Gerais  Brazil (03/2003)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.6 × 1.1 cm = 1.26” × 0.63” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 1 cm = 1.26” × 0.39”