Mineral Specimens - page 18
The Carles Curto Collection (duplicates)

CXM37AP9: Single crystal of Topaz, very aerial on the matrix, rich in crystal forms, transparent, with very good luster and an intense color.
The specimen comes from Carles Curto's collection of duplicates (number 1995.13) whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah  USA

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.9 × 4.1 cm = 2.05” × 1.54” × 1.61”

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

CT66AM1: Prismatic crystal with flat contacts at the back of the prism, parallel growths and polycrystalline formations with sharp terminal faces.
The specimen, from an old historical mine, comes from the Carles Curto collection, whose label and catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Big Boulder Mine, Larimer County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.1 × 1.3 cm = 0.98” × 0.83” × 0.51”

CR66AJ0: Octahedral Franklinite crystal on matrix with the classical shape of the samples from Franklin in the sixties of the last century. It has very well defined faces and edges which are slightly curved. An American classic from the type locality for the species.
The sample is from the Carles Curto collection whose label and catalog card we will send to the buyer.
Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey  USA

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm = 0.98” × 0.98” × 0.83”

CXF86AP1: Druse of Pyromorphite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, with bright luster and a vivid green color. In matrix and different from what we usually know from El Horcajo.
The specimen comes from the Carles Curto collection duplicates (number 1974.26), whose label and data sheet we will send to the buyer.
El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.5 × 2.6 cm = 1.30” × 0.98” × 1.02”

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

CRM96AP1: Acicular crystals of yellowish green Pyromorphite with curvatures on the faces and edges, with good luster, on matrix.
The specimen comes from the Carles Curto collection duplicates (number 2008.23), whose label and computer entry we will send to the buyer. Previously in the collection of Silvane (Josep Amigó), from Barcelona.
El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain

Specimen size: 5.5 × 2.5 × 2.0 cm = 2.17” × 0.98” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.1 cm = 0.31” × 0.04”

CQ87AI5: Group, on matrix, of lenticular crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very well defined faces and edges, bright with a color that is intense, very much more vivid than usual for the locality.
The sample is from the Carles Curto collection whose label and catalog card we’ll send to the buyer.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3 × 1.5 cm = 1.38” × 1.18” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.4 cm = 0.94” × 0.55”

CP86AN1: Group of twinned Strontianite crystals with a prismatic habit and a clearly hexagonal outline, with excellent terminations, translucent, with bright luster and a light cream color, on matrix with Calcite.
The specimen comes from the Carles Curto collection, whose label and computer catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Oberdorf an der Laming, Laming Valley, Bruck an der Mur, Styria/Steiermark  Austria

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4 × 2.9 cm = 1.93” × 1.57” × 1.14”

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

CV68AM5: Group of crystals with a short prismatic habit and a very sharp hexagonal outline, with good terminations, and a bright luster. The specimen comes from the Carles Curto collection (number 1976.23), whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Bad Schlema (Schlema), Schlema-Hartenstein District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.5 × 1.6 cm = 1.10” × 0.98” × 0.63”

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

TC2120DLM: Floater Sulphur crystal with a truncated bipyramidal shape, with polycrystalline growths on their faces, translucent, with good luster and a very vivid color and with small white Celestine coatings.
With label from the Lluís Daunis collection.
Racalmuto Mine, Racalmuto, Agrigento (Girgenti) Province, Sicily  Italy

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3.2 × 2.1 cm = 1.34” × 1.26” × 0.83”

CXH67AP9: Very aerial growth of Quartz crystals (smoky variety) with parallel growths and very marked gwindel, transparent, with good luster and soft smoky tones.
The specimen comes from Carles Curto's collection of duplicates (number 1982.12) whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Val Giuv, Tujetsch (Tavetsch), Vorderrhein Valley, Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden)  Switzerland (±1982)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.4 × 1.3 cm = 1.46” × 1.34” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 1.5 cm = 1.26” × 0.59”

CBM87AP6: Groups of very sharp bipyramidal crystals of Libethenite, with good luster and a very deep color. On matrix and with small Calcite crystals.
An English classic that comes from the collection of duplicates of Carles Curto, whose label and computer file we will send to buyer.
Phoenix United Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Liskeard District, Cornwall  England / United Kingdom

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4.6 × 2 cm = 1.65” × 1.81” × 0.79”

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

SM90CEX: Parallel growths of Acanthite crystals of octahedral habit (pseudomorphs after Argentite), with sharp crystal forms.
The specimen comes from the Carles Curto collection (number 2008.25), whose handwritten label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2008)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.6 × 3.7 cm = 1.89” × 1.81” × 1.46”

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

CB96AN2: Parallel growths of equant crystals of primary Malachite, with good luster and a very deep and uniform color, on matrix with Dolomite.
The specimen comes from the Carles Curto collection (number 1978.14), whose label and computer catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Jebel Irhoud, Youssoufia Province, Marrakesh-Safi Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.8 × 2.6 cm = 1.81” × 1.10” × 1.02”

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

CFB26AP1: Dioptase crystals more isolated than usual for the deposit. Very profiled, with elongated prisms and very sharp rhombohedral terminations. Translucent, shiny, with an intense color, and on matrix with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals.
The specimen comes from the duplicates of the Carles Curto collection (number 1981.15), whose label and computer entry we will send to the buyer.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.6 × 2.6 cm = 1.54” × 1.42” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.4 cm = 0.35” × 0.16”

CC27AM5: Group of Malachite pseudomorphs after Azurite crystals, one of them doubly terminated and clearly dominant, with surfaces recrystallized by finely fibrous Malachite with a silky luster. The specimen comes from the Carles Curto collection (number 1982.16.1), whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia (±1982)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 3.3 × 2.6 cm = 1.30” × 1.30” × 1.02”

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

CB59AL8: Very sharp lamellar crystals of Wulfenite with notably distinct dipyramid faces, great luster and a color between yellow and cream. On matrix.
The specimen, from one of the most classic localities for the species, comes from the Carles Curto collection whose label and catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.1 × 2.1 cm = 1.81” × 1.22” × 0.83”

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

CFR86AP9: Group of tabular Hematite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, very lustrous, with fine striations and geometric growth forms. A classic of Brazilian mineralogy.
The specimen comes from the Carles Curto collection of duplicates (number 1988.28) whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Pedra Preta pit, Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Northeast Region  Brazil

Specimen size: 3.2 × 3.1 × 0.6 cm = 1.26” × 1.22” × 0.24”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 1.26” × 0.98”

CTZ87AP6: Parallel growth of two twinned Ernstite crystals, pseudomorphs after Childrenite or Eosphorite, very sharp and of good size.
This specimen, of a species whose name could be modified in future, comes from the collection of duplicates of Carles Curto, whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Córrego Frio Mine, Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 6.6 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 2.60” × 0.91” × 0.71”

CCD92AP7: Doubly terminated floater crystal of Elbaite with excellent terminations at both ends. It is between transparent and translucent, with a uniform green color dominant in the prism, with pink at both ends.
This specimen was previously in the collection of J. Claramonte, from Barcelona, and comes to us from the Carles Curto collection's duplicates (number 2011.10), whose label and digital file we will send to the buyer.
Santa Maria do Suaçui, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.2 × 2.2 × 2 cm = 2.83” × 0.87” × 0.79”

CY96AM5: Arborescent growth of very shiny Copper crystals with very well defined dodecahedron forms. An excellent miniature that comes from the Carles Curto collection (number 1984.24), whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Corocoro, Pacajes Province, La Paz Department  Bolivia

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.7 × 1.6 cm = 1.26” × 1.06” × 0.63”

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

CF69AJ4: Radial groups of very sharp and well defined flattened prismatic Franckeite crystals with an implanted dipyramidal Stannite crystal and small acicular Zinkenite crystals.
The sample is from the Carles Curto collection whose label and catalog card we will send to the buyer.
San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department  Bolivia (±1987)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 3.9 × 5.6 cm = 2.99” × 1.54” × 2.20”

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

CLM47AP9: Floater group of Pyromorphite crystals with a tapered habit, many of them doubly terminated, with good luster and an intense and uniform green color.
The specimen comes from Carles Curto's collection of duplicates (number 2008.30) whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.3 × 2.1 cm = 1.42” × 1.30” × 0.83”

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

CAR99AP7: Group of tabular Beryl crystals dominated by the pinacoid, with the prism faces being little developed. They are transparent, with very good luster and a uniform pale blue color (aquamarine variety), accompanied by very sharp and lustrous lamellar crystals of Muscovite.
This very elegant specimen comes from the Carles Curto collection's duplicates (number 2013.22), whose label and digital record we will send to the buyer.
Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China

Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.8 × 2.6 cm = 2.80” × 1.89” × 1.02”

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

CCF46AO0: Isolated Dravite crystals with a flattened bipyramidal shape, with perfectly sharp crystal forms, translucent, with good luster and a nice brown color with orange tones, on a Muscovite matrix.
Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan (±2011)

Specimen size: 4.0 × 5.6 × 2.3 cm = 1.57” × 2.20” × 0.91”

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

CPR73AP6: Group of very sharp octahedral Gold crystals, with very deeply hoppered faces, very lustrous and with small fragments of Quartz.
The specimen comes from the collection of duplicates of Carles Curto, whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Poverty Reef, Tarnagulla, Loddon Shire, Victoria  Australia (±1987)

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

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