Mineral Specimens - page 16
The Daunis Collection

DF76AM5: Floater arborescent growth with both groups of crystals and isolated crystals, with the dominant shapes of the cube and the dodecahedron, with bright luster and reddish tones. The specimen comes from a little-known locality and is from the Lluís Daunis collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Mission Mine, Mission complex, San Xavier, Pima mining district, Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3 × 2.8 × 1.9 cm = 1.18” × 1.10” × 0.75”

DF66AM5: Very aerial dendritic growth of sharp Copper crystals, with cube and dodecahedron forms dominant and reddish color due to a thin layer of Cuprite. From one of the most classic American copper mines. The specimen is from the Luís Daunis collection.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.3 × 1.5 cm = 1.46” × 1.30” × 0.59”

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

DR71AM5: Dendritic growth of native Copper covered by octahedral Cuprite crystals, translucent, with a deep red color and with fragments of Quartz matrix. An excellent American classic. The specimen comes from the Luís Daunis collection, whose handwritten label we will send to the buyer.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 6 × 5.4 × 2.3 cm = 2.36” × 2.13” × 0.91”

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

DM48AI0: Floater and dendritic growth of very well defined and bright Silver crystals partially coated, especially at the tips of each crystal, by native Copper.
White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2 × 0.2 cm = 1.14” × 0.79” × 0.08”

DL56AI0: Floater and dendritic growth of very well defined and bright Silver crystals partially coated by native Copper.
White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 3.1 × 0.8 × 0.2 cm = 1.22” × 0.31” × 0.08”

DF96AM2: Very aerial dendritic growth of Copper, with remnants of Quartz matrix and flat surfaces that correspond to casts of Quartz crystals that have disappeared.
The specimen is from the Lluís Daunis collection.
Caledonia Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 13.2 × 7.4 × 3.5 cm = 5.20” × 2.91” × 1.38”

DF51AI0: Tabular crystal with polycrystalline recrystallized areas. It has a pink color, variable in depth in different crystal areas, lighter on the edges and deeper and more intense at the center. With an unusual quality for this locality.
Butte, Butte District, Silver Bow County, Montana  USA

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.2 × 1.9 cm = 1.38” × 1.26” × 0.75”

DG14AN2: Complete floater Quartz crystal with uneven growths on the faces, extraordinarily lustrous, transparent and colorless. This type of Quartz is popularly known as a "Herkimer diamond". An excellent USA classic that comes from the Daunis collection.
Herkimer County, New York  USA

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.9 × 1.3 cm = 0.94” × 0.75” × 0.51”

DC27AM2: Spongy growths of leafy Gold crystals, extraordinarily brilliant and on a snow-white Quartz matrix. A fine miniature, from a well-known Canadian mine, but one from which few collections have significant specimens.
This particular specimen comes from the Daunis collection and is accompanied by an old Joan Montal label.
O'Brien Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec  Canada

Specimen size: 1.5 × 1.1 × 0.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.43” × 0.16”

DT27AH7: Double rosette growth of laminar Hematite growths with very well defined faces, some partially rough edges and very bright pinacoidal surfaces.
Itamarandiba, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.9 × 1.4 cm = 2.40” × 1.93” × 0.55”

DF89AF6: A complete floater crystal with parallel crystal domains and prominent dissolution forms. It is extraordinarily clear and has a very vivid and uniform blue color.
The sample is from the Daunis collection (a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area during the period 1970-1980).
Pedra Azul (Fortaleza), Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.1 × 2.8 cm = 1.65” × 1.22” × 1.10”

DR9AI0: Botryoidal growths on matrix of Calcite (cobaltoan variety) with an intense and deep color with areas that have lighter shades.
Solita Mine, Peramea, Baix Pallars, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lérida / Lleida, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.65” × 1.50” × 0.91”

DG16AH6: Group of Quartz crystals, most of them doubly terminated, some extraordinarily flattened but all them very transparent and bright with inclusions of negative Quartz crystals and minor Chlorite.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
Llavorsí, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lérida / Lleida, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.3 × 3.8 cm = 2.28” × 2.09” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 1.8 cm = 1.46” × 0.71”

DB96AF9: Parallel growth of doubly terminated, colorless and very clear crystals with a very visible faden nucleus and small Chlorite coatings. The area where these quartzes were found is currently buried by roadwork.
Llavorsí, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lérida / Lleida, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 6.3 × 6.2 × 3.9 cm = 2.48” × 2.44” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 5 × 1.2 cm = 1.97” × 0.47”

DZ14AH6: A prominent very clear and bright Quartz crystal that is partially coated by spheroidal Chlorite aggregates.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
Llavorsí, Comarca Pallars Sobirà, Lérida / Lleida, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.8 × 7.5 cm = 2.83” × 2.28” × 2.95”

Main crystal size: 5 × 2.3 cm = 1.97” × 0.91”

HM90D: Elongated Schorl crystal with a very well defined termination. The specimen, coming from the Daunis collection, which in the 70-80s was a reference for local field collectors especially for Catalan localities, is a classic of the mineralogy of this region. It comes from the Cap de Creus an area currently closed to mineral collecting.
Cap de Creus, Cadaqués-Port de La Selva-Roses, Comarca Alt Empordà, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 1.26” × 0.63” × 0.59”

HM70DF: Quartz scepter growth, with a partially doubly terminated cap of the amethyst variety, polycrystalline, in parallel growth, with bright luster and deep in color, with a base of the smoky variety.
Former collection of Lluís Daunis

Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 7.2 × 4.2 × 3 cm = 2.83” × 1.65” × 1.18”

DR96AI8: Scepter polycrystalline growth with one of the crystals clearly dominant. The crystals are translucent, bright and have a diffuse color distribution, very much more intense in the central areas of the crystal. It is from an historic place where the first good quality amethyst finds were made, before the more recent workings.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5 × 4.8 cm = 2.83” × 1.97” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 6.6 × 5 cm = 2.60” × 1.97”

DA87AG0: Subparallel aggregates of flattened crystals on a surface of milky Quartz. The crystals which are bright and with very well defined faces and edges have a very dense and deep color with smoky tinges, especially on the terminations. It is from the historic site at the Montseny Massif where the first high quality amethysts were found decades before more recent finds.
We’ll send to the buyer a digitalized copy of a single label, commonly covering a group of similar samples from the same locality.

Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 8.9 × 4.3 × 3 cm = 3.50” × 1.69” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 2.7 cm = 1.81” × 1.06”

HM90DC: Quartz crystal (smoky variety), very aerial, transparent, with good luster and a very deep color, on a matrix of small, sharp white crystals of Albite.
The specimen comes from the Daunis collection, which in the 70-80s was a reference for field collectors, especially for Catalan localities.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.2 × 2.6 cm = 2.01” × 1.26” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 4.9 × 2.5 cm = 1.93” × 0.98”

DH26AK4: Full crystal, with highly profiled polycrystalline terminations with the base recrystallized as the start of a scepter growth. The specimen, transparent, bright and of a very deep and uniform smoky color, comes from a completely lost locality and is from the Daunis collection, which in the 1970s to ‘80s was a reference collection for local field collectors in the Barcelona area.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 6.7 × 3 × 2.6 cm = 2.64” × 1.18” × 1.02”

DX11AH7: Very sharp Isolated Microcline crystal with simple forms, with a particular shape that is well known as “coffin-like.” It is on matrix with white Albite crystals and smoky Quartz.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.81” × 1.06” × 0.98”

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

DD16AH2: Quartz crystal with very well defined parallel growths, with a very deep smoky color, very bright and with Microcline on the matrix.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.4 × 3.6 cm = 2.68” × 1.73” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 6.8 × 3.9 cm = 2.68” × 1.54”

DX66AL3: Group of very transparent smoky Quartz crystals on matrix, one of them clearly dominant and partially doubly terminated, with a group of smaller crystals, some of which are also doubly terminated, from the historic Montseny locality where the first finds of amethyst and quality smoky Quartz were made before the recent finds. The Daunis collection was, in the 70s-80s, a reference for local field collectors in the Barcelona area.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 8 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm = 3.15” × 0.98” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 6 × 2.1 cm = 2.36” × 0.83”

DP56AJ5: Group of smoky Quartz crystals with parallel growths, translucent, bright with red Hematite impregnations in some areas and with polycrystalline Albite growths. The sample is very unusual for both the locality and his shape. It is from the Daunis collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
La Arola, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 8.6 × 5.6 × 4.6 cm = 3.39” × 2.20” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 8.4 × 4 cm = 3.31” × 1.57”

DG11AH7: Very sharp isolated Microcline crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with simple forms that have a particular shape that is well known as “coffin-like.” On matrix with white Albite crystals and smoky Quartz.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.3 × 3.1 cm = 2.44” × 1.30” × 1.22”

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

DL14AF8: Two elongated Microcline crystals, one of them with the Baveno twin law and the other with double twinning by the Baveno and Manebach laws. They are on matrix with Quartz crystals and Epidote-Clinozoisite coatings.
The sample is from the Daunis collection (a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area during the period 1970-1980), and it is with a handwritten original label that we’ll send to the buyer.
Arbúcies, Comarca La Selva, Montseny Massif, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.2 × 3.9 cm = 2.05” × 1.65” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.7 cm = 0.75” × 0.67”

DR13AI7: Group of Microcline crystals with very well defined Baveno-law twins, with fine parallel growths and a pinkish color and bordered on some edges by white perthitic growths of Albite microcrystals. The sample is from the Daunis collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Sant Andreu de Ramió, Montnegre Mountains, Fogars de la Selva, Comarca La Selva, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 5.5 × 5 × 3 cm = 2.17” × 1.97” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.55”

DY13AH7: Trapezohedral garnet crystals that are transparent, bright, with a very intense color and on a matrix of Microcline crystals with smoky Quartz crystals.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for local prospectors of the Barcelona area. The sample is with the original manuscript label that we will send to the buyer.
Natural park Del Montnegre i el Corredor, Litoral Range granitic batolith, Comarca Maresme, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.5 × 2.3 cm = 1.81” × 1.38” × 0.91”

DJ13AF8: “Book-like” aggregate of laminar Baryte crystals with a pale pink color and with the edges coated by small very transparent and bright Quartz crystals.
The sample is from the Daunis collection (a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area during the period 1970-1980), and it is with an original handwritten label that we’ll send to the buyer.
Matagalls Mine (Sant Marçal Mines), Sant Marçal, Viladrau, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 7.3 × 3.6 × 4.8 cm = 2.87” × 1.42” × 1.89”

DV59AI0: Complete and floater cyclic (sixling) twin with relatively well defined faces and edges. An excellent Spanish classic from the Type locality for the species.
Horcajuelo de la Sierra, Comarca Sierra Norte, Community of Madrid  Spain

Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.7 × 1.3 cm = 0.75” × 0.67” × 0.51”

DT16AH5: Isolated trapezohedral Almandine-Spessartine (Series) crystal with a good size for the locality. It has very well defined faces and edges, is translucent with vivid reflections that are between brown and red in color and it is on a matrix of Orthoclase crystals with a very well defined Baveno twin on its prism faces.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
Somosierra mountain pass, Robregordo, Comarca Sierra Norte, Community of Madrid  Spain

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.4 × 3.3 cm = 1.85” × 1.34” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.2 cm = 0.51” × 0.47”

DL13AH2: Two partially doubly terminated Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, very flattened, with fine superficial recrystallization of the same Quartz, and with parallel growths of Orthoclase crystals.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
(La Cabrera pluton), La Cabrera, Comarca Sierra Norte, Community of Madrid  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.8 × 2.7 cm = 2.48” × 1.89” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 6.3 × 3 cm = 2.48” × 1.18”

DV96AH2: Polycrystalline growths of Orthoclase crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are very bright and are partially coating a Quartz crystal.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
(La Cabrera pluton), La Cabrera, Comarca Sierra Norte, Community of Madrid  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 8.8 × 5.3 cm = 3.50” × 3.46” × 2.09”

DE14AI0: Very well defined twinned Sphalerite crystals that are transparent (gem quality), very bright and with a very intense and uniform honey color. On a matrix of Dolomite crystals. An excellent miniature, very aerial and esthetic.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 2.2 × 2 × 1.2 cm = 0.87” × 0.79” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.43” × 0.31”

DX27AG7: Complex Calcite crystals, very rich in faces. They are transparent and bright, have a very intense honey yellow color and are on a rocky matrix coated by small Dolomite crystals. Different from recent pieces, this one has a more complex crystallography and a more intense color.
La Florida mining area, Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Comarca Costa Occidental/Saja-Nansa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.7 × 4.9 cm = 3.86” × 3.03” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.1 cm = 0.98” × 0.83”

DC63AI0: Concretionary growths and small, very bright, equant Azurite crystals on matrix, with superficial Malachite impregnations. From a locality from which it is not easy to find samples of such quality.
Delfina Mine, Hoyos de Alda, Ortiguero, Prado, Cabrales, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.2 × 3.9 cm = 2.44” × 2.05” × 1.54”

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

DG88AH5: A pair of doubly terminated crystals with very well balanced pyramid and prism faces, with hydrocarbon inclusions and small Fluorite crystals that have a very intense lilac color. The sample has been perfectly preserved, the crystals have a very good size and it leaves nothing to envy with those from further finds.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 10.3 × 9.7 × 7.2 cm = 4.06” × 3.82” × 2.83”

Main crystal size: 9.4 × 8.2 cm = 3.70” × 3.23”

DE48AF8: Aggregate of transparent and bright crystals, with a kind of faden inclusions and a very well defined Dauphiné twinning. The sample is of the highest quality from this area. These Quartz samples are one of the more notable surprises in the Daunis collection.
We’ll send to the buyer a digitalized copy of a single label, commonly covering a group of similar samples from the same area.
Sallent de Gállego area, Comarca Alto Gállego, Huesca, Aragon  Spain (± 1970)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 5.4 × 2.8 cm = 3.74” × 2.13” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 8.4 × 2.7 cm = 3.31” × 1.06”

DH66AF9: Cinnabar crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very well defined faces and edges, on quartzite with small Quartz crystals, some of them with parallel growths and strongly curved.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.5 × 3.8 cm = 1.77” × 1.38” × 1.50”

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

DF16AG7: Crystal aggregates with very well shaped faces and edges, with a predominant rhombohedron and that are translucent, very bright, have a very vivid and intense red color, and are on a quartzite matrix with small Calcite crystals.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain

Specimen size: 8.7 × 4.8 × 4.1 cm = 3.43” × 1.89” × 1.61”

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

DQ68AG0: Very well defined crystals with a simple hexagonal shape, on matrix, with a bright yellow color. Although in some aspect they resemble samples from the San Andrés mine, their matrix corresponds to El Horcajo and, furthermore, the sample was collected prior to the productive period at San Andrés.
The sample is with a handwritten original label that we’ll send to the buyer.
El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (± 1910)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.9 × 2.7 cm = 1.73” × 1.54” × 1.06”

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

DD66AG0: Druse of dodecahedral Grossular crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are bright with a clear salmon color and are partially coated by acicular Vesuvianite crystals.
Fermoselle, Comarca Sayago, Zamora, Castile and León  Spain

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.2 × 4.2 cm = 2.87” × 2.05” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.5 cm = 1.18” × 0.98”

DD62AH2: Extraordinarily bright botryoidal aggregate with some iridescent areas with predominant yellow and blue shades. The sample is from a locality considered a Spanish classic for Goethite, but where such bright samples with iridescent surfaces were quite rare.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
La Arboleda Mines, La Arboleda (Zugaztieta), Valle de Trápaga/Trapagaran, Comarca Gran Bilbao, Vizcaya / Bizkaia, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain

Specimen size: 8.7 × 5 × 4.8 cm = 3.43” × 1.97” × 1.89”

HM160DQ: Group of very sharp rhombohedral Dolomite crystals, transparent, lustrous and colorless. A classic of the Spanish mineralogy.
Former collection of Lluís Daunis


Asturreta Quarry, 'el pozo', Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.1 × 2.9 cm = 1.73” × 1.61” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.3 cm = 0.98” × 0.91”

DJ27AF9: Group of very bright Cassiterite crystals with very visible multiple twinning, on matrix with clear Quartz crystals and partially coated by Siderite.
It was previously in the Folch collection and it probably was an exchange.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.8 × 2.4 cm = 1.26” × 1.10” × 0.94”

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

DT26AH6: Thick tabular Siderite crystals with pinacoidal terminations and flattened rhombohedral faces. They have a clear cream color and are with Quartz crystals with inclusions of Muscovite microcrystals.
The sample is, very probably, one of the latest to be incorporated in the Daunis collection by Daunis’ wife Maria. We’ll send to the buyer a commercial label that is with the sample.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.3 × 4.2 cm = 2.60” × 2.09” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 3 cm = 1.26” × 1.18”

DT68AG4: Very aerial growth of divergent Manganite crystals that are very bright and have very well defined faces and edges with perfect terminations. The sample is with a label of the Mineralogisches Institut at Bonn that we’ll send to the buyer.
Ilfeld, Nordhausen, Nordhausen District, Thuringia/Thüringen  Germany

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.4 × 1.9 cm = 1.89” × 1.34” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.47”

DX88AG4: Botryoidal aggregate on a rock matrix with neat forms and surfaces and with a very vivid and uniform blue color. An excellent Italian classic.
Sa Duchesa Mine, Oridda Valley, Domusnovas, Sud Sardegna Province, Sardinia/Sardegna  Italy

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5.5 × 4.3 cm = 2.20” × 2.17” × 1.69”

DT66AM2: Very aerial group of Sulphur crystals with well defined faces and edges, translucent, and with a small matrix of white scalenohedral Calcite microcrystals.
The specimen is from the Lluís Daunis collection.
Caltanissetta Province, Sicily  Italy

Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.9 × 2.5 cm = 2.40” × 1.54” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2 cm = 1.18” × 0.79”

DP66AG7: Druse of very sharp lenticular Hematite crystals that are extraordinarily bright and are coating a botryoidal growth of primary Hematite. An English classic, very typical for the locality.
Beckermet Mine, Egremont, West Cumberland Iron Field, former Cumberland, Cumbria  England / United Kingdom

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.6 × 1.6 cm = 2.17” × 1.81” × 0.63”

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

DV36AH7: Very sharp and aerial Azurite single crystal with very well defined faces and edges, bright with translucent edges and on matrix with small Cerussite crystals.
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.4 × 1.4 cm = 1.10” × 0.55” × 0.55”

DR37AG3: Parallel growth of two very sharp Azurite crystals that are translucent, on matrix, with a very deep color with vivid transparencies and reflections and on rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with limonite coatings. A classic from Touissit, very probably, one of the latest to be incorporated in the Daunis collection by Daunis’ wife Maria. We’ll send to the buyer an old commercial label that is with the sample.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 7 × 3.9 × 3.8 cm = 2.76” × 1.54” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.6 cm = 0.47” × 0.24”

DD47AH7: Druse, on matrix, of lenticular crystals with predominant flattened rhombohedra. They are translucent, very bright and with an extraordinary color due to its liveliness and depth.
Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.2 × 4.4 cm = 2.24” × 1.65” × 1.73”

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

DC90AF6: Very aerial, complete Cerussite cyclic twin with transparent, very bright and slightly smoky crystals, with small coatings of massive Galena.
The sample, a classic from Tsumeb, is from the Daunis collection (a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area during the period 1970-1980).
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.4 × 3.6 cm = 1.77” × 1.73” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.87”

DB86AI0: Very aerial and esthetic growth of Dioptase crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a Calcite and Quartz matrix.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.7 × 0.9 cm = 0.87” × 0.67” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.28” × 0.24”

DY27AF9: Doubly terminated transparent Dioptase crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright and scattered over a matrix of white rhombohedral Calcite crystals.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.5 × 3.4 cm = 2.05” × 1.77” × 1.34”

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

DA86AG5: Floater pair of equant crystals that are formed by two prisms and rhombohedral terminations. They are translucent, bright, with a dark brown color and have small residual Muscovite.
Yinnietharra Station, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.7 × 4.7 cm = 2.09” × 1.85” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 4 cm = 1.65” × 1.57”