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The Daunis Collection

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Carles Curto Text: Carles Curto (formerly curator of the Geology Museum, Barcelona) & Jordi Fabre
Assistance from John S. White (former Smithsonian curator) John S. White

 


      Lluís Daunis Montada (1916-1979) began his passion for mineralogy when elderly, as a family father, and his love was due in large part to the love he always had for the mountains, wanting to spend as much time as possible in contact with Nature.
      Self taught, he learned by buying books and meeting in his spare time with the collectors and merchants of the time: Joaquín Folch, Josep Cervelló, Enric Kucera, Soler i Pujol (Josep Palaus), S.E.C. (Suministros Escolares y Científicos), Figueras...
      He began to gather his first minerals on weekends in outings to localities near Barcelona, and gradually expanded his range of action in Catalonia and then also throughout Spain, taking advantage of summer and Easter vacations. He was fortunate to live the golden age of searching for minerals (Montseny, Sierra de Madrid, Sallent de Gállego, Eugui...) and also had the success of being a great searcher. He was always accompanied by his wife Maria Ruscalleda and during many years also by his daughter Núria, to whom he passed his hobby, so that the two became his best and most faithful collaborators.
      He was well known to have obtained very good Catalan specimens, being one of the pioneers in locating and finding good pieces of amethyst in Montseny, in the Les Mallorquines area, long before the modern discoveries, as well as very good examples of Quartz and Feldspars from both Catalonia and the Sierra de Madrid as well as Huesca.
      Unfortunately he could never realize his dream: to retire and to devote all his time to minerals. He wanted to get started in microscope photography and also wanted to better document and organize the collection, but a disease took him at 63 years of age.
      His wife Maria Ruscalleda maintained and expanded the collection until the last years of her life and passed it on to her daughter
Núria, who has kept it until the end of 2017.

Núria Daunis

 

Lluís Daunis and his wife Maria Ruscalleda

Lluís Daunis with his wife Maria Ruscalleda in 1972 in an exceptional geode in the Madrid mountain range that produced more than 25 boxes of specimens of Quartz and Orthoclase and in which they were finding more samples throughout several years.
Photo: Núria Daunis

 

Quartz amethyst
Beryl aquamarine
Quartz

 

America

Copper
Copper. Front
Front
Copper. Rear
Rear
Copper  

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”

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



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Copper
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Copper. Front
Front
Copper. Rear
Rear
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Cuprite with Copper
Cuprite with Copper. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Cuprite with Copper. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

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”

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



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Silver with Copper
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Silver with Copper. Front
Front
Silver with Copper. Rear
Rear
Silver with Copper
Silver with Copper. Front
Front
Silver with Copper. Rear
Rear
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



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Copper
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Copper. Front
Front
Copper. Rear
Rear
Rhodochrosite
Rhodochrosite. Front
Front
Rhodochrosite. Rear
Rear
Rhodochrosite  

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”

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



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Quartz
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Quartz. Front
Front
Quartz. Side
Side
Quartz. Rear
Rear
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Gold with Quartz
Gold with Quartz.
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



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Hematite
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Hematite.
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Beryl (variety aquamarine)
Beryl (variety aquamarine). Front
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine). Rear
Rear
Beryl (variety aquamarine). Bottom
Bottom
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



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Spain

Catalonia

Calcite (variety cobaltoan)
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Calcite (variety cobaltoan).
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Quartz with Chlorite
Quartz with Chlorite. Front
Front
Quartz with Chlorite. Rear
Rear
 

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”

With copy of the handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



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Quartz with Chlorite
Quartz with Chlorite  

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”

With copy of the handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Quartz with Chlorite. Front
Front
Quartz with Chlorite. Rear
Rear
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Quartz with Chlorite
Quartz with Chlorite. Quartz with Chlorite.
 

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”

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Schorl
Schorl  

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Schorl. Front
Front
Schorl. Top
Top
Quartz
Quartz.
Quartz  

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

minID: 6CE-GRX



Quartz (variety amethyst) with Quartz (variety smoky) and Microcline
Quartz (variety amethyst) with Quartz (variety smoky) and Microcline  

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”

With copy of the handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Quartz (variety amethyst) with Quartz (variety smoky) and Microcline. Front
Front
Quartz (variety amethyst) with Quartz (variety smoky) and Microcline. Rear
Rear
Quartz (variety amethyst) with Quartz (variety smoky)
Quartz (variety amethyst) with Quartz (variety smoky). Front
Front
Quartz (variety amethyst) with Quartz (variety smoky). Light behind
Light behind
Quartz (variety amethyst) with Quartz (variety smoky)  

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”

With copy of the handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection




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Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite
Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite  

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

minID: WPG-52K



Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite.
Quartz (variety smoky)
Quartz (variety smoky). Front
Front
Quartz (variety smoky). Light behind
Light behind
Quartz (variety smoky). Top
Top
Quartz (variety smoky)  

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”

With copy of the handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Microcline with Quartz (variety smoky)
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Microcline with Quartz (variety smoky).
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Quartz (variety smoky) with Microcline
Quartz (variety smoky) with Microcline. Quartz (variety smoky) with Microcline.
 

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”

With copy of the handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Quartz (variety smoky)
Quartz (variety smoky)  

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

minID: R4X-GQC



Quartz (variety smoky). Front
Front
Quartz (variety smoky). Rear
Rear
Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite
Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite. Front
Front
Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite. Side
Side
Quartz (variety smoky) with Albite  

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”

With copy of the handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Microcline with Quartz (variety smoky)
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Microcline with Quartz (variety smoky).
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Microcline with Quartz (variety smoky) and Epidote-Clinozoisite
Microcline with Quartz (variety smoky) and Epidote-Clinozoisite. Front
Front
Microcline with Quartz (variety smoky) and Epidote-Clinozoisite. Side
Side
Microcline with Quartz (variety smoky) and Epidote-Clinozoisite  

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”

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



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Albite & Microcline (perthite)
Albite & Microcline (perthite)  

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”

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Albite & Microcline (perthite).
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Garnet with Quartz (variety smoky) and Microcline
Garnet with Quartz (variety smoky) and Microcline. Garnet with Quartz (variety smoky) and Microcline.
Garnet with Quartz (variety smoky) and Microcline  

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”

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



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Baryte with Quartz
Baryte with Quartz  

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”

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Baryte with Quartz.
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Madrid

Twinned Rutile
Twinned Rutile. Front
Front
Twinned Rutile. Rear
Rear
Twinned Rutile  

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”

Type locality

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



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Almandine-Spessartine (Series) with Orthoclase
Almandine-Spessartine (Series) with Orthoclase  

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”

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Almandine-Spessartine (Series) with Orthoclase. Front
Front
Almandine-Spessartine (Series) with Orthoclase. Rear
Rear
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Quartz (variety smoky) with Orthoclase
Quartz (variety smoky) with Orthoclase. Front
Front
Quartz (variety smoky) with Orthoclase. Rear
Rear
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Orthoclase with Quartz (variety smoky)
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Orthoclase with Quartz (variety smoky). Orthoclase with Quartz (variety smoky).
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Cantabria

Sphalerite with Dolomite
Sphalerite with Dolomite. Front
Front
Sphalerite with Dolomite. Rear
Rear
Sphalerite with Dolomite  

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”

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



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Calcite with Dolomite
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

Minor fluorescence short UV



Calcite with Dolomite. Calcite with Dolomite.
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Asturias

Azurite with Malachite
Azurite with Malachite. Azurite with Malachite.
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



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Quartz with inclusions and Fluorite
Quartz with inclusions and Fluorite  

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”

Hydrocarbons fluorescent short UV

With the original handwritten note from the Daunis Collection



Quartz with inclusions and Fluorite. Front
Front
Quartz with inclusions and Fluorite. Rear
Rear
Quartz with inclusions and Fluorite. Side
Side
Quartz with inclusions and Fluorite.
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Aragon

Quartz
Quartz. Front
Front
Quartz. Side
Side
Quartz. Rear
Rear
Quartz  

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”

With copy of the handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



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Castilla-La Mancha

Cinnabar with Quartz
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Cinnabar with Quartz. Cinnabar with Quartz.
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Cinnabar with Calcite
Cinnabar with Calcite. Cinnabar with Calcite.
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



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Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite  

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”

Minor fluorescence short UV

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection




Pyromorphite. Pyromorphite.

Castilla-Leon

Grossular with Vesuvianite
Grossular with Vesuvianite. Grossular with Vesuvianite.
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis




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Euskadi

Goethite
 

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”

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Goethite. Goethite.
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Navarre

Twinned Dolomite
Twinned Dolomite. Front
Front
Twinned Dolomite. Rear
Rear
Twinned Dolomite  

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

minID: PA4-KWH




Europe

Cassiterite with Quartz and Siderite
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Cassiterite with Quartz and Siderite.
Siderite with Quartz
Siderite with Quartz. Front
Front
Siderite with Quartz. Side
Side
 

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”

With label from the Lluís Daunis Collection



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Manganite
Manganite  

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”

Type locality

With label from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Manganite. Front
Front
Manganite. Rear
Rear
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Hemimorphite
Hemimorphite.
Hemimorphite  

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”

With handwritten note from the Lluís Daunis Collection



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Sulphur with Calcite
 

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”

Calcite extremely fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Sulphur with Calcite. Sulphur with Calcite.
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Hematite
Hematite. Hematite.
Hematite  

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”

With label from the Lluís Daunis Collection




Africa

Azurite with Cerussite
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Azurite with Cerussite. Front
Front
Azurite with Cerussite. Rear
Rear
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Azurite with Dolomite
Azurite with Dolomite. Azurite with Dolomite.
Azurite with Dolomite  

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”

With label from the Lluís Daunis Collection



Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite). Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite).
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Twinned Cerussite
Twinned Cerussite. Front
Front
Twinned Cerussite. Rear
Rear
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Dioptase with Quartz and Calcite
 

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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Dioptase with Quartz and Calcite. Front
Front
Dioptase with Quartz and Calcite. Rear
Rear
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Dioptase with Dolomite
Dioptase with Dolomite. Dioptase with Dolomite.
 

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”

Calcite fluorescent short UV

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



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Asia-Australia

Dravite with Muscovite
 

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, 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”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Dravite with Muscovite. Front
Front
Dravite with Muscovite. Side
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