Mineral Specimens - page 3
Spain

NK13AJ4: Group of very sharp laminar crystals, transparent and colorless. The sample is from the initial finds of good quality material from the locality between September 2002 and March 2003.
El Telegrama adit, La Beltraneja concession, Cortijuelo Mines, Bacares, Comarca Valle del Almanzora, Almería, Andalusia  Spain (09/2002-03/2003)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 4 × 2.1 cm = 3.0” × 1.6” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.2 cm = 0.7” × 0.1”

NB86AJ4: Group of very sharp laminar crystals, transparent and colorless, with small, white, rhombohedral Calcite crystals. The sample is from the initial finds of good quality material from the locality between September 2002 and March 2003.
El Telegrama adit, La Beltraneja concession, Cortijuelo Mines, Bacares, Comarca Valle del Almanzora, Almería, Andalusia  Spain (09/2002-03/2003)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 7 × 3.7 cm = 4.0” × 2.8” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.8 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

NV66AJ4: Group of very sharp laminar crystals, translucent and white. The sample is from the initial finds of good quality material from the locality between September 2002 and March 2003.
El Telegrama adit, La Beltraneja concession, Cortijuelo Mines, Bacares, Comarca Valle del Almanzora, Almería, Andalusia  Spain (09/2002-03/2003)

Specimen size: 12.7 × 8 × 3.9 cm = 5.0” × 3.1” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.7 cm = 1.2” × 1.1”

NR86AJ5: Andalusite crystals with simple forms and very well defined faces and edges and with excellent terminal faces. With an intense pink color with some lilac tonalities. They are on a matrix partially coated by leafy Muscovite aggregates. The sample is from a find, many years ago, in an area where access is currently prohibited.
Los Torilejos area, Hornachuelos, Comarca Valle Medio del Guadalquivir, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (1992)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 9 × 5.7 cm = 4.0” × 3.5” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.2 cm = 1.6” × 0.5”

NC26AE3: Aggregate, on matrix, of prismatic crystals, some with deep hollowed terminations, and very well defined parallel growths. Its habit and brown color with greenish shades are very distinctive and make the samples from this find unmistakable and it has become a Spanish classic. The specimen is from a cavity in an old lead mining area of Roman time where Pyromorphites appeared previously.
Resuperferolítica Claim, Cerro de la Canaleja, Santa Eufemia, Comarca Los Pedroches, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (04/1995)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.4 × 2.5 cm = 1.1” × 0.9” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

NT16AE3: Aggregate, on matrix, of prismatic crystals, some with deep hollowed terminations, and very well defined parallel growths. Its habit and brown color with greenish shades are very distinctive and make the samples from this find unmistakable and it has become a Spanish classic. The specimen is from a cavity in an old lead mining area of Roman time where Pyromorphites appeared previously.
Resuperferolítica Claim, Cerro de la Canaleja, Santa Eufemia, Comarca Los Pedroches, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (04/1995)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.7 × 2.9 cm = 1.3” × 1.1” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.4 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

NK36R2: From an unexpected find in an old lead mining area of Roman time where the Pyromorphites appeared previously, although with a different shape than this specimen. Its habit and color, very distinctive, make this find unmistakable. It has become a Spanish classic. This specimen comes from a first selection of the specimens when they were found.
Resuperferolítica Claim, Cerro de la Canaleja, Santa Eufemia, Comarca Los Pedroches, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (04/1995)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.4 × 2.7 cm = 1.5” × 1.3” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

NM16AE3: Aggregate, on matrix, of prismatic crystals, some with deep hollowed terminations, and very well defined parallel growths. Its habit and brown color with greenish shades are very distinctive and make the samples from this find unmistakable and it has become a Spanish classic. The specimen is from a cavity in an old lead mining area of Roman time where Pyromorphites appeared previously.
Resuperferolítica Claim, Cerro de la Canaleja, Santa Eufemia, Comarca Los Pedroches, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (04/1995)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.6 × 1.6 cm = 1.5” × 1.4” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

NB10AI5: Clusters of prismatic and very acute elongated crystals, a very unusual habit for San Andrés Pyromorhite, similar to the samples from El Horcajo.
This sample is from the Ignacio Gaspar collection and we’ll send to the buyer a copy of the original label.
San Andrés Mine, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (1987)

Specimen size: 1.4 × 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.6” × 0.6” × 0.4”

N36KD0: A very aerial group with green doubly terminated crystals with multiple hexagonal terminations.
San Andrés Mine, Realces pocket (Victoria), Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (10-11/1997)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.4 × 1.4 cm = 1.1” × 0.9” × 0.6”

N67VD0: Group of doubly terminated crystals with slightly curved edges. The sample has two different colors, yellow and green.
San Andrés Mine, Realces pocket (Victoria), Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (10-11/1997)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.1 × 2 cm = 1.4” × 1.2” × 0.8”

N91YAB8: Aggregate of short prismatic crystals, a lot of them doubly terminated and with very well defined faces and edges. They are green in color with slightly yellowish shades and are on matrix. A Spanish classic of a well-known find in 1997.
San Andrés Mine, Realces pocket (Victoria), Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (10-11/1997)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.9 × 3.7 cm = 2.0” × 1.9” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

NB16AI5: Groups of mainly prismatic Pyromorphite crystals that coexist with very acute elongated crystals, a very unusual habit for San Andrés Pyromorphite, similar to the samples from El Horcajo.
This sample is from the Ignacio Gaspar collection and we’ll send to the buyer the original label.
San Andrés Mine, Realces pocket (Victoria), Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (10-11/1997)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.7 × 3.6 cm = 2.5” × 1.9” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

N36XX3: Irregular aggregate, on matrix of crystals formed by a short prism and the pinacoide, with very well defined faces and edges and showing apple-green color and a very intense luster. Some of the crystals are doubly terminated. The sample is from the excellent, and already famous, find in 1997.
San Andrés Mine, Realces pocket (Victoria), Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (10/11-1997)

Specimen size: 8 × 5.3 × 3.7 cm = 3.1” × 2.1” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

N46JD0: Group of doubly terminated, prismatic crystals with multiple hexagonal terminations.
San Andrés Mine, Del Tunel pocket, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (11/1998)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.8” × 0.7” × 0.5”

NB26AJ7: Very sharp disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with a pseudotetrahedral shape, twinned and with an iridescent superficial patina. They are on matrix with Dolomite, Calcite and Quartz. The sample has been sawed on the base to reduce the matrix. This kind of Chalcopyrite was not known at the locality until now.
Salomón Cut, bench 290, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4 × 2.8 cm = 2.2” × 1.6” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

NA14AJ7: Very sharp disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with a pseudotetrahedral shape, some of them with very well defined parallel growths. They are very bright and are on a matrix with Dolomite, Calcite and Quartz. The sample has been sawed on the lower part to reduce the matrix. This kind of Chalcopyrite was not known at the locality until now.
Salomón Cut, bench 290, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.4 × 2.5 cm = 2.5” × 1.7” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

NG46AJ7: Sharp disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with a pseudotetrahedral shape. They are twinned and have a superficial metallic patina and are on a matrix with Dolomite and Calcite. This kind of Chalcopyrite was not known at the locality until now.
Salomón Cut, bench 290, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 7.2 × 4.1 × 4.9 cm = 2.8” × 1.6” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

NK36AJ7: Sharp disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with a pseudotetrahedral shape. They are twinned and have a superficial metallic patina and are on a matrix with Dolomite and Calcite. This kind of Chalcopyrite was not known at the locality until now.
Salomón Cut, bench 290, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6 × 3.2 cm = 2.8” × 2.4” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

NH56AJ7: Sharp disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with a pseudotetrahedral shape. They are twinned and have a superficial metallic patina and are on a matrix with Dolomite and Calcite. The sample has been sawed on the lower part to reduce the matrix. This kind of Chalcopyrite was not known at the locality until now.
Salomón Cut, bench 290, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5.6 × 5.2 cm = 3.1” × 2.2” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

NJ14AJ7: Sharp disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with a pseudotetrahedral shape. They are twinned and have a superficial metallic patina and are on a matrix with Dolomite and Calcite. This kind of Chalcopyrite was not known at the locality until now.
Salomón Cut, bench 290, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.2 × 5.3 cm = 3.4” × 2.4” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

NJ6AJ5: Botryoidal and stalactitic Goethite growths with an intensely metallic-iridescent patina with dominant reddish and green shades. The sample is from a one-time find in a mine without access currently, so likely no new samples will be obtained from there.
La Lapilla Mine, La Lapilla, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (03-04/2008)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 6.8 × 6.3 cm = 3.7” × 2.7” × 2.5”

NH7AC2: Botryoidal growths with intense metallic-iridescent patinas, very bright and showing strongly contrasting coloration, with dominant red, yellowish and orange shades. These growths contrast with a later phase with smaller and grayish botryoidal forms. The sample is from a famous 2007 find.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (05-10/2007)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.3” × 1.1” × 0.7”

NP8AC2: Botryoidal growths with intense metallic-iridescent patinas, very bright and showing strongly contrasting coloration, with dominant red, yellowish and orange shades. These growths contrast with a later phase with smaller and grayish botryoidal forms. The sample is from a famous 2007 find.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (05-10/2007)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4.1 × 2.4 cm = 1.7”

NR11AC2: Stalactitic botryoidal aggregate with intensely metallic-iridescent patinas, very bright and showing strongly contrasting coloration, with dominant reddish and orange shades. These growths contrast with a later phase with smaller and grayish botryoidal forms. The sample is from a famous 2007 find.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (05-10/2007)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 5.2 × 2.6 cm = 3.1” × 2.0” × 1.0”

NY57AC2: Botryoidal stalactitic aggregate with intensely metallic-iridescent patinas, very bright and showing strongly contrasting coloration, with dominant yellowish and orange shades. These growths contrast with a later phase with smaller and grayish-red botryoidal forms. The sample is from a famous 2007 find.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (05-10/2007)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 4.7 × 4 cm = 3.3” × 1.9” × 1.6”

NR10AA3: Small but very sharp tabular Mimetite crystals of excellent quality. Grouped or isolated, they always have very well defined faces and edges, are bright and have a very intense and uniform yellow color and are on a limonite matrix with botryoidal growths of Beudantite in micro-crystals. Both the Mimetite and Beudantite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (09-10/2011)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.6 × 0.9 cm = 1.1” × 1.0” × 0.4”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

NY60AA3: Small but very sharp tabular Mimetite crystals of excellent quality. Grouped or isolated, they always have very well defined faces and edges, are bright and have a very intense and uniform yellow color and are on a limonite matrix with botryoidal growths of Beudantite in micro-crystals. Both the Mimetite and Beudantite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (09-10/2011)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 1.9 × 2.2 cm = 1.2” × 0.7” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

NA13AG0: Druse of Mimetite crystals on a rock matrix that resemble the English campylites, with a spheroidal shape but very well-defined faces and edges. They are bright, with a color between yellow and deep olive green. The sample is from a recent find at Tharsis.
Filón Sur open pit (external), Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (30/04/2017)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 3.2 × 1.9 cm = 1.3” × 1.3” × 0.7”

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

ND16AG0: Druse of Mimetite crystals on a rock matrix that resemble the English campylites, with a spheroidal shape but very well-defined faces and edges. They are bright, with a color between yellow and deep olive green. The sample is from a recent find at Tharsis.
Filón Sur open pit (external), Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (30/04/2017)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.9 × 2.4 cm = 1.8” × 1.5” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

NB12AG0: Druse of Mimetite crystals on a rock matrix that resemble the English campylites, with a spheroidal shape but very well-defined faces and edges. They are bright, with a color between yellow and deep olive green. The sample is from a recent find at Tharsis.
Filón Sur open pit (external), Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (30/04/2017)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.3 × 3.3 cm = 1.8” × 0.9” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

NC14AG0: Druse of Mimetite crystals on a rock matrix that resemble the English campylites, with a spheroidal shape but very well-defined faces and edges. They are bright, with a color between yellow and deep olive green. The sample is from a recent find at Tharsis.
Filón Sur open pit (external), Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (30/04/2017)

Specimen size: 6 × 4 × 3.1 cm = 2.4” × 1.6” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

NB11AB9: A Spanish novelty from a mine in which only the Pyrite had been noted before. Spheroidal aggregates of very well defined crystals, some of them platy and sharp, bright and with a very vivid color.
Poderosa Mine, El Campillo, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (03/2015)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm = 1.0” × 0.7” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

NF11AB9: A Spanish novelty from a mine in which only the Pyrite had been noted before. Spheroidal aggregates of very well defined crystals, some of them platy and sharp, bright and with a very vivid color.
Poderosa Mine, El Campillo, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (03/2015)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2 × 1.4 cm = 1.1” × 0.8” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

NG59AC9: Globular fan-shaped growths with visible faces, translucent, with a uniform clear green color and on an ophiolite matrix. The quarry has been closed and inaccessible for years.
Oficarsa Quarry, De las Culebras Hill, Carchelejo, Cárcheles, Comarca Sierra Mágina, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (2002-2005)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.6 × 3.7 cm = 1.9” × 1.4” × 1.5”

NP8AJ5: Globular growth, very aerial and on matrix, of translucent Prehnite with an intense green color. The Prehnites of Carchelejo are currently scarce.
Oficarsa Quarry, De las Culebras Hill, Carchelejo, Cárcheles, Comarca Sierra Mágina, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (2002-2005)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.6 × 2 cm = 2.1” × 1.4” × 0.8”

NJ9AJ5: Globular growth, very aerial and on matrix, of translucent Prehnite with an intense green color. The Prehnites of Carchelejo are currently scarce.
Oficarsa Quarry, De las Culebras Hill, Carchelejo, Cárcheles, Comarca Sierra Mágina, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (2002-2005)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.4 × 2.1 cm = 2.1” × 1.3” × 0.8”

NG12T9: This is a Spanish novelty because in the Los Amigos Mine Chrysocolla wasn't mentioned before. We should also mention that the appearance of this Chrysocolla is very attractive as it isn’t just a crust as usual but it has nice forms covering what seem to be crystals of Quartz and probably Chalcedony. These nice forms together with their great color, generate what is, in our opinion, the best Chrysocolla found in Spain and nearly as fine as the nicer ones from other countries.
As usual when we offer unusual things like this, we will send a copy of the analysis to the customer.
San Enrique Shaft, Los Amigos Mine, La Cruz Group of Mines, La Cruz vein, Mesa de Valdelloso, Linares, Comarca Sierra Morena, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (11/2011)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 2 × 2.5 cm = 2.0” × 0.8” × 1.0”

TF14AJ8: A complete Scheelite crystal with a polycrystalline base that has small matrix remains. It has a dipyramidal shape, is bright, translucent, and has a deep and uniform orange color. The sample, from a Spanish locality that is classic for the species, is from a relatively recent find.
Conchita Mine, Puerto del Lentisco-Arroyo Bosquecillo, Estepona, Comarca Costa del Sol Occidental, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (2017)

Specimen size: 1.3 × 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4” × 0.4”

MG86AJ5: Surficial aggregate of very sharp and bright octahedral Spinel crystals whose color is between mauve and violet. They are on a matrix with Calcite and Mica. Spinels from the Mijas area are undoubtably the best on the Iberian Peninsula.
Mijas Mountains, Mijas, Costa del Sol Occidental, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.9 × 3.8 cm = 3.4” × 2.7” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.3 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

N9HW1: Crystals with a dipyramidal shape, prism faces scarcely developed, good luster and bluish color due to inclusions of Magnesioriebeckite. They are on a serpentinite matrix.
Acedo Claim (Juanona Quarry), Juanona, Antequera, Comarca de Antequera, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (2000)

Specimen size: 6 × 3.5 × 4.7 cm = 2.4” × 1.4” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

ND6AI3: Very sharp and extraordinarily clear and bright Gypsum crystal with very well defined crystalline forms, partially doubly terminated and on matrix. A Spanish classic that is increasingly scarce.
The sample is from the Ignacio Hernández collection (num. 104) whose original label we’ll send to the buyer.
Alabaster Quarries, Patillas Hill, Fuentes de Ebro, Delimitación Comarcal de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Aragon  Spain

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.6 × 3.8 cm = 2.0” × 1.4” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.5 cm = 1.2” × 1.0”

NJ10X4: A novelty at Mineralexpo (Barcelona) 2013. A druse, on matrix, of cubo-octahedral crystals with a superficial iridescent patina with dominant deep metallic yellow and blue shades and a very intense luster.
Pura claim, Carmen y Pura group of mines, Valdelapiedra ravine, Foz-Calanda, Comarca Bajo Aragón, Teruel, Aragon  Spain (01/2013)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.6 × 3.7 cm = 2.4” × 1.8” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

NC11AH9: A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2018. From old mining works where samples of such quality had never been found. The Pyromorphite crystals are partially coating a Quartz matrix, have very well defined faces and edges, are translucent, bright, and have a uniform yellowish green color. A new locality to add to the list of good Spanish Pyromorphites.
La Ascensión del Señor Mine (Mercader Mine), Judío Hill, Munébrega, Comarca Comunidad de Calatayud, Zaragoza, Aragon  Spain (2017)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.2 × 1.8 cm = 2.4” × 2.0” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NX14AJ5: A surface with small short prismatic Pyromorphite crystals on matrix. They are bright and have a very intense green color. The sample is from a well-known locality but where only a few significant samples have been obtained.
Monte Bedures, Meredo, Vegadeo, Comarca Eo-Navia, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (03/2007)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 2.4 × 1.6 cm = 1.9” × 0.9” × 0.6”

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

NG27AJ5: Groups of complex Calcite crystals, very rich in faces with a predominant rhombohedron and a rounded shape. They are translucent and bright, slightly yellowish, and are on matrix with Fluorite. Very different than the usual Calcites form this prolific locality.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (06-07/2018)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 10.7 × 6.3 cm = 4.3” × 4.2” × 2.5”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3 cm = 1.6” × 1.2”

NR16AC9: Aggregate of very sharp tabular Baryte crystals with zones that have a dominant sky blue color and others with a white color and geometric zones on the edges.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (2011)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.6 × 3 cm = 2.4” × 2.2” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.6 cm = 0.9” × 0.6”

EG96AI7: Group of very sharp and thick tabular Baryte crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with parallel growths, translucent, bright, with a pale sky blue color, with complex translucent and bright Calcite crystals and partially bordered by small white Dolomite crystals.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (1992)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.2 × 4.7 cm = 2.8” × 2.4” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 3.2 cm = 1.7” × 1.3”

NP63V2: From a recent find at the Moscona mine. A druse of tabular crystals of Baryte with very well defined faces and edges, good transparency and luster and an intense sky blue color, with small yellow scalenohedral crystals of Calcite, Dolomite and minor Fluorite.
Moscona Mine, "Corte del Agua", El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (01/2012)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.3 × 4.3 cm = 3.7” × 2.9” × 1.7”

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

NA88X4: Very sharp laminar crystals of Baryte, bright and with an intense and uniform sky blue color. They are on matrix, with white Dolomite crystals and small cubic Fluorite crystals.
Moscona Mine, "Corte del Agua", El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (01/2012)

Specimen size: 17 × 10.5 × 7.3 cm = 6.7” × 4.1” × 2.9”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.9” × 0.8”

NE16M3: Complete Quartz crystal, with irregularly grown faces and dissolution forms (no fractures) on the back side. This crystal shows inclusions and small matrix fragments with laminar Baryte crystals on its surface.
Emilio Mine, "Zona Intermedia", Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (09-11/2004)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 5.1 × 4 cm = 3.5” × 2.0” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 8.5 × 4.9 cm = 3.3” × 1.9”

TC87AE2: Aggregate of doubly terminated crystals, one of them clearly dominant, that are very bright and have spherical hydrocarbon inclusions, small but very well defined. A Spanish classic of great quality.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5.5 × 3.6 cm = 2.2” × 2.2” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 3.9 cm = 2.2” × 1.5”

TY28AE2: Aggregate of doubly terminated crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with curious echeloned terminations. They are very bright and have a lot of hydrocarbon inclusions. A Spanish classic of great quality.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 9.2 × 4.8 × 3.3 cm = 3.6” × 1.9” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 9.2 × 4.3 cm = 3.6” × 1.7”

EP61AB8: Aggregate of Quartz crystals, most of them doubly terminated, with a considerable length for the locality and very rich in fluid hydrocarbide inclusions, some of them mobile.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 12.2 × 7.9 × 6.5 cm = 4.8” × 3.1” × 2.6”

Main crystal size: 8.1 × 7.1 cm = 3.2” × 2.8”

ND56AI1: Elongated Azurite crystals that are very individualized, translucent, with a very vivid color and on matrix with Quartz crystals and a large slightly altered Calcite crystal. The sample is from a very recent find at the Llamas quarry where Azurite was previously detected but of such quality.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.8 × 2.5 cm = 1.8” × 1.5” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

NE16AI1: Aggregate, on matrix, of very sharp, transparent and extraordinarily bright Azurite crystals that have a very vivid color. The sample is from a very recent find at the Llamas quarry where Azurite was previously detected but not of such quality.

Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.8 × 2.4 cm = 1.9” × 1.5” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NB36AI1: Polycrystalline spheroidal aggregate on matrix with small Quartz crystals of translucent, bright and vividly colored Azurite crystals. The sample is from a very recent find at the Llamas quarry where Azurite was previously detected but not of such quality.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.4 × 2.8 cm = 2.1” × 2.1” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

NC46AI1: Aggregate, on matrix, of very sharp Azurite crystals with small Quartz crystals. The Azurite crystals are transparent, have a very vivid color and are extraordinarily bright. The sample is from a very recent find at the Llamas quarry where Azurite was previously detected but not of such quality.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.2 × 4.9 cm = 2.5” × 1.7” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NF56AF2: Smithsonite growths pseudomorphous after scalenohedral Calcite crystals. The color is between brown and yellow and their edges are bordered by botryoidal growths which are partially coated by white Hemimorphite. In spite of the fact that the Smithsonite and the Hemimorphite from this mine are well known, to our knowledge there are no references about these Smithsonite-Calcite pseudomorphs.
Argayón Mine, Robriguero, Panes, Peñamellera Baja, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (12/2016)

Specimen size: 11.3 × 9.4 × 5.6 cm = 4.4” × 3.7” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 6.6 × 4.5 cm = 2.6” × 1.8”

NV57AD2: Complex Calcite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, rounded, with the dominant forms of a scalenohedron and a flattened rhombohedron, transparent, bright, with a very pale yellow color and on a rocky matrix with pink Dolomite.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, number 43, May 8, 2016 edition.
La Florida mining area, Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Cantabria  Spain (±2000)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5 × 3.6 cm = 2.2” × 2.0” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3.4 cm = 1.5” × 1.3”

ND7AF0: A complex crystal with many faces, among which are those of the acute rhombohedra and shortened scalenohedra which stand out, giving it an equant and rounded shape. Above all, the uniform yellow color, the transparency, brilliance and position on the Dolomite matrix are all great.
La Florida mining area, Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 7.8 × 4.4 × 5.3 cm = 3.1” × 1.7” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 3.4 cm = 1.3” × 1.3”

NT67AE2: Complex Calcite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with many faces, among which the acute rhombohedron and shortened scalenohedra stand out, giving them an equant and rounded shape. The crystals, transparent and colorless, are on a matrix of Dolomite crystals with Sphalerite and smaller Calcite crystals with an acute scalenohedral shape.
La Florida mining area, Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Cantabria  Spain (±2000)

Specimen size: 11.4 × 8.6 × 4.2 cm = 4.5” × 3.4” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.7 cm = 1.1” × 1.1”

NA67AE7: Complex Calcite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with many faces, among which acute rhombohedra and shortened scalenohedra stand out, giving it an equant and rounded shape. Above all is the brilliance, transparency and uniform yellow color of the Calcite crystals, implanted on a rocky matrix coated by pink Dolomite crystals.
La Florida mining area, Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 14 × 10.8 × 7 cm = 5.5” × 4.3” × 2.8”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 3.1 cm = 1.5” × 1.2”

N46YH5: Small prismatic crystals of Hemimorphite, dark brown, very sharp and bright, partially covered by a botryoidal uniform bed of white Hydrozincite.
La Florida mining area, Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Cantabria  Spain (1997)

Specimen size: 14.3 × 11 × 4 cm = 5.6” × 4.3” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

ND10X7: Aggregates of complex equant crystals, translucent, bright, and with a very deep dark honey color. On matrix, with Calcite and small Quartz crystals. It has been discovered in a recent find at an abandoned mine, well known for Calcite and Baryte and now offering these Sphalerite samples of very much better quality than all previously known.
María Jesús Mine (Lobeto Mine), Sol Viejo, Cabanzón, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria  Spain (2012-2013)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.8 × 3.3 cm = 2.0” × 1.5” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

NE62X7: Aggregate of complex equant crystals, translucent, bright, and with a very deep dark honey color. They are on matrix, with small Quartz crystals and white scalenohedral Calcite crystals on the back side. It has been discovered in a recent find on an abandoned mine, well known for Calcite and Baryte and now offering this Sphalerite samples of very much better quality than all previously known.
María Jesús Mine (Lobeto Mine), Sol Viejo, Cabanzón, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria  Spain (2012-2013)

Specimen size: 6 × 5 × 3.4 cm = 2.4” × 2.0” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

NG56AF0: A novelty at MineralExpo Sants (Barcelona) 2017. Smithsonite replacing Calcite crystals. It is yellowish and partially coated by small white Hemimorphite crystals. Both the Smithsonite and the Hemimorphite have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Moriazo Mine, Casamaría, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria  Spain (2016)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 6 × 3 cm = 2.4” × 2.4” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.1 cm = 0.7” × 0.4”

NH13AF0: A novelty at MineralExpo Sants (Barcelona) 2017. Smithsonite replacing Calcite crystals. It is yellowish and partially coated by small white Hemimorphite crystals. Both the Smithsonite and the Hemimorphite have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Moriazo Mine, Casamaría, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria  Spain (2016)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.9 × 3.2 cm = 2.5” × 1.5” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.8 cm = 0.7” × 0.3”

NK14AF0: A novelty at MineralExpo Sants (Barcelona) 2017. Smithsonite replacing Calcite crystals. It is yellowish and partially coated by small white Hemimorphite crystals. Both the Smithsonite and the Hemimorphite have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Moriazo Mine, Casamaría, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria  Spain (2016)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.8 × 2.7 cm = 2.5” × 2.3” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.2 cm = 1.3” × 0.9”

NL16AE8: A novelty at MineralExpo Sants (Barcelona) 2017. Aggregate of Smithsonite replacing and partially coating Calcite crystals. It is yellowish and partially coated by small white Hemimorphite crystals. Both the Smithsonite and the Hemimorphite have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Moriazo Mine, Casamaría, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria  Spain (2016)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 5 × 4.4 cm = 2.8” × 2.0” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2 cm = 1.1” × 0.8”

NB37AK4: Group of complex crystals of Sphalerite with faces and edges much more defined than usual at this locality, very bright, between translucent and transparent and very bright and deep color tones.
The specimen comes from the collection of Carlos González Bargueño, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Las Mánforas Mine, nivel 3, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (2004)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.7 × 1.9 cm = 1.7” × 1.1” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.8 cm = 0.7” × 0.7”

NE50AK4: Complex crystal of Sphalerite, twinned, with the faces and edges more defined than usual at the locality, between translucent and transparent, very bright and uniform orange shade and on matrix with white Dolomite crystals. The specimen comes from the collection of Carlos González Bargueño, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Las Mánforas Mine, nivel 1, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (2004)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.1 × 3.5 cm = 2.8” × 1.6” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3.1 cm = 1.8” × 1.2”

NR12R9: A complex crystal with curvatures on its faces and edges. It is transparent and has an excellent deep honey color. The back side shows exfoliated surfaces.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2 × 1 cm = 1.1” × 0.8” × 0.4”

NM58AJ5: Polycrystalline growths of complex crystals with notable curvatures on faces and edges, transparent and with an excellent deep honey color. The back is a contact surface with a disappeared crystal, probably a scalenohedral Calcite.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2 × 1.2 cm = 1.3” × 0.8” × 0.5”

NG37AJ8: Sphalerite crystals with complex but unusually well defined forms for the locality. They are bright, very transparent and have a very intense and uniform honey yellow color. On matrix with small white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. A small jewel from Las Mánforas that comes from the Carlos González Bargueño collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Las Mánforas Mine, nivel 2, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (2002)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.3 × 1.8 cm = 1.4” × 1.3” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

NT13AB1: Complex crystal with curvatures on its faces and edges, twinned, with parallel growths, transparent, with an excellent deep honey color and partially coated by small white Dolomite crystals. From a Spanish mine, inaccessible for many of years, that is considered as a classic for the Sphalerite.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3 × 2.2 cm = 1.4” × 1.2” × 0.9”

TA66AD4: Aggregate of complex Sphalerite crystals, some with smooth faces and others with echeloned forms due to parallel growth. The crystals, partially coated by small white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals, are translucent, very bright and have a uniform honey color. A Spanish classic.
Las Mánforas Mine, nivel 2, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 5 × 4.9 × 3.4 cm = 2.0” × 1.9” × 1.3”

NM8AB1: Complex equidimensional crystals, translucent and with a very deep toasted honey color. They are on matrix, with Dolomite. From a Spanish mine, inaccessible for many of years, that is considered as a classic for the Sphalerite.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.6 × 3 cm = 3.0” × 2.2” × 1.2”

ME92AF2: Aggregate of complex Sphalerite crystals, very rich in faces that combine smooth and rough surfaces. The crystals, bright and between translucent and transparent, have a very intense orange color, easily visible with intense lightning.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 9.3 × 7.8 × 4.8 cm = 3.7” × 3.1” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3.1 cm = 1.6” × 1.2”

N96EK0: Group of very sharp, twinned crystals of excellent color and luster on a matrix very rich in Galena and Dolomite. Due to the appearance and the association with Galena it looks different that the usual specimens from Áliva, but it is really from there.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 9.4 × 6.6 × 4.6 cm = 3.7” × 2.6” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

NM93AE6: An aggregate of complex Sphalerite crystals with curved faces, some smooth and others with polycrystalline growths. These crystals, between transparent and translucent, are very bright, have a very dense, deep and uniform honey color and are partially coated by white Dolomite rhombohedra.
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 13 × 12 × 7 cm = 5.1” × 4.7” × 2.8”

NG26AF2: Sharp rhombohedral Cinnabar crystals on matrix. They have an intense red color and have hoppered growths with very small Quartz crystals.
Escarlati Mine, level 3, Puerto de las Señales, Maraña, Comarca Montaña Oriental, León, Castile and León  Spain (2007)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.8 × 3.5 cm = 2.5” × 1.9” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

NH46AF2: Rhombohedral Cinnabar crystals on matrix. They have an intense red color and their faces and edges are very well defined, , with some hoppered faces that have small Quartz crystals inside of them.
Escarlati Mine, level 3, Puerto de las Señales, Maraña, Comarca Montaña Oriental, León, Castile and León  Spain (2007)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 7.8 × 4.5 cm = 3.5” × 3.1” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

NC27AH7: An alignment of rhombohedral Cinnabar crystals that have a very good luster and color and whose faces and edges are very much better defined than usual on samples from this locality. They are on massive Quartz matrix. An excellent Spanish classic with very few samples available today.
Escarlati Mine, level 3, Puerto de las Señales, Maraña, Comarca Montaña Oriental, León, Castile and León  Spain (2007)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 7.8 × 5.2 cm = 4.9” × 3.1” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

NQ91AK0: Group of complex crystals of Cinnabar with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright, with a very vivid and deep color, with coatings of small white crystals of Dolomite and on matrix. Also with small drops of native Mercury.
An old classic from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar, which was previously in the collection of Martín Oliete. We will send the buyer the cards from both collections.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (1980)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.9” × 1.9” × 0.5”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

NA47AG9: Isolated Cinnabar crystals on matrix with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright and with a very intense color. A Spanish classic-classic.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1960-70)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.5 × 2.8 cm = 1.2” × 1.0” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

NT69AI7: Group of crystals with well-defined faces and edges and very well defined skeletal and parallel growths. They are translucent, very bright, have a very vivid color and they are on a matrix of white Quartz microcrystals.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1960-70)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.3 × 1.3 cm = 2.4” × 1.3” × 0.5”

TR96AG9: Isolated Cinnabar crystals on matrix, with very well defined faces and edges, clearly twinned, translucent, very bright and with a very intense color. A Spanish classic.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5 × 2.2 cm = 2.5” × 2.0” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

NT69AG9: Parallel growth of Cinnabar crystals with polycrystalline surfaces and slight curvatures on the edges. They are translucent, bright, with an intense color and are on matrix with small Quartz crystals. A Spanish classic. The sample is from the Eugeni Bareche collection (num. 692) and we’ll send the label to the buyer.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1960-70)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 5.7 × 4.3 cm = 3.2” × 2.2” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.8 cm = 0.7” × 0.3”

NA54AH4: Aggregates of Cinnabar crystals with very well defined faces and edges, with a predominant rhombohedron, translucent, very bright and on a quartzite matrix coated by white Calcite microcrystals. An excellent Spanish classic.
Almaden Mine, Almadén, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1960-70)

Specimen size: 16 × 8 × 5 cm = 6.3” × 3.1” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

NQ37AJ5: Very aerial reticulated twins of very flat Cerussite crystals with a white, slightly pinkish color.
The sample is from the Ignacio Gaspar collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Luis Mine, 88 m.↓ Norte vein, Del General Mines, Cabezarrubias del Puerto, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (05/2013)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2 × 0.6 cm = 1.4” × 0.8” × 0.2”

NR89AI7: Floater reticulated group of flattened prismatic and twinned Cerussite crystals with slightly pinkish shades. It has been perfectly preserved, something not usual on samples from this
The sample is from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection (reg. CER-36) whose card we’ll send to the buyer.
Luis Mine, "fisura de las Velas", Norte vein, Del General Mines, Cabezarrubias del Puerto, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (06/2013)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.3 × 0.4 cm = 1.8” × 0.9” × 0.2”

NF62X6: A novelty at the Escuela de Minas de Madrid Show 2013. Aggregates of very bright vivid yellow crystals with well defined faces of a short prism and the terminal pinacoid. They are on a limonite matrix.
Luis Mine, Norte vein, Del General Mines, Cabezarrubias del Puerto, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (01/03/2013)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 2.6 × 1.8 cm = 2.4” × 1.0” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.1” × 0.0”

NN96AJ8: Floater group of short prismatic Pyromorphite crystals that are doubly terminated, with good terminal faces that are partially polycrystalline. They are bright and have a uniform yellowish-green color. A classic of Spanish mineralogy.
El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.8” × 0.6” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

PX76AJ5: Dendritic growths of very well defined, bright and elongated native Silver crystals, with small crystals and aggregates of Acanthite on a massive Calcite matrix.
Balcoll Mine, Falset, Comarca Priorat, Tarragona, Catalonia  Spain (11/2004)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.8 × 1.5 cm = 1.8” × 1.1” × 0.6”

PT48AI5: Dendritic growths, on a matrix of massive Calcite, of elongated native Silver crystals that are very well defined and bright, partially coated by Acanthite crystals. The Calcite matrix has been etched with acid to expose the Silver.
Balcoll Mine, Falset, Comarca Priorat, Tarragona, Catalonia  Spain (11/2004)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 5.2 × 3.5 cm = 2.4” × 2.0” × 1.4”

PM96AJ5: The sample on a massive Calcite matrix is uncommonly large. It has dendritic growths of very well defined elongated and bright crystals of native Silver with small crystals and aggregates of Acanthite.
Balcoll Mine, Falset, Comarca Priorat, Tarragona, Catalonia  Spain (11/2004)

Specimen size: 15.2 × 12.6 × 4.7 cm = 6.0” × 5.0” × 1.9”

NB14AD2: Very well defined Mimetite crystals. They are millimetric in size, very well defined, translucent, with a greenish yellow color. They show an elongated prism and an acute dipyramid. The Mimetite is more or less completely coating an isolated cubic Galena crystal that is implanted on a matrix upholstered by aggregates of lenticular white Baryte crystals. Furthermore, there are laminar Wulfenite crystals that can be observed by close inspection. The Mimetite from this mine was already known, but not with this so well defined presentation, completely coating the Galena and absent on the Baryte. We’ll send a copy of the analysis of the mimetite to the buyer.
Atrevida Mine, Vimbodí i Poblet, Comarca Conca de Barberà, Tarragona, Catalonia  Spain (15-16/07/2015)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2.3 × 1.4 cm = 0.9” × 0.9” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

NB96AE7: An important find in the well-known old Atrevida mine, in the summer of 2015 a single geode with crusts of very well defined Mimetite crystals was uncovered. They are millimetric in size, very well defined and translucent with a greenish-yellow color and they show an elongated prism and an acute dipyramid. The Mimetite is more or less completely coating isolated or grouped cubic Galena crystals that are implanted on a matrix upholstered by aggregates of lenticular white Baryte crystals. Furthermore, most of the samples have small Pyromorphite aggregates and laminar Wulfenite crystals that can be observed by close inspection. The Mimetite from this mine was already known, but not with such a well-defined and fine presentation, completely coating the Galena and absent on the Baryte.
Atrevida Mine, Vimbodí i Poblet, Comarca Conca de Barberà, Tarragona, Catalonia  Spain (15/12/2015)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.3 × 3.2 cm = 2.5” × 1.7” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

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, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia  Spain

Specimen size: 6.7 × 3 × 2.6 cm = 2.6” × 1.2” × 1.0”

NH11S6: Sceptered Quartz amethyst with a very intense color, from a quarry located in the Montseny Mountains area near Barcelona.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia  Spain (10/2005)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.6” × 1.1” × 0.7”

NE66W4: Scepter growth partially doubly terminated, bright, between transparent and translucent and with a very deep violet color. On smoky Quartz matrix.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia  Spain (04/2005)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.6 × 4 cm = 2.6” × 1.8” × 1.6”

NP14AJ5: Microcline crystal with simple forms and skeletal growths and a smoky Quartz crystal with a very deep color and superficial recrystallization of white Quartz.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia  Spain (2004-2010)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 6.2 × 5.3 cm = 2.4” × 2.4” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 4.1 cm = 2.0” × 1.6”

NJ6AI0: Aggregate of crystals with very well defined parallel growths, Manebach law twinned with a pale pink color.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia  Spain (±2006)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 8.5 × 3.4 cm = 3.4” × 3.3” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

NF66AI7: Microcline crystals with very well defined Baveno-law twins, with a pale pinkish color, with a parallel smoky Quartz crystal and groups of white Albite crystals. The sample is from the Daunis collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia  Spain (2004-2010)

Specimen size: 9 × 7.5 × 5.6 cm = 3.5” × 3.0” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 5 × 3.2 cm = 2.0” × 1.3”

NQ66W4: Single crystal of very deep colored smoky Quartz. It is transparent and bright and it is on a small matrix of Microcline and Albite, with leafy growths of Muscovite. The crystal shows a notable phantom growth at its termination.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia  Spain (04/2004)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 3.7 × 3.2 cm = 3.6” × 1.5” × 1.3”

NH9S6: Sceptered Quartz amethyst from the finds of a few years ago, when the workings of the new high-speed train (AVE) crossed a mineralized area of the Montseny Mountains near Barcelona.
Soliva Quarry (AVE Quarry works), Can Sala, Riudarenes, Comarca La Selva, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia  Spain (08/2005)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.6 × 2.9 cm = 2.4” × 1.4” × 1.1”

NG12S6: Quartz amethyst from the finds of a few years ago, when the workings of the new high-speed train (AVE) crossed a mineralized area of the Montseny Mountains near Barcelona.
Soliva Quarry (AVE Quarry works), Can Sala, Riudarenes, Comarca La Selva, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia  Spain (07/2006)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.3 × 2.5 cm = 2.4” × 2.1” × 1.0”

NH28AJ0: Quartz (amethyst variety) crystals that are translucent, bright and have geometric color bands, deeper and denser on the edges.
The sample has great quality for the locality and is from the Jaume Vilalta collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Soliva Quarry (AVE Quarry works), Can Sala, Riudarenes, Comarca La Selva, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia  Spain (06/2006)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 6.6 × 3.9 cm = 3.6” × 2.6” × 1.5”

MV27R9: Parallel growth of crystals on a base of white Quartz. Crystals are transparent, bright and have an excellent, very deep, color with color zoning specially concentrated on the edges.
Soliva Quarry (AVE Quarry works), Can Sala, Riudarenes, Comarca La Selva, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia  Spain (2006)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.5 × 6.2 cm = 3.7” × 3.0” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.8 cm = 1.6” × 1.5”

MY17Q1: Very esthetic Group, with parallel growths and very deep color especially concentrated on the zones near the edges.
Soliva Quarry (AVE Quarry works), Can Sala, Riudarenes, Comarca La Selva, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia  Spain (2005)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 7 × 4 cm = 4.1” × 2.8” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.5” × 0.9”

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, Girona / Gerona, Catalonia  Spain

Specimen size: 8.6 × 5.6 × 4.6 cm = 3.4” × 2.2” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 8.4 × 4 cm = 3.3” × 1.6”

NB27AJ5: Very well defined smoky Quartz crystals with shades between gray and brown and on matrix with sharp Microcline crystals. From a more or less well-known locality but where only a few samples of this quality were collected.
Can Berenguer Hill, Gualba, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia  Spain (2015)

Specimen size: 13.7 × 9.5 × 6.6 cm = 5.4” × 3.7” × 2.6”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 2 cm = 1.8” × 0.8”

NA86AJ5: Botryoidal growths with very acute terminations and recrystallization, with a deep black color and bright. A Spanish classic.
La Arboleda Mines, La Arboleda (Zugaztieta), Valle de Trápaga/Trapagaran, Comarca Gran Bilbao, Bizkaia / Vizcaya, Euskadi  Spain

Specimen size: 15.7 × 13.2 × 6.3 cm = 6.2” × 5.2” × 2.5”

MF27AJ5: Galena crystals on matrix, one of them clearly dominant, with the form of the cube truncated by the octahedron on the corners. The sample is of the best quality for the locality.
Aizpea claim, Cerain Mines, Zerain, Comarca Goyerri, Gipuzkoa / Guipúzcoa, Euskadi  Spain

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.3 × 4.6 cm = 3.3” × 2.5” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.2 cm = 1.2” × 0.9”

TA89AJ5: Complex Sphalerite crystals, transparent, extraordinarily bright and with a very deep and intense red-honey color. They are on matrix with yellowish brown rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. An excellent Spanish classic of the best quality for the locality.
From the Silvane and Chris Amo collections whose labels we will send to the buyer.
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Gipuzkoa / Guipúzcoa, Euskadi  Spain

Specimen size: 6.7 × 6 × 4.2 cm = 2.6” × 2.4” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

NC13AJ5: Complex Sphalerite crystals, transparent, extraordinarily bright and with a very deep and intense honey color. They are on matrix with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. A Spanish classic, each time more difficult to obtain.
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Gipuzkoa / Guipúzcoa, Euskadi  Spain (±1985)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 4.7 × 3.3 cm = 3.0” × 1.9” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

EF50AJ5: Complex Sphalerite crystals, very large for the locality, transparent, very bright with a deep and intense honey color and partially coated by bright Chalcopyrite microcrystals.
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Gipuzkoa / Guipúzcoa, Euskadi  Spain

Specimen size: 14 × 11.3 × 7.8 cm = 5.5” × 4.4” × 3.1”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

NP27AA6: Druse of small, complex, twinned Sphalerite crystals, extraordinarily bright and transparent and with a very deep honey color. The matrix is partially coated by small, white Dolomite crystals and rhombohedral Siderite crystals. This mine is currently abandoned and flooded, and its old galleries are completely inaccessible.
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Gipuzkoa / Guipúzcoa, Euskadi  Spain (±1985)

Specimen size: 11.6 × 9.1 × 6.3 cm = 4.6” × 3.6” × 2.5”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

NH50AF0: Complete Gold nugget preserving rough octahedral crystalline forms, with relatively well preserved faces and edges.
Talarrubias / Casas de Don Pedro area, Comarca La Siberia, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.3 × 0.4 cm = 0.6” × 0.5” × 0.2”

NG49AF0: Leafy masses on a white Quartz matrix of skeletal Gold crystals with molds that have preserved the shape of disappeared Quartz crystals.
Talarrubias / Casas de Don Pedro area, Comarca La Siberia, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.5 × 1.9 cm = 0.6” × 0.6” × 0.7”

NR97AC4: Flattened and elongated Gold nugget with small vugs, inclusions and hollows. The sample has a good size for the locality and shows on its upper part some defined but quite rounded crystalline forms.
Talarrubias / Casas de Don Pedro area, Comarca La Siberia, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain (02-03/2012)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1 × 0.3 cm = 0.7” × 0.4” × 0.1”

NM68AH4: Dendritic, spongy and laminar Gold growths perched on a Quartz pebble. From an occasional and very recent find at a Spanish place in an area in which Gold pebbles have been noted, but is not well known until now.
Paraje Jardines del Guadiana, Casas de Don Pedro, Comarca La Siberia, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.4 × 0.8 cm = 0.8” × 0.6” × 0.3”

PE46AI7: Very slightly eroded nugget of native Gold preserving some quite well defined crystalline forms that have a considerable size. The sample is from well-known gold locality but where samples of this size are rare.
Coria-Moraleja road, Valles de Huelega, Guijo de Coria, Comarca Vegas del Alagón, Cáceres, Extremadura  Spain

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.4 × 0.5 cm = 0.9” × 0.6” × 0.2”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

NE50Z0: Flattened and elongated nugget, with hollows and red inclusions. It has a good size for the locality and, in some areas, preserves well defined, slightly rounded crystalline forms.
Talarrubias / Casas de Don Pedro area, Comarca La Siberia, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain

Specimen size: 2.4 × 0.9 × 0.4 cm = 0.9” × 0.4” × 0.2”

NA77AH4: Very flattened oblong gold pebble that partially retains some crystalline forms on both surfaces. From an occasional and very recent find at a Spanish place in an area in which Gold pebbles have been noted, but not well known until now.
Paraje Jardines del Guadiana, Casas de Don Pedro, Comarca La Siberia, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.6 × 0.5 cm = 1.1” × 0.6” × 0.2”

NF76AC4: Irregular native Gold aggregate on a matrix of massive Quartz, with poorly defined crystalline surfaces at the right and skeletal growths at the left.
Talarrubias / Casas de Don Pedro area, Comarca La Siberia, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain (02-03/2012)

Specimen size: 4 × 2.9 × 1.6 cm = 1.6” × 1.1” × 0.6”

NA13AJ5: Two Beryl (emerald variety) crystals, one of them clearly dominant and aerial, with an intense color and on a Phlogopite matrix.
Emerald Deposit, A Franqueira, A Cañiza, Comarca Paradanta, Pontevedra, Galicia  Spain

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.9 × 2.6 cm = 1.8” × 1.1” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.9” × 0.6”

NV6AF2: Thick tabular Beryl (emerald variety) crystal a distinct hexagonal shape, with inclusions of leafy Phlogopite aggregates.
Emerald Deposit, A Franqueira, A Cañiza, Comarca Paradanta, Pontevedra, Galicia  Spain

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.1 × 1.8 cm = 1.5” × 1.2” × 0.7”

NX13AJ9: Aggregate, on a thin matrix, of very sharp crystals, a lot of them doubly terminated, with apparently simple forms but richer than usual on terminal faces. They are clear, colorless and very bright.
The sample is from the Ignacio Hernández collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Pepita Mine (Mine entrance Alcanadre), Alcanadre, Comarca Rioja Media, La Rioja  Spain

Specimen size: 7.7 × 3.2 × 5.1 cm = 3.0” × 1.3” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.8 cm = 1.0” × 0.7”

NK14Y9: Spheroidal aggregates of platy Bavenite crystals. They are translucent, very bright, and on matrix, with Chlorite and small, very clear and bright, smoky Quartz crystals. Carlos González Bargueño was the first to find these Bavenites and it is thanks to his labor that these extraordinary samples have been saved.
Valdeconejillos Quarry, Cadalso de los Vidrios, Comarca Sierra Oeste de Madrid, Madrid, Community of Madrid  Spain (2006)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.9 × 3.1 cm = 1.6” × 1.5” × 1.2”

EP67AJ5: Aerial group of Microcline crystals with a very well defined double Baveno-Manebach twin, and with echeloned parallel growths and partially coated by Prehnite crystals with a pale green color and white Calcite crystals.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Navazales Quarry, La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama, Madrid, Community of Madrid  Spain (04/2001)

Specimen size: 11.1 × 8.6 × 7.3 cm = 4.4” × 3.4” × 2.9”

Main crystal size: 6.6 × 5.1 cm = 2.6” × 2.0”

EB27AJ5: Spheroidal aggregates of Prehnite crystals that are well defined, translucent, with an excellent luster and a pale color, between green and yellow. They are on a matrix with Microcline, Clinozoisite and white tabular Calcite crystals.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Los Taberneros Quarry, (La Cabrera pluton), Los Taberneros, El Berrueco, Comarca Sierra Norte, Madrid, Community of Madrid  Spain (03/1999)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 8.2 × 5.8 cm = 5.7” × 3.2” × 2.3”

EQ47AJ5: Group of smoky colored crystals between transparent and translucent with white phantom growths, very bright and on matrix with Microcline.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Navazales II Quarry, La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco-Bustarviejo-Cabanillas de la Sierra-Navalafuente, Madrid, Community of Madrid  Spain (02/2001)

Specimen size: 10 × 7.4 × 6.8 cm = 3.9” × 2.9” × 2.7”

Main crystal size: 8.7 × 5.6 cm = 3.4” × 2.2”

NA6AC1: Radial aggregates of acicular crystals whose chemical composition is between Clinozoisite (dominant) and Epidote. The crystals are implanted on a matrix partially coated by clear green Prehnite aggregates, Orthoclase and Quartz crystals. The sample is from a large famous find in 1999 at the La Saludadora Quarry.
Isabel Quarry (La Saludadora Quarry), La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama, Madrid, Community of Madrid  Spain (03/1999)

Specimen size: 19.8 × 15.1 × 4.5 cm = 7.8” × 5.9” × 1.8”

EF96AI8: Group of thick tabular Calcite crystals with very well defined geometrical zoning and on a Quartz matrix. The crystals have a considerable size for the locality.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Los Taberneros Quarry, (La Cabrera pluton), Los Taberneros, El Berrueco, Comarca Sierra Norte, Madrid, Community of Madrid  Spain (05/2004)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 5 × 3.8 cm = 2.0” × 2.0” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2 cm = 1.2” × 0.8”

NK14AK4: Two very outstanding and profiled Stokesite crystals, transparent and on matrix, with Albite. These Stokesites, found in 1999 and reviewed in an article in The Mineralogical Record in 2012, are considered the best crystallized in the world and were found in a single pocket from which very few specimens were recovered.
Isabel Quarry (La Saludadora Quarry), La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama, Madrid, Community of Madrid  Spain (1999)

Specimen size: 1 × 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.4” × 0.2”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

NA86AK4: Stokesite crystal, very sharp, colorless, transparent, very lustrous and on matrix, with Albite and Microcline. These Stokesites, found in 1999 and reviewed in an article in The Mineralogical Record in 2012, are considered the best crystallized in the world and were found in a single pocket from which very few specimens were recovered.
Isabel Quarry (La Saludadora Quarry), La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama, Madrid, Community of Madrid  Spain (1999)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.1 × 1.4 cm = 1.3” × 0.8” × 0.6”

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

NY46Z6: Very sharp Stokesite crystal, colorless, transparent, very bright and on a smoky Quartz matrix with Albite, Microcline and Muscovite. These samples were found in 1999 and noted in 2012 in a paper in The Mineralogical Record, and are considered as the best crystallized worldwide. They were recovered in a single cavity that produced very few pieces.
Isabel Quarry (La Saludadora Quarry), La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama, Madrid, Community of Madrid  Spain (1999)

Specimen size: 0.9 × 0.9 × 0.9 cm = 0.4” × 0.4” × 0.4”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

NJ96AK4: Groups of very sharp and bright octahedral crystals with vivid iridescence dominated by copper tones. On matrix, with small white lenticular crystals of Calcite.
Tomasa Mine, La Fortuna, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia  Spain

Specimen size: 9.6 × 7.6 × 5.1 cm = 3.8” × 3.0” × 2.0”

TD97AF7: Parallel growths of very sharp Gypsum crystals that are clear and colorless and very bright. On a rocky matrix with small Siderite crystals and Quartz (chalcedony variety).
The sample is from the collection of La Unión area minerals of Alain Martaud, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Tomasa Mine, La Fortuna, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia  Spain (1980-1985)

Specimen size: 12.3 × 11.7 × 7.5 cm = 4.8” × 4.6” × 3.0”

Main crystal size: 7 × 3.1 cm = 2.8” × 1.2”

TQ14AF7: Cubo-octahedral Galena crystals on a rocky matrix with very well defined faces and edges. They are very bright and are partially coated by aggregates of small complex and very bright Sphalerite crystals.
The sample is from the collection of La Unión area minerals of Alain Martaud, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Sultana open pit, Cabezo de Ponce, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia  Spain

Specimen size: 5 × 3.4 × 2.2 cm = 2.0” × 1.3” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

MR88AJ5: Groups of complex twinned Sphalerite crystals with the dominant forms of a tetrahedron, bright black and on matrix with small Quartz crystals.
José Maestre Tunnel, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Portmán, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia  Spain

Specimen size: 12.8 × 11.8 × 5.3 cm = 5.0” × 4.6” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

TP26AI7: Coatings of rhombohedral Siderite microcrystals that are very bright and have a deep yellowish color with golden reflections. They are are on a group of Quartz (amethyst variety) crystals with a very pale color. The sample is from the collection of La Unión area minerals of Alain Martaud whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia  Spain (1980-1985)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 5.1 × 3 cm = 2.4” × 2.0” × 1.2”

TE76AG0: Group of Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with a very short prism and coated by a second generation of micro-crystalline Quartz. With small Siderite crystals.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia  Spain

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.2 × 6 cm = 3.9” × 2.8” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 4.6 cm = 2.2” × 1.8”

NM86AJ0: Druse of Quartz (amethyst variety) crystals with a very short prism. They are transparent, very bright, with a uniform pale lilac color, and partially coated by small groups of Siderite crystals.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2019, page 91
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia  Spain

Specimen size: 10.7 × 7.7 × 3 cm = 4.2” × 3.0” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 2 × 2 cm = 0.8” × 0.8”

TT67AG0: Group of Quartz crystals on matrix. They have a very short prism and are translucent with a pale amethyst color, and they are partially encrusted by white Calcite crystals and with small spheroidal Siderites.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia  Spain

Specimen size: 12.2 × 8.2 × 5.8 cm = 4.8” × 3.2” × 2.3”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3.5 cm = 1.5” × 1.4”

TQ98AI7: Azurite crystals with a lenticular shape, translucent, very bright and implanted on a limonite matrix coated by surfaces and spheroidal aggregates of Malachite with a silky luster. Of the best quality for the locality. The sample is from the collection of La Unión area minerals of Alain Martaud whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia  Spain (1980-1985)

Specimen size: 14.8 × 13.3 × 4.8 cm = 5.8” × 5.2” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.5 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

NE14Z5: Aggregate of very sharp Baryte crystals, between laminar and tabular, bright with a deep blue color and with phantom growths. It is from a currently extinct mine, very popular some time ago due to the intense color of these Barytes.
San Jorge mining group, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Portmán, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia  Spain (2004-2006)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5.1 × 3.8 cm = 2.2” × 2.0” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.8” × 0.6”

TM27AG0: Druse of tabular Baryte crystals on matrix, they have a white color superficially stained by iron oxides. They are bright and have very well defined faces and edges.
Victoria Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, El Estrecho de San Ginés, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia  Spain

Specimen size: 11.3 × 8.7 × 3.9 cm = 4.4” × 3.4” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2 cm = 0.9” × 0.8”

NX86AJ7: Cubo-octahedral Galena crystals in tabular growths, pseudomorphous after Pyrrhotite, with Sphalerite. Although they were previously known in the area the specimen is from a very recent find.
Sultana open pit, Cabezo de Ponce, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia  Spain (11/2018)

Specimen size: 10.1 × 5.7 × 4.1 cm = 4.0” × 2.2” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.1 cm = 1.0” × 0.4”