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NM67AI5: Very aerial reticulated twins of very flattened white Cerussite crystals.
The sample is from the Ignacio Gaspar collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Luis Mine, Norte vein, Del General Mines, Cabezarrubias del Puerto, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha Spain (06/2013)
Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.4 × 0.9 cm = 1.7” × 0.9” × 0.4”
Fluorescent short UV
Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar
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NC89AI0: Floater reticulated group of flattened prismatic and twinned Cerussite crystals with a white color and slightly pinkish shades. It has been perfectly preserved and has a “rosette” appearance different from most samples from this locality
The sample is from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection (reg. CER-aaa), whose collection card we’ll send to the buyer.
Luis Mine, 88 m.↓ Norte vein, Del General Mines, Cabezarrubias del Puerto, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha Spain (06/2013)
Specimen size: 5 × 2.8 × 1.9 cm = 2.0” × 1.1” × 0.7”
Minor fluorescence short UV
Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar
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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”
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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”
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| Cinnabar with Quarz and Dolomite |
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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”
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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”
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| Cinnabar with Calcite |
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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”
Euro:980 / US$1127 / Yen:128400 / AUD$1594
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Bavenite with smoky Quartz and Feldspar |
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NX63AA7: Isolated Bavenite crystal with polycrystalline growths on its faces. It has a good luster, with an ivory-white color and is implanted on a Feldspar matrix coated by epitaxial Quartz crystals, with scattered Chlorite crystals.
The sample is from the Carlos González Bargueño collection, whose label we will send to the buyer. Carlos was the first to find these Bavenites and it was thanks to his labor that these extraordinary samples have been saved.
Venero I Quarry, Cadalso de los Vidrios, Comarca Sierra Oeste de Madrid, Madrid, Community of Madrid Spain (2005)
Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.8 × 2.8 cm = 2.4” × 1.9” × 1.1”
Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.3” × 0.3”
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| Bavenite with smoky Quartz and Chlorite |
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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”
Former collection of Carlos González Bargueño
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Clinozoisite-Epidote with Prehnite, Microcline and Quartz |
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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”
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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”
Minor fluorescence short UV
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The small San Andrés Mine in Villaviciosa, Córdoba, produced, over the period 1997-1998, some really great Pyromorphite! The color is a fantastic apple green and their brilliance is typical of the specimens that in the past have made this mine famous. These are, without doubt, the best Pyromorphite found in Europe during the last few years, and they really compete well with the famous American Bunker Hill Pyromorphite, and with the new Chinese ones. The specimens were found in two different pockets. The first one was found in November 1997 and it was called 'Realces' pocket. The second (and last) one was found in November 1998. It was called the 'Geoda del Tunel' pocket. Unfortunately, after these two pockets the mine entrance was blocked by tons of rubble.
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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”
Minor fluorescence short UV
Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar
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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”
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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”
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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”
Minor fluorescence short UV
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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”
Minor fluorescence long & short UV
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N90CZ8: Irregular aggregate, on matrix, of crystals formed by a short prism and the pinacoid, whose faces and edges are very well defined. They have a clear apple green color and 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 (11/1998)
Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.6 × 3.4 cm = 3.3” × 2.2” × 1.3”
Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”
Minor fluorescence short UV
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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”
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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”
Minor fluorescence short UV
Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar
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NE13AI5: 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: 1,6 × 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.4” × 0.6” × 0.6”
Minor fluorescence short UV
Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar
Euro:80 / US$91 / Yen:10260 / AUD$125
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ND37AI5: 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.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, report 51, December 5, 2018 edition.
San Andrés Mine, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia Spain (1987)
Specimen size: 3.1 × 3.1 × 1.9 cm = 1.2” × 1.2” × 0.7”
Minor fluorescence short UV
Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar
Euro:230 / US$260 / Yen:29590 / AUD$359
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NA67AI5: 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, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia Spain (1987)
Specimen size: 2.7 × 2 × 3 cm = 1.1” × 0.8” × 1.2”
Minor fluorescence short UV
Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar
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EA12AI3: Spheroidal Pyrolusite aggregates on a limonite matrix of bundles of crystals with finely but deeply striated faces. A considerable size and an extraordinarily bright luster contrasting with Romanéchite aggregates, powdery with a deep black color. The sample is of an extraordinary quality for the locality and even for the species.
Haití Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, San Ginés de la Jara, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain (10/2017)
Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.8 × 2.2 cm = 1.7” × 1.5” × 0.9”
Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”
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ED16AI3: Spheroidal Pyrolusite aggregates on a limonite matrix of bundles of crystals with finely but deeply striated faces. A considerable size and an extraordinarily bright luster contrasting with Romanéchite aggregates, powdery with a deep black color. The sample is of an extraordinary quality for the locality and even for the species.
Haití Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, San Ginés de la Jara, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain (10/2017)
Specimen size: 4.4 × 5.4 × 4.2 cm = 1.7” × 2.1” × 1.7”
Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”
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EC11AI3: Spheroidal Pyrolusite aggregates on a limonite matrix of bundles of crystals with finely but deeply striated faces. A considerable size and an extraordinarily bright luster contrasting with Romanéchite aggregates, powdery with a deep black color. The sample is of an extraordinary quality for the locality and even for the species.
Haití Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, San Ginés de la Jara, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain (10/2017)
Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.5 × 3 cm = 2.2” × 1.4” × 1.2”
Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”
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EB13AI3: Spheroidal Pyrolusite aggregates on a limonite matrix of bundles of crystals with finely but deeply striated faces. A considerable size and an extraordinarily bright luster contrasting with Romanéchite aggregates, powdery with a deep black color. The sample is of an extraordinary quality for the locality and even for the species.
Haití Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, San Ginés de la Jara, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain (10/2017)
Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.1 × 2.1 cm = 2.2” × 1.6” × 0.8”
Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”
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NJ56AG5: A novelty at Expominer 2017. Spheroidal aggregates of crystals that have striated faces, a considerable size and extraordinarily bright luster. The sample is of an extraordinary quality for the locality and even for the species.
The rear of the specimen was consolidated to prevent it from producing black stain.
Haití Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, San Ginés de la Jara, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain (10/2017)
Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.6 × 2.2 cm = 2.2” × 1.4” × 0.9”
Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.1 cm = 0.2” × 0.0”
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EF14AI3: Spheroidal Pyrolusite aggregates on a limonite matrix of bundles of crystals with finely but deeply striated faces. A considerable size and an extraordinarily bright luster contrasting with Romanéchite aggregates, powdery with a deep black color. The sample is of an extraordinary quality for the locality and even for the species.
Haití Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, San Ginés de la Jara, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain (10/2017)
Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.4 × 4.2 cm = 2.9” × 2.1” × 1.7”
Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”
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EE6AI3: Spheroidal Pyrolusite aggregates on a limonite matrix of bundles of crystals with finely but deeply striated faces. A considerable size and an extraordinarily bright luster contrasting with Romanéchite aggregates, powdery with a deep black color. The sample is of an extraordinary quality for the locality and even for the species.
Haití Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, San Ginés de la Jara, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain (10/2017)
Specimen size: 8 × 5.3 × 3.2 cm = 3.1” × 2.1” × 1.3”
Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”
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NK47AF7: Cluster of nut-shaped forms on matrix with an excellent luster for the species. Recently collected at a well known mine, these samples show very aerial profiles and reliefs that are very much more distinct than usual. The samples of this find have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Haití Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, San Ginés de la Jara, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain (09/2016)
Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.2 × 3.8 cm = 2.8” × 2.4” × 1.5”
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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”
Fluorescent short UV
Former collection of Alain Martaud
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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”
Former collection of Alain Martaud
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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”
Former collection of Alain Martaud
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Sphalerite with Quartz |
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TM66AG0: Group of complex Sphalerite crystals that are twinned and have very well defined faces and edges, with a luster more intense than usual on samples from this locality. They are on a druse of small Quartz crystals.
Lolita Mine, Pico del Águila, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Region of Murcia Spain
Specimen size: 6 × 4.5 × 3.7 cm = 2.4” × 1.8” × 1.5”
Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”
Former collection of Alain Martaud
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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”
Former collection of Alain Martaud
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Gypsum with Siderite and Quartz (variety chalcedony) |
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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”
Former collection of Alain Martaud
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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”
Minor fluorescence short UV
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Pyromorphite |
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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”
Minor fluorescence long & short UV
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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”
Minor fluorescence long & short UV
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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”
Minor fluorescence long & short UV
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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”
Minor fluorescence long & short UV
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NL6AH7: Sharp, very bright and isolated crystalline growths with very neat exfoliation of native Antimony on a Quartz matrix. The specimen is from an old find and today it is very difficult to obtain samples from this locality which can be yet considered a Spanish classic.
La Viñuela reservoir, La Viñuela, Comarca La Axarquía, Málaga, Andalusia Spain (1987)
Specimen size: 3.3 × 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 1.3” × 0.7” × 0.7”
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NV13AH7: Sharp and very bright crystalline growths and very neat exfoliation of native Antimony on a Quartz matrix. The specimen is from an old find and today it is very difficult to obtain samples from this locality which can be considered a Spanish classic.
La Viñuela reservoir, La Viñuela, Comarca La Axarquía, Málaga, Andalusia Spain (1987)
Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.4 × 3.6 cm = 1.7” × 1.3” × 1.4”
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NP14AH5: Very sharp octahedral Spinel crystals, translucent, very bright with a very uniform magenta-red color and on matrix. Of the best quality for the locality.
Sierra de Mijas deposit, "El Repetidor", Mijas Range, Mijas, Comarca Costa del Sol Occidental, Málaga, Andalusia Spain (2007)
Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.9 × 2.2 cm = 1.8” × 1.5” × 0.9”
Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”
Minor fluorescence long & short UV
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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”
Weight: 3.6 grams
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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”
Weight: 3.4 grams
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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”
Weight: 2.2 grams
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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”
Weight: 4.1 grams
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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”
Weight: 3.3 grams
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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”
Weight: 17.6 grams
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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”
Weight: 0.9 grams
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TJ27AF7: Very sharp, transparent and bright Gypsum crystals on marl that are very rich in hematite inclusions.
The sample is from the collection of La Unión area minerals of Alain Martaud, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Chella, Comarca Canal de Navarrés, València/Valencia, Valencian Community Spain
Specimen size: 15.7 × 12 × 8.5 cm = 6.2” × 4.7” × 3.3”
Main crystal size: 6.4 × 3.6 cm = 2.5” × 1.4”
Former collection of Alain Martaud
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NF47Q2: Group of sharp crystals implanted on a thin matrix. The sample is from the first find of good material at 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: 11.7 × 6.8 × 6.5 cm = 4.6” × 2.7” × 2.6”
Main crystal size: 4 × 3.2 cm = 1.6” × 1.3”
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ND86AF2: Botryoidal and stalactitic Goethite growths with dappled metallic iridescences with greenish, yellowish and reddish dominant shades. The sample is from a punctual find in a mine without acces 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: 12.6 × 4.8 × 3.4 cm = 5.0” × 1.9” × 1.3”
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NF27AF2: Botryoidal and stalactitic Goethite growths with dappled metallic iridescences with greenish, yellowish and reddish dominant shades. The sample is from a punctual find in a mine without acces 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: 13.3 × 6.2 × 3.6 cm = 5.2” × 2.4” × 1.4”
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FE16Z8: Aggregate, on matrix, of very well defined and bright Covellite microcrystals. They have an intense metallic blue iridescence. The sample is from a find in 1996. Subsequent finds have been sporadic, practically non-existent, either in that zone or the rest of the mine, which currently is now completely inactive.
Atalaya Cut, 14-16 level, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia Spain (1996)
Specimen size: 6.7 × 5 × 4.4 cm = 2.6” × 2.0” × 1.7”
Former collection of Fermín Clemente
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If you want to know more about the Beudantite please follow this link
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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If you want to know more about these Goethites please follow this link
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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An ophite quarry in Carchelejo, Jaén, Spain produced good Prehnite, some of which are intensely green, with spherical forms, and often associated with brilliant Augite.
The quarry is now closed, so new specimens are unlikely to be found in the future.
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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”
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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”
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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”
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NM11AB9: 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: 3 × 2.3 × 1.7 cm = 1.2” × 0.9” × 0.7”
Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”
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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”
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NR11AB5: Crust of botryoidal growths, with a great color, that cover a rocky matrix with small Quartz crystals. In our opinion these are the best Chrysocollas ever found in Spain. The sample has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
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: 5.6 × 5 × 2.8 cm = 2.2” × 2.0” × 1.1”
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In the Ofite quarries in the provinces of Málaga and Jaén they find these blue Quartz, whose color is due to inclusions of Magnesioriebeckite. The crystals are often doubly terminated.
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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NF76AE7: 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: 5.9 × 4.8 × 2.4 cm = 2.3” × 1.9” × 0.9”
Main crystal size: 2 × 1.3 cm = 0.8” × 0.5”
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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”
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In a small quarry near Barcelona, appeared good samples of smoky Quartz and exceptionally some Quartz Amethyst. Lots of local collectors go there on the weekends hoping to find the sample of their dreams. As we know many of them we hear about new finds and see the specimens found. Here are some of them. If you want to know more about La Selva Quartz please follow this link
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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NP58M9: The crystal has a very deep smoky color, with a very sharp phantom growth. It has contact zones on the lower side.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Girona/Gerona, Catalonia Spain (2005)
Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.9 × 3.2 cm = 2.1” × 1.5” × 1.3”
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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”
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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”
Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Former collection of Ignacio Hernández
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ND14AH9: 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 de la Comunidad de Calatayud, Zaragoza, Aragon Spain (2017)
Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.2 × 2.3 cm = 1.6” × 1.3” × 0.9”
Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”
Fluorescent short UV
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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 de la 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”
Fluorescent short UV
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NA66T8: A novelty at Expominer (Barcelona) 2011. A crystal on matrix with an unusual flattened morphology, which is quite uncommon for Navajún. The edges, sharp and perfect, are completely natural and the crystal has been consolidated on its matrix to avoid its possible detachment.
Ampliación a Victoria Mine, level 1, Navajún, Comarca Cervera, La Rioja Spain (04-05/2011)
Specimen size: 5.4 × 1.8 × 6.1 cm = 2.1” × 0.7” × 2.4”
Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.1 × 2.1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4” × 0.8”
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PT59AH8: Single Pyrite crystal on a matrix partially coated by white aggregates of an unknown phyllosilicate. The crystal, a perfect cube, is very bright, free of damage and solidly attached in the matrix so it didn’t need to be reinforced. A Spanish classic, of great quality for the locality.
Ampliación a Victoria Mine, Navajún, Comarca Cervera, La Rioja Spain
Specimen size: 12 × 9 × 8.6 cm = 4.7” × 3.5” × 3.4”
Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3.5 cm = 1.4” × 1.4”
Euro:540 / US$621 / Yen:70750 / AUD$878
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The Eugui quarry in Navarre is famous for its specimens of twinned, transparent or translucent Dolomite. While the quarry is still active, specimens are only found from time to time. In 1997 to 1998 a significant number were found and over the last few years a few more have appeared.
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MR90AH7: Aerial group of sharp rhombohedral Dolomite crystals that are twinned and bright, between transparent and translucent, with phantom growths and fine alignments of black globular growths, probably Graphite, a Spanish classic.
Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Navarre Spain
Specimen size: 8 × 7 × 5.5 cm = 3.1” × 2.8” × 2.2”
Main crystal size: 3.4 × 3 cm = 1.3” × 1.2”
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M46JN6: On this piece white Dolomite rhombohedrons and lenticular yellowish crystals of Magnesite have grown together. We especially note the rare richness of Magnesite crystals in the sample.
Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Navarre Spain (1999)
Specimen size: 10 × 8.8 × 5.7 cm = 3.9” × 3.5” × 2.2”
Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”
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NC11L4: Very interesting sample of Fluellite partially coated, on the base, by a thin white layer of Crandallite. The characteristic light violet color is seen and the Fluellite is positioned on a covering of green yellowish Metavariscite in small globular aggregates. All on a black carbonaceous slate matrix. In the deposit one can find Fluellite totally replaced by Crandallite.
Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Navarre Spain (1998-2000)
Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.5 × 2.9 cm = 3.0” × 2.6” × 1.1”
Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”
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NR66X9: Complex polycrystalline growths of Sphalerite. They are translucent, very bright, with curved faces and edges and with a very deep roasted honey color, and on a matrix of White Dolomite crystals. The mine is currently collapsed and filled with water, so such Sphalerite samples are currently part of Spanish mineralogical history.
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Gipuzkoa/Guipúzcoa, Euskadi Spain (1987)
Specimen size: 6.7 × 5 × 2.6 cm = 2.6” × 2.0” × 1.0”
Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”
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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”
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NQ59X9: Floater group of very sharp Baryte crystals, one of them clearly dominant, translucent, with inclusions and partially coated by a thin layer of small Dolomite crystals. Different.
Aizpea claim, Cerain Mines, Zerain, Comarca Goyerri, Gipuzkoa/Guipúzcoa, Euskadi Spain (1999)
Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.1 × 1.8 cm = 2.5” × 1.2” × 0.7”
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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.
Herrerías area, 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”
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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.
Herrerías area, 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”
Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
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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.
Herrerías area, 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”
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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.
Herrerías area, 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”
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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”
Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
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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”
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NM27AE2: A complex crystal with many faces, among which acute rhombohedra and shortened scalenohedra 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 (±2000)
Specimen size: 7.6 × 5 × 3.3 cm = 3.0” × 2.0” × 1.3”
Main crystal size: 3.8 × 3.7 cm = 1.5” × 1.5”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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Áliva, in the Picos de Europa, Cantabria, Spain is one of the classic worldwide localities. The best red Sphalerite in the world comes from here! The mines are now closed and there is no access to the galleries (especially as many of them are flooded)
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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”
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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”
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NT86AF2: Complex Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, with an intense and uniform honey color and on a matrix with white Dolomite crystals.
The sample is from the Jaume Vilalta collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer
Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria Spain (1994)
Specimen size: 4.6 × 4.3 × 3.2 cm = 1.8” × 1.7” × 1.3”
Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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NA26AI1: 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: 6 × 2.4 × 3.1 cm = 2.4” × 0.9” × 1.2”
Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”
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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”
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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”
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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”
Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
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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”
Hydrocarbons fluorescent long & short UV
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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”
Hydrocarbons fluorescent long & short UV
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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”
Hydrocarbons fluorescent long & short UV
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NM36AE3: Aggregate of thin tabular and very sharp Baryte crystals that are transparent, very bright, with a very uniform yellow color and on matrix, with colorless, clear and bright scalenohedral Calcite crystals. An excellent Spanish classic, unusual, due the yellow baryte color.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (1998)
Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.1 × 4.8 cm = 2.3” × 1.6” × 1.9”
Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”
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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”
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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”
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VT56V9: Very aerial tabular crystals of Baryte, sharp and with very well defined faces and edges, a pale blue color and on a matrix of white crystals of Dolomite.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (1990-2000)
Specimen size: 10.7 × 6.3 × 4 cm = 4.2” × 2.5” × 1.6”
Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.9 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”
Minor fluorescence long & short UV
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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NE62AE3: Aggregates of very well defined octahedral crystals in parallel growths and brighter than usual for this species. The crystals are in an etched Calcite matrix. They are from a find between 2010 and 2011 in the area of the La Divina Providencia Mine, the type locality for the species. They have larger and better defined crystals than usual in the samples found before at this locality.
Providencia Mine (La Divina Providencia), La Foceja, Villanueva de Pontedo, Cármenes (Villamanín), Comarca Los Argüellos, León, Castile and León Spain (2010-2011)
Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.6 × 2 cm = 1.1” × 1.0” × 0.8”
Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”
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NE11AE3: Aggregates of very well defined octahedral crystals in parallel growths and brighter than usual for this species. The crystals are in an etched Calcite matrix. They are from a find between 2010 and 2011 in the area of the La Divina Providencia Mine, the type locality for the species. They have larger and better defined crystals than usual in the samples found before at this locality.
Providencia Mine (La Divina Providencia), La Foceja, Villanueva de Pontedo, Cármenes (Villamanín), Comarca Los Argüellos, León, Castile and León Spain (2010-2011)
Specimen size: 3.8 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm = 1.5” × 1.0” × 0.7”
Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”
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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”
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