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Jordi Fabre Texts: Jordi Fabre
Translation: Alfredo Petrov Alfredo Petrov

 


 

 

With the collection
With the collection

Fluorite

 

Quartz with Siderite

 

Pyromorphite

 

The Jordi Fabre Collection (duplicates)

September 2021 marks 50 years since I started selling minerals and 25 since I started doing it on the internet. Those who are curious to know how these 25/50 years have been will find more information here

50 years dedicated to the same activity is a lot of years, and I believe that the time has come to start doing things in a different way. Although I plan to continue offering minerals until my health or my age no longer allows, little by little I will decrease the intensity and from 2022 I will stop attending the vast majority of the shows at which I used to exhibit or just visit. I will no longer go to Tucson from 2022 and depending on how things go I will go (or not) to other shows.
As I am lucky to have gathered a very large and quality stock during all these years of activity, and as in recent times I have been intensely buying a lot of varied material, between the 'classic' stuff and what I have bought in recent years I think there is enough to offer competitive pieces online for a long time. However, considering how demanding the collecting world has become, there could come a time in the future in which a decrease in the quality of what we were offering would begin to be noticed, and that is why I want to do something a bit different: put part of my personal collection up for sale.

My collection is quite extensive (more than 3000 specimens) and although it is limited to 4 countries: Spain, Morocco, Portugal and France, I think it has a good number of competitive pieces. Lately I find that I have neither the time nor the capacity to properly process everything that I was adding to the collection. In view of this fact, I've decided to change the way I was doing things and have come up with this solution:
What better way than to share the many pieces that are not part of the 'hard core' of my collection with the family of friends and clients that has grown around this page over the years? By putting them up for sale I will no longer have them physically but they will have a new digital entity in which their photo, description and all their data will be shared online. I think it is a useful way to reclassify, with specific numbering, a good part of the specimens in my collection so that others can have them, and they will continue to be well referenced online for some time (which I will try to extend as long as possible)
The idea is to use these duplicates to create something like an online reference which, if any institution is interested in future, can be transferred in digital format so that it can be saved as one more document / file added to those they usually handle. The institutions will not be bothered with more work due to the need for physical conservation or extra space requirements.

In short, from now on and as long as my strength allows, I am going to use this sales page to build a digital file of a significant number of pieces from my collection that I hope will be useful. Their sale, along with the sales of the other pieces from my stock, will generate some funds that I hope will allow me to continue living with dignity and to continue maintaining, thanks to those funds, this website and FMF, both very active and fulfilling their function, that of spreading mineralogy.

To avoid any confusion: I will not sell these duplicates from my collection other than through this page, I will continue to preserve the 'hard core' of my collection, in which the most valuable and unique pieces will stay. The only exceptions which I will refrain from selling will be the minerals from Catalonia which, although they are not of great value, I will retain for sentimental reasons.

Welcome to the duplicates page of Jordi Fabre's collection, I hope you like them as much as I liked them when I had them. In fact, I always wanted to have a sales page for my own minerals at Fabre Minerals!

Jordi


 




A long way to go

 



Typical record from the Jordi Fabre Collection

 

The main information goes on the front and on the back there is additional information


Link to the sold specimens of the Jordi Fabre Collection (duplicates)
 



Spain

Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Fluorite with Quartz
 

JFD241AQ1: A good example of what the Reguerín I pocket yielded. I liked its architecture, and that the Fluorite was mounted on Quartz with its characteristic perimorphs of Calcite, which have growth phantoms too and, in general, has more “life” than most other pieces from this pocket, whose specimens generally had larger cubes, but whose overall look was more “dull” than the appearance of this piece, which I always found to be very cheerful.
La Viesca Mine, Reguerín pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (04/1994)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 8 × 5.4 cm = 4.02” × 3.15” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.8 cm = 0.83” × 0.71”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Calcite with Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Calcite with Fluorite
 

JFD197AP4: Calcite variety is not lacking in the Moscona Mine. Among so many, there is always one that for one reason or another attracts more attention. Such is the case with this piece, in which the darker-colored growth figures seem to want to show the trigonal symmetry that characterizes the species. Unusual and curious.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (09/2013)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.4 × 4.4 cm = 2.87” × 2.13” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 4.4 cm = 2.17” × 1.73”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Calcite with Fluorite. Front
Front
Calcite with Fluorite. Side
Side
Baryte with Fluorite and Chalcopyrite
Baryte with Fluorite and Chalcopyrite. Baryte with Fluorite and Chalcopyrite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Baryte with Fluorite and Chalcopyrite
 

JFD178AP1: The difference between pieces from the Emilio Mine and the Jaimina Mine is very subtle. But we can tell that this piece came from the Emilio because when I bought it, Jaimina hadn't started working yet, but if it weren't for that, and for the general 'clarity' of the piece, doubt could remain, especially because of those hexaoctahedral Fluorite cubes.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2006)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5.3 × 3.4 cm = 2.24” × 2.09” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.8 cm = 1.18” × 0.71”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)




Portugal

Sphalerite with Fluorapatite and Muscovite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Sphalerite with Fluorapatite and Muscovite
 

JFD155AO7: Look out! A specimen like this is rare in Panasqueira. Sphalerite is not usually found there in good specimens, but moreover, when it is, it is almost always associated with other sulphides, which yields less luminous groups. In this case, the association with Fluorapatite, well crystallized and with a fibrous appearance, and Muscovite with a good color, results in a very unusual specimen, a real curiosity for those who specialise in this mine.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±2005)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 6.6 × 3.7 cm = 4.09” × 2.60” × 1.46”

Fluorapatite fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Sphalerite with Fluorapatite and Muscovite. Sphalerite with Fluorapatite and Muscovite.
Pyrite
Pyrite. Pyrite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Pyrite
 

JFD75AO0: When I bought this very unusual piece I had many illusions because of its alleged rarity and, as often happens, analyses demolished my illusions. It's a Pyrite, just Pyrite, but it's weird as hell, right?
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1988)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 3.9 × 3.7 cm = 2.80” × 1.54” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.6 cm = 1.22” × 1.02”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)




France

Quartz with Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Quartz with Calcite
 

JFD196AP3: Its form is a luxury. The Quartz crystal is long and has a deep twist enabling us to imagine it as a very showy arch, even more so for being on a kind of natural base, also formed of Quartz. Of all the Alpine finds in the Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne area, this one stands out for its attractive deformity.
Le Noirey, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (1980)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 7.7 × 4.6 cm = 4.61” × 3.03” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 11.2 × 2.3 cm = 4.41” × 0.91”

Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Quartz with Calcite. Front
Front
Quartz with Calcite. Rear
Rear

Morocco

Roselite with Calcite
Roselite with Calcite. Roselite with Calcite.
Roselite with Calcite. Detail / Foto: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Foto: Joaquim Callén

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Roselite with Calcite
 

JFD221AP7: Many isolated crystals of Roselite, without cracks or damage, of good size and luster, and with the “fresh” matrix Calcite showing no etching or corrosion.
The size of the piece and its matrix-crystal ratio are in excellent balance, and thus all seems to be in its place in this great piece, and with the intense color of the Roselite being the cherry on the cake.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2013)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.8 × 4.2 cm = 2.36” × 1.89” × 1.65”

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

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Malachite after Azurite on Dolomite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Malachite after Azurite on Dolomite
 

JFD216AP6: I have already said at other times that the 'basaristes' of Morocco had a prominent role in the development of the mineral trade that exists in that country. I acquired this piece in 1984 when Touissit was in its splendor, and I bought it from one of the basaristes in Asni, a town located about 1000 km away from Touissit! The small town of Asni would have had about 7,000 inhabitants at that time, and despite so few people there was already a large group of mineral vendors who, in their precarious 'basars', offered pieces from remote locations, sometimes as good as this one. If I hadn't experienced it myself, I would have a hard time believing it.
Touissit mining area, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1984)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.5 × 2.7 cm = 1.81” × 1.38” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.1 cm = 1.06” × 0.83”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Malachite after Azurite on Dolomite. Front
Front
Malachite after Azurite on Dolomite. Side
Side
Baryte with inclusions
Baryte with inclusions. Baryte with inclusions.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Baryte with inclusions
 

JFD211AP5: Always in search of something different, this piece moved me because it is so different from the usual in Mefis, which yields very large crystals, even enormous ones, but, although they can be sharp, they always tend to be somewhat 'rough'. Finding something elegant and delicate from there, like this group of crystals, is really rare.
Mefis, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 10 × 4.2 cm = 4.25” × 3.94” × 1.65”

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

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Vanadinite with Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Vanadinite with Baryte
 

JFD210AP5: Like a feather, this 'stalactitic' growth of Vanadinite crystals rises gracefully, forming a special piece.
So many vanadinites, but from time to time one still surprises us...
Mibladen (Mibladen mining district), Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2002)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.3 × 4.2 cm = 2.83” × 2.48” × 1.65”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Vanadinite with Baryte. Front
Front
Vanadinite with Baryte. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Sphalerite with Actinolite
Sphalerite with Actinolite. Front
Front
Sphalerite with Actinolite. Light behind
Light behind

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Sphalerite with Actinolite
 

JFD164AO8: These came out for a brief period and then were never seen again.
Their luster and sharpness are of high quality, but the color is not very attractive... until they are illuminated with an intense light and then, what color!
Bouismas Mine, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.3 × 4.2 cm = 2.20” × 1.69” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.3 cm = 1.26” × 0.91”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Silver (variety kongsbergite)

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Silver (variety kongsbergite)
 

JFD135AO5: With a bad reputation for containing a lot of mercury (kongsbergite variety), if carefully protected from light they do not turn black and they retain that slightly reddish tone so characteristic of Imiter. With some matrix, very good size and that arborescent appearance, it is still a remarkable specimen despite the 32 years that have passed since it was found and I bought it.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (1990)

Specimen size: 13.3 × 9.5 × 2.9 cm = 5.24” × 3.74” × 1.14”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Silver (variety kongsbergite). Front
Front
Silver (variety kongsbergite). Rear
Rear
Silver (variety kongsbergite).
Skutterudite with Calcite
Skutterudite with Calcite. Skutterudite with Calcite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Skutterudite with Calcite
 

JFD123AO4: Good crystal size, good luster, and Calcite - which proves that the piece has not been acid-cleaned. I understand that this is why, despite having been found in 1994, it is still impeccable, with no signs of aging.
Bou Azzer Mine, Bou Azzer mining district, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1990)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.1 × 4.5 cm = 2.44” × 2.01” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.4 cm = 0.83” × 0.55”

Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Acanthite with Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Acanthite with Calcite
 

JFD104AO2: One of the first well-crystallized acanthites seen from Imiter. Although specimens with sharper crystals came out later, this Acanthite is not bad at all as it is well accompanied by groups of small pink Calcite rhombohedra.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2007)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4 × 3.1  cm = 1.73” × 1.57” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.94” × 0.43”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Acanthite with Calcite.
Azurite with Malachite, Wulfenite and Cerussite
Azurite with Malachite, Wulfenite and Cerussite. Azurite with Malachite, Wulfenite and Cerussite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Azurite with Malachite, Wulfenite and Cerussite
 

JFD103AO2: Nice association of Azurite, Malachite, Cerussite and Wulfenite. The quality and type of Azurite crystal shows that it is from Touissit, a locality where Azurite with such a variety of associated species was not common at all.
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1994)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.7 × 2.3 cm = 1.73” × 1.46” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 0.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.24”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Calcite with Baryte and Pyrite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Calcite with Baryte and Pyrite
 

JFD84AO0: Very interesting specimen for this mine because the very aesthetic Calcite crystals sit on large Baryte crystals coated by what look like orange iron oxides and are accompanied by small Pyrite crystals. Baryte is not a common mineral in El Hammam, I have rarely seen it there, much less in large crystals as in this case. As sometimes happens, I didn't buy it in Morocco but in Tucson 2009, from the Moroccan Ahmed Es Seouani.
El Hammam, Ait Mimoune, Khémisset Province, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Region  Morocco (11/2008)

Specimen size: 9 × 8.2 × 7.7 cm = 3.54” × 3.23” × 3.03”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.4 cm = 0.67” × 0.55”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Calcite with Baryte and Pyrite. Calcite with Baryte and Pyrite.
Calcite with Baryte and Pyrite.
Baryte with inclusions and Quartz
Baryte with inclusions and Quartz. Front
Front
Baryte with inclusions and Quartz. Side
Side
Baryte with inclusions and Quartz.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Baryte with inclusions and Quartz
 

JFD82AO0: The Bou Nahas mine produced many pyrites and barytes early in its history. Out of so much material I chose this piece, with the Baryte crystal isolated on the Quartz and with a slight bluish central thread unlike the first barytes from there, which had more yellow tones.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.1 × 4.7 cm = 2.48” × 2.01” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 2.8 cm = 1.69” × 1.10”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Cerussite on Quartz with iron oxides inclusions

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Cerussite on Quartz with iron oxides inclusions
 

JFD80AO0: Less famous than Touissit or Mibladen, Taouz cerussites can be attractive too. In this case, although the very aerial crystals are small, their snow-white color contrasts with the dark matrix in which there are small Quartz crystals with inclusions of iron oxides.
Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1990)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.7 × 2 cm = 2.52” × 1.46” × 0.79”

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

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Cerussite on Quartz with iron oxides inclusions. Cerussite on Quartz with iron oxides inclusions.
Azurite
Azurite. Azurite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Azurite
 

JFD63AN9: Touissit is well known for its secondary lead minerals but is less known as a world class locality for copper secondaries, and yet I believe that some of its best azurites would be among the top ten azurites in the world. They tend to have good sharp crystals, like this one, and occasionally exhibit an excellent luster, as is also the case here. The size of the crystals is not very large, but they sit on a white matrix that gives a nice color contrast.
I bought it to the always precise and always affable Hmani Ali, at his home in Oujda.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1996)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.6 × 3.5 cm = 1.57” × 1.42” × 1.38”

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

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Proustite on Calcite
Proustite on Calcite  

JFD43AK6: Groups of fine Proustite crystals of prismatic habit, with excellent prismatic terminations. The crystals, transparent, and with an extraordinary bright ruby-red color with mauve tones, sit on a Calcite matrix. This specimen, from one of the first finds of this type of Proustite in 2013, comes from the Jordi Fabre collection.
We’ll send to the buyer both Jordi Fabre collection labels, the original label (F2136) as well as the Internet label (JFD43)
Bouismas Mine, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2013)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 5.2 × 3.3 cm = 3.23” × 2.05” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.4 cm = 0.39” × 0.16”

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Proustite on Calcite. Front
Front
Proustite on Calcite. Side
Side
Proustite on Calcite. Proustite on Calcite.
Chalcostibite with Azurite and Malachite
Chalcostibite with Azurite and Malachite. Front
Front
Chalcostibite with Azurite and Malachite. Top
Top
Chalcostibite with Azurite and Malachite.
 

JFD41AF3: Single Chalcostibite crystal with a flattened prismatic shape, finely striated and with good upper terminal faces. It is on matrix and is coated and partially substituted by Azurite and, to a lesser extent, Malachite.
The sample is from the Jordi Fabre collection (number F1287) and it was previously acquired at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines from Alberto Ancillotti, who rediscovered the Chalcostibites (as collectible samples) at their classic type locality, Rhar el Anz, between the eighties and the nineties.
We’ll send to the buyer both Jordi Fabre collection labels, the original label (F1287) as well as the Internet label (JFD41)
Rar el Anz, Oued Cherrat (Cherrat Wadi), Chaouia-Ouardigha, Casablanca Prefecture, Casablanca-Settat Region  Morocco (06/1994)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 4 × 2.8 cm = 1.61” × 1.57” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.98” × 0.55”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)





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