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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


 




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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

Quartz with Dolomite (variety Fe-bearing dolomite) and Chlorite
Quartz with Dolomite (variety Fe-bearing dolomite) and Chlorite. Quartz with Dolomite (variety Fe-bearing dolomite) and Chlorite.
Quartz with Dolomite (variety Fe-bearing dolomite) and Chlorite.

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Quartz with Dolomite (variety Fe-bearing dolomite) and Chlorite
 

JFD237AQ1: A curiosity: A well crystallized Quartz from the Aragonese Pyrenees and from the little known locality of Valsaroleta, with Chlorite and ferriferous Dolomite, which at the time were described as Pyrophyllite and Ankerite on the Folch label, the “Pyrophyllite” having been opportunely modified by Mr. Folch himself and with the “Ankerite” later re-described as ferriferous Dolomite. Nowadays we have much more information than was available 76 years ago when this elegant piece was found.
Balsaroleta, Sallent de Gállego, Tena Valley, Comarca Alto Gállego, Huesca, Aragon  Spain (1947)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 8.2 × 3.1 cm = 3.62” × 3.23” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 1 cm = 1.22” × 0.39”

Former collection Folch (duplicates)

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Baryte with inclusions

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Baryte with inclusions
 

JFD239AQ1: Around the year 2015, these curious barytes unexpectedly began to be found in the Haití Mine, with large crystals and a color difficult to describe, between yellow and blue, and with inclusions of this mine's unavoidable manganese oxides.
This specimen was found by the well-known field collector 'Retamero', a well known name in this district.
Haití Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, San Ginés de la Jara, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2015)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 5.6 × 1.8 cm = 3.78” × 2.20” × 0.71”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Baryte with inclusions.
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Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz.

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Fluorite with Quartz
 

JFD240AQ1: Before the two great Reguerín pockets (Reguerín and Reguerín II) were discovered, there had already been finds of very transparent light blue Fluorite in the area of the La Viesca Mine, just like this specimen, which has a good crystal size too.
It brings back many memories of that glorious time when hundreds or even thousands of Fluorite specimens appeared continuously. Nothing like the current situation.
La Viesca area, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1991)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.6 × 4.2 cm = 2.95” × 2.20” × 1.65”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Fluorite with Quartz

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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)



Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with hydrocarbon inclusions
Fluorite with hydrocarbon inclusions. Fluorite with hydrocarbon inclusions.

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Fluorite with hydrocarbon inclusions
 

JFD233AQ0: Although it may not look like it in the photo, this is an overwhelming piece, for the size of the crystals, for their sharpness and perfection and, above all, for the numerous oriented inclusions of natural hydrocarbons inside the large crystals of Fluorite. We are used to seeing this type of inclusion inside Berbes quartzes, but much less in their fluorites. The piece is a floater and, in my opinion, spectacular.
Cuetu L'Aspa, Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1980)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 8 × 5.4 cm = 4.88” × 3.15” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 5.7 × 4 cm = 2.24” × 1.57”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Fluorite

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Fluorite
 

JFD232AQ0: This one has a story as interesting as the piece itself. When I bought the Daunis collection, there were two or three pieces there that had every appearance of being from the Llamas Quarry, but since there weren't many references to specimens from that locality during its period of active exploitation, I had to consult with José Ramón García and he accredited what interests me most about this specimen: that it was a clear example of what came out of the Llamas Quarry when it was still being worked
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1970-1973)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.3 × 2.8 cm = 1.54” × 1.30” × 1.10”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Fluorite.
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Dolomite (twinned)
Dolomite (twinned). Front
Front
Dolomite (twinned). Side
Side

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Dolomite (twinned)
 

JFD228AP9: Eugui dolomites are always exciting. I chose this one for its transparency and for that 'clean' appearance that the dolomites from the area of “el pozo” have; thanks to the good disposition of engineer Juan Córdoba.
The crystal has a weird growth on one side, but it is a floater and whole everywhere.
Asturreta Quarry, 'el pozo', Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 8 × 6.9 × 4.3 cm = 3.15” × 2.72” × 1.69”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Beryl (variety emerald) with Phlogopite

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Beryl (variety emerald) with Phlogopite
 

JFD227AP9: Of the great finds made in the 1980s in A Franqueira, I kept this piece of Beryl (emerald variety) for its color, with a lighter tone than what is usual there, also for its certain translucency and, obviously, for the fact that it was in its Phlogopite matrix.
Emerald Deposit, A Franqueira, A Cañiza, Comarca Paradanta, Pontevedra, Galicia / Galiza  Spain (±1982)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.2 × 2.6 cm = 2.13” × 1.65” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.9 cm = 0.71” × 0.35”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Beryl (variety emerald) with Phlogopite. Beryl (variety emerald) with Phlogopite.
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Dolomite (variety Fe-bearing dolomite) with Pyrite
Dolomite (variety Fe-bearing dolomite) with Pyrite. Front
Front
Dolomite (variety Fe-bearing dolomite) with Pyrite. Side
Side
Dolomite (variety Fe-bearing dolomite) with Pyrite.

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Dolomite (variety Fe-bearing dolomite) with Pyrite
 

JFD224AP8: Lots of history in this piece. It came from the Folch collection (duplicates) labeled as “Ankerite”, a name commonly ascribed in the past to more or less iron-bearing dolomites, since it was difficult then to analyze them adequately. At one time I sold it to Francesco S. Stoppani and it resided in his collection until Francesco decided to sell it, and on repurchasing it I decided to repatriate it because I had always liked it a lot and it had seemed quite unique to me. Its only drawback is that we cannot know with certainty in which mine it was found, because Folch just labeled it “La Unión”, and the experts in that mining district who have seen the specimen cannot say for sure exactly which mine it came from.
Typical classic piece, with a lot of history behind it and prettier than usual.
La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 11.8 × 9.2 × 4.8 cm = 4.65” × 3.62” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.55”

Former collection Folch (duplicates)

Former collection of Francesco S. Stoppani

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Smithsonite

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Smithsonite
 

JFD223AP8: This Smithsonite (analyzed) comes from the prolific San Valentín deposit. It is richer in crystals than usual and has a greenish hue unlike other smithsonites from there, which usually have brown tones. The fact that it is an old piece, from the French engineer Maurice Boudon, could be the reason for these differences from the more modern smithsonites. All this, and the pedigree of having belonged to Boudon, helped me at that time to decide to keep it.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (1982-1984)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 9.2 × 4.4 cm = 3.70” × 3.62” × 1.73”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Smithsonite. Smithsonite.
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Beryl (variety emerald) with Phlogopite
Beryl (variety emerald) with Phlogopite. Front
Front
Beryl (variety emerald) with Phlogopite. Rear
Rear
Beryl (variety emerald) with Phlogopite. Bottom
Bottom

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Beryl (variety emerald) with Phlogopite
 

JFD222AP8: Of the finds from the 80s, made thanks to artisanal mining on the A Franqueira pegmatite, I kept these two robust crystals of Beryl (variety emerald), and I did so both for their size and for the peculiarity of the Phlogopite intrusion into the thick Beryl crystals. As the crystals are doubly terminated, we can easily see that the Phlogopite does not just 'coat' the Beryl crystals, but was formed simultaneously with them during the last growth phase.
It seemed to me an interesting combination of spectacularity and geological interest and that is why I have kept it for so many years.
Emerald Deposit, A Franqueira, A Cañiza, Comarca Paradanta, Pontevedra, Galicia / Galiza  Spain (1982)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.6 × 4.4 cm = 2.05” × 1.81” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 3.8 cm = 1.73” × 1.50”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Baryte with Calcite, Dolomite and Fluorite

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Baryte with Calcite, Dolomite and Fluorite
 

JFD217AP7: 'Something different' is what drives us.
The yellow barytes are “something quite different” from a mine as well known as the Moscona Mine. The Calcite and the Fluorite add the signature touches, but that yellow Baryte is what makes the difference.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1998)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.8 × 4.8 cm = 2.28” × 1.89” × 1.89”

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

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Baryte with Calcite, Dolomite and Fluorite. Baryte with Calcite, Dolomite and Fluorite.
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Fluorite
Fluorite. Fluorite.

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Fluorite
 

JFD213AP6: The Jaimina Mine was not always a mine. It began as a quarry and from those initial years comes this piece that Jaime Chacón found in 1978 on the working face, as witnessed by his handwritten label. The piece is slightly different from the mine ones, with a more intense color and a hexahedral pattern on the faces that is richer than usual in the Jaimina Mine specimens, strongly reminiscent of its predecessors, the San Lino Mine fluorites, albeit with better quality. A historical piece, precursor of what later became the splendor of the Emilio-Jaimina mining system.
Jaimina Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Trechorio, Carrales, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1978)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 8.5 × 6.2 cm = 4.02” × 3.35” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.26” × 1.06”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Cerussite after Anglesite and Goethite

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Cerussite after Anglesite and Goethite
 

JFD212AP6: Anglesites pseudomorphed by Cerussite and covered with Goethite are a Spanish classic from the San Valentín Quarry, but this particular piece is different, both for not being covered with Goethite and for its intense yellow color and the dissolution figures in some crystals.
Curiously I bought it in France. It was from Alain Martaud's collection (with a label) and he must have bought it from Maurice Boudon, a French engineer who worked at La Unión.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.8 × 1.6 cm = 2.20” × 1.50” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.39” × 0.28”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Cerussite after Anglesite and Goethite. Cerussite after Anglesite and Goethite.
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Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.

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Fluorite with Baryte
 

JFD206AP5: In October 1984, Carlos Artidiello, together with Concha and Lelo, found one of the best pockets in Berbes and I was lucky enough to pass by by chance, precisely when it had been half emptied but not yet sold. Instead, I had the misfortune of not being richer and consequently was not able to buy the entire pocket...
Of what I kept from that vug, this floater is a very good example because, with the associated Baryte and its perfect state of preservation, it represents the splendor of that find very well.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (10/1984)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 9.1 × 4.2 cm = 3.74” × 3.58” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.5 cm = 1.34” × 0.98”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Fluorite with Calcite

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Fluorite with Calcite
 

JFD205AP5: Very unusual for San Lino because of its color, much more intense than usual there. Of course, the faces of the hexoctahedron are very characteristic, and even more so considering that when I got this piece, the Emilio and Jaimina mines had not even started working yet.
San Lino Quarry, Aurora vein, Caravia mining area, Cerracín, Prado, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1979)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 6.4 ×.3.6 cm = 3.11” × 2.52” × 0.12”

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

Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
Fluorite with Calcite.
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Pyrite
Pyrite. Front
Front
Pyrite. Side
Side

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Pyrite
 

JFD204AP5: After many years already in my collection, nothing seems to have altered this Pyrite from Ambas Aguas, which perfectly preserves its luster and its good state of conservation, both the main crystal and the “little child” that it carries in its upper part.
Ambas Aguas (Ambasaguas), Muro de Aguas, Comarca Arnedo, La Rioja  Spain (1991)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.2 × 2.2 cm = 2.17” × 1.26” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2.9 cm = 1.57” × 1.14”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Sphalerite with Dolomite, Chalcopyrite and Siderite

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Sphalerite with Dolomite, Chalcopyrite and Siderite
 

JFD203AP5: Crystals from this mine are rarely so individualized and rarely are they on such a white matrix. That's why I kept it.
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain (±1984)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.7 × 3.3 cm = 1.93” × 1.85” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.43” × 0.28”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Sphalerite with Dolomite, Chalcopyrite and Siderite. Sphalerite with Dolomite, Chalcopyrite and Siderite.
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Prehnite
Prehnite.

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Prehnite
 

JFD202AP5: Superb color and luster. I always really liked the good prehnites from Carchelejo, that's why I have quite a few in the collection; when I saw a particularly good one I always kept it. The good years of that mine were a splendid time.
Oficarsa Quarry, De las Culebras Hill, Carchelejo, Cárcheles, Comarca Sierra Mágina, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (2004)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.3 × 1.5 cm = 2.40” × 1.30” × 0.59”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Quartz

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Quartz
 

JFD199AP4: Quartz veins crop out on the surface of the ground in the Alkiza area, and although they do not usually have large crystals, they can be clean and lustrous. Among the ones I have seen, I chose this one because of the quality of the crystals, very transparent, and because the crystals are a little more separated from each other than is usual there.
Outcrops of Quartz veins from Alkiza, Anoeta-Alkiza road, Alkiza, Comarca Tolosaldea, Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain (1992)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 6.6 × 4.8 cm = 3.23” × 2.60” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 0.6 cm = 1.54” × 0.24”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Quartz. Front
Front
Quartz. Rear
Rear
Quartz.
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Ferro-actinolite with Plagioclase, Pyroxene (variety uralite) and Pyrite
Ferro-actinolite with Plagioclase, Pyroxene (variety uralite) and Pyrite. Ferro-actinolite with Plagioclase, Pyroxene (variety uralite) and Pyrite.

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Ferro-actinolite with Plagioclase, Pyroxene (variety uralite) and Pyrite
 

JFD198AP4: With its rich parageneses, the Carlés Mine was, during its active years, yielding a great variety of mineral species, with a predominance of piroxenes. This piece is such a specimen, with Ferro-actinolite in brilliant crystals, the 'uralite' pseudomorphing pyroxenes and a Plagioclase Feldspar which, together with massive Pyrite, completes the combo.
Carlés-Norte cut, Carlés Mine, Ballotal-El Fuxaco, Carlés, Salas, Comarca Valle del Narcea, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (19/01/1990)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.9 × 4.1 cm = 2.56” × 1.93” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.1 cm = 0.12” × 0.04”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Calcite with Fluorite

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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
Cassiterite with Muscovite
Cassiterite with Muscovite.

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Cassiterite with Muscovite
 

JFD188AP3: Different from the classic 'tin twins' so typical there, and also with a little more luster than usual. I bought it from a collector in Madrid and I liked it for that difference from what is usually seen in that mine.
Penouta Mines, Penouta (San Bartolomé), Viana do Bolo, Comarca Viana, Orense / Ourense, Galicia / Galiza  Spain

Specimen size: 5 × 3.3 × 2.9 cm = 1.97” × 1.30” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 0.87” × 0.55”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Quartz (variety jasper)

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Quartz (variety jasper)
 

JFD187AP3: From Montjuïc hill in the city of Barcelona itself, these microcrystalline quartzes are a Catalan classic and although I said I would not part with any Catalan pieces for sentimental reasons, I had two of these so much alike that as an exception I'll keep one and release the other. I liked both of them because they have an intense color and the growth bands are more “pictorial” than what is usual from there.
Montjuïc, Barcelona city, Comarca Barcelonès, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (±1981)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.8 × 4.4 cm = 2.60” × 1.89” × 1.73”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)

With handwritten note from the Folch Collection (duplicates)



Quartz (variety jasper).
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Fluorite with Calcite and Baryte
Fluorite with Calcite and Baryte. Fluorite with Calcite and Baryte.

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Fluorite with Calcite and Baryte
 

JFD184AP2: From much quantity can come quality. Of all the thousands of pieces that we have all seen these years from the Moscona mine, some stand out. This one, due to the color and the edges of the cubes of Fluorite bordered by transparent Baryte crystals, is a joy.
It was in a very special collection, its previous owner knew what he was doing.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1990-2000)

Specimen size: 13.8 × 11.1 × 4.6 cm = 5.43” × 4.37” × 1.81”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Baryte with Fluorite and Calcite

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Baryte with Fluorite and Calcite
 

JFD183AP2: The blue barytes from the Moscona mine are so appreciated... above all in the past when the mine had not yet yielded so much material, and, why not say it, because of the transparency and color of those early blue barytes, which were, in my opinion, better than most that came out later. Pretty and elegant was what I expected back then to get with a blue baryte from Moscona and this one served me well.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1989)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.6 × 3.3 cm = 1.73” × 1.42” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.6 cm = 0.75” × 0.63”

Minor fluorescence short UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Baryte with Fluorite and Calcite.
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Dolomite (twinned)
Dolomite (twinned). Front
Front
Dolomite (twinned). Top
Top

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Dolomite (twinned)
 

JFD182AP2: The great classics are always great classics!
Even though it is not a top piece, more than anything because of the size of the crystal, it is a Dolomite from 'el pozo' in matrix, undamaged, twinned and has that special 'light', that transparency and luster of the best dolomites from Eugui, those of 'el pozo'
Asturreta Quarry, 'el pozo', Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (±1972)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.2 × 4.4 cm = 2.52” × 1.65” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 3.3 cm = 1.34” × 1.30”

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Chalcopyrite with Dolomite and Siderite

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Chalcopyrite with Dolomite and Siderite
 

JFD180AP1: One hell of a piece (for this deposit anyway). Chalcopyrite is not exactly the most famous species from the Troya mine, but this specimen, found in the first years of exploitation, shows good sharp crystals, displaying a nice contrast with the Dolomite and the Siderite that are typical there.
Of the best possible quality for this locality.
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain (±1983)

Specimen size: 12.3 × 8.9 × 3.4 cm = 4.84” × 3.50” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.2 cm = 0.63” × 0.47”

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Chalcopyrite with Dolomite and Siderite. Chalcopyrite with Dolomite and Siderite.
Chalcopyrite with Dolomite and Siderite.
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Gypsum
Gypsum. Gypsum.

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Gypsum
 

JFD179AP1: Sorbas has been declared a protected natural area, but I collected this piece 13 years before that, in 1976. I still remember the beauty of the place and the ease with which it was possible to get specimens like this, with reddish Gypsum crystals colored by the red clays so characteristic of that place.
Yesos de Sorbas Karst, Los Yesares, Sorbas, Comarca Levante Almeriense, Almería, Andalusia  Spain (08/1976)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 5.6 × 4.9 cm = 3.39” × 2.20” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 1.8 cm = 1.10” × 0.71”

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Baryte with Fluorite and Chalcopyrite

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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”

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Baryte with Fluorite and Chalcopyrite. Baryte with Fluorite and Chalcopyrite.
Fluorite with Pyrite and Quartz
Fluorite with Pyrite and Quartz. Fluorite with Pyrite and Quartz.

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Fluorite with Pyrite and Quartz
 

JFD61AN9: A great curiosity: small crystals of Fluorite, with an intense color, very transparent, on a Quartz matrix ... all quite different from what is usually found in the Minas de Villabona area, although this type of scoriaceous Pyrite is characteristic of the deposit.
The piece was in the collection of A. Mayor, from Madrid, and is very old. As I have already noticed with some other piece, what appeared there many years ago was quite different from what we see today.
Villabona Mines, Barrio de la Estación, Villabona, Llanera, Comarca del Nora, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1979)

Specimen size: 11.3 × 10.4 × 7.7 cm = 4.45” × 4.09” × 3.03”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)

Former collection of A. Mayor



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Quartz with Clinozoisite-Epidote (Series)

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Quartz with Clinozoisite-Epidote (Series)
 

JFD177AP1: Many years ago, when specimens from the quarries of the Sierra Norte de Madrid began to be seen (almost always referred to under the generic name of 'Los Gallegos') this quality of specimen still attracted attention. Later, those quarries experienced a splendor that we could hardly imagine, and so this piece now remains as a historical relic of the early days.
Miraculously, I was able to find out that it came specifically from the Navazales II Quarry, rather than having only the generic area name of 'Los Gallegos'
Navazales II Quarries, La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco - Bustarviejo - Cabanillas de la Sierra - Navalafuente, Comarca Sierra Norte, Community of Madrid  Spain (1998)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.2 × 3 cm = 2.91” × 1.65” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.3 cm = 0.79” × 0.12”

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Quartz with Clinozoisite-Epidote (Series). Quartz with Clinozoisite-Epidote (Series).
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Goethite
Goethite. Goethite.

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Goethite
 

JFD174AP0: A friend who saw it called it 'a tower of the Sagrada Familia' cathedral. How capricious are these goethites from La Lapilla!
La Lapilla Mine, La Lapilla, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (03-04/2008)

Specimen size: 14.4 × 4.2 × 4 cm = 5.67” × 1.65” × 1.57”

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Quartz

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Quartz
 

JFD173AP0: This very fine Quartz from the mythical La Gitana mine has a curious history, because it came to my collection very recently. I did not have any pieces of it but with the sale of part of the collection of Santiago Jiménez I became very happy with this one although, as sometimes happens, another better one had been forgotten, and several months after the 'coming out' of that collection I was able to acquire another Quartz from the same mine, and so in the end I am letting this one go.
Santa María Mine, Cueva La Gitana, Las Carreras, Abanto y Ciérvana/Abanto Zierbena, Comarca Gran Bilbao, Vizcaya / Bizkaia, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4 × 3.9 cm = 2.09” × 1.57” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.8 cm = 1.26” × 1.10”

Former collection of Santiago Jiménez García

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Quartz. Front
Front
Quartz. Side
Side
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Jarosite on Siderite
Jarosite on Siderite. Jarosite on Siderite.
Jarosite on Siderite.

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Jarosite on Siderite
 

JFD172AP0: It may seem silly, but jarosites from Spain are among the best in the world not because of the size of the crystals but because of their quality and transparency. Also, even though the ones from Arteal are not from the type locality, which is Barranco Jaroso, both localities are in the Sierra Almagrera and not far from each other.
Socavón Santa Bárbara (El Arteal Tunnel), Almagrera Range, Cuevas del Almanzora, Comarca Levante Almeriense, Almería, Andalusia  Spain (2006)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6 × 3.5 cm = 2.83” × 2.36” × 1.38”

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

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Calcite

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Calcite
 

JFD170AO9: An Aragonese classic that is also 'in the chest' of the Catalans and Valencians because the locality is very close to Tarragona and Castellón. The calcites from there are very nice, though they are not always so transparent. It was found by Joan Carles Mérida, well known Catalan field collector, specializing in the areas of Massabé and Sils.
La Cañada de Verich, Comarca del Bajo Aragón, Teruel, Aragon  Spain (10/2011)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4 × 3.1 cm = 2.09” × 1.57” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.83” × 0.35”

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Calcite. Calcite.
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Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite. Rear
Rear

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Pyromorphite
 

JFD169AO9: So many different habits and so many tonalities… the indefatigable El Horcajo mines, always with high quality specimens.
This specimen had a curious history: the greatly missed Marçal Lloria obtained it when he bought the collection of Josefina Pons from Barcelona, to whom I had sold the piece in the remote past. Marçal put that collection up for sale at the Expominer 2003 Show and as soon as I saw the piece I arranged for it to come back home to papa (ie. me)
El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1910)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 2.8 × 1.9 cm = 1.50” × 1.10” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.5 cm = 0.47” × 0.20”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

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Baryte with Galena and Pyrite

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Baryte with Galena and Pyrite
 

JFD168AO9: Without the fame of its neighbor, the Troya Mine, in its heyday the Aizpea concession in Zerain yielded excellent specimens like this Baryte, very well formed and transparent and with small Galena crystals on one side and also included in one of the Baryte crystals. Spanish classic from a not well known locality.
Aizpea claim, Cerain mines, Zerain, Comarca Goyerri, Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.6 × 2.4 cm = 2.01” × 1.42” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 2.2 cm = 1.69” × 0.87”

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Baryte with Galena and Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Galena and Pyrite. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Galena and Pyrite.
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Adamite (variety Co-bearing adamite)
Adamite (variety Co-bearing adamite). Adamite (variety Co-bearing adamite).

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Adamite (variety Co-bearing adamite)
 

JFD167AO9: An absolute rarity. From the well-known Dolores Mine in the Los Pedroches Valley, this nice exception piece. The type of minerals found in that mine, with a preponderance of native Bismuth, are not famous for their beauty, but this cobalt-bearing Adamite stands out for its intense color and its good crystallization. Small crystals, yes, but very showy. As a curiosity, the engineer J.A. Carbonell Molina, who found it around 1963, classified it as 'Roselite'. Recent analyses prove that it is actually Adamite.
Dolores Mine, Dolores Mining Group, Las Lomas, Pozoblanco, Comarca Los Pedroches, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (±1963)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2.1 × 1.4 cm = 0.91” × 0.83” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”

With analysis copy

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Former collections of J.A. Carbonell Molina and Folch (duplicates)



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Smithsonite on Chalcophanite

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Smithsonite on Chalcophanite
 

JFD160AO8: Both species here were analyzed, and confirmed to be Smithsonite and Chalcophanite. It comes from Francesco Stoppani's extensive collection of European carbonates, and I kept it because I found the association to be interesting as it is not that common in that area.
Los Blancos Quarry, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (±2010)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 7.3 × 4.1 cm = 3.70” × 2.87” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”

Former collection of Francesco S. Stoppani

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Smithsonite on Chalcophanite. Smithsonite on Chalcophanite.
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Calcite
Calcite. Calcite.
Calcite.

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Calcite
 

JFD159AO8: From a prolific mine for Calcite, I kept this one because it is more transparent than what is usually seen from there.
Herculano Mine, El Puntal, Campos de Golf, Atamaría, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2010)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 5 × 3.7 cm = 4.25” × 1.97” × 1.46”

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

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Fluorite with Calcite and Baryte

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Fluorite with Calcite and Baryte
 

JFD158AO8: Beautiful miniature, with the Fluorite cubes being larger than usual for this mine, and also of a deeper color. The associated Calcite and Baryte adorn the piece well.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2001)

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

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.63” × 0.39”

Fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Fluorite with Calcite and Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Calcite and Baryte. Light behind
Light behind
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Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.

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Fluorite with Quartz
 

JFD157AO8: The crystallography of Berbes fluorites is not as rich as that of other neighboring mines such as San Lino, Jaimina, or Emilio, but sometimes even in Berbes there are unusual morphologies, very similar to those other mines, as can be seen in the enlarged photo of this beautiful specimen. Small, but interesting.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1982)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.98” × 0.87” × 0.79”

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

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Fluorite with Quartz

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Fluorite with Quartz
 

JFD152AO7: From the La Sirena cut, right next to the Josefa-Veneros vein, but their fluorites are so different. Usually those from La Sirena are quite cloudy and not very lustrous, but this one, surely because it was one of the first to be found, has good quality, to the point that if it were not for its characteristic 'bottle green' tone and its characteristic matrix, one might think that it came from somewhere else.
La Sirena cut, La Collada mining area, La Collada, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1991)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 7.4 × 5.1 cm = 4.09” × 2.91” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.06” × 0.98”

Minor fluorescence short UV

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Fluorite with Quartz.
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Fluorite with Chalcopyrite and Quartz
Fluorite with Chalcopyrite and Quartz. Fluorite with Chalcopyrite and Quartz.

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Fluorite with Chalcopyrite and Quartz
 

JFD151AO7: Very fine and very aerial, with its Chalcopyrite crystal and matrix Quartz. It has a growth defect at the base (left) but it is not a break, since if it were, it would have cleaved into octahedrons.
I always liked this piece...
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1995)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.6 × 2.7 cm = 2.64” × 1.81” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.67” × 0.59”

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Twinned Dolomite

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Twinned Dolomite
 

JFD150AO7: From the glorious era in which, in the 'el pozo' area, Engineer Córdoba ordered the saving of exceptional specimens. I was only 18 years old at the time and this was one of the dolomites I got. There were much better ones but, having just started in the world of mineral collecting at that time, I don't complain about my luck.
Asturreta Quarry, 'el pozo', Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.13” × 1.73” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.4 cm = 0.98” × 0.94”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Twinned Dolomite. Front
Front
Twinned Dolomite. Side
Side
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Galena with Baryte and Quartz
Galena with Baryte and Quartz. Galena with Baryte and Quartz.

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Galena with Baryte and Quartz
 

JFD149AO7: Lluís Daunis again, this time with a holy relic: this Galena with Baryte and Quartz from the Santa Bárbara Mine (better know as 'La Perdiguera') which has much more brightness and quality than is usually known from there.
Santa Bárbara Mine, De Pichita Hill, La Perdiguera, Madridejos, Comarca La Mancha, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain

Specimen size: 8.6 × 6.8 × 5.3 cm = 3.39” × 2.68” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.7 cm = 1.34” × 1.06”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Quartz (doubly terminated) with Baryte and hydrocarbon inclusions

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Quartz (doubly terminated) with Baryte and hydrocarbon inclusions
 

JFD148AO7: Why did I choose this Berbes Quartz? It is beautiful, yes, and it has inclusions and some of them are mobile, but although it seems silly, I kept it because it was associated with small fragments of Baryte, which, curiously, is unusual with Berbes Quartz.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2002)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 4.4 × 3.9 cm = 2.99” × 1.73” × 1.54”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)

Hydrocarbons fluorescent long & short UV



Quartz (doubly terminated) with Baryte and hydrocarbon inclusions. Front
Front
Quartz (doubly terminated) with Baryte and hydrocarbon inclusions. Rear
Rear
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Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela)
Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela). Front
Front
Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela). Rear
Rear

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Quartz (variety jacinto de compostela)
 

JFD147AO7: Like a Quartz Santa Claus, the top crystal acts as a cap for a motley array of crystals. As so often with specimens found by Lluís Daunis, the locality is semi-unknown in the world of mineral collecting.
Aliaguilla, Comarca Serranía Baja, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4 × 3.2 cm = 2.01” × 1.57” × 1.26”

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

Former collection of Lluís Daunis

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Pyrite with Fluorite

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Pyrite with Fluorite
 

JFD139AO6: Fluorite with two large groups of Pyrite crystals (similar to those of Minas de Villabona) on one side and very bright Pyrite coating the back.
The Fluorite is 'Moscona type' and the Pyrite is 'Minas de Villabona type', a curious combination.
I bought it from Ramón ‘Chispa’, who was an “institution” from whom one could get good specimens back in the 1990s.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1992)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 8.6 × 7 cm = 3.86” × 3.39” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.3 cm = 1.06” × 0.91”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Pyrite with Fluorite. Front
Front
Pyrite with Fluorite. Side
Side
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Prehnite with Quartz
Prehnite with Quartz.

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Prehnite with Quartz
 

JFD138AO6: Curious things come out of every great vug, like this Prehnite that has three Quartz crystals protruding from it and that at the same time are covered with Prehnite. But the best thing about the piece (for me) is that it was found by James Catmur, with whom I exchanged it in 1993.
Isabel Quarry (La Saludadora Quarry), La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama, Community of Madrid  Spain (10/1992)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.7 × 2.4 cm = 2.44” × 1.46” × 0.94”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Baryte with Fluorite

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Baryte with Fluorite
 

JFD137AO6: From 1986, making it one of the first blue barytes that began to come out of the Moscona mine. It has a different look from the ones that came out later, appearing more 'clean' due to its color and transparency. It is a doubly terminated floater crystal with some Fluorite at the base.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1986)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.73” × 1.38” × 0.59”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Baryte with Fluorite. Front
Front
Baryte with Fluorite. Rear
Rear
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Gold
Gold. Front
Front
Gold. Rear
Rear

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Gold
 

JFD136AO6: One of the unexpected Spanish golds from the Sierra de la Chimenea area, this one in particular showing better presentation and definition than others. It has many empty molds of what must have been Quartz crystals, but which later geological processes have made disappear.
De la Chimenea Mountains, Talarrubias / Casas de Don Pedro area, Comarca La Siberia, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain (2002-2008)

Specimen size: 1.2 × 0.9 × 0.3 cm = 0.47” × 0.35” × 0.12”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)

Weight: 1.6 grams



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Baryte

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Baryte
 

JFD130AO5: Bought from a well-known collector in Murcia in 1994, I was right to buy it since the Victoria Mine, although prolific, does not usually produce specimens as fine as this one, very clean and with a lot of definition to the crystals, not very large, but more individualized than on other pieces from that mine. The color, as is often the case with Victoria's barytes, is excellent.
Victoria Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, El Estrecho de San Ginés, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (04/1994)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 6.6 × 5.8 cm = 4.41” × 2.60” × 2.28”

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

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Baryte. Baryte.
Baryte.
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Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Pyromorphite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén

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Pyromorphite
 

JFD129AO5: What to say about specimens from the El Horcajo mining district that has not already been said? Always attractive, always special, with that color and that fibrous structure. A delight.
This one in particular was photographed by the much-missed Bocamina magazine and appears on page 64 of Volume 13, published in April 2004.
El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (±1914)

Specimen size: 3 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 1.18” × 0.91” × 0.71”

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

Minor fluorescence short UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Fluorite with Chalcopyrite

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Fluorite with Chalcopyrite
 

JFD128AO5: From the first years of exploitation of the Emilio Mine, which amazed us all for the clarity of its Fluorite crystals and for having some other good quality species associated with it, as in this case Chalcopyrite, very lustrous and shiny.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2005)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.7 × 2.2 cm = 1.65” × 1.06” × 0.87”

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

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Fluorite with Chalcopyrite. Fluorite with Chalcopyrite.
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Fluorite
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Rear
Rear

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Fluorite
 

JFD127AO5: Specimens from the Josefa-Veneros vein always have that special air, even the smallest ones. So different...
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.7 × 1.5 cm = 1.46” × 1.06” × 0.59”

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

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Prehnite

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Prehnite
 

JFD126AO5: Not all the pieces in a collection have to be 'top'. There are pieces like this, that without being anything special, you like them. Because of their shape, or because it was one of the very first ones found, or whatever. A collection can have anything, it is enough that we like it! 😉
Oficarsa Quarry, De las Culebras Hill, Carchelejo, Cárcheles, Comarca Sierra Mágina, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (2000)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.6 × 1.7 cm = 1.10” × 1.02” × 0.67”

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Prehnite. Front
Front
Prehnite. Rear
Rear
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Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz
Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz. Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz.

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Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz
 

JFD120AO4: One of the characteristics of the first pieces found in the Llamas quarry was their elongated shape, like a matchbox, and although pieces with that habit have continued to appear later, they were much more abundant in the early days. This piece, which was found in 2012 in a pocket called 'De la Culebra' (“of the snake” - One can easily guess why), shows that characteristic elongated habit, as well as the absolute transparency that has made this site famous.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (01/2010)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.9 × 3.9 cm = 2.64” × 2.32” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.63” × 0.24”

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Fluorite

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Fluorite
 

JFD119AO4: A curiosity very different from other Berbes pieces. The cube is a floater, has good color and prominent growth zoning. On the back, the inner zoned cube is very clear and around it grows a network of dissolution figures that give it an atypical appearance. It was sold to me simply as 'Berbes' and thus we don't know where exactly in that mining district this rarity came from.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1995)

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

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Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Light behind
Light behind
Fluorite. Rear
Rear
Fluorite.
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Baryte with Dolomite
Baryte with Dolomite. Front
Front
Baryte with Dolomite. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Dolomite. Side
Side

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Baryte with Dolomite
 

JFD118AO4: This Baryte is the proof that it can be a ticklish matter to ensure that this or that piece is from this or that locality. This appears to not be from the Emilio mine, neither for its habit nor for its size and definition. Fortunately, the Dolomite that accompanies it does resemble those from the Emilio mine and, furthermore, I am certain that it is from there because I bought it from the legendary Portuguese shovel operator Cándido, who was the one who had the best pieces in the initial years of exploitation of that mine.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2002)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 2.8 × 3.4 cm = 1.93” × 1.10” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2 cm = 1.06” × 0.79”

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Fluorescent inclusions in Baryte



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Scheelite with Muscovite and Quartz

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Scheelite with Muscovite and Quartz
 

JFD117AO4: From Manuel Mesa, this piece belonged to his father who worked in the Wolfastur company mine and had the wisdom to save this Scheelite which, although tiny, has in its favor being in a Muscovite matrix.
Penouta, Nona y Coto claims, Alto de Penouta - Vegadeo road, Bual, Concejo Boal, Comarca Eo-Navia, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.69” × 1.26” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.39” × 0.35”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV

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Scheelite with Muscovite and Quartz. Scheelite with Muscovite and Quartz.
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Chalcostibite
Chalcostibite. Front
Front
Chalcostibite. Side
Side

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Chalcostibite
 

JFD116AO4: A Spanish rarity. This locality has produced some very remarkable specimens, and from the time when Carlos Pareja had set up a team to explore what could be found there, I kept this small group that has an unusual shape, both for the species and for the mine.
El Vagón Mine (Tío Seguro Mine), Lanteira, Comarca Guadix, Granada, Andalusia  Spain (±2006)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.67” × 0.55” × 0.39”

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Fluorite with Quartz

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Fluorite with Quartz
 

JFD109AO3: For its zoning and depth of color and its general appearance, this is a great Fluorite from La Viesca, which, although much older than the most recent finds this century, competes very well with the best of the recent finds.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2000)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.3 × 5.9 cm = 3.86” × 2.87” × 2.32”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.6 cm = 1.06” × 1.02”

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Fluorite with Quartz. Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz. Side
Side
Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
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Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz.

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Fluorite with Quartz
 

JFD108AO3: This piece requires explanation. What might seem to be just another Fluorite from La Viesca always intrigued me because of its age and its somewhat different appearance from others in that area. I sold it at the time to Alain Martaud and, when he sold part of his collection, I got it back and, still intrigued by it, was showing it to José Ramón García, who, without hesitation, solved the enigma. For him, without a doubt, it is from the famous Aurora Mine in the same town of Caravia (currently buried under the municipal soccer field)
Aurora Mine, Aurora vein, Caravia mining area, El Cuetu, Prado, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.2 × 3.6 cm = 1.77” × 1.65” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.94”

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Calcite

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Calcite
 

JFD107AO3: A Basque classic. Generations of collectors there had collected, and continue to collect, these characteristic calcites that come from one specific area of a very large iron mine. Very abundant in the past, nowadays it is increasingly difficult to get good specimens from there.
Bodovalle Mine, Gallarta, Abanto y Ciérvana/Abanto Zierbena, Comarca Gran Bilbao, Vizcaya / Bizkaia, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain (±1966)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7 × 3.7 cm = 3.86” × 2.76” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.63”

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Calcite. Calcite.
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Pyrite
Pyrite. Front
Front
Pyrite. Side
Side

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Pyrite
 

JFD106AO3: A very old Pyrite from Ambas Aguas, from the 1970s-80s, which not only has an oblong appearance, quite different from what we usually see from there, but has also maintained its pristine condition all these years, both in its previous collection as in mine, and it has even kept its original luster.
Ambas Aguas (Ambasaguas), Muro de Aguas, Comarca Arnedo, La Rioja  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4 × 3.8 cm = 1.89” × 1.57” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 3 cm = 1.22” × 1.18”

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Fluorite with Baryte

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Fluorite with Baryte
 

JFD98AO2: From a huge vug found in 1990 by one of the most well known field collectors in Berbes, José Manuel Cuesta, owner of the Playa de Vega campsite and through whose hands thousands (sic) of pieces have passed, often destined for the guests of his campground.
The quality of the pieces from that vug was not extraordinary, but the quantity of specimens that came out was indeed extraordinary, and some of them very fine, like this one.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1990)

Specimen size: 11.4 × 6.6 × 4.3 cm = 4.49” × 2.60” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 0.71” × 0.67”

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Fluorite with Baryte. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Baryte. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.
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Sphalerite with Dolomite
Sphalerite with Dolomite. Front
Front
Sphalerite with Dolomite. Detail
Detail
Sphalerite with Dolomite. With indirect light
With indirect light

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Sphalerite with Dolomite
 

JFD97AO2: A very good example of the quality of the sphalerites from the Troya mine, with the addition that since the matrix is all Dolomite, there are no sulphide stains of any kind and that is why the matrix looks so white, despite the many years that have passed since it was found.
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Comarca Goyerri, Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Euskadi)  Spain (1985)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.2 × 1.9 cm = 1.61” × 1.26” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”

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Quartz with Calcite and Clinozoisite-Epidote (Series)

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Quartz with Calcite and Clinozoisite-Epidote (Series)
 

JFD96AO2: A piece that I have had for many years, from the very popular Sierra y Lomas Quarry (aka Los Serranos Quarry), with its usual Clinozoisite-Epidote (Series) crystals, its usual Quartz (in this case with inclusions), and with a not so usual Calcite crystal, very clear and shiny.
Sierra y Lomas Quarry (Los Serranos Quarry), Cabezo Negro, Albatera, Comarca Vega Baja del Segura, Alicante / Alacant, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana  Spain (±1983)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.1 × 2.2 cm = 2.24” × 1.22” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59”

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Quartz with Calcite and Clinozoisite-Epidote (Series).
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Fluorite with Baryte and Quartz
Fluorite with Baryte and Quartz. Fluorite with Baryte and Quartz.
Fluorite with Baryte and Quartz. Fluorite with Baryte and Quartz.

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Fluorite with Baryte and Quartz
 

JFD90AO1: One of the myths of Berbes is that there are also light blue fluorites like those from La Viesca and this piece is one of the very few proofs of this. The characteristic leafy Baryte clearly proves its origin, as well as a small violet rim of 'Berbes color' on the edges of the crystals and small doubly terminated quartzes on the rear of the piece.
I got the piece from Martín Oliete at the Bilbao Fosminer Show in 1995, and he could only tell me that he had it for 'a long time' and that he did not know in which part of Berbes it had been found. Legend says that these blue fluorites came out in the Valdelmar area, but for this piece we are not able to be sure.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 8.6 × 8 × 3.4 cm = 3.39” × 3.15” × 1.34”

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

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Fluorite

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Fluorite
 

JFD89AO1: The Josefa-Veneros vein yielded many fluorites and although they typically exhibit large cubes with color zoning on the edges of the crystals, rough, with dodecahedral faces and predominantly violet colors, there can be notable variations within this pattern, as in this case, in which the color is much bluer than usual, as well as its high transparency that makes it different from the usual Josefa-Veneros standards but no less beautiful for that.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1970-75)

Specimen size: 8 × 5.6 × 2.5 cm = 3.15” × 2.20” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59”

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Fluorite. Fluorite.
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Quartz with hydrocarbon inclusions
Quartz with hydrocarbon inclusions. Front
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Quartz with hydrocarbon inclusions. Side
Side
Quartz with hydrocarbon inclusions. Rear
Rear

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Quartz with hydrocarbon inclusions
 

JFD88AO1: A watermark piece. Very transparent, with a small matrix of tiny quartzes that gives it less of a “floater” appearance than these Berbes quartzes usually have.
Of course, hydrocarbon inclusions are present too, but in a very minor role, so as not to take away the beauty of the piece...
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1987)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 1.85” × 1.50” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.4 cm = 0.91” × 0.55”

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Hydrocarbons fluorescent long & short UV



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Sphalerite

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Sphalerite
 

JFD87AO1: The color and luster are amazing. Although not on matrix, due to the transparency, intensity of color and good definition of the crystal, I have seen few of such quality. A very old piece in my collection, I bought it from the historic Andrés Puente in 1979. Andrés was the one who had the best Áliva pieces at that time.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2022, page 74
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (1979)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 4.4 × 3.4 cm = 3.78” × 1.73” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 5.1 × 3.8 cm = 2.01” × 1.50”

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Sphalerite. Front
Front
Sphalerite. Light behind
Light behind
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Galena
Galena.

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Galena
 

JFD85AO1: As I have commented on other occasions, a collection is a set and not only of selected pieces, but it can also have modest pieces to simply represent a locality. This very isolated Galena crystal is representative and, furthermore, its matrix is very white, which gives it a certain contrast.
Galena's mine, Vegacervera, Comarca Ribera del Torío, León, Castile and León  Spain

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4 × 3.6 cm = 1.65” × 1.57” × 1.42”

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

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Ferberite with Quartz and Muscovite

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Ferberite with Quartz and Muscovite
 

JFD242AQ1: Panasqueira ferberites are among the standard-bearers of that mining district, but have always been difficult to acquire without flaws and with a certain “dynamism”, like this piece in which the many Ferberite crystals seem scattered in the Quartz crystals, which are very transparent and have small Muscovite rosettes at their base.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1996)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.9 × 5.4 cm = 1.57” × 1.54” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 0.67” × 0.47”

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Ferberite with Quartz and Muscovite. Front
Front
Ferberite with Quartz and Muscovite. Side
Side
Ferberite with Quartz and Muscovite. Rear
Rear
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Ferberite with Marcasite-Arsenopyrite, Quartz and Siderite
Ferberite with Marcasite-Arsenopyrite, Quartz and Siderite. Front
Front
Ferberite with Marcasite-Arsenopyrite, Quartz and Siderite. Side
Side

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Ferberite with Marcasite-Arsenopyrite, Quartz and Siderite
 

JFD243AQ1: Doubly terminated, very sharp, and without the slightest defect, this Ferberite has been for many years one of the prides of my collection. The Siderite crystals that border it, the Marcasite-Arsenopyrite and Quartz, complete its beauty.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1994)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.8 × 3.4 cm = 2.64” × 1.89” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 5.7 × 2.2 cm = 2.24” × 0.87”

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Fluorapatite on Quartz

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Fluorapatite on Quartz
 

JFD244AQ1: This Quartz floater crystal is very flat, doubly terminated, and with recrystallized faces, and on it grow very aerial, sharp crystals of Fluorapatite.
A typical Panasqueira piece, but without the little dings that they usually have there.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1995)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4 × 1.9 cm = 1.89” × 1.57” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.43”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

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Fluorapatite on Quartz. Front
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Fluorapatite on Quartz. Side
Side
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Fluorapatite, Siderite, Muscovite and Chlorite
Fluorapatite, Siderite, Muscovite and Chlorite. Front
Front
Fluorapatite, Siderite, Muscovite and Chlorite. Side
Side
Fluorapatite, Siderite, Muscovite and Chlorite. Side
Side
Fluorapatite, Siderite, Muscovite and Chlorite.

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Fluorapatite, Siderite, Muscovite and Chlorite
 

JFD245AQ1: Nice group of Fluorapatite crystals with the center of the crystals exhibiting images of circular growth of darker color, which are locally called “olho de bou” (bull's eyes).
With Siderite and Muscovite on the matrix, both slightly coated by Chlorite.
A showy and exceptionally well preserved piece.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1970)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.6 × 2.8 cm = 2.76” × 2.20” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.6 cm = 0.91” × 0.63”

Very fluorescent long & short UV

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Calcite

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Calcite
 

JFD235AQ0: Elegant, very fine, a delight! These prolific Portuguese quarries yield many specimens of Calcite and sometimes even with large crystals, but few as graceful as this one, which must have been why Alain Martaud had appreciated it at one time.
Cruz dos Meninos Quarry, Santa Maria, Estremoz, Évora District, Alentejo Region  Portugal

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.6 × 4.1 cm = 3.35” × 2.99” × 1.61”

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

Former collection of Alain Martaud

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Calcite. Calcite.
Calcite.
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Pyrite (octahedral) with Calcite-Dolomite and Ferberite
Pyrite (octahedral) with Calcite-Dolomite and Ferberite. Pyrite (octahedral) with Calcite-Dolomite and Ferberite.

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Pyrite (octahedral) with Calcite-Dolomite and Ferberite
 

JFD234AQ0: The Panasqueira mine has produced many pyrites, but of all that multitude there have been very few octahedral ones.
This piece serves as a good example of that 'rarity'.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 5 × 4 × 2 cm = 1.97” × 1.57” × 0.79”

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

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Siderite with Quartz and Pyrite

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Siderite with Quartz and Pyrite
 

JFD229AP9: A very clear and perfect Quartz, with a very showy phantom, clearly displaying the different phases of crystal growth.
The Siderite, very sharp and aerial, and with small Pyrite crystals adds its signature to the piece.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1993)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.7 × 5 cm = 2.28” × 1.85” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 5.6 × 2.6 cm = 2.20” × 1.02”

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Siderite with Quartz and Pyrite. Front
Front
Siderite with Quartz and Pyrite. Side
Side
Siderite with Quartz and Pyrite. Bottom
Bottom
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Fluorapatite with Calcite
Fluorapatite with Calcite.

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Fluorapatite with Calcite
 

JFD225AP8: Color, color, and color! The crystals are on an unusual Calcite matrix and one of them has a small chip that, fortunately, is on the back of the piece and so is inconspicuous. As said, the most remarkable thing about it is its color.
I got it back for myself when I bought the Silvane collection, to whom I had sold it before.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.4 × 3.2 cm = 1.50” × 1.34” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 0.91” × 0.71”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Josep Amigó (Silvane)

Former colection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Fluorapatite with Siderite

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Fluorapatite with Siderite
 

JFD215AP6: So many fluorapatites in Panasqueira... sometimes charming, sometimes with important differences between them. This one, in addition to having a good color, is 'architectural', with many crystals of various sizes that grow capriciously. With small crystals of Siderite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1991)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.8 × 2.9 cm = 1.54” × 1.10” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.6 cm = 0.75” × 0.63”

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Fluorapatite with Siderite. Front
Front
Fluorapatite with Siderite. Side
Side
Fluorapatite with Siderite. Rear
Rear
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Fluorapatite on Quartz and with Calcite
Fluorapatite on Quartz and with Calcite.

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Fluorapatite on Quartz and with Calcite
 

JFD214AP6: Small but very nice piece. The Fluorapatite is very well positioned among the Quartz crystals and is accompanied by small, completely transparent Calcite crystals, which complete this old classic from Panasqueira.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1986)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.7 × 3.4 cm = 1.65” × 1.06” × 1.34”

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

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



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Siderite with Ferberite, Pyrite, Chalcopyrite and Calcite-Dolomite

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Siderite with Ferberite, Pyrite, Chalcopyrite and Calcite-Dolomite
 

JFD207AP5: Panasqueira has been producing well-crystallized specimens of all kinds of mineral species for many decades. This great mine is distinguished not only by its fluorapatites, but its siderites too are of high quality and their crystal habits can be very varied. In addition, other well-crystallized species may be associated with them, such as Ferberite, small crystals of Pyrite and Chalcopyrite, and Calcite-Dolomite.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (02/1999)

Specimen size: 12.3 × 9.4 × 6.8 cm = 4.84” × 3.70” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 5.3 × 5.2 cm = 2.09” × 2.05”

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Siderite with Ferberite, Pyrite, Chalcopyrite and Calcite-Dolomite. Front
Front
Siderite with Ferberite, Pyrite, Chalcopyrite and Calcite-Dolomite. Rear
Rear
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Pyrite with Calcite-Dolomite and Quartz
Pyrite with Calcite-Dolomite and Quartz. Front
Front
Pyrite with Calcite-Dolomite and Quartz. Side
Side
Pyrite with Calcite-Dolomite and Quartz.

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Pyrite with Calcite-Dolomite and Quartz
 

JFD200AP4: As those familiar with the deposit know, Panasqueira pyrites can be very good. This piece is a good example of this, with the crystal aggregate forming a very aerial pineapple on a Quartz matrix completely covered by small Calcite-Dolomite crystals and with the mold of another Quartz crystal on the back.
Everything is quite perfect, without any dings, which is not very common in Panasqueira where, due to the operating conditions, it is very difficult to prevent pieces from being damaged.
Luminous and showy, a very good Pyrite.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1992)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 6.8 × 6.3 cm = 3.86” × 2.68” × 2.48”

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Quartz with Pyrite and Muscovite

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Quartz with Pyrite and Muscovite
 

JFD191AP3: It's a little love of mine, this piece. The specimen is a floater, it has no damage, everything complete, and everything, both Quartz and Pyrite and even the Muscovite, has quality. As I said, I feel a little love for it.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1999)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.3 × 2.4 cm = 3.62” × 2.87” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 9.2 × 2.3 cm = 3.62” × 0.91”

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Quartz with Pyrite and Muscovite. Quartz with Pyrite and Muscovite.
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Fluorapatite with Chlorite
Fluorapatite with Chlorite. Fluorapatite with Chlorite.

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Fluorapatite with Chlorite
 

JFD190AP3: Rare, rare, both for its color and for the presentation of the crystals. Despite having seen so many fluorapatites, the truth is that I don't remember seeing another one like this one. Besides, the little 'ball' of Chlorite is intriguing, because I honestly don't know if it is an aggregate of Chlorite crystals or if it is covering some other species.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1997)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.3 × 3.8 cm = 2.56” × 2.09” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.4 cm = 1.38” × 0.94”

Fluorescent long & short UV

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Fluorapatite with Muscovite

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Fluorapatite with Muscovite
 

JFD189AP3: A kind of forest of very green and very transparent-translucent Fluorapatite crystals. If there were a name to define the piece, it would be: 'showy'. It comes from an important collection and is very well documented.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1970)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 2.09” × 1.38” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.35” × 0.28”

Zoned fluorescence long & short UV

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Fluorapatite with Muscovite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorapatite with Muscovite.
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Topaz with Fluorite, Siderite and Fluorapatite
Topaz with Fluorite, Siderite and Fluorapatite.

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Topaz with Fluorite, Siderite and Fluorapatite
 

JFD185AP2: For a long time I was looking for a piece with Topaz that was worthy of Panasqueira, and I was really happy when I got this specimen with its Fluorite, its Siderite and even its small elongated Fluorapatite crystal. Later, in more modern times, more topazes came out, but that is another story.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1985)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.3 × 1.7 cm = 1.73” × 1.30” × 0.67”

Minor fluorescence short UV

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Fluorapatite with Siderite and Muscovite

Recorded under LED light
Fluorapatite with Siderite and Muscovite
 

JFD175AP0: Intense color change in this Fluorapatite, from a delicate green to almost blue, depending on the type of light illuminating it. Panasqueira fluorapatites are known to do this, but in this one the property is extreme.
Small, but cute.

Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1989)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.6 × 2.5 cm = 1.06” × 1.02” × 0.98”

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

Zoned fluorescence long & short UV

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Fluorapatite with Siderite and Muscovite. Front
Front
Fluorapatite with Siderite and Muscovite. Side
Side
Fluorapatite with Siderite and Muscovite. Side
Side
Fluorapatite with Siderite and Muscovite. Side - Led light
Side - Led light
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Arsenopyrite (doubly terminated) with Muscovite and Calcite-Dolomite
Arsenopyrite (doubly terminated) with Muscovite and Calcite-Dolomite. Front
Front
Arsenopyrite (doubly terminated) with Muscovite and Calcite-Dolomite. Top
Top
Arsenopyrite (doubly terminated) with Muscovite and Calcite-Dolomite. Side
Side

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Arsenopyrite (doubly terminated) with Muscovite and Calcite-Dolomite
 

JFD162AO8: Panasqueira arsenopyrites are said to be the best in the world, and we could spend hours discussing that, but this piece with its Muscovite base and the white carbonates behind it, is a great example of why one could come to that conclusion.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1985)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4 × 3.4 cm = 1.89” × 1.57” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.7 cm = 1.57” × 1.46”

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Pyrite with Calcite-Dolomite

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Pyrite with Calcite-Dolomite
 

JFD161AO8: Unusual. Extra-flat Pyrite crystals growing in what appears to have been a coating of carbonates on the face of a Quartz crystal that at some point had detached, with the crystallization of the carbonates finishing far from where they started forming. As said, unusual.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1990)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.3 × 0.6 cm = 1.85” × 1.30” × 0.24”

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Pyrite with Calcite-Dolomite. Pyrite with Calcite-Dolomite.
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Sphalerite with Fluorapatite and Muscovite
Sphalerite with Fluorapatite and Muscovite. Sphalerite with Fluorapatite and Muscovite.

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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

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Marcasite with Arsenopyrite and Calcite-Dolomite

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Marcasite with Arsenopyrite and Calcite-Dolomite
 

JFD154AO7: A classic from Panasqueira: large sharp crystals of Marcasite, in 'cock's comb' habit, with some Arsenopyrite, and associated with carbonates (Calcite-Dolomite in this case) which very possibly contributes to making them more stable than those from other deposits.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1993)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 7.1 × 5.1 cm = 4.09” × 2.80” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.8 cm = 0.75” × 0.71”

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Marcasite with Arsenopyrite and Calcite-Dolomite. Front
Front
Marcasite with Arsenopyrite and Calcite-Dolomite. Side
Side
Marcasite with Arsenopyrite and Calcite-Dolomite. Marcasite with Arsenopyrite and Calcite-Dolomite.
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Pyrite with Calcite-Dolomite
Pyrite with Calcite-Dolomite. Pyrite with Calcite-Dolomite.

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Pyrite with Calcite-Dolomite
 

JFD153AO7: Panasqueira pyrites are unmistakable. It is curious that such a common mineral can be assigned to one locality in such a recognizable way. Flattened cubes, rich in faces, with Calcite-Dolomite in many cases and that brass-like color, from ancient ore.
It is nice what they call the pyrites in Panasqueira when they have this type of tones or they are oxidized: 'ferruginadas'
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1989)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 8.3 × 3.1 cm = 3.62” × 3.27” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.24” × 0.16”

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Cassiterite with Sphalerite, Quartz and Siderite

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Cassiterite with Sphalerite, Quartz and Siderite
 

JFD142AO6: One hell of a Cassiterite! Very large for Panasqueira, very lustrous, and sitting well on Sphalerite crystals that are associated with Quartz crystals, one of them broken, but the others recrystallized, and with small Siderite crystals.
Who said that Panasqueira cassiterites did not reach world class status?
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1970)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 9.7 × 4.1 cm = 4.25” × 3.82” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.7 cm = 1.18” × 1.06”

Former collection Folch (duplicates)

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Cassiterite with Sphalerite, Quartz and Siderite. Cassiterite with Sphalerite, Quartz and Siderite.
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Galena with Dolomite, Stannite and Chalcopyrite
Galena with Dolomite, Stannite and Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Galena with Dolomite, Stannite and Chalcopyrite. Side
Side

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Galena with Dolomite, Stannite and Chalcopyrite
 

JFD141AO6: Although it is such a popular mineral, Galena is quite rare in Panasqueira and only very occasionally can good specimens be obtained. In this case, it also has the added bonus of well-crystallized Stannite covering Chalcopyrite in the base. A combo of unusual species at Panasqueira.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1989)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.1 × 2.8 cm = 1.73” × 1.22” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.24” × 0.16”

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With analysis copy



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Arsenopyrite with Chalcopyrite, Cassiterite y Sphalerite

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Arsenopyrite with Chalcopyrite, Cassiterite y Sphalerite
 

JFD131AO5: The Panasqueira mines have been active for many years and even in 1964 notable specimens were already coming out. Somewhat different from the current ones, but also attractive. In this case, the Arsenopyrite has a different crystal habit from the one we usually see today and an Arsenopyrite-Chalcopyrite-Cassiterite-Sphalerite association that is not normally seen today either, and yet it is still easy to recognize the Panasqueira signature.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1964)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.7 × 3 cm = 3.03” × 2.24” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2 cm = 0.94” × 0.79”

Former collection Folch (duplicates)

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)



Arsenopyrite with Chalcopyrite, Cassiterite y Sphalerite. Arsenopyrite with Chalcopyrite, Cassiterite y Sphalerite.
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Chalcopyrite with Arsenopyrite, Pyrite and Muscovite
Chalcopyrite with Arsenopyrite, Pyrite and Muscovite. Chalcopyrite with Arsenopyrite, Pyrite and Muscovite.

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Chalcopyrite with Arsenopyrite, Pyrite and Muscovite
 

JFD121AO4: One hell of a piece! Many Chalcopyrite crystals with a curious morphology, good luster and color and as a floater in which the Arsenopyrite culminates the piece in its upper part and the omnipresent Siderite covers a little of everything, but without invading the rest of the species.
Not only are apatites and ferberites world-class in Panasqueira, but sometimes other species are as well.

Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1999)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 8.8 × 4.4 cm = 4.53” × 3.46” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.6 cm = 0.75” × 0.63”

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Fluorapatite with Arsenopyrite, Muscovite and Chlorite

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Fluorapatite with Arsenopyrite, Muscovite and Chlorite
 

JFD112AO3: In the past, you had to sweat blood to get hold of one of these mythical 'lilas' apatites, always very expensive and always with defects (broken or damaged crystals). I was very happy when I got this one, and at the time I was proud to have it in my collection.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1995)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 6.8 × 7.2 cm = 3.27” × 2.68” × 2.83”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.91” × 0.51”

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Fluorapatite with Arsenopyrite, Muscovite and Chlorite. Fluorapatite with Arsenopyrite, Muscovite and Chlorite.
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Fluorapatite with Siderite
Fluorapatite with Siderite. Front
Front
Fluorapatite with Siderite. Rear
Rear

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Fluorapatite with Siderite
 

JFD111AO3: Very peculiar Fluorapatite. These floater crystals, complete and well terminated throughout, have bands of lighter color that appear to be fibrous crystals included within the Fluorapatite crystals themselves.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2009)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.3 × 2.3 cm = 1.57” × 1.30” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.3 cm = 1.02” × 0.91”

Fluorescent long & short UV

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Fluorapatite with Siderite and Muscovite

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Fluorapatite with Siderite and Muscovite
 

JFD110AO3: Fine, elegant and on matrix, this small specimen shows us why Panasqueira stands out from any other locality for its fluorapatites.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1988)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.4 × 1.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.55” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.7 cm = 0.55” × 0.28”

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Fluorapatite with Siderite and Muscovite.
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Fluorite with Quartz, Siderite, Pyrite and Ferberite
Fluorite with Quartz, Siderite, Pyrite and Ferberite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Quartz, Siderite, Pyrite and Ferberite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Quartz, Siderite, Pyrite and Ferberite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

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Fluorite with Quartz, Siderite, Pyrite and Ferberite
 

JFD102AO2: An important piece. The Quartz is a floater, with recrystallizations on both sides and, hanging from it, a beautiful group of very isolated Fluorite cubes with dodecahedron faces on their edges and an intense blue color. The most remarkable thing about this piece, apart from the fact that it was in a very important French collection, is the fact that it is not from the more recent Fluorite finds there, but is much older, from the year 2000 approximately. Back then this was one of the best fluorites ever found in Panasqueira…
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 11.4 × 5.7 × 5.9 cm = 4.49” × 2.24” × 2.32”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59”

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Quartz with Siderite

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Quartz with Siderite
 

JFD101AO2: Nothing special but, as always in Panasqueira, with 'something' particular. It has the added value of having been in the private collection of a Portuguese doctor who at the time was very assiduous in trying to obtain the best pieces that came out of Panasqueira.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1985)

Specimen size: 4 × 2.6 × 0.5 cm = 1.57” × 1.02” × 0.20”

Main crystal size: 3 × 0.7 cm = 1.18” × 0.28”

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Quartz with Siderite. Front
Front
Quartz with Siderite. Rear
Rear
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Ferberite with Pyrite
Ferberite with Pyrite. Front
Front
Ferberite with Pyrite. Rear
Rear

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Ferberite with Pyrite
 

JFD100AO2: Despite their general uniformity, Panasqueira specimens can show a lot of variety. This Ferberite is very different from those that usually appear there since its crystals are highly elongated and fine, forming a kind of lattice. Fortunately, I am certain that it is from there since I bought it in 1990 in the mine 'Escritorio', freshly extracted from the mine by Zé da Tropa.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1990)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.3 × 1.9  cm = 0.98” × 0.91” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.08”

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Siderite with Arsenopyrite and Muscovite

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Siderite with Arsenopyrite and Muscovite
 

JFD92AO1: I do feel a little love for the siderites of Panasqueira. With much less fame than other mineral species from this mine, its variety of forms and its frequent association with other species always attracted me. This specimen well represents what I want to say - The crystal is sharp, its color is pleasant and it shows in its center a kind of growth phantom of trigonal symmetry. In addition, it is associated with Muscovite and Arsenopyrite, both of good quality.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (03/1995)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.1 × 2.6 cm = 2.44” × 2.01” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 5.1 × 4.2 cm = 2.01” × 1.65”

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Siderite with Arsenopyrite and Muscovite. Front
Front
Siderite with Arsenopyrite and Muscovite. Rear
Rear
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Fluorapatite with Siderite
Fluorapatite with Siderite. Front
Front
Fluorapatite with Siderite. Rear
Rear

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Fluorapatite with Siderite
 

JFD91AO1: These columnar fluorapatites are called in Panasqueira “hydroxylapatites”, unfortunately without any foundation since all the ones I have had analyzed were all textbook fluorapatites. This does not stop them from being very showy, as this one is, and very different from the usual patterns.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±2005)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.3 × 2.6 cm = 1.69” × 1.30” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 0.2 cm = 0.83” × 0.08”

Very fluorescent long & short UV

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Fluorapatite with Siderite

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Fluorapatite with Siderite
 

JFD77AO0: A great specimen of Fluorapatite, very perfect, a floater, with very good colour, zoning, and outstandingly sharp and lustrous.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1989)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6 × 3.3 cm = 3.31” × 2.36” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.67” × 0.59”

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Fluorapatite with Siderite. Front
Front
Fluorapatite with Siderite. Side
Side
Fluorapatite with Siderite.
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Pyrite
Pyrite. Pyrite.

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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”

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France

Cassiterite

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Cassiterite
 

JFD246AQ1: A great French classic with a very majestic, thick and shiny Cassiterite crystal. The crystal does not have any matrix, but its base is clearly recrystallized, so the piece could be considered a floater, which added to the fact that its upper termination is perfect, makes it stand out from most of those seen from there.
In short: high quality and very unusual.
La Villeder, Le Roc-Saint-André, Vannes, Morbihan, Brittany/Bretagne  France (±1900)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.7 × 3.8 cm = 1.89” × 1.46” × 1.50”

Former collection of Moutet (Marseille)

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Cassiterite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Cassiterite. Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Cassiterite.
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Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz.

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Fluorite with Quartz
 

JFD231AP9: Le Beix is a mythical name in French mineralogy. Unlike those of Puy-Saint-Gulmier, not all the fluorites from Le Beix are deep blue, but some, like this one, attract attention due to the intensity of the blue, and even more for the contrast of the color between these crystals and their white Quartz matrix.
It comes from an old collection, like the vast majority of the few pieces that come on the market. Nothing is found there anymore.
Le Beix Mine, Saint-Germain-près-Herment, Herment, Clermont-Ferrand District, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.4 × 5.8 cm = 3.74” × 2.91” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.59” × 0.39”

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Rutile with Dissakisite-(Ce)/Allanite-(Ce) and on Dolomite

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Rutile with Dissakisite-(Ce)/Allanite-(Ce) and on Dolomite
 

JFD208AP5: A curiosity from the Trimouns Mine. Well known for its rare earth minerals, things like this Rutile have also been found there in well-developed acicular crystals on a Dissakisite-(Ce) / Allanite-(Ce) crystal, and all on a Calcite matrix with more Dissakisite- (Ce) / Allanite-(Ce) of brownish color.
Trimouns Mine, Luzenac, Haute-Ariège, Foix, Ariège Department, Occitanie  France (±1993)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.5 × 3.2 cm = 1.65” × 1.38” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

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Rutile with Dissakisite-(Ce)/Allanite-(Ce) and on Dolomite. Rutile with Dissakisite-(Ce)/Allanite-(Ce) and on Dolomite.
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Quartz with Calcite
Quartz with Calcite. Front
Front
Quartz with Calcite. Rear
Rear

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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

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Goethite

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Goethite
 

JFD195AP3: The size of the Goethite crystals in this piece made me forget that some of them were broken, but really its size and thickness and its good presentation, well placed in a matrix of Quartz, makes the piece very attractive.
Les Redoutières Mine, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire  France (±1996)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 5.7 × 3.2 cm = 2.32” × 2.24” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.59” × 0.08”

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Goethite.
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Calcite with Sphalerite and Dolomite
Calcite with Sphalerite and Dolomite. Calcite with Sphalerite and Dolomite.

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Calcite with Sphalerite and Dolomite
 

JFD181AP1: Found around 1970, this specimen is a good example of the quality of calcites from this classic mine. Although calcites with larger crystals were found there, this piece is very fine, with a matrix of Sphalerite covered by multiple well developed Calcite crystals of good transparency.
Trèves Mine, Fournels Valley, Trèves, Gard, Occitanie  France (±1970)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 7.2 × 4.5 cm = 3.46” × 2.83” × 1.77”

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

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Calcite (variety cobalt-bearing)

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Calcite (variety cobalt-bearing)
 

JFD163AO8: Alain is an inexhaustible source of French surprises. I bought this cobaltoan 'fried egg' from him in Tucson 2020, very shortly before the world stopped due to the pandemic. When I saw the specimen for the first time I was convinced that it was from the San Carlos mine in Huesca, Spain, It looks so much like the Spanish ones! That it was a former Alain collection piece convinced me to buy it.
Les Cabesses, Rivèrenert, Saint-Girons, Ariège Department, Occitanie  France (2018)

Specimen size: 11.3 × 7.1 × 3.7 cm = 4.45” × 2.80” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 7.1 × 5.6 cm = 2.80” × 2.20”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

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minID: 260-3EW



Calcite (variety cobalt-bearing). Calcite (variety cobalt-bearing).
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Pyromorphite with Baryte
Pyromorphite with Baryte. Pyromorphite with Baryte.
Pyromorphite with Baryte.

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Pyromorphite with Baryte
 

JFD140AO6: What a pleasure when Farges Pyromorphites are so good!
In Baryte, with very raised crystals and two generations of color, brown at the base and very green at the termination. With a curious pedigree too, since it comes from a great Barcelona collector who bought it from me in 1996 and from whom I bought it back for my own collection in 2012. A great piece.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), 150m.↓, Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France (1974)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 5.6 × 3.4 cm = 3.39” × 2.20” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.5 cm = 0.55” × 0.20”

Minor fluorescence short UV

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Fluorite

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Fluorite
 

JFD125AO4: Le Burc is one of the three localities in the triad of French blue fluorites, together with Le Beix and Puy-Saint-Gulmier. Obviously this piece does not have a particularly intense blue, but at the time I liked its transparency, perfection and, why not, its color, since although it is far from the electric blue of other fluorites in that triad, it is nevertheless fine and elegant.
Le Burc Mine, Alban-Le Fraysse area, Tarn, Occitanie  France (±2005)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.3 × 4.4 cm = 3.03” × 2.09” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 0.71” × 0.67”

Fluorescent long & short UV

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Fluorite. Fluorite.
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Fluorite
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Side
Side
Fluorite.

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Fluorite
 

JFD99AO2: The fluorites from Buxières-les-Mines are striking for their globular appearance and for the brilliance and transparency of the multitude of small crystals that make up the globules. In addition, in this specimen the two colors stand out, the typical brown from the locality and a violet color in some areas.
I bought it from Alain Martaud in 2011, and he got it from Dr. Martin's collection.
Buxières-les-Mines, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 9.7 × 8 × 3.3 cm = 3.82” × 3.15” × 1.30”

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

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Pyromorphite

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Pyromorphite
 

JFD79AO0: A sensational piece (or at least it seems so to me) in which the Pyromorphite has large crystals and a very nice color zoning: the body of the crystals is brown and the terminations are yellow. The piece is a floater, very perfect, and it has a good luster, unlike others with this color association that are usually more matte. It is the fruit of a time in my life when, due to my great passion for Des Farges pyromorphites, I constantly visited the homes of former miners there, and sometimes, as in this case, got a pleasant surprise.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France (±1975)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.1 × 2.6 cm = 2.28” × 1.61” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.47” × 0.35”

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Pyromorphite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite. Side
Side
Pyromorphite. Side
Side
Pyromorphite.
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Morocco

Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.

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Fluorite with Quartz
 

JFD247AQ1: One of the first fluorites to be seen from El Hamman, this piece found and purchased in the year 1985 already pointed to what that mine later demonstrated: intense color, extraordinary fluorescence under UV light, and staggered growths, often fringed by crystals of Quartz.
El Hammam, Ait Mimoune, Khémisset Province, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Region  Morocco (1985)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.6 × 3.8 cm = 3.35” × 2.99” × 1.50”

Intense fluorescence long & short UV

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Titanite on Microcline

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Titanite on Microcline
 

JFD248AQ1: For a short time during the year 2005 these titanites in Microcline were being found in the Imilchil area. I really liked them because of the contrast between the Titanite and the Microcline, and because the Titanite crystals were almost always very isolated, so I bought many pieces from that find. Among all of them this was one of the ones I selected, precisely because of the good contrast between the Titanite and the Microcline.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2005)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 6.6 × 4.5 cm = 3.78” × 2.60” × 1.77”

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

Microcline fluorescent long & short UV

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Titanite on Microcline. Titanite on Microcline.
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Goethite with Quartz and Calcite
Goethite with Quartz and Calcite. Goethite with Quartz and Calcite.
Goethite with Quartz and Calcite.

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Goethite with Quartz and Calcite
 

JFD249AQ1: In the 1980s-1990s little was known about these well-crystallized goethites from Tizirine-Sidi Rahal, which used to be labeled “Pyrolusite”, because their main seller, Infles Abdullah, had his basar near the Imini manganese mine.
Later it was learned that the crystals were pleochroic and when analyzed were confirmed to be goethites.
This fine piece comes from that glorious period, associated with a group of Calcite crystals, although Calcite, curiously, is a species that is not abundant in these vugs.
Sidi Rahal, El Kelaâ des Sraghna Province, Marrakech-Safi Region  Morocco (±1980)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 10.2 × 5.6 cm = 4.92” × 4.02” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.39” × 0.35”

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Anglesite with Galena

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Anglesite with Galena
 

JFD250AQ1: This is the last piece of my collection that I propose for sale to the public, since this is the end of the
journey for Fabre Minerals. That is why I wanted piece no. 250 of my collection to be a special piece, of great quality, and what could be more special than one of the legendary anglesites from Touissit, undoubtedly the best in the world.
This one has superb color, the crystal is large and it is in very good condition, as are all the smaller crystals around it. As the crystal is so centered in its Galena matrix you have to display it by turning the piece a little so that it can be seen better and you can appreciate its exceptional luster and the darker colored interior inclusions.
I am aware that I am describing it in a very superlative way, but, what can I do, it is the last piece of my collection that I am offering and I have tried to make this farewell piece a really special piece.
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1989)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 9 × 6.3 cm = 3.58” × 3.54” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 6 × 2 cm = 2.36” × 0.79”

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Anglesite with Galena. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Anglesite with Galena. Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Anglesite with Galena. Detail / Foto: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Foto: Joaquim Callén
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Epidote with Quartz
Epidote with Quartz. Front
Front
Epidote with Quartz. Side
Side
Epidote with Quartz.

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Epidote with Quartz
 

JFD236AQ0: I liked that the associated Quartz was reddish, I liked that the Epidote fans were quite widely spaced and brilliantly lustrous, and I liked the general shape of the piece and its size. In short: I liked it.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region  Morocco (08/2019)

Specimen size: 12.6 × 6.8 × 5.5 cm = 4.96” × 2.68” × 2.17”

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

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Proustite with Quartz

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Proustite with Quartz
 

JFD230AP9: One of the first proustites that arrived from Imiter. They did not have the crystal size that was seen later, but they were very red and with sharp crystals. They were the forerunners.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2003)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 4.7 × 2.9 cm = 3.03” × 1.85” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.08” × 0.04”

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Proustite with Quartz. Front
Front
Proustite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Proustite with Quartz.
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Andradite
Andradite. Front
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Andradite. Rear
Rear
Andradite. Side
Side

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Andradite
 

JFD226AP8: Very well crystallized and large Andradite crystal, with other associated Andradite crystals and with some matrix.
I got it in 2015 at the Expominer Show in Barcelona, where it stood out for its morphology from all the other pieces with smaller crystals and not as isolated as this one.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2009)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.2 × 3.9 cm = 2.20” × 1.65” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 2.8 cm = 1.30” × 1.10”

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Roselite with Calcite

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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”

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Roselite with Calcite. Roselite with Calcite.
Roselite with Calcite. Detail / Foto: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Foto: Joaquim Callén
Aragonite and Goethite with Quartz
Aragonite and Goethite with Quartz.

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Aragonite and Goethite with Quartz
 

JFD220AP7: This Aragonite flower is unique, being so well placed in the center of the small vug in the Goethite. All the crystals in the piece are brilliant and everything seems to be in harmony.
Tizirine, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (05/2011)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.65” × 0.98” × 0.59”

Aragonite fluorescent long & short UV

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Azurite and Malachite on Dolomite

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Azurite and Malachite on Dolomite
 

JFD219AP7: Their color and sharpness characterize Touissit azurites, as well as their reddish to orange Dolomite matrix.
This crystal, very isolated, combines all that is expected for this locality, and, for its size, synthesizes the virtues for which these azurites are famous.
Touissit mining area, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1985)

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

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.35” × 0.20”

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Azurite and Malachite on Dolomite. Azurite and Malachite on Dolomite.
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Acanthite with Siderite
Acanthite with Siderite. Front
Front
Acanthite with Siderite. Rear
Rear

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Acanthite with Siderite
 

JFD218AP7: Well balanced, harmonious, and with elongated Siderite crystals to provide some contrast.
This Acanthite has several virtues, being, unlike many others from Imiter, lustrous and not rough surfaced at all.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (09/2005)

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

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.35” × 0.20”

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Malachite after Azurite on Dolomite

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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”

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

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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”

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Vanadinite with Baryte

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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”

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Vanadinite with Baryte. Front
Front
Vanadinite with Baryte. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Quartz and Baryte
Fluorite with Quartz and Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz and Baryte. Side
Side
Fluorite with Quartz and Baryte.

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Fluorite with Quartz and Baryte
 

JFD209AP5: Taourirt has given up quite a few specimens recently, although it used to be hard to get good pieces from there, so I kept this very isolated crystal with great pride. I think it's still attractive, with a lot of contrast to the white Quartz matrix... What I cannot guarantee is that it is exactly from Jebel Tirremi like the most recent ones, since this old piece is from a long time ago and at that time very little was known about Moroccan localities.
Taourirt, Taourirt Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (2005)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.2 × 3.7 cm = 2.28” × 1.65” × 1.46”

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

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Azurite on Malachite

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Azurite on Malachite
 

JFD201AP4: Bou Bekker is reputed to be Touissit's 'little brother' although some of its specimens can be of very high quality, especially from an aesthetic point of view.
In the case of this old specimen, the Azurite has a wonderful color that contrasts very well with the green of the Malachite.
Bou Bekker, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1997)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 8.9 × 3.2 cm = 3.78” × 3.50” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 3.7 cm = 1.69” × 1.46”

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Azurite on Malachite. Azurite on Malachite.
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Wulfenite
Wulfenite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Wulfenite. Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Wulfenite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

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Wulfenite
 

JFD194AP3: Very large plate of innumerable Wulfenite crystals with good color and luster. When I bought it, it drew my attention for its size, its color and luster, and the fact that despite having so many crystals the vast majority of them were in good condition.
Sidi Amer, Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 13.5 × 12.2 × 3.5 cm = 5.31” × 4.80” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.35” × 0.28”

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Arfvedsonite with Microcline

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Arfvedsonite with Microcline
 

JFD193AP3: With its brilliant luster and very sharp crystals, from among the arfvedsonites that came out for a period of time in the Imilchil area, this was one of the ones I chose, both for its sharpness as well as for its general quality.
This specific specimen has been analyzed, so it is quite certain that it is Arfvedsonite.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (01/2012)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.4 × 3.1 cm = 2.60” × 1.73” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 6 × 2 cm = 2.36” × 0.79”

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Arfvedsonite with Microcline. Arfvedsonite with Microcline.
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Azurite
Azurite. Azurite.

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Azurite
 

JFD192AP3: I bought it from Alain Martaud and he told me it came from Bou Bekker, which I can certainly believe because it doesn't look anything like Touissit's. The best thing about it is the 'dragon' form of the Azurite crystals and the fact that the 'dragon' is on matrix.
Bou Bekker, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±2012)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.5 × 3.3 cm = 2.44” × 1.77” × 1.30”

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Erythrite with Skutterudite

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Erythrite with Skutterudite
 

JFD186AP2: On my first 'exploratory' trip in 1986 I crossed all of Morocco, from Oujda to Agadir, in a Moroccan car with three Moroccans and me in the car. The experience was unforgettable, I learned a lot and got Hepatitis A. The best thing about the trip (despite the headaches of getting these specimens): a lot of good erythrites from the Bou Azzer Mine, of which I was especially proud of this one, and kept it.
Many memories...
Bou Azzer Mine, Bou Azzer mining district, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (1986)

Specimen size: 10.1 × 7 × 3.4 cm = 3.98” × 2.76” × 1.34”

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

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Erythrite with Skutterudite. Erythrite with Skutterudite.
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Mottramite
Mottramite. Mottramite.

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Mottramite
 

JFD176AP0: Very old piece in my collection, I bought it from a 'basariste' in Asni, a small town located almost at the other end of Morocco. How curious that already in the year 1985 I had managed to purchase this Touissit rarity, 900 kilometers from there! These 'basaristes' of Morocco have done a formidable job of dispersing its minerals throughout the country, and in a way they have contributed, and continue to contribute, to its mineralogical splendor.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1985)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 6 × 3.7 cm = 2.99” × 2.36” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”

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Vanadinite on Siderite

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Vanadinite on Siderite
 

JFD171AO9: This is the first piece from my personal display cases that I put up for sale. I didn't think I would ever sell any of them as they aren't “duplicates”, but in life you never know and recently I got another specimen that has replaced this one and consequently it goes directly from the collection display to this page.
It comes from the discoveries made in 2009 in the number 15 vein of Tadaout in Taouz, that are characterized by the presence of Siderite at the base of the Vanadinite crystals, which in turn are characterized by their fan-like habit and also by their good color and luster.
Tadaout, vein 15, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (01/2009)

Specimen size: 14.1 × 8.3 × 6.3 cm = 5.55” × 3.27” × 2.48”

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

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Vanadinite on Siderite. Vanadinite on Siderite.
Vanadinite on Siderite.
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Smithsonite
Smithsonite. Front
Front
Smithsonite. Side
Side
Smithsonite.

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Smithsonite
 

JFD166AO8: This very old Smithsonite is quite different from those found later. The color and luster are excellent and show us what this great mine was like in its early days. I remember we searched a lot before we were able to locate the mine, like ‘explorers’ in the wild and wonderful country that Morocco was then.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1977)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 9.2 × 6.2 cm = 3.78” × 3.62” × 2.44”

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Magnetite

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Magnetite
 

JFD165AO8: Imilchil never ceases to amaze me. Relatively young in the mineralogical history of Morocco, it seems to continually come up with new specimens. It is true that many different deposits are gathered under the generic name 'Imilchil', but such large crystals of Magnetite, and of such high quality, were something unexpected.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2014)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 7.4 × 6.4 cm = 3.11” × 2.91” × 2.52”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 4.5 cm = 1.73” × 1.77”

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Magnetite. Front
Front
Magnetite. Side
Side
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Sphalerite with Actinolite
Sphalerite with Actinolite. Front
Front
Sphalerite with Actinolite. Light behind
Light behind

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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”

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Gersdorffite

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Gersdorffite
 

JFD156AO7: Except in its top specimens, Gersdorffite is not a species that usually gives showy pieces. This one, although modest, has the elegance of having sharp crystals, hanging from a kind of pinnacle of another Gersdorffite crystal which, although coarser, makes the other crystals look better.
Aït Ahmane, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2012)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.2 × 1.5 cm = 1.34” × 0.87” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.43”

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Gersdorffite.
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Acanthite with Pyrite
Acanthite with Pyrite. Front
Front
Acanthite with Pyrite. Rear
Rear

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Acanthite with Pyrite
 

JFD145AO6: Very large, very lustrous, this is an Acanthite crystal that stands out for its size and its polysynthetic growths. From the good years for acanthites in Imiter, years that have not returned since there are currently very few good specimens of Acanthite coming from there.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2007)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 2.6 × 1.1 cm = 3.19” × 1.02” × 0.43”

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Vanadinite

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Vanadinite
 

JFD144AO6: One of the first I ever saw in the Bou Almaden area in Mibladen. They drew attention for their crystal size, since until then most of the vanadinites had come from the ACF mine, which produced smaller crystals. Later finds yielded even bigger crystals, but these early ones still have something special about them.
Bou Almaden (Bou el Maden), Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (1994)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5 × 4 cm = 2.44” × 1.97” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.1 cm = 0.63” × 0.43”

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Vanadinite. Front
Front
Vanadinite. Side
Side
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Azurite
Azurite. Azurite.

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Azurite
 

JFD143AO6: For its color and definition, it is a gem, and its limonitic matrix makes it unusual.
From Touissit and not from Bou Bekker, as proven by the extremely sharp crystal (quite apart from the fact that I bought it in Touissit itself 😉)
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the 'What’s New on the Internet Reports' section, report 64, July 3, 2022 edition, page 8

Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1988)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 2.7 × 2.5 cm = 2.09” × 1.06” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.6 cm = 0.59” × 0.24”

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Silver (variety kongsbergite)

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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”

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Silver (variety kongsbergite). Front
Front
Silver (variety kongsbergite). Rear
Rear
Silver (variety kongsbergite).
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.

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Fluorite with Baryte
 

JFD134AO5: This is one of the first fluorites I saw from the El Hammam Mine, which at that time was off limits, in a very isolated place. It was an adventure to find out where the deposit really was, go there, and get specimens from the miners, although the specimens were almost always very beaten up due to the miners' lack of knowledge. Things have changed a lot since then and the current miners are much more careful. This is the one I was able to save for my collection from that remote time.
El Hammam, Ait Mimoune, Khémisset Province, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Region  Morocco (1985)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 9.1 × 3.7 cm = 4.41” × 3.58” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.9 cm = 0.94” × 0.75”

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Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)

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Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)
 

JFD133AO5: Relatively recently found and very showy, these scalenohedral Calcite crystals, with the most concentrated color at the base of the crystals, have something as unreal.
Agoudal Mines, Tansifite, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2013)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5.1 × 3 cm = 2.24” × 2.01” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.20” × 0.12”

Minor fluorescence short UV

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Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite). Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite). Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
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Proustite with Quartz and Galena
Proustite with Quartz and Galena. Proustite with Quartz and Galena.
Proustite with Quartz and Galena.

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Proustite with Quartz and Galena
 

JFD132AO5: Imiter's proustites are not widely recognized in the world of collecting because very large crystals are not found there, but they can have high quality, both because of how sharp the crystals are and because of their luster and color, which are both extraordinary in this piece.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2006)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 7.1 × 3.2 cm = 3.39” × 2.80” × 1.26”

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

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Anorthoroselite with Calcite and Goethite

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Anorthoroselite with Calcite and Goethite
 

JFD124AO4: How pretty! I said the same thing when I bought it. It is precious, with the strong contrast with the Calcite covered by the black of the Goethite.
Double joy when analysis gave Anorthoroselite, which is a much rarer species than Roselite.
Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (08-09/2016)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 6.2 × 3.6 cm = 4.09” × 2.44” × 1.42”

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

Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)

With a copy of its analysis



Anorthoroselite with Calcite and Goethite. Front
Front
Anorthoroselite with Calcite and Goethite. Side
Side
Anorthoroselite with Calcite and Goethite.
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Skutterudite with Calcite
Skutterudite with Calcite. Skutterudite with Calcite.

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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

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Baryte with limonite

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Baryte with limonite
 

JFD122AO4: This piece would require a very long story. In short: around 1977 I saw a very nice blue Baryte in the small Merchich collection, a pharmacist from Azrou, and I always remembered that piece. Seventeen years later at the 1994 Millau Show, Mr. Friteau had this other Baryte and I bought it immediately, and then, in 2012, Boom! came the explosion of these Jebel Ouichane barytes that are among the most beautiful in the world.
It makes me very happy to leave this story in writing, since in a way the story of these Barytes is part of my life. I was finally able to choose the pieces of my dreams among so many that came out... 35 years since Merchich's dream Baryte.
Jebel Ouichane mines, Beni Bou Ifrour, Nador, Nador Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1994)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.6 × 4.1 cm = 2.13” × 1.81” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.4 cm = 1.57” × 0.55”

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Baryte with limonite. Front
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Baryte with limonite. Side
Side
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Quartz (variety red quartz)
Quartz (variety red quartz). Front
Front
Quartz (variety red quartz). Side
Side
Quartz (variety red quartz). Rear
Rear

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Quartz (variety red quartz)
 

JFD115AO3: One of Aouli's specialties: Quartz with a first generation of blood-red color and a second generation of totally colorless Quartz that allows the underlying red first generation to be seen very well. Curiously, Aouli's fame is not derived from these quartzes but from fluorites, which do not actually come from there but rather from the deposits of Sidi Ayad and Chebka Sidi Said.
Aouli, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (1996)

Specimen size: 8 × 4 × 6.2 cm = 3.15” × 1.57” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.7 cm = 0.87” × 0.67”

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Vanadinite on Baryte

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Vanadinite on Baryte
 

JFD114AO3: There are so many many vanadinites around, but when they are showy they still make us tremble, especially when of top color and on white Baryte, which gives them a spectacular aesthetic.
ACF Mine, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (1995)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.7 × 2.3 cm = 1.93” × 1.85” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.28” × 0.20”

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Vanadinite on Baryte. Vanadinite on Baryte.
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Skutterudite with Calcite
Skutterudite with Calcite. Skutterudite with Calcite.

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Skutterudite with Calcite
 

JFD113AO3: Not very large crystals but well individualized on their Skutterudite with Calcite matrix. Despite being a very old piece, it retains its luster well.
Bou Azzer Mine, Bou Azzer mining district, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1985)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.4 × 2.7 cm = 1.81” × 0.94” × 1.06”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV

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Skutterudite with Calcite

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Skutterudite with Calcite
 

JFD105AO2: Large Skutterudite crystal that has kept its luster well all these years. The best skutterudites in the world are those from Bou Azzer, and those from the Bou Azzer Mine proper, like this one, were and continue to be a reference standard for museums and collectors around the world.
Bou Azzer Mine, Bou Azzer mining district, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (1988)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.6 × 4.8 cm = 2.28” × 2.20” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2 cm = 1.22” × 0.79”

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Skutterudite with Calcite. Skutterudite with Calcite.
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Acanthite with Calcite
Acanthite with Calcite.

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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”

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Azurite with Malachite, Wulfenite and Cerussite

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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”

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Azurite with Malachite, Wulfenite and Cerussite. Azurite with Malachite, Wulfenite and Cerussite.
Erythrite with Calcite
Erythrite with Calcite. Front
Front
Erythrite with Calcite. Side
Side
Erythrite with Calcite.

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Erythrite with Calcite
 

JFD94AO1: For many years the best Erythrite in my collection. Although the color of the Erythrite is so attractive, it has never been easy to obtain attractive collection specimens since it is difficult to find pieces with well-developed crystals and well-arranged on the matrix. It has accompanied me since 1988 when I got it, and I hope it finds a place where its new owner appreciates it as much as I have until now.
Bou Azzer Mine, Bou Azzer mining district, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1992)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 5.8 × 2 cm = 3.23” × 2.28” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.5 cm = 0.55” × 0.20”

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Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)

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Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)
 

JFD93AO1: Calcite with an intense color, very characteristic of those that came out many years ago in the Bou Azzer Mine.
I bought it from Ali Moudoud when he, along with his brother, practically controlled all the specimens that came out of the mines in the Bou Azzer area. Those were very difficult years but, in a way, also exciting and attractive.
Bou Azzer Mine, Bou Azzer mining district, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (09/1994)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.1 × 0.9 cm = 1.42” × 1.22” × 0.35”

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

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Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite).
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Calcite with Baryte and Pyrite
Calcite with Baryte and Pyrite. Calcite with Baryte and Pyrite.
Calcite with Baryte and Pyrite.

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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”

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Baryte with inclusions and Quartz

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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”

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Baryte with inclusions and Quartz. Front
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Baryte with inclusions and Quartz. Side
Side
Baryte with inclusions and Quartz.
Cerussite on Quartz with iron oxides inclusions
Cerussite on Quartz with iron oxides inclusions. Cerussite on Quartz with iron oxides inclusions.

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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”

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Azurite

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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”

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Azurite. Azurite.
Proustite on Calcite
Proustite on Calcite. Front
Front
Proustite on Calcite. Side
Side
Proustite on Calcite. 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

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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”

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Chalcostibite with Azurite and Malachite. Front
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Chalcostibite with Azurite and Malachite. Top
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Chalcostibite with Azurite and Malachite.
Prehnite with Quartz and Epidote
Prehnite with Quartz and Epidote. Front
Front
Prehnite with Quartz and Epidote. Side
Side
Prehnite with Quartz and Epidote. Side
Side
Prehnite with Quartz and Epidote.

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Prehnite with Quartz and Epidote
 

JFD29AN6: It's been a long time since these unique prehnites were seen for the first time, from a remote locality in the deep South of Morocco. Due to the difficulties caused by being close to the border, the work was abandoned and, although pieces from this locality reappear sporadically due to individual adventures, it has never become a classic Moroccan locality despite the fact that it could easily qualify due to the richness of what is apparently there.
Jebel Melh, Bou Arfa, Figuig Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1995)

Specimen size: 13.7 × 9.8 × 9.9 cm = 5.39” × 3.86” × 3.90”

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