Mineral Specimens - page 5
Portugal - Panasqueira

TTR14AN9: Group of translucent, lustrous, pale green tabular Fluorapatite crystals with twinned Cassiterite crystals and small Arsenopyrite crystals.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.02” × 0.91” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.7 cm = 0.51” × 0.28”

HM90MF: Tabular Fluorapatite crystal, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and very distinct geometric zoning in different shades of green, from paler to deeper, along with small lamellar crystals of Muscovite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 3 X 2.4 X 1.6 cm = 1.18”

NP14AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Group of elongated Fluorapatite crystals with a pale yellow to violet color, with zoning that forms white geometric bands in the terminal areas and small Chlorite coatings. The specimen, completely different from those known so far from Panasqueira, comes from a small vug that produced few pieces.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (02/2020)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.26” × 1.02” × 0.83”

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

NF76AL5: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Group of elongated pale yellow to violet Fluorapatite crystals with zoning that forms white geometric bands in the terminal areas, on a transparent Quartz crystal with small leafy aggregates of Muscovite. The specimen, completely different from what had been known so far in Panasqueira, comes from a small vug that produced few pieces.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (02/2020)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.7 × 2 cm = 1.50” × 1.46” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.75” × 0.24”

NM6AL5: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Group of elongated Fluorapatite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, pale yellow to violet in color with zoning that forms white geometric bands in the terminal areas, with leafy aggregates of Muscovite and little Chlorite coatings. The specimen, completely different from those known so far from Panasqueira, comes from a small vug that produced few specimens.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (02/2020)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2 × 2 cm = 1.54” × 0.79” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 0.7 cm = 1.26” × 0.28”

HM60EY: Group of tabular Fluorapatite crystals between transparent and translucent, with good luster and an intense green color, on matrix, with Siderite. Partially covered by small acicular crystals of Dravite.
Minas da Panasqueira, levels 0-1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2017)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.8 × 1.7 cm = 1.81” × 1.50” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1 cm = 0.67” × 0.39”

NE46AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Group of elongated pale yellow to violet Fluorapatite crystals with zoning that forms white geometric bands in the terminal areas, on a Quartz crystal, partially covered by Chlorite and small crystals of Calcite. The specimen, completely different from those known so far from Panasqueira, comes from a small vug that produced few pieces.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (02/2020)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 2.6 × 1.5 cm = 2.05” × 1.02” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 0.7 cm = 1.42” × 0.28”

NL48AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Group of elongated and doubly terminated Fluorapatite crystals between pale yellow and violet with zoning that forms white geometric bands in the terminal areas, on a transparent Quartz crystal with Chlorite and Muscovite coatings. The specimen, completely different from those known so far from Panasqueira, comes from a small vug that produced few pieces.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (02/2020)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 5.1 × 3.4 cm = 2.17” × 2.01” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 0.6 cm = 1.14” × 0.24”

NJ36AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Group of elongated pale yellow to violet Fluorapatite crystals with zoning that forms white geometric bands in the terminal areas, on matrix, with Sphalerite, Quartz crystals, leafy aggregates of Muscovite and small coatings of Chlorite. The specimen, completely different from those known so far from Panasqueira, comes from a small vug that produced few pieces.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (02/2020)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 5.2 × 3.4 cm = 2.99” × 2.05” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.20”

ND28AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Elongated pale yellow to violet Fluorapatite crystals with zoning that forms white geometric bands in the terminal areas, on matrix, with spheroidal aggregates of Muscovite coated with Chlorite. The specimen, completely different from those known so far from Panasqueira, comes from a small vug that produced few pieces.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (02/2020)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.8 × 5.6 cm = 3.03” × 2.28” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 1.0 cm = 1.38” × 0.39”

NC10AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Groups of elongated and doubly terminated Fluorapatite crystals between pale yellow and violet between pale yellow and violet with zoning that forms white geometric bands in the terminal areas, on matrix, with Quartz, small crystals of Arsenopyrite, Chlorite coatings and leafy Muscovite aggregates. The specimen, completely different from those known until now from Panasqueira, comes from a small vug that produced few pieces.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (02/2020)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 7.6 × 4.7 cm = 3.07” × 2.99” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 1.8 cm = 1.85” × 0.71”

NK46AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Group of elongated pale yellow to violet Fluorapatite crystals with zoning that forms white geometric bands in the terminal areas, on matrix, with Sphalerite, Quartz crystals, leafy aggregates of Muscovite and small coatings of Chlorite. The specimen, completely different from those known until now from Panasqueira, comes from a small vug that produced few specimens.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (02/2020)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 4.2 × 3.3 cm = 3.11” × 1.65” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.71” × 0.28”

NB57AL5: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Groups of elongated and doubly terminated Fluorapatite crystals between pale yellow and violet with zoning that forms white geometric bands in the terminal areas, on matrix, with Quartz, small crystals of Arsenopyrite and spheroidal aggregates of Muscovite, and Chlorite coatings. This piece, completely different from those known until now from Panasqueira, comes from a small vug that produced few specimens.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (02/2020)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 7.4 × 4.2 cm = 4.21” × 2.91” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 1.8 cm = 1.26” × 0.71”

NB11M7: A group of two violet crystals, with zoned color and a cluster of small crystals on its side. On the back, there is a neat contact. The crystals have small damage on the edges.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.87” × 0.71” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.2 cm = 0.51” × 0.47”

NF66AH7: Very aerial single crystals, doubly terminated, between transparent and translucent, bright, with a zoned violet color and on a matrix coated by Chlorite, with Muscovite and lenticular Siderite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (10/2017)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.34” × 0.98” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 0.75” × 0.55”

NFF89AO6: Two doubly terminated Fluorapatite crystals with very well defined parallel growths, with recrystallization and contact zones on the back, without breakage, translucent, lustrous, and with color zoning, more intense in the central part. With Ferberite and small Siderite crystals on the back.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2021)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.7 × 1.8 cm = 2.24” × 1.46” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 3 cm = 1.50” × 1.18”

PB54AJ5: Group of flattened Quartz crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with two tabular Fluorapatite crystals that are translucent and very bright with a very intense blue-violet color. With lenticular Siderite crystals and small cubic Pyrite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 13.4 × 4.9 × 3.6 cm = 5.28” × 1.93” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 0.7 cm = 0.87” × 0.28”

ND29AG4: Fluorapatite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, very rich in faces, transparent and very bright with very well defined faces and edges and implanted on a single Ferberite crystal partially coated by Siderite and Muscovite. Both the color and the crystallographic shape of the Fluorapatite are different than usual for this mine.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (10/2017)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3 × 2 cm = 1.34” × 1.18” × 0.79”

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

NB68AG4: Two Fluorapatite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, transparent and very bright, with very well defined faces and edges and implanted on a single Ferberite crystal partially coated by Siderite and Muscovite. Both the color and the crystallographic shape of the Fluorapatite are different than usual for this mine.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (10/2017)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 2.6 × 2.3 cm = 2.20” × 1.02” × 0.91”

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

NC97AG4: Fluorapatite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, equant, transparent and very bright, with very well defined faces and edges and implanted on a single doubly terminated Ferberite crystal partially coated by Siderite and Muscovite. Both the color and the crystallographic shape of the Fluorapatite are different than usual for this mine.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (10/2017)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.3 × 1.8 cm = 2.24” × 1.69” × 0.71”

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

AM66Z8: Thin tabular Fluorapatite crystal, transparent, with very well marked concentric geometric color zoning and implanted on a matrix of Quartz crystals with small Arsenopyrite crystals and Calcite coatings.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1987-2013)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.2 × 4.5 cm = 1.50” × 1.26” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.6 cm = 1.34” × 1.02”

NC62AD2: Tabular crystal with a well developed very short prism, the pinacoid and a flat pyramid. It is transparent, very bright with a color between green and golden and it’s implanted on a rocky matrix with leafy Muscovite aggregates.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (08/2015)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.6 × 3.2 cm = 1.54” × 1.42” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.3 cm = 0.71” × 0.51”

MK96AE6: A Fluorapatite crystal, unusual due to its very elongated shape. It has very well defined faces and edges, is between transparent and translucent, and has a pale green color with geometric color zones having different green shades that appear as “phantom” growths. It is with small Arsenopyrite crystals on the prism faces.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.9 × 1.2 cm = 1.65” × 1.14” × 0.47”

MB68AD4: Aggregate, on a Calcite matrix, of two thick tabular crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with a dark green color, translucent, bright and with concentric color zones. Different from the more common Fluorapatite from this mine.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2011)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.2 × 3.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.65” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.3 cm = 1.57” × 1.30”

TTM27AN6: Group of Fluorapatite crystals with a short prismatic habit, doubly terminated, translucent, lustrous, and green with geometric color zoning. They are implanted on a translucent Quartz crystal coated with rhombohedral Siderite crystals and leafy Muscovite aggregates.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.8 × 3.4 cm = 2.05” × 1.89” × 1.34”

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

TC180MP: Floater group of Fluorapatite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, with good luster and an intense green color, with geometric color zoning and small coatings of lenticular Siderite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 5.9 × 3.8 × 3.3 cm = 2.32” × 1.50” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 3.5 cm = 1.42” × 1.38”

NG36AJ5: Floater tabular crystal with anomalous growths at the base and without damage. It is transparent and bright, has very well defined geometric growths, is partially coated by Calcite and it is with small Pyrite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 6 × 3.1 × 1.7 cm = 2.36” × 1.22” × 0.67”

AQ26Z0: Aggregate of short prismatic Fluorapatite crystals. They are translucent, bright, have a pale green color and are coated by Siderite on the back on the sample.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1987-2013)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 2.9 × 2.1 cm = 2.52” × 1.14” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.35”

XM240NR: Group of Fluorapatite crystals with elongated habit, translucent, of deep green color and with a very marked concentric color zoning of much denser tones in the central axis of the crystal. This concentric growth is known in Panasqueira as olho de boi (“ox eye”). The crystals are partially covered by small brown lenticular crystals of Siderite and microcrystals of Chlorite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2019)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.3 × 4.9 cm = 2.68” × 2.09” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.3 cm = 1.14” × 0.91”

TQF87AN6: Druse of Fluorapatite crystals with a short prismatic habit, doubly terminated, translucent, with bright luster and an intense and uniform green color. On a matrix of Arsenopyrite crystals and leafy Muscovite aggregates with coatings of lenticular crystals of Siderite, very curious as they seem to be epitactic on another larger crystal of Siderite, as can be seen in the photo.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm = 2.80” × 2.56” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.5 cm = 1.18” × 0.98”

EP92AH7: Single Fluorapatite crystal with a thin tabular shape and with a very well defined concentric color zoning. On a matrix of Arsenopyrite crystals with botryoidal Muscovite aggregates. At Panasqueira this kind of concentric growth, differentiated on the periphery and the central area, is well known as “olho de boi” (ox eye), a particularity that is especially obvious on this sample.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (12/2012)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.5 × 2.6 cm = 2.91” × 2.17” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.3 cm = 1.34” × 0.91”

EV91AM1: Group of Fluorapatite crystals with a thick tabular to short prismatic habit, translucent, with an intense green color with geometric color zoning, on matrix. With lenticular crystals of Siderite and small crystals of Pyrite. The specimen comes from a recent find in Panasqueira.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (07-08/2020)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 8.2 × 4.9 cm = 3.43” × 3.23” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 5.6 × 4.2 cm = 2.20” × 1.65”

TF26AF0: A cluster of translucent thick tabular color-zoned Fluorapatite crystals with a lovely pale green color They are on matrix with Muscovite, platy Siderite crystals, Ferberite and Quartz.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 8.8 × 7.4 × 4 cm = 3.46” × 2.91” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 6.1 × 2.2 cm = 2.40” × 0.87”

TC2180NBJ: Fluorapatite crystals with a short prismatic shape, transparent, very lustrous, and pale green in color with geometric zoning, on matrix, with leafy Muscovite aggregates.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±2004)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 7 × 5.3 cm = 3.58” × 2.76” × 2.09”

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

NPQ96AN9: Tabular Fluorapatite crystal with a very rare and complete, almost platy habit in all terminations, although the posterior one is recrystallized. It is transparent green, with geometric zoning and good luster, and is in a matrix of globular Muscovite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 11 × 3.7 × 6.3 cm = 4.33” × 1.46” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 3.2 cm = 2.17” × 1.26”

N58WA0: Fluorapatite well positioned on its matrix of quartz covered with siderite. Although the color of the Fluorapatite is not intense the photo does not do it justice.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 13 × 4.5 × 6.6 cm = 5.12” × 1.77” × 2.60”

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

N88GK9: Group of crystals of Fluorapatite, with an attractive pale green color and excellent brilliance, on matrix, with Muscovite and Siderite.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2000)

Specimen size: 13.3 × 7.8 × 5.6 cm = 5.24” × 3.07” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.8 cm = 0.55” × 0.31”

PV91AJ5: Thick tabular Fluorapatite crystals with a very well defined concentric color zoning, a kind of growth that at Panasqueira is well-known as 'olho de boi' (ox eye). The Fluorapatite crystals are on matrix with crystals of Arsenopyrite, pale brown lenticular Siderite, Muscovite and Marcasite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 15.3 × 9.2 × 5.8 cm = 6.02” × 3.62” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2 cm = 0.98” × 0.79”

NY87AM8: Transparent Quartz crystal partially covered by very elongated prismatic Fluorapatite crystals, many of them doubly terminated, with a light yellow color, and with lenticular crystals of Siderite.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1999)

Specimen size: 19.9 × 5.5 × 5 cm = 7.83” × 2.17” × 1.97”

NB6E6: Very well defined, floater crystals of Ferberite. There is also some Mica and Siderite with them. Given their brilliance and perfection you can consider them to be one of the better quality Ferberites from the Panasqueira mines.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5.3 × 2.5 cm = 2.24” × 2.09” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 3.4 cm = 2.17” × 1.34”

HM180VF: Ferberite crystal, on matrix, very aerial, with very well marked parallel polycrystalline growths, lustrous, and partially covered by lenticular crystals of Siderite and small cubic Pyrite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 8.6 × 5.6 × 5.8 cm = 3.39” × 2.20” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 7.4 × 4.6 cm = 2.91” × 1.81”

TC69AL3: Floater group of Ferberite crystals, elongated, flattened and in parallel growth, with good terminations, lustrous, and partially covered with lenticular Calcite-Dolomite crystals and small Pyrite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 11.2 × 6.3 × 3.6 cm = 4.41” × 2.48” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 10.5 × 6.1 cm = 4.13” × 2.40”

EG36AM5: Parallel growth of two very sharp Ferberite crystals on matrix with Arsenopyrite and Quartz crystals and coatings of Muscovite aggregates. Large in size, the piece is more aesthetic than usual due to the contrast of the Ferberite crystals with the Muscovite matrix.
Minas da Panasqueira, levels 0-1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (05/2019)

Specimen size: 19 × 16.4 × 7.8 cm = 7.48” × 6.46” × 3.07”

Main crystal size: 5 × 4.4 cm = 1.97” × 1.73”

EN86AM1: Spheroidal polycrystalline growths of Pyrite with cubic crystal habit, very lustrous and with brass-colored reflections. On matrix, with white lenticular Calcite crystal coatings and leafy Muscovite aggregates.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 6 × 5.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.36” × 2.13” × 1.26”

HM190NV: Druse of cubic Pyrite crystals with polycrystalline growths, partially covered by white lenticular Calcite crystals with concentric zoning, on matrix, with dentate aggregates of “cockscomb” Marcasite, and leafy aggregates of Muscovite.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±2005)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 7.5 × 4 cm = 3.11” × 2.95” × 1.57”

MQ28AL3: Group of cubic Pyrite crystals modified by pyritohedron faces, with polycrystalline growths and slight curvatures of the edges, on a Quartz matrix. Despite being such a common mineral, Pyrites of this quality are not so common in Panasqueira.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 8.3 × 6.5 × 5.4 cm = 3.27” × 2.56” × 2.13”

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

NC27AL9: Polycrystalline aggregates of hexahedral Pyrite crystals, with good luster and curious color variations, ranging from greenish yellow to brassy. An unusually aesthetic specimen from a very recent find in Panasqueira.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (07-08/2020)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 6.4 × 3.5 cm = 3.78” × 2.52” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.31” × 0.28”

NB47AL9: Pyrites with diverse morphologies that range from crystals with a hexahedral habit to flattened ones and even crystals finely perpendicular to each other and with a very elongated aspect. On matrix with Quartz and Calcite-Dolomite crystals and leafy Muscovite aggregates. The specimen is from a very recent find in Panasqueira.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (07-08/2020)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 8.7 × 5.6 cm = 4.13” × 3.43” × 2.20”

CK36D3: Colored Pyrite with curved cubes covering a flat Calcite matrix.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 12 × 10 × 1.3 cm = 4.72” × 3.94” × 0.51”

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

TA57AH7: Very sharp isolated Marcasite aggregates with the typical “cockscomb” shape. They have very well defined faces and edges and are implanted on a polycrystalline Fluorite growth with Siderite.
That sample from the Alain Martaud collection came from François Lietard (Minerive) and we will send both labels to the buyer.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 7.4 × 6.3 × 2.9 cm = 2.91” × 2.48” × 1.14”

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

ST86AJ5: Very sharp “cockscomb-like” aggregates of Marcasite crystals that are very bright and on a matrix of massive Chalcopyrite with white growths of Calcite-Dolomite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 11.2 × 7.8 × 3.6 cm = 4.41” × 3.07” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.47” × 0.31”

HM220NX: Group of Arsenopyrite crystals with very well defined crystal forms and good terminations. The matrix is composed of leafy aggregates of lamellar Muscovite crystals.


Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±2005)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.3 × 3.8 cm = 2.17” × 1.69” × 1.50”

NB37AL3: Iridescent crystals of Arsenopyrite that form a closed aggregate, with parallel curvatures and growths, very lustrous, with small aggregates of lamellar Muscovite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±2005)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 6.2 × 3.6 cm = 2.60” × 2.44” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 1.4 cm = 1.61” × 0.55”

RA16AN2: Parallel growths of short prismatic Arsenopyrite crystals with good terminations, very lustrous. On matrix with Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, transparent, lustrous and rich in inclusions. Also leafy aggregates of Muscovite crystals and Chlorite coatings.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1970)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.8 × 3.2 cm = 2.76” × 2.68” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 1.8 cm = 1.81” × 0.71”

ETX67AP0: Parallel epitactic growths of Arsenopyrite-Marcasite crystals with very well defined and sharp crystal forms. Brilliant, with iridescence of various colors and on matrix. With Ferberite crystals, lenticular Siderite crystals and coatings of lamellar Muscovite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, levels 0-1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2020)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.8 × 4.3 cm = 1.97” × 1.89” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 1.5 cm = 1.50” × 0.59”

HM220NJA: Group of Arsenopyrite crystals with very well defined crystal forms and good terminations, together with toothed aggregates of the “cockscomb” variety of Marcasite. Partially covered by very sharp lamellar crystals of Muscovite.


Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±2005)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.3 × 4.8 cm = 2.68” × 2.09” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.5 cm = 1.38” × 0.98”

NG27AL3: Aggregate of iridescent, complete, epitactic Arsenopyrite-Marcasite crystals with polycrystalline cockscomb growths, very lustrous, on matrix, with elongated Arsenopyrite crystals and small brown rhombohedral Siderite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±2005)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.8 × 4 cm = 2.76” × 2.28” × 1.57”

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

AH90Z0: Fan-like aggregates with a first metallic-gray growth phase of Arsenopyrite that progressively passes to a second phase of very sharp Arsenopyrite-Marcasite crystals, with a very clear and bright Quartz crystal, rich in inclusions, and with small leafy Muscovite aggregates.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1987-2013)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 9.4 × 5.5 cm = 3.70” × 3.70” × 2.17”

NE58AB5: Aggregate of complete and sharp epitaxial Arsenopyrite-Marcasite crystals that have cockscomb shaped polycrystalline growths. They are very bright and are on matrix, with small white Calcite crystals and leafy Muscovite aggregates.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 6 × 3.8 cm = 4.61” × 2.36” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2 cm = 0.91” × 0.79”

NF47AN2: Fan-shaped aggregates of crystals formed by a first phase of Arsenopyrite with a metallic gray color, followed by a second phase with very sharp crystals of Arsenopyrite-Marcasite with the typical “cockscomb” habit. With lenticular crystals of Siderite of light cream color and leafy aggregates of Muscovite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1999)

Specimen size: 13.4 × 8.8 × 3 cm = 5.28” × 3.46” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.6 cm = 1.18” × 1.02”

AD66Z0: Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, with very well marked growth striations and superficial Chalcopyrite, and with very sharp Arsenopyrite crystals and lenticular Siderite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1987-2013)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.2 × 2.8 cm = 1.46” × 1.26” × 1.10”

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

EY28AK1: Parallel growths of complex Sphalerite crystals, very bright, with fine striated edges, white lenticular crystals of Siderite, spheroidal aggregates of laminar crystals of Muscovite and hyaline crystals of Quartz. Although Sphalerite is not a rare species in this mine it rarely occurs in such well-formed crystals. The specimen comes from a recent find in the upper levels of Panasqueira.
Minas da Panasqueira, levels 0-1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (06/2019)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.48” × 2.13” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.8 cm = 1.18” × 1.10”

NAT27AN7: Group of large Chalcopyrite crystals with the typical curvatures of Panasqueira specimens, very aerial, lustrous and on matrix. Along with the Chalcopyrite there are also very sharp and lustrous Sphalerite crystals and the whole is bordered by lenticular crystals of Siderite. The upper levels of Panasqueira continue to provide surprising novelties, with specimens different from what was previously known.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (06/2021)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 4.7 × 3.1 cm = 3.43” × 1.85” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 3.1 cm = 1.89” × 1.22”

MR27AM3: Group of large Chalcopyrite crystals with the typical curvatures seen in Panasqueira specimens, very aerial, lustrous, and on matrix. With sharp and lustrous Arsenopyrite crystals and small coatings of lenticular Siderite crystals. As a whole, it is a very high level piece both for its perfection and for the quality of the Chalcopyrite crystals, a species that in this mine does not usually yield very good specimens.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 13.1 × 10.4 × 7.1 cm = 5.16” × 4.09” × 2.80”

Main crystal size: 5 × 3.3 cm = 1.97” × 1.30”

MF14AH7: Floater rhombohedral Siderite crystal with apparent foliations that really are recrystallizations. Its honey color and the transparency are not usual for Siderite from this mine, generally it is more opaque. There is an associated growth of uncommon doubly terminated Fluorapatite crystals, between translucent and transparent, bright and white in color. These unexpected Fluorapatite crystals have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (10/2015)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.5 × 1.2 cm = 1.06” × 0.98” × 0.47”

MD12AE6: Elegant, platy Siderite crystals with a warm brown color. They are implanted on a twinned Ferberite crystal and are with transparent colorless Quartz.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3 × 3.1 cm = 1.50” × 1.18” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 1.1 cm = 1.10” × 0.43”

NY13AB1: Aggregate of prismatic Siderite crystals with pinacoidal terminations. They have a very uniform dark brown color and silky luster due to microcrystalline surfaces on the prisms. The Siderite is with a small matrix of Quartz and Arsenopyrite and has cubic Pyrite microcrystals on its faces. Unlike most Panasqueira Siderite, this sample lacks the typically dull creamy second generation, which makes it very showy.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (11/2014)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.3 × 2 cm = 1.69” × 1.30” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2 cm = 0.98” × 0.79”

N14CK9: Barrel-shaped crystals of Siderite on a group of Quartz crystals and small crystals of Arsenopyrite and Pyrite.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.4 × 5.2 cm = 2.83” × 2.52” × 2.05”

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

NA59AM8: Group of very sharp lenticular crystals of Siderite with polycrystalline growths, with good luster and a light cream color. On matrix, with crystals of Fluorapatite, Quartz and small acicular crystals of Dravite-Schorl. Very original and with a higher quality than usual in this locality.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1998)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 4.1 × 6 cm = 3.03” × 1.61” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 4.1 cm = 2.05” × 1.61”

TC280NCG: Siderite crystal with a lenticular shape, with bright luster and light brown color, attached to a Quartz crystal and covered by small Calcite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±2004)

Specimen size: 8 × 4.7 × 4.6 cm = 3.15” × 1.85” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 4.3 cm = 1.85” × 1.69”

NBE26AN4: Aerial group of Siderite crystals with a lenticular habit, very sharp crystal forms, a silky luster and a light brown color. They are partially covered by small cubic Pyrite crystals and are on a matrix of Quartz crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1998)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 6.4 × 3.2 cm = 3.78” × 2.52” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1.4 cm = 1.65” × 0.55”

AR47Z8: Big lenticular crystal with a clear brown color and very well defined faces and edges that underline its complete contour. It has a well-developed flat pinacoidal surface and very well marked parallel growths on its rhombohedral faces.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1987-2013)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 9.7 × 3 cm = 3.82” × 3.82” × 1.18”

NW27AM8: Group of transparent Quartz crystals partially covered by tabular Siderite crystals, with a light cream color and high quality.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1999)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 6.8 × 4.6 cm = 4.13” × 2.68” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 10.5 × 3.4 cm = 4.13” × 1.34”

NC64G8: An encrustation of little crystals of Siderite covers the rhombohedral terminal faces of a Quartz prism. Two of the crystals have a big size enhancing from the group.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 11.1 × 6.2 × 5 cm = 4.37” × 2.44” × 1.97”

MAE46AP6: Group of tabular Siderite crystals bordered by a second generation of Siderite, with a perfect Quartz crystal, without the typical small dings prevalent in specimens from this locality, transparent, very lustrous, with inclusions of Siderite and Arsenopyrite and a well-defined phantom growth whose visibility is accentuated by inclusions growing oriented on the faces of the successive phantom growths.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 11.2 × 8.1 × 7.6 cm = 4.41” × 3.19” × 2.99”

Main crystal size: 8.9 × 3.6 cm = 3.50” × 1.42”

NC76AB5: Aggregate of lenticular Siderite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very well defined faces and edges and on a crystalline Quartz matrix with leafy Muscovite aggregates and a very well defined Chalcopyrite crystal.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 11.4 × 5.5 × 3.2 cm = 4.49” × 2.17” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 5.6 × 4.6 cm = 2.20” × 1.81”

E12EK9: Flattened rhombohedral Siderite crystal group, covering Quartz and small crystals of Arsenopyrite and Pyrite some of them included on the Quartz.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 8.6 × 5.5 cm = 4.65” × 3.39” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.67” × 0.63”

TR49AJ5: Great group of Siderite crystals with the predominant forms of the short prism and a flattened rhombohedron. They have a brown color and are partially coated by small Pyrite crystals and are on matrix with crystals of Quartz, leafy Muscovite aggregates, Arsenopyrite and cubic Pyrite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 12.3 × 11.6 × 8.5 cm = 4.84” × 4.57” × 3.35”

Main crystal size: 7 × 4.3 cm = 2.76” × 1.69”

EXB67AP1: Very aerial group of lenticular Siderite crystals of considerable size, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, light cream in color and implanted on a crystal of Quartz with inclusions of small Ferberite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, levels 0-1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2021)

Specimen size: 12.7 × 7.4 × 5.4 cm = 5.00” × 2.91” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 7.4 × 6.1 cm = 2.91” × 2.40”

NR16AM8: Two generations of Siderite crystals, a first with large, tabular crystals, and a second generation of small, lenticular crystals, with a color between brown and cream, with small tabular Fluorapatite crystals and groups of lamellar Muscovite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2000)

Specimen size: 12.8 × 8.3 × 4.7 cm = 5.04” × 3.27” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 5 × 4.8 cm = 1.97” × 1.89”

NZR47AN4: Group of large, very sharp rhombohedral Siderite crystals with a dark brown color, translucent on the edges and with small partial coatings of a second generation of Siderite with a lighter cream color. They are associated with leafy muscovite aggregates. We highlight the unusual fact that the first generation of Siderite is dominant in this piece, since in Panasqueira it is very rare that this first generation, with its darker color and a certain transparency, is not covered by a second generation of Siderite with a lighter color but much more opaque, which is what gives the siderites there their characteristic appearance.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (10/2017)

Specimen size: 14.3 × 10.8 × 5.2 cm = 5.63” × 4.25” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 6 × 5 cm = 2.36” × 1.97”

NE94AM8: Large quartz crystal partially covered by groups of rhombohedral Siderite crystals with polycrystalline growths, with a light cream color and small Pyrite crystals. Monumental.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2000)

Specimen size: 23.7 × 12.4 × 8.1 cm = 9.33” × 4.88” × 3.19”

MB96AA9: Polycrystalline growths with a lenticular shape that are coating a very sharp rhombohedral phantom crystal. It is with small Pyrite crystals and a Muscovite matrix. The crystal is complete (recrystallized) and the polycrystalline growths decorate only four of the six crystal faces.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (10/2014)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.9 × 3 cm = 2.09” × 1.93” × 1.18”

NRA66AN7: Very curious white lamellar Calcite crystals with geometric color zoning and a small group of Pyrite crystals, very lustrous and rich in faces, dominated by pyritohedra. The upper levels of Panasqueira continue to provide surprising novelties, with specimens different from what was previously known.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (06/2021)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 5.2 × 2.7 cm = 3.39” × 2.05” × 1.06”

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

HM80NG: Parallel growth of Quartz crystals on matrix, transparent, lustrous, very rich in inclusions and with lenticular Siderite and Dolomite crystals in which rhombohedral forms dominate.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.7 × 3.7 cm = 2.68” × 2.24” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 3.5 cm = 2.17” × 1.38”

NRA96AN5: Group of Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, translucent and lustrous, with Siderite crystals and small Pyrite crystals.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 790), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (05/2008)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 5.9 × 5.3 cm = 3.43” × 2.32” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 7 × 4.6 cm = 2.76” × 1.81”

EF92AA2: Thin laminar Fluorapatite crystal included in a Quartz crystal partially coated by Siderite and Muscovite. Visible crystalline inclusions of Fluorapatite are very rare. In this the sample, approximately half of a crystal can be seen and it has concentric geometrical color zones with a dominant yellowish-green color.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (05/2014)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 5.1 × 3.8 cm = 3.74” × 2.01” × 1.50”

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

NK96AJ5: Single Quartz crystal with a very aerial growth of Marcasite-Arsenopyrite, leafy Muscovite growths, and crystals of small lenticular Siderite and white Calcite.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 10.1 × 8.8 × 3.9 cm = 3.98” × 3.46” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 9.1 × 6.3 cm = 3.58” × 2.48”

NG96AB5: Parallel growth of completely clear, colorless and very bright Quartz crystals of great quality. They are partially coated by aggregates of lenticular Siderite crystals and leafy Muscovite aggregates.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 11.4 × 6.1 × 4.8 cm = 4.49” × 2.40” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 10.5 × 3 cm = 4.13” × 1.18”

N17PQZ4: Group of Quartz crystals, some of them forming parallel growths, with inclusions and partially coated by lenticular Siderite crystals and small tetrahedral Sphalerite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1994)

Specimen size: 13.4 × 7.8 × 6.2 cm = 5.28” × 3.07” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 11.5 × 2.8 cm = 4.53” × 1.10”

EK27AI8: Group of very clear and bright Quartz crystals with coatings of Siderite and Fluorapatite on their terminal faces and Muscovite, Cassiterite and Arsenopyrite on their base.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±2004)

Specimen size: 14.2 × 5.3 × 5.1 cm = 5.59” × 2.09” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 13.4 × 2.7 cm = 5.28” × 1.06”

NH57AD6: Floater aggregate of two Quartz crystals with the most typical forms on the front side and polycrystalline growths on the back. They are partially coated by Siderite, Pyrite and Fluorapatite and have some small inclusions of very well defined Arsenopyrite.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1999)

Specimen size: 22 × 11 × 5.5 cm = 8.66” × 4.33” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 17.8 × 5.5 cm = 7.01” × 2.17”

TC90NM: Cubo-octahedral Fluorite crystals with a color between blue and lilac that cover the lower part of a water-clear Quartz crystal partially covered by Chlorite, with small aggregates of Muscovite. From the upper levels of Panasqueira, surprising and pleasant news continues to appear, with specimens that are different from those known before.
Minas da Panasqueira, levels 0-1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (04/2017)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm = 1.61” × 0.71” × 0.59”

SM80NEH: Cubic crystals of Fluorite beveled by the rhombohedron, with rough faces due to polycrystalline growths and with purple phantoms. Transparent, blue with violet tones, on matrix with Quartz crystals and small tabular Siderite crystals with geometric color zoning.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (08/2015)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.5 × 2.1 cm = 1.81” × 1.38” × 0.83”

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

TC2170NKL: Group of translucent, lustrous green Fluorapatite crystals, with small Arsenopyrite crystals, lamellar Muscovite crystals and partially covered by spheroidal aggregates of Fluorite with a color between blue and lilac.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (11/2014)

Specimen size: 5 × 4 × 2.8 cm = 1.97” × 1.57” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 1.6 cm = 1.14” × 0.63”

NE48AF3: Group of very flattened Fluorite crystals with the very well defined forms of the cube and dodecahedron. The Fluorite, with a lilac-blue color, has grown partially following the forms of the Quartz, Topaz and Arsenopyrite crystals where it is covering them. The upper levels of Panasqueira are currently offering surprising and pleasant novelties, with samples that are very different from what has been known from this mine.
The Fluorite and the Topaz have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of both analysis to the buyer.
Minas da Panasqueira, levels 0-1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (04/2017)

Specimen size: 5 × 5 × 2.6 cm = 1.97” × 1.97” × 1.02”

MC27AL3: Translucent cubic Fluorite crystals, bluish in color with very intense and uniform violet tints, implanted on a Quartz crystal partially covered by a very dark coating of Chlorite and groups of light cream colored lenticular Siderite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, levels 0-1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (10/2019)

Specimen size: 6 × 4 × 3.7 cm = 2.36” × 1.57” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.67” × 0.63”

MD99AL3: Group of cubic Fluorite crystals modified by rhombododecahedron and octahedron faces, with well defined forms, translucent, with an intense violet-blue color and partially covered with Chlorite, leafy aggregates of Muscovite, and small pyrite crystals that are mainly concentrated on the edges.
Minas da Panasqueira, levels 0-1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2019)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 6.6 × 2.3 cm = 3.86” × 2.60” × 0.91”

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

TLR99AP3: Fluorite crystals with a cubic shape, one of them clearly dominant, translucent and with intense violet color, on a Quartz crystal partially coated by Muscovite, which is covered in turn by a thin uniform layer of Chlorite.
Minas da Panasqueira, levels 0-1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (12/2021)

Specimen size: 10.1 × 7.9 × 7 cm = 3.98” × 3.11” × 2.76”

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

MT26AB1: Aggregate of cubic Fluorite crystals beveled by the dodecahedron. They are colorless, with rough faces due to micro-crystalline growths, and have violet phantoms. They are on matrix, with Quartz crystals, Chlorite coatings and small Muscovite aggregates. The upper levels of Panasqueira are currently offering surprising and pleasant novelties, with samples that are very different from what has been known from this mine.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (06/2014)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3 × 2.6 cm = 1.50” × 1.18” × 1.02”

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

NT37AB8: Fluorite crystal formed by the well balanced cube and dodecahedron faces. Its exterior is pale blue and it has a deep violet octahedral center and white inclusions. The crystal is implanted on a Quartz crystal with laminar Siderite and small Muscovite crystals. The upper levels of Panasqueira are currently offering surprising and pleasant novelties, with samples that are very different from what has been known from this mine.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (01/2015)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 2.5 × 3.5 cm = 2.52” × 0.98” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2 cm = 0.91” × 0.79”

NC56AD6: Translucent and colorless dodecahedral Fluorite crystals formed by growths of multiple small Fluorite crystals, with very well defined faces and edges. These unusual crystals have grown on a Quartz crystal partially coated by Chlorite and white Siderite crystals and Pyrite microcrystals. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of this sample.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (07/2014)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 3.9 × 4.4 cm = 4.21” × 1.54” × 1.73”

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

NA7AA7: Small spheroidal aggregates of cubo-octahedral Fluorite crystals with a color between blue and lilac. They are partially coating the faces of a group of translucent Fluorapatite crystals with a yellowish-green color. The upper levels of Panasqueira are currently offering surprising and pleasant novelties, with samples that are very different from what is already known.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (11/2014)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3.2 × 1.3 cm = 1.34” × 1.26” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.7 cm = 0.83” × 0.67”

NG98AB5: Transparent and very bright thick tabular Fluorapatite crystals with a very deep green color, with small Arsenopyrite crystals and Muscovite aggregates and partially coated by spheroidal Fluorite aggregates with a color between blue and lilac. The upper levels of Panasqueira are currently offering surprising and pleasant novelties, with samples that are very different from what has been known from this mine.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (11/2014)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.3 × 3.5 cm = 3.43” × 2.87” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.55” × 0.43”

TK47AM5: Very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, with bright luster and an intense violet color, partially covered by lenticular crystals of Siderite. On matrix, with tabular crystals of Fluorapatite, Arsenopyrite, and leafy aggregates of Muscovite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 10 × 6.4 × 4.6 cm = 3.94” × 2.52” × 1.81”

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

AF98Z8: Octahedral crystal, a very rare crystalline form for Fluorite from Panasqueira. It is translucent, with a bluish-green color and white areas on the vertices. There is also a small and very bright group of cyclic Cassiterite twins on the underside of the crystal.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1987-2013)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.9 × 2.9 cm = 1.57” × 1.54” × 1.14”

EX88AK1: Octahedral crystal with the edges truncated by the faces of the cube and polycrystalline growths that give it the morphology known as "Aztec pyramid." The octahedral Fluorites are extremely rare at Panasqueira. The crystal, translucent and with an intense lilac-bluish color, has on its back remains of a matrix of crystalline Calcite and molds of missing Calcite crystals. The specimen comes from a recent find in the upper levels of Panasqueira.
Minas da Panasqueira, levels 0-1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (12/2018)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.3 × 3.5 cm = 2.17” × 1.69” × 1.38”

TR96AL3: Groups of twinned Cassiterite crystals, very sharp, shiny and translucent on the edges. On matrix, with short elongated Fluorapatite crystals of almost white color, aggregates of elongated crystals of Arsenopyrite and Quartz crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2018)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 6.8 × 3.9 cm = 4.09” × 2.68” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.7 cm = 0.51” × 0.28”

MQ47AH0: Twinned Cassiterite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, bright and with a brown color with reddish reflections. They are implanted on a group of Quartz crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with Pyrite and Muscovite. The sample is old, found more than twenty years ago.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 12.3 × 11 × 7 cm = 4.84” × 4.33” × 2.76”

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

NJ96AC4: Irregular aggregate of Topaz crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are colorless, very bright and are on matrix, with Chlorite, Muscovite, Fluorapatite, Siderite and Pyrite. The upper levels of Panasqueira are currently offering surprising and pleasant novelties, with samples that are different from what is already known.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (03/2015)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.5 × 2.6 cm = 2.24” × 1.77” × 1.02”

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

NB27AF2: Topaz crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between transparent and translucent, with very well defined faces and edges, a slightly bluish color and with very sharp and bright Arsenopyrite crystals, small Fluorite crystals, leafy Muscovite aggregates and partially coated by Chlorite. The upper levels of Panasqueira are currently offering surprising and pleasant novelties, with samples that are very different from what has been known from this mine.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2015)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.6 × 2 cm = 2.40” × 1.81” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.55”

NA96AJ5: Topaz crystals with very well defined faces and edges, some of them with Chlorite inclusions. They are partially coated by small leafy Muscovite aggregates and small, very sharp and bright Arsenopyrite crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2015)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.9 × 3.6 cm = 2.64” × 2.32” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.55” × 0.39”

NB76AB6: Flattened Topaz crystals, one of them clearly dominant. They are white, between translucent and transparent, and they are on a Quartz and Arsenopyrite matrix partially coated by Chlorite, with small Muscovite aggregates. The upper levels of Panasqueira are currently offering surprising and pleasant novelties, with samples that are very different from what has been known from this mine.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (03/2015)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.1 × 3.8 cm = 2.80” × 2.40” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.59” × 0.43”

TE66AB7: Aggregate of bright cubo-octahedral Galena crystals unusually well developed that have a large size for the locality. They are with small Calcite crystals and are on matrix, with Chalcopyrite. Galena is a very rare species at Panasqueira, especially forming such well defined crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

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

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

NK14X9: Curious tabular Fluorapatite crystal with very well marked parallel growths. It is translucent, with Arsenopyrite inclusions and on matrix, with Arsenopyrite, Quartz, Siderite and Stannite crystals.
We’ll send a copy of the analysis of the Fluorapatite to the buyer.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1998)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.9 × 3.9 cm = 1.81” × 1.54” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 1.5 cm = 1.14” × 0.59”

NH16X9: Parallel polycrystalline Arsenopyrite growths with dark gray Stannite intergrowths and leafy Muscovite aggregates, partially coated by small white Calcite crystals and aggregates of cubic Pyrite crystals. We’ll send a copy of the analysis of the Arsenopyrite to the buyer.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2001)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.4 × 4.1 cm = 2.64” × 2.13” × 1.61”

AA27AC9: Transparent Quartz crystal, coated by very pale lenticular Siderite crystals and dark Sphalerite aggregates coated by Stannite and with small Chalcopyrite and Pyrite crystals. The sample is from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1987-2013)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 4.2 × 4 cm = 3.35” × 1.65” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 7.3 × 2.9 cm = 2.87” × 1.14”

NV27X9: Brass-colored Chalcopyrite crystals with superficial iridescence, with slightly golden dark gray Stannite intergrowths. They are on matrix, with Arsenopyrite crystals and Muscovite coatings. We’ll send a copy of the analysis of the Stannite to the buyer.
This specimen has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Lapis’ on page 49, volume 39, number 7-8, July-August 2014
Minas da Panasqueira, level 3, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 8.8 × 6.3 cm = 4.13” × 3.46” × 2.48”

HM110NF: Group of tabular Baryte crystals, one of them clearly dominant, transparent, shiny, with a slightly smoky color and abundant inclusions. Of good quality for this Portuguese locality which is little known to collectors.
Feitais deposit, Aljustrel, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo  Portugal (2019)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.7 × 2.4 cm = 2.36” × 1.85” × 0.94”

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

ME12AM2: Coatings of very sharp and lustrous microcrystals of Corkite, a rare sulfate-phosphate of lead and iron, of olive-green color, implanted on greyish green plumbogummite that is somewhat lighter than the Corkite, on a Goethite - limonite matrix.
Serra da Mina Mine, Cercal, Santiago do Cacém, Setúbal District  Portugal (2016-2017)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 3.9 × 4.1 cm = 3.66” × 1.54” × 1.61”

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

AD6Z1: Botryoidal and microcrystalline growths of this relatively rare phosphate. They have a very deep and uniform color, are brighter than usual and they are on a Quartz matrix.
Miguel Vacas Mine, Pardais and Conceição Parish, Vila Viçosa, Évora District  Portugal (±1980)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 6.3 × 5.7 cm = 2.56” × 2.48” × 2.24”

NA76T4: Groups of dipyramidal crystals of Descloizite with very well defined faces and edges and very bright, with very acute crystals, between colorless and white, of Calcite.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.1 × 2.3 cm = 2.52” × 1.61” × 0.91”

NF26J1: Group of extraordinarily defined and bright small crystals. These crystals are dipyramidal, of very well defined faces and edges and many of them doubly terminated. In this case Descloizite is the base of a group of scalenohedral crystals of white Calcite.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.9 × 3.7 cm = 2.64” × 2.32” × 1.46”

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

ND26T4: Columnar growths of small dipyramidal crystals of Descloizite, partially coated by white crystals of Calcite and on a matrix of limonite.
The specimen has been published in the Chinese magazine ‘Mineral Lover’ on page 6 in the volume 9/2011
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.7 × 3.8 cm = 2.76” × 2.24” × 1.50”

NR56T4: Aggregate of dipyramidal crystals of Descloizite with very well defined faces and edges and very bright, with crystals of Calcite, between colorless and white, on limonite matrix.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.1 × 4.1 cm = 2.87” × 2.01” × 1.61”

NZ63V8: Very aerial and esthetic columnar growths of small but extraordinarily defined and bright crystals. Those are dipyramidal and have very well defined faces and edges and most of them are doubly terminated. The matrix is a group of crystals of white Calcite.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 3.8 × 2.7 cm = 3.03” × 1.50” × 1.06”

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

NY66M9: Group, on Limonite matrix, of small crystals, very bright and most of them doubly terminated and forming dipyramids of very well defined faces and edges. The group is partially covered by a "nest" of white crystals of
Calcite.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 7.6 × 4.9 cm = 3.07” × 2.99” × 1.93”

NY6V8: Group on matrix of Limonite of small, very bright crystals, a lot of them doubly terminated, that form sharp dipyramids.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm = 4.06” × 2.56” × 1.65”

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

NK86T4: Columnar growths of small dipyramidal crystals of Descloizite with very well defined faces and edges and very bright. On stalagmitic botryoidal growths of Calcite and crystals of the same mineral, clear and very bright.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 10.9 × 4.3 × 3.4 cm = 4.29” × 1.69” × 1.34”

NR47I7: Group on Limonite matrix of small very bright crystals, most of them doubly terminated, forming dipyramids with very well-defined faces and edges. The specimen is very esthetic because of its attractive crests and vugs. A wide surface of the sample is covered by a layer of acute scalenohedron of white Calcite.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 14 × 11.8 × 6.2 cm = 5.51” × 4.65” × 2.44”

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

MN12M9: Irregular aggregate of black crystals, small but very well defined and bright, of this very uncommon species. They are on a matrix of globular Calcite whose color is between orange and white.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo  Portugal (03/2007)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 6.9 × 4 cm = 4.13” × 2.72” × 1.57”

NM58N7: The Preguiça Mine is currently well known and the species from there well described. Anyway, an unusual find was made there in 2006, a pseudomorph of Descloizite after Vanadinite. The analysis we did shows only Descloizite but the crystal form is without doubt that of former Vanadinite.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo  Portugal (2006)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.3 × 2.6 cm = 2.83” × 2.48” × 1.02”

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