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This page provides a selection of the specimens that have passed through the Fabre Minerals website and, due to their quality,
rarity, or significance as specimens from interesting locations, have been preserved as reference specimens in #MVM

TURKEY


Celestine on Colemanite
Celestine on Colemanite. Celestine on Colemanite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EFM96AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Groups of transparent, lustrous, extraordinarily intense blue prismatic Celestine crystals on a matrix of white Colemanite. A novel association.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 668 in the volume 53, number 5, September-October 2022
Bigadiç Mine, Bigadiç, Balıkesir Province, Marmara Region  Turkey (01-06/2021)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.9 × 4.8 cm = 2.56” × 1.93” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.98” × 0.43”

Colemanite fluorescent long & short UV
Celestine on Colemanite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EGH87AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Groups of transparent, lustrous, extraordinarily intense blue prismatic Celestine crystals on a matrix of white Colemanite. A novel association.
Bigadiç Mine, Bigadiç, Balıkesir Province, Marmara Region  Turkey (01-06/2021)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 4 × 4.6 cm = 4.02” × 1.57” × 1.81”

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

Colemanite fluorescent long & short UV
Celestine on Colemanite. Front
Front
Celestine on Colemanite. Side
Side
Celestine on Colemanite.
Smithsonite
Smithsonite. Smithsonite.
 

TA16AN1: A novelty from Turkey: Botryoidal Smithsonite growths, with remnants of rock matrix, translucent, lustrous and pale green with bluish tones. The specimen comes from a 2020 find at a locality not known until now in the world of collecting for quality Smithsonites. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aladağ Mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyalı District, Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5.9 × 4.3 cm = 3.07” × 2.32” × 1.69”

Smithsonite
 

TA96AN0: A novelty from Turkey. Botryoidal Smithsonite growths, with remnants of rock matrix, translucent, with bright luster and a uniform sky-blue color. The specimen comes from a 2020 find made in a locality not known until now in the world of collecting for quality Smithsonite specimens. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aladağ Mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyalı District, Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 10 × 5.2 × 3.3 cm = 3.94” × 2.05” × 1.30”

Smithsonite. Smithsonite.
Smithsonite
Smithsonite. Smithsonite.
 

TB27AN0: A novelty from Turkey. Botryoidal Smithsonite growths, with remnants of rock matrix, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform yellow color. The specimen comes from a 2020 find made in a locality not known until now in the world of collecting for quality specimens of Smithsonite. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aladağ Mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyalı District, Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 10 × 5.6 × 2.7 cm = 3.94” × 2.20” × 1.06”

Smithsonite
 

TC89AN0: A novelty from Turkey. Botryoidal Smithsonite growths, with remnants of rock matrix, translucent, with bright luster and a uniform sky-blue color. The specimen comes from a find made in the year 2020 in a locality not known until now in the world of collecting for quality Smithsonite specimens. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aladağ Mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyalı District, Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 10 × 8.1 × 4.2 cm = 3.94” × 3.19” × 1.65”

Smithsonite. Smithsonite.
Smithsonite
Smithsonite. Smithsonite.
Smithsonite.
 

TC87AN1: A novelty from Turkey: Botryoidal Smithsonite growths, with remnants of rock matrix, translucent, lustrous and pale green in color with bluish tones, and small white festoons. The specimen comes from a find in 2020 at a locality not known until now in the world of collecting for quality Smithsonites. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aladağ Mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyalı District, Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 9.1 × 5 cm = 4.61” × 3.58” × 1.97”

Smithsonite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TE26AN0: A novelty from Turkey. Botryoidal Smithsonite growths, with remnants of rock matrix, translucent, lustrous and of an intense bluish green color with white areas. The specimen, which is beautiful, comes from a find made in 2020 at a locality not known until now in the world of collecting for quality specimens of Smithsonite. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aladağ Mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyalı District, Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 12 × 10.3 × 8.6 cm = 4.72” × 4.06” × 3.39”

Smithsonite. Front
Front
Smithsonite. Side
Side
Smithsonite. Rear
Rear
Smithsonite.
Smithsonite
Smithsonite. Front
Front
Smithsonite. Side
Side
Smithsonite. Smithsonite.
 

TD67AN1: A novelty from Turkey: Botryoidal Smithsonite growths, with remnants of rock matrix, translucent, lustrous and pale green with bluish tones. The specimen comes from a 2020 find at a locality not known until now in the world of collecting for quality Smithsonites. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aladağ Mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyalı District, Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 12.2 × 4.7 × 5.8 cm = 4.80” × 1.85” × 2.28”

Smithsonite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TMF98AN7: Botryoidal Smithsonite growths, with remnants of rock matrix, translucent, with good luster and a uniform sky-blue color, with fine white festoons. The specimen comes from a find in the year 2020 made in a locality not known until now for quality Smithsonites in the world of collecting. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aladağ Mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyalı District, Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 10.2 × 4.4 cm = 4.88” × 4.02” × 1.73”

Smithsonite. Smithsonite.
Smithsonite
Smithsonite. Smithsonite.
 

TE68AN1: A novelty from Turkey. Botryoidal Smithsonite growths, with remnants of rock matrix, translucent, lustrous and pale green with bluish tones. The specimen comes from a find in 2020 at a locality not known until now in the world of collecting for quality Smithsonites. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aladağ Mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyalı District, Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 14.2 × 7.8 × 4.5 cm = 5.59” × 3.07” × 1.77”

Smithsonite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TF94AN1: A novelty from Turkey: Botryoidal Smithsonite growths, with remnants of rock matrix, translucent, lustrous and of an intense green color with bluish tones and white festoons. This specimen comes from a 2020 find at a locality not known until now in the collecting world for quality Smithsonites. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aladağ Mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyalı District, Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 14.6 × 10.4 × 4 cm = 5.75” × 4.09” × 1.57”

Smithsonite. Smithsonite.
Smithsonite.
Cr-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite)
Cr-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite). Cr-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite).
 

EM86AM1: Druse on matrix of twinned crystals of Chromium-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite)
They have a bipyramidal habit, translucent, with good luster and an intense deep mauve color. A classic of Turkish mineralogy.
Kop Krom Mine, Kop Daglari, Erzurum Province, Eastern Anatolia Region  Turkey

Specimen size: 4 × 3.7 × 2.2 cm = 1.57” × 1.46” × 0.87”

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

Cr-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite)
 

EQ46AM1: Druse on matrix of twinned crystals of Chromium-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite)
They have a bipyramidal habit, translucent, with good luster and an intense deep mauve color. A classic of Turkish mineralogy.
Kop Krom Mine, Kop Daglari, Erzurum Province, Eastern Anatolia Region  Turkey

Specimen size: 6.2 × 6 × 2.1 cm = 2.44” × 2.36” × 0.83”

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

Cr-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite). Cr-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite).
Cr-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite)
Cr-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite). Cr-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite).
 

ET47AM1: Druse on matrix of twinned crystals of Chromium-bearing Clinochlore (variety kämmererite)
They have a bipyramidal habit, translucent, with good luster and an intense deep mauve color. A classic of Turkish mineralogy.
Kop Krom Mine, Kop Daglari, Erzurum Province, Eastern Anatolia Region  Turkey

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.1 × 4 cm = 2.68” × 2.01” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.31” × 0.24”

Hydroboracite
 

TD11AM9: A novelty post-Easter 2021: Aggregates of very sharp crystals of Hydroboracite, highly elongated and with perfect terminations, water-clear, very lustrous, and on matrix. Of excellent quality for the species. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Hisarcik Mine, Emet Borate deposit, Emet, Emet District, Kütahya Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.59” × 0.31”

Hydroboracite.
Hydroboracite with Celestine and Calcite
Hydroboracite with Celestine and Calcite. Front
Front
Hydroboracite with Celestine and Calcite. Side
Side
Hydroboracite with Celestine and Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Hydroboracite with Celestine and Calcite. Detail
Detail

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TC89AM9: A novelty post-Easter 2021: On matrix, centered groups of transparent and very lustrous acicular Hydroboracite crystals, with small transparent and colorless crystals of Celestine and orange spheroidal growths of Calcite. Of excellent quality for the species. Both Hydroboracite and Celestine and Calcite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the 'What's New' section, report 60, May 23, 2021 edition, page 5, and in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 159/2021, page 34
Hisarcik Mine, Emet Borate deposit, Emet, Emet District, Kütahya Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 8.5 × 8.2 cm = 4.61” × 3.35” × 3.23”

Celestine and Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Hydroboracite with Celestine
 

TB87AM9: A novelty post-Easter 2021: On matrix, centered groups of acicular Hydroboracite crystals, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, white in color and with larger, transparent, lustrous and colorless Celestine crystals. Of excellent quality for the species. Both the Hydroboracite and Celestine have been analyzed and we will send a copy of both analyses to the buyer.
Hisarcik Mine, Emet Borate deposit, Emet, Emet District, Kütahya Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 12.3 × 5.8 cm = 4.92” × 4.84” × 2.28”

Celestine fluorescent long & short UV
Hydroboracite with Celestine. Hydroboracite with Celestine.
Twinned Diaspore with Rutile
Twinned Diaspore with Rutile. Front - Day light (incident light)
Front - Day light (incident light)
Twinned Diaspore with Rutile. Front - Led light
Front - Led light
Twinned Diaspore with Rutile. Rear - Day light (incident light)
Rear - Day light (incident light)
Twinned Diaspore with Rutile. Top - Led light
Top - Led light
Twinned Diaspore with Rutile  

EV10AL9: Mostly new after the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual Show, from a classic Turkish locality but with a different transparency and color. A twin of two crystals with different terminations, one of them with visible faces and the other with very acute polycrystalline growths. The longest crystal has a partially incomplete termination. The crystals are transparent, with good luster and abundant Rutile inclusions. They have an intense yellow-green color with focused natural light and more yellow under halogen light, and with clearly visible dichroism changing color between soft red and green.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 2.4 × 1.9 cm = 2.05” × 0.94” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 1 cm = 2.05” × 0.39”

Twinned Diaspore
 

EF26AL6: A partial novelty after the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual Show. From a classic Turkish locality but with a different morphology and color. With a vertical twin plane, the crystal has excellent terminal faces, is transparent and very lustrous, and is very fine and of great quality. With greenish yellow tones and marked dichroism, it changes color between soft red and green depending on the type of incident light and the angle of incidence of the light.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 1.7 × 1 cm = 2.13” × 0.67” × 0.39”

Twinned Diaspore. Front - Day light
Front - Day light
Twinned Diaspore. Front - bulb light (incident light)
Front - bulb light (incident light)
Twinned Diaspore. Rear - Day light
Rear - Day light
Twinned Diaspore. Rear - bulb light
Rear - bulb light
Diaspore
Diaspore. Front - Day light (incident light)
Front - Day light (incident light)
Diaspore. Front - Led light
Front - Led light
Diaspore. Rear - Day light (incident light)
Rear - Day light (incident light)
Diaspore. Top
Top
 

EF66AL7: Partially new after the Sainte Marie Virtual Show 2020. From a classic Turkish locality but with a different transparency and color, intense yellow-green under focused natural light, but yellower under halogen light and with an easily visible dichroism changing between soft red and green.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 2.7 × 1.2 cm = 3.27” × 1.06” × 0.47”

Diaspore with Mica and Rutile
 

EV96AL7: Partially new after the Sainte Marie Virtual Show 2020. A doubly terminated and floater crystal with polycrystalline terminations that have intergrowths of Mica (probably Margarite) and small acicular crystals of Rutile. The specimen comes from a classic Turkish locality but is distinguished by its great transparency and color, an intense yellow-green under focused natural light and a more yellow under halogen light and with an easily visible dichroism changing between soft red and green tones.
This specimen has been photographed and published in the front cover of the Bulletin ‘MiniBul A.G.A.B.’ number 3/2021
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 3.3 × 1.5 cm = 3.39” × 1.30” × 0.59”

Diaspore with Mica and Rutile. Front - Day light (incident light)
Front - Day light (incident light)
Diaspore with Mica and Rutile. Front - Led light
Front - Led light
Diaspore with Mica and Rutile. Rear - Day light (incident light)
Rear - Day light (incident light)
Diaspore with Mica and Rutile. Bottom
Bottom

Colemanites

Colemanite was one of the principal new finds in Munich 2005. Not only its color is different from the classic Colemanite, but its luster, its intense zonal fluorescence and its twinning make these high quality samples.
Another feature is the detail of two generations of crystal growth. The first one is brown and the second is absolutely clear and gemmy (colorless)

Twinned Colemanite
Twinned Colemanite.
Twinned Colemanite.
 

MC86G5: Crystals stand out because of their high position on the matrix, making it possible to appreciate the clarity and the magnificent color.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 23 in number 2006/1.
Kestelek Mine, Mustafakemalpascha, Bandirma  Turkey (09/2005)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5 × 5.5 cm = 2.95” × 1.97” × 2.17”

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

Intense zoned fluorescence long & short UV
Twinned Colemanite
 

MA27G5: The sample is very rich in crystals, some of them doubly-terminated and all very sharp, in which it is possible to observe perfectly both the twinning and color zonation.
Kestelek Mine, Mustafakemalpascha, Bandirma  Turkey (09/2005)

Specimen size: 8 × 4.8 × 6.3 cm = 3.15” × 1.89” × 2.48”

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

Intense zoned fluorescence long & short UV
Twinned Colemanite.
Twinned Colemanite.
Twinned Colemanite
Twinned Colemanite. Twinned Colemanite.
 

MG68G5: The sample, due to its quality, reaches a considerable size and is very rich in crystals, some of them doubly-terminated and all very sharp so we can perfectly observe both the twinning and color zonation.
Kestelek Mine, Mustafakemalpascha, Bandirma  Turkey (09/2005)

Specimen size: 10 × 7 × 5 cm = 3.94” × 2.76” × 1.97”

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

Intense zoned fluorescence long & short UV

AUSTRALIA - FIJI


Australia

Scholzite
Scholzite  

NA97AA6: Sprays of lustrous, translucent white, acicular Scholzite crystals on limonite matrix. An excellent specimen of this rare zinc phosphate from the locality that has furnished the best specimens of the species, currently very difficult to obtain. As the pedigree enhances the specimen’s value, we will send the original A. L. McGuinness label to the buyer.
Reaphook Hill, Martins Well, Finders Rangers, South Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 7.8 × 4.9 × 4.8 cm = 3.07” × 1.93” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.83” × 0.04”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Scholzite. Front
Front
Scholzite. Side
Side
Scholzite.
Molibdenite with Quartz

Recorded under neon light

Recorded under neon light
 

ETV57CD1: From a locality that yields very good molybdenites, this one is especially lustrous and shiny.
It is a delight to find a metallic mineral of such beauty.
Kingsgate, Gough County, New South Wales  Australia

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.5 × 2.1 cm = 3.03” × 2.17” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 7.1 × 4.5 cm = 2.80” × 1.77”

Azurite
Azurite  

LE90H5: The sample is from a locality not well known by collectors. It is of great quality. Crystals are flattened prisms of very sharp faces and edges especially enhancing its blue color, an extraordinary luster and a delicate transparency.
It is from the David Lucas collection and we’ll furnish the corresponding label to the buyer.
Mineral Hill Mine, Condobolin, New South Wales  Australia

Specimen size: 7.5 × 6 × 5.2 cm = 2.95” × 2.36” × 2.05”

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

Azurite.
Azurite.
Copper
Copper. Copper.
 

TF87AL3: Plumose dendritic floater, very aesthetic, with parallel growths of sharp octahedral crystals and perfect terminations. A fine miniature from a classic Australian deposit.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales  Australia

Specimen size: 3.5 × 1 × 0.6 cm = 1.38” × 0.39” × 0.24”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Rhodonite with Galena
 

M98R: Just look at the color! It looks like someone has lit a fire inside this infrequent mineral. It is also of interest as it comes from a very famous mine: Broken Hill, which is the best locality known for this mineral species.

Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales  Australia

Specimen size: 6 × 3.7 × 3 cm = 2.36” × 1.46” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.87” × 0.43”

Rhodonite with Galena.
Smithsonite
Smithsonite. Smithsonite.
 

EA26Y2: Two generations of Smithsonite on a Galena matrix. They have two very different characteristics, one of them forms globular aggregates of bright and slightly yellow microcrystals. The second generation consists of very sharp, acute, scalenohedral crystals that are transparent, white and with very well defined faces and edges. An excellent Australian classic.
Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales  Australia

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.4 × 3.5 cm = 2.28” × 1.73” × 1.38”

Silver
 

TJ86AH5: Extraordinarily elongated octahedral crystal, with a very sharp spinel law twinning, with very well defined faces and edges and very bright.
A great Australian classic that we’ll send in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label in which it appears that it had previously been in the Willis collection.
Endeavor Mine (Elura Mine), Cobar, Robinson County, New South Wales  Australia

Specimen size: 3.4 × 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 1.34” × 0.20” × 0.16”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Silver. Silver.
Malachite after Azurite
Malachite after Azurite. Front
Front
Malachite after Azurite. Rear
Rear
 

TA14N6: Crowded growth of Malachite crystals pseudomorphous after Azurite with minor Limonite fragments. The piece is from an Australian locality that is very rarely represented in worldwide collections.
Sir Dominic Mine, Yudnamutana  Australia (±1980)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.1 × 2.9 cm = 1.50” × 1.22” × 1.14”

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

Mimetite
 

TB74AI0: Thick tabular crystal, complete and on matrix, with very well defined faces and edges and with a pale yellow color.
An excellent Australian classic that we’ll send in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label on which it appears that it was once in the Sullivan collection.
Mount Bonnie Mine, Sabine's Shaft, Grove Hill, Victoria Daly Regional Council, Katherine Region, Northern Territory  Australia

Specimen size: 2 × 1.1 × 1.7 cm = 0.79” × 0.43” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.59”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Mimetite. Mimetite.
Mimetite
Mimetite. Mimetite.
Mimetite.
 

TRC16AN3: Thick tabular crystals of Mimetite, very sharp, translucent, lustrous and white, which is quite exceptional for the species. On a limonite matrix.
We will send the piece in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which shows that it was previously in the Robinson collection.
Mount Bonnie Mine, Sabine's Shaft, Grove Hill, Victoria Daly Regional Council, Katherine Region, Northern Territory  Australia

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.2 × 1.5 cm = 0.98” × 0.87” × 0.59”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Bob Noble
Mimetite
 

N95C: With a nice old time label from the collection of the German Geologist Thomas Krassman and with its nice yellow color - this all means that the nice form of the mineral really makes it stand out.
Mount Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill, Victoria Daly Regional Council, Katherine Region, Northern Territory  Australia

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.5 × 3 cm = 2.17” × 1.38” × 1.18”

Mimetite.
Pyromorphite with Malachite
Pyromorphite with Malachite. Pyromorphite with Malachite.
 

TV89X5: Spheroidal aggregates, on matrix, of small Pyromorphite crystals that are very bright and with a greenish-yellow color that strongly contrasts with the deep green color of the Malachite on the sample.
Brown's open pit, Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory  Australia (11/2010)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.1 × 2.5 cm = 2.60” × 2.01” × 0.98”

Pyromorphite with Malachite
Pyromorphite with Malachite  

TR89V2: Aggregates of microcrystals of Pyromorphite, with grass green color and very bright, that partially drape the matrix of very dark green botryoidal Malachite. From the personal selection of the collectors of this material, whose samples have been individually numbered. The locality is still a classic for Australian Pyromorphite.
Brown's Open Pit, "the golden pocket", Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory  Australia (11/2010)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 5 × 3.2 cm = 4.06” × 1.97” × 1.26”

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

Pyromorphite with Malachite. Pyromorphite with Malachite.
Pyromorphite with Malachite
Pyromorphite with Malachite. Pyromorphite with Malachite.
Pyromorphite with Malachite  

TY70V2: Aggregates of small prismatic crystals of Pyromorphite, a lot of them doubly terminated, with grass green color and very bright. They are spread on a matrix of very dark green botryoidal Malachite. From the personal selection of the collectors of this material, whose samples have been individually numbered. The locality is still a classic for Australian Pyromorphite.
Brown's Open Pit, "the pizza pocket", Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory  Australia (10/2010)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 5.5 × 3.3 cm = 4.13” × 2.17” × 1.30”

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

Cuprite
 

TZ7AH5: Two Cuprite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with the main forms of the cube and octahedron beveled by the dodecahedron. The crystals, translucent, have vivid reflections of intense red shades.
We’ll send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Chillagoe-Herberton District, Tablelands Region, Queensland  Australia

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2 × 1.7 cm = 0.98” × 0.79” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.7 cm = 0.98” × 0.67”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Cuprite. Front
Front
Cuprite. With side light
With side light
Cuprite. Close-up
Close-up
Cuprite. Close-up with side light
Close-up with side light
Native Bismuth
Native Bismuth. Native Bismuth.
 

TA16D5: Typical pack of crystalline Bismuth, very rich and with great luster, in fact much better than usual making the specimen very esthetic.
Biggenden, Queensland  Australia

Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.8 × 2.8 cm = 1.14” × 0.71” × 1.10”

Molybdenite with Quartz and Mica
 

CT97E4: A complete spray of Molybdenite that is in matrix! It come from the locality that has the reputation of producing the best, large, well formed ones found in the world. So this, very technical specimen, is a special beauty.
Wolfram camp, Dimbulah, Mareeba Shire, Queensland  Australia

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6 × 4.3 cm = 2.83” × 2.36” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 6.4 × 4 cm = 2.52” × 1.57”

Molybdenite with Quartz and Mica. Molybdenite with Quartz and Mica.
Quartz (variety smoky)
Quartz (variety smoky). Quartz (variety smoky).
 

MY11AN0: Group of two doubly terminated Quartz crystals (smoky variety), with very sharp crystal forms and inverse scepter growths, transparent and very lustrous.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Mooralla, Southern Grampians Shire, Victoria  Australia

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.4 × 1.7 cm = 1.26” × 0.94” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 1.3 cm = 1.26” × 0.51”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Quartz (variety smoky)
 

TVR11AO0: Complete doubly terminated crystal of Quartz (smoky variety), on matrix, transparent, with good luster and very deep and uniform smoky tones.
An Australian classic that we will ship in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Mooralla, Southern Grampians Shire, Victoria  Australia

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.8 × 1.8 cm = 1.30” × 1.10” × 0.71”

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

Former collection of Bob Noble
Quartz (variety smoky). Front
Front
Quartz (variety smoky). Side
Side
Smoky Quartz doubly terminated
Smoky Quartz doubly terminated. Front
Front
Smoky Quartz doubly terminated. Rear
Rear
 

MT46S3: Doubly terminated crystals on matrix, extraordinarily bright, transparent and with inclusions and color zoning, especially deep and intense.
Mooralla, Cavendish, Victoria  Australia

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.7 × 2.8 cm = 1.61” × 1.46” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 2.7 cm = 1.42” × 1.06”

Gold on Quartz
 

MJ98S1: Arborescent laminar growth in which some of its crystals have very well defined faces and edges because they are preserved between the main Gold growth and the Quartz matrix.
Ballarat, Victoria  Australia (±1985)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 1.5 × 2.1 cm = 1.34” × 0.59” × 0.83”

Gold on Quartz. Front
Front
Gold on Quartz. Top
Top
Gold with Quartz
Gold with Quartz. Front
Front
Gold with Quartz. Side
Side
 

MH11S1: Arborescent growth with a very elongated crystal that has quite good terminal faces and is on a small matrix of Quartz.
Ballarat, Victoria  Australia (±1985)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 1.8 × 1.1 cm = 1.38” × 0.71” × 0.43”

Azurite
 

TG96Z2: Very flattened complete nodule whose contour remembers a medallion, a shape typical of the locality, with rosette growths, intense color and on matrix
Malbunka copper Mine, Western Aranda, Ltalaltuma  Australia (2013)

Specimen size: 9 × 9 × 3.2 cm = 3.54” × 3.54” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 6.2 × 6 cm = 2.44” × 2.36”

Azurite. Azurite.
Azurite
Azurite. Front
Front
Azurite. Rear
Rear
 

TR37W1: Very flattened complete nodule whose contour remembers a medallion. It has a vivid blue color and is on matrix. The sample is more solid than usual in this kind of sample due to the richness of the Azurite.
Malbunka copper Mine, Western Aranda, Ltalaltuma  Australia (2011)

Specimen size: 9.9 × 9.5 × 2.3 cm = 3.90” × 3.74” × 0.91”

Krennerite
 

MF14K9: Exfoliation growths of this very rare gold telluride, that rarely crystallizes. Moreover, growth is dominated by its brilliance on the dark matrix. We’ll give copy of the results of the analysis to the buyer.
Golden Mile Mines, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3 × 1.4 cm = 2.01” × 1.18” × 0.55”

With analysis copy
Krennerite. Krennerite.
Copper
Copper.
 

JA12J0: Arborescent growth of small crystals, bright and quite defined. It is from a not well known locality and it is quite esthetic.
The specimen is from the Jan Buma collection (num. 980204) and we’ll send the card of the collection with it.
Boddington, Mt Saddleback, Western Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5.3 × 2.7 cm = 2.20” × 2.09” × 1.06”

Former Jan Buma collection. Number 980204
Chalcocite
 

TC17AH5: Group of very sharp Chalcocite crystals that are twinned, partially doubly terminated and very bright. The sample is from an exceptional find from which only very few were saved.
We’ll send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Telfer Mine, Telfer, Paterson Province, Pilbara Region, Western Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 1.02” × 0.59” × 0.43”

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

Former collection of Bob Noble
Chalcocite. Chalcocite.
Gold
Gold. Gold.
 

TD16AJ3: Group on matrix of native Gold cubic crystals, slightly deformed but with well-defined faces and edges.
We will send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label in which it appears that it had previously been in the Cranston Edwards collection.
Idaho South pit, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2 × 2.3 cm = 0.91” × 0.79” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.4 cm = 0.31” × 0.16”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Gold
 

TE92AK9: Dendritic growth of very elongated crystals, with flattened stretched “wire” shapes. We will send the specimen, which comes from one of the great Australian classic localities, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains his label, with the annotation: Kalgoorlie, 2007, 5.5 grams net.
Idaho South pit, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2 × 0.2 cm = 1.02” × 0.79” × 0.08”

Former collection of Bob Noble

Weight: 5.5 grams
Gold. Gold.
Gold
Gold.
Gold.
 

HB49K8: Groups of laminated Gold crystals on matrix with small crystals and growths of gold telluride. Although these have not been analysed, due the origin and the similarities with other specimens from this locality, we believe that these are Coloradoite.
Golden Miles Mines, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3 × 2.5 cm = 2.44” × 1.18” × 0.98”

Gold on Quartz
 

TL69L1: Arborescent and laminar Gold growth, microcrystalline. On a Quartz matrix that gives the specimen an excellent contrast, really esthetic. Yellow gold color is very intense. Good quality sample for the locality.
Edwards Pit, "Golden Mile", Kalgoorlie-Boulder  Australia (07/2007)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3.1 × 1.9 cm = 1.34” × 1.22” × 0.75”

Gold on Quartz. Front
Front
Gold on Quartz. Rear
Rear
Gold on Quartz
Gold on Quartz. Front
Front
Gold on Quartz. Rear
Rear
 

TB90L1: Arborescent and laminar Gold growth, crystalline, very aerial. On a Quartz matrix that gives the specimen an excellent contrast, really esthetic. Yellow gold color is very intense. Good quality sample for the locality.
Edwards Pit, Golden Miles Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder  Australia (07/2007)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3 × 2.7 cm = 1.38” × 1.18” × 1.06”

Cerussite with Crocoite
 

TX87AE8: An unusual association. Parallel growths of Cerussite crystals with a prismatic shape, a color that varies between different grades of yellowish color and that are partially coated by small acicular Crocoite crystals. Traditionally such Cerussite is well known as “chrome-cerussite” but recent analyses demonstrate that it’s a regular Cerussite. An uncommon sample, very esthetic.
Dundas, Zeehan District, West Coast Council, Tasmania  Australia

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.3 × 3.2 cm = 1.46” × 1.30” × 1.26”

Fluorescent short UV
Cerussite with Crocoite. Front
Front
Cerussite with Crocoite. Rear
Rear
Cerussite with Crocoite. Cerussite with Crocoite.
Crocoite
Crocoite.
Crocoite.
 

FK27N4: Group of thin crystals of excellent color and luster, some of them with good terminations and on Limonite matrix. Some pictures of the sample are on different pages of the sheet 378 (March 2009) of the French magazine "Mineraux et Fossiles", in an article about Crocoite.
Adelaida Mine, Dundas, Tasmania  Australia (±1974)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 5.5 × 4.2 cm = 3.43” × 2.17” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 0.3 cm = 0.83” × 0.12”

Oliete's collection number 208, bought in 1974

Fiji

Tellurium with Quartz
 

TM8H9: The crystals on a Quartz matrix are very defined, which is really rare for this native element. Even with its small size the sample is notable because it is a very, very rare species and its excellent crystallization. Chemical analysis revealed that the mineral is pure native Tellurium.
We’ll give the results of the analysis to the buyer.
Emperor Mine, Vatukoula, Tavua, Viti Levu  Fiji (2005)

Specimen size: 1.2 × 0.7 × 0.3 cm = 0.47” × 0.28” × 0.12”

Tellurium with Quartz.
Tellurium with Quartz
Tellurium with Quartz. Tellurium with Quartz.
 

TT36H4: A single word defines this specimen: fantastic. It has an extraordinary crystallization, probably the best known for the species. The crystals are well developed, sharp and bright, and exceptional size. Chemical analysis revealed that the mineral is pure native Tellurium. We’ll give the results of the analysis to the buyer. We must also note the locality, unknown until now by most mineralogists.
This specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 301 in the volume 39, number 4.
Emperor Mine, Vatukoula, Tavua, Viti Levu  Fiji (2005)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 8 × 3.2 cm = 2.87” × 3.15” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.12”


INDIA


Doubly terminated Fluorapophyllite-(K)
 

MB62H1: It’s an attractive and unusual looking group of mostly doubly terminated crystals formed by a prism and a dipyramid. The main one in the center of the specimen is striking for its size and its centered position, very esthetic, on the piece. All are very bright.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (03/2005)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.6 × 2.3 cm = 2.01” × 1.42” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 1.2 cm = 1.73” × 0.47”

Doubly terminated Fluorapophyllite-(K).
Doubly terminated Fluorapophyllite-(K)
Doubly terminated Fluorapophyllite-(K).
 

MB16D4: Huge, perfect, doubly terminated Fluorapophyllite-(K) adorned by Stilbite crystals. Pretty!
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (2003)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 3.7 × 3.6 cm = 2.64” × 1.46” × 1.42”

Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite
 

TA16F6: The quality of this one cannot be denied, but one must note the aerial position of the group of sharp Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals and the green zoning of their interiors. They are on a matrix that is coated by Stilbite crystals.
Momim Akhada, Rahuri, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra  India (04/2004)

Specimen size: 10 × 6.7 × 5 cm = 3.94” × 2.64” × 1.97”

Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite. Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite.
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite.
 

TH63J0: Esthetic radial group of prismatic crystals, clear on their external part and with visible green phantom growths in them. The group is centered on a matrix of white, slightly yellowish, crystals of Stilbite.
Momim Akhada, Rahuri, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra  India (2003)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 10.5 × 4.8 cm = 4.13” × 4.13” × 1.89”

Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite
 

MD97T2: Typical radial aggregate of this find, with crystals formed by the prism and the pinacoid, very bright and with a diffuse color zoning, green at the base and colorless on the termination, with white bow-tie crystals of Stilbite, and on basalt matrix.
Momim Akhada, Rahuri, Ahmadnagar District, Maharashtra  India (04-05/2004)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 7.6 × 4.4 cm = 4.25” × 2.99” × 1.73”

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

Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite. Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite.
Scolecite with Quartz

Recorded under neon light

Recorded under neon light
 

EXX97CDD: They were seen and quickly vanished and caught attention at the time due to their color and appearance, very different from other scolecites. In the case of this piece, it's in a Quartz matrix, adding to its uniqueness.
Chandanapuri, Samgamner, Ahmadnagar District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.2 × 2.9 cm = 2.13” × 2.05” × 1.14”

Stilbite-Ca with Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Heulandite-Ca
Stilbite-Ca with Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Heulandite-Ca  

MA67Z3: Bow tie-like aggregate of white Stilbite-(Ca) crystals. They are complete, very bright and are on a basalt matrix, with small Heulandite-Ca crystals and green Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals. Even being a very common species, the quality of the sample is very notable. The piece is from the Joan Abella collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Pashan Hills, Pune District, Maharashtra  India (±1985)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 7 × 5.4 cm = 3.66” × 2.76” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 6.6 × 4.2 cm = 2.60” × 1.65”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Joan Abella
Stilbite-Ca with Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Heulandite-Ca.
Doubly terminated Stilbite-Ca
Doubly terminated Stilbite-Ca. Doubly terminated Stilbite-Ca.
 

MQ90E6: A Museum quality Stilbite. It has large crystals, many of which are doubly terminated, and have good color and brilliance. A floater specimen that is, in my opinion, superb.
Mahodari, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (2003)

Specimen size: 17.5 × 9.5 × 4.5 cm = 6.89” × 3.74” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 2.5 cm = 1.81” × 0.98”

Stilbite-Ca with Heulandite-Ca
 

LF76F2: The groups in the form of very aerial white bands stand out on the slightly orange crystals of Heulandite-Ca. From the David Lucas collection, number 832, and we will give the buyer his label.
Vaijapur, Aurangabad, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 16 × 15 × 5 cm = 6.30” × 5.91” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.47”

Stilbite-Ca with Heulandite-Ca.
Stilbite-Ca with Heulandite-Ca.
Heulandite with Scolecite
Heulandite with Scolecite. Heulandite with Scolecite.
 

MB46S9: Groups of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, of an unusually intense pink color, with globular growths of white acicular crystals of Scolecite and on a basaltic matrix.
Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (±2002)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.5 × 3.4 cm = 3.35” × 2.95” × 1.34”

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

Heulandite
 

ML14D4: Doubly terminated crystal aerial on its white matrix and the characteristic transparency, intense color, and great luster typical of this find.
Vaijapur, Aurangabad, Maharashtra  India (07/03)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3 × 2.6 cm = 1.65” × 1.18” × 1.02”

Heulandite.
Heulandite
Heulandite.
 

MD60D4: Huge fan at the top of the specimen on other doubly terminated crystals with minor white matrix and the characteristic transparency, intense color, and great luster typical of this find.
Vaijapur, Aurangabad, Maharashtra  India (07/03)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5 × 2.2 cm = 2.13” × 1.97” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 3 cm = 1.34” × 1.18”

Heulandite-Ca with Stilbite-Ca
 

EZ96AM1: Radial aggregate of flattened Heulandite-Ca crystals with sharp faces and edges, very lustrous, pink in color, on matrix, with white Stilbite-Ca crystals, some of them doubly terminated. Unusual!
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.7 × 3.9 cm = 3.86” × 3.03” × 1.54”

Heulandite-Ca with Stilbite-Ca. Heulandite-Ca with Stilbite-Ca.
Mesolite with Heulandite-Ca and Laumontite
Mesolite with Heulandite-Ca and Laumontite.
 

MC14P8: A novelty from Munich 2009. Yellowish globular growths of acicular crystals of Mesolite on a Heulandite-Ca matrix and with (analyzed) Laumontite.
Kannad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra  India (08/2009)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 5.7 × 4.1 cm = 2.80” × 2.24” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.2 cm = 1.57” × 1.26”

Mesolite with Heulandite-Ca and Laumontite
 

MJ26P5: A novelty of Munich 2009. Yellowish globular growths of acicular crystals of Mesolite on a matrix of Heulandite-Ca and with Laumontite (analyzed).
Kannad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra  India (08/2009)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.60” × 2.13” × 1.26”

Mesolite with Heulandite-Ca and Laumontite.
Mesolite with Stilbite-Ca
Mesolite with Stilbite-Ca. Mesolite with Stilbite-Ca.
 

ED36P5: Globular aggregate of white acicular crystals of Mesolite with growths of Stilbite-Ca crystals and on a matrix of basalt.
Kannad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra  India (08/2009)

Specimen size: 13 × 10.5 × 7 cm = 5.12” × 4.13” × 2.76”

Mesolite with Stilbite
 

EB26P4: Radial sprays of white acicular crystals on Stilbite matrix. The sample is from a locality not well known until recently. The specimen has been carefully analyzed in order to confirm the species. With the sample we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Kannad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra  India (08/2009)

Specimen size: 11.6 × 10.3 × 7.5 cm = 4.57” × 4.06” × 2.95”

Mesolite with Stilbite. Mesolite with Stilbite.
Mordenite on Stilbite
Mordenite on Stilbite. Front
Front
Mordenite on Stilbite. Top
Top
 

MJ36E6: A larger, redder than usual crystal of Stilbite that has a crown of very white crystals of Mordenite on top of it. While Mordenite is normally not that appealing, in this sample it is of good quality and, being so aerial, makes for a neat specimen.
Shakur Quarry, Nasik, Maharashtra  India (2003)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 4 × 3.6 cm = 3.03” × 1.57” × 1.42”

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

Thomsonite
 

TK63G9: The piece shows spheroidal growths formed by radial crystals of Thomsonite that can be seen on its edges. We must especially emphasize the reddish color, very uncommon, due to the presence of iron oxides.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 25 in number 2006/2.
Shendurni, Jalgaon, Maharashtra  India (09/2005)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6 × 2 cm = 2.83” × 2.36” × 0.79”

Thomsonite.
Thomsonite with Scolecite
Thomsonite with Scolecite. Thomsonite with Scolecite.
 

TQ26L1: Well defined Thompsonite spheroidal growths, pinkish color, with crown growths of small acicular and bright Scolecite crystals. Very pleasant and esthetic specimen on matrix.
Shendurni, Jalgaon, Maharashtra  India (10/2006)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 7.4 × 2 cm = 3.58” × 2.91” × 0.79”

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

Calcite with Stilbite and Quartz
 

TA36F6: The main, rhombohedral, very luminous, crystal has a notable penetration twin. It has strategically positioned itself next to pink Stilbite and on a matrix on Quartz Chalcedony.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 6.6 × 6 × 6 cm = 2.60” × 2.36” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 3.2 cm = 1.34” × 1.26”

Calcite with Stilbite and Quartz.
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite. Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite.
 

MA86P6: A novelty in Munich 2009. Clear green crystals, very transparent and bright, with the prism more elongated than usual and with groups of white crystals of Stilbite and on matrix. From a locality near Pune District not well known until recently.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 43 in number 2010/1
Hadapsar, Pune District, Maharashtra  India (2008)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.7 × 4 cm = 3.35” × 3.03” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.4 cm = 0.47” × 0.16”

Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Celadonite inclusions
 

TT63H6: Fluorapophyllite-(K) forms attractive spheroidal groups of uniform deep green color due to the high quantity of Celadonite inclusions that it contains. The sample is very esthetic thanks to its contrast with the clearer matrix of small Calcite crystals.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (2005)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 6.6 × 3.2 cm = 3.35” × 2.60” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 4.1 cm = 1.69” × 1.61”

Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Celadonite inclusions.
Celadonite included in Heulandite-Ca
Celadonite included in Heulandite-Ca.
 

TY37D8: Celadonite is a massive unattractive mineral. The only time one can get good specimens of this species is when it is included in Indian Zeolites, giving them a characteristic green color. In this case it is included in Heulandite-Ca that has more brilliance than is normal, is a floater, has two doubly terminated crystals, and is associated with small balls of white Okenite. Rare and beautiful.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (12/02)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 4.5 × 4.5 cm = 3.31” × 1.77” × 1.77”

Cavansite with Calcite and Stilbite
 

ED17G3: The specimen is really aesthetic. Cavansite crystallizes as numerous spherical groups, and as some single sprays of crystals, of a very vivid and deep color. We must mention the presence of a crystal of Calcite, very aerial, on the Cavansite.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (2005)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.8 × 5 cm = 2.44” × 2.28” × 1.97”

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

Calcite extremely fluorescent long & short UV
Cavansite with Calcite and Stilbite. Cavansite with Calcite and Stilbite.
Cavansite with Stilbite
Cavansite with Stilbite. Cavansite with Stilbite.
 

MQ12S7: Groups of very bright blue acicular crystals on doubly terminated crystals of white Stilbite on basaltic matrix.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 7 × 5.9 × 6.2 cm = 2.76” × 2.32” × 2.44”

Cavansite with Calcite
 

MY27V0: Floater spheroidal aggregate of Cavansite crystals with a very intense color and luster, with four very acute rhombohedral crystals of Calcite that are transparent, with vivid yellow color. One of the few samples found with this association.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (2008)

Specimen size: 2 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.79” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.6 cm = 0.47” × 0.24”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Cavansite with Calcite. Front
Front
Cavansite with Calcite. Rear
Rear
Cavansite with Calcite
Cavansite with Calcite.
 

MX76V0: Group of very sharp crystals of Cavansite with a very intense color and luster and some of them doubly terminated, with four rhombohedral crystals of Calcite, transparent and with a clear yellow color. One of the few samples found with this association.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (2008)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.1 × 1.8 cm = 0.94” × 0.83” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.55” × 0.16”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Pentagonite with Heulandite-Ca and Stilbite-Ca
 

TB56S9: Centered growths of very thin and elongated, almost acicular, crystals with very well defined faces and edges and excellent color and luster. On a basaltic matrix with white crystals of Heulandite-Ca and Stilbite-Ca.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (09/2009)

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

Pentagonite with Heulandite-Ca and Stilbite-Ca. Pentagonite with Heulandite-Ca and Stilbite-Ca.
Pentagonite with Stilbite
Pentagonite with Stilbite. Pentagonite with Stilbite.
 

MP96P8: Centered growths of very thin and elongated, almost acicular, crystals with very well defined faces and edges, excellent color and luster. On a basaltic matrix with white crystals of Stilbite. The sample has been analyzed and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (09/2009)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.7 × 2.2 cm = 1.77” × 1.46” × 0.87”

Pentagonite with Stilbite
 

MN86P8: Centered growths of very thin and elongated, almost acicular, crystals with very well defined faces and edges, excellent color and luster. On a basaltic matrix with white crystals of Stilbite. The sample has been analyzed and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
A photograph of this specimen is on the front cover of book "Earth Science" (4th edition) published by BJU.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (09/2009)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.9 × 3.8 cm = 1.97” × 1.54” × 1.50”

Pentagonite with Stilbite. Pentagonite with Stilbite.
Pentagonite with Stilbite
Pentagonite with Stilbite. Pentagonite with Stilbite.
 

MK67P9: Growths of very thin, almost acicular, crystals of Pentagonite. The group, of excellent deep color, is implanted on a matrix very rich in Stilbite.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (09/2009)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5 × 4.4 cm = 2.24” × 1.97” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.3 cm = 0.71” × 0.12”

Pentagonite with Stilbite
 

MM6P8: Very acute and aerial growth of elongated and flattened crystals with very well defined faces and edges, excellent color and luster. On a basaltic matrix with white crystals of Stilbite. The sample has been analyzed and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (09/2009)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.7 × 3.3 cm = 1.54” × 1.46” × 1.30”

Pentagonite with Stilbite. Pentagonite with Stilbite.
Quartz (variety amethyst)
Quartz (variety amethyst).
 

TV62H8: A nice miniature, very esthetic, forms a crown of crystals of excellent transparency, luster and color typical of the samples of this locality. The crown of violet crystals strongly contrasts with a central nucleus of clearer crystals practically uncolored.
Kakamunurle Quarry, Tamil Nadu  India (2005)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.26” × 0.98” × 0.59”

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

Fluorite
 

TV12M5: This group of cubic crystals of Fluorite is especially notable for the locality. Crystals are sharp, with very well defined faces and edges and clearly show very marked planes of exfoliation.
Kadipani Mine, Gujarat  India

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.3 × 4 cm = 3.31” × 2.48” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 2.7 cm = 1.85” × 1.06”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite.
Marialite-Meionite (Scapolite Group)
Marialite-Meionite (Scapolite Group).
 

MK61R9: A doubly terminated floater crystal, completely transparent, bright, slightly yellowish. Both terminations are excellent.
Karur District, Tamil Nadu  India (2010)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 1.10” × 0.28” × 0.24”

Marialite-Meionite (Scapolite Group)
 

MC6R5: A novelty in Munich 2010. A doubly terminated single crystal with very uniform transparency and color, pale yellow, showing fine vertical striations and an excellent termination with slightly curved faces and edges.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2010 Munich Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 96, page 39 and the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 51 in number 2011/1
Karur District, Tamil Nadu  India (2010)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 1.93” × 0.31” × 0.28”

Fluorescent short UV
Marialite-Meionite (Scapolite Group).
Doubly terminated Elbaite
Doubly terminated Elbaite. Front
Front
Doubly terminated Elbaite. Rear
Rear
Doubly terminated Elbaite. Top
Top
 

TG36H3: Probably one of the best samples found at this new locality in India. A floater parallel growth of prismatic doubly terminated crystals, transparent and of an excellent color and luster. One of the terminations has the same color as the prism but the other is deep blue, easily visible under an intense light. An especially good sample from a new locality unknown up to now.
Ladhak, Himalaya, Kashmir  India (09/2005)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 3.3 × 2 cm = 3.39” × 1.30” × 0.79”


Globular Fluorite

In Mahodari, Nasik, India, people have obtained funny spherical Fluorite on Quartz matrix. We have been keeping an eye on them and once again we got a selected number of them. They are as nice and as unusual as the photos suggest.

Fluorite on Quartz
 

TV68E0: A large specimen with a very large spherical Fluorite (in fact one of the largest we have seen.) It also has a pleasant cream color along with good development of the sphere, which stand proud of the matrix. There is also a bit of brown Calcite at the base of the specimen.
The specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 299 in the volume 83, number 4.
Mahodari, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (2003)

Specimen size: 11 × 8.5 × 4 cm = 4.33” × 3.35” × 1.57”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite on Quartz.
Fluorite on Quartz.
Fluorite with Opal
Fluorite with Opal.
Fluorite with Opal.
 

TB36D8: Balls of red Fluorite partially covered by Opal, which also covers much of the Quartz matrix and in some areas forms bumps. Very unusual.
Mahodari, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (2003)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 5.2 × 1.5 cm = 3.86” × 2.05” × 0.59”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV

IRAN


Nakhlak Mine

Twinned Cerussite
 

TB27AD4: Multiple twins of very sharp laminar crystals, transparent and very bright. More beautiful and perfect than usual for samples from this locality.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓180 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (03/2016)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3 × 1.8 cm = 1.42” × 1.18” × 0.71”

Fluorescent short UV
Twinned Cerussite. Front
Front
Twinned Cerussite. Rear
Rear
Twinned Cerussite
Twinned Cerussite. Front
Front
Twinned Cerussite. Rear
Rear
 

TC47AD4: Multiple twins of very sharp laminar crystals, transparent and very bright. More beautiful and perfect than usual for samples from this locality.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓180 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (03/2016)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 2.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.69” × 1.06” × 0.98”

Fluorescent short UV
Twinned Cerussite
 

TK27AE6: Floater aggregate with multiple twins of very sharp crystals that are between laminar and tabular, transparent, very bright and more neat and perfect than most of the samples from this locality.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓180 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (03/2016)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.3 × 3.1 cm = 1.61” × 1.30” × 1.22”

Fluorescent short UV
Twinned Cerussite. Front
Front
Twinned Cerussite. Rear
Rear
Twinned Cerussite
Twinned Cerussite. Front
Front
Twinned Cerussite. Rear
Rear
 

TE57AL3: Floater reticulated Cerussite aggregate on matrix, with multiple twinned crystals between lamellar and tabular, highly profiled, transparent, bright and more limpid and perfect than is usual in specimens from this deposit.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓180 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (03/2016)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.3 × 3 cm = 1.81” × 1.30” × 1.18”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Twinned Cerussite
 

TA66AL3: Floater reticulated Cerussite aggregate with multiple twinned crystals between lamellar and tabular, highly profiled, transparent, bright and more limpid and perfect than is usually the case in the Cerussites from this deposit.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓180 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (03/2016)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.7 × 3.5 cm = 1.93” × 1.46” × 1.38”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Twinned Cerussite. Front
Front
Twinned Cerussite. Rear
Rear
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Front
Front
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Top
Top
 

EE68AC2: Different and aesthetic. Aggregates of cyclic twins with Cerussite crystals that are laminar and tabular, and are finely bordered by very thin and acute Mimetite microcrystals with a very vivid orange-red color. These Mimetites have been analyzed in depth and have proven to be the rare chromium-rich variety. We'll send copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 403 in the volume 54, number 3, May-June 2023
Nakhlak Mine, ↓200 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (01/2015)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.5 × 2.2 cm = 1.42” × 1.38” × 0.87”

Fluorescent short UV
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite
 

EB99AC2: Different and aesthetic. Aggregates of cyclic twins with Cerussite crystals that are laminar and tabular, and are finely bordered by very thin and acute Mimetite microcrystals with a very vivid orange-red color. These Mimetites have been analyzed in depth and have proven to be the rare chromium-rich variety. We'll send copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓200 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (01/2015)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.8 × 2.9 cm = 1.65” × 1.50” × 1.14”

Fluorescent short UV
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Front
Front
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Rear
Rear
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Top
Top
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Front
Front
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Rear
Rear
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Detail
Detail
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Photo micro: Cesar Menor-Salvan
Photo micro: Cesar Menor-Salvan
 

EF50AC8: Different and aesthetic. Aggregates of cyclic twins with Cerussite crystals that are laminar and tabular, and are finely bordered by very thin and acute Mimetite microcrystals with a very vivid orange-red color. These Mimetites have been analyzed in depth and have proven to be the rare chromium-rich variety. We'll send copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This sample has been photographed and published as a novelty in Ste. Marie 2015 in the magazine Le Règne Minéral number 126, page 47
Nakhlak Mine, Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (01/2015)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 5 × 2.8 cm = 2.05” × 1.97” × 1.10”

Fluorescent short UV
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite
 

EK88AC8: Different and aesthetic. Aggregates of cyclic twins with Cerussite crystals that are laminar and tabular, and are finely bordered by very thin and acute Mimetite microcrystals with a very vivid orange-red color. These Mimetites have been analyzed in depth and have proven to be the rare chromium-rich variety. We'll send copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 402 in the volume 54, number 3, May-June 2023
Nakhlak Mine, Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (01/2015)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.09”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 3 cm = 1.69”

Fluorescent short UV
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Front
Front
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Rear
Rear
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Photo micro: Cesar Menor-Salvan
Photo micro: Cesar Menor-Salvan
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite.
 

EF68AC2: Different and aesthetic. Aggregates of cyclic twins with Cerussite crystals that are laminar and tabular, and are finely bordered by very thin and acute Mimetite microcrystals with a very vivid orange-red color. These Mimetites have been analyzed in depth and have proven to be the rare chromium-rich variety. We'll send copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓200 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (01/2015)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.3 × 3.4 cm = 2.13” × 1.69” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 2.8 cm = 1.89” × 1.10”

Fluorescent short UV
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite
 

EJ89AC2: Different and aesthetic. Aggregates of cyclic twins with Cerussite crystals that are laminar and tabular, and are finely bordered by very thin and acute Mimetite microcrystals with a very vivid orange-red color. These Mimetites have been analyzed in depth and have proven to be the rare chromium-rich variety. We'll send copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Nakhlak Mine, ↓200 m., Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (01/2015)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 2.60” × 1.50” × 1.26”

Fluorescent short UV
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Front
Front
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Rear
Rear
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite. Top
Top
Chromium-rich Mimetite on Cerussite.

Zunyite from Bandar Abbas

Zunyite with Hematite
Zunyite with Hematite. Front
Front
Zunyite with Hematite. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NC57AJ2: Floater and complete Zunyite crystal, a rare aluminum and fluor sorosilicate. The crystal, a tetrahedron beveled by the faces of the cube, has smooth and very well defined faces with a color between reddish and dark brown, with bright, laminar Hematite inclusions that make them different from the first Zunyite samples from Iran which arrived to the world of collectibles in Munich 2018.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2019, page 79
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (01/2019)

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59” × 0.59”

Zunyite with Hematite
 

MY77AM0: Floater pair of two Zunyite crystals, a rare aluminum sorosilicate-fluoride. These tetrahedral crystals, with edges beveled by cube faces, have well defined and smooth faces, a color between reddish and dark brown and lamellar Hematite inclusions, which makes it different from the first Zunyites from Iran that reached the collecting world at Munich 2018.
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (07/2019)

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 0.83” × 0.67” × 0.47”

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

Zunyite with Hematite. Front
Front
Zunyite with Hematite. Side
Side
Zunyite with Hematite
Zunyite with Hematite. Front
Front
Zunyite with Hematite. Rear
Rear
 

MR57AK9: Zunyite crystals, a rare aluminum sorosilicate and fluoride, two of them dominant. The crystals, of good size, are tetrahedral with beveled edges, have very well defined and smooth faces, are reddish-brown in color and have scaly Hematite inclusions, which distinguishes it from the first Zunyites from Iran that came to the world of collecting in Munich 2018..
This specimen was photographed for the 'Munich 2019' section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 66 of number 1/2020
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (07/2019)

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.7 × 1.7 cm = 0.83” × 0.67” × 0.67”

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

Zunyite with Hematite
 

MX37AK6: Zunyite crystal, a rare aluminum fluoride and sorosilicate, on matrix. The crystal, tetrahedral and bevelled by cube faces, has very defined and smooth reddish-brown faces, with dark lamellar inclusions of Hematite, which makes it different from the first Zunyites from Iran that came to the world of collecting in Munich 2018.
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (07/2019)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.87” × 0.59” × 0.47”

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

Zunyite with Hematite. Zunyite with Hematite.
Zunyite (triplet)
Zunyite (triplet). Front
Front
Zunyite (triplet). Side
Side
Zunyite (triplet). Side
Side
Zunyite (triplet). Side
Side

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EJA49AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Floater group of Zunyite crystals, a rare sorosilicate and fluoride of aluminum, that form interpenetration twins with the forms of a tetrahedron beveled by cube faces, very sharp and smooth, reddish to mauve in color.
The specimen comes from a modern find in the locality, which has already become a mineralogical classic.
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (05/2022)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.6 × 1.6 cm = 0.87” × 0.63” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.55”

Zunyite with Hematite
 

MK97AL8: Zunyite crystal, a rare aluminum fluoride-sorosilicate, on matrix. The tetrahedral crystal beveled by cube faces has very well defined and smooth faces, a color between reddish and dark brown and scaly inclusions of Hematite, which makes it different from the first Zunyites from Iran that reached the collecting world in 2018.
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (07/2019)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 3.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.30” × 1.26” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”

Zunyite with Hematite. Zunyite with Hematite.
Zunyite with Hematite
Zunyite with Hematite. Zunyite with Hematite.
 

MD93AL3: Zunyite crystal, a rare aluminum and fluorine sorosilicate, on matrix. The crystal, tetrahedral but beveled by cube faces, has very well defined and smooth faces, with a color between reddish and dark brown and with lamellar inclusions of Hematite which makes it different from the first Zunyites from Iran that arrived in the collectors‘ world at Munich 2018.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a reference for the Zunyite species in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 05/2020, page 9
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (07/2019)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.7 × 2 cm = 1.54” × 1.06” × 0.79”

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

Zunyite with Hematite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EFG96AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Zunyite crystal, a rare aluminum sorosilicate and fluoride, on matrix, isolated and very aerial, with the dominant forms of the tetrahedron, beveled by cube faces, with good luster, between reddish and dark brown in color and with lamellar inclusions of Hematite.
The specimen comes from a modern find at the locality, which has already become a mineralogical classic.
This specimen has been photographed and published in the Bulletin ‘MiniBul A.G.A.B.’ on page 10 of number 1/2023
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (05/2022)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.9 × 1.4 cm = 1.61” × 1.14” × 0.55”

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

Zunyite with Hematite. Zunyite with Hematite.
Zunyite with Hematite
Zunyite with Hematite. Zunyite with Hematite.
 

MV87AK6: Zunyite crystal, a rare aluminum fluoride and sorosilicate, on matrix. The crystal, tetrahedral and bevelled by cube faces, has very defined and smooth reddish-brown faces, with dark lamellar inclusions of Hematite, which makes it different from the first Zunyites from Iran that came to the world of collecting in Munich 2018.
Qalat-e Payeen salt dome, Bandar Abbas, Central District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province  Iran (07/2019)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.9 × 1.3 cm = 1.73” × 1.54” × 0.51”

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


Other localities

Willemite after Descloizite with Mimetite
 

MG57AC6: A novelty at Munich 2015. Arborescent growths of Willemite crystal pseudomorphous after Descloizite that, as a novelty, have partial coatings of small barrel-shaped Mimetite crystals with an intense reddish yellow color.
Chah Milleh Mine, Chah Milleh, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 6 × 3.9 × 2.7 cm = 2.36” × 1.54” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.3 cm = 0.67” × 0.51”

Mimetite fluorescent short UV
Willemite after Descloizite with Mimetite. Willemite after Descloizite with Mimetite.
Wulfenite
Wulfenite.
 

ME62AD3: Very aerial aggregate, with a small matrix, of very sharp platy crystals, one of them clearly dominant. They are translucent, very bright and have an extraordinarily vivid and intense red color.
Chah Kharboze Mine, Chah Kharboze, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 1.2 × 1.1 × 0.3 cm = 0.47” × 0.43” × 0.12”

Wulfenite
 

MW13AD3: Aggregate of very sharp platy crystals, translucent, very bright and have an extraordinarily vivid and intense red color.
Chah Kharboze Mine, Chah Kharboze, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 1.4 × 0.9 × 0.4 cm = 0.55” × 0.35” × 0.16”

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

Wulfenite.
Wulfenite
Wulfenite.
 

MF62AD3: Very aerial aggregate, on matrix, of very sharp platy crystals, translucent, very bright and have an extraordinarily vivid and intense red color.
Chah Kharboze Mine, Chah Kharboze, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 1.4 × 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.55” × 0.43” × 0.35”

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

Wulfenite
 

MX62AC6: A novelty at Munich 2015. Aggregate of very sharp and aerial tabular crystals. They are translucent, very bright and have an extraordinarily vivid and intense red color.
Chah Kharboze Mine, Chah Kharboze, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 1.4 × 1.3 × 0.9 cm = 0.55” × 0.51” × 0.35”

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

Wulfenite. Front
Front
Wulfenite. Rear
Rear
Wulfenite
Wulfenite.
 

MT62AD3: Very aerial aggregate, with a small matrix, of very sharp platy crystals, one of them clearly dominant. They are translucent, very bright and have an extraordinarily vivid and intense red color.
Chah Kharboze Mine, Chah Kharboze, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 1.4 × 1.4 × 0.6 cm = 0.55” × 0.55” × 0.24”

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

Wulfenite
 

MG88AL3: Group of highly profiled lamellar crystals of Wulfenite on matrix, very rich in crystalline forms, translucent, very bright and with an extremely vivid and intense red color.
Chah Kharboze Mine, Chah Kharboze, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (1966)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.1 × 1.1 cm = 1.02” × 0.83” × 0.43”

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

Wulfenite. Wulfenite.
Linarite with Cerussite
Linarite with Cerussite. Front
Front
Linarite with Cerussite. Rear
Rear
Linarite with Cerussite.
 

EA97AL6: Groups of Linarite crystals between elongated and acicular, lustrous and with a vivid blue color, on matrix, with lattice twins of white Cerussite crystals. The latter are weakly fluorescent under shortwave UV light. One of the best samples that we know of the few that have come from Iran.
Chah Kharboze Mine, Chah Kharboze, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.4 × 1.5 cm = 1.30” × 0.94” × 0.59”

Cerussite minor fluorescence short UV
Andradite (variety demantoid)
 

EF98AC6: Andradite (demantoid variety) crystals on matrix, two of them clearly dominant, with the forms of the trapezohedron, dodecahedron and cube. They are bright and have a very intense and deep green color.
Belqeys Mountain, Takab, West Azerbaijan Province  Iran (04-05/2015)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.5 × 2.4 cm = 1.69” × 1.38” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”

Andradite (variety demantoid). Andradite (variety demantoid).
Andradite (variety demantoid).
Andradite (variety demantoid) with Diopside
Andradite (variety demantoid) with Diopside. Andradite (variety demantoid) with Diopside.
 

TQ76AD9: Andradite (demantoid variety) crystals that are distinctly isolated. They display very well defined trapezohedral and dodecahedral forms and they are bright, and have a very intense and deep green color.
Belqeys Mountain, Takab, West Azerbaijan Province  Iran (03/2016)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.40” × 1.73” × 1.26”

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

Andradite (variety demantoid) with Diopside
 

EF99AH9: Parallel growth of two Andradite (demantoid variety) crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very large compared with the known samples, having the very well defined forms of the trapezohedron and the dodecahedron, with a very intense deep green color and on matrix.
Belqeys Mountain, Takab, West Azerbaijan Province  Iran (2017)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.5 × 1.7 cm = 1.89” × 1.38” × 0.67”

Andradite (variety demantoid) with Diopside. Andradite (variety demantoid) with Diopside.
Andradite (variety demantoid) with Diopside.
Andradite (variety demantoid) with Diopside
Andradite (variety demantoid) with Diopside. Andradite (variety demantoid) with Diopside.
 

TT27AD9: Andradite (demantoid variety) crystals that are distinctly isolated, one of them clearly dominant. They display very well defined trapezohedral and dodecahedral forms and they are bright and have a very intense and deep green color.
Belqeys Mountain, Takab, West Azerbaijan Province  Iran (03/2016)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.6 × 2.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.42” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.43” × 0.35”

Andradite (variety demantoid) with Diopside
 

TX92AD5: Andradite (demantoid variety) crystals, one of them clearly dominant and with a considerable sizefor this locality, showing the trapezohedron and dodecahedron. They are bright, have a very intense and deep green color and are on matrix.
Belqeys Mountain, Takab, West Azerbaijan Province  Iran (03/2016)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 4.7 × 4.2 cm = 2.83” × 1.85” × 1.65”

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

Andradite (variety demantoid) with Diopside. Andradite (variety demantoid) with Diopside.
Analcime
Analcime. Analcime.
 

EB16AF5: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2017. A single trapezohedral crystal on a rocky matrix that is translucent, very bright and has very well defined faces and edges, with polycrystalline growths. The color, orange-red, is selectively distributed over some of it’s faces.
Mount Kahovan, Moalleman, Qohab-e Rastaq, Amirabad District, Damghan, Torud Region, Semnan Province  Iran (2017)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.3 × 2.7 cm = 1.54” × 0.91” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.3 cm = 0.67” × 0.51”

Analcime
 

ED13AF5: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2017. A group, on a rocky matrix, of bright trapezohedral crystals that have very well defined faces and edges. The color, orange-red, is selectively distributed over some faces.
Mount Kahovan, Moalleman, Qohab-e Rastaq, Amirabad District, Damghan, Torud Region, Semnan Province  Iran (2017)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.9 × 3.2 cm = 1.77” × 1.54” × 1.26”

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

Analcime. Analcime.
Analcime
Analcime. Analcime.
 

EC16AF5: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2017. A group, on a rocky matrix, of bright trapezohedral crystals that have very well defined faces and edges and a very intense and uniform red color.
Mount Kahovan, Moalleman, Qohab-e Rastaq, Amirabad District, Damghan, Torud Region, Semnan Province  Iran (2017)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 5.1 × 2.2 cm = 2.17” × 2.01” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.43” × 0.35”

Analcime
 

EA66AF5: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2017. A single trapezohedral crystal on a rocky matrix that is translucent, very bright and has very well defined faces and edges. The color, orange-red, is selectively distributed over some of it’s faces.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2017 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 136, page 46
Mount Kahovan, Moalleman, Qohab-e Rastaq, Amirabad District, Damghan, Torud Region, Semnan Province  Iran (2017)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.2 × 4.3 cm = 2.24” × 1.65” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.55”

Analcime. Analcime.

JAPAN


Henmilite with Olshanskyite
Henmilite with Olshanskyite. Henmilite with Olshanskyite.
 

EF21C9: The most esthetic one, with the sharp Henmilite crystal standing up in one small pocket created on the mamiliary Olshanskyite.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan (2003)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.2 × 1.5 cm = 1.77” × 1.65” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 0.45 cm = 0.18”

Olshanskyite minor fluorescence long & short UV
Henmilite with Olshanskyite
Henmilite with Olshanskyite  

TZ97L5: Nice specimen from the type locality of this rare calcium copper borate. Henmilite shows well defined faces and edges with a deep blue color that contrasts with the white Olshanskyite matrix. Actually the access to the Fuka mine is strictly prohibited and controlled.
The specimen is accompanied by the label from the collection of the first specimen’s discoverer, with the handwritten notation of the date on which this specimen was extracted (February 2004). We will send the label to the buyer with this fine Henmilite.
The specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 57 in the volume 91, number 1, Jan/Feb 2016
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan (14/02/2004)

Specimen size: 6 × 3.8 × 3.5 cm = 2.36” × 1.50” × 1.38”

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

Olshanskyite minor fluorescence long & short UV
Henmilite with Olshanskyite. Front
Front
Henmilite with Olshanskyite. Rear
Rear
Henmilite with Olshanskyite.

SOUTH KOREA


Scheelite with Calcite
Scheelite with Calcite. Front
Front
Scheelite with Calcite. Side
Side
 

GV46P9: An esthetic miniature from a locality already historic. Its crystals have the dark tones typical of Korean samples, they have very well defined faces and edges and are very bright, with small coatings of white rhombohedral crystals of Calcite.
Tae Hwa Mine, Neungam-ri, Angseong-myeon, Chungju, Chungcheongbukdo  South Korea (±1985)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.8 × 2.4 cm = 1.26” × 1.10” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.63”

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV

Former collection of Pedro Goy. Number 358
Scheelite with Quartz, Ferberite, Pyrite and Muscovite
 

VC99Y5: Parallel growth of two very sharp dipyramidal Scheelite crystals, more translucent and with a clearer color than usual on the samples from Korea, and with the habitual paragenesis of the mine: Quartz, Ferberite, Pyrite, Muscovite.
Tae Hwa Mine, Neungam-ri, Angseong-myeon, Chungju, Chungcheongbukdo  South Korea

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.6 × 4.1 cm = 2.32” × 1.81” × 1.61”

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

Former collection of A. Mayor

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Scheelite with Quartz, Ferberite, Pyrite and Muscovite. Scheelite with Quartz, Ferberite, Pyrite and Muscovite.

PAKISTAN - AFGHANISTAN


Epidote
Epidote. Front
Front
Epidote. Rear
Rear
 

EB7S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. A floater crystal of green pistachio color, with very simple forms but with a very uncommon habit, the predominance of a very well developed frontal pinacoid that results in the crystal being really smooth.
Maldin Koh, Maldin, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2011)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 6.4 × 2.7 cm = 2.52” × 2.52” × 1.06”

Epidote
 

EC47S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. A floater crystal of green pistachio color, with very simple forms but with a very uncommon habit, the predominance of a very well developed frontal pinacoid that results in the crystal being really smooth.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 29 in number 2011/2
Maldin Koh, Maldin, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2011)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.9 × 4.6 cm = 2.80” × 2.72” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 3.2 cm = 1.73” × 1.26”

Epidote. Front
Front
Epidote. Rear
Rear
Anatase with Albite and Quartz
Anatase with Albite and Quartz.
Anatase with Albite and Quartz.
 

EP87K1: Parallel growth of two dipyramidal crystals with flat pinacoidal terminations. Their luster is very good and they are black with bluish reflections. On matrix, with small crystals of Quartz and Albite.
Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2006)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.2 × 3.8 cm = 2.13” × 1.26” × 1.50”

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

Anatase with Albite and Quartz
 

EP68K1: Parallel growth of four dipyramidal crystals with flat pinacoidal terminations. The crystal is black with bluish reflections. It is on a matrix of Quartz and Albite.

Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2006)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 2.7 × 2.2 cm = 2.17” × 1.06” × 0.87”

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

Anatase with Albite and Quartz.
Anatase with Albite and Quartz.
Anatase with Albite
Anatase with Albite.
Anatase with Albite.
 

EM17K1: Very acute dipyramidal crystals, two of them dominant, with excellent luster and a considerable transparency. They are brown, an unusual color for the species, and are on a matrix of small crystals of Albite.
Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2006)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3 × 2.3 cm = 2.28” × 1.18” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.4 cm = 0.31” × 0.16”

Brookite with Quartz
 

ED98J7: Miniature of excellent quality and very esthetic. It is a parallel growth of three flat prismatic crystals on Quartz matrix. The crystals are very sharp, with a perfect definition of their faces and edges and are bright and translucent.
Zard Mountain, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2005)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.9 × 1.2 cm = 1.06” × 0.75” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.55”

Brookite with Quartz.
Brookite with Quartz and Albite
Brookite with Quartz and Albite. Brookite with Quartz and Albite.
 

MC69X8: Group of Brookite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, that are very well defined and have uncommon sharp and flat terminations. They are on matrix, with Quartz and small Albite crystals.
Zard Mountain, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.4 × 2.6 cm = 1.77” × 1.34” × 1.02”

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

Former collection of Josep Amigó (Silvane)
Brookite on Quartz
 

EM83G4: A piece for a high quality collection. The parallel growth of flat, very big, Brookite crystals, gives the sensation of a unique crystal, of bigger size. The matrix is a group of Quartz crystals, the dominant one doubly terminated.
Zard Mountain, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (05/2005)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3 × 3.5 cm = 2.17” × 1.18” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.2 cm = 1.14” × 0.87”

Brookite on Quartz. Front
Front
Brookite on Quartz. Rear
Rear
Brookite on Quartz. Top
Top
Brookite with Quartz
Brookite with Quartz. Brookite with Quartz.
 

ME98Y0: Parallel aggregate of bright Brookite crystals with deep color and very well defined phantom growths. They are implanted on a matrix of Quartz crystals. More esthetic than usual for Kharan Brookites.
Zard Mountain, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.3 × 3.5 cm = 2.52” × 1.69” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.6 cm = 0.47” × 0.24”

Axinite-(Fe) with Albite
 

MD36AB8: Sharp Axinite-(Fe) crystals that are transparent, very bright, with a brown color and mauve shades and on a matrix with Albite crystals.
Nausherwani prospection, Char Kohan, Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 7.3 × 2.9 × 3.2 cm = 2.87” × 1.14” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.59” × 0.31”

Axinite-(Fe) with Albite. Axinite-(Fe) with Albite.
Brucite
Brucite.
 

NM47AE9: Botryoidal aggregates, on matrix, with some quite well defined (more than usual for the species) crystal faces and edges. Besides the good luster we note the special quality and intensity of the color, a uniform lemon yellow. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2016)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 4.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.69” × 1.65” × 0.63”

Brucite
 

MJ77AC6: A novelty at Munich 2015. Botryoidal aggregates, on matrix, of Brucite whose crystals are very well defined for the species. They are bright and have a color between yellow and white depending on the zones. With the Brucite, there are small white crystals that are either Hydromagnesite or Dypingite. When we have the definitive analyses we’ll notify the buyer.
This specimen was published in the magazine "Lapis" number 10/2016, page 9
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (08/2015)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 6.5 × 3.9 cm = 3.19” × 2.56” × 1.54”

Brucite. Brucite.
Brucite
Brucite. Brucite.
 

MC68AC6: A novelty at Munich 2015. Botryoidal aggregates, on matrix, of Brucite whose crystals are very well defined for the species. They are bright and have a color between yellow and white depending on the zones. With the Brucite, there are small white crystals that are either Hydromagnesite or Dypingite. When we have the definitive analyses we’ll notify the buyer.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a Munich 2015 new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 105 in the volume 47, number 1
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (08/2015)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 7 × 2.9 cm = 3.78” × 2.76” × 1.14”

Quartz with inclusion of Brookite and Rutile
 

LT68AK2: Groups of very elongated Brookite crystals, very sharp and of intense color, with epigenetic acicular Rutile crystals, as inclusions inside a bright and very clear colorless Quartz crystal. An excellent rarity. The sample is from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 1007), whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Taftan, Chagai District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2013)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.7 × 1.9 cm = 1.73” × 1.06” × 0.75”

Former collection of Philippe Morelon
Quartz with inclusion of Brookite and Rutile. Front
Front
Quartz with inclusion of Brookite and Rutile. Rear
Rear
Forsterite with Ludwigite
Forsterite with Ludwigite. Forsterite with Ludwigite.
 

TG87AL3: Crystal with very well defined faces and edges, gem quality, transparent, bright, with a very intense and uniform color ans with black needle inclusions of Ludwigite that are typical of this deposit.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Sapat Gali (Suppat), Naran, Kaghan Valley, Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.94” × 0.39” × 0.31”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Augite with Quartz and Mica
 

NC67AH1: A novelty at Tucson 2018. Very aerial parallel growth, of very sharp Augite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright and on matrix with Quartz crystals and mica blades.
Shalman area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan (04/2017)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3 × 1.9 cm = 1.34” × 1.18” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 1.7 cm = 1.30” × 0.67”

Augite with Quartz and Mica. Front
Front
Augite with Quartz and Mica. Rear
Rear
Bastnäsite-(Ce) on Calcite
Bastnäsite-(Ce) on Calcite. Front
Front
Bastnäsite-(Ce) on Calcite. Top
Top
 

EF27G1: An excellent miniature of this rare species. Crystal is tabular, of very intense color, good clarity and is very aerial on its matrix.
Zagi Mountain, Kafoor Dheri  Pakistan (2005)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.3 × 1.7 cm = 1.10” × 0.91” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.35” × 0.24”

Doubly terminated Bastnäsite-(Ce)
 

TL39H3: A jewel for an expert. Floater prismatic, doubly terminated crystal with very well defined flat faces of the pinacoid and the triangular faces of the dypyramid. Crystal is very transparent as the picture shows and has a magnificent tanned honey color.
Zagi Mountain, Kafoor Dheri  Pakistan (2005)

Specimen size: 2 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.28” × 0.24”

Doubly terminated Bastnäsite-(Ce). Front
Front
Doubly terminated Bastnäsite-(Ce). Top
Top
Smoky Quartz with Astrophyllite, Aegirine and Bastnäsite-(Ce)
Smoky Quartz with Astrophyllite, Aegirine and Bastnäsite-(Ce). Smoky Quartz with Astrophyllite, Aegirine and Bastnäsite-(Ce).
Smoky Quartz with Astrophyllite, Aegirine and Bastnäsite-(Ce). Smoky Quartz with Astrophyllite, Aegirine and Bastnäsite-(Ce).
 

TN54Q7: A complete crystal of Quartz with multiple lower terminations and inclusions of acicular crystals of Astrophyllite plus fine isolated and grouped crystals of Aegirine. A sharp translucent tabular crystal of Bastnäsite-(Ce) is esthetically positioned on the Quartz.
Zagi Mountain, Kafoor Dheri  Pakistan (2005)

Specimen size: 12.3 × 10.8 × 7.8 cm = 4.84” × 4.25” × 3.07”

Main crystal size: 9.2 × 8 cm = 3.62” × 3.15”

Ilmenite
 

TX56AI0: Very sharp tabular Ilmenite crystal with a predominant and very well developed pinacoid. It has fine growth striations and is very bright.
We’ll send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.4 × 0.1 cm = 0.83” × 0.55” × 0.04”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Ilmenite. Ilmenite.
Doubly terminated Diopside
Doubly terminated Diopside. Front
Front
Doubly terminated Diopside. Side
Side
 

EB96G3: A prismatic crystal, doubly terminated, transparent and of a good color. It crosses through a thin matrix of Quartz. Certainly original.
Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (04/2005)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.1 × 4.6 cm = 1.85” × 0.83” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.83” × 0.31”

Doubly terminated Diopside with Albite
 

EH30AF9: Parallel growth of very sharp and doubly terminated transparent Diopside crystals that are very bright with an intense green color and a small white Albite crystal attached.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 5.7 × 2.2 × 1 cm = 2.24” × 0.87” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 1.5 cm = 1.30” × 0.59”

Doubly terminated Diopside with Albite. Front
Front
Doubly terminated Diopside with Albite. Rear
Rear
Clinozoisite-Epidote (Series)
Clinozoisite-Epidote (Series). Front
Front
Clinozoisite-Epidote (Series). Rear
Rear
Clinozoisite-Epidote (Series)  

ND27AJ9: A complete floater crystal with flat recrystallization surfaces at the base. It is flattened with parallel growths, rich in terminal faces, very bright, transparent and has a very intense, deep and uniform color.
The sample is from the Ignacio Hernández collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.2 × 0.5 cm = 1.73” × 0.87” × 0.20”

Former collection of Ignacio Hernández
Epidote with Diopside and Albite
 

TT76H3: An elegant growth of prismatic, transparent crystals of Epidote on a dense group of Diopside crystals enhanced by white Albite crystallizations.
This specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 522 in the volume 37, number 6
Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Skardu  Pakistan (2005)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.2 × 3.1 cm = 2.68” × 1.65” × 1.22”

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

Epidote with Diopside and Albite.
Epidote with Diopside and Albite.
Diopside with Calcite
Diopside with Calcite.
Diopside with Calcite. Diopside with Calcite.
 

TL96X7: Parallel growths, with a very pronounced curvature, of crystals showing very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminations. The crystals are translucent, very bright and have a very deep green color. They are on matrix, with transparent Calcite and white small Albite . It is really a nice and special miniature.
Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Skardu  Pakistan

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.7 × 3.2 cm = 2.44” × 1.85” × 1.26”

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

Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV
Diopside with Quartz
 

EY47W7: Aggregate on matrix of crystals with very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminations. They are translucent, very bright and have a deep and uniform green color.
Apo Ali Gun, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2010)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 5.3 × 3.7 cm = 3.11” × 2.09” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.5 cm = 0.87” × 0.59”

Diopside with Quartz. Front
Front
Diopside with Quartz. Side
Side
Titanite with Chlorite
Titanite with Chlorite. Front
Front
Titanite with Chlorite. Side
Side
 

MN26AM7: Very aerial group of sharp Titanite crystals, transparent, with bright luster and an intense green color, with areas rich in Chlorite inclusions.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Tormiq Valley, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 1.26” × 0.71” × 0.67”

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

Former collection of Bob Noble
Quartz
 

TP26F0: Exsolution? Interrupted growth? There is some doubt about how this beautiful, floater Quartz formed. It has irregular crystalline forms with some flat faces, especially the rhombohedra near the tips. Very unusual.
Tormiq Valley, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu District, Baltistan  Pakistan (06/2003)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 2.8 × 3 cm = 2.80” × 1.10” × 1.18”

Quartz.
Quartz (variety smoky) on Feldspar
Quartz (variety smoky) on Feldspar. Front
Front
Quartz (variety smoky) on Feldspar. Side
Side
Quartz (variety smoky) on Feldspar.
 

TR88AB3: Complete doubly terminated Quartz crystal on a white platy Feldspar matrix. It has very well defined left-oriented faces and exhibits Dauphiné twinning. Very esthetic due its aerial position on the Feldspar matrix.
The specimen has been published in the magazine ‘extraLAPIS’ on page 22, number 53, "Zwillinge"
Chhappu, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 5.3 × 4.7 cm = 3.23” × 2.09” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 7.8 × 4.2 cm = 3.07” × 1.65”

Feldspar fluorescent short UV
Ilmenite
 

TL26: Luster and attractive form, this Ilmenite looks much more esthetic than other specimens of this species. Plus the minor white Albite makes a nice contrast.
Tormiq Valley, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu District, Baltistan  Pakistan

Specimen size: 3 × 2.2 × 2 cm = 1.18” × 0.87” × 0.79”

Ilmenite.
Herderite with Albite
Herderite with Albite. Front
Front
Herderite with Albite. Side
Side
 

MF27K6: One of the novelties of Munich this year. Crystals are dipyramidal, have very well defined faces and edges, a considerable size, an attractive yellowish color, an excellent luster and are partially covered by a matrix of small Albite crystals.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2007 Munich Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 78, page 37.
Sassi, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu, Baltistan  Pakistan (08/2007)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.1 × 3.7 cm = 2.48” × 1.61” × 1.46”

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

Intense fluorescence long & short UV
Titanite
 

EM13N8: Several crystals, one of them clearly dominant, and showing the typical Titanite twinning. They are on matrix, and have excellent luster and a nice green color.
Yuno, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (±2007)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 1.57” × 1.26” × 0.98”

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

Titanite.
Titanite on Calcite
Titanite on Calcite.
Titanite on Calcite.
 

VM47G0: Group of flat crystals, with an excellent rich green color and intense brilliance on a matrix of Calcite crystals.
Haramosh Mountains, Skardu, Baltistan  Pakistan

Specimen size: 7 × 4.4 × 4.3 cm = 2.76” × 1.73” × 1.69”

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

Calcite fluorescent short UV
Chromium-rich Diopside
 

TB91: A doubly terminated (although the terminations are not that sharp) powerful Diopside chromium rich. Great color and luster, a floater and complete on all sides.
Haramosh Mountains, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (02/2001)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 2 cm = 2.68” × 0.79”

Chromium-rich Diopside. Front
Front
Chromium-rich Diopside. Top
Top
Zircon with Calcite and Mica
Zircon with Calcite and Mica.
 

MF36K4: A novelty from Munich 2007. Excellent miniature with two dipyramidal crystals of very well defined faces and edges and great color, transparency and luster. On Calcite matrix with small crystals of Mica.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a reference for the Zircon species in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 06/2023, page 44
Astor Valley, Astor District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2007)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.9 × 1.1 cm = 0.91” × 0.75” × 0.43”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV
Ferro-actinolite
 

TM46G0: Two prismatic crystals with a very good definition of forms, in which the terminal faces have a good development, a very unusual feature. At the same time the crystals are aerial, standing out on the matrix.
Astor Valley, Astor District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2000)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.3 × 4.2 cm = 1.77” × 1.30” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 2 cm = 1.50” × 0.79”

Ferro-actinolite.
Doubly terminated faden Quartz with Chlorite inclusions
Doubly terminated faden Quartz with Chlorite inclusions. Front
Front
Doubly terminated faden Quartz with Chlorite inclusions. Rear
Rear
 

EL96X0: Very sharp flattened parallel growth of quartz crystals that are transparent, very bright and with a neatly visible "faden" growth that crosses it tip to tip. With minor green inclusions, probably of Chlorite.
Dara Ismael Khan, South Waziristan  Pakistan

Specimen size: 11.6 × 3.4 × 2.4 cm = 4.57” × 1.34” × 0.94”

Former collection of Claus Hedegaard. Number 12935-2
Forsterite (Peridot)
 

TH16H3: The crystal has a good degree of transparency and an excellent color. Faces and edges are more sharp than usual for the samples from the locality. Its position on a little matrix enhances the esthetic effect.
Suppat, Manshera, Kohistan  Pakistan (2005)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.7 × 2.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.67” × 0.87”

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

Forsterite (Peridot).
Hambergite with Albite
Hambergite with Albite. Hambergite with Albite.
Hambergite with Albite.
 

TM89AD5: Single and very aerial crystal of this very uncommon borate. It has very well defined faces and edges and is colorless, translucent and bright and it is on matrix. A Hambergite of exceptional quality.
Chamachu, Haramosh Mountains, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (12/2015)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.2 × 2 cm = 2.68” × 2.05” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.20”

Octahedral Fluorite with Quartz
 

TT96H9: Octahedral crystal of very well defined faces and edges of deep green color. We specially note the esthetic position of the crystal on the Quartz matrix.
Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4 × 3.8 cm = 2.09” × 1.57” × 1.50”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV
Octahedral Fluorite with Quartz. Front
Front
Octahedral Fluorite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Fluorite with Muscovite
Fluorite with Muscovite. Front
Front
Fluorite with Muscovite. Side
Side
 

MD99K6: One of the novelties of Munich this year. A group of octahedral crystal of sharp faces and edges, of deep pink color and on a Muscovite matrix.
Nagar, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (09-10/2007)

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

Zoned fluorescence short UV
Fluorite with Muscovite
 

MB29N6: Cuboctahedral crystal with polycrystalline growths on its faces. It has an abundant variety of internal colors and a residual matrix of Muscovite.
Nagar, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2008)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 6.5 × 6 cm = 2.64” × 2.56” × 2.36”

Fluorite with Muscovite. Front
Front
Fluorite with Muscovite. Side
Side
Beryllonite
Beryllonite. Front
Front
Beryllonite. Side
Side
 

EP69M8: Parallel aggregate of doubly terminated crystals, translucent and white. Excellent sample of this rare species.
Nagar, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2008)

Specimen size: 7 × 4 × 2.6 cm = 2.76” × 1.57” × 1.02”

Fluorescent short UV
Grossular with Calcite
 

NB11F7: The crystals of Grossular have not developed completely, but their brilliance and definition are very attractive and the contrast with the white Calcite gives the whole thing a neat esthetic look.
Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (1997)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.9 × 3.7 cm = 2.09” × 1.93” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.87” × 0.79”

Grossular with Calcite.
Spodumene (variety kunzite)
Spodumene (variety kunzite). Front
Front
Spodumene (variety kunzite). Rear
Rear
 

LB10F6: The crystal has excellent color, is quite transparent and has very well- defined faces. A small area in the center where there was a contact does not detract from the attractiveness of this quite large specimen.
From the David Lucas collection (no. 218) and it comes with his label.
Nuristan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 10.2 × 3.8 × 1.5 cm = 4.02” × 1.50” × 0.59”

Intense fluorescence long & short UV
Spodumene with Quartz and Albite
 

MD16L7: Doubly terminated Spodumene crystal with very sharp faces that is not so common for the species. Transparency and color are excellent. The matrix with Quartz and Albite makes an attractive display specimen.
The sample has been noted and photographed in the monograph "Afghan Pegmatites" of the Mineralogical Record magazine on page 664 in the volume 48, number 5, September-October 2017
Mawi Pegmatite, Nilaw-Kolum, Du Ab District, Nuristan Province  Afghanistan (±1990)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 4 × 3.5 cm = 4.21” × 1.57” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 10.7 × 4 cm = 4.21” × 1.57”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Spodumene with Quartz and Albite. Front
Front
Spodumene with Quartz and Albite. Rear
Rear
Spodumene with Quartz and Albite. Side
Side
Tantalite-(Mn) with Calcite
Tantalite-(Mn) with Calcite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NB88AI4: Single partially doubly terminated brown Manganotantalite crystal with reddish reflections and well defined faces and edges. On a Quartz matrix. The sample has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Kantiwa pegmatite, Wama District (Vama District), Nuristan Province  Afghanistan (09/2017)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4 × 3.7 cm = 2.60” × 1.57” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 5.8 × 2.7 cm = 2.28” × 1.06”

Pollucite with Albite and Elbaite
 

EP73T8: An individual crystal of Pollucite of exceptional size, dodecahedral, with very well defined faces and edges, on an Albite matrix with small yellowish green crystals of Elbaite. A sample worthy of any great collection.
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 11.3 × 9 × 9.5 cm = 4.45” × 3.54” × 3.74”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Pollucite with Albite and Elbaite. Front
Front
Pollucite with Albite and Elbaite. Rear
Rear
Fluorapatite
Fluorapatite. Fluorapatite.
 

TD66AL4: Matrix group of short prismatic Fluorapatite crystals, most of them doubly terminated, translucent, with a deep violet color and good luster.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Dara-i-Pech pegmatite, Chapa Dara District, Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.87” × 0.63”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Bob Noble
Pollucite with Albite
 

EZ92Y6: Single crystal with very well defined faces and edges of the trapezohedron and the dodecahedron. It is unusually transparent and on a matrix of crystallized Albite. A magnificent sample of a species difficult to obtain in crystals of such high quality.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.5 × 2.3 cm = 2.28” × 1.77” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 3.1 cm = 1.30” × 1.22”

Albite minor fluorescence short UV
Pollucite with Albite. Pollucite with Albite.
Spodumene (Kunzite) doubly terminated
Spodumene (Kunzite) doubly terminated. Front
Front
Spodumene (Kunzite) doubly terminated. Top
Top
Spodumene (Kunzite) doubly terminated. Bottom
Bottom
 

ME37E9: A prismatic crystal that is a neat pink color, doubly-terminated, a floater, with a complex upper termination that has a rough look due to the recrystallization, and the bottom end has inclined faces. It is very clearly a twin on a plane that is parallel to the front face. There is also some associated Schorl. Really cute.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan (2003)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.6 × 2.2 cm = 1.97” × 1.42” × 0.87”

Fluorescent long UV
Spodumene (variety kunzite) with Albite
Spodumene (variety kunzite) with Albite  

ER90AI7: Floater parallel pair of doubly-terminated Spodumene (kunzite variety) crystals with very sharp faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, with an intense color and with an associated small group of white Albite crystals.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan (±2004)

Specimen size: 13.2 × 2.9 × 1.7 cm = 5.20” × 1.14” × 0.67”

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV

Former collection of Raúl Sanabria
Spodumene (variety kunzite) with Albite. Front
Front
Spodumene (variety kunzite) with Albite. Rear
Rear
Phlogopite with Calcite
Phlogopite with Calcite. Phlogopite with Calcite.
Phlogopite with Calcite  

TA16AJ0: Single crystal that has an elongated prismatic shape and very well defined faces and edges. It is transparent, bright, has a very intense honey color and is on a marble matrix. The crystal has curious “interruptions” and deviations due to tectonic effects.
The sample is from the John S. White mineral reserve (reg. 26-5-1), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.2 × 2.8 cm = 2.01” × 1.65” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 0.9 cm = 1.06” × 0.35”

John S. White mineral reserve
Lazurite (lapis lazuli variety) with Calcite
 

MH86AI5: Dodecahedral Lazurite crystal with very well defined faces and edges, with a very deep and uniform color and on a Calcite matrix.
The sample is from the Carles Manresa collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Ladjuar Medam, Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.3 × 5.1 cm = 2.09” × 1.69” × 2.01”

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

Former collection of Carles Manresa
Lazurite (lapis lazuli variety) with Calcite. Lazurite (lapis lazuli variety) with Calcite.
Afghanite
Afghanite.
 

TM68D8: We waited a while before offering Afghanites on our web site. Ones we have seen before were either two expensive, not very esthetic, or a pale color. Finally we were able to locate the examples we were looking for: very esthetic, aerial crystals, intensely colored, perfect, and not too highly priced. A definitive sample, with a large main crystal standing well out from the matrix and accompanied by another small crystal. It all stands out well from the white Calcite matrix.
Sar-e Sang, Koksha, Khash  Afghanistan (2001)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.61” × 0.91” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.98” × 0.43”

Spodumene with Fluorapatite
 

TR90E4: Two parallel crystal of Spodumene, which are floaters, doubly terminated, have good transparency, are of an unusual greenish yellow color, and have a particular feature: they are associated with and partially covered by small crystals of Fluorapatite, which has good color itself. The upper tips of the Spodumenes are very well defined.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan (2003)

Specimen size: 12.2 × 3.2 × 2.9 cm = 4.80” × 1.26” × 1.14”

Fluorapatite fluorescent long UV
Spodumene fluorescent short UV
Spodumene with Fluorapatite. Front
Front
Spodumene with Fluorapatite. Side
Side
Spodumene with Fluorapatite.
Spodumene (variety kunzite) with Albite and Elbaite
Spodumene (variety kunzite) with Albite and Elbaite. Front
Front
Spodumene (variety kunzite) with Albite and Elbaite. Side
Side
Spodumene (variety kunzite) with Albite and Elbaite. Top
Top
 

MB92W5: Isolated crystal of Spodumene (Kunzite variety), on Albite matrix. The faces and edges of the prism are very well defined and the termination of the crystal is typically polycrystalline and rough. The Kunzite is very bright and shows an especially dense and uniform color. We note that samples of Spodumene on matrix are quite unusual.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 12.9 × 9.3 × 7.5 cm = 5.08” × 3.66” × 2.95”

Main crystal size: 8 × 6 cm = 3.15” × 2.36”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Schorl with Mica
 

ED68F4: Attractive group of numerous, very brilliant crystals that have sharply defined faces on their terminations. These are supported by a matrix of Muscovite and Limonite concretions. It is a floater specimen.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.7 × 5.5 cm = 2.95” × 2.24” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.1 cm = 0.51” × 0.43”

Schorl with Mica.
Schorl with Mica.
Corundum (variety ruby)
Corundum (variety ruby). Front
Front
Corundum (variety ruby). Side
Side
Corundum (variety ruby). Side
Side
 

TP56Z7: Aggregate of crystals with very well defined faces and edges and their pinacoidal termination is very well developed. They are between translucent and transparent, and have a very vivid, intense and uniform color.
Jagdalek Mine, Surobi, Kabul  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 1.5 × 0.8 × 1.1 cm = 0.59” × 0.31” × 0.43”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV
Corundum with Calcite
 

EH49W7: Sharp thick tabular spinel-twinned crystal. It is uniformly translucent, with an intense and uniform red color and it is on a Calcite matrix.
Jagdalek Mine, Surobi, Kabul  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.4 × 2 cm = 1.89” × 1.34” × 0.79”

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

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Corundum with Calcite. Front
Front
Corundum with Calcite. Top
Top
Winchite
Winchite. Front
Front
Winchite. Side
Side
 

EQ87R3: Translucent bright individual crystal of very sharp crystalline forms and a very considerable size. This species, in the subclass of the inosilicates, is rare, especially in crystals of this size and quality.
Koksha pegmatite field, Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan (±2004)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3.1 × 1.8 cm = 1.34” × 1.22” × 0.71”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Sodalite (variety hackmanite) with Winchite
 

TH97E1: This is an excellent Hackmanite (a variety of Sodalite) with large crystal size, well defined, and magnificent color. It is also well positioned on the Matrix of Winchite, which gives great contrast. As is usual the fluorescence is great. It is a floater.
Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan (2001)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.9 × 3.8 cm = 1.54” × 1.54” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2.1 cm = 0.87” × 0.83”

Extremely fluorescent long & short UV
Sodalite (variety hackmanite) with Winchite. Front
Front
Sodalite (variety hackmanite) with Winchite. Top
Top
Marialite-Meionite (Scapolite Group)
Marialite-Meionite (Scapolite Group).
 

DR59I1: The gemmy quality of this miniature is surprising, both for its transparency and its esthetic color. We also note the definition of faces and edges of the prismatic crystal.
Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan (2004)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.67” × 0.28” × 0.24”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Phenakite
 

MJ56AF2: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Doubly terminated and complete Phenakite crystal with a small feldspar (probably Albite) matrix. The crystal has the finely striated faces of a main prism, the smooth surfaces of a secondary prism, and the rough terminal rhombohedron. An excellent thumbnail of a species that is very uncommon at Afghanistan.
The specimen has been photographed and published as a novelty in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2017, page 69
Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan (08/2016)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.9 × 2.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.75” × 0.87”

Phenakite.

Beryl

Beryl (variety aquamarine)
Beryl (variety aquamarine). Beryl (variety aquamarine).
 

MQ46AM6: Beryl crystal (aquamarine variety) with very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminations, extraordinarily transparent and lustrous, with a pale sky-blue color. Its interior houses a curious cross-shaped crystalline inclusion for which we cannot determine the mineral species. We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.1 × 0.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.83” × 0.20” × 0.12”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with inclusions, Schorl and Albite
 

MB48AJ1: Beryl crystal (aquamarine variety) very rich with terminal faces, transparent, bright, with inclusions, with a uniform greenish blue color and on matrix with Albite, Schorl and leafy aggregates of Muscovite crystals.
Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 4.2 × 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 1.65” × 0.55” × 0.51”

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

Feldspar fluorescent short UV
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with inclusions, Schorl and Albite. Front
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with inclusions, Schorl and Albite. Rear
Rear
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with inclusions, Schorl and Albite. Side
Side
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite. Front
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite. Rear
Rear
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite. Top
Top
 

TB96J8: Prismatic crystal of excellent color and very transparent which is terminated with the faces of the pyramid and the pinacoid. On an Albite matrix.
Yuno, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2006)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.5 × 2.9 cm = 1.85” × 0.98” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 1.1 cm = 1.77” × 0.43”

Beryl (variety aquamarine) with feldspar and Schorl
 

ER47K1: Crystal formed by the hexagonal prism and the terminal faces of two pyramids and a very small pinacoidal face. Transparency and luster are magnificent and the sample is very esthetic due to its included small crystals of Schorl and to the Albite matrix.
Yuno, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (03/2007)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.6 × 3.3 cm = 1.85” × 1.81” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 1.1 cm = 1.61” × 0.43”

Feldspar low fluorescence long & short UV
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with feldspar and Schorl. Front
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with feldspar and Schorl. Top
Top
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Feldspar, Mica and Schorl
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Feldspar, Mica and Schorl. Front
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Feldspar, Mica and Schorl. Rear
Rear
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Feldspar, Mica and Schorl. Top
Top
 

MK99AE7: Very aerial Beryl (aquamarine variety) with very well defined faces and edges and excellent terminal pinacoid and pyramid faces. It is very clear, bright, has a uniform greenish-blue color and on an Albite matrix with Schorl and Muscovite crystals.
Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.4 × 4.8 cm = 2.17” × 1.73” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 1.5 cm = 1.46” × 0.59”

Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Muscovite and Quartz
 

MZ7AF0: Complete Beryl crystal (aquamarine variety), partially doubly terminated, clear and bright with a pale blue color and on a Quartz matrix, with Muscovite.
Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (06/2016)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 3.4 × 3 cm = 2.48” × 1.34” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 4.9 × 1.1 cm = 1.93” × 0.43”

Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Muscovite and Quartz. Front
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Muscovite and Quartz. Rear
Rear
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite and Muscovite
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite and Muscovite. Front
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite and Muscovite. Rear
Rear
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite and Muscovite. Top
Top
 

MV90L1: Doubly terminated crystal incredibly transparent and clear, without noticeable inclusions. No internal fractures that could cast a shadow over transparency. Upper pinacoidal termination is totally clear and transparent. The bottom termination forms a well defined face, but translucent. On an Albite matrix with laminar Muscovite crystals. Very elegant.
Nyet Bruk, Braldu Valley, Baltistan  Pakistan (2007)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 1.2 × 0.8 cm = 2.64” × 0.47” × 0.31”

Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Orthoclase
 

MF99AF8: Doubly terminated Beryl (aquamarine variety) crystals. They are very clear, have a very uniform blue color and are on a curious matrix, a white and very sharp floater Orthoclase crystal with small Quartz crystals.
Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (06/2016)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.5 × 3.7 cm = 2.76” × 2.17” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 1.6 cm = 1.42” × 0.63”

Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Orthoclase. Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Orthoclase.
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite, Muscovite and Spessartine
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite, Muscovite and Spessartine. Front
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite, Muscovite and Spessartine. Rear
Rear
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Albite, Muscovite and Spessartine.
 

LL93AK0: Beryl crystals (variety aquamarine) with very good definition of the faces and edges, transparent, bright with an attractive light blue color with shades of green and good terminal faces, partially coated by white Albite crystals and with a small Spessartine crystal and a leafy Muscovite aggregate. The specimen, very aesthetic, is from the collection of Philippe Morelon (number 709) whose label, which includes more information on the back, we will send to the buyer.
Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 7.4 × 2.6 × 2.7 cm = 2.91” × 1.02” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 7.2 × 0.8 cm = 2.83” × 0.31”

Former collection of Philippe Morelon
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Schorl and Albite
 

MG92S3: Doubly terminated crystal of Beryl (Aquamarine) with parallel growths and completely transparent areas. It has excellent luster and color, clear and uniform between sky blue and green, on matrix of Albite with associated crystals of Schorl.
Yuno, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 10.1 × 2.7 × 2.4 cm = 3.98” × 1.06” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 10.1 × 1.5 cm = 3.98” × 0.59”

Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Schorl and Albite. Front
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Schorl and Albite. Top
Top
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Schorl and Albite. Bottom
Bottom
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Muscovite and Quartz
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Muscovite and Quartz. Front
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Muscovite and Quartz. Side
Side
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Muscovite and Quartz. Side
Side
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Muscovite and Quartz. Top
Top

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EA26AL8: Parallel growth of very sharp Beryl crystals (aquamarine variety), translucent, very shiny and with an intense sky-blue color. Partially covered with lamellar Muscovite crystals and with white Quartz crystals. The back shows the matrix contact recrystallization of what appears to be some missing Feldspar.
Nagar, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 12.4 × 8.6 × 4.7 cm = 4.88” × 3.39” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 8.1 × 5.4 cm = 3.19” × 2.13”

Beryl (variety morganite) with Quartz
 

MM37M0: Really nice Morganite crystal with a considerable size. Some of side faces are partially peppered and covered by small Quartz crystals. Exceptional color especially notable when you contrast the specimen with a white background. A museum specimen.
Mawi Pegmatite, Nilaw-Kolum, Du Ab District, Nuristan Province  Afghanistan (±1990)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 8 × 4 cm = 4.06” × 3.15” × 1.57”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Beryl (variety morganite) with Quartz. Front
Front
Beryl (variety morganite) with Quartz. Top
Top

Elbaite (Tourmaline)

Elbaite with Quartz
Elbaite with Quartz.
 

TH26F2: Over the length of the prism and perpendicular to it you can see a range of different zones of green. The crystal, which is perfectly terminated by three faces of a rhombohedron, is well placed on the Quartz matrix.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan (2003)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.2 × 1.5 cm = 1.02” × 0.87” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 0.5 cm = 0.91” × 0.20”

Doubly terminated Elbaite with Quartz
 

TR56I7: A curious prismatic crystal on matrix. It has a slight bend made when it was growing. The zone of torsion coincides with the change of color from green to red. The crystal is doubly terminated but one of the terminations, pinacoidal, is smooth while the other one is not so clear.
Dara-i-Pech pegmatite, Chapa Dara District, Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan (2005)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.6 × 1.5 cm = 1.69” × 1.42” × 0.59”

Doubly terminated Elbaite with Quartz.
Elbaite
Elbaite. Front
Front
Elbaite. Rear
Rear
Elbaite. Top
Top
 

MR67M5: A novelty from the Munich Show 2008. Out of the velvety terminations of these remarkable Elbaite crystals rise three transparent light green "walls," very much resembling the Mercedes emblem when you look down the length of the crystal. The trigonal symmetry of Tourmaline is evident in this rare display of crystal capriciousness.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘what’s new at Munich 2008’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 13 of number 1/2009.
Chamachu, Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu, Baltistan  Pakistan (09/2008)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.2 × 1.7 cm = 1.85” × 0.87” × 0.67”

Elbaite with Albite (variety cleavelandite)
 

MZ47AA8: Very well defined crystals, translucent, bright, with transparent terminations, with a very well defined color zoning and on a matrix of white laminar Albite (cleavelandite variety) crystals.
Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu, Baltistan  Pakistan (05/2014)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.6 × 4.8 cm = 1.85” × 1.81” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 1.8 cm = 1.46” × 0.71”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Elbaite with Albite (variety cleavelandite). Front
Front
Elbaite with Albite (variety cleavelandite). Top
Top
Elbaite with 'lepidolite'
Elbaite with 'lepidolite'.
 

TC16H8: The prismatic crystals, very transparent and of an attractive green color, have their terminations hidden by the crystals of the matrix of 'lepidolite', which is very well defined and of a nice color, between pink and mauve.
Nuristan Province  Afghanistan (2005)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.8 × 2.9 cm = 2.09” × 1.50” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 0.5 cm = 0.91” × 0.20”

Elbaite with 'lepidolite'
 

ET96AD8: Radial aggregates of translucent Elbaite crystals. They have a silky luster and pale green color and are on matrix, with white laminar crystals of an indeterminate mica of the 'lepidolite'
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.6 × 2.7 cm = 1.50” × 1.42” × 1.06”

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

Elbaite with 'lepidolite'. Front
Front
Elbaite with 'lepidolite'. Rear
Rear
Elbaite (Tourmaline) with Albite
Elbaite (Tourmaline) with Albite.
 

T89NY: Bi-colored Elbaite with Albite. A lovely apple green color in this red-green bi-colored Elbaite. With a small Albite rosette on the top, making it an even more beautiful specimen.
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province  Afghanistan (09/00)

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

Elbaite (Tourmaline)
 

TH2635: Good size, the tip of the crystal is very gemmy and the best delicate green tone. Recrystallized on the base. A superb specimen!
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province  Afghanistan (2002)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 1.5 × 0.9 cm = 3.35” × 0.59” × 0.35”

Elbaite (Tourmaline).
Elbaite (variety rubellite)
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Front
Front
Elbaite (variety rubellite). Top
Top
 

TD16F3: A large prismatic crystal, very gemmy, and with a good mix of especially attractive red tones that show very noticeable zoning. The very sharp rhombohedral faces of the tip show intense brilliance and are especially gemmy. The base is recrystallized. Really esthetic.
Dara-i-Pech pegmatite, Chapa Dara District, Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan (2004)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 3.35” × 0.67” × 0.63”

Doubly terminated Elbaite
 

MF46AA8: Floater crystal with a considerable length, doubly terminated, with parallel growths in one termination, transparent and showing very well defined color zoning with dominant green, pink and yellowish areas. Near one of the ends there is a small Quartz crystal.
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province  Afghanistan (05/2014)

Specimen size: 15 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 5.91” × 0.71” × 0.47”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Doubly terminated Elbaite. Front
Front
Doubly terminated Elbaite. Side
Side
Doubly terminated Elbaite. Rear
Rear
Doubly terminated Elbaite. Top
Top
Doubly terminated Elbaite (variety indicolite)
Doubly terminated Elbaite (variety indicolite). Front
Front
Doubly terminated Elbaite (variety indicolite). Rear
Rear
 

EC99G5: Prismatic crystal is terminated with the three faces, very sharp, of the rhombohedron. Blue color and excellent transparency, which is adequately shown by the picture.
Dara-i-Pech pegmatite, Chapa Dara District, Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan (2004)

Specimen size: 6 × 1 × 0.9 cm = 2.36” × 0.39” × 0.35”


Clinozoisite

The difference between Epidote and Clinozoisite is their chemical composition (more Aluminum in Clinozoisite, more Iron in Epidote) and no other difference (i.e. color, shape or even x-ray tests) will allow you to identify them. Only a detailed quantitative chemical analysis will allow you to separate them. Plus, it is necessary to analyze specimens from each pocket found to see if it contained Clinozoisite or Epidote.

Based on our analyses these are Clinozoisites and they are excellent, very gemmy, with a nice color, and sharp edges.

Clinozoisite with Calcite
 

MB67L1: Parallel growth of two crystals with multiple and transparent terminations, with a very deep green color. On the Clinozoisite crystals we can see small white Calcite crystals. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Skardu  Pakistan (2007)

Specimen size: 11 × 1.8 × 0.8 cm = 4.33” × 0.71” × 0.31”

With analysis copy
Clinozoisite with Calcite. Front
Front
Clinozoisite with Calcite. Rear
Rear
Clinozoisite
Clinozoisite. Front
Front
Clinozoisite. Front
Front
Clinozoisite. Rear
Rear
 

TH27AL5: Group of very sharp Clinozoisite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, transparent, very bright and with an intense and uniform brownish green color.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.6 × 1.4 cm = 1.34” × 1.02” × 0.55”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Clinozoisite
 

TJ58D1: Bottom recrystallized.
Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Skardu  Pakistan (09/2002)

Specimen size: 7 × 2.3 × 1.2 cm = 2.76” × 0.91” × 0.47”

Clinozoisite.
Clinozoisite with Calcite and Byssolite
Clinozoisite with Calcite and Byssolite. Front
Front
Clinozoisite with Calcite and Byssolite. Top
Top
 

EA97G1: An exceptional prismatic crystal on matrix of this species, with Calcite and Byssolite, which one of the ends of the crystal changes to. The compositional difference between Epidote and Clinozoisite is very little. Only by an individual quantitative analysis of percent of Aluminium and Iron can determine the real specie. We will deliver to the buyer a copy of the analysis.
Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu, Baltistan  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.97” × 1.77” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 5 × 2.6 cm = 1.97” × 1.02”


THAILAND


Mimetite on Quartz
 

MG46AA9: Aggregates and single Mimetite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with very well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a Quartz matrix. From a locality that has not produced good samples for years.
This sample has been noted and photographed in the Mineralogical Record magazine (November-December 2017, pg. 739)
Guatomo Mine (Hat Yai), Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province  Thailand

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.2 × 2.2 cm = 1.38” × 1.26” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.20” × 0.08”

Former collection of Claus Hedegaard
Mimetite on Quartz. Front
Front
Mimetite on Quartz. Side
Side
Mimetite
Mimetite. Front
Front
Mimetite. Side
Side
Mimetite.
Mimetite  

NE47AM4: Aggregates and isolated crystals with very well defined faces and edges, some of them with pedunculated and hopper growths, with good luster and an intense yellow color and on a limonite matrix.
The specimen, from a locality from which quality specimens are only rarely seen anymore, comes from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection (number MIT-11), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Guatomo Mine (Hat Yai), Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province  Thailand

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.5 × 3 cm = 2.17” × 1.77” × 1.18”

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

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar
Mimetite
 

TK56AD9: Aggregates and isolated crystals with very well defined faces and edges, some of them with hoppered growths. They are very bright, have a very intense yellow color and are on a limonite matrix. From a locality that has not produced good samples for years.
This sample has been noted and photographed in the Mineralogical Record magazine (November-December 2017, pg. 740)
Guatomo Mine (Hat Yai), Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province  Thailand

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.9 × 4.6 cm = 2.48” × 2.32” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.31” × 0.24”

Mimetite. Mimetite.
Mimetite
Mimetite. Mimetite.
Mimetite.
 

TV89AI8: A coating of sharp Mimetite crystals on a matrix that is very rich with a manganese mineral. The Mimetite crystals have very well defined faces and edges and a lot of them are doubly terminated. Transparent, very bright and a deep and vivid orange color.
From the José Luis Vallecillo collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Guatomo Mine (Hat Yai), Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province  Thailand

Specimen size: 14.2 × 10.4 × 5.2 cm = 5.59” × 4.09” × 2.05”

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

Former collection of José Luis Vallecillo

VIETNAM


Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Quartz
 

MB37AN0: Beryl crystal (aquamarine variety), with very sharp crystal forms and with the terminal pinacoid finely beveled by pyramid faces, transparent, lustrous and with an excellent, intense and uniform sky-blue color. On a matrix of Quartz crystals with very poorly developed prism faces.
Quỳ Châu District, Nghê An Province  Vietnam (2015)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.8 × 1.4 cm = 0.98” × 0.71” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.94” × 0.08”

Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Quartz. Front
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Quartz. Side
Side
Beryl (variety aquamarine)
Beryl (variety aquamarine). Front
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine). Rear
Rear
 

MC47AN0: Two Beryl crystals (aquamarine variety), one of them very aerial, with very sharp crystal forms and a pyramidal termination, transparent, lustrous, and with an excellent, intense and uniform sky-blue color.
Quỳ Châu District, Nghê An Province  Vietnam (2015)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 1.5 × 0.5 cm = 1.38” × 0.59” × 0.20”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 0.2 cm = 1.38” × 0.08”

Beryl (variety aquamarine)
 

TD27AN0: Two Beryl crystals (aquamarine variety), one of them very aerial, with very sharp crystal forms and a pyramidal termination, transparent, lustrous, and with an excellent, intense and uniform sky-blue color.
Quỳ Châu District, Nghê An Province  Vietnam (2015)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.5 × 1 cm = 1.38” × 0.98” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 3 × 0.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.08”

Beryl (variety aquamarine). Front
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine). Rear
Rear

OTHERS


Myanmar (Burma)

Fluorite
Fluorite.
 

DQ10Q8: A curious “gavel” floater growth that is rarely complete, as in this case. It is translucent and has a neat zoning of the color, violet on the terminations and yellowish in the central zone.
Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.94” × 0.28” × 0.28”

Elbaite with Quartz and Schorl
 

TT61H2: The Elbaite forms nice honey colored crystals, which have nearly coloredless terminations, simply slightly pink, and protected by Quartz crystals. The locality is very unusual.
Ohn Dan, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (2003)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.6 × 4.5 cm = 1.93” × 1.42” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1 cm = 0.91” × 0.39”

Elbaite with Quartz and Schorl.
Topaz
Topaz. Front
Front
Topaz. Rear
Rear
 

TJ87AL8: Water-clear and extremely lustrous crystal of Topaz, very rich in terminal faces and with polycrystalline growths in the lower part. The deposit is unusual for quality Topaz crystals.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Pan-taw, Kyatpyin North, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.3 × 1.5 cm = 1.22” × 0.91” × 0.59”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Topaz on Quartz
 

MX14AM8: Very aerial crystal of Topaz, rich in crystal forms and partially doubly terminated, very transparent, lustrous, on a matrix of Quartz crystals.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Pan-taw, Kyatpyin North, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 1.7 × 2.7 cm = 1.30” × 0.67” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.67” × 0.28”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Topaz on Quartz. Front
Front
Topaz on Quartz. Side
Side
Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Quartz, Albite and Feldspar
Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Quartz, Albite and Feldspar. Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Quartz, Albite and Feldspar.
 

ML76P5: A crystal with very well defined faces and edges and an excellent flattened rhombohedron termination. It has color zoning, dark greenish on the base and neatly pink in most of the rest of the crystal. On matrix, with Quartz crystals, Albite and an indeterminate feldspar, probably Orthoclase. We note the locality, where Rubellite of this quality is not common.
Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (2009)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.3 × 4.4 cm = 2.32” × 1.69” × 1.73”

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

Elbaite (Rubellite)
 

TH27J8: A new find in Myanmar. A prismatic crystal, very well defined and of excellent color, very uniform and with slight zonations on the termination where appear, very nicely, the forms of the pinacoid and the rhombohedron. Its base is recrystallized.
Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (2007)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 1.42” × 0.59” × 0.55”

Fluorescent short UV
Elbaite (Rubellite). Front
Front
Elbaite (Rubellite). Top
Top
Twinned Phenakite with Albite and Schorl
Twinned Phenakite with Albite and Schorl. Twinned Phenakite with Albite and Schorl.
 

TG80AB3: Two twinned, very sharp, colorless and completely clear Phenakite crystals, with perfect terminations, on an Albite matrix and with a small Schorl crystal. Very esthetic.
Male, Letpanhla, Singu Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (2007)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 2.6 × 3.7 cm = 1.93” × 1.02” × 1.46”

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

Fluorescence in the matrix (short and long UV)
Twinned Phenakite with Albite, Schorl and Quartz (variety smoky)
 

TW87AB3: Twinned, very sharp, colorless and completely clear Phenakite crystals, with perfect terminations and on a smoky Quartz matrix coated by slightly blue Albite crystals and small Schorl crystals.
Male, Letpanhla, Singu Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (2007)

Specimen size: 8 × 6.6 × 2.7 cm = 3.15” × 2.60” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.5 cm = 0.43” × 0.20”

Albite minor fluorescence short UV
Twinned Phenakite with Albite, Schorl and Quartz (variety smoky). Twinned Phenakite with Albite, Schorl and Quartz (variety smoky).
Twinned Phenakite with Albite, Schorl and Quartz (variety smoky).
Petalite
Petalite. Front
Front
Petalite. Side
Side
Petalite. Side
Side
 

EZ86N9: A novelty at Ste. Marie 2009. A floater crystal with extraordinarily well defined (for the species) faces and edges. It is very transparent and of excellent luster and color. Really unusual and exceptional.
Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (05/2009)

Specimen size: 3 × 3.4 × 1.4 cm = 1.18” × 1.34” × 0.55”

Petalite
 

EM96N9: A novelty at Ste. Marie 2009. A floater crystal with extraordinarily well defined (for the species) faces and edges. It is very transparent and of excellent luster and color. Really unusual and exceptional.
Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (05/2009)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.9 × 1.4 cm = 1.22” × 1.14” × 0.55”

Petalite. Front
Front
Petalite. Side
Side
Petalite. Side
Side
Painite with Corundum (variety ruby)
Painite with Corundum (variety ruby). Front
Front
Painite with Corundum (variety ruby). Top
Top
Painite with Corundum (variety ruby).
 

TL17G9: Painite is surely the most important mineralogical discovery of 2006. It is a very, very rare species and, in the past, only few pieces had been found. Recent finds in Myanmar gave some few more pieces.
In the case of this sample, we must add to its rarity the extremely unusual fact that Painite is on matrix and, more, it’s with small Corundum (variety ruby) crystals. Furthermore, as detailed picture shows, its upper part is well finished. Then, considering its size, that it’s on matrix, that the piece is undamaged, its termination and the accompanying Corundum we can say it’s really an exceptional piece.
Hinthar Hill, Wet-loo, Kyauk-Pyat-That, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (05/2005)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 2.4 × 2 cm = 2.17” × 0.94” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.65” × 0.63”

Corundum intense fluorescence long & short UV
Painite with Corundum (variety ruby)
 

EQ64P3: Parallel growths of crystals that are very big and well defined for the species. They have very good color and luster, and they are with Corundum (variety ruby) on matrix. Only a few specimens of this very rare species appeared and there were no further finds so we consider it exceptional.
Hinthar Hill, Wet-loo, Kyauk-Pyat-That, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (2007)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 2.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.69” × 1.02” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.2 cm = 0.39” × 0.08”

Corundum (Rubi) fluorescent long & short UV
Painite with Corundum (variety ruby).
Painite with Corundum (variety ruby). Painite with Corundum (variety ruby).
Johachidolite with Quartz
Johachidolite with Quartz.
Johachidolite with Quartz. Johachidolite with Quartz.
 

EC47N9: A novelty at Ste. Marie 2009. Excellent sample of Johachidolite, among the best for this very rare borate. The crystals, with well defined faces and edges and orange color, are on a matrix of Quartz.
Pein-Pyit, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (2008)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.5 × 4.1 cm = 1.34” × 0.98” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.8 cm = 0.67” × 0.31”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Johachidolite with Quartz, Sodalite (Hackmanite) and Muscovite
 

ER7N9: A novelty at Ste. Marie 2009. Excellent sample of Johachidolite, among the best for this very rare borate. The crystals, with well defined faces and edges and orange color, are on a matrix rich in Sodalite (Hackmanite) and Muscovite.
Pein-Pyit, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (2008)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.2 × 4.2 cm = 1.73” × 1.26” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.7 cm = 0.47” × 0.28”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Johachidolite with Quartz, Sodalite (Hackmanite) and Muscovite. Johachidolite with Quartz, Sodalite (Hackmanite) and Muscovite.

Spinel

Twinned Spinel
Twinned Spinel. Twinned Spinel.
 

MD96D8: The Myanmar Spinels are well known for their quality, color and transparency. We buy quite a few and from time to time we come across the rare cases where the Spinel is a twin. This is the case here, but this time the twin is more complex (crystallographically speaking) than the other ones we see. Unusual.
Pein-Pyit, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (2003)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.3 × 2.9 cm = 1.38” × 1.30” × 1.14”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Spinel on Calcite
 

TP89E9: The Spinel crystal has a very flat look as one of the faces of the octahedron has grown far more than the others. This form, as well as the contrast of the red crystal with the white matrix, is probably the most notable thing about it. To this one can add the small flat Clinohumite on one of the upper faces of the Spinel crystal. In UV light the Spinel stands out even more as it is intensely fluorescent yellow.
Pein-Pyit, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (1999)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.7 × 3.5 cm = 1.50” × 1.46” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.43” × 0.35”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Spinel on Calcite. Spinel on Calcite.
Spinel with Calcite
Spinel with Calcite. Spinel with Calcite.
 

MM52D7: A good size crystal of Spinel, really red, absolutely perfect, and set well apart from the matrix of white Calcite. Everything is good = a great specimen.
Pein-Pyit, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (2003)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.8 × 2.9 cm = 1.57” × 1.50” × 1.14”

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

Spinel on Calcite
 

MM17F2: Three octahedral crystals, which are a perfect red and which stand out from the white Calcite matrix.
Pein-Pyit, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (2003)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4 × 2.8 cm = 1.77” × 1.57” × 1.10”

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

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Spinel on Calcite. Spinel on Calcite.
Spinel with Calcite
Spinel with Calcite. Spinel with Calcite.
 

EC70Y5: Very sharp octahedral crystal, on white Calcite matrix, with a flattened growth that produced a large octahedral face, far more developed than the other faces. In addition to its notable luster and degree of transparency, we especially note the color, very vivid and deep.
Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.5 × 4.6 cm = 2.05” × 1.77” × 1.81”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV
Spinel with Calcite
 

MH96E8: An octahedral crystal, of good size, that is notable for its unusual color. At the same time the amount of the crystal that stands out from the marble matrix is significant and the crystal form is sharp with perfect faces and tips. Its brilliance adds that final touch. The small internal fracture near the tip, which you can only see given its transparency, does not detract from its high quality.
Oak-saung-taung, Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (2003)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3 × 3.2 cm = 1.38” × 1.18” × 1.26”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Spinel with Calcite.
Spinel
Spinel. Front
Front
Spinel. Side
Side
Spinel. Side
Side
Spinel. Rear
Rear
 

TG89Z7: Parallel growths of octahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between transparent and translucent, very bright and with a luminous sky blue color. This shade is one of the less common for the species.
Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (2014)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 2.9 × 2.2 cm = 2.01” × 1.14” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.4 cm = 0.71” × 0.55”

Norbergite and Spinel on Calcite
 

MD37F5: Two different minerals in the same specimen: orange Norbergite stands on white Calcite and at the other end there is a red (in fact slightly purple) octahedral Spinel. Good color contrast in this neat specimen.
Oak-saung-taung, Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (2003)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 8.4 × 4.3 cm = 3.66” × 3.31” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.31” × 0.24”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Norbergite and Spinel on Calcite.
Norbergite and Spinel on Calcite. Norbergite and Spinel on Calcite.

Elbaite spheres on matrix

From Burma come these new, very interesting Elbaites (Rubellites) that are different from those in previous finds. The Elbaites are in the form of spheres or arborescent sprays on white Calcite or Quartz matrix, so the contrast between the white and red makes them very attractive. From this important find we have selected the specimens that have, in our opinion, the best esthetics, brilliance and definition of form. In all cases the Elbaite is aerial on the matrix. As many of the specimens from this find had some form of coating of some sort of Kaolin, we avoided them and went for the ones that have a ‘fresh’ look.
For you information, as no one could tell us if any analysis had been done of this find, we decided to have the analyzed. They are Elbaite, and while they do contain some Calcium in their composition it is not enough for them to be Liddicoatite. So they are definitely Elbaite.

Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Quartz
Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Quartz.
 

TM28E2: This floater has good color and brilliance, and is also very esthetic.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)

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

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.6 cm = 0.83” × 0.63”

Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Quartz
 

TD86E2: A stronger raspberry color than the others and the matrix is Quartz, not Calcite.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.1 × 2 cm = 1.50” × 1.22” × 0.79”

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

Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Quartz.
Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Calcite and Quartz
Elbaite (variety rubellite) with Calcite and Quartz.
 

TL50E2: In my opinion this is the best small sample from the find. The sphere is large and has lots of color and brilliance. It is also well placed on the matrix of Calcite with some Quartz at the base. To add to that there is a small black Schorl crystal.
A great one: this specimen was photographed for the ‘what’s new at St Marie 2004’ section of the magazine ‘Minéraux et Fossiles’ and appears on page 35 of number 331. We will send the purchaser a copy of the magazine.
Palelni Mine, Khetchel Village, Molo Quarter, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State  Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2004)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.7 × 3 cm = 1.57” × 1.46” × 1.18”

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


Nepal

Doubly terminated Quartz with inclusions
 

TM47N6: Parallel growth of doubly terminated crystals very different than usual for the locality, resembling Alpine pieces. Thick and neatly transparent, they have a very intense luster and have unidentified inclusions.
Ganesh Himal, Dhading District, Bagmati Pradesh  Nepal (2008)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 6.5 × 4.7 cm = 4.06” × 2.56” × 1.85”

Doubly terminated Quartz with inclusions. Front
Front
Doubly terminated Quartz with inclusions. Rear
Rear
Quartz with Chlorite inclusions
Quartz with Chlorite inclusions. Front
Front
Quartz with Chlorite inclusions. Rear
Rear
 

TL13AB3: Very Sharp crystal on matrix, very rich in Chlorite inclusions and with a completely transparent and colorless termination.
Ganesh Himal, Dhading District, Bagmati Pradesh  Nepal (2014)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.3 × 1.7 cm = 3.03” × 2.09” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 5.6 × 1.2 cm = 2.20” × 0.47”

Doubly terminated Quartz with Chlorite inclusions
 

TK36AB3: Floater aggregate of Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant and all them doubly terminated, very rich in Chlorite inclusions and with completely transparent and colorless terminations.
Ganesh Himal, Dhading District, Bagmati Pradesh  Nepal (2013)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 2.9 × 3.3 cm = 3.35” × 1.14” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 8 × 2.1 cm = 3.15” × 0.83”

Doubly terminated Quartz with Chlorite inclusions. Front
Front
Doubly terminated Quartz with Chlorite inclusions. Rear
Rear
Quartz (japan law twin)
Quartz (japan law twin). Front
Front
Quartz (japan law twin). Rear
Rear
 

TF69AB2: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Extraordinarily sharp japan law twin with very well defined and transparent crystals. We note that the japan law twin, already rare, is even more rare in Alpine type crevices where this Quartz is formed. The sample is a floater with a recrystallized base.
The specimen has been published in the magazine ‘extraLAPIS’ on page 26, number 53, "Zwillinge"
Arun Valley, Mount Makalu, Mahalangur Himalayas  Nepal (2014)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.2 × 2.2 cm = 2.13” × 2.05” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 2.5 cm = 1.77” × 0.98”

Quartz (japan law twin)
 

TG89AB2: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Extraordinarily sharp japan law twin with very well defined and transparent crystals. We note that the japan law twin, already rare, is even more rare in Alpine type crevices where this Quartz is formed. The sample is a floater with a recrystallized base.
Arun Valley, Mount Makalu, Mahalangur Himalayas  Nepal (2014)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 6.6 × 2.2 cm = 2.64” × 2.60” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 6.7 × 2.8 cm = 2.64” × 1.10”

Quartz (japan law twin). Front
Front
Quartz (japan law twin). Rear
Rear
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Quartz, Albite, Schorl, Garnet and Muscovite
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Quartz, Albite, Schorl, Garnet and Muscovite. Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Quartz, Albite, Schorl, Garnet and Muscovite.
 

TF51N9: Single Aquamarine crystal with very well defined faces and edges and with a very perfect pinacoidal termination. The transparency, the luster and the color on all its surfaces are excellent. It is on Quartz matrix with Muscovite, Schorl and an undetermined Garnet. So it has both quality and an unusual locality, making it very appealing.
Kanchanjung Region  Nepal (12/2008)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.1 × 2.2 cm = 2.13” × 2.01” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 0.7 cm = 1.02” × 0.28”


Sri Lanka

Pargasite
Pargasite  

MB26I2: Prismatic flattened crystals of very well defined faces and edges, black, on a matrix of the same mineral which contrasts with the white Calcite partially covering the specimen.
The specimen is from John. S. White collection and we’ll send the label with the sample.
Kollona, Embilipitiya, Uva  Sri Lanka

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.50” × 1.46” × 0.98”

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

Pargasite.

Vietnam - Luc Yen Liddicoatite

Extraordinary Liddicoatites!
From a single and unique pocket found in 2005 in Minh Tien pegmatite, near Luc Yen, Vietnam. Their color, shape, size and, in general, their quality, put them among the best know, and very much better than others found on the past in the same zone, which had paler color.
They were offered to the public at Ste. Marie 2006 and we don’t miss the opportunity to purchase these samples, that we analyzed to be sure they have Liddicoatite. Now we are proud to present them on our Web.

Tourmaline (Group)
Tourmaline (Group). Front
Front
Tourmaline (Group). Top
Top
 

EE46H6: Divergent group of prismatic crystals terminated by three faces of a flat rhombohedron. Color and luster are exceptional.
We’ll give a copy of analysis to the buyer.
Minh Tien pegmatite, Luc Yen district, Yenbai province  Vietnam (2005)

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

Tourmaline (Group)
 

EF90H6: The specimen is extraordinary, both for its characteristics and for its size. The crystals form a slightly divergent group, are prismatic and are terminated by the three faces of a flat rhombohedron. Color and luster are exceptional and so is the transparency.
We’ll give a copy of analysis to the buyer.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 482 in the volume 37, number 5
Minh Tien pegmatite, Luc Yen district, Yenbai province  Vietnam (2005)

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

Tourmaline (Group). Front
Front
Tourmaline (Group). Top
Top

Indonesia

Quartz (variety chalcedony)
Quartz (variety chalcedony). Front
Front
Quartz (variety chalcedony). Rear
Rear
 

EA13AE2: Floater aggregate with very aerial spheroidal forms that are translucent with a very deep uniform lilac color. We note, aside from the color, the elegance of the sample, uncommon for chalcedony.
Mamuju area, Sulawesi Barat Province  Indonesia (2016)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.65” × 0.98” × 0.79”

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

Quartz (variety chalcedony)
 

EC6AE2: Floater aggregate with very aerial spheroidal forms that are translucent with a very deep uniform lilac color. We note, aside from the color, the elegance of the sample, uncommon for chalcedony.
Mamuju area, Sulawesi Barat Province  Indonesia (2016)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 2.9 × 1.9 cm = 1.69” × 1.14” × 0.75”

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

Quartz (variety chalcedony). Front
Front
Quartz (variety chalcedony). Rear
Rear
Quartz (variety chalcedony)
Quartz (variety chalcedony). Quartz (variety chalcedony).
 

EE66AE2: Aggregate, on matrix, with very aerial spheroidal forms that are translucent and have a very intense and uniform lilac color. We note, aside from the color, the fineness and the elegance of the simple, uncommon for the chalcedony.
Mamuju area, Sulawesi Barat Province  Indonesia (2016)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 5.9 × 6.2 cm = 4.53” × 2.32” × 2.44”

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



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