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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
Diaspore with Margarite

Recorded under neon light

Recorded under neon light

Recorded under neon light
 

TBB27CD3: V-twinned Diaspore crystals, very thick, with perfectly defined faces and edges. They are well terminated, have very deep green tones, especially towards the rhombic terminal faces, and bear parallel fibrous growths of Margarite crystals, which in most of them are embedded in Diopside.
A Turkish classic. Very potent specimen for the locality of origin.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2022)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 8.3 × 7.2 cm = 3.39” × 3.27” × 2.83”

Main crystal size: 8.6 × 8.3 cm = 3.39” × 3.27”


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
 

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.
Twinned Colemanite.
Twinned Colemanite
Twinned Colemanite.
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
 

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
Twinned Colemanite. Twinned Colemanite.

AUSTRALIA - FIJI


Australia

Scholzite
Scholzite. Front
Front
Scholzite. Side
Side
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
Molibdenite with Quartz
 

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”


Recorded under neon light
Azurite
Azurite.
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”

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
Copper. Copper.
Rhodonite with Galena
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”

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”

Smithsonite. Smithsonite.
Silver
Silver. 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
Malachite after Azurite
 

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”

Malachite after Azurite. Front
Front
Malachite after Azurite. Rear
Rear
Mimetite
Mimetite. 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
 

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. Mimetite.
Mimetite.
Mimetite
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”

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.
Pyromorphite with Malachite
Pyromorphite with Malachite. 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  

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”

Pyromorphite with Malachite. Pyromorphite with Malachite.
Cuprite
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
 

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
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, North Burnett Region, Queensland  Australia

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

Bismuth. Bismuth.
Molybdenite with Quartz and Mica
Molybdenite with Quartz and Mica. 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”

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

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
Smoky Quartz doubly terminated
 

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”

Smoky Quartz doubly terminated. Front
Front
Smoky Quartz doubly terminated. Rear
Rear
Gold on Quartz
Gold on Quartz. Front
Front
Gold on Quartz. Top
Top
 

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, Central Highlands, Victoria  Australia (±1985)

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

Gold with Quartz
 

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

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

Gold with Quartz. Front
Front
Gold with Quartz. Side
Side
Azurite
Azurite. 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
 

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”

Azurite. Front
Front
Azurite. Rear
Rear
Krennerite
Krennerite. 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
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
Copper.
Chalcocite
Chalcocite. 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
Dravite with Muscovite
 

CYR92ASN1: Polycrystalline growths of Dravite showing short hexagonal prisms and rhombohedral terminations with very defined faces and edges, with a very deep and uniform brown color, and with white Muscovite crystals.
The specimen, different from others due to its appearance of being in a matrix, is of high quality for the deposit, the classic Australian locality of Yinnietharra.
Yinnietharra Dravite Mine (South open cut), Tomkap tourmaline mines (Soklich), Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 9.7 × 7.4 × 4.7 cm = 3.82” × 2.91” × 1.85”

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


Dravite with Muscovite

 

MTT91ASN1: Parallel growths of Dravite showing hexagonal prisms and rhombohedral terminations with very defined faces and edges, very dark and uniform brown color, extremely shiny and with small remnants of white-grayish Muscovite crystals.
The specimen, of considerable dimensions, is of high quality for the deposit, the classic Australian locality of Yinnietharra.
Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia  Australia

Specimen size: 11.9 × 8.8 × 7.3 cm = 4.69” × 3.46” × 2.87”

Main crystal size: 8 × 5.4 cm = 3.15” × 2.13”

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. Gold.
Gold
Gold. 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
 

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

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
 

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”

Gold on Quartz. Front
Front
Gold on Quartz. Rear
Rear
Cerussite with Crocoite
Cerussite with Crocoite. Front
Front
Cerussite with Crocoite. Rear
Rear
Cerussite with Crocoite. 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
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
Crocoite.
Crocoite.

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