JD90W0: Grouped and isolated crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright, with a very intense and uniform color and implanted on a matrix of Clinochlore. One of the best examples of the 1998 find.
Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California  USA (11/1998)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.2 × 1.8 cm = 2.76” × 2.44” × 0.71”

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

JA46W0: Parallel aggregate of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, some of them doubly terminated and with a neat color zoning, intense bluish green on the terminations and clearer on the dominant faces.
Park County Claims, Tarryall Mountains, Park County, Colorado  USA (±1990)

Specimen size: 9 × 7 × 4.5 cm = 3.54” × 2.76” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 7 × 2.5 cm = 2.76” × 0.98”

KA96M0: Exceptional specimen for the locality. Very aerial Enargite crystals, with well defined faces and edges showing an excellent luster. Perfect terminal faces, also very bright. On matrix.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with it.

Longfellow Mine, Red Mountain District, San Juan County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.2 × 3.7 cm = 1.93” × 1.65” × 1.46”

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

JE86W6: Excellent Fluorite for the locality, showing a rare combination of species, with pink rhombohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite and Quartz, both typical of the Sweet Home mine.The crystals of Fluorite, transparent, bright and with a very deep color, show neatly defined faces of the cube and the dodecahedron.
Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park County, Colorado  USA (2001)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.54” × 1.10” × 0.91”

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

JT94W0: Sharp, individual, rhombohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite. They are translucent, very bright and have a great intensity of color. Furthermore, they are implanted on an aggregate of sharp tetrahedral crystals of Tetrahedrite, an uncommon association. The Rhodochrosite from Sweet Home Mine has become, in just a few years, one of the great classics due to their quality and the permanent closing of the mine.
Sweet Home Mine, Corner pocket, Watercourse raise, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park County, Colorado  USA (1994)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.3 × 2.3 cm = 1.97” × 1.30” × 0.91”

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

KX99R4: Group of rhombohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite of considerable size, on matrix with a rich paragenesis: crystals of Quartz, rosettes of yellow Calcite, Tetrahedrite, Chalcopyrite and nice beveled cubic blue crystals of Fluorite.
The sample is from the collection of James Catmur, whose label we'll send to the buyer.
Sweet Home Mine, Rainbow pocket, Tetrahedrite stope, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park County, Colorado  USA (±1994)

Specimen size: 12 × 10 × 3.5 cm = 4.72” × 3.94” × 1.38”

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

KH86M8: Parallel growth of tabular crystals from a classic American locality. The crystals, sharp and very well defined, have an excellent luster and a honey color, between orange and yellow.
Sherman Mine, Upper Iowa Gulch, Leadville District, Lake County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.6 × 1.5 cm = 2.83” × 2.20” × 0.59”

JR66W3: Thick tabular crystal with simple forms, isolated and practically a floater. It is large, translucent, bright and has a color between yellow and brown depending of the zones. The sample is from a locality that is rarely represented in most of the good mineralogical collections.
Sherman Mine, Upper Iowa Gulch, Leadville District, Lake County, Colorado  USA (±1988)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 8.7 × 3.2 cm = 4.53” × 3.43” × 1.26”

KM86M8: From an uncommon American locality. Aggregate of twinned crystals with yellowish and orange reflections, with Chalcopyrite crystals.
The sample is from the James Catmur collection (num. B241), whose label will be sent to the buyer.
Emperius Mine, Creede District, Mineral County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 13 × 7.5 × 3.3 cm = 5.12” × 2.95” × 1.30”

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

KG68L9: Stunning group of extremely curved clusters of Pyromorphite crystals, that give a globular aspect to the specimen. These very aerial and esthetic globular aggregates are on a Limonite matrix. With an extraordinary color and luster. It has been reported that the globular orange crystals from Bunker Hill are arsenic-rich Pyromorphite specimens, so we analyzed some samples and the results are that they really are pure Pyromorphite, with no arsenic.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with the piece.

Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA (1/06/2002)

Specimen size: 8 × 5.3 × 4.4 cm = 3.15” × 2.09” × 1.73”

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

JX68W0: A curious crystal of bicolor Fluorite, whose inner part is yellow and its core is blue, with forms of dissolution extraordinarily well marked, really uncommon for the samples from this locality. It is partially coated by an aggregate of very elongated white scalenohedral crystals of Calcite.
The sample is with a label from the Tom Wiesner collection that we'll send to the buyer.
Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois  USA (17/05/1985)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.2 × 3.1 cm = 3.07” × 2.44” × 1.22”

JD66X3: Two doubly terminated crystals that are transparent, extraordinarily bright, and slightly smoky, with inclusions and with curious areas, very limited, of nearly amethyst color. An American classic.
Herkimer County, New York  USA

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.1 × 4.2 cm = 1.77” × 1.61” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3.3 cm = 1.77” × 1.30”

JB14W3: Flattened doubly terminated crystal of Calcite implanted on a polycrystalline growth of small cubic crystals of Fluorite. Transparent, it has pale yellow color.
The sample was previously in the collection of Jan Buma (num. 050115), whose card we’ll send with the Catmur label to the buyer.
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee  USA

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.1 × 2.8 cm = 2.05” × 1.22” × 1.10”

KG70M2: Elegant doubly terminated scalenohedral Calcite crystal, showing a well defined twin, good color and notable transparency. With a small Sphalerite crystal matrix.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with it.
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee  USA (±1993)

Specimen size: 10.9 × 8.7 × 3.6 cm = 4.29” × 3.43” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 10.9 × 3.6 cm = 4.29” × 1.42”

KP92L9: Excellent specimen, very representative for the species. This sample shows a very sharp pseudocubic crystal with typical stepped growths. Really good color and brilliance. There is a second crystal on the back side, smaller than the main one, but also with the same high quality.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with it. This specimen was analyzed many years ago, but we didn’t keep analysis documents, that is why we could confirm the species but we can’t send the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Sainte-Marie Show 2008’ section of the magazine ‘Minéraux et Fossiles’ and appears on page 22 of number 373, as well as on the Hors-série nº 27 "Minéraux du Cuivre" on page 65.
Mina Amelia, Santa Rosalía, Boleo, Baja California Sur  Mexico

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.8 × 1.4 cm = 1.22” × 1.10” × 0.55”

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

JC99W3: Irregular aggregate of very sharp octahedral crystals, between translucent and transparent, bright, with a very uniform lilac color and on matrix. They are with small yellow crystals of Vesuvianite and brown dodecahedral crystals of Grossular.
Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 6 × 3.7 × 2.5 cm = 2.36” × 1.46” × 0.98”

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

JF53W0: Octahedral crystal of Fluorite with minor faces of the cube and beveled by the dodecahedron. Translucent, with clear green color, it is implanted on a druse of cubo-octahedral crystals of bright Galena twinned on the Spinel law.
The sample is with a previous label of the Jan Buma collection (num. 040715), that we'll send to the buyer.
Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua  Mexico (03/2004)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 7.7 × 3.7 cm = 4.25” × 3.03” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.4 cm = 1.14” × 0.94”

TV96P8: Complex equidimensional crystals, very rich in faces, growing on an early generation of smaller crystals primarily covering a stalactitic growth of a mineral that has disappeared, maybe Limonite?. A very esthetic piece. The sample is from J. Catmur collection and the label indicates that it was acquired in 1994.
Mina El Potosí, Santa Eulalia, Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (±1994)

Specimen size: 14 × 10 × 3.5 cm = 5.51” × 3.94” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.87”

KT16L9: Group of Wulfenite crystals, with splendid color and luster, very well defined. Thick tabular crystals on a Calcite matrix with small aggregates of arsenic-rich Vanadinite (Endlichite).
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection, previously in the Folch collection. We will send both, the label from Catmur collection and the handwritten label from Folch collection.
Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico (24/03/1964)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 6.4 × 4.8 cm = 2.68” × 2.52” × 1.89”

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

KP56M3: Exceptional group of translucent and tabular Wulfenite crystals with an unusually good color and brilliance. Their shape and the sample size make the specimen especially esthetic.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label to the buyer.
Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 10 × 6.6 × 6.2 cm = 3.94” × 2.60” × 2.44”

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

JC90G0: Esthetically perfect, due both to crystal development and their position on a Muscovite matrix. A Quartz crystal, equilibrating the group, is the definitive detail.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.5 × 2.5 cm = 2.56” × 2.17” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2 cm = 1.10” × 0.79”

KL66L9: Wonderful octahedral Fluorite crystal with well defined faces and edges, excellent brightness and very deep color. The crystal has grown esthetically on a small rocky matrix accompanied by Albite.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with it.
Les Droites (north face), Mont Blanc Massif, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (07/1994)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.7 × 2.9 cm = 1.57” × 1.46” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3.4 cm = 1.46” × 1.34”

JA16X9: Spheroidal Aggregates (well known as “pompons”) of laminar Baryte crystals with a snowy white color and pearly luster. They are on matrix with small but very bright Sphalerite crystals. A French classic.
Les Cèdres Mine, Asce. 32, Les Malines mining district, Saint-Laurent-le-Minier, Le Vigan, Gard Department, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 10.3 × 8.5 × 4.7 cm = 4.06” × 3.35” × 1.85”

JP17X3: Spheroidal growths of laminar crystals of snowy white Baryte, very bright and implanted on a matrix coated by small Sphalerite crystals. The sample, unlike most Barytes from this mine, remains free of damage.
Les Cèdres Mine, Asce. 32, Les Malines mining district, Saint-Laurent-le-Minier, Le Vigan, Gard Department, Occitanie  France (±1998)

Specimen size: 15 × 10.5 × 6.8 cm = 5.91” × 4.13” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 6.5 × 6 cm = 2.56” × 2.36”

JD69X0: Druse of very sharp cubic crystals, between transparent and translucent, with a very deep yellow color and very bright. A French classic of superior quality and transparency for samples from this mine.
Nespoulière filon, Valzergues Mines, Valzergues, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, Occitanie  France (1990)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 8.4 × 6.3 cm = 3.66” × 3.31” × 2.48”

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

KR66M8: Rosette groups and leafy crystals with very well defined contours and pearly luster. Excellent quality for the species.
The sample is from the James Catmur collection (num. B288). whose label will be sent to the buyer.
Trimouns Mine, Luzenac, Haute-Ariège, Foix, Ariège Department, Occitanie  France (±1993)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.7 × 5.5 cm = 2.91” × 2.24” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.1 cm = 0.16” × 0.04”

JV60W0: Aggregate of crystals that combine, in a balanced way, the faces of the dodecahedron and the trapezohedron. They are translucent, very bright, have an orange color and are on matrix, with leafy aggregates of Chlorite.
Aosta Valley (Val d'Aosta)  Italy

Specimen size: 7 × 6.3 × 4.5 cm = 2.76” × 2.48” × 1.77”

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

JD86W3: Parallel growths of cuboctahedral crystals of Galena that are extraordinarily bright, especially bearing in mind that they are from Romania. Some of them show skeletal growths, and with white lenticular crystals of Calcite and small crystals of Siderite and Pyrite.
Boldut Mine, 61 level, ↓350m., Cavnic, Maramures  Romania (04/01/1999)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 5.5 × 5.2 cm = 3.27” × 2.17” × 2.05”

KF98N0: Thin tabular crystals, very transparent, bright and with yellow color. They have red inclusions of Realgar, more evident on the lower part of the piece.
The sample is from the James Catmur collection (num. B495) and we’ll send the label to the buyer.
230 Level, Roata Mine, Cavnic, Maramures  Romania (12/1995)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 8.5 × 7.4 cm = 5.71” × 3.35” × 2.91”

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

KX56M2: Very sharp Chalcopyrite crystals with an excellent luster and a well marked twin. On a matrix of thin Quartz crystals which are partially covered by nice Calcite rosettes.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with it.
Boldut Mine, 61 level ↓350m., Cavnic, Maramures  Romania (±1995)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.8 × 2.5 cm = 2.83” × 2.28” × 0.98”

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

KP96M0: Bunched groups of white Baryte crystals, between laminar to tabular, which grade into a very intense red color due to dense Realgar inclusions.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with it.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania (±1995)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.2 × 3.7 cm = 1.89” × 1.65” × 1.46”

KQ49M0: Group of very sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals, with a very deep color, almost black under the day-light. With Fluorapatite and Bertrandite and on matrix. No finds are recently known from this locality.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with it.
This specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 596 in the volume 53, number 5, September-October 2022

Akchatau, Shet, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan (1993)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 5.8 × 2.4 cm = 3.66” × 2.28” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.71”

JF89X9: Aggregate of very sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals with abundant inclusions. They are on a group of smoky Quartz crystals, with small cubic Pyrite crystals. It is currently very difficult to obtain good samples from this locality.
Kara-Oba, Betpak-Dala (Bet-Pak-Dala) Desert, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan (±1993)

Specimen size: 13.2 × 8.3 × 8.5 cm = 5.20” × 3.27” × 3.35”

Main crystal size: 7.7 × 4 cm = 3.03” × 1.57”

JJ86W0: Floater cubic crystal, extraordinarily transparent, colorless, neat and bright. It is impaled by a crystal of Quartz coated by Goethite. The corners show very small faces of the cube surrounded by the trisoctahedron. A small jewel.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (05/1996)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.94” × 0.55” × 0.51”

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

JF89X5: Group of crystals, one of them clearly dominant, dodecahedral and with small faces of the cube. They are colorless, transparent and very bright and have a small matrix and abundant inclusions.
We’ll send the Catmur collection label with the sample.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (07/2003)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.1 × 3.4 cm = 1.93” × 1.61” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3.6 cm = 1.61” × 1.42”

JC40W0: Colorless, transparent and bright crystal formed by the clearly dominant faces of the dodecahedron, a very infrequent occurrence on Fluorite crystals, with minor faces of the cube and octahedron. It is on matrix, with Calcite and twinned crystals of Galena on Calcite. Neither the photos nor the 3D imagegive a perfect vision of the crystal, since it is extraordinarily transparent and very luminous.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (2003)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.2 × 3.6 cm = 2.48” × 2.05” × 1.42”

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

JM91X9: Aggregate of two colorless crystals, formed by the dodecahedron, the octahedron and the cube, on a matrix of Quartz crystals. Each face has distinct characteristics, the dodecahedron is translucent, the octahedron shows polycrystalline surfaces and the cubic faces are very bright and completely clear.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (±2006)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 6.7 × 6 cm = 3.74” × 2.64” × 2.36”

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

JL28W0: Polycrystalline growth, extraordinarily flattened, of Galena.Very bright, on Calcite matrix and with small crystals of Sphalerite.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia

Specimen size: 7.8 × 7.5 × 4.5 cm = 3.07” × 2.95” × 1.77”

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

JV99W6: Group of cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena showing smooth and bright cube faces that contrast with those of the octahedron, which have a rougher surface. They are with small crystals of Quartz and on matrix, with Sphalerite.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (±1993)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 9 × 6.2 cm = 4.25” × 3.54” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2 cm = 1.26” × 0.79”

TX99N9: Polysynthetic growths of crystals of Sphalerite with very well defined faces and edges, with very bright cuboctahedral crystals of Galena, small laminar crystals of Siderite and cubic crystals of Fluorite.
The sample, complete and free of damage, is from the collection of James Catmur (num. B484), whose label we’ll send to the buyer of the piece.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (1996)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 7.5 × 4.6 cm = 4.92” × 2.95” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.5 cm = 1.57” × 1.38”

KM91M3: Complex Sphalerite crystals, very rich in geometrical growth forms accompanied by Galena crystals, with well marked dissolution structures, and Quartz crystals.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label to the buyer.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (1995)

Specimen size: 13.8 × 7.2 × 5.8 cm = 5.43” × 2.83” × 2.28”

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

KF88L9: Group of well defined faces and edges on tabular Pyrrhotite crystals. With some recrystalization on the pinacoid faces. To increase esthetics, a very bright Chalcopyrite crystal is located in the center of the specimen.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with it.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (±1994)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.3 × 2 cm = 2.28” × 1.69” × 0.79”

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

JZ50W6: Groups of laminar crystals of Pyrrhotite in rosettes. They are very aerial, of a considerable size and are on a rocky matrix. The crystals of Pyrrhotite, with recrystallized Pyrite on the surfaces of the pinacoidal faces, remain stable in spite of the long time that has passed since they were recovered, very probably due to the presence of the Pyrite.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (±1996)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 9 × 6.7 cm = 4.65” × 3.54” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 3.8 cm = 1.65” × 1.50”

JC97X0: Group of crystals of Pyrrhotite between tabular and laminar. They are perfectly preserved, and they are with very well defined and bright cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena and a group of white Quartz crystals.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (1995)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 5.3 × 4.3 cm = 4.92” × 2.09” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.7 cm = 0.94” × 0.67”

JM46X9: Fanlike aggregates of sharp Erythrite crystals. They are bright, have an excellent very vivid color, and are on matrix, with small Quartz crystals.
Bou Azzer mining district, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1992)

Specimen size: 10 × 5.8 × 4 cm = 3.94” × 2.28” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.3 cm = 0.39” × 0.12”

JD73W3: Aggregate of crystals, large for the species, bright and with an intense and vivid red color. They have poorly developed prismatic faces, one of their terminations is polycrystalline, and with predominating pyramidal faces. The back sides of the crystals are almost flat.
Coud'a, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (10/2001)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.5 × 3.2 cm = 2.09” × 1.77” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.6 cm = 1.14” × 1.02”

JD37X5: Group of tabular crystals, some showing a clearly hemimorphic shape with very well marked pyramidal faces. They are very bright and have irregular color zoning.
We’ll send the Catmur collection label with the sample.
Mibladen (Mibladen mining district), Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1995)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.9 × 3 cm = 2.24” × 1.54” × 1.18”

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

JC98X5: Tabular Vanadinite crystals that have a very intense color and luster. They are spread on a group of white Baryte crystals and on rocky matrix.
We’ll send the Catmur collection label with the sample.
ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1995)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 6.5 × 3.7 cm = 2.72” × 2.56” × 1.46”

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

JM47AD5: Aggregates of very well defined mostly tabular Vanadinite crystals that are translucent, bright, have a very deep color and are on a matrix of white Baryte crystals with small white Calcite coatings.
The sample is from the James Catmur collection (number B098), whose label we’ll send to the buyer. A Moroccan classic.
ACF Mine, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (1993)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 7.5 × 7.3 cm = 3.70” × 2.95” × 2.87”

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

JE49W0: Aggregate of cubic crystals with polycrystalline growths on the corners that insinuate the forms of the octahedron, reinforced by the presence of oriented small crystals of Quartz and Pyrite partially coating them.
El Hammam, Ait Mimoune, Khémisset Province, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Region  Morocco (±2004)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.8 × 4 cm = 3.03” × 2.28” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 2.5 cm = 1.54” × 0.98”

JA87X0: Group of translucent crystals with two growth phases very well differentiated by the difference of color. They have deep violet and bright faces of the octahedron while the faces of the cube are whitish and less bright.
Tounfit, Boumia, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2006)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.1 × 3.7 cm = 3.43” × 2.80” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3.2 cm = 1.38” × 1.26”

JX90W0: Aggregate of cubic crystals with polycrystalline growths on the faces, with a deep density of color typical of the samples from the locality that requires them to be observed with a strong light.
Tounfit, Boumia, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2006)

Specimen size: 11 × 8.5 × 3.8 cm = 4.33” × 3.35” × 1.50”

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

KV89L9: Multiple radial twinned white Cerussite crystals, a fine quality for this locality, excellent brilliance and on an uncommon matrix formed by concretions of micro-crystals of Quartz.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with it.
Bouzougar, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/05/2003)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 5 × 3.3 cm = 3.43” × 1.97” × 1.30”

JH56W0: Group of twinned crystals of Cerussite that are very flattened, with perfect, acute, terminations, between transparent and translucent, bright and with a slightly smoky color. A fine miniature from Touissit.
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.7 × 2.1 cm = 1.34” × 1.06” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.47”

KP47M5: Translucent twinned crystals, bright and with very well defined faces and edges. Due to their position on the Dolomite matrix the sample is really esthetic.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection, whose label will be sent to the buyer.
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1998)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.3 × 3.6 cm = 2.36” × 1.69” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2 cm = 1.10” × 0.79”

TG67T3: Very aerial group of transparent crystals of Cerussite with an extraordinary luster and on Galena matrix.
The sample is from James Catmur’s collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (01/01/2000)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.2 × 3.9 cm = 2.60” × 1.65” × 1.54”

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

JL92W0: A very sharp crystal that has an extraordinarily intense and uniform yellow color. It is very bright and transparent and has inclusions of Galena. Another magnificent classic of Touissit's golden age.
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (02/1995)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.4 × 1.6 cm = 2.05” × 1.34” × 0.63”

KR49M3: Phosgenite crystal with excellent transparency, color and luster, and with well defined prism and terminal faces. Some upper faces show totally natural corroded structures, but the crystal is totally undamaged.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label to the buyer.
This specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 638 in the volume 44, number 6
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1997)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.5 × 3 cm = 2.20” × 1.38” × 1.18”

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

JM62X9: Druse, on limonite matrix, of very sharp and well defined crystals, some of them doubly terminated. They are transparent, extraordinarily bright and have a very deep and intense metallic blue color.
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1992)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.2 × 2 cm = 1.77” × 1.26” × 0.79”

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

KK66M5: Groups of doubly terminated crystals of Azurite with Calcite on a Limonite matrix, rich with small crystals of Oxiplumboroméite and small growths of Malachite. Oxiplumboroméite is known but scarcely cited at this locality, probably due to its similarity with the clays that cover much of the specimens from Touissit.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection, whose label will be sent to the buyer.
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1992)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 5.6 × 6.8 cm = 2.32” × 2.20” × 2.68”

JE9W3: Unusual combination of species with complete cyclic twins of Cerussite, translucent and bright, and prismatic crystals of Azurite, some of them doubly terminated, and small spherical growths of Malachite.
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1994)

Specimen size: 6 × 3.8 × 5.4 cm = 2.36” × 1.50” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.67” × 0.24”

KQ47M0: Groups of Prehnite curved crystals forming globular aggregates. On a matrix with Quartz, Epidote and Clinochlore.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with it. Very esthetic piece.
Jebel Melh, Bou Arfa, Figuig Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (1994)

Specimen size: 9 × 8.4 × 4.8 cm = 3.54” × 3.31” × 1.89”

JF54W0: Cubo-octahedral crystals that in some faces show the forms of the tetrahexahedron. The crystals, from the famous find of April 2001, are perfectly sharp and are on matrix, with Calcite.
Kamoya South II Mine, Kamoya, Kambove District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) (04/01/2001)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 5.5 × 4.2 cm = 2.72” × 2.17” × 1.65”

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

KB92M3: Group of parallel greenish doubly terminated Baryte crystals. This greenish tone is caused by Malachite inclusions. On a Limonite matrix. One of the best samples of this shape found in this locality. We consider this specimen among the best Baryte with Malachite specimens worldwide.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label to the buyer.
Shangulowé Mine, Kambove District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba)  Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) (11/1997)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 7 × 4.5 cm = 3.31” × 2.76” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 5 × 1.5 cm = 1.97” × 0.59”

JG37W3: Aggregate of cubic crystals, on matrix, with polycrystalline growths on their vertices. They have a deep green color and are bright and transparent, with mossy looking inclusions.
Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo District, Otjozondjupa Region  Namibia (±2003)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 7.1 × 3.2 cm = 2.87” × 2.80” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.3 cm = 0.98” × 0.91”

JF10W0: Tabular crystals of Wulfenite with very well developed faces of the pinacoid and the dipyramid. They are between transparent and translucent, yellow in color with orange shades, very bright and on matrix.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5 × 3.3 cm = 2.20” × 1.97” × 1.30”

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

JX48W6: Acicular crystals of Rutile with good terminations, very bright with a golden yellow color. The crystals of Rutile have grown epitactically on laminar crystals of Hematite with a very sharp hexagonal contour.
Novo Horizonte, Bahia  Brazil (±1999)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3 × 1.7 cm = 2.17” × 1.18” × 0.67”

JK48W0: Very sharp twinned crystal of Cassiterite. The crystal, black, is very bright, has parallel growths, a considerable size for the locality and it's partially coated by a leafy aggregate of Muscovite.
Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.3 × 3.9 cm = 1.93” × 1.30” × 1.54”

JB47X3: Sharp laminar Pyrrhotite crystals, bright and with a fine and neat hexagonal contour. They are on a matrix of lenticular translucent Dolomite crystals. A Brazilian classic.
Morro Velho mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais  Brazil (±1988)

Specimen size: 12.8 × 11 × 5,9 cm = 5.04” × 4.33” × 1.97”

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

ME67X0: Platy crystals of Bournonite partially coated by a second growth phase that formed microcrystalline aggregates of the same mineral. They are on matrix, with Pyrite and small crystals of Siderite.
Víboras Mine, Machacamarca, Cornelio Saavedra, Potosí  Bolivia (2001)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 6.4 × 7.3 cm = 2.87” × 2.52” × 2.87”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 3.1 cm = 1.73” × 1.22”

JB59W6: Crystals of Fluorite composed of the dominant forms of the octahedron, beveled by the dodecahedron and the vertices are cut by small cube faces. They are translucent, with a pale greenish color, are with cubic crystals of Pyrite, aggregates of white lenticular crystals of Calcite and small twinned crystals of Sphalerite.
Huayllapon Mine (Huallapon Mine), Pasto Bueno, Pampas District, Pallasca Province, Ancash Department  Peru (1999)

Specimen size: 6 × 5.4 × 3.7 cm = 2.36” × 2.13” × 1.46”

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

JC99W6: Group of extraordinarily flattened crystals of Galena with parallel growths showing the Spinel law twin, which is very evident on their edges. On a Sphalerite matrix, with Quartz and Pyrite.
Huancavelica Department  Peru (±1996)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.9 × 4.8 cm = 3.43” × 2.72” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.94” × 0.51”

KV97N8: Big crystals with parallel growths and a partially melted look, with Chalcopyrite and with small crystals of Galena, Quartz and Calcite.
The sample is from the collection of James Catmur and we'll send the label to the buyer.
Casapalca, Huarochiri, Departamento Lima  Peru (±1986)

Specimen size: 14 × 8.3 × 5.9 cm = 5.51” × 3.27” × 2.32”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3 cm = 1.38” × 1.18”

JB91X0: Isolated crystal composed of equal cube and dodecahedron faces. It is transparent, with a sky blue color, with inclusions of white Quartz and a very well defined phantom growth with a very intense violet color. The crystal is on a matrix of small Quartz crystals.
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2000)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 9.1 × 2.8 cm = 3.78” × 3.58” × 1.10”

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

JH93W0: Aggregate of cubic crystals of Fluorite clearly beveled by the dodecahedron, extraordinarily bright, transparent, with an especially intense and deep violet color, with phantom growths and on matrix, with small crystals of Quartz, Dolomite and Pyrite. The main crystal has minor damage on one of its edges.
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2004)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 8.7 × 5 cm = 4.92” × 3.43” × 1.97”

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

JT51W0: Very aerial group of sharp transparent cubic crystals, some of them showing white inclusions in their central area. The crystals are extraordinarily bright, have a clear green color, intense and uniform, and are on a small matrix of limonite.
Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 8.5 × 8.5 cm = 4.21” × 3.35” × 3.35”

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

JQ27X9: Aggregate of vivid green octahedral crystals of Fluorite showing microcrystalline surfaces and the intense pearly luster typical of the samples from this mine. The Fluorite crystals are partially coated by sharp and transparent lenticular Calcite crystals.
Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 8.7 × 5.3 cm = 4.92” × 3.43” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 4 cm = 1.77” × 1.57”

JT50W3: Group of cubic crystals that are beveled by the faces of the dodecahedron. They are very aerial as usual, bright, very transparent, and have a very uniform clear green color, with white selective micro-recrystallizations on some of the cube faces.
Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 13.2 × 9.8 × 7.5 cm = 5.20” × 3.86” × 2.95”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 1.26” × 0.98”

JY27X0: Group of transparent and bright cubic crystals with a very uniform green color and very accentuated phantom growths. They have selective coatings of Calcite crystals on some of the faces of the cube. From the first Fluorite finds at the locality.
Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 10.9 × 5.8 × 4.9 cm = 4.29” × 2.28” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.3 cm = 0.98” × 0.91”

JB48X0: Group of Sharp cubic crystals, one of them clearly dominant, transparent, bright, with a very uniform green color and on matrix, with white lenticular crystals of Calcite. From the first Fluorite finds at the locality.
Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 13.5 × 8.5 × 5.8 cm = 5.31” × 3.35” × 2.28”

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

JE51W0: Cubic crystals of Fluorite, transparent and extraordinarily bright, with a phantom growth in their core. They are on a group of Quartz crystals, with Calcite and sharp dipyramidal crystals of Scheelite, transparent and brown.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2003)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.7 × 4 cm = 3.31” × 2.64” × 1.57”

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

JB49W0: Group of cubic crystals of Fluorite. They are bright, transparent, with very well marked phantom growths delineated by an intense violet color and partially coated by white lenticular crystals of Calcite. The main crystal has a surface of exfoliation in one of its vertexes but, nonetheless, the sample is really attractive.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 9.8 × 4.7 cm = 4.61” × 3.86” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 4 cm = 2.13” × 1.57”

JP51W6: Group of very sharp cubic crystals, completely transparent, extraordinarily bright and with a blue color with lilac reflections. On matrix and with globular growths of Muscovite.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2001)

Specimen size: 14 × 9.7 × 5.7 cm = 5.51” × 3.82” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 4 cm = 1.77” × 1.57”

JC46X9: The biggest crystals have an octahedral shape composed of polycrystalline surfaces with very well marked cubic forms and very deep colored zones in some areas. Some smaller crystals are neatly cubic, sharp and transparent. They all are on matrix, with Muscovite, Quartz and small Scheelite crystals. Spectacular.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2000)

Specimen size: 22.5 × 16 × 5.5 cm = 8.86” × 6.30” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 5 cm = 2.17” × 1.97”

JJ89W0: Very well defined octahedral crystals that are translucent and have a very nice blue color. They are on a matrix of lenticular crystals of Calcite.
Sichuan Province  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.5 × 4.5 cm = 3.03” × 2.56” × 1.77”

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

JM61X9: Bundled aggregates of thin prismatic Stibnite crystals. They are very bright, have good terminations and are partially coated by white Calcite.
Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4 × 3.3 cm = 1.65” × 1.57” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 0.2 cm = 1.06” × 0.08”

JX60X9: Aggregate of flattened prismatic Stibnite crystals. They are very bright, have very well defined faces and edges and good terminations, and are partially coated by white Calcite.
Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 6 × 4 × 3.9 cm = 2.36” × 1.57” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.98” × 0.20”

JD14W6: Radial group of very sharp crystals of Stibnite with perfect terminations and partially coated by globular growths of Calcite.
Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 1.9 × 0.9 cm = 3.82” × 0.75” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 7 × 0.4 cm = 2.76” × 0.16”

JP16X9: Isolated complex Sphalerite crystal with polycrystalline growths and curved but well defined faces and edges. It is translucent, bright and has a deep intense and uniform red color. It is on a rocky matrix coated by small Quartz crystals.
Kangjianwan Mine, Shuikoushan ore field, Changning, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.1 × 3.5 cm = 2.48” × 2.01” × 1.38”

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

JB70X9: Parallel growths of very sharp dipyramidal Scheelite crystals. They are transparent with a very intense luster and have a vivid and uniform orange color. On matrix with leafy aggregates of Muscovite.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (1996)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.2 × 3.4 cm = 2.68” × 2.05” × 1.34”

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

JP93W3: Divergent aggregates of flat and very elongated crystals that are on matrix, which is very slightly rare with such samples. They have very marked reddish reflections under a strong light and are slightly coated by small white growths of Gypsum and very thin acicular crystals of Stibnite.
Kermesite occurrence, Damingshan Range, Dafeng, Shanglin, Nanning Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2002)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 4.8 × 3.1 cm = 3.46” × 1.89” × 1.22”

JG27W0: Single crystal neatly twinned on the law typical for the species. It is implanted on a white Calcite matrix, is transparent and has an especially intense and uniform red color. A miniature very representative of the species.
Pein-Pyit, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division)  Myanmar (Burma) (1999)

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

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

JR13X9: Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals, one of them clearly dominant and partially doubly terminated, formed by a prism, a dipyramid and the pinacoid (it is not a cleavage surface) on a base of Stilbite-Ca crystals.
Mumbai (Bombay) District, Maharashtra  India (±1993)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 6.7 × 3.2 cm = 3.23” × 2.64” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 5 × 3 cm = 1.97” × 1.18”

JV64W0: Spheroidal crystals of Fluorite with very intense red color growing on the faces of a yellow scalenohedral crystal of Calcite, all this in a cavity of Quartz crystals.
The specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 370 in the volume 88, number 4, Jul/Aug 2013
Mahodari, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (2003)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.3 × 5.5 cm = 3.62” × 2.87” × 2.17”

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

JK97W0: The sample is very representative of the first finds of Axinite-(Fe) in Pakistan (1993), with sharp, flattened and quite individual crystals. They are transparent, brown with mauve shades and on matrix.
Tormiq Valley, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu District, Baltistan  Pakistan (1993)

Specimen size: 7 × 5 × 5.5 cm = 2.76” × 1.97” × 2.17”

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

JN46X9: Irregular aggregate or elongated crystals, most of them doubly terminated, with very well marked hollow terminations. The crystals have a vivid and uniform color and, in some areas, they have unidentified coatings.
Adelaida Mine, Dundas, Tasmania  Australia (±1998)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.1 × 3.2 cm = 1.77” × 1.61” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 0.4 cm = 1.02” × 0.16”

JP27X9: Irregular aggregate of crystals with finely striated prism faces and very well marked hopper terminations. The crystals are intensely colored and they have unidentified white coatings in some areas.
Adelaida Mine, Dundas, Tasmania  Australia (±1998)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.5 × 2.6 cm = 2.56” × 1.77” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.98” × 0.20”