N88DG8: Enhanced bundle growths, very delicate and esthetical, of very thin acicular crystals, snowy white, contrasting with a base of little brown rhombohedral crystals of Siderite.
El Pilar de Jaravía, Pulpí, Comarca Levante Almeriense, Almería, Andalusia  Spain (1997)

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

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

N58VL2: A representative specimen from the type locality. On a Limonite matrix, very bright Jarosite crystals showing a tabular habit, some in groups of rosettes and other isolated crystals with developed prism faces. Brown color is very intense and excellent transparency. NASA Opportunity Rover prospecting on planet Mars found Jarosite that may point to the rock's wet history having been in an acidic lake or an acidic hot springs environment, like in Barranco Jaroso deposit.
Jaroso ravine, Almagrera Range, Cuevas del Almanzora, Comarca Levante Almeriense, Almería, Andalusia  Spain (1997)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.1 × 2.8 cm = 2.28” × 1.22” × 1.10”

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

MD26AL3: Good specimen of this rare lead sulphantimonate, with rosette-like crystal aggregates on matrix, dark metallic grey in color. Fülöppite is one of the rare species associated with Stibnite in this mine.
Casualidad Mine, Cordillera de los Picachos, Baños de Sierra Alhamilla, Pechina, Comarca Metropolitana de Almería, Almería, Andalusia  Spain (2014-2015)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.4 × 1.9 cm = 1.14” × 0.94” × 0.75”

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

ND64AE3: Small vugs filled with spheroidal aggregates of yellow Rodalquilarite crystals on a Quartz matrix with Jarosite. The sample is from the type locality for the species and is the consequence of a relatively recent find in the mythical 340 vein.
340 vein, Rodalquilar, Níjar, Comarca Metropolitana de Almería, Almería, Andalusia  Spain (2012)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.75” × 0.59” × 0.16”

TG76AJ5: Leafy and hooked native Gold growths on a Quartz matrix. The sample is from the most famous Spanish Gold locality of which only few samples have been preserved.
Rodalquilar, Níjar, Comarca Metropolitana de Almería, Almería, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.4 × 0.9 cm = 0.71” × 0.55” × 0.35”

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

MR16AM3: Gold microcrystals scattered on a Quartz matrix. The specimen is from one of the most classic deposits for Gold in Spain, and comes to us via the Ignacio Gaspar collection (number ORO-88), whose label we will send to the buyer.
340 vein, Rodalquilar, Níjar, Comarca Metropolitana de Almería, Almería, Andalusia  Spain (±2013)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.5 × 4.3 cm = 2.24” × 1.38” × 1.69”

NGR86AO3: Equant Sulphur crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, lustrous, on matrix and with small colorless scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
A very old Spanish classic, practically impossible to find nowadays.
Cáucaso Mine, Conil Mines, Conil de la Frontera, Comarca La Janda, Cádiz, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 7.9 × 6.9 × 3.9 cm = 3.11” × 2.72” × 1.54”

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

NQ58P3: Group of sharp laminar crystals. They are transparent, slightly bluish and implanted on a thin matrix. The sample is from the first find of good material at the locality (between September 2002 and March 2003) but we decided not to publish it before knowing the exact locality, just determined in August 2009.
El Telegrama adit, La Beltraneja concession, Cortijuelo Mines, Bacares, Comarca Valle del Almanzora, Almería, Andalusia  Spain (09/2002-03/2003)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3 × 2.1 cm = 1.93” × 1.18” × 0.83”

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

NK13AJ4: Group of very sharp laminar crystals, transparent and colorless. The sample is from the initial finds of good quality material from the locality between September 2002 and March 2003.
El Telegrama adit, La Beltraneja concession, Cortijuelo Mines, Bacares, Comarca Valle del Almanzora, Almería, Andalusia  Spain (09/2002-03/2003)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 4 × 2.1 cm = 2.95” × 1.57” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.2 cm = 0.71” × 0.08”

NX14P3: Group of sharp laminar crystals, transparent and slightly bluish with some of their edges coated by small crystals of white Calcite and on matrix. The sample is from the first find of good material at the locality (between September 2002 and March 2003) but we decided not to publish it before knowing the exact locality, just determined in August 2009.
El Telegrama adit, La Beltraneja concession, Cortijuelo Mines, Bacares, Comarca Valle del Almanzora, Almería, Andalusia  Spain (09/2002-03/2003)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 6.3 × 3.3 cm = 4.21” × 2.48” × 1.30”

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

NF47Q2: Group of sharp crystals implanted on a thin matrix. The sample is from the first find of good material at the locality (between September 2002 and March 2003)
El Telegrama adit, La Beltraneja concession, Cortijuelo Mines, Bacares, Comarca Valle del Almanzora, Almería, Andalusia  Spain (09/2002-03/2003)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 6.8 × 6.5 cm = 4.61” × 2.68” × 2.56”

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

EB14AK5: Group of short prismatic crystals, many of them doubly terminated, with excellent terminations, lustrous, and with small white flattened Cerussite crystals on the back. The specimen comes from the first finds in the Santa Eufemia area.
Santa Eufemia, Comarca Los Pedroches, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 1.02” × 0.71” × 0.47”

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

NW63R2: From an unexpected find in an old lead mining area of Roman time where the Pyromorphites appeared previously, although with a different shape than this specimen. Its habit and color, very distinctive, make this find unmistakable. It has become a Spanish classic. This specimen comes from a first selection of the specimens when they were found.
Resuperferolítica claim, Cerro de la Canaleja, Santa Eufemia, Comarca Los Pedroches, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (04/1995)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.4 × 1.8 cm = 1.10” × 0.94” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.2 cm = 0.28” × 0.08”

NC26AE3: Aggregate, on matrix, of prismatic crystals, some with deep hollowed terminations, and very well defined parallel growths. Its habit and brown color with greenish shades are very distinctive and make the samples from this find unmistakable and it has become a Spanish classic. The specimen is from a cavity in an old lead mining area of Roman time where Pyromorphites appeared previously.
Resuperferolítica claim, Cerro de la Canaleja, Santa Eufemia, Comarca Los Pedroches, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (04/1995)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.4 × 2.5 cm = 1.14” × 0.94” × 0.98”

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

NC26R2: From an unexpected find in an old lead mining area of Roman time where the Pyromorphites appeared previously, although with a different shape than this specimen. Its habit and color, very distinctive, make this find unmistakable. It has become a Spanish classic. This specimen comes from a first selection of the specimens when they were found.
Resuperferolítica claim, Cerro de la Canaleja, Santa Eufemia, Comarca Los Pedroches, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (04/1995)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.2 × 1.7 cm = 1.34” × 0.87” × 0.67”

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

ND66AD5: The sample is from a cavity in an old lead mining area of Roman times where Pyromorphite appeared previously. The elongated shape, with subparallel growths and their brown-slightly greenish color, make this find unmistakable. It has become a Spanish classic.
Resuperferolítica claim, Cerro de la Canaleja, Santa Eufemia, Comarca Los Pedroches, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (04/1995)

Specimen size: 4 × 1.9 × 1.5 cm = 1.57” × 0.75” × 0.59”

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

N46DGI7: Densely grouped prismatic crystals on matrix. They are doubly terminated and have very well defined faces and edges. The color is very much greener than usual on samples from this location and they have clearer zones on the terminations.
Resuperferolítica claim, Cerro de la Canaleja, Santa Eufemia, Comarca Los Pedroches, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (1995)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 3.5 × 3.7 cm = 2.64” × 1.38” × 1.46”

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

E26DPC7: As well as being much greener than other specimens from this mine this specimen has its own special history. Jordi bought it during the 1994 Munich show from a German collector, but then the following year a major find was made at the same mine. So while the German guy had the right idea, in the end other collectors made the killer find - that's life I guess.
Resuperferolítica claim, Cerro de la Canaleja, Santa Eufemia, Comarca Los Pedroches, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (1995)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 7.5 × 1.2 cm = 4.41” × 2.95” × 0.47”

NR87E1: The name for the Andalusite species comes from the Spanish region of Andalucia, This one comes from Cordoba, Andalucia, which is in the south of Spain. Given its size, good crystal form and pleasant color it cannot be confused with any other collectable Andalucite.
Los Torilejos area, Hornachuelos, Comarca Valle Medio del Guadalquivir, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (1992)

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

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

EX64X9: Andalusite crystal with very well defined faces and edges, with a perfect smooth termination and very well marked parallel growths on the prism faces and partially coated by Muscovite. The sample is from a relatively recent find in an area where access is currently prohibited.
Los Torilejos area, Hornachuelos, Comarca Valle Medio del Guadalquivir, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (1993)

Specimen size: 11 × 4.5 × 5.5 cm = 4.33” × 1.77” × 2.17”

NB10AI5: Clusters of prismatic and very acute elongated crystals, a very unusual habit for San Andrés Pyromorhite, similar to the samples from El Horcajo.
This sample is from the Ignacio Gaspar collection and we’ll send to the buyer a copy of the original label.
San Andrés Mine, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (1987)

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

NA67AI5: Groups of mainly prismatic Pyromorphite crystals that coexist with very acute elongated crystals, a very unusual habit for San Andrés Pyromorphite, similar to the samples from El Horcajo.
This sample is from the Ignacio Gaspar collection and we’ll send to the buyer the original label.
San Andrés Mine, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (1987)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2 × 3 cm = 1.06” × 0.79” × 1.18”

ND37AI5: Clusters of prismatic and very acute elongated crystals, a very unusual habit for San Andrés Pyromorhite, similar to the samples from El Horcajo.
This sample is from the Ignacio Gaspar collection and we’ll send to the buyer a copy of the original label.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, report 51, December 5, 2018 edition.
San Andrés Mine, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (1987)

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

N80L:
San Andrés Mine, Realces pocket (Victoria), Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (11/1997)

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

N87ZD0: Group of prismatic crystals with multiple, brushlike terminations. Color and luster are good and crystals are on matrix.
San Andrés Mine, Realces pocket (Victoria), Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (11/1997)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.10” × 0.98” × 0.79”

EX29F1: This is one of the first specimens from this find that I sold. I recently recovered it and, as the photo suggests, the quality is very high. Excellent color, good crystal size, and good crystal definition. Many of the crystals are doubly terminated and have the faces of the hexagonal prism and the pinacoid. A real treat.
This specimen was on the cover of the ‘Bocamina’ magazine, issue 18, 2006, which is devoted to the San Andrés Mine.
San Andrés Mine, Realces pocket (Victoria), Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (11/1997)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.5 × 3 cm = 1.57” × 1.38” × 1.18”

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

N43MX3: Irregular aggregate, on matrix of crystals formed by a short prism and the pinacoide, with very well defined faces and edges and showing apple-green color and a very intense luster. Some of the crystals are doubly terminated. The sample is from the excellent, and already famous, find in 1997.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section, report #34, April 9, 2013 edition.
San Andrés Mine, Realces pocket (Victoria), Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (10/11-1997)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5 × 3.8 cm = 2.28” × 1.97” × 1.50”

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

N36XX3: Irregular aggregate, on matrix of crystals formed by a short prism and the pinacoide, with very well defined faces and edges and showing apple-green color and a very intense luster. Some of the crystals are doubly terminated. The sample is from the excellent, and already famous, find in 1997.
San Andrés Mine, Realces pocket (Victoria), Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (10/11-1997)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 5.1 × 3.5 cm = 2.99” × 2.01” × 1.38”

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

N36AJ1: An extraordinary specimen with very well defined crystals, many of them doubly terminated, bright and of excellent green color, on matrix. One of the most significant specimens from the find.
San Andrés Mine, Realces pocket (Victoria), Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (10-11/1997)

Specimen size: 9 × 5.5 × 6.5 cm = 3.54” × 2.17” × 2.56”

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

N26FL0: Group of Pyromorphite crystals with varied habit and good color. Crystals vary from well defined hexagonal prisms, to very acute dipyramidal forms, to skeleton growths. On a solid matrix of Limonite.
San Andrés Mine, Realces pocket (Victoria), Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (11/1997)

Specimen size: 10.6 × 6.6 × 4.8 cm = 4.17” × 2.60” × 1.89”

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

N76KD0: Doubly terminated crystals of slightly curved edges and an uncommon yellow color.
The specimen has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Bocamina’ on page 76 in number 18, year 2006.
San Andrés Mine, Del Tunel pocket, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (11/1998)

Specimen size: 3 × 3.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.18” × 1.30” × 0.98”

N38FK9: Group of prismatic crystals, many of them doubly terminated, with well defined faces and edges and excellent color and luster, on matrix.
San Andrés Mine, Del Tunel pocket, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (11/1998)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.4 × 3.3 cm = 1.85” × 1.34” × 1.30”

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

N4DQ7: Group of prismatic crystals on matrix, most of them doubly terminated, with an excellent definition of faces and edges and with flat pinacoidal terminations. The color and luster are excellent. A glory of the past, from one of the best pockets ever found at the San Andrés Mine.
San Andrés Mine, Del Tunel pocket, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (11/1998)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.3 × 3.8 cm = 2.44” × 2.09” × 1.50”

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

N76AE8: This is one of the best samples from the pocket given its color (which is a little more intense than the others) and the position of the crystals on the Baryte matrix. As they are very aerial you can see the form perfectly. A great specimen.
The specimen has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Bocamina’ on page 71 in number 18, year 2006.
San Andrés Mine, Del Tunel pocket, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (11/1998)

Specimen size: 8 × 8 × 6 cm = 3.15” × 3.15” × 2.36”

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

N76XD1: Aerial crystals, good color and luster and, although the crystal size is not that large, the specimen looks pretty good.
The specimen has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Bocamina’ on page 74 in number 18, year 2006.

San Andrés Mine, Del Tunel pocket, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (11/1998)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.5 × 6 cm = 3.74” × 2.95” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 0.7 cm = 0.28”

N9AI0: The crystals, small, are laminar and have very well defined faces and edges and octagonal outlines. Their luster and intense yellow color are excellent and some of them have transparent edges.
Los Lastonares Mines, Albuñuelas, Comarca Valle de Lecrín, Granada, Andalusia  Spain (04/2000)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.4 × 1.2 cm = 2.44” × 1.34” × 0.47”

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

NA14I7: Magnificent (for the locality) prismatic crystal of very well defined faces and edges and a very fresh surface with small green alteration. The Crystals occupy the center of a vug on a Siderite matrix, crystallized in some zones.
El Vagón Mine (Tío Seguro Mine), Lanteira, Comarca Guadix, Granada, Andalusia  Spain (05/2000)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3 × 4.1 cm = 1.46” × 1.18” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.3 cm = 0.28” × 0.12”

FC11Z9: Stalactite-like growth of thick tabular crystals. They are transparent, very bright and have a slightly pink color. Their analysis revealed a high content of lead. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Salomón Cut, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (2010)

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

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.3 cm = 0.31” × 0.12”

FG10Z9: Stalactite-like growth of thick tabular crystals. They are transparent, very bright and have a slightly pink color. Their analysis revealed a high content of lead. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Salomón Cut, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (2010)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 3.2 × 1.5 cm = 2.83” × 1.26” × 0.59”

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

ND56AJ7: Sharp disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with a pseudotetrahedral shape. They are twinned, very bright and on a matrix with Dolomite and Calcite. This kind of Chalcopyrite was not known at the locality until now.
Salomón Cut, bench 290, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.2 × 6.4 cm = 2.44” × 1.65” × 2.52”

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

NF76AJ7: Sharp disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with a pseudotetrahedral shape. They are twinned, very bright and are on a Calcite matrix. The sample has been sawed on the lower part to reduce the matrix. This kind of Chalcopyrite was not known at the locality until now.
Salomón Cut, bench 290, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.3 × 4.3 cm = 2.44” × 1.69” × 1.69”

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

NC46AJ7: Very sharp disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with a pseudotetrahedral shape, twinned and with an iridescent superficial patina with dominant blue shades. Most of the crystals are on a matrix with Dolomite, Calcite and Pyrite and are implanted on a parallel growth of very sharp Baryte crystals. This kind of Chalcopyrite was not known at the locality until now.
Salomón Cut, bench 290, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.9 × 3.6 cm = 2.48” × 1.93” × 1.42”

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

NG46AJ7: Sharp disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with a pseudotetrahedral shape. They are twinned and have a superficial metallic patina and are on a matrix with Dolomite and Calcite. This kind of Chalcopyrite was not known at the locality until now.
Salomón Cut, bench 290, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 7.2 × 4.1 × 4.9 cm = 2.83” × 1.61” × 1.93”

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

NA14AM7: Very sharp disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite with a pseudotetrahedral habit, twinned and with a superficial metallic tarnish. On matrix, with a large, very transparent and lustrous Gypsum crystal, and also Dolomite and Calcite crystals. This type of specimen was unknown until very recently at this locality.
Salomón Cut, bench 290, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.9 × 4.8 cm = 3.31” × 2.72” × 1.89”

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

FJ10Z8: Aggregate, on matrix, of very well defined and bright Covellite microcrystals. They have an intense metallic blue iridescence. The sample is from a find in 1996. Subsequent finds have been sporadic, practically non-existent, either in that zone or the rest of the mine, which currently is now completely inactive.
Atalaya cut, 14-16 level, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (1996)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.1 × 2.8 cm = 1.42” × 0.83” × 1.10”

FM16Z8: Aggregate, on matrix, of very well defined and bright Covellite microcrystals. They are larger than usual for the locality, they have an intense brassy color and a small oval area that shows an intense metallic-blue iridescence. The sample is from a find in 1996. Subsequent finds have been sporadic, practically non-existent, either in that zone or the rest of the mine, which currently is now completely inactive.
Atalaya cut, 14-16 level, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (1996)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.3 × 1.6 cm = 2.24” × 1.69” × 0.63”

NX26K0: Surface covered by small Covellite crystals with a magnificent color. We especially note the presence of crystallized native Sulfur in wide zones of the specimen.
Atalaya cut, 14-16 level, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (1996)

Specimen size: 14 × 6.7 × 4.8 cm = 5.51” × 2.64” × 1.89”

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

FE26AA1: Bright small Sulphur crystals with very well defined faces and edges and deep hollowed growths. The Sulfur has been formed, very probably, at the expense of the deep blue crystalline Covellite that coats the matrix. Very unusual, as are many of the samples from this collection.
Atalaya cut, 14-16 level, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (1996)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 2.3 × 1.6 cm = 2.20” × 0.91” × 0.63”

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

FZ86AA1: A vug on a rocky matrix filled by small very bright and transparent Quartz crystals with a slight green color due to microscopic Planchéite inclusions.
The Planchéite has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. Very unusual, as are many of the samples from this collection.

Juanito Mine, Jarrama, Zufre, Comarca Sierra de Huelva, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (09/2005)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 8.6 × 7.8 cm = 4.25” × 3.39” × 3.07”

FK10AA1: Aggregates, on matrix, of rod-shaped crystals, most of them doubly terminated, with an olive-green color, typical for most of the samples of the species. The sample has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. Very unusual, as are many of the samples from this collection.
Ángeles 1ª Mine, Paterna del Campo, Comarca El Condado, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (03/2011)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.2 × 1.2 cm = 1.81” × 1.26” × 0.47”

FQ56Z9: Radial and fan-like aggregates of very well defined Clinoclase crystals. They have very acute terminations, a very intense and uniform dark green color and are on a Quartz matrix, with Malachite that has an appreciably clearer green. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. Very unusual, as are many of the samples from this collection.
Ángeles 1ª Mine, Paterna del Campo, Comarca El Condado, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (03/2011)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 5.8 × 3.2 cm = 2.40” × 2.28” × 1.26”

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

NF14AL4: Very aerial dendritic growth of deformed Copper crystals, totally covered by Malachite. Of good quality for the deposit, where this type of Copper specimen with Malachite is scarce.
Herrerías Mines, Puebla de Guzmán, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (2015)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 2.9 × 0.7 cm = 2.28” × 1.14” × 0.28”

FA63Z9: Parallel aggregates of Stibnite crystals with very well defined curvatures. They are very large for the locality as is also true for their definition and luster. They are on a Quartz matrix with some very well defined crystals. Very unusual, as are many of the samples from this collection.
Nerón Mine, El Cerro de Andévalo, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (01/2009)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.7 × 4.6 cm = 2.52” × 1.85” × 1.81”

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

NL59Y5: A Spanish novelty. Very aerial floater group with spheroidal growths of small, very sharp, lenticular crystals. Those are very bright, translucent, finely striated and have a very intense blue color. The size and quality of the sample are very superior to all previously known for the locality.
San Telmo Mining Group, El Cerro de Andévalo, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (05/2013)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.6 × 1.8 cm = 1.65” × 1.02” × 0.71”

NM14Y5: Spanish novelty. Floater nodule with spheroidal growths of small, very sharp, lenticular crystals. Those are very bright, translucent, finely striated and their color is clearer and as vivid as usual on the samples from the San Telmo Mine. The size and quality of the sample are very superior to all previously known for the locality.
San Telmo Mining Group, El Cerro de Andévalo, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (05/2013)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.9 × 2 cm = 2.44” × 1.54” × 0.79”

ND11AB9: A Spanish novelty from a mine in which only the Pyrite had been noted before. Spheroidal aggregates of very well defined crystals, some of them platy and sharp, bright and with a very vivid color.
Poderosa Mine, El Campillo, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (03/2015)

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.4 × 1.7 cm = 0.71” × 0.55” × 0.67”

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

NB11AB9: A Spanish novelty from a mine in which only the Pyrite had been noted before. Spheroidal aggregates of very well defined crystals, some of them platy and sharp, bright and with a very vivid color.
Poderosa Mine, El Campillo, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (03/2015)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm = 0.98” × 0.71” × 0.59”

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

NL11AB9: A Spanish novelty from a mine in which only the Pyrite had been noted before. Spheroidal aggregates of very well defined crystals, some of them platy and sharp, bright and with a very vivid color.
Poderosa Mine, El Campillo, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (03/2015)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 2.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.50” × 1.06” × 0.98”

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

NR10AA3: Small but very sharp tabular Mimetite crystals of excellent quality. Grouped or isolated, they always have very well defined faces and edges, are bright and have a very intense and uniform yellow color and are on a limonite matrix with botryoidal growths of Beudantite in micro-crystals. Both the Mimetite and Beudantite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (09-10/2011)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.6 × 0.9 cm = 1.14” × 1.02” × 0.35”

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

NB12V3: Although Mimetites have been previously found in Tharsis, between September and October 2011 some specimens of great quality appeared in the Filón Sur open pit. The size of the crystals is small, but the quality and definition is very high and they are also accompanied by Beudantites, whose analysis we will send to the buyer of the specimen.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (9-10/2011)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.1 × 1.7 cm = 1.61” × 1.22” × 0.67”

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

NE11V3: Although Mimetites have been previously found in Tharsis, between September and October 2011 some specimens of great quality appeared in the Filón Sur open pit. The size of the crystals is small, but the quality and definition is very high and they are also accompanied by Beudantites, whose analysis we will send to the buyer of the specimen.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (9-10/2011)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 2.2 × 4.1 cm = 1.89” × 0.87” × 1.61”

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

NB60AA3: Small but very sharp tabular Mimetite crystals of excellent quality. Grouped or isolated, they always have very well defined faces and edges, are bright and have a very intense and uniform yellow color and are on a limonite matrix with botryoidal growths of Beudantite in micro-crystals. Both the Mimetite and Beudantite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (09-10/2011)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.4 × 1.3 cm = 2.13” × 1.34” × 0.51”

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

NA14AA3: Small but very sharp tabular Mimetite crystals of excellent quality. Grouped or isolated, they always have very well defined faces and edges, are bright and have a very intense and uniform yellow color and are on a limonite matrix with botryoidal growths of Beudantite in micro-crystals. Both the Mimetite and Beudantite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (09-10/2011)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 6.1 × 1.9 cm = 3.70” × 2.40” × 0.75”

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

FH14Z9: Short prismatic crystals, a different shape from the most usual for samples from this locality. They are sharp, with very well defined faces and edges and are on a limonite matrix. Very unusual, as are many of the samples from this collection.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (09-10/2011)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.8 × 1.4 cm = 1.85” × 1.50” × 0.55”

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

NC14AG0: Druse of Mimetite crystals on a rock matrix that resemble the English campylites, with a spheroidal shape but very well-defined faces and edges. They are bright, with a color between yellow and deep olive green. The sample is from a recent find at Tharsis.
Filón Sur open pit (external), Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (30/04/2017)

Specimen size: 6 × 4 × 3.1 cm = 2.36” × 1.57” × 1.22”

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

NF14AG0: Druse of Mimetite crystals on a rock matrix that resemble the English campylites, with a spheroidal shape but very well-defined faces and edges, and with a very intense uniform yellow color. The sample is from a recent find at Tharsis.
Filón Sur open pit (external), Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (11/2011)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 5.3 × 2.9 cm = 3.50” × 2.09” × 1.14”

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

NJ58K8: Stalactitic-botryoidal growth with intense iridescence, very bright, metallic reflections, whose dominant colors vary between red, blue and gold. These growths contrast with a later formed phase with smaller and very bright botryoidal growths. The specimen is from a recent find in Tharsis. This locality hasn't produced significant samples in the last twenty years.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (05-10/2007)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.3 × 2.2 cm = 1.73” × 1.30” × 0.87”

MA26AL3: Botryoidal growth of very aerial Goethite, with variegated metallic iridescence, of dominant reddish blue, golden and green tones.
We will send the label of the Fermín Clemente collection to the buyer of the copy.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (09-10/2011)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.2 × 1 cm = 1.89” × 1.26” × 0.39”

NNB16AO8: Stalactitic-botryoidal aggregate of Goethite with intense iridescence, very lustrous and with metallic reflections, with dominant yellow, orange and reddish tones.
The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, brought together an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of Northern Spain.
Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 5.3 × 2.6 × 2.8 cm = 2.09” × 1.02” × 1.10”

NA61L5: Stalactitic-botryoidal growth forming curious concretions and elongated growths. With intense metallic pastel color iridescence and a later formed phase, also with intense iridescence.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (05-10/2007)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.8 × 4.2 cm = 2.60” × 1.89” × 1.65”

NB12K4: A novelty from Munich 2007. Stalactitic-botryoidal growth with intense, very bright, iridescence, with metallic reflections of dominant colors between golden and blue. The specimen is from a recent find on Tharsis (Filón Sur Mine) that hasn't produced significant samples in the last twenty years.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (05-10/2007)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.5 × 4 cm = 2.64” × 1.77” × 1.57”

ND80K4: A novelty from Munich 2007. Stalactitic-botryoidal growth with intense, very bright, iridescence, of dominant colors between pink and red and bluish. On the back it has laminar concretions, also iridescent, formed latterly to the botryoidal phase. The specimen is from a recent find on Tharsis (Filón Sur Mine) that hasn't produced significant samples in the last twenty years.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (05-10/2007)

Specimen size: 11 × 4 × 3.2 cm = 4.33” × 1.57” × 1.26”

NH36N7: The colorful Goethite from Tharsis is a classic in Spain. From the find of 2007, this one is a fine example of its quality.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (05-10/2007)

Specimen size: 12 × 4.8 × 2.9 cm = 4.72” × 1.89” × 1.14”

FZ62Z9: Very aerial parallel columnar growths with strongly iridescent areas that have a dominant green color, with red and blue on the tips and on the base.
Filón Sur open pit, Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (05-10/2007)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.1 × 0.4 cm = 1.73” × 0.83” × 0.16”

NE9M1: If the Tharsis Goethite samples are well known for their intense colors and defined stalactitic growths, La Lapilla Goethite specimens stand out because of their delicate crossed stalactitic growths and filament-like structures. Also, a highlight is the pale pastel color iridescence, whose colors vary between green, deep blue to slight pink, and gray reflections with ocher zones.
La Lapilla Mine is well known by the rich base metals “gossan”, above all its high Gold content, but is not so known for Goethites.
La Lapilla Mine, La Lapilla, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (03-04/2008)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.3 × 1.6 cm = 2.05” × 1.30” × 0.63”

MN37AL4: Compared to other Goethites from southern Spain, those from the La Lapilla Mine stand out for their delicate network growths and finely arched structures, sometimes almost filamentous, added to that their quality and luster and their faint iridescence in pastel tones of ocher, green, intense bluish, and pink, on predominantly greyish metallic reflections.
We will send the Fermín Clemente collection label to the buyer of the specimen.
La Lapilla Mine, La Lapilla, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (04/2008)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.7 × 3.1 cm = 2.68” × 1.85” × 1.22”

NA60M1: If the Tharsis Goethite samples are well known for their intense colors and defined stalactitic growths, La Lapilla Goethite specimens stand out because of their delicate crossed stalactitic growths and very thin filament-like structures. Also, a highlight is the pale pastel color iridescence, whose colors vary between green, deep blue to slight pink, and gray reflections with ocher zones.
La Lapilla Mine is well known by the rich base metals “gossan”, above all its high Gold content, but is not so known for Goethites.
La Lapilla Mine, La Lapilla, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (03-04/2008)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.7 × 4.2 cm = 3.62” × 3.03” × 1.65”

FB6Z8: Botryoidal and arborescent growths with intensely metallic-iridescent patinas showing strongly contrasted coloration, between pink-mauve and greenish and bluish shades. These samples have more elegant forms that those that are better known from Filón Sur, at Tharsis, and they are very rare because they appeared in the year 2008, and quickly disappeared from the mineral market.
La Lapilla Mine, La Lapilla, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (03-04/2008)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 7.2 × 4.1 cm = 4.02” × 2.83” × 1.61”

FA67Z8: Fine columnar aggregates with patinas forming banded areas with vivid iridescent luster and strongly contrasted shades, predominating red, green and yellow. These samples have more elegant forms that those that are better known from Filón Sur, at Tharsis, and they are very rare because they appeared in the year 2008, and quickly disappeared from the mineral market.
La Lapilla Mine, La Lapilla, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (03-04/2008)

Specimen size: 12.1 × 8.4 × 3.8 cm = 4.76” × 3.31” × 1.50”

NB46AM1: Compared to other Goethites in southern Spain, those from the La Lapilla mine stand out for their delicate lattice growths and very fine arched structures, sometimes almost filamentous, which add to the quality and lively brilliance of their iridescence in metallic, blue, ocher, and reddish tones, with greyish metallic reflections predominating.
La Lapilla Mine, La Lapilla, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (03-04/2008)

Specimen size: 14.8 × 8.3 × 5.1 cm = 5.83” × 3.27” × 2.01”

NB13AB5: Small botryoidal growth on a matrix of the same Goethite, with iridescences of very vivid colors and predominating reddish shades. The sample, from a very unique find in 1980, it comes from a Spanish private collection.
Cerro Colorado Mine, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (±1980)

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

NB58S8: The iridescent Goethite from Rio Tinto is different from the Tharsis iridescent Goethite, it is not stalactitic and is much more colorful.
From an old find at the classic Rio Tinto mines, this Goethite surprises us with its rich and varied colors.
Cerro Colorado Mine, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (±1985)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.3 × 3.6 cm = 2.52” × 1.69” × 1.42”

NK6S8: The iridescent Goethite from Rio Tinto is different from the Tharsis iridescent Goethite, it is not stalactitic and is much more colorful.
From an old find at the classic Rio Tinto mine, this Goethite surprises us with its rich and varied colors.
Cerro Colorado Mine, Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Comarca Cuenca Minera, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (±1985)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 8.7 × 5.5 cm = 4.53” × 3.43” × 2.17”

NA59T9: This is a Spanish novelty because in the Los Amigos Mine Chrysocolla wasn't mentioned before. We should also mention that the appearance of this Chrysocolla is very attractive as it isn’t just a crust as usual but it has nice forms covering what seem to be crystals of Quartz and probably Chalcedony. These nice forms together with their great color, generate what is, in our opinion, the best Chrysocolla found in Spain and nearly as fine as the nicer ones from other countries.
As usual when we offer unusual things like this, we will send a copy of the analysis to the customer.
Pit San Enrique, Los Amigos Mine, La Cruz Group of Mines, La Cruz vein, Mesa de Valdelloso, Linares, Comarca Sierra Morena, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (11/2011)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2 × 1.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.79” × 0.47”

NB11T9: This is a Spanish novelty because in the Los Amigos Mine Chrysocolla wasn't mentioned before. We should also mention that the appearance of this Chrysocolla is very attractive as it isn’t just a crust as usual but it has nice forms covering what seem to be crystals of Quartz and probably Chalcedony. These nice forms together with their great color, generate what is, in our opinion, the best Chrysocolla found in Spain and nearly as fine as the nicer ones from other countries.
As usual when we offer unusual things like this, we will send a copy of the analysis to the customer.
Pit San Enrique, Los Amigos Mine, La Cruz Group of Mines, La Cruz vein, Mesa de Valdelloso, Linares, Comarca Sierra Morena, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (11/2011)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.1 × 1.6 cm = 1.38” × 1.22” × 0.63”

NK13T9: This is a Spanish novelty because in the Los Amigos Mine Chrysocolla wasn't mentioned before. We should also mention that the appearance of this Chrysocolla is very attractive as it isn’t just a crust as usual but it has nice forms covering what seem to be crystals of Quartz and probably Chalcedony. These nice forms together with their great color, generate what is, in our opinion, the best Chrysocolla found in Spain and nearly as fine as the nicer ones from other countries.
As usual when we offer unusual things like this, we will send a copy of the analysis to the customer.
Pit San Enrique, Los Amigos Mine, La Cruz Group of Mines, La Cruz vein, Mesa de Valdelloso, Linares, Comarca Sierra Morena, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (11/2011)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.5 × 1.7 cm = 2.05” × 1.38” × 0.67”

NH62T9: This is a Spanish novelty because in the Los Amigos Mine Chrysocolla wasn't mentioned before. We should also mention that the appearance of this Chrysocolla is very attractive as it isn’t just a crust as usual but it has nice forms covering what seem to be crystals of Quartz and probably Chalcedony. These nice forms together with their great color, generate what is, in our opinion, the best Chrysocolla found in Spain and nearly as fine as the nicer ones from other countries.
As usual when we offer unusual things like this, we will send a copy of the analysis to the customer.
Pit San Enrique, Los Amigos Mine, La Cruz Group of Mines, La Cruz vein, Mesa de Valdelloso, Linares, Comarca Sierra Morena, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (11/2011)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 2.13” × 0.87” × 0.63”

NA11AB6: Botryoidal and fan-shaped Prehnite growths with a uniform light green color and on rocky matrix. The quarry has been closed for years.
Oficarsa Quarry, De las Culebras Hill, Carchelejo, Cárcheles, Comarca Sierra Mágina, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (2002-2005)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.6 × 1.9 cm = 1.89” × 1.42” × 0.75”

NJ13L3: Globular light green aggregate, with well defined and very bright crystal terminal faces. These brilliant specimens are quite unusual in this closed quarry. On matrix.
Oficarsa Quarry, De las Culebras Hill, Carchelejo, Cárcheles, Comarca Sierra Mágina, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (2004)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.8 × 1.5 cm = 1.97” × 1.50” × 0.59”

GH66AK6: Globular and rosette-like growths of pale green Prehnite on ophite matrix, with small acicular crystals of Augite. A Spanish classic from the Casado Margolles collection (reg. AC Various 37), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Oficarsa Quarry, De las Culebras Hill, Carchelejo, Cárcheles, Comarca Sierra Mágina, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.4 × 1.9 cm = 2.80” × 2.52” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.2 cm = 1.10” × 0.87”

NF61G8: Beautiful globular growths of Prehnite with central cavities occupied by Augite in groups of acicular crystals. Augite is also omnipresent on the whole surface of the matrix.
Oficarsa Quarry, De las Culebras Hill, Carchelejo, Cárcheles, Comarca Sierra Mágina, Jaén, Andalusia  Spain (±2001)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 5.3 × 4 cm = 3.11” × 2.09” × 1.57”

N8KG8: Good group of crystals on matrix, of an excellent quality for the locality. Perfection of forms, color and luster are also good for the locality.
Acedo Claim (Juanona Quarry), Juanona, Antequera, Comarca de Antequera, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (1999)

Specimen size: 3 × 2.1 × 1.5 cm = 1.18” × 0.83” × 0.59”

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

NL6AH7: Sharp, very bright and isolated crystalline growths with very neat exfoliation of native Antimony on a Quartz matrix. The specimen is from an old find and today it is very difficult to obtain samples from this locality which can be yet considered a Spanish classic.
La Viñuela reservoir, La Viñuela, Comarca La Axarquía, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (1987)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 1.30” × 0.71” × 0.67”

NA62J8: The mineral forms sharp and very bright crystalline growths and very neat exfoliation on Quartz matrix. The specimen is from an old find and actually it is very difficult to obtain samples from this locality that can be yet considered as classic.
La Viñuela reservoir, La Viñuela, Comarca La Axarquía, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (±1995)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.5 × 4.5 cm = 1.38” × 0.98” × 1.77”

M7RH5: The surface of crystal growths, on Quartz matrix, is intensely bright and it is not altered. The sample is from an old find and actually it is quite difficult to obtain specimens from this locality.
La Viñuela reservoir, La Viñuela, Comarca La Axarquía, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (1999)

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

NG14AJ5: Sharp and very bright Antimony crystalline growths showing very neat exfoliation on a massive Quartz matrix. A Spanish classic from a locality where it is currently very difficult to obtain samples.
La Viñuela reservoir, La Viñuela, Comarca La Axarquía, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (1987)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.9 × 3 cm = 2.24” × 1.93” × 1.18”

TF14AJ8: A complete Scheelite crystal with a polycrystalline base that has small matrix remains. It has a dipyramidal shape, is bright, translucent, and has a deep and uniform orange color. The sample, from a Spanish locality that is classic for the species, is from a relatively recent find.
Conchita Mine, Puerto del Lentisco-Arroyo Bosquecillo, Estepona, Comarca Costa del Sol Occidental, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (2017)

Specimen size: 1.3 × 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.51” × 0.43” × 0.39”

NA56AJ0: Floater Scheelite crystal with well defined faces and edges and rich in parallel and polycrystalline growths. It is translucent to transparent, bright, and has a uniform yellow color with slightly orange shades. The sample is from the most classic Spanish locality for Scheelite and this one has been recently found thanks to local prospector’s diggings.
Conchita Mine, Puerto del Lentisco-Arroyo Bosquecillo, Estepona, Comarca Costa del Sol Occidental, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.83” × 0.59” × 0.47”

N58KI0: Color and luster are especially intense. Crystals are practically dipyramidal due to the minor development of prism faces. Blue color is due to the presence of fibrous Magnesioriebeckite.
Acedo Claim (Juanona Quarry), Juanona, Antequera, Comarca de Antequera, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (1988)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.3 × 2.4 cm = 2.13” × 1.69” × 0.94”

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

N11TL3: On an ophitic rock matrix, a group of Quartz crystals showing an equidimensional shape, some of them with cubic shape, due to the minor development of prism faces. Precise analysis showed that their deep blue color is due to fibrous inclusions of Magnesioriebeckite.
The specimen has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Lapis’ on page 50, volume 37, number 6, June 2012
Acedo Claim (Juanona Quarry), Juanona, Antequera, Comarca de Antequera, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (2000)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.1 × 2.2 cm = 2.87” × 2.01” × 0.87”

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

N10DH5: Group very rich in crystals with dominant apparently dipyramidal shape (made by two rhombohedra) because prismatic faces are nearly not existing which is uncommon in Quartz crystals. The luster of its faces is excellent.
Acedo Claim (Juanona Quarry), Juanona, Antequera, Comarca de Antequera, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (1988)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 7 × 5 cm = 3.27” × 2.76” × 1.97”

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

NE10R7: This Spinel comes from the first discovery in the Mijas area of this species, which is quite rare in Spain. It is characterized by its color, distinct from other Spinels from this area, as well as its good crystal definition.
As a plus, we can give the precise name of the place where it was found (El Chambao)
Sierra de Mijas deposit, "Chambao", Mijas Mountains, Mijas, Comarca Costa del Sol Occidental, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (06/2004)

Specimen size: 1.5 × 1.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.51” × 0.51”

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

NY59V5: Aggregate of octahedral crystals with red tile color. They are bright, tabular, with a considerable size for the locality and showing clearly the typical twin of the species.
Sierra de Mijas deposit, "El Repetidor", Mijas Range, Mijas, Comarca Costa del Sol Occidental, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (2007)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 1.22” × 0.75” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.3 cm = 0.47” × 0.12”

NP14AH5: Very sharp octahedral Spinel crystals, translucent, very bright with a very uniform magenta-red color and on matrix. Of the best quality for the locality.
Sierra de Mijas deposit, "El Repetidor", Mijas Range, Mijas, Comarca Costa del Sol Occidental, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (2007)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.9 × 2.2 cm = 1.81” × 1.54” × 0.87”

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

N41M: With minor Clinohumite.
Sierra de Mijas deposit, Mijas Range, Mijas, Comarca Costa del Sol Occidental, Málaga, Andalusia  Spain (03/2001)

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

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

FE14Z8: Botryoidal Goethite aggregates with a metallic iridescence and aggregates of small lenticular Azurite crystals and velvety aggregates of acicular Malachite crystals. We especially note the locality, now extinct, and the association of Malachite and Azurite with the Goethite.
Santa Flora Mine, El Madroño, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain (06/2005)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.2 × 3.3 cm = 2.05” × 1.26” × 1.30”

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

FA13Z8: Botryoidal Goethite aggregates with a metallic iridescence and aggregates of small lenticular Azurite crystals and acicular Malachite crystals. We especially note the locality, now extinct, and the association of Malachite and Azurite with the Goethite.
Santa Flora Mine, El Madroño, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain (06/2005)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.4 × 4.1 cm = 2.05” × 1.34” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.3 cm = 0.43” × 0.12”

FB8Y0: Very sharp small Baryte crystals, colorless, completely transparent, extraordinarily bright and on Goethite matrix forming very aerial dendritic aggregates.
This sample is from the Martín Oliete collection (num. 193) whose label and card we’ll send to the buyer.
Londres mining group, El Pedroso, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain (±1973)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5.7 × 3.4 cm = 2.24” × 2.24” × 1.34”

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

NE86AL5: Group of Chalcocite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and partially doubly terminated, with an elongated habit and a pyramidal termination, with very well defined faces and edges. These specimens were analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Las Cruces Mine, Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.1 × 1.1 cm = 0.63” × 0.43” × 0.43”

NA14AL4: Very sharp Chalcocite crystals that form hexagonal cyclic twins with well defined faces and edges, flattened, brilliant, and on matrix. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Las Cruces Mine, Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.87” × 0.63” × 0.16”

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

NC37AL5: Very sharp Chalcocite crystals that form flattened twins with a hexagonal outline, with very well defined faces and edges, good luster, on matrix, with Pyrite coatings. These specimens were analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Las Cruces Mine, Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm = 0.94” × 0.94” × 0.91”

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

NW16AL4: Very sharp Chalcocite crystals that form hexagonal cyclic twins with well defined faces and edges, flattened, shiny, on matrix. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, report 56, June 6, 2020 edition, page 2
Las Cruces Mine, Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.1 × 0.7 cm = 1.22” × 0.83” × 0.28”

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

NM48AL5: Growth on matrix of highly profiled Chalcocite crystals that form flattened twins with a hexagonal outline, with very well defined faces and edges, bright, bluish in color, on matrix, with iridescent Pyrite crystal coatings. These pieces were analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Las Cruces Mine, Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.4 × 2.1 cm = 1.34” × 0.94” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.39” × 0.24”

NP89AL5: Growth on matrix of highly profiled Chalcocite crystals that form thick twins with a hexagonal outline, with very well defined faces and edges, bright, on matrix, with Calcite crystal coatings. These specimens were analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This sample has been referenced and pictured, as a novelty in Ste. Marie Virtual 2020, in the magazine 'Le Règne Minéral' number 154, page 45
Las Cruces Mine, Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4 × 3.7 cm = 2.28” × 1.57” × 1.46”

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

NJ16AL5: Growth on matrix of highly profiled Chalcocite crystals, of considerable size for the species, which form thick twins with a hexagonal outline, with very well defined faces and edges, bright, on matrix, with coatings of Calcite crystals. These specimens were analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Las Cruces Mine, Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 8.6 × 8 × 7.6 cm = 3.39” × 3.15” × 2.99”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.6 cm = 1.02” × 0.63”

NA26AL4: Globular growth of antimony-richTennantite-(Fe), very lustrous, on matrix, with growths of iridescent Pyrite in dominant blue, red and brassy tones, and twinned Chalcocite crystals. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Las Cruces Mine, fase 6, levels 130-135, ↓175 m., Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain (09-11/2019)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.2 × 1.3 cm = 1.50” × 1.26” × 0.51”

NB14AM4: Very sharp tetrahedral crystals of Tennantite-(Fe), lustrous, with dark gray tones and on matrix.
The specimen comes from the last find before the definitive closure of the open pit exploitation at this mine. It has been analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Las Cruces Mine, fase 6, levels 130-135, ↓175 m., Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain (01/2020)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 2.9 × 2.2 cm = 2.20” × 1.14” × 0.87”

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

NR27AM4: Very sharp tetrahedral crystals of Tennantite-(Fe), with good luster and dark gray tones, on matrix. The specimen comes from the last find before the definitive closure of open pit operations in this mine.
It has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Las Cruces Mine, fase 6, levels 130-135, ↓175 m., Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain (01/2020)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.3 × 3.6 cm = 2.91” × 2.09” × 1.42”

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

NH12AL4: Curious crowded aggregates of Pyrite, which are actually very lustrous, highly polycrystalline octahedral crystals. On matrix, with twinned Chalcocite crystals.
Las Cruces Mine, Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 5.9 × 3.4 × 3.1 cm = 2.32” × 1.34” × 1.22”

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

NK6W4: Group of crystals of Djurleite, an uncommon sulphide, with very well defined faces and edges and simple crystalline forms, whose surfaces show bluish reflections. The group, on matrix, is partially coated by white crystals of Calcite. The sample has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Lapis’ on page 11, volume 39, number 5, May 2014
Las Cruces Mine, Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain (±2011)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.2 × 2.8 cm = 1.85” × 1.65” × 1.10”

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

NC57AM4: Bornite crystals pseudomorphic after Chalcocite twins, with a bronze color, with tetrahedral crystals of Tennantite-(Fe) and twins of Chalcocite that are shiny and have bluish metallic tones. The specimen comes from the last find before the definitive closure of open-pit mining here, and this is the first time that collector quality Bornite has appeared at this locality.
This material has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 206 in the volume 52, number 2, March-April 2021
Las Cruces Mine, fase 6, levels 130-135, ↓175 m., Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain (01/2020)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 6.6 × 5 cm = 2.91” × 2.60” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.3 cm = 0.28” × 0.12”

NG62X4: A novelty at Mineralexpo (Barcelona) 2013. A druse, on matrix, of extraordinarily bright cubo-octahedral crystals with a superficial iridescent patina with deep metallic blue and yellow shades.
Pura claim, Carmen y Pura group of mines, Valdelapiedra ravine, Foz-Calanda, Comarca Bajo Aragón, Teruel, Aragon  Spain (01/2013)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 6.7 × 6.3 cm = 4.06” × 2.64” × 2.48”

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

ND14AH9: A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2018. From old mining works where samples of such quality had never been found. The Pyromorphite crystals are partially coating a Quartz matrix, have very well defined faces and edges, are translucent, bright, and have a uniform yellowish green color. A new locality to add to the list of good Spanish Pyromorphites.
La Ascensión del Señor Mine (Mercader Mine), Judío Hill, Munébrega, Comarca de la Comunidad de Calatayud, Zaragoza, Aragon  Spain (2017)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.2 × 2.3 cm = 1.61” × 1.26” × 0.91”

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

NJ11AH7: A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2018. From old mining works where samples of such quality had never been found. This druse of Pyromorphite on matrix has crystals with very well defined faces and edges, they are translucent, bright and have a uniform yellowish green color. A new locality to add to the list of good Spanish Pyromorphites.
La Ascensión del Señor Mine (Mercader Mine), Judío Hill, Munébrega, Comarca de la Comunidad de Calatayud, Zaragoza, Aragon  Spain (2017)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.5 × 1.6 cm = 1.81” × 0.98” × 0.63”

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

NW86AH7: A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2018. From old mining works where samples of such quality had never been found. The Pyromorphite crystals are coating a breccia matrix, have very well defined faces and edges, are translucent, bright, and have a yellowish zoned color. A new locality to add to the list of good Spanish Pyromorphites.
La Ascensión del Señor Mine (Mercader Mine), Judío Hill, Munébrega, Comarca de la Comunidad de Calatayud, Zaragoza, Aragon  Spain (2017)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.3 × 3.4 cm = 2.83” × 2.48” × 1.34”

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

NB36AI1: Polycrystalline spheroidal aggregate on matrix with small Quartz crystals of translucent, bright and vividly colored Azurite crystals. The sample is from a very recent find at the Llamas quarry where Azurite was previously detected but not of such quality.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.4 × 2.8 cm = 2.13” × 2.13” × 1.10”

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

NA26AI1: Polycrystalline spheroidal aggregate on matrix with small Quartz crystals of translucent, bright and vividly colored Azurite crystals. The sample is from a very recent find at the Llamas quarry where Azurite was previously detected but not of such quality.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 6 × 2.4 × 3.1 cm = 2.36” × 0.94” × 1.22”

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

TD16H8: The crystal is doubly terminated and has the short prism typical of the locality. It is transparent and bright and has attractive inclusions of hydrocarbons and the beginning of “windows” on some of its terminal faces. We call attention on the position of the crystal on the matrix that enhances the esthetics of the specimen as well as increases its value because specimens of Quartz with matrix are pretty unusual in Berbes.
This specimen was photographed and published in the magazine "Lapis" number 7-8 / 2013, page 23
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1997)

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

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 3.9 cm = 1.89” × 1.54”

TG47Q1: Group of doubly terminated crystals of very well defined faces and edges and with abundant fluid inclusions with hydrocarbons of organic origin. The most important of the bubbles, on the upper pyramid of the main crystal, is mobile.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2005)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.5 × 2.7 cm = 2.09” × 1.77” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 5.3 × 3 cm = 2.09” × 1.18”

EG46P2: The sample is formed by two doubly terminated and complete crystals. The smallest has an unusual crystallographic habit. Both crystals are bright and have abundant mobile hydrocarbon inclusions. A magnificent classic of Berbes.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Über Diamanten und Hyazinthen’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 56 of number 5/2012
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (12/1995)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.4 × 3.3 cm = 2.20” × 1.73” × 1.30”

JA17I7: A splendid specimen. The crystals, even though not being very tall, are very clear and bright, with well-defined faces and edges, doubly-terminated and with some hydrocarbon inclusions and they airily sit on a very esthetic matrix.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Über Diamanten und Hyazinthen’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ on page 56 of number 5/2012 and in the magazine "Lapis" on page 20 of number 7-8 / 2013
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 7.6 × 6.4 × 4.8 cm = 2.99” × 2.52” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.51” × 0.39”

TC87AE2: Aggregate of doubly terminated crystals, one of them clearly dominant, that are very bright and have spherical hydrocarbon inclusions, small but very well defined. A Spanish classic of great quality.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5.5 × 3.6 cm = 2.20” × 2.17” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 3.9 cm = 2.17” × 1.54”

NX27AL0: Pineapple-like growth, complex, very three-dimensional, and on a matrix of doubly terminated Quartz crystals. They have good luster and are between translucent and transparent. The specimen is unusual because the crystals are on matrix whereas the vast majority of Berbes Quartzes are floaters.
It comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (No. 377), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.4 × 3.3 cm = 2.52” × 1.73” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3 cm = 1.77” × 1.18”

TY28AE2: Aggregate of doubly terminated crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with curious echeloned terminations. They are very bright and have a lot of hydrocarbon inclusions. A Spanish classic of great quality.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.2 × 4.8 × 3.3 cm = 3.62” × 1.89” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 9.2 × 4.3 cm = 3.62” × 1.69”

NQ10P1: Esthetic group of white laminar crystals, one of them clearly dominant. The crystals have the morphology typical of Berbes, being clearly thicker at the center and very much thinner on the edges.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9 × 5.9 × 5.7 cm = 3.54” × 2.32” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 4.9 × 2.6 cm = 1.93” × 1.02”

ND64G8: Group of three short prismatic crystals, doubly terminated, transparent and bright. They have hydrocarbon inclusions and are partially covered by little cubic crystals of Fluorite.
Emilio Mine, 'zona intermedia', Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (09-11/2004)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 4.6 × 3.4 cm = 1.69” × 1.81” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 2.9 cm = 1.65” × 1.14”

NB87P2: Two very bright and well defined doubly terminated crystals with abundant inclusions and with a small concretion of Pyrite. The sample is from a recent find of a big geode in the locality. Unfortunately only a few specimens were saved and complete. The Emilio mine is very well known for colorless Fluorite crystals but Quartz is very uncommon there..
This specimen was photographed and published in the magazine "Lapis" number 7-8 / 2013, page 27
Emilio Mine, 'coquera norte', north area, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (03/2009)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.2 × 4.7 cm = 2.76” × 2.05” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 7 × 4 cm = 2.76” × 1.57”

N11VAL3: Aggregates of very sharp, lamellar Baryte crystals, translucent, lustrous, and with an intense and uniform blue color. A curiosity since in the Emilio mine there are practically no known blue Barytes.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1995)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 5.7 × 3.9 cm = 3.27” × 2.24” × 1.54”

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

NM87P2: Two very bright and well defined doubly terminated crystals with abundant inclusions and with Baryte. The secondary crystal is slightly flattened by an overgrowth of two opposite faces of one of the terminal rhombohedrons. The sample is from a recent find of a big geode in the locality. Unfortunately only a few specimens were saved and complete. The Emilio mine is very well known for colorless Fluorite crystals but Quartz is very uncommon there.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Sainte-Marie Show 2009’ section of the magazine ‘Minéraux et Fossiles’ and appears on page 17 of number 383.
Emilio Mine, 'coquera norte', north area, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (03/2009)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 6.5 × 5.7 cm = 3.50” × 2.56” × 2.24”

NK36G4: Doubly-terminated crystals on matrix, with hydrocarbon inclusions, on the classic colorless Fluorite typical of this mine, and also with little crystals of Baryte.
Emilio Mine, 'zona intermedia', Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (09-11/2004)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 9.2 × 6.3 cm = 4.92” × 3.62” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.2 cm = 1.06” × 0.87”

NC9F2: On a base of laminar Baryte there are two curious groups of Calcite crystals; they look like sprays and their gray color contrasts well with the white matrix.
Emilio Mine, 'zona intermedia', Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (09-11/2004)

Specimen size: 9 × 8 × 4 cm = 3.54” × 3.15” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 3 cm = 1.26” × 1.18”

VJ8G8: Nice miniature with a sharp rhombohedral crystal being the base of a group of aerial, tabular crystals of Baryte.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3 × 2.1 cm = 1.38” × 1.18” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.10” × 0.91”

VF63G8: Typical crystal of Calcite from Moscona Mine. A short prism very rich in forms, especially the scalenohedron and rhombohedron. Color and luster are excellent. The base is a group of Fluorite cubes with inclusions of sulfides.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 5 × 4.9 × 6.8 cm = 1.97” × 1.93” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 3.5 cm = 1.73” × 1.38”

VD26K6: Scalenohedral crystal of Calcite with parallel growths, on a matrix of transparent cubic crystals of Fluorite of honey yellow color partially covered by crystals of white Dolomite and with sulfide inclusions.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1990-2000)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.6 × 3.3 cm = 2.95” × 2.20” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 7.5 × 3.9 cm = 2.95” × 1.54”

VC66G8: Very esthetical specimen. On a base of cubic Fluorite of honey yellow color, very bright and partially covered by little crystals of Baryte, grows the Calcite crystals, doubly terminated and with dominant very acute scalenohedron faces.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 10.6 × 8.8 × 5.7 cm = 4.17” × 3.46” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 1.1 cm = 1.22” × 0.43”

NB26AL8: Translucent white scalenohedral Calcite crystals with coatings and oriented red inclusions of Hematite on the terminal faces and on matrix. It is covered by transparent bright Fluorite crystals with cream-colored Dolomite crystals. The matrix has been sawn on the back. The specimen's characteristics are quite atypical for the locality.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 11.4 × 7.5 × 3.5 cm = 4.49” × 2.95” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.06” × 0.47”

VQ96G8: The base is a crystal of Calcite, a doubly terminated and twinned scalenohedron. A second generation of Calcite forming parallel groups of very bright crystals and with more complex forms has grown on it. The sample is crowned by a group of cubic crystals of Fluorite of a deep yellow color.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 12 × 11.6 × 8 cm = 4.72” × 4.57” × 3.15”

EH29AJ5: Very sharp scalenohedral Calcite crystals, translucent and bright with a pale yellow color and on a matrix coated by cubic Fluorite crystals that are very transparent and bright and have a very intense honey yellow color.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 16.1 × 12.2 × 7.6 cm = 6.34” × 4.80” × 2.99”

Main crystal size: 7.6 × 4.2 cm = 2.99” × 1.65”

NF98AL7: Group of highly profiled scalenohedral Calcite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and doubly terminated, translucent, with very good luster and size, and with an unusual appearance for the locality, from which no such individual large Calcite scalenohedra are common.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (nº. 281), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2015)

Specimen size: 15.4 × 9.6 × 6 cm = 6.06” × 3.78” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 14.3 × 5.1 cm = 5.63” × 2.01”

VE26G8: Crystals of Baryte having an habit very much thicker than usual from the Moscona Mine. The color is very vivid and the transparency is also considerable.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5 × 3.7 cm = 2.68” × 1.97” × 1.46”

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

VL86H9: Good group of tabular crystals having a very marked but gradual change of color from the center, intense sky blue, to crystals outside that are white.
This specimen was photographed and published in the magazine "Lapis" number 7-8 / 2013, page 57
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1990-2000)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 6 × 2.3 cm = 3.35” × 2.36” × 0.91”

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

NP27AK5: From a collection displayed for the first time at Munich 2019: Aggregates of tabular crystals of Baryte with a book-like morphology. Translucent, with an intense sky-blue color and good luster. Partially covered by small white Dolomite crystals and all this on a group of translucent Fluorite crystals with a very deep honey-yellow color. Very different from the usual in this mine.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (No. 314), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2017)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 5.8 × 4.4 cm = 3.46” × 2.28” × 1.73”

ML47AJ5: Group of very sharp thick tabular Baryte crystals that are translucent, bright and with an intense blue color that is more concentrated in the central areas of the crystals.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.4 × 6.7 × 3.2 cm = 3.70” × 2.64” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2.6 cm = 1.57” × 1.02”

N13EKE1: Very elegant blue Baryte well placed on Dolomite. All perfect with do scratches. The typical Fluorite for this mine is also present, but well covered by the Dolomite.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1995)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 6.5 × 5.2 cm = 4.06” × 2.56” × 2.05”

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

NM36AE3: Aggregate of thin tabular and very sharp Baryte crystals that are transparent, very bright, with a very uniform yellow color and on matrix, with colorless, clear and bright scalenohedral Calcite crystals. An excellent Spanish classic, unusual, due the yellow baryte color.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1998)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.1 × 4.8 cm = 2.28” × 1.61” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.51” × 0.39”

VK56I7: Group of slightly yellow tabular crystals. The color is not usual for samples from this mine. They have color zonation and a matrix of cubic crystals of Fluorite.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.1 × 4 cm = 2.80” × 2.40” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.5 cm = 0.71” × 0.59”

NZ6K7: Small crystals of pink Baryte, unusual at the Moscona Mine, partially covered with white Dolomite and a parallel growth of colorless and transparent Calcite crystals, everything growing on a cubic honey yellow Fluorite base.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1995)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.5 × 4.3 cm = 3.31” × 2.17” × 1.69”

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

VV96K6: Yellow tabular crystals covering a group of complex crystals of Calcite; yellow is an unusual color for Baryte from this locality.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1990-2000)

Specimen size: 10 × 8.8 × 7 cm = 3.94” × 3.46” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.1 cm = 0.71” × 0.43”

VB58G8: Being known from the Moscona Mine, Sphalerite is a species rarely found there. On the piece crystals have an uncommon development (for the mine) for their larger size and bright luster. The dark color contrasts with the snowy white of the Dolomite in classic saddle-shaped crystals.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.3 × 2.6 cm = 1.34” × 0.91” × 1.02”

NA27AM0: Polycrystalline growths of complex Calcite crystals with dominant scalenohedral forms. On matrix, with transparent and shiny Fluorite crystals with an intense and uniform yellow color and coatings of cubic and lustrous Pyrite crystals. The specimen comes from the Villabona Mine, which has not produced many quality specimens and should not be confused with the much more prolific Solís Mine.
Villabona Mines, Barrio de la Estación, Villabona, Llanera, Comarca del Nora, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2005)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5.4 × 5.6 cm = 3.07” × 2.13” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 3.6 cm = 2.13” × 1.42”

TQ76AE2: Yellow cubic Fluorite crystals coated by iridescent Pyrite, extraordinarily bright and with white Calcite scalenohedra in parallel growths and small Pyrite crystals. The sample is very similar to the old pieces but it is from recent finds on Minas de Villabona, recently re-opened.
Villabona Mines, Barrio de la Estación, Villabona, Llanera, Comarca del Nora, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2014)

Specimen size: 8 × 4.6 × 5.1 cm = 3.15” × 1.81” × 2.01”

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

EG67AM5: Pyrite crystals with cubic habit and polycrystalline surfaces covering a druse of transparent, shiny Fluorite crystals with an intense yellow color. This old specimen comes from Minas de Villabona, a locality much less prolific than the nearby Moscona Mine.
Villabona Mines, Barrio de la Estación, Villabona, Llanera, Comarca del Nora, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 13.1 × 6.4 × 5.3 cm = 5.16” × 2.52” × 2.09”

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

NJ9P4: Group of crystals of Quartz with slight curvatures on the prism edges and on matrix. Their characteristic brown color seems due to indeterminate inclusions. The matrix is also brown Calcite and has been partially dissolved by acid to expose the crystals.
Orgaleyo Quarry (Brañes), Canto La Pellada, Brañes, Oviedo, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2009)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.1 × 3.2 cm = 1.65” × 1.22” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 0.7 cm = 0.91” × 0.28”

NF59P4: Group of doubly terminated crystals of Quartz with slight curvatures on the prism edges and on matrix. Their characteristic brown color seems due to indeterminate inclusions. The matrix is also brown Calcite and has been partially dissolved by acid to expose the crystals.
Orgaleyo Quarry (Brañes), Canto La Pellada, Brañes, Oviedo, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2009)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.1 × 2.6 cm = 1.77” × 1.22” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 1.1 cm = 1.38” × 0.43”

NG7L8: Very aerial Hematite crystals disposed on a Calcite matrix (acid-treated). One can clearly see the laminar intersected Hematite growth that gives a rosette aspect to the group, partially covered by a second phase of small Hematite crystals. A curiosity from a not well-known locality.
Latores, Oviedo, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2002-2004)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.7 × 1 cm = 1.14” × 0.67” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.3 cm = 0.35” × 0.12”

NB61N6: Dendritic growths of small crystals of bright and very well defined faces and edges contrasting with its metallic matrix. The sample was found in a very distinct level, the only one with this kind of growth.
Boinás East, 385 Bench, Boinás, Belmonte de Miranda, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (08/10/2001)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.2 × 2.2 cm = 1.73” × 1.26” × 0.87”

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

NE61N6: Very aerial arborescent growth of small crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright and in matrix. The sample was found in a very distinct level, the only one with this kind of growth.
Boinás East, 385 Bench, Boinás, Belmonte de Miranda, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (20/09/2001)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.77” × 1.42” × 0.83”

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

NJ11N6: Very aerial arborescent growth of small crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright and in matrix. The sample was found in a very distinct level, the only one with this kind of growth.
Boinás East, 385 Bench, Boinás, Belmonte de Miranda, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (20/12/2001)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.5 × 2.1 cm = 1.97” × 1.77” × 0.83”

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

N7CH5: The crystal is transparent, doubly terminated and it is on matrix. Faces and edges are very sharp and clearly show two twinned scalenohedra. A curiosity from a mine very famous for its Fluorites.
Coroña Shaft, Josefa-Veneros Norte vein, La Collada mining area, zona minera de La Collada, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1980)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.3 × 1.8 cm = 1.93” × 1.69” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1 cm = 0.87” × 0.39”

N8GF7: This crystal of Calcite comes from a single find made many years ago in a ventilation gallery on one of the floors of the Coroña shaft. It has good form and transparency and it is on a small amount of matrix.
Coroña Shaft, Josefa-Veneros Norte vein, La Collada mining area, zona minera de La Collada, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1980)

Specimen size: 7 × 4.5 × 3.3 cm = 2.76” × 1.77” × 1.30”

N12XBH5: The sample is especially esthetic. It has doubly terminated yellowish crystals of a considerable size. Faces and edges are very defined and clearly show the interpenetration of two rhombohedra. A curiosity from a mine very famous for its Fluorites.
Coroña Shaft, Josefa-Veneros Norte vein, La Collada mining area, zona minera de La Collada, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1980)

Specimen size: 14 × 8.5 × 6.5 cm = 5.51” × 3.35” × 2.56”

Main crystal size: 12.4 × 6.2 cm = 4.88” × 2.44”

EMB11AO8: A novelty from Ste. Marie 2022. Group of Calcite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, with very acute scalenohedra and pinacoid terminations, transparent and with a uniform yellow color.
The specimen comes from a well-known but little-disclosed locality in the Canary Islands in which no finds of this type had been made previously.
De Tasarte Ravine, La Aldea de San Nicolás, Gran Canaria, Las Palmas Province, Canary Islands  Spain (12/2021)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 1.77” × 0.79” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 0.8 cm = 1.77” × 0.31”

EPQ12AO8: A novelty from Ste. Marie 2022. Group of Calcite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, with very acute scalenohedra and pinacoid terminations, transparent and with a uniform yellow color.
The specimen comes from a well-known but little-disclosed locality in the Canary Islands in which no finds of this type had been made previously.
De Tasarte Ravine, La Aldea de San Nicolás, Gran Canaria, Las Palmas Province, Canary Islands  Spain (12/2021)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.69” × 1.50” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 1 cm = 1.69” × 0.39”

EHM63AO8: A novelty from Ste. Marie 2022. Group of Calcite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, with very acute scalenohedra and pinacoid terminations, transparent and with a uniform yellow color.
The specimen comes from a well-known but little-disclosed locality in the Canary Islands in which no finds of this type had been made previously.
De Tasarte Ravine, La Aldea de San Nicolás, Gran Canaria, Las Palmas Province, Canary Islands  Spain (12/2021)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 2.4 × 2.2 cm = 2.01” × 0.94” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 5.1 × 1.1 cm = 2.01” × 0.43”

EFF62AO8: A novelty from Ste. Marie 2022. Group of Calcite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, with very acute scalenohedra and pinacoid terminations, transparent and with a uniform yellow color.
The specimen comes from a well-known but little-disclosed locality in the Canary Islands in which no finds of this type had been made previously.
De Tasarte Ravine, La Aldea de San Nicolás, Gran Canaria, Las Palmas Province, Canary Islands  Spain (12/2021)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 2.8 × 2.5 cm = 2.01” × 1.10” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 0.7 cm = 1.61” × 0.28”

N10KH5: Small prismatic crystals of Hemimorphite, dark brown, very sharp and bright, partially covered by a bed of spheroidal groups of white Hydrozincite.
La Florida mining area, Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Comarca Costa Occidental/Saja-Nansa, Cantabria  Spain (1997)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.5 × 6 cm = 2.68” × 2.17” × 2.36”

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

NG56I7: A classic specimen from the Nieves Mine, Viérnoles, Cantabria, not well known. The Baryte is in tabular crystals, some of them doubly terminated, and they have simple forms and are partially covered by small doubly-terminated crystals of Quartz.
Nieves Mine, Monte Dobra, Viérnoles, Torrelavega, Comarca Besaya, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 8.6 × 7 × 4.8 cm = 3.39” × 2.76” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 6.4 × 2.1 cm = 2.52” × 0.83”

NH7AE8: A novelty at MineralExpo Sants (Barcelona) 2017. Aggregate of Smithsonite replacing and partially coating Calcite crystals. Its color is between brown and yellow and it is, in turn, partially coated by small white Hemimorphite crystals. Both the Smithsonite and the Hemimorphite have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Moriazo Mine, Casamaría, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria  Spain (2016)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.9 × 3.7 cm = 2.80” × 2.72” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 6.5 × 4.5 cm = 2.56” × 1.77”

NV86AE8: A novelty at MineralExpo Sants (Barcelona) 2017. Aggregate of Smithsonite replacing and partially coating Calcite crystals. It is yellowish and partially coated by small white Hemimorphite crystals. Both the Smithsonite and the Hemimorphite have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Moriazo Mine, Casamaría, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria  Spain (2016)

Specimen size: 8 × 5.5 × 3.7 cm = 3.15” × 2.17” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.1 cm = 1.14” × 0.83”

NZ61X7: Aggregate of complex equant crystals, translucent, bright, and with a very deep dark honey color. They are on matrix with white scalenohedral Calcite crystals and small Quartz crystals. It has been discovered in a recent find on an abandoned mine, well known for Calcite and Baryte and now offering this Sphalerite samples of very much better quality than all previously known.
María Jesús Mine (Lobeto Mine), Sol Viejo, Cabanzón, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria  Spain (2012-2013)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.3 × 3.2 cm = 2.64” × 1.69” × 1.26”

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

NG64X7: Aggregate of complex equant crystals, translucent, bright, and with a very deep dark honey color. They are on matrix, with white scalenohedral Calcite crystals. It has been discovered in a recent find on an abandoned mine, well known for Calcite and Baryte and now offering this Sphalerite samples of very much better quality than all previously known.
María Jesús Mine (Lobeto Mine), Sol Viejo, Cabanzón, Herrerías, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria  Spain (2012-2013)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.8 × 4.5 cm = 3.03” × 2.28” × 1.77”

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