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”

NV27AL0: Group of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, with good terminations, some of them doubly terminated, translucent, lustrous and on matrix. Among the best from this mine, which has provided few specimens for collections.
This specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (No. 511), whose label we will send to the buyer.
La Ascensión del Señor Mine (Mercader Mine), Judío Hill, Munébrega, Comarca de la Comunidad de Calatayud, Zaragoza, Aragon  Spain (2017)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.8 × 3.5 cm = 1.65” × 1.50” × 1.38”

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

ND6AI3: Very sharp and extraordinarily clear and bright Gypsum crystal with very well defined crystalline forms, partially doubly terminated and on matrix. A Spanish classic that is increasingly scarce.
The sample is from the Ignacio Hernández collection (num. 104) whose original label we’ll send to the buyer.
Alabaster quarries, Patillas Hill, Fuentes de Ebro, Delimitación Comarcal de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Aragon  Spain

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.6 × 3.8 cm = 2.05” × 1.42” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.5 cm = 1.22” × 0.98”

NX14AJ5: A surface with small short prismatic Pyromorphite crystals on matrix. They are bright and have a very intense green color. The sample is from a well-known locality but where only a few significant samples have been obtained.
Monte Bedures, Meredo, Vegadeo, Comarca Eo-Navia, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (03/2007)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 2.4 × 1.6 cm = 1.89” × 0.94” × 0.63”

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

XM280JHR: Group of aggregated Pyromorphite crystals, with two generations of doubly terminated crystals, prismatic and elongated, of a uniform grass-green color, with faces and edges well-defined, and another of somewhat finer crystals with a greenish brown color, all of them intergrown with each other on a schist matrix.
Monte Bedures, Meredo, Vegadeo, Comarca Eo-Navia, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2008)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3 × 2.4 cm = 2.01” × 1.18” × 0.94”

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

JAL26AP8: Parallel columnar growth of Graphite with very well defined hexagonal contours, satin luster and with smooth terminations.
The specimen comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly, and was previously in that of Carlos Prieto Paramio.
Tres Hermanos Mine, Pilotuerto, Tineo, Comarca Costa Occidental, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 7.7 × 3.3 × 1.6 cm = 3.03” × 1.30” × 0.63”

NF56AF2: Smithsonite growths pseudomorphous after scalenohedral Calcite crystals. The color is between brown and yellow and their edges are bordered by botryoidal growths which are partially coated by white Hemimorphite. In spite of the fact that the Smithsonite and the Hemimorphite from this mine are well known, to our knowledge there are no references about these Smithsonite-Calcite pseudomorphs.
Argayón Mine, Robriguero, Panes, Peñamellera Baja, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (12/2016)

Specimen size: 11.3 × 9.4 × 5.6 cm = 4.45” × 3.70” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 6.6 × 4.5 cm = 2.60” × 1.77”

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”

NC46AI1: Aggregate, on matrix, of very sharp Azurite crystals with small Quartz crystals. The Azurite crystals are transparent, have a very vivid color and are extraordinarily bright. 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: 6.4 × 4.2 × 4.9 cm = 2.52” × 1.65” × 1.93”

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

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.
The sample has been noted and photographed in the article 'Berbes' of the ‘Mineralogical Record‘ magazine on page 37 in the volume 55, number 1, January-February 2024
La Cabaña, Valdelmar, Berbes mining area, 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”

NP16AM5: Group of snow-white Baryte crystals with transparent Fluorite crystals of pale lilac color, covered by small and very shiny white Quartz crystals. A classic of Spanish mineralogy but at the same time different due to the brilliant Quartz that covers everything. The specimen is from the Pedro Hernández collection.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.1 × 6.7 × 5.5 cm = 3.58” × 2.64” × 2.17”

SV2190TPR: Polycrystalline and parallel growths of doubly terminated crystals of water-clear Quartz with a preferential orientation, with very well defined faces and edges, and small hydrocarbon inclusions.
The transparency and luster are remarkable for this specimen from a classic deposit for Asturian mineralogy and mining.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.3 × 3.1 cm = 2.01” × 1.30” × 1.22”

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

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”

TRT16AO7: Group of doubly terminated crystals, one of them clearly dominant, transparent, lustrous, and with well-defined spherical inclusions of hydrocarbons, some of them mobile. A high quality Spanish classic, very fine.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.5 × 3.2 cm = 2.44” × 1.38” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 5.6 × 2.4 cm = 2.20” × 0.94”

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, Valdelmar, Berbes mining area, 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, Valdelmar, Berbes mining area, 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”

TRX89AO5: Group of doubly terminated crystals with very balanced pyramidal and prismatic shapes, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, with hydrocarbon inclusions, some of them mobile. A Spanish classic of good size and in good condition.
La Cabaña, Valdelmar, Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 10.3 × 9.2 × 6.6 cm = 4.06” × 3.62” × 2.60”

Main crystal size: 7.7 × 5.2 cm = 3.03” × 2.05”

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”

EMQ26AN5: Group of Calcite crystals dominated by prism forms rich in polycrystalline growths, and with a flattened terminal rhombohedron. It is lustrous, white, and with translucent Fluorite crystals with an intense yellow color. Because of the habit, it is somewhat different from other specimens known from this locality.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2020)

Specimen size: 10.6 × 6.2 × 4.4 cm = 4.17” × 2.44” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 5.3 × 2.2 cm = 2.09” × 0.87”

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”

TC90NX: Very aerial and perfect group of sharp Baryte crystals, between lamellar and tabular, translucent, with good luster and a uniform celestial blue color. The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 400), 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: 5.9 × 3.8 × 3.7 cm = 2.32” × 1.50” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1 cm = 0.75” × 0.39”

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”

NP63V2: A druse of tabular crystals of Baryte with very well defined faces and edges, good transparency and luster and an intense sky blue color, with small yellow scalenohedral crystals of Calcite, Dolomite and minor Fluorite.
Moscona Mine, "Corte del Agua", El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (01/2012)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.3 × 4.3 cm = 3.74” × 2.87” × 1.69”

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

MJA89AP7: Growth of tabular Baryte crystals that are translucent, very lustrous and have an intense and uniform light blue color.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 2812), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2022)

Specimen size: 10 × 9.5 × 3.3 cm = 3.94” × 3.74” × 1.30”

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

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”

NQ53AM5: Druse of transparent yellow Fluorite crystals, largely covered by very sharp lamellar crystals of Baryte, lustrous, transparent and with a pale yellow color, with complex white Calcite crystals and small rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. Very different from other specimens from this popular locality.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 16.1 × 12.7 × 8.8 cm = 6.34” × 5.00” × 3.46”

EPF96CD6: Floater specimen formed of arborescent crystals of very shiny Pyrite and different from those we usually see from this deposit, the Moscona Mine.
The specimen is very old, this type of specimen having been found at the beginning of mining, which began in 1978. A rarity.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (+1985)

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

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”

HM90ED: Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, with excellent luster, an intense and vivid yellow color, partially covered by lenticular Calcite crystals with very marked parallel growths.
Villabona Mines, Barrio de la Estación, Villabona, Llanera, Comarca del Nora, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 10 × 6.4 × 3.1 cm = 3.94” × 2.52” × 1.22”

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

NYX11AP5: Group of Pyrite crystals with a cubic habit and very marked polycrystalline growths. This very old piece, with much larger and shinier crystals than previously known from there, is from Minas de Villabona, a locality much less prolific than the nearby Moscona mine in Solís, and comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez (number 398), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Villabona Mines, Barrio de la Estación, Villabona, Llanera, Comarca del Nora, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2017)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.73” × 1.02” × 0.94”

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”

NRB37AO8: Spheroidal aggregates of cubic Pyrite crystals, very shiny, implanted in a druse of translucent Fluorite crystals with a violet color, a very rare color for Fluorite from this locality.
Villabona Mines, Barrio de la Estación, Villabona, Llanera, Comarca del Nora, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1980)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 5.1 × 2.5 cm = 4.21” × 2.01” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.7 cm = 1.22” × 1.06”

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”

TR14AN0: Druse on matrix of very sharp and very lustrous octahedral Copper crystals. The specimen, which came from a locality that has now disappeared, comes from the José Luís Vallecillo collection.
Boinás Este, Boinás, Belmonte de Miranda, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.1 × 5.2 × 2.7 cm = 2.40” × 2.05” × 1.06”

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

NM27AL7: Complex Sphalerite crystal twinned and translucent with good luster and a dominant toasted honey color. On a matrix of Quartz crystals. Sphalerite is a rarity in the otherwise prolific La Viesca Mine.
This aesthetic specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (nº. 433), whose label we will send to the buyer.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2016)

Specimen size: 8 × 4.1 × 2.8 cm = 3.15” × 1.61” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.8 cm = 0.79” × 0.71”

NAY13AO5: Small sharp Arsenopyrite crystals, lustrous and on matrix, with gray Jamesonite and aggregates of white Valentinite crystals with Senarmontite. A Spanish rarity that we have analyzed and for which we will send a copy of the analyses of the Valentinite, the Senarmontite and the Jamesonite to the buyer.
Carlés-Norte cut, Carlés Mine, Ballotal-El Fuxaco, Carlés, Salas, Comarca Valle del Narcea, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2002)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.4 × 1.7 cm = 2.40” × 1.73” × 0.67”