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



GRAND EST


Fluorite
Fluorite. Fluorite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EFA97AO0: Fluorite crystals, on matrix, with dodecahedron and cube shapes, translucent, with a uniform green color with areas of intense violet color.
The specimen, from a not so usual locality, comes from an old French collection.
Bois le Duc, Foisches, Charleville-Mézières District, Ardennes, Grand Est  France

Specimen size: 13.4 × 7.7 × 5.1 cm = 5.28” × 3.03” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2 cm = 1.57” × 0.79”

Fluorite with Quartz
 

EE96AM1: Druse of sharp Fluorite crystals, translucent, with good luster and a pale green color, on matrix. The specimen comes from a local find that produced very few well-crystallized specimens.
Montagnes des Coltes, Urbeis, Sélestat, Sélestat-Erstein, Bas-Rhin, Grand Est  France (2018)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 4.1 × 3.4 cm = 3.27” × 1.61” × 1.34”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz.
 

ED17AM1: Group of sharp Fluorite crystals, translucent, with a pale green color, on matrix with white Quartz crystals. The specimen comes from a local find that produced very few well-crystallized specimens.
Montagnes des Coltes, Urbeis, Sélestat, Sélestat-Erstein, Bas-Rhin, Grand Est  France (2018)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 7.2 × 4 cm = 3.66” × 2.83” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 3.7 cm = 1.69” × 1.46”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Aragonite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TEL27AP9: Very aerial growth of Aragonite, with a coraloidal habit and very white.
A rarity of French mineralogy from the Alain Martaud collection.
Sapin Vert Mine, Altenberg Peak, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Colmar-Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est  France (1984)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 4.1 × 3.4 cm = 1.81” × 1.61” × 1.34”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Alain Martaud
Aragonite. Front
Front
Aragonite. Side
Side
Hematite with Quartz
Hematite with Quartz. Front
Front
Hematite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Hematite with Quartz.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EPR46AO1: Quartz crystals with small Hematite crystals forming a 'cast' (coating) with very bright crystalline forms of Hematite in the inner part of that 'cast'.
A classic from the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines area.
Bernardstein, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Colmar-Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est  France

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.1 × 2 cm = 2.91” × 1.61” × 0.79”

Silver with Calcite
 

EMB96ASN2: A delightful and delicate miniature. Arborescent Silver crystals in filamentous forms partially enveloping a matrix of leafy Calcite crystals with pinkish tones. This fine filigree comes from the Val d'Argent in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines.
Grande Haldes, Sankt Ludwig vein, Neuenberg Mountain, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Colmar-Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est  France

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.71” × 0.47” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.1 cm = 0.35” × 0.04”

Photo: Pere Alonso
Silver with Calcite.
Chalcopyrite
Chalcopyrite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén

Recorded under neon light
 

TTB46CD4: Group of Chalcopyrite crystals, complex and with polycrystalline growths, with well defined faces and edges and with a very marked bluish iridescence.
After consulting several experts with knowledge of the area, we believe that this piece comes specifically from the Armée Céleste Mine, one of the classic Alsatian mines in which silver was the main metal exploited, and which yielded good specimens of Chalcopyrite.
Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Colmar-Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est  France

Specimen size: 2.9 × 3.4 × 1.6 cm = 1.14” × 1.34” × 0.63”

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

Hematite with Quartz
 

EM98Q8: Group of tabular crystals of neat hexagonal shape with small white crystals of Quartz. The sample is from an old find thirty years ago and can be considered among the best for the locality, not well known.
Le Haïcot , Brézouard, Les Vosges Massif, Lapoutroie, Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est  France (±1980)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 4.7 × 1.6 cm = 3.03” × 1.85” × 0.63”

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

Hematite with Quartz. Hematite with Quartz.
Hematite
Hematite. Hematite.

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TFA90AN9: Group of equant Hematite crystals, of very considerable size for this deposit, very lustrous and with an intense black color.
The specimen comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Brézouard, Les Vosges Massif, Lapoutroie, Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est  France (1985)

Specimen size: 15.3 × 7.3 × 3.7 cm = 6.02” × 2.87” × 1.46”

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

Former collection of Alain Martaud
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite  

TA96T3: Polycrystalline growths whose nucleus shows hollow formations, with geometrical color zoning, clearer in one of the terminations. The crystals, most of them doubly terminated, are implanted on Limonite matrix. We note the locality, quite uncommon..
The sample is from John Marshall’s collection whose card and label we’ll send to the buyer and has been published in the Chinese magazine ‘Mineral Lover’ on page 7 in the volume 9/2011
Steinbach, Cernay, Thann-Guebwiller, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est  France

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

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Pyromorphite. Pyromorphite.

HAUTS-DE-FRANCE


Calcite
Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Side
Side
Calcite  

SV89AE3: A scalenohedral Calcite crystal partially doubly terminated, with polycrystalline growths at its base. It is very sharp and large, between translucent and transparent and has a very intense, deep uniform color. A great French classic.
The sample is with a label from the Stoppani collection that we’ll send to the buyer. As is the case with so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality.
Glageon Quarry, Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Nord, Hauts-de-France  France

Specimen size: 14.4 ×  11.5 × 10.8 cm = 5.67” × 4.53” × 4.25”

Minor fluorescence short UV

Former collection of Francesco S. Stoppani

ÎLE-DE-FRANCE


Calcite with sand inclusions

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TRM27AO6: Floater group of acute rhombohedral Calcite crystals with sand inclusions.
An excellent French classic.
Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.2 × 2.9 cm = 1.42” × 0.87” × 1.14”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite with sand inclusions. Front
Front
Calcite with sand inclusions. Rear
Rear
Calcite with sand inclusions
Calcite with sand inclusions. Front
Front
Calcite with sand inclusions. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Calcite with sand inclusions
 

SV180TRT: Floater group of acute rhombohedral Calcite crystals with inclusions of sand formed by Quartz grains included in the Calcite crystals. An excellent French classic.
Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.1 × 3 cm = 1.73” × 1.61” × 1.18”

Calcite with sand inclusions

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TMD27AO5: Floater group of acute rhombohedral Calcite crystals with sand inclusions. An excellent French classic.
Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.1 × 3.5 cm = 1.73” × 1.61” × 1.38”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite with sand inclusions.
Calcite with inclusions of sand
Calcite with inclusions of sand. Front
Front
Calcite with inclusions of sand. Rear
Rear
 

TA96N9: A French “super-classic”. Group of acute rhombohedral crystals of calcite that have grown including white sand. It comes from the Palix collection but it does not have its original label.
Forêt Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France (XIX Century)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.3 × 3 cm = 1.85” × 1.30” × 1.18”

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

Calcite with sand inclusions

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TJR27AO4: Floater group of rhombohedral Calcite crystals with pinacoidal terminations and sand inclusions. An excellent French classic.
Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.9 × 3.9 cm = 2.01” × 1.54” × 1.54”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite with sand inclusions. Front
Front
Calcite with sand inclusions. Side
Side
Calcite with sand inclusions. Rear
Rear
Calcite with sand inclusions
Calcite with sand inclusions. Front
Front
Calcite with sand inclusions. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TMA14AO5: Floater group of acute rhombohedral Calcite crystals with sand inclusions. An excellent French classic.
Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.3 × 3 cm = 2.01” × 1.69” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.1 cm = 0.94” × 0.83”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite with sand inclusions

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EMR86AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Spheroidal floater aggregate of acute rhombohedral Calcite crystals with inclusions of sand. An excellent French classic.
Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.9 × 4.8 cm = 2.01” × 1.93” × 1.89”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV
Calcite with sand inclusions. Front
Front
Calcite with sand inclusions. Rear
Rear
Calcite with sand inclusions
Calcite with sand inclusions. Front
Front
Calcite with sand inclusions. Side
Side
Calcite with sand inclusions. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TBR86AO4: Floater group of rhombohedral Calcite crystals with pinacoidal terminations and sand inclusions. An excellent French classic.
Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.1 × 3 cm = 2.05” × 1.61” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.46” × 0.94”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite with sand inclusions

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TMC96AO5: Floater group of acute rhombohedral Calcite crystals with sand inclusions. An excellent French classic.
Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.8 × 2.9 cm = 2.13” × 1.50” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 1.4 cm = 1.14” × 0.55”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite with sand inclusions. Front
Front
Calcite with sand inclusions. Rear
Rear
Calcite with sand inclusions
Calcite with sand inclusions. Front
Front
Calcite with sand inclusions. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TAB47AO6: Floater group of acute rhombohedral Calcite crystals with sand inclusions. An excellent French classic.
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the 'What’s New on the Internet Reports' section, report 64, July 3, 2022 edition, page 9

Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.8 × 3.7 cm = 2.28” × 1.50” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 0.75” × 0.55”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite with sand inclusions

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TBM88AO4: Floater group of rhombohedral Calcite crystals with pinacoidal terminations and sand inclusions. An excellent French classic.
Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 6 × 4.9 × 4.1 cm = 2.36” × 1.93” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.02” × 0.83”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite with sand inclusions. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Calcite with sand inclusions. Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Calcite with sand inclusions
Calcite with sand inclusions. Front
Front
Calcite with sand inclusions. Side
Side
Calcite with sand inclusions. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TLP47AO4: Floater group of rhombohedral Calcite crystals with pinacoidal terminations and sand inclusions. An excellent French classic.
Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.7 × 2.4 cm = 2.44” × 1.46” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.3 cm = 0.87” × 0.51”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite with sand inclusions

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TRB17AP2: Floater group of acute rhombohedral Calcite crystals with sand inclusions. An excellent French classic.
Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 6.8 × 3.1 × 2.8 cm = 2.68” × 1.22” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.5 cm = 0.75” × 0.59”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite with sand inclusions. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Calcite with sand inclusions. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Calcite with sand inclusions
Calcite with sand inclusions. Front
Front
Calcite with sand inclusions. Side
Side

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Calcite with sand inclusions
 

EEX90AQ1: Floater group of rhombohedral Calcite crystals with small pinacoidal terminations and with sand inclusions.
An excellent French classic of good size and nice architecture.
Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France  France

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6 × 5.8 cm = 2.83” × 2.36” × 2.28”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Moutet (Marseille)

NEW CALEDONIA


Malachite after Copper

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

ERW86AO1: Arborescent growth of Copper crystals with the dominant crystal forms of the octahedron, almost completely pseudomorphed by Malachite, with a very deep green color. From a virtually unknown deposit in the world of collecting.
Mérétrice Mine, Diahot River Valley, Northern Province, New Caledonia  France

Specimen size: 7 × 2.7 × 0.8 cm = 2.76” × 1.06” × 0.31”

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

Malachite after Copper.

NORMANDIE


Pyrite
Pyrite. Front
Front
Pyrite. Rear
Rear
 

EA96AC9: The sample, a floater, is a fossil sponge covered by crystals of Pyrite with very well defined and bright dominant octahedral faces and smaller cube faces. Very unusual, both for its composition and for the locality.
Boulonnais, Manche, Normandie  France

Specimen size: 8 × 4.3 × 4 cm = 3.15” × 1.69” × 1.57”

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


NOUVELLE-AQUITAINE


Pyromorphite

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EBT47AO1: Group, on a small matrix, of Pyromorphite crystals, some of them doubly terminated. With sharp crystal forms, with parallel growths and very deep hopper terminations, with a very bright luster and a simply extraordinary “Farges green” color.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.83” × 0.63” × 0.59”

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

Pyromorphite.
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite. Side
Side
 

MH46AN0: Group of Pyromorphite crystals with very sharp prismatic and pyramidal crystal forms, the latter rare at the locality, with good luster and a very pronounced color zoning, yellowish brown in the prism and yellow in the terminations.
We will ship the specimen, which comes from a classic French locality for the species, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, stating that it was previously in the Sullivan collection.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2 × 1.1 cm = 1.14” × 0.79” × 0.43”

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

Former collection of Bob Noble
Pyromorphite
 

MQR87CD3: Aggregate of very lustrous prismatic Pyromorphite crystals, with flat pinacoidal terminations. Very sharp, with very deep and uniform apple-green color, and with the largest crystals exhibiting hopper growths. A classic of French mineralogy.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3 × 1.6 cm = 1.42” × 1.18” × 0.63”

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


Recorded under neon light

Recorded under neon light
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite.
 

TH16H6: Magnificent and unusual greenish-yellow color of the prismatic crystals, very sharp and bright and having perfect flat terminations. The esthetics of this miniature is emphasized by the contrast between the color of the crystals and the matrix.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France (1976-1980)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.4 × 2.2 cm = 1.46” × 1.34” × 0.87”

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

Pyromorphite
 

TF39: A great oldie from Les Farges. Although usually we expect really green Pyromorphite from this locality, some other ones with very interesting colors appear from time to time, such as this one which is intensely brown with yellow tips. It is a floater, complete and its form is as nice as the photo suggests.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France (1976)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 2.7 × 2 cm = 1.50” × 1.06” × 0.79”

Pyromorphite.
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Pyromorphite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Pyromorphite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Pyromorphite  

MA96AL7: Floater group of Pyromorphite crystals many of them doubly terminated, with slight curvatures on the faces and edges, lustrous and with the green color that characterizes the best specimens from this locality.
The specimen comes from the Wendell E. Wilson collection, as attested by the label on the back of the specimen. We will send the buyer the original collection tag.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2 × 2.1 cm = 1.61” × 0.79” × 0.83”

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

Zoned fluorescence long & short UV
Pyromorphite
 

MH57AJ1: Aerial group of very well defined Pyromorphite crystals with a tapered shape due to slight curvatures of faces and edges. They have a neat color change between the brownish green prism faces and the flat terminal pinacoids that are lemon yellow. A French classic.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.1 × 1.9 cm = 1.73” × 0.83” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.28” × 0.16”

Pyromorphite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite. Rear
Rear
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén

Recorded under neon light

Recorded under neon light
 

TBB68CD4: Floater piece with natural cavities that is very characteristic of the Des Farges Mine, both for the morphology of the crystals, being slightly tapered and curved prisms with flat ends, as well as the excellent luster and yellow color (somewhat greenish), with more color zoning deep in the center of the crystals.
A classic of French mineralogy from Henri Jammot's collection.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.4 × 2.9 cm = 1.73” × 0.94” × 1.14”

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

Former collection of Henri Jammot
Pyromorphite
 

NC50C9: Real Les Farges green in this specimen. Form, color, luster, perfection: all perfect in this unquestionable specimen. The collector who buys this one will always be happy with it, in my opinion.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4 × 3 cm = 1.77” × 1.57” × 1.18”

Pyromorphite.
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite. Rear
Rear
 

TP90T0: Very aerial group of prismatic crystals, most of them doubly terminated, slightly tapered, of green color zoned on the terminations , where they are clearer. A great European classic.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.81” × 1.10” × 0.91”

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

Pyromorphite
 

TF36H6: The sample forms arborescent growths of crystals with hopper terminations. They have the deep green color that made famous the Pyromorphite from this locality.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France (1976-1980)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.2 × 3 cm = 1.89” × 1.26” × 1.18”

Pyromorphite.
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite. Top
Top
Pyromorphite. Side
Side
Pyromorphite  

NW37AM4: Arborescent growths of Pyromorphite crystals with tapered habit and hopper terminations. With good luster and an intense grass-green color.
A French classic that comes from the Ignacio Gaspar collection (number PIF-58), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France (±1974)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.2 × 3 cm = 1.97” × 1.26” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.2 cm = 0.24” × 0.08”

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar
Pyromorphite with Quartz
 

EL14AD6: Aggregates of Pyromorphite crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are translucent, very bright and have a very vivid and uniform green color. They are on a matrix of Quartz crystals, very uncommon at Les Farges and probably from a recent find in zones near the old mines.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 5.2 × 5 × 3.9 cm = 2.05” × 1.97” × 1.54”

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

Pyromorphite with Quartz. Pyromorphite with Quartz.
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Pyromorphite.
Pyromorphite  

TV94X7: Bundled aggregates of prismatic crystals with hollow terminations. They have a very deep and uniform green color. An excellent classic, of great quality, from Les Farges.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.9 × 1.8 cm = 2.13” × 1.54” × 0.71”

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

Former collection of Gilles Emringer
Pyromorphite and Baryte
Pyromorphite and Baryte  

MD67AD1: Crystals with very well defined faces and edges, and with an intense green color very typical for Les Farges, coating a group of very sharp white Baryte crystals.
A French classic, with an excellent quality, from the Gaudry collection.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.2 × 2.8 cm = 2.17” × 1.26” × 1.10”

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

Minor fluorescence short UV
Pyromorphite and Baryte. Pyromorphite and Baryte.
Pyromorphite with Quartz
Pyromorphite with Quartz. Front
Front
Pyromorphite with Quartz. Side
Side
Pyromorphite with Quartz.
 

EZ47AL5: Very aerial group of Pyromorphite crystals, many of them doubly terminated, with an intense deep green color, on matrix, with Quartz. The shape of the crystals, very elongated, on matrix, makes this specimen different from other Pyromorphites from this classic French deposit.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 5.6 × 2.4 × 1.8 cm = 2.20” × 0.94” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.1 cm = 0.24” × 0.04”

Pyromorphite
 

TPA1ASN1: Arborescent growths of Pyromorphite crystals with tapered habit, radiated arrangement, and very deep hoppered terminations of very intense brown tone but with more yellowish terminations.
This very aesthetic and high-quality specimen is practically a floater, although it has a small remnant of matrix on which the crystals have grown.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.5 × 4.3 cm = 2.01” × 1.77” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.9 cm = 0.63” × 0.35”

Photo: Pere Alonso
Pyromorphite.


Pyromorphite with Quartz and Baryte
Pyromorphite with Quartz and Baryte. Front
Front
Pyromorphite with Quartz and Baryte. Side
Side
Pyromorphite with Quartz and Baryte.
 

EH98AK1: Pyromorphite crystals with a very intense and vivid color, translucent, bright and on a Baryte matrix coated by small white Quartz crystals. A French classic, different from the usual.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.1 × 4 cm = 2.24” × 1.61” × 1.57”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Pyromorphite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Pyromorphite
 

HM360LG: Group of Pyromorphite crystals with a tapered habit produced by the curvatures on the faces and edges and with very deep hopper terminations. These lustrous crystals have the olive-brown color so typical of many specimens from the locality..
This specimen is from the Philippe Morelon collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 5.9 × 3.7 × 3.8 cm = 2.32” × 1.46” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.43” × 0.28”

Former collection of Philippe Morelon
Pyromorphite.
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite. Rear
Rear
Pyromorphite.
 

EF52AI7: Exquisite cluster of small elongated crystals with good, acute or flat pinacoidal terminations. They are bright, with an extraordinarily deep and uniform green color and are on a Baryte matrix. An excellent French classic.
The sample is from the Paul Zerfass collection (reg. 462) whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 6 × 5.1 × 4.1 cm = 2.36” × 2.01” × 1.61”

Former collection of Paul Zerfass
Pyromorphite
 

TXA50CD5: Arborescent growths of prismatic Pyromorphite crystals ending in a hopper termination, and with the intense green color that has given so much fame to the pyromorphites from this locality, a classic of French mineralogy.
As if that were not enough, these crystals grow on a rock matrix, an aspect that gives good balance to the entire specimen.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 6.4 × 6 × 4.9 cm = 2.52” × 2.36” × 1.93”


Recorded under neon light

Recorded under neon light
Pyromorphite (two generations)


 

TXL67ASN1: A curious Pyromorphite specimen from the Les Farges Mine, formed by two generations of crystals with different habits. The original generation features aerial aggregates of hexagonal crystals with the well-known brown-yellowish color from this mine and hopper growths on leafy Baryte crystals covered with limonite. The second generation consists of much finer, radiating crystals that stand out for their grass-green tone, providing a clear color contrast.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 6.5 × 2.4 × 1.3 cm = 2.56” × 0.94” × 0.51”

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

Pyromorphite with Quartz

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

LT46AK0: Druse of Pyromorphite crystals on a Quartz matrix with very well defined faces and edges, some of them doubly terminated, with slightly curved edges and perfect terminal faces, translucent, very bright and a grass green color that is extraordinarily intense and very uniform. The sample is from the Philippe Morelon collection (number 1479) whose label, which includes more information on the back, will be sent to the buyer.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.2 × 2.9 cm = 2.56” × 1.65” × 1.14”

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

Former collection of Philippe Morelon
Pyromorphite with Quartz. Front
Front
Pyromorphite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Pyromorphite with Quartz.
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Pyromorphite.
 

ED29AM3: Pyromorphite crystal growths with a tapered habit and shiny hopper terminations with an intense grass-green color. We highlight the unusualness of the globular forms of the matrix. A French classic.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.3 × 3.9 cm = 2.68” × 2.09” × 1.54”

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

Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite  

TV50X7: Flattened parallel growths and very well defined crystals with good terminations and geometrical color zoning, clearer at the crystal terminations. There are two different shades of color on the sample, deep and uniform green on most on them and yellowish green in some minor areas.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 6.9 × 6.5 × 3.3 cm = 2.72” × 2.56” × 1.30”

Former collection of Gilles Emringer
Pyromorphite. Pyromorphite.
Pyromorphite with Baryte
Pyromorphite with Baryte. Pyromorphite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EBR99AO0: Pyromorphite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, some with very deep hopper terminations and many of them doubly terminated. Brilliant, with the characteristic brown-greenish color in Des Farges, on a group of very sharp white Baryte crystals.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 7 × 4.7 × 3.8 cm = 2.76” × 1.85” × 1.50”

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

Pyromorphite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EPB89AP0: Pyromorphite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, many of them doubly terminated, with good luster and an intense orange color, on matrix. The specimen was published on page 21 of the French magazine Le Régne Minèral, Hors-série of the year 2009 (“Mine des Farges” monograph) and was previously in the collections of Denis Boël (number 979) and Alain Martaud, whose labels we will send to the buyer.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 7.1 × 5.1 × 2.9 cm = 2.80” × 2.01” × 1.14”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Denis Boël, number 979

Former collection of Alain Martaud
Pyromorphite. Pyromorphite.
Pyromorphite with Quartz
Pyromorphite with Quartz. Pyromorphite with Quartz.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TD47AH2: Tapered prismatic crystals with curvatures on the prism edges, with very well defined faces and edges, a lot of them doubly terminated. They are on a Quartz matrix. The luster and the color, intense and uniform green, is extraordinary. An excellent French classic.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.6 × 1.8 cm = 2.95” × 2.60” × 0.71”

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

Pyromorphite with Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TFM46AP3: Spheroidal aggregates of lustrous Pyromorphite crystals, with an intense and uniform deep green color, on a Baryte matrix. There is a methacrylate base configured so that the piece fits into it. It comes from the Alain Tuel collection.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 8.1 × 3.6 × 3.4 cm = 3.19” × 1.42” × 1.34”

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

Pyromorphite with Baryte. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Pyromorphite with Baryte. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Pyromorphite with Baryte. Detail / Foto: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Foto: Joaquim Callén
Pyromorphite with Baryte
Pyromorphite with Baryte. Pyromorphite with Baryte.
 

ET74Z8: Irregular aggregate of simple prismatic crystals on matrix. A lot of the crystals are doubly terminated and have a good size, have slightly curved faces and edges, are a very bright olive-green color on the prism with intense yellow shades on their terminations, so typical of some of the samples from Les Farges. A very elegant French classic.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 11.6 × 8.5 × 3.5 cm = 4.57” × 3.35” × 1.38”

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

Pyromorphite on Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EF61AL8: Efflorescent aggregates of Pyromorphite crystals with curvatures on their faces and edges, bright, with an intense green color and on a matrix of “book-like” Baryte crystals. A French classic.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 12.3 × 8.7 × 4.6 cm = 4.84” × 3.43” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.1 cm = 0.28” × 0.04”

Pyromorphite on Baryte. Front
Front
Pyromorphite on Baryte. Side
Side
Pyromorphite on Baryte.
Pyromorphite with Baryte
Pyromorphite with Baryte. Pyromorphite with Baryte.
 

EM71AD5: Aggregates of crystals with a very uncommon shape and color for Les Farges, with curved faces and edges, doubly terminated, bright, with an orange color and on a matrix of white Baryte crystals.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 13.5 × 9.3 × 5.2 cm = 5.31” × 3.66” × 2.05”

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

Minor fluorescence short UV
Pyromorphite with Quartz

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

AA59AM7: Large druse of Pyromorphite crystals on matrix with very sharp crystal forms and deeply hoppered terminations, with good luster and an intense and lively grass-green color.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 13.7 × 11.8 × 10 cm = 5.39” × 4.65” × 3.94”

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

Pyromorphite with Quartz. Pyromorphite with Quartz.
Pyromorphite with Quartz.
Pyromorphite with Quartz
Pyromorphite with Quartz. Pyromorphite with Quartz.
 

EB86J5: Different from the usual habit for the locality. The crystals, of excellent luster, are prismatic, relatively short and a lot of them are doubly terminated. The color, apple-green, is different for the locality.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France (±1970)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 8.5 × 4.5 cm = 5.71” × 3.35” × 1.77”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV
Mimetite with Pyromorphite and Wulfenite
 

PC96G0: Due to the crystal habit, we thought it could be Mimetite. Analysis indicates that every individual is formed from an inner crystal of Pyromorphite covered, in a second phase, with Mimetite. Completing the specimen, a little orange crystal of Wulfenite stands on the top. As we normally do in these cases we will send the buyer a copy of the analysis.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France (1972)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.9 × 3 cm = 1.73” × 1.54” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.1 cm = 0.20” × 0.04”

Mimetite with Pyromorphite and Wulfenite.
Mimetite with Pyromorphite and Wulfenite.
Mimetite with Pyromorphite and Wulfenite.
Aragonite with Quartz (variety hematoide)
Aragonite with Quartz (variety hematoide). Front
Front
Aragonite with Quartz (variety hematoide). Side
Side

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

ERM16AP1: Two floater twinned crystals of Aragonite with very sharp crystal forms, translucent in part, and partially coated by small red Quartz crystals (hematoide variety). High quality for the locality.
Bastennes, Dax District, Landes Department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 7.3 × 6.4 × 5.6 cm = 2.87” × 2.52” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 4.2 cm = 1.73” × 1.65”

Fluorite
 

TRM16AN4: Very sharp crystals of Fluorite, transparent, with good luster and a very distinct geometric color zoning, on matrix.
This specimen, from a little-known locality, comes from the Alain Martaud collection.
Birrity Quarry, Arbouet-Sussaute, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 8.8 × 7.2 × 3.7 cm = 3.46” × 2.83” × 1.46”

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

Former collection of Alain Martaud
Fluorite. Fluorite.

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