MB9E0: This comes from the great find of native copper made at the Itauz Mine. It is a very esthetic floater. There are small crystals of Cuprite among the Copper that add color and a special touch to the specimen.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan (06/03)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.79” × 0.59” × 0.12”

EC26F7: Good definition and good construction! The lengthening of the crystals and the branch- like structure reminds one of a bird's feather. Partially covered by Cuprite but underneath a brilliant copper color.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan (09/2003)

Specimen size: 4 × 2 × 0.8 cm = 1.57” × 0.79” × 0.31”

TT37N4: Curved, extraordinarily elongated and flat crystal of native Copper that is on a dendritic smaller group. The Copper is partially coated by reddish Cuprite and small growths of Malachite. A very elegant piece.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan (2008)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.6 × 2.7 cm = 2.17” × 1.42” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 1.3 cm = 1.73” × 0.51”

ER67AD8: Dendritic growth, very esthetic, of Copper crystals with perfectly well defined faces and edges and very visibly twinned according to the Spinel law.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 5.3 × 2.1 × 0.8 cm = 2.09” × 0.83” × 0.31”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.39” × 0.20”

MRR69CD4: Very sharp skeletal crystal with very marked spinel-law twinning, with well-developed faces and edges and of considerable dimensions for the locality. More reddish in color than usual for native coppers.
The locality was very prolific in its time, but more recently nothing comes from there anymore, and only old specimens like this one are available.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 6.3 × 1.3 × 0.4 cm = 2.48” × 0.51” × 0.16”

Main crystal size: 6.3 × 1.3 cm = 2.48” × 0.51”

TE88J5: The excellent specimen is very esthetic due to the large size of the main crystal, which is partially skeletal with very well defined faces and edges on an arborescent growth of small Cooper crystals.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan (09/2006)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.6 × 1.4 cm = 2.52” × 1.42” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 0.9 cm = 1.77” × 0.35”

TR67N4: Extraordinarily elongated and flat crystal with a very obvious spinel twin. On its upper part it has dendritic growths of smaller Copper crystals. The reddish shade is due to a Cuprite coating.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan (2008)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 2.3 × 1 cm = 3.27” × 0.91” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 1.3 cm = 2.05” × 0.51”

TG56AF8: Very aerial dendritic growth of flattened complex crystals, some of them with very well defined dodecahedral faces. It is bright and with small remnants of a rocky matrix. The sample is from the Vallecillo collection, Madrid.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 11.4 × 10.8 × 3.6 cm = 4.49” × 4.25” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.7 cm = 0.59” × 0.28”

MXL90AO2: Very aerial dendritic growth of elongated octahedral Copper crystals, with a very sharp spinel-law twin. The exact locality of the specimen is difficult to determine because of its age, but according Russian experts it belongs to the Dzezkhazgan copper zone of the former USSR.
Satpayev, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 10.8 × 5.3 × 2 cm = 4.25” × 2.09” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 0.7 cm = 1.06” × 0.28”

GG37AK0: Group of octahedral Fluorite crystals on a matrix of white Quartz crystals, with polycrystalline surfaces showing the faces of the cube. The crystals have an unusual black color for Fluorite (antozonite variety). The sample is from the Casado Margolles collection (number FRM 48) whose record we will send to the buyer.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with it.
This specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 598 in the volume 53, number 5, September-October 2022

Akchatau, Shet, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 8.1 × 6.4 × 2.7 cm = 3.19” × 2.52” × 1.06”

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

TR87M0: A huge size octahedron of Fluorite with echeloned growths that recall an Aztec pyramid. On a Quartz matrix partially covered by small Bertrandite crystals and Pyrite. A really great specimen.
Kara-Oba, Betpak-Dala (Bet-Pak-Dala) Desert, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan (±1990)

Specimen size: 15 × 12.5 × 11.5 cm = 5.91” × 4.92” × 4.53”

Main crystal size: 12.5 × 11.2 cm = 4.92” × 4.41”

GX96AK0: Two octahedral crystals, one of them dominant, translucent with a uniform light green color and perched in a Microcline matrix partially covered by white Quartz crystals. The sample is from the Casado Margolles collection (number FRM 136) whose record we will send to the buyer.
Kent Massif, Karkaraly District, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.5 × 3,2 cm = 3.62” × 2.95” × 1.18”

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

TL96AL7: Parallel growth of two octahedral crystals beveled by the dodecahedron, very sharp, transparent, colorless and on a matrix of Pyrrhotite.
The specimen comes from the Robert J. Noble collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Second Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 1.02” × 0.87” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.51”

EF92AL9: Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant. Transparent, shiny, with an intense green color and very rich in inclusions in the core of the crystal, with a marked dissolution channel. The specimen is from the prestigious collection of Fluorite by Pierre-Marie Guy.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3 × 4.5 cm = 1.85” × 1.18” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.87”

TQM63AN3: Floater polycrystalline group of very sharp Cuprite crystals, with bright luster and intense reddish flashes around the edges.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

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

TXB26AO0: Floater group of octahedral Cuprite crystals, one of them dominant and very aerial, with slight curvatures on the edges, translucent, lustrous, and with a deep red color.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.1 × 2 × 1.5 cm = 0.83” × 0.79” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.7 cm = 0.75” × 0.67”

TMR76AO4: Very sharp floater octahedral Cuprite crystal, with slight curvatures on the edges, with good luster and intense reddish flashes near the edges.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.9 × 1.7 cm = 0.83” × 0.75” × 0.67”

MR96AM9: Group of very sharp cubo-octahedral Cuprite crystals, with clearly dominant octahedron faces, translucent, with bright luster and vivid reddish reflections.
We will send the specimen, which comes from the Robert J. Noble collection, in its original Perky box from that collection, which also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2.2 × 2.5 cm = 0.91” × 0.87” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.1 cm = 0.51” × 0.43”

TXF96AO1: Complete octahedral floater Cuprite crystal, very sharp, with parallel growths, good luster, intense reddish sparkling reflections on the edges and related small Copper crystals.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.79” × 0.63”

MD66AM6: Very sharp octahedral Cuprite crystals, translucent, with good luster and a deep red color, with some of the crystals totally or partially covered by small crystallizations of Copper. We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

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

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

TD36AJ1: Spheroidal aggregates of small cubic Miersite crystals with a greenish-yellow color spread on an aggregate of platy translucent very bright Azurite crystals on a limonite matrix.
We will send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.4 × 1.1 cm = 1.06” × 0.94” × 0.43”

TX66N0: A novelty for Tucson 2009. Group of crystals with extraordinary luster and reddish reflections. On crystals predominate, very sharp, the forms of the octahedron and the dodecahedron. The sample is from a recent find (July and Augost of 2008) on a Russian locality practically unknown until now.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (06-08/2008)

Specimen size: 1.5 × 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.55” × 0.51”

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

MN69R8: Group of very well defined octahedral crystals with slightly curved faces and edges and very rare spongy growths of native Silver in the interstices between crystals.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (22/06/2010)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.2 × 3 cm = 1.38” × 1.26” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.51”

VF99AI8: Native Copper crystals that have very well defined faces and edges with the dominant octahedral form, very bright, associated with groups of octahedral Cuprite crystals that have coatings of Silver.
The sample is from the Jordi Vilallonga collection.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (06-08/2008)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.26” × 1.06”

TQ64N0: A novelty for Tucson 2009. An excellent group both for its size and for the crystal size. The crystals are octahedrons with slight curvatures of faces and edges. They have very good luster and reddish reflections especially vivid under a strong light. The sample is from a recent find (July and August of 2008) at a Russian locality practically unknown until now.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘what’s new at Tucson 2009’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 7 of number 3/2009
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (06-08/2008)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.2 × 4.6 cm = 2.28” × 1.65” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.87” × 0.63”

TT91S0: Great group of octahedral crystals of Cuprite, very bright and with slightly curved faces and edges. They are on matrix and the crystals on the back are partially coated by native Silver.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (20-25/11/2010)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 7.7 × 4.2 cm = 2.56” × 3.03” × 1.65”

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

TT47N0: A novelty for Tucson 2009. Dendritic aggregate crystals, deformed but very sharp faces and edges. Partially covered by octahedral crystals of Cuprite and small crystals of Cerussite, which is a very uncommon paragenesis. The sample is from a recent find (July and August of 2008) at a Russian locality practically unknown until now.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 280 in number 2009/4
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (06-08/2008)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 3.1 × 2.3 cm = 1.30” × 1.22” × 0.91”

TR88N0: A novelty for Tucson 2009. Groups of very sharp small octahedral crystals with slight curvatures of faces and edges, excellent luster and reddish reflections especially vivid under a strong light. The Cuprite grew on dendritic Copper also in sharp crystals. Very esthetic. The sample is from a recent find (July and August of 2008) at a Russian locality practically unknown until now.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 29 in number 2009/2.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (06-08/2008)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.4 × 3 cm = 1.85” × 1.34” × 1.18”

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

TQ89W8: Aggregate of Copper crystals that are pseudomorphs and perimorphs after octahedral crystals of Cuprite, with a second generation of small octahedral crystals of Cuprite with vivid reddish reflections.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (20-25/11/2010)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.3 × 2.8 cm = 1.77” × 1.69” × 1.10”

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

TJJ66AN9: Complete polycrystalline floater growth of octahedral Cuprite crystals, finely beveled by the faces of the dodecahedron, lustrous, and with abundant aggregates of microcrystals of the rare species Miersite.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.7 × 1.9 cm = 1.14” × 0.67” × 0.75”

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

TV90S0: A novelty at Tucson 2011. Arborescent growths of octahedral crystals of native Copper perimorphs after Cuprite and partially covered by octahedral crystals of the same species that are very bright with slightly curved faces and edges.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (20-25/11/2010)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.2 × 2.3 cm = 2.13” × 1.65” × 0.91”

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

MP46W8: Aggregate of octahedral crystals some of them showing very small faces of the cube. The crystals, with very well defined faces and edges, are coated in some areas by lemon yellow crystals, isolated or clustered, of Miersite, a rare iodide of silver and copper.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (2011)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.8 × 2.6 cm = 1.26” × 1.10” × 1.02”

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

EA11AC1: A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2015. Cubic Miersite crystals, one of them clearly dominant. The crystals are very sharp, transparent, with a greenish-yellow color and they are implanted on an aggregate of very bright Azurite crystals on a rocky matrix. To our knowledge this association hasn’t been found before at Rubtsovskoye.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 6-1, oxidation zone, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (08/2014)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.7 × 1.1 cm = 0.79” × 0.67” × 0.43”

EE6AC1: A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2015. Spheroidal aggregates of small cubic Miersite crystals, with a greenish-yellow color, spread on an aggregate of Azurite crystals, with small twinned Cerussite crystals. To our knowledge this association hasn’t been found before at Rubtsovskoye.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 6-1, oxidation zone, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (08/2014)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2 × 1.1 cm = 0.98” × 0.79” × 0.43”

EC13AC1: A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2015. Spheroidal aggregates of small cubic Miersite crystals, with a greenish-yellow color, spread on a nodule of Azurite crystals on matrix with small Malachite crystals. To our knowledge this association hasn’t been found before at Rubtsovskoye.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 6-1, oxidation zone, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (08/2014)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 1.8 × 2.2 cm = 1.38” × 0.71” × 0.87”

MT66W8: Aggregate of octahedral crystals some of them showing very small faces of the cube. The crystals, with very well defined faces and edges, are coated in some areas by lemon yellow crystals, isolated or clustered, of Miersite, a rare iodide of silver and copper.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (2011)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3 × 2.7 cm = 1.38” × 1.18” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.7 cm = 0.98” × 0.67”

TR86AL6: Floater cuboctahedral crystal of Cuprite with very balanced cube and rhombododecahedron faces, with hopper growths on some of the faces and with very intense translucent red internal reflections.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

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

TRN46AN3: Floater group of Copper crystals, very lustrous, with unusually sharp crystal forms in which the dodecahedron and octahedron predominate.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
This specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 482 in the volume 53, number 4, July-August 2022
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.1 ×  1.4 cm = 0.71” × 0.43” × 0.55”

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

NFR66AO8: Dendritic growth of elongated Copper crystals, with the crystal forms of the octahedron and the rhombododecahedron, very balanced and partially covered by plates and cubo-octahedral micro-crystals of Cuprite with translucent reflections of an intense red color.
The specimen is both aesthetic and representative of the locality, and comes to us from the collection of Santiago Jiménez García.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.1 × 0.5 cm = 2.52” × 1.61” × 0.20”

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

TR70Z5: Group, on matrix, of very sharp and acute crystals whose habit is very different from the Axinite-(Fe) from other Russian, French or Pakistani localities. Their brightness is excellent and they have a very deep color.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 8.1 × 6.9 × 4.9 cm = 3.19” × 2.72” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.1 cm = 1.06” × 0.43”

TFB16AO0: Group of sharp Axinite (Group) crystals, with a very elongated habit, uncommon in Russian specimens, translucent, with good luster and a very deep color, with purplish reflections, and covered by Quartz microcrystals.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.6 × 1 cm = 1.14” × 0.63” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.67” × 0.28”

MK63AN0: Isolated floater crystal of Datolite with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, with good luster and pale green color.
We will ship the specimen in the original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.6 × 2.2 cm = 1.10” × 1.02” × 0.87”

TK14AN2: Group of Datolite crystals very rich in faces, translucent, with good luster and a pale green color with slightly bluish tones.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 3.7 × 1.9 × 1.9 cm = 1.46” × 0.75” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2 cm = 0.94” × 0.79”

NC14F2: The crystal is very well defined and has excellent color. The contrast with the small crystals of pink Calcite adds balance.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.5 × 3.5 cm = 2.17” × 1.38” × 1.38”

AF96S9: Group of doubly terminated crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very well defined faces and edges, on a group of white crystals of Quartz, a lot of them doubly terminated. The crystals of Datolite, translucent and bright, have the clear green color typical of most of the samples from Dalnegorsk.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.4 × 4.2 cm = 2.91” × 1.73” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 3.2 cm = 1.65” × 1.26”

TM86AL4: Very well defined Datolite crystal of good size, translucent, a uniform pale green with slightly yellow tones and on matrix with small very sharp Calcite crystals that also partially cover the Datolite.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.6 × 4.6 cm = 3.03” × 2.20” × 1.81”

MC97Z1: Group of equant Datolite crystals partially coated by smoky Quartz crystals. They are bright, have a clear green color and fine parallel striations, perpendicular to the main axis, due to former flat crystals of Quartz already dissolved.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 12.8 × 8.2 × 7.7 cm = 5.04” × 3.23” × 3.03”

Main crystal size: 7.5 × 7 cm = 2.95” × 2.76”

TF14E2: An unusual Fluorite, with crystals that look like they were frozen and have an unusual form. This one also has a Prase Quartz standing up on it, adding to the beauty of the Fluorite. It is an undamaged floater.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (07/03)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.8 × 2.8 cm = 1.57” × 1.50” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.9 cm = 0.94” × 0.75”

TC96H6: Fluorite in a group of beveled clear crystals esthetically grown on a group of spindled crystals of Quartz covered by a second generation of drusy Quartz crystals.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia

Specimen size: 8.2 × 5.2 × 6.1 cm = 3.23” × 2.05” × 2.40”

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

EB87D2: Once in a while a particular specimen really grabs me. In this case the incredible esthetics of this doubly terminated Ilvaite which seems to be resting on a bed of crystals of Hedenbergite really appeals to me. And to just to add to the party there is a band of brilliant metallic Galena as the base of the specimen.
First Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 4 × 2.8 × 1.8 cm = 1.57” × 1.10” × 0.71”

TG29H7: Prismatic crystals of excellent black color and luster. The crystal has very sharply defined faces and edges and a perfect termination and its lenght is uncommon. The Ilvaites from Dalnegorsk, relatively abundant some years ago, are now scarce.
First Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (±1998)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 3.3 × 2.3 cm = 2.83” × 1.30” × 0.91”

M26DTI3: Parallel growth of two prismatic crystals, one of them dominant and partially doubly terminated. With a small matrix.
Second Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4 × 3.1 cm = 2.68” × 1.57” × 1.22”

LE36AK2: Quartz crystals with an unusual habit, curious "double" rhombohedral terminations, brilliant, bright red due to inclusions of Hematite and partially recrystallized. The specimen is one of the few that could be recovered in Magnetite matrix. From the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 593), whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Second Sovetskii Mine, 230↓, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 8.4 × 8.2 × 8.3 cm = 3.31” × 3.23” × 3.27”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1 cm = 1.65” × 0.39”

TBX13AN8: Doubly terminated scalenohedral crystals of Calcite, one of them clearly dominant, between transparent and colorless, very lustrous, oriented and on matrix.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label that states that it was previously in the Melanson collection.
Verkhnii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 3.7 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.46” × 0.67” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.2 cm = 1.02” × 0.47”

MB29AI8: Group of Calcite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and with the clearly dominant scalenohedron but very rich in other minor forms. The crystals are of great quality and are transparent and very bright.
The sample is from the Jordi Vilallonga collection.
Verkhnii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (1992)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 5.8 × 6 cm = 3.78” × 2.28” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 9.6 × 4.5 cm = 3.78” × 1.77”

ML27H1: A group of very complex crystals, with dominant scalenohedron but having a lot of different forms. Crystals are very clear and bright. A very esthetic sample.
Verkhnii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.2 × 3.3 cm = 3.86” × 2.83” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.6 cm = 0.98” × 0.63”

VG76G7: The growth is very curious. The Calcite forms very long scalenohedrons which are covered by multiple growths of little scalenohedral crystals of the same mineral. Calcite has a nice pale pink color and it’s on a matrix covered by little Quartz crystals.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 12 × 9 × 5 cm = 4.72” × 3.54” × 1.97”

M99CNH5: Group of scalenohedral crystals of Calcite. They are transparent, bright and have very sharp faces and edges. The sample is with a label from the former Soviet Union, with the old name for the locality Dalnegorsk (Tetjuhe).
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 12.5 × 10.2 × 4.5 cm = 4.92” × 4.02” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.2 cm = 1.38” × 0.87”

TB36E4: What color! An amazing yellow, this crystal of Chalcopyrite also has great form and is well positioned on the matrix of Quartz and some Sphalerite.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (12/03)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 1.9 × 3.6 × cm = 1.54” × 0.75” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.6 cm = 0.75” × 0.63”

THJ64AN4: Cubo-octahedral Galena crystal with very balanced crystal forms, lustrous, on Hedenbergite matrix.
We will ship the piece in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.75” × 0.55”

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

TM66G9: Crystals of Galena are very bright and they have a curious flattened habit and seem to form a mosaic contrasting with white Calcite. Some Sphalerite crystals bless the piece.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (2005)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 7.2 × 3.2 cm = 2.91” × 2.83” × 1.26”

TL26AN2: Group of very sharp Sphalerite crystals with a tetrahedral habit, lustrous, on matrix, with Calcite and Quartz.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which shows that it was previously in the Melanson collection.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia

Specimen size: 3 × 2.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.18” × 1.02” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.02” × 0.94”

JE73F3: The group, whose crystals have the form typical of Sphalerite with a dominance of the tetrahedron, is very well developed and the crystals have neat growth patterns. Its size, black color, intense brilliance, and good position of the group on the Quartz matrix all make this especially attractive.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (1990)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 6.1 × 4.8 cm = 4.13” × 2.40” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 6.1 × 4.7 cm = 2.40” × 1.85”

MH13AM8: Very sharp doubly terminated crystal of Pyrrhotite, with distinct parallel growths and intense luster. On matrix, with Quartz and Sphalerite crystals.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.10” × 0.91” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.75”

DV28AC7: Aggregate of thick tabular Pyrrhotite crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are bright and on a Sphalerite matrix with Quartz crystals.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.5 × 3.4 cm = 2.28” × 1.77” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.06” × 0.98”

SV89AJ0: Large Pyrrhotite crystals with very well defined parallel growths, with an intense brass color and luster and on matrix with small Quartz and Pyrite crystals and twinned Sphalerite.
The sample was in the Desmond Sacco collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 9.2 × 6.5 × 6.2 cm = 3.62” × 2.56” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 3.5 cm = 1.85” × 1.38”

TZ70Y0: Aggregates of very sharp Axinite-(Mn) crystals with notably curved growing forms, whose shape is very different than the Axinite-(Fe) from other Russian and French samples. The crystals have an excellent luster and a very deep and uniform brown color.
Verkhnii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 6.3 × 3.8 × 2.5 cm = 2.48” × 1.50” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1 cm = 0.83” × 0.39”

MC97S3: Aggregate of sharp and very bright crystals of Arsenopyrite, most of them doubly terminated, with cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena and small crystals of Quartz. An excellent sample for the locality, in which Arsenopyrite is relatively rare.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (±1994)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 9.4 × 4.7 cm = 4.92” × 3.70” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.51”

CL37H2: The inclusions on the lower on the sample give it a rude aspect. In spite of this the color is magnificent, with beautiful orange reflections, very well shaped and gemmy on its termination.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 7.3 × 2.8 × 3.8 cm = 2.87” × 1.10” × 1.50”

DM89AE3: The crystal, very large for the locality, combines a prism and a terminal rhombohedron, with very well defined polycrystalline faces. I It is translucent and bright with a very intense and uniform pink color. There is a small bit of Sphalerite at its base.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 10.2 × 8.8 × 7.8 cm = 4.02” × 3.46” × 3.07”

TT86E0: Although many people call this "beta" Quartz, it is not. They do so because it resembles beta Quartz, which means that there are no prism faces, only pseudo pyramidal faces. Dalnegorsk is one of the localities that are well known for this called "beta" Quartz (although of course them are not a specie) Given the brilliance, definition of the faces, and esthetics this one could be considered to be among the best.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.4 × 4.6 cm = 2.09” × 1.73” × 1.81”

NRM29AO0: Sphalerite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, in which the forms of the tetrahedron and the polysynthetic twinning typical of this species predominate. On matrix, with fine, very lustrous, water-clear Quartz crystals and small groups of brown rhombohedral Siderite crystals.
Very fine and elegant piece.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.4 × 3.4 cm = 2.05” × 1.73” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.2 cm = 1.22” × 0.87”

MM17N4: The crystal has polycrystalline surfaces with the typical spindled shape of the samples from this locality. The sample is very aerial and esthetic on a matrix very rich with small crystals of Andradite.
Sinerechenskoe, Primorsky Krai  Russia (2008)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.7 × 4.1 cm = 2.87” × 2.24” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 6 × 1.6 cm = 2.36” × 0.63”

EB58E9: The crystal is large, very aerial, has good color and brilliance. It stands out from the matrix, and has the typical widening for prase Quartz from this locality. The matrix has other small prase Quartz crystals as well as small Andradite crystals.
Sinerechenskoe, Primorsky Krai  Russia (1999)

Specimen size: 10 × 6 × 5.5 cm = 3.94” × 2.36” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 7 × 2 cm = 2.76” × 0.79”

TM27Y6: Floater and doubly terminated loop-like growth with a thin central zone and progressive widening toward the terminations, typical with prase Quartz from this locality.
The sample is from the Roy Foerster collection (num. 1225), whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Sinerechenskoe, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 10.5 × 2.1 × 2.1 cm = 4.13” × 0.83” × 0.83”