TE13Q4: Parallel and skeletal growths of octahedral crystals, pseudomorphs after Magnetite, and almost completely covered by a second generation of laminar and bright crystals of Hematite.
Payún Matru Volcano, Malargüe, Malargüe Department, Mendoza Province  Argentina (2008)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.3 × 2.2 cm = 2.09” × 1.30” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.38” × 0.59”

TG14Q4: Parallel and skeletal growths of octahedral crystals, pseudomorphs after Magnetite, and almost completely covered by a second generation of laminar and bright crystals of Hematite.
Payún Matru Volcano, Malargüe, Malargüe Department, Mendoza Province  Argentina (2008)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5.5 × 4.2 cm = 2.20” × 2.17” × 1.65”

EK87K3: On the specimen coexist two generations of crystals of Hematite. The first one has arborescent growths of octahedral crystals that are pseudomorphs after Magnetite (the variety Martite). On those octahedrons is formed a second generation of very bright laminar crystals of Hematite. Aside from its mineralogical interest, the specimen is notably esthetic. A very good sample.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 286 in number 2007/4.
Payún Matru Volcano, Malargüe, Malargüe Department, Mendoza Province  Argentina (04/2007)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 10.3 × 7.7 cm = 3.58” × 4.06” × 3.03”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3.3 cm = 1.38” × 1.30”

EL66Q1: Parallel growths of octahedral crystals, pseudomorphs of Magnetite with very well defined faces and edges. On the faces of the Hematite a second generation of very bright thin small laminar crystals of the same mineral has formed.
Payún Matru Volcano, Malargüe, Malargüe Department, Mendoza Province  Argentina (2008)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 7.7 × 5.7 cm = 3.82” × 3.03” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 5 × 4.5 cm = 1.97” × 1.77”

TA57AI4: Very aerial parallel growth, on matrix, of very sharp Hematite crystals (after octahedral Magnetite) with very well defined skeletal growths, extraordinarily bright and partially coated by small recrystallized lenticular Hematite crystals. The sample is from an area currently defined as a National Park so it is not allowed to collect there any more.
Payún Matru Volcano, Malargüe, Malargüe Department, Mendoza Province  Argentina (2008)

Specimen size: 10 × 5.6 × 6.2 cm = 3.94” × 2.20” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 1.50” × 1.26”

EP96M5: A novelty this year in Munich, because it is from a very recent find. Parallel and skeletal growths of octahedral crystals, some of them extraordinarily elongated, pseudomorphs after Magnetite, very well defined, bright and almost completely covered by a second generation of small laminar crystals of Hematite.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘what’s new at Munich 2008’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 16 of number 1/2009.
Payún Matru Volcano, Malargüe, Malargüe Department, Mendoza Province  Argentina

Specimen size: 10.9 × 7.6 × 5.7 cm = 4.29” × 2.99” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 7 × 5 cm = 2.76” × 1.97”

ET96M5: A novelty this year in Munich, because it is from a very recent find. Parallel and skeletal growths of octahedral crystals, some of them extraordinarily elongated, pseudomorphs after Magnetite, very well defined, bright and almost completely covered by a second generation of small laminar crystals of Hematite.
Payún Matru Volcano, Malargüe, Malargüe Department, Mendoza Province  Argentina

Specimen size: 11.7 × 8.9 × 6.1 cm = 4.61” × 3.50” × 2.40”

Main crystal size: 6 × 3.9 cm = 2.36” × 1.54”

EE17AD4: Parallel growth of doubly terminated amethyst crystals that formed a scepter partially coating a white Quartz crystal. The color of the amethyst crystals is very deep and intense.
Don Nicolás Mine, Villa Rafael Benegas (Villa Benegas), Mina Clavero, San Alberto Department, Córdoba Province  Argentina (01-06/2002)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 4.5 × 4.4 cm = 3.70” × 1.77” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 8.5 × 4.4 cm = 3.35” × 1.73”

RL11I0: The crystals have classic forms and they are very well grown and have very well defined faces and edges. They contrast with the matrix of Microcline on which white Albite has grown.
Formación Papachacra, Departamento Belén, Catamarca  Argentina (1993)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.2 × 3.4 cm = 3.86” × 2.83” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 5.8 × 2.7 cm = 2.28” × 1.06”

GR36AK6: Octahedral Fluorite crystals modified by cube faces, on Microcline matrix, translucent and with a much more intense and deep geometric color zoning on the edges.
The specimen came from the Casado Margolles collection (reg. FRM 201) and had previously been in the Jan Buma collection (No. 050109). We will give both labels to the buyer.
Papachacra Formation, Portezuelo granite, Belén Department, Catamarca  Argentina (±2005)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.2 × 2.6 cm = 2.68” × 2.05” × 1.02”

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

RA63J2: Tabular crystals of hexagonal but partially rounded shape. On a matrix of Albite crystals and with small crystals of Siderite.
Formación Papachacra, Catamarca  Argentina (1993)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.9 × 3 cm = 2.91” × 2.32” × 1.18”

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

EX26F2: Florencite-(Ce) is a very rare phosphate. In this case the small red crystals are distributed on Microcline and accompanied by Quartz and Mica.
Papachacra Formation, Portezuelo granite, Belén Department, Catamarca  Argentina (2003)

Specimen size: 8 × 5 × 4.5 cm = 3.15” × 1.97” × 1.77”

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

MT91AD9: Stalactitic growth with botryoidal forms at the narrow area and fluidal ones where it widens. A morphologic curiosity, unusual for the Capillitas mine.
Capillitas Mine, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca  Argentina (2015)

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

CT52D6: As you can see in the photo this stalactite of Rhodochrosite has been polished at the bottom. In this case we feel that this helps one appreciate the beauty of its interior. Apart from the length, the fact that there are two stalactites, their great color and form means that we have decided to publish this specimen, even though it does not match our normal criteria for collectible specimens. It has a special quality that we think would make it of interest to anyone who collects minerals.
Mina Capillitas, Andalgalá, Catamarca  Argentina

Specimen size: 12 × 4.2 × 3 cm = 4.72” × 1.65” × 1.18”

TH61I8: Group of cubic crystals with very well-marked echeloned bevels. Transparency and luster are excellent and the color is extraordinarily deep. An absolute novelty, because Fluorite from this zone was not previously known.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 14 in number 2007/2.
Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba  Argentina

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4 × 2.1 cm = 1.89” × 1.57” × 0.83”

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

ED61F0: The crystal has simple forms, with an amethyst scepter on a crystal of milky Quartz. The brilliance of the faces and the color zoning (it is like an hour glass, as one sometimes sees in Gypsum) are notable.
Don Nicolás Mine, Villa Rafael Benegas (Villa Benegas), Mina Clavero, San Alberto Department, Córdoba Province  Argentina (2004)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 1.2 × 1.3 cm = 1.38” × 0.47” × 0.51”

NX56AL0: Group of doubly terminated Quartz crystals (amethyst variety), with very well defined faces and edges, translucent and with an intense deep color, deeper at the ends of the crystal. It is getting ever less common to find specimens from this locality, which was worked for only a brief time.
La Francesa Mine, Villa Rafael Benegas (Villa Benegas), Mina Clavero, San Alberto Department, Córdoba Province  Argentina (2003)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5 × 4.2 cm = 2.28” × 1.97” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 2.9 cm = 1.50” × 1.14”

EN56AL0: Quartz crystals (amethyst variety), some of them doubly terminated, that grow as scepters on white Quartz crystals. The amethyst is translucent and has an intense deep color, deeper at the ends of the crystals. It is getting less and less common to find specimens from this locality, which was worked for only a brief time.
La Francesa Mine, Villa Rafael Benegas (Villa Benegas), Mina Clavero, San Alberto Department, Córdoba Province  Argentina (01-06/2002)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.9 × 4.7 cm = 2.52” × 1.93” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 5.8 × 2.8 cm = 2.28” × 1.10”

NB26K9: Partially doubly terminated crystal, with color zonations that are more intense on the terminations, on a group of milky Quartz crystals. Very uncommon locality.
Don Nicolás Mine, Villa Rafael Benegas (Villa Benegas), Mina Clavero, San Alberto Department, Córdoba Province  Argentina (2003)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.5 × 3.5 cm = 2.76” × 2.17” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 1.4 cm = 1.30” × 0.55”

NR47E0: Doubly terminated crystals that have grown in parallel and that have good color, transparency and with the scepter form growing on a first generation of colorless Quartz. It is esthetic and all the terminations are perfect.
Don Nicolás Mine, Villa Rafael Benegas (Villa Benegas), Mina Clavero, San Alberto Department, Córdoba Province  Argentina (2003)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 4 × 2.5 cm = 2.95” × 1.57” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 5.7 × 2.7 cm = 2.24” × 1.06”

EB48F0: A very special specimen due to the considerable size of the crystals, their parallel growth, the scepter formation, and the quality and intensity of the color.
Don Nicolás Mine, Villa Rafael Benegas (Villa Benegas), Mina Clavero, San Alberto Department, Córdoba Province  Argentina (2004)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 6.5 × 5 cm = 4.13” × 2.56” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 6 × 3 × 2.5 cm = 2.36” × 1.18” × 0.98”

EA49AD4: Aggregate of doubly terminated Quartz (amethyst) crystals, two of them forming a parallel growth. They have grown on a white Quartz crystal. The color of the amethyst crystals is very deep and intense and they are very large for the locality.
Don Nicolás Mine, Villa Rafael Benegas (Villa Benegas), Mina Clavero, San Alberto Department, Córdoba Province  Argentina (01-06/2002)

Specimen size: 13 × 7.8 × 6 cm = 5.12” × 3.07” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 12.8 × 6.9 cm = 5.04” × 2.72”

TH90AL1: Spheroidal groups of rhombohedral crystals with very well-defined faces and edges and bright luster, on matrix, with small white crystals of Microcline and also small crystals of Magnesite and Clinoenstatite. This high quality specimen was originally dug by Alfredo Petrov in the early 90s, and comes to us via the collection of Rock H. Currier (No. 7345), whose label we will send to the buyer.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2020, page 62
San Francisco Mine, Alto Chapare District, Chapare Province, Cochabamba Department  Bolivia (±2002)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.2 × 2 cm = 1.46” × 1.26” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.31” × 0.20”

TK13Q0: A novelty at Tucson 2010. Group of very much elongated crystals with very acute terminations. Most of the crystals are “swallowtail” twins. They have uniform pale green color and are on Limonite matrix. The sample is from a recent find, at a new locality.
Mina Wayllani, Machacamarca, Potosí  Bolivia (12/2009)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 2.2 × 2.1 cm = 0.87” × 0.87” × 0.83”

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

TH6Q0: A novelty at Tucson 2010. Group of very elongated crystals with very acute terminations. Most of the crystals are “swallowtail” twins. They have uniform pale green color and are on Limonite matrix. The sample is from a recent find, in a new locality.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 29 in number 2010/2
Mina Wayllani, Machacamarca, Potosí  Bolivia (12/2009)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.4 × 1.7 cm = 1.57” × 1.34” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.5 cm = 0.55” × 0.20”

TJ6Q0: A novelty at Tucson 2010. Botryoidal growths of poorly developed crystals and uniform pale green color, on Limonite matrix. The sample is from a recent find, at a new locality.
Mina Wayllani, Machacamarca, Potosí  Bolivia (12/2009)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 2.2 × 2.1 cm = 2.05” × 0.87” × 0.83”

MJ56T7: Group of very individualized crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with simple and sharp forms, good color and luster and on matrix. An excellent sample from the Thomas P. Moore thumbnail collection.
Colavi Mine, Machacamarca District, Cornelio Saavedra Province, Potosí Department  Bolivia (±2006)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.87” × 0.63”

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

EB27V1: Group of very well defined crystals, with a good size for the species. They have an intense and uniform color and are on a matrix of Siderite with small crystals of Pyrite.
Colavi Mine, Machacamarca District, Cornelio Saavedra Province, Potosí Department  Bolivia (±1990)

Specimen size: 5 × 3 × 2.3 cm = 1.97” × 1.18” × 0.91”

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

TM68G9: A very rare species, scarcely appearing in esthetic pieces. In this case there is a complete rosette of bicolored crystals of Wurtzite (some of them bright black and some other brown) and so well positioned on the Quartz matrix that it results in an attractive specimen. The group is completed by a curious Fluorapatite crystal, tabular and extra-flat.
Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí Department  Bolivia (2005)

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

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

LH76F4: A concretion like growth made up of many small, intensely blue crystals. A fairly rare specimen that is hard to find, as it comes from one of the famous finds of the 1950s.
From the David Lucas collection, number 695 so we will give the buyer his label.
Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí Department  Bolivia (±1950)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.7 × 0.9 cm = 1.38” × 1.06” × 0.35”

ER37E6: Only one mine produces good Paravauxite and none have been found there for years. So when I get hold of one from a collection or Museum I am very pleased (this one comes from the Seaman Museum). Lots of crystals that, while small, have a ‘fresher’ look than is typical with this species. We will send you the original label from the museum.
Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí Department  Bolivia

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4 × 4.3 cm = 2.17” × 1.57” × 1.69”

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

TV10AJ4: Spheroidal aggregates, aerial and very well defined, of short prismatic Franckeite crystals.
The sample is from the José Luis Vallecillo collection in Madrid.
San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department  Bolivia

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.59” × 0.47”

EF27AH0: Group of extremely sharp tetrahedral crystals. They are very well defined and bright and are on matrix with Quartz.
The sample has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis with a label from Dr. Kranz of Bonn, Germany.
Pulacayo Mine, Huanchaca, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí Department  Bolivia

Specimen size: 9.3 × 6.3 × 5.8 cm = 3.66” × 2.48” × 2.28”

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

TAX96AO3: Complete floater crystal of Andorite with sharp crystal forms, good terminations, good luster, and fine parallel growth striations.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department  Bolivia

Specimen size: 3 × 1.9 × 0.7 cm = 1.18” × 0.75” × 0.28”

NC96AN0: Parallel growth of flattened Andorite crystals, doubly terminated, very sharp, with good luster and partially covered by acicular Cervantite with a pale cream color.
The specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection (number AND-3), whose catalogue card we will send to the buyer.
San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department  Bolivia

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.5 × 1,1 cm = 1.30” × 0.98” × 0.39”

NCX66AO0: Aerial growth of Andorite crystals with well defined faces and edges, with a very marked fine vertical striation and with a bright luster compared to what is usual for the species.
San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department  Bolivia

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.7 × 2 cm = 1.54” × 1.06” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.55”

TN99G9: Great esthetics on this Andorite!. It has some definite and aerial crystals, some of them doubly terminated and perfectly positioned on a matrix of bright Pyrite crystals. Some acicular crystals of Zinkenite complete the piece.
San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department  Bolivia (10/2004)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.6 × 2.6 cm = 1.69” × 1.42” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.1 cm = 0.67” × 0.43”

EK86I1: The crystal is doubly terminated, more defined than usual for this species. Its platy form has grown on a matrix of acicular crystals of Zinkenite.
San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department  Bolivia (2006)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.3 × 1.8 cm = 1.77” × 1.30” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.7 cm = 1.34” × 1.06”

LA30F3: The San Jose mine, Oruro is one of the few localities where this rare lead sulfosalt with antimony forms attractive specimens. The crystals have grown in groups of brilliant wheat sheaf with fine prisms.
From the David Lucas collection, number 594, and we will give the buyer his label.
San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department  Bolivia

Specimen size: 9.7 × 4.8 × 3.6 cm = 3.82” × 1.89” × 1.42”

EX67M8: Spherical growths of very well defined and bright small crystals, with Pyrite and on matrix. An excellent sample of this rare species.
San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department  Bolivia

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.5 × 2.6 cm = 1.61” × 1.38” × 1.02”

EA40: Ludmalite it is one of the more famous Bolivian species. In this specimen it is not only fresh and doubly terminated but also extremely well placed on an unusual matrix formed by a combo of Siderite, Tourmaline and Quartz. As attractive as the photo suggests.
Huanuni Mine, Huanuni, Dalence Province, Oruro Department  Bolivia

Specimen size: 4.3 × 2.3 × 1.2 cm = 1.69” × 0.91” × 0.47”

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

MA16G8: The piece is full of typical crystals of cylindrical habit (thus the name for the species). Crystals are numerous and more sharp and bright than is usual.
Trinacria Mine, Callipampa, Poopó Province, Oruro Department  Bolivia

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.65” × 1.46” × 0.98”

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

TR76F3: In this group the crystals are brilliant, and have perfectly defined faces and edges. They have the clear form of the twin, which is not often seen from this locality.
Huanuni Mine, Huanuni, Dalence Province, Oruro Department  Bolivia

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4 × 2.5 cm = 2.44” × 1.57” × 0.98”

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

MT99X8: Very aerial group, on Quartz matrix, of cyclic-twinned Cassiterite crystals. They are bright and show very well defined faces and edges. The sample, as well as its mineralogical quality, is especially esthetic.
Viloco Mine, Loayza Province, La Paz Department  Bolivia (2012)

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

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.7 cm = 0.79” × 0.67”

TA67L3: Group of translucent Cassiterite twinned crystals, with more than an excellent luster and dark honey color. With Quartz crystals on matrix.
Viloco Mine, Loayza Province, La Paz Department  Bolivia (01/2008)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.6 × 2.9 cm = 2.76” × 2.20” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.51”

TC58Q8: Floater prismatic crystals pseudomorphous after a twinned Aragonite, with a very sharp hexagonal shape and very well defined faces and edges and partially coated by Malachite.
San Agustín Mine, Corocoro, Pacajes Province, La Paz Department  Bolivia (03-04/2010)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.7 × 1.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.67” × 0.71”

TD58Q8: Floater group of doubly terminated prismatic crystals pseudomorphous after twinned Aragonite with a very sharp hexagonal shape and very well defined faces and edges.
San Agustín Mine, Corocoro, Pacajes Province, La Paz Department  Bolivia (03-04/2010)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.8 × 1.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.71” × 0.55”

ET37AE2: Floater spheroidal aggregate of native Copper crystals pseudomorphous after Aragonite. The condition has very well retained the original pseudohexagonal aragonite shape. These Bolivian classics are usually in individual crystals, the aggregates with a many crystals are very rare.
San Agustín Mine, Corocoro, Pacajes Province, La Paz Department  Bolivia

Specimen size: 3 × 2.8 × 2.7 cm = 1.18” × 1.10” × 1.06”

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

TA38: Sharp, pretty brilliant Bismuthinite single crystal just covered on its top and on its rear by a crust of botryoidal Marcasite. Super for the species. As usual we will send the analysis to the buyer of the specimen.
Farallón Mine, Farallón Viejo vein, Cerro Tazna, Atocha-Quechisla District, Nor Chichas Province, Potosí Department  Bolivia (08/2001)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 1.3 × 0.4 cm = 1.73” × 0.51” × 0.16”

MA93X6: Magnificent sample due to its size, the high quantity of its crystals and their excellent definition with very good terminal faces and their intense luster. Unlike most of the Bismuthinite from this locality, the crystals aren’t partially or totally coated by Marcasite.
Farallón Mine, Farallón Viejo vein, Cerro Tazna, Atocha-Quechisla District, Nor Chichas Province, Potosí Department  Bolivia (2001)

Specimen size: 13 × 10 × 6.3 cm = 5.12” × 3.94” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 0.6 cm = 0.83” × 0.24”

MJ4B6: Flat and unusual habit associated with minor sugary Quartz crystals, Pyrite and Siderite.
Machacamarca Mine, Machacamarca, Machacamarca District, Cornelio Saavedra Province, Potosí Department  Bolivia (2001)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.6 cm = 1.46” × 1.42”

MR7B6: Flat and unusual habit with Pyrite and a small matrix on the back made up of sugary Quartz crystals and Pyrite.
Colavi Mine, Machacamarca District, Cornelio Saavedra Province, Potosí Department  Bolivia (2001)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 5 cm = 1.85” × 1.97”

TB8M9: Group of lenticular crystals that have a very contrasted doubly coloration, with both dark and yellowish-brown areas. They are on matrix, with small crystals of Pyrite that are complex, with the predominant forms of the octahedron.
Tres Cruces, Potosí  Bolivia

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.3 × 3.3 cm = 1.93” × 1.69” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.4 cm = 1.34” × 0.94”

EK57B7: Pretty Pyrite, very brilliant. Icositetrahedral crystals, so more complex than the normal ones.
A photograph of this specimen is on the page 202 of the book "Earth Science" (4th edition) published by BJU.
Tres Cruces, Municipio Potosí, Tomás Frías Province, Potosí Department  Bolivia (1999)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 6.2 cm = 3.82” × 2.44”

MFB86AO4: Coatings of translucent acicular Caledonite crystals, with great luster and an intense blue color. Of the best quality for the species.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Victoria Segunda Mine, Cerros Pintados, Salar de Pintados, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region  Chile

Specimen size: 7 × 4.2 × 2.1 cm = 2.76” × 1.65” × 0.83”

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

ET66M8: Arborescent growth with rounded terminations corresponding to deformed crystals. The mine is not well-known and such coppers are uncommon in international collections.
Coca-Cola Mine, Mining District Talcuna, La Serena, Coquimbo Region  Chile (±1985)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 8.2 × 2.2 cm = 3.35” × 3.23” × 0.87”

MR46AA8: Spheroidal aggregates, very much more isolated than usual for the species, with a very intense greenish-blue color, with small Malachite crystals and on a limonite matrix. A very esthetic miniature.
Manto Tres Gracias Mine, Diego de Almagro, El Salado, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region  Chile

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.6 × 1.3 cm = 1.02” × 1.02” × 0.51”

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

JA56AF0: Radial and irregular clusters of Atacamite crystals, between fine prismatic and acicular, many of them doubly terminated. They are translucent, extraordinarily bright and on a rocky matrix partially coated by clear Halloysite.
La Farola Mine, Cerro Pintado, Las Pintadas District, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region  Chile

Specimen size: 7.9 × 5.6 × 2 cm = 3.11” × 2.20” × 0.79”

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

EQ26M8: Radial growths of crystals very much better defined than usual for the locality. They are bright, have an excellent color and make a strong contrast with the lighter Halloysite.
La Farola Mine, Cerro Pintado, Las Pintadas District, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region  Chile (±1985)

Specimen size: 9 × 7.5 × 4.2 cm = 3.54” × 2.95” × 1.65”

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

EA11M9: Globular growths on matrix of very clear bluish green tones, almost coated by globular growths of tiny crystals of Quartz.
La Farola Mine, Cerro Pintado, Las Pintadas District, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region  Chile (±1985)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 6.5 × 3.5 cm = 3.39” × 2.56” × 1.38”

ER37N4: Dendritic growth of elongated crystals, small but with very well defined faces. The locality is very uncommon for native Copper.
La Farola Mine, Cerro Pintado, Las Pintadas District, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region  Chile (±1985)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 10.5 × 4.3 cm = 4.53” × 4.13” × 1.69”

EJ11T4: Aggregates of acicular crystals with a green color clearer than usual, on limonite matrix. We specially note the locality, not well known for the species.
La Verde Mine, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region  Chile

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.5 × 2.6 cm = 1.89” × 1.38” × 1.02”

MK86AE7: A novelty at Munich 2016. Spray-like aggregates of finely acicular crystals with a very intense silky luster. The Brochantite is with small Atacamite crystals that have a darker green color. They are on a rocky matrix with Quartz (variety chalcedony) coatings. The sample is from a formerly poorly known mine.
Los Azules Mine, Quebrada San Miguel, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region  Chile (11-12/2015)

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

EB36Y4: Irregular aggregates, on limonite matrix, of acicular crystals with an intense color and an excellent luster.
Copiapó Province, Atacama Region  Chile (1960-1970)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 9.5 × 6.3 cm = 4.13” × 3.74” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.1 cm = 0.39” × 0.04”

EF27T4: Very acute dipyramidal crystals, typical for the locality, and one of them clearly dominant. They are extraordinarily bright and show a splendid red color. On Calcite matrix. The sample is included in a box with an old stamp of the Dirección de Geología del Ministerio de Minas e Hidrocarburos de Venezuela, that we'll send to the buyer. A universal classic.
Chañarcillo, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region  Chile

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4 × 2.9 cm = 2.05” × 1.57” × 1.14”

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

ER87V4: Aggregate of small prismatic crystals of Proustite. They have an intense red color, they are very bright and are on matrix, with Chalcopyrite and lenticular white crystals of Calcite. An old classic, it comes with a box with the stamp of the Dirección de Geología de la República de Venezuela.
Chañarcillo, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region  Chile

Specimen size: 6.7 × 2.9 × 1.7 cm = 2.64” × 1.14” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.15 cm = 0.16” × 0.06”

MX47AJ4: A coating on matrix of acicular and prismatic and very well defined Rodalquilarite crystals with very acute terminations. They are bright with a very intense green color. The Rodalquilarite, a rare iron and tellurium hydroxide, is rarely found in significant samples.
Wendy open pit, Tambo Mine, El Indio, Elqui, Coquimbo  Chile

Specimen size: 3 × 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.55” × 0.47”

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

ET13W7: Aggregates of very acute acicular crystals of Rodalquilarite. They have a very deep olive green color and are on a Quartz matrix coated by very well defined yellow Alunite crystals. The locality is a classic both for the Alunite and the Rodalquilarite.
The sample is with a label from the William Pinch collection that we'll send to the buyer.
Wendy open pit, Tambo Mine, El Indio, Elqui, Coquimbo  Chile

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.2 × 1 cm = 1.42” × 1.26” × 0.39”

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

EQ37W7: Spheroidal aggregates of Rodalquilarite with a clear olive green color. They are implanted on a matrix of Quartz which is almost completely coated by very well defined lenticular yellow Alunite crystals. The locality is a classic both for the Alunite and the Rodalquilarite.
The sample is with a label from the William Pinch collection that we'll send to the buyer.
Wendy open pit, Tambo Mine, El Indio, Elqui, Coquimbo  Chile

Specimen size: 6.5 × 3.7 × 1.9 cm = 2.56” × 1.46” × 0.75”

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

MZ71X2: Groups of platy crystals of the rare species Szenicsite. The crystals, with excellent color and luster, form fanlike growths and are on matrix.
The sample is from the personal collection of Terry Szenics, in whose honor the species was named, and it is with a label signed by him that we'll send to the buyer.
Jardinera número 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region  Chile

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.7 × 3 cm = 1.73” × 1.06” × 1.18”

ER49P6: Twinned very well defined and bright crystals of Chalcopyrite, with tetrahedral crystals of Tetrahedrite and small white crystals of Dolomite. We specially note the locality, a Chilean mine that isn't well known for such good collection pieces.
Teniente Mine (Braden Mine), El Teniente, Rancagua, Municipio Rancagua, Cachapoal Province, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region  Chile (±1990)

Specimen size: 18.5 × 11.5 × 5 cm = 7.28” × 4.53” × 1.97”

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

TD14K0: Both the locality and the shape of the specimens are really unusual. From an old collection, these four gold nuggets, flat and oval, are conserved in their original case, on whose back there is the label that we show.
Lennox Island, Tierra del Fuego Archipiélago, Chilena Province, Magallanes y Antártica Region  Chile

Specimen size: 8 × 7 cm = 3.15” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.4 cm = 0.39” × 0.16”

TB16S7: Wide (for the locality) leafy growths of gold with a vivid luster and intense yellow color that contrasts with the green color of the copper salts on the matrix.
The sample was previously in the John H. Marshall collection and has a considerable pedigree, supported by joined labels and cards that we’ll send to the buyer.
La Compañía Mine, Caracoles, Sierra Gorda District, Tocopilla Province, Antofagasta Region  Chile

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5.4 × 4.1 cm = 3.07” × 2.13” × 1.61”

NB26AF1: Parallel aggregate of very sharp Euclase crystals with very well defined faces and edges, transparent, bright, with a nice and uniform blue color. Partially coated by small white Calcite crystals. An excellent miniature.
This specimen has been photographed and published in the Bulletin ‘MiniBul A.G.A.B.’ on page 18 of number 2/2021
La Marina Mine, Municipio Pauna, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department  Colombia (06-07/2015)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 1.22” × 0.59” × 0.31”

Main crystal size: 3 × 0.8 cm = 1.18” × 0.31”

EK28AF9: A very rich Gold surfaces with platy growths that are very bright and are on a Quartz matrix. The sample is from a not yet well-known Colombian mining area.
Real Minera claim, Las Arañas cut, Municipio Vetas, Soto Province, Santander Department  Colombia

Specimen size: 3 × 2.4 × 2.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.94” × 0.87”

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

EL50AF9: Elongated and very well defined cubo-octahedral Gold crystals with dodecahedral faces that are very bright with an unusual reddish copper color on a rocky matrix. The sample is from a not yet well-known Colombian mining area.
Trompeteros claim, Trompeteros Mine, Municipio Vetas, Soto Province, Santander Department  Colombia

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.22” × 0.87” × 0.63”

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

NG57AM9: Very aerial dendritic growth of elongated and very sharp Gold crystals, with marked window growths on some of the faces. Sharper than usual in these local deposits.
The specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection (number GOLD-C1), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Los Delirios claim, Delirios III cut, Municipio Vetas, Soto Province, Santander Department  Colombia

Specimen size: 2 × 1.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.55” × 0.08”

EP68AH1: Very aerial laminar Gold growth, on a rocky matrix with black Sphalerite crystals and aggregates of micro-crystalline Quartz. The sample is from a not yet well-known Colombian mining area.
Los Delirios claim, Delirios III cut, Municipio Vetas, Soto Province, Santander Department  Colombia (02/2017)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.55” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.4 cm = 0.39” × 0.16”

EX98AM7: Skeletal crystals and leafy growths of Gold, very bright and contrasting with the rock matrix. The specimen comes from a recent find in a mining district in Colombia which is still little known.
Los Delirios claim, Delirios I cut, Municipio Vetas, Soto Province, Santander Department  Colombia (15/08/2020)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2 × 1.8 cm = 1.10” × 0.79” × 0.71”

MD48AL4: Rock matrix with microcrystalline Quartz coatings and a surface rich in lamellar growths and acicular crystals of Gold. The specimen comes from a mining area in Colombia that is so far very little known.
Los Delirios claim, Delirios III cut, Municipio Vetas, Soto Province, Santander Department  Colombia (01/2018)

Specimen size: 4 × 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 1.57” × 0.71” × 0.63”

ME13AL8: Dendritic growths of elongated Gold crystals, some of them hooked, flattened or with skeletal growths and on matrix.
The specimen comes from the Raúl Sanabria collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Los Delirios claim, Delirios III cut, Municipio Vetas, Soto Province, Santander Department  Colombia (01/2018)

Specimen size: 4 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.57” × 0.87” × 0.63”

EH90AG5: Leafy growths of Gold on a rocky matrix with black Sphalerite crystals and aggregates of Quartz micro-crystals. The sample is from a Colombian mining area not well known until now.
Los Delirios claim, Delirios III cut, Municipio Vetas, Soto Province, Santander Department  Colombia (02/2017)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.1 × 2.9 cm = 2.09” × 1.22” × 1.14”

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

EV89AM7: Skeletal crystals and leafy growths of Gold, very bright and contrasting with the rock matrix. The specimen comes from a recent find in a mining district in Colombia which is still little known.
Los Delirios claim, Delirios I cut, Municipio Vetas, Soto Province, Santander Department  Colombia (15/08/2020)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.3 × 1.8 cm = 2.17” × 1.30” × 0.71”

EJ92AF9: A surface that is very rich with platy growths and acicular Gold crystals on a rocky matrix coated by micro-crystalline Quartz. The sample is from a not yet well-known Colombian mining area.
Los Delirios claim, Delirios III cut, Municipio Vetas, Soto Province, Santander Department  Colombia (04/2017)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.9 × 1.5 cm = 2.13” × 1.54” × 0.59”

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

EP91AF9: Elongated cubo-octahedral gold crystals with very well defined and bright faces and edges in a very rare association with rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystals that partially coat a rocky matrix. The sample is from a not yet well-known Colombian mining area.
The specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 224 in the volume 96, number 3, May/Jun 2021
Potosí claim, La Tosca cut, Municipio Vetas, Soto Province, Santander Department  Colombia (2017)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.67” × 0.47”

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

EG90AF9: Very sharp growth of flattened Gold crystals, very bright and on a rocky matrix partially coated by micro-crystalline Quartz. The sample is from a not yet well-known Colombian mining area.
Potosí claim, La Tosca cut, Municipio Vetas, Soto Province, Santander Department  Colombia (03/2017)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.1 × 2.6 cm = 2.20” × 1.61” × 1.02”

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

MD16AK0: Very aerial growth of elongated and laminar crystals of native Gold on a Quartz matrix. The sample, from an extremely unusual location, is accompanied by a very old handwritten label that we will send to the buyer.
Santa Isabel Mine, Municipio Remedios, Antioquia Department  Colombia

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.8 × 2.1 cm = 2.24” × 1.50” × 0.83”

TM98V4: Irregular aggregate of deformed rhombohedral crystals with slightly curved faces and edges. They are completely transparent, with a nice, very intense and uniform blue color (really unusual for the species) and they are on matrix. The sample has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ Jan-Feb 2016, page 56, volume 47, number 1
Peñas Blancas Mine, Municipio San Pablo de Borbur, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department  Colombia (2008-2009)

Specimen size: 6 × 3.5 × 4.2 cm = 2.36” × 1.38” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.9 cm = 0.55” × 0.35”

TR64V2: A novelty at Tucson 2012. Group on matrix of laminar crystals between translucent and transparent with very intense yellow color. The sample is from a locality and a mine that is quite new.
La Pava Mine, Municipio Supía, Caldas Department  Colombia (11/2011)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.6 × 2.3 cm = 2.52” × 1.42” × 0.91”

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

TS16L2: Miniature of prismatic crystals, two of them dominant, with perfect terminations on top, good transparency and intense green color, slightly zoned perpendicular to main axis. On the main crystal top termination we can see something similar to dissolution structures and inside the crystal some carbon inclusions. A luminous specimen.
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department  Colombia (01/2008)

Specimen size: 1.1 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.43” × 0.28” × 0.24”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.5 cm = 0.43” × 0.20”

TQ66AF2: Parallel growth of two crystals with excellent terminal faces, a dominant pinacoid and small pyramidal faces. Both crystals are completely clear (gem quality) and have an extraordinary luster and color.
Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department  Colombia

Specimen size: 1.4 × 0.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.55” × 0.24” × 0.24”

TP98AJ0: Beryl crystal (emerald variety) with an excellent definition of faces and edges and an upper termination that is rough but complete. The crystal is very clear and has excellent luster and color. The sample, in gem quality, is implanted on a Calcite matrix.
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department  Colombia (2012)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.4 × 1.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.55” × 0.55”

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

EFG26AN5: Beryl crystal (emerald variety) of good size, with well defined faces and edges and some minimal scratches on the upper termination. The crystal is shiny, translucent with transparent areas and of very intense color.
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department  Colombia

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.3 × 1.9 cm = 1.30” × 0.91” × 0.75”

MV51Y6: Sharp crystals with very well defined faces and edges, one of them clearly dominant, with an excellent termination that shows the pinacoid and pyramidal faces. The emerald crystals are on a rocky matrix with small laminar Albite crystals and are transparent, very bright and have an intense, deep and uniform color.
Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department  Colombia (2012)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.3 × 1.1 cm = 1.34” × 0.91” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.16”

MLR73AP3: Obtained at Munich 2022
Group of Beryl crystals (emerald variety) with very sharp crystal forms, good terminations, transparent, with good luster and an intense color, on matrix.
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department  Colombia (2022)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.6 × 2.6 cm = 1.46” × 1.02” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.55” × 0.16”

TJ59H7: Prismatic doubly terminated crystal of very well defined faces and edges and excellent color and transparency that contrast with a white matrix of crystallized Calcite. We emphasize the perfect terminations both for the good definition of the flat faces and the intensity of the color. A beautiful miniature.
Muzo mining district, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department  Colombia (2005)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.7 × 2.6 cm = 1.54” × 1.06” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.5 cm = 0.51” × 0.20”

TB47L3: A powerful group of numerous very well-defined, transparent and brilliant isolated Beryl (Emerald) crystals. Excellent terminations and intense green color. They are implanted on a rocky matrix with rhombohedral Calcite crystals. Given its color and crystal perfection we consider it a really great specimen.
Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department  Colombia (11/2007)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.3 × 2.3 cm = 1.77” × 1.30” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.63”

MG51AJ1: Short prismatic Beryl crystal (emerald variety) with very well defined faces and edges and an excellent, smooth pinacoidal termination, transparent, very bright, with an intense and uniform color and implanted on a matrix with Calcite. A high-level sample due its size and its transparency.
Muzo mining district, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department  Colombia

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.6 × 3.4 cm = 1.77” × 1.42” × 1.34”

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

MV70S3: Crystal on matrix with very well defined faces and edges and with a good flat termination. It has a thin surface naturally welded by Calcite.
La Pita mining district, Cunas Mine, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department  Colombia (03/2005)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.2 × 3.2 cm = 1.77” × 1.65” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.8 cm = 0.79” × 0.31”

MB68I5: Fossilization on emerald, in this case a Gastropod, is very, very, rare. On the surface of he fossil, with the recrystallization of emerald there are also small but easily distinguishable crystals of Pyrite.
Gachalá mining district, Matecaña Mine, Municipio Gachalá, Eastern Emerald Belt, Cundinamarca Department  Colombia (03/2006)

Specimen size: 1.3 × 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.51” × 0.43” × 0.35”

TQ19H8: Even with its small size, the specimen is exceptional due the perfect preservation of the fossil. We must consider that fossilizations by Emerald, recently introduced, is quite extraordinary.
Gachalá mining district, Matecaña Mine, Municipio Gachalá, Eastern Emerald Belt, Cundinamarca Department  Colombia (03/2006)

Specimen size: 1.4 × 1.3 × 0.8 cm = 0.55” × 0.51” × 0.31”

E96MBH5: A group of very esthetic crystals. We also call attention to the locality, very uncommon and practically unknown for collector, and a country from which there usually aren’t samples on the market.
Mina Las Mercedes, San Miguel, Departamento Misiones  Paraguay

Specimen size: 10.5 × 10.2 × 6 cm = 4.13” × 4.02” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 1.1 cm = 1.69” × 0.43”

MTX88AP2: A new discovery at Munich 2022
High quality Geocronite crystals with sharp crystal forms and polycrystalline growths marked by striations, associated with crystals of slightly translucent, apple-green Fluorite which, due to the contrast with the Geocronite, generates very aesthetic pieces.
The Geocronite has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Milpo Mine, Cerro de Pasco, Atacocha mining district, Pasco Province, Pasco Department  Peru (07-08/2022)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.1 × 1.7 cm = 1.02” × 0.83” × 0.67”

MLP99AP2: A new discovery at Munich 2022
High quality Geocronite crystals with sharp crystal forms and polycrystalline growths marked by striations, associated with crystals of slightly translucent, apple-green Fluorite which, due to the contrast with the Geocronite, generates very aesthetic pieces.
The Geocronite has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Milpo Mine, Cerro de Pasco, Atacocha mining district, Pasco Province, Pasco Department  Peru (07-08/2022)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.02” × 0.98” × 0.79”

TN53AM0: Fan-shaped growth of elongated Stibnite crystals with good terminations. While not trying to compete with specimens from more famous localities, this Stibnite is a rarity as proven by the fact that Rock H. Currier, a good connoisseur of the locality, had it in his collection (number 5269). We will send the label to the buyer.
Raura District, Cajatambo Province, Lima Department  Peru

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.8 × 3.3 cm = 3.03” × 2.68” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 6 × 1.1 cm = 2.36” × 0.43”

TF87AN2: Group of sharp and very lustrous tetrahedral Tetrahedrite crystals that grow aerially on a group of fine water-clear Quartz crystals.
Casapalca, Chicla District, Huarochiri Province, Lima Department  Peru

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.9 × 3.1 cm = 2.48” × 2.32” × 1.22”

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

TQ56Z3: Fan-like growths of strongly flattened Epidote crystals, darker at their center and clearer on the edges. They are with sharp, translucent, bright and doubly terminated Axinite-(Fe) crystals.
Sayan, Huaura Province, Lima Department  Peru (2013)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.7 × 2.4 cm = 2.09” × 1.46” × 0.94”

EP13Y7: A novelty at Munich 2013. Very sharp Axinite-(Fe) crystals, most of them doubly terminated and showing parallel growths. Transparent, very bright and with a very deep color, they are on a matrix with small Quartz crystals, Albite and Epidote.
Sayan, Huaura Province, Lima Department  Peru (2013)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.4 × 2.5 cm = 2.56” × 2.13” × 0.98”

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

EG11Y7: A novelty at Ste. Marie 2013. Very sharp Axinite-(Fe) crystals, most of them doubly terminated and showing parallel growths. Transparent, very bright and with a very deep color, they are on a matrix with Epidote and small Albite crystals.
Sayan, Huaura Province, Lima Department  Peru (2013)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.4 × 2.8 cm = 3.74” × 2.91” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.31” × 0.20”

MA16Y8: A novelty at Munich 2013. Very sharp Axinite-(Fe) crystals. They are translucent, very bright, have very well defined parallel growths and are on a matrix of Quartz crystals with two fan-like Epidote aggregates. Due its size, perfection and the pleasant disposition of the Axinite-(Fe) crystals on the Quartz, it is undoubtedly one of the best samples from this new locality that we have seen.
Sayan, Huaura Province, Lima Department  Peru (02/2013)

Specimen size: 15.5 × 11.5 × 6.7 cm = 6.10” × 4.53” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.4 cm = 0.39” × 0.16”

TG88AD1: A novelty at Tucson 2016. Aggregates of very sharp brown-colored Axinite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, between transparent and translucent, very bright and on matrix, with Epidote crystals. We have two different analysis, so we will send copy of both analysis to the buyer.
Cullhuay, Huaros District, Canta Province, Lima Department  Peru (09-11/2015)

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

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 1.1 cm = 1.26” × 0.43”

TT87AD4: A novelty at Tucson 2016. Very sharp Axinite-(Mn) crystals, some of them doubly terminated. They are between transparent and translucent, very bright, and are on matrix with Epidote crystals. We have two different analyses, so we will send copies of both analyses to the buyer.
Cullhuay, Huaros District, Canta Province, Lima Department  Peru (09-11/2015)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.4 × 2.9 cm = 2.09” × 1.34” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 1.2 cm = 1.34” × 0.47”

NQ90AK7: Group of extremely sharp, lustrous and translucent Axinite-(Mn) crystals, many of them doubly terminated, with polycrystalline growths, partially coated by deep green Epidote crystals.
The specimen is from the Miguel David Martínez collection (No. 524), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Cullhuay, Huaros District, Canta Province, Lima Department  Peru (2018)

Specimen size: 13.2 × 8.1 × 6.3 cm = 5.20” × 3.19” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 1.7 cm = 2.13” × 0.67”

NJ27AI3: Pair of two Quartz crystals, one of them complete and doubly terminated. Both Quartz crystals are very rich in Chlorite inclusions with an intense green color and they are very bright. There are some “bundle-like” Epidote aggregates, very bright and with a deep green color, attached to them .
The sample is from the Ignacio Hernández collection (num. 87) whose original label we’ll send to the buyer.
Paracas Quarry, Huaytará, Huaytará Province, Huancavelica Department  Peru

Specimen size: 8 × 5 × 3.1 cm = 3.15” × 1.97” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 8 × 1.4 cm = 3.15” × 0.55”

LP29E9: A group of crystals that combine the forms of a well-defined, brilliant ditetragonal prism with those of the rhombohedron whose faces have grown in a curved form, which makes them look rounded. It is a floater. It comes from the David Lucas collection, number 807, and we will give the buyer the original label.
San Genaro Mine, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department  Peru

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.91” × 0.67” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 0.9 cm = 0.75” × 0.35”

VE13I0: Group of complex crystals in which we clearly note the triangular faces of the tetrahedron with a lot of echelons. On the matrix of Pyrite, very rich with small Quartz crystals, also appear some cubic crystals of Galena.
Julcani District, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica Department  Peru

Specimen size: 10.8 × 8 × 5 cm = 4.25” × 3.15” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 0.71” × 0.67”

EA96X1: Group of very flattened rhombohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite with very well pronounced curvatures of their faces and edges. They have an intense and uniform pink color and are with a white crystal of Baryte and small Pyrite crystals. The locality, not well known, has been adequately verified.
Huachocolpa District, Huancavelica Province, Huancavelica Department  Peru

Specimen size: 7.7 × 4.5 × 1.8 cm = 3.03” × 1.77” × 0.71”

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

TT16J7: Radial groups of small acicular crystals of exceptional color, luster and transparency. The matrix is formed by tabular crystals of Calcite. The sample is very esthetic.
La Gringa Mine, Chiurucu (Chiuruco), Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department  Peru (02/2007)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.54” × 1.42” × 0.94”

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

TR50L0: Groups of acicular to prismatic Epidote crystals, with a really excellent luster and pistachio green color, typical for this specie. Epidote is partially covering twinned Calcite crystals showing a very esthetic contrast.
La Gringa Mine, Chiurucu (Chiuruco), Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department  Peru (10/2007)

Specimen size: 10.1 × 6.5 × 3.8 cm = 3.98” × 2.56” × 1.50”

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

VP27Y4: Sharp rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystal with a very intense and uniform pink color and good luster. It is on matrix and partially coated by clear Quartz crystals.
Pasto Bueno, Pampas District, Pallasca Province, Ancash Department  Peru

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.8 × 1.8 cm = 1.30” × 1.10” × 0.71”

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

TB96H7: Bundles of scalenohedral, extraordinarily acute, crystals. Furthermore the esthetic shape of the specimen, the color and the luster are very good and the group is on a matrix rich of small crystals of Pyrite.
Pachapaqui mining district, Pachapaqui, Aquia District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department  Peru (2003)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 8 × 2.9 cm = 3.46” × 3.15” × 1.14”

TZ27AD5: A novelty at Tucson 2016. Twinned rhombohedral Calcite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, with surfaces covered by a later phase of drusy crystals of Calcite, and with a very pale pink color. They are on matrix, with Pyrite and Sphalerite. The sample is from a not yet widely divulged Peruvian mine.
Atalaya Mine, Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department  Peru (11/2015)

Specimen size: 10 × 9.7 × 6.5 cm = 3.94” × 3.82” × 2.56”

Main crystal size: 5.8 × 5.2 cm = 2.28” × 2.05”

TA47AD5: A novelty at Tucson 2016. Aggregate of Pyrite crystals showing the cube and the pyritohedron, and partially coated by small Sphalerite crystals and slightly pink rhombohedral Calcite crystals. The sample is from a not yet widely divulged Peruvian mine.
Atalaya Mine, Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department  Peru (11/2015)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 8 × 5.8 cm = 4.53” × 3.15” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 5 × 4.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.85”

VQ86Y5: Group of flattened and deeply striated crystals. They are translucent, extraordinarily bright and have a magnificent deep red color with very vivid reddish reflections. The crystals are on a matrix of fine Quartz crystals.
Pasto Bueno, Pampas District, Pallasca Province, Ancash Department  Peru (±1978)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.6 × 3.7 cm = 1.54” × 1.42” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 1.5 cm = 1.26” × 0.59”

JD86AB9: Aggregates of octahedral Fluorite crystals truncated by the cube faces, translucent, with a uniform green color and on matrix, with small Quartz crystals. This Fluorite, very esthetic and of excellent quality, is from a Peruvian locality from which there are very few samples.
It was from the James Catmur collection (reg. B653 -E390B), whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Huayllapon Mine (Huallapon Mine), Pasto Bueno, Pampas District, Pallasca Province, Ancash Department  Peru

Specimen size: 14.5 × 9 × 6.8 cm = 5.71” × 3.54” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 4.1 cm = 1.77” × 1.61”

MX6AM7: Parallel growth of two very sharp and doubly terminated Hübnerite crystals, translucent, lustrous, with a very deep red color (under intense light), with small water-clear Quartz crystals.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Mundo Nuevo mining area, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad Department  Peru

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.94” × 0.55” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.94” × 0.55” × 0.12”

TTA87AO0: Group of Hübnerite crystals with a short prismatic shape, doubly terminated, sharp and with very well defined faces and edges, somewhat translucent, lustrous, on matrix, with water-clear Quartz crystals.
Mundo Nuevo mining area, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad Department  Peru

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5 × 2.8 cm = 2.24” × 1.97” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.9 cm = 1.18” × 1.14”

TE90AB6: Very sharp isolated Augelite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very well defined faces and edges, with an excellent vivid green color and on a matrix with fine clear Quartz crystals, one of them implanted on the main Augelite crystal forming a small but very sharp and perfectly defined japan law twin.
Mundo Nuevo mining area, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad Department  Peru (07/2014)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.6 × 4.5 cm = 2.76” × 2.20” × 1.77”

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

MC29W8: A novelty at Munich 2012. Though they have sporadically appeared in previous years, due to their relative abundance this year and the quality both of the samples and the individual crystals, they can be considered as a novelty. The crystals have a considerable size for the species, they are bright, between translucent and transparent, and they have a clear apple green color. In this sample they are with crystals of Hübnerite, some of them doubly terminated, and are on a matrix of clear crystals of Quartz.
Tamboras Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad Department  Peru (08/2012)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.2 × 3.5 cm = 2.76” × 2.05” × 1.38”

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

ED59AE5: Very sharp and isolated Augelite crystals that have very well defined faces and edges, are bright, with a pale green color and are implanted on a matrix of transparent Quartz crystals.
Mundo Nuevo mining area, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad Department  Peru (2013)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.6 × 2.2 cm = 2.91” × 2.20” × 0.87”

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

MA13W8: A novelty at Munich 2012. Though they have sporadically appeared in previous years, due to their relative abundance this year and the quality both of the samples and the individual crystals, they can be considered as a novelty. The crystals, many of them doubly terminated, have a considerable size for the species, they are bright, between translucent and transparent, and they have a clear apple green color and are on a rocky matrix with clear crystals of Quartz. This sample is one of the best obtained from the locality due to the size, quantity and quality of its crystals.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2012 Munich Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 108, page 39
Tamboras Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad Department  Peru (08/2012)

Specimen size: 10 × 7.2 × 4.2 cm = 3.94” × 2.83” × 1.65”

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

TJ56AD1: A novelty at Tucson 2016. Flattened radial Lautite growths, with a good length for this rare sulphoarsenide. They are implanted on the faces of very sharp Tetrahedrite-Tennantite crystals with an octahedral shape, on matrix and with Quartz, Pyrite and small flattened Hübnerite crystals.
Mundo Nuevo mining area, La Gringa vein, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad Department  Peru (11/2015)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.5 × 2.6 cm = 1.89” × 1.77” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: (Lautite) 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.00” × 0.04”

TG87AD5: A novelty at Tucson 2016. Flattened Lautite crystals with a good size for this rare sulphoarsenide. These aggregates have grown implanted on very sharp tetrahedral Tetrahedrite crystals on a matrix of Quartz crystals, some of them with a very well defined japan law twin.
Mundo Nuevo mining area, La Gringa vein, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad Department  Peru (11/2015)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.89” × 1.77” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: (Lautite) 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.00” × 0.04”

TA49AD1: A novelty at Tucson 2016. Very well defined Lautite crystals and radial growths, with a considerable length for this rare sulphoarsenide. They are implanted on the faces of very sharp Tetrahedrite-Tennantite crystals. On matrix, with Quartz and Pyrite.
Mundo Nuevo mining area, La Gringa vein, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad Department  Peru (11/2015)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3 × 3.8 cm = 2.24” × 1.18” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: (Lautite) 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.00” × 0.04”

EF69AC0: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Very sharp dipyramidal Scheelite crystals that are coated by vivid lemon yellow Stolzite. They are on a matrix of Quartz crystals, a lot of them doubly terminated, with red Hübnerite inclusions.
Mundo Nuevo mining area, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad Department  Peru (10-11/2014)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 6.8 × 4.9 cm = 3.66” × 2.68” × 1.93”

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

TA26H3: Group of very individualized crystals of striated faces and a high luster, with acute prismatic crystals of Quartz. Very esthetic.
Quiruvilca Mine (La Libertad Mine), Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department  Peru

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.6 × 4.2 cm = 2.44” × 2.20” × 1.65”

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

TQ96J3: Exceptionally complex crystals, very rich in faces, very bright, implanted on a druse of Quartz and partially covered by Sphalerite. In this case the Sphalerite is very fluorescent, which is uncommon. We analyzed it and the result shows that the Sphalerite is manganese rich, so that could be the reason for its fluorescence. We'll send this analysis to the buyer of the specimen.
Quiruvilca Mine (La Libertad Mine), Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department  Peru

Specimen size: 10.9 × 6.5 × 6.2 cm = 4.29” × 2.56” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 3.3 cm = 1.42” × 1.30”

VK49Y5: Group of crystals, on matrix, with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, with an orange color and a very intense luster. The crystals, very luminous, have been magnificently preserved despite the long time that has passed since the sample was recovered in 1978. Such samples are currently considered as Peruvian classics.
Quiruvilca Mine (La Libertad Mine), Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department  Peru (±1978)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5.2 × 3 cm = 2.24” × 2.05” × 1.18”

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

TH67AL3: Very aerial group of Enargite crystals, more elongated than usual in examples from this deposit, with excellent crystal terminations, brilliant and on a matrix that also consists of Enargite.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Quiruvilca Mine (La Libertad Mine), Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department  Peru

Specimen size: 2.1 × 2 × 0.7 cm = 0.83” × 0.79” × 0.28”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.16”

MR16AN0: Group of sharp and lustrous Enargite crystals, with a prismatic habit and perfect pinacoidal terminations.
We will send the specimen, which comes from a classic Mexican 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 Wilfred Talbot collection.
Quiruvilca Mine (La Libertad Mine), Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department  Peru

Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.5 × 1.8 cm = 1.02” × 0.59” × 0.71”

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

DB16I7: Group of prismatic crystals with pinacoidal terminations. They are all partially covered by small tetrahedral crystals of Tetrahedrite.
Quiruvilca Mine (La Libertad Mine), Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department  Peru

Specimen size: 8.1 × 6.2 × 3.3 cm = 3.19” × 2.44” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 1.3 cm = 1.69” × 0.51”

TX6AD9: A novelty (for its red color) at Ste. Marie 2016. Radial clusters of very bright and well-defined acicular Hutchinsonite crystals with vivid red reflections. They are on a granular Galena matrix that is partially coated by small and very bright pyritohedral Pyrite crystals. Both the Hutchinsonite and the Galena have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Quiruvilca Mine (La Libertad Mine), Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department  Peru (03/2016)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.4 × 2.5 cm = 2.05” × 1.34” × 0.98”

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

TF77AE2: A novelty (for its red color) at Ste. Marie 2016. Isolated crystals and radial clusters of very bright and well-defined Hutchinsonite crystals with vivid red reflections. They are on a granular Galena matrix that is partially coated by small and very bright Pyrite crystals and spheroidal Orpiment aggregates. Both the Hutchinsonite and the Galena have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Quiruvilca Mine (La Libertad Mine), Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department  Peru (03/2016)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.1 × 2.3 cm = 2.32” × 1.61” × 0.91”

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

TB56AD9: A novelty (for its red color) at Ste. Marie 2016. Isolated crystals and radial clusters of very bright and well-defined Hutchinsonite crystals with vivid red reflections. They are on a granular Galena matrix that is partially coated by small and very bright pyritohedral Pyrite crystals and spheroidal Orpiment aggregates. Both the Hutchinsonite and the Galena have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Quiruvilca Mine (La Libertad Mine), Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department  Peru (03/2016)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 3.9 × 4.1 cm = 3.31” × 1.54” × 1.61”

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

TT14AN2: Pyrite crystal of cubic form with fine growth striations. Airy and extraordinarily lustrous.
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department  Peru

Specimen size: 4 × 3.8 × 3.7 cm = 1.57” × 1.50” × 1.46”

TF48AE9: Complex Pyrite crystal, very rich in faces, with the dominant cube beveled by a pyritohedron and other minor forms. It is implanted on an aggregate of Quartz crystals. The sample is really esthetic because the Pyrite crystal is isolated and has a very balanced position on the matrix.
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department  Peru (02/2016)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 5.6 × 2.7 cm = 2.99” × 2.20” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 3 cm = 1.22” × 1.18”

TA96H7: Group of crystals in which the dominant form is the octahedron but also having the faces of the cube, less developed but evident. The faces are bright, defined and undamaged. A magnificent sample.
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department  Peru (2001)

Specimen size: 11 × 9 × 4 cm = 4.33” × 3.54” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.2 cm = 0.94” × 0.87”

TR92AL8: Druse of complex Pyrite crystals with octahedron faces dominating but very rich in minor forms. The crystals are in perfect condition and extraordinarily shiny.
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department  Peru (±2019)

Specimen size: 13.9 × 7 × 6.8 cm = 5.47” × 2.76” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 6.8 × 4.8 cm = 2.68” × 1.89”

EP47W9: Very aerial group of very well defined and bright twinned crystals with small aggregates of Chalcopyrite crystals. Originally labeled as Seligmannite, our analysis determined that it is really Bournonite.
The sample is from the Claus Hedegaard collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer with a copy of the analysis.
Cerro de Pasco, Provincia de Pasco, Departamento de Pasco  Peru

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.6 × 1.7 cm = 2.05” × 1.42” × 0.67”

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

T56JD2: For a while we saw these atacamites from Peru, then we stopped seeing them, so I was very pleased when we were able to get hold of this one. It has lots of crystals and has the typical 'freshly picked' look of the atacamites.
Lily Mine, Umay District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (1999)

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

TF66Z2: A novelty at Munich 2013. Aggregates of Clinoatacamite crystals with very well defined faces and edges. Most of the Clinoatacamite is included in small transparent Quartz crystals, but some crystals and groups, very bright and with very deep color, are external and very aerial.
Lily Mine, Umay District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (2013)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.4 × 4 cm = 2.28” × 1.73” × 1.57”

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

TE66Z2: A novelty at Munich 2013. Aggregates of crystals with very sharp edges, very bright, with a very deep color and on matrix, with Quartz.
Lily Mine, Umay District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (2013)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.4 × 3.6 cm = 2.76” × 2.13” × 1.42”

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

MB49Y7: A novelty at Munich 2013. Parallel aggregates of very well defined Clinoatacamite crystals. They are large- sized for the species, platy and have rounded contours. Furthermore, the crystals, on matrix, are extraordinarily bright, with a very deep green color and are partially coated by small Gypsum crystals. A sample out of the ordinary, worthy of being in the best collections.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 47 in number 2014/1
Lily Mine, Umay District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (08/2013)

Specimen size: 16.8 × 10 × 6.7 cm = 6.61” × 3.94” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.3 cm = 0.67” × 0.51”

MA26X1: A honeycomb growth, on matrix, of micro-crystals of Quartz completely covered by turquoise blue Chrysocolla, with intense greenish shades.
Lily Mine, Umay District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (06/2012)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 5.3 × 7.7 cm = 3.74” × 2.09” × 3.03”

TA88AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Group of Quartz crystals covered by botryoidal growths of Chrysocolla with an intense greenish blue color. From a well-known Peruvian locality but from which this type of specimen had not previously been found.
Tentadora Mine, Ullpac Mountain, Huancano District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (03/2020)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.8 × 3 cm = 1.30” × 1.10” × 1.18”

TC90AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, covered by two generations of very vivid greenish blue chrysocolla, the first forming a smooth and uniform cover and the other, later, in botryoidal growths. From a well known Peruvian locality but one from which this type of specimen had not been found before.
Tentadora Mine, Ullpac Mountain, Huancano District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (03/2020)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.5 × 3.9 cm = 2.52” × 1.38” × 1.54”

TB99AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Quartz crystals covered by botryoidal growths of Chrysocolla with a very intense greenish blue color, in turn partially covered by a second generation of Quartz with dissolution figures. From a well known Peruvian locality but one from which this type of specimen had not previously been found.
Tentadora Mine, Ullpac Mountain, Huancano District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (03/2020)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 3 × 2.1 cm = 2.60” × 1.18” × 0.83”

TX56AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: vivid greenish blue Chrysocolla coating almost completely Quartz crystals. The coat has two generations of Chrysocolla, the first forming a smooth and uniform cover and the other, later, in botryoidal growths. From a well known Peruvian locality but one from which this type of specimen had not been found before.
Tentadora Mine, Ullpac Mountain, Huancano District, Pisco Province, Ica Department  Peru (03/2020)

Specimen size: 15 × 7.8 × 7.7 cm = 5.91” × 3.07” × 3.03”

TG58AD9: Spheroidal Chrysocolla growths on a rocky matrix. The Crysocolla is partially coated by small Quartz crystals. This coating in some areas on the sample is complete and visible due to a more intense luster and a deeper color (turquoise blue) of the Chrysocolla.
Acari Mine, Caraveli Province, Arequipa Department  Peru (2012)

Specimen size: 12.7 × 10.4 × 4.7 cm = 5.00” × 4.09” × 1.85”

TE27AE8: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Dendritic aggregate of elongated dodecahedral crystals with parallel growths and slight curvatures on the edges. It is from a locality not yet well known for collectible Copper samples.
Acari Mine, Caraveli Province, Arequipa Department  Peru (2015)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.8 × 1.9 cm = 2.44” × 1.50” × 0.75”

TH96AE8: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Dendritic aggregate of elongated dodecahedral crystals with parallel growths and slight curvatures on the edges. It is from a locality not yet well known for collectible Copper samples.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 443 in the volume 48, number 3
Acari Mine, Caraveli Province, Arequipa Department  Peru (2015)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 3.9 × 1.3 cm = 2.80” × 1.54” × 0.51”

MZ16W9: A novelty at Munich 2012. Dendritic growths of laminar, elongated and wirelike crystals on Quartz matrix. The locality, not well known, had offered rare samples of Gold of this quality.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2012 Munich Show of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 28 of number 1/2013
Mina San Luis, Chala, Caraveli, Arequipa  Peru (08/2012)

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

TFA47AN5: Spheroidal growths of very lustrous rhombohedral Rhodochrosite microcrystals with an intense and uniform pink color, on matrix, with small Quartz crystals. Interestingly, from this same mine and time period, similar but paler colored specimens were found that turned out to be manganese-bearing calcites, whereas these more intensely colored specimens turned out on analysis to be true rhodochrosites. We will send a copy of this new analysis to the buyer.
Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department  Peru (07/2021)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 6.7 × 5.2 cm = 2.91” × 2.64” × 2.05”

EMR86AN7: Botryoidal growths of very sharp lenticular rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystals, with good luster and a more intense and vivid pink color than usual in pieces from this deposit. With small water-clear crystals of Quartz, very lustrous, with Sphalerite.
Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department  Peru (07/2021)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.4 × 3.6 cm = 2.95” × 2.52” × 1.42”

EBZ96AN7: Spheroidal growths of Rhodochrosite with an intense and uniform pink color, with water-clear and very lustrous Quartz crystals and aggregates of sharp, lustrous Sphalerite microcrystals.
Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department  Peru (07/2021)

Specimen size: 12 × 8.6 × 5.3 cm = 4.72” × 3.39” × 2.09”

TN14AN2: Spheroidal growths of lenticular Calcite crystals (Mn-bearing calcite) cover a matrix with translucent Quartz crystals as well as small Sphalerite crystals and are partially coated by microcrystals of Rhodonite included in a white clay mass.
From a 2021 find in an as yet little-known mine. The different species have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department  Peru (02/2021)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.5 × 4 cm = 2.20” × 1.77” × 1.57”

TM66AN2: Spheroidal growths of lenticular Calcite crystals (Mn-bearing calcite) cover a matrix with translucent Quartz crystals as well as small Sphalerite crystals and are partially coated by microcrystals of Rhodonite included in a white clay mass.
From a 2021 find in an as yet little-known mine. The different species have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department  Peru (02/2021)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 6.2 × 4 cm = 2.91” × 2.44” × 1.57”

TX14AN2: Spheroidal growths of lenticular Calcite crystals (Mn-bearing calcite) cover a matrix with translucent Quartz crystals as well as small Sphalerite crystals and are partially coated by microcrystals of Rhodonite included in a white clay mass.
From a 2021 find in an as yet little-known mine. The different species have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department  Peru (02/2021)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 5.4 × 7.5 cm = 2.99” × 2.13” × 2.95”

TB56AN2: Spheroidal growths of lenticular Calcite crystals (Mn-bearing calcite) cover a matrix with translucent Quartz crystals as well as small Sphalerite crystals and are partially coated by microcrystals of Rhodonite included in a white clay mass.
From a 2021 find in an as yet little-known mine. The different species have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department  Peru (02/2021)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 7.4 × 4.1 cm = 3.27” × 2.91” × 1.61”

TQ37AN2: Spheroidal growths of lenticular Calcite crystals (Mn-bearing calcite) cover a matrix with translucent Quartz crystals as well as small Sphalerite crystals and are partially coated by microcrystals of Rhodonite included in a white clay mass.
From a 2021 find in an as yet little-known mine. The different species have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department  Peru (02/2021)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 6.6 × 6.2 cm = 3.46” × 2.60” × 2.44”

MH14AM9: A novelty at Tucson Virtual 2021. Unusual fan-shaped growths on matrix of translucent, lustrous and deep pink Quartz crystals whose color is not due to inclusions of iron oxides but rather is inherent to the Quartz itself. The exact name of the mine is not yet known, but it will surely become known with the passage of time.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department  Peru (2020)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm = 1.06” × 0.98” × 0.75”

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

MX14AM7: A novelty at Tucson Virtual 2021. Unusual fan-shaped growths on matrix of translucent, lustrous and deep pink Quartz crystals whose color is not due to inclusions of iron oxides but rather is inherent to the Quartz itself. The exact name of the mine is not yet known, but it will surely become known with the passage of time.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department  Peru (2020)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.4 × 2 cm = 1.22” × 0.94” × 0.79”

MA10AM7: A novelty at Tucson Virtual 2021. Unusual fan-shaped growths on matrix of translucent, lustrous and deep pink Quartz crystals whose color is not due to inclusions of iron oxides but rather is inherent to the Quartz itself. The exact name of the mine is not yet known, but it will surely become known with the passage of time.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department  Peru (2020)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 3 × 2.1 cm = 1.30” × 1.18” × 0.83”

MC10AM9: A novelty at Tucson Virtual 2021. Unusual fan-shaped growths on matrix of translucent, lustrous and deep pink Quartz crystals whose color is not due to inclusions of iron oxides but rather is inherent to the Quartz itself. The exact name of the mine is not yet known, but it will surely become known with the passage of time.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department  Peru (2020)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.9 × 2.4 cm = 1.42” × 1.14” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.91” × 0.51”

MG48AM7: A novelty at Tucson Virtual 2021. Unusual fan-shaped growths on matrix of translucent, lustrous and deep pink Quartz crystals whose color is not due to inclusions of iron oxides but rather is inherent to the Quartz itself. The exact name of the mine is not yet known, but it will surely become known with the passage of time.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department  Peru (2020)

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

MY14AM7: A novelty at Tucson Virtual 2021. Unusual fan-shaped growths on matrix of translucent, lustrous and deep pink Quartz crystals whose color is not due to inclusions of iron oxides but rather is inherent to the Quartz itself. The exact name of the mine is not yet known, but it will surely become known with the passage of time.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department  Peru (2020)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 4.1 × 2.3 cm = 1.69” × 1.61” × 0.91”

MG13AM9: A novelty at Tucson Virtual 2021. Unusual fan-shaped growths on matrix of translucent, lustrous and deep pink Quartz crystals whose color is not due to inclusions of iron oxides but rather is inherent to the Quartz itself. The exact name of the mine is not yet known, but it will surely become known with the passage of time.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department  Peru (2020)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.5 × 1.7 cm = 1.81” × 0.98” × 0.67”

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