Mineral Specimens - page 7
Europe (excl. Spain, Portugal and Romania)

MC10AK9: Elongated and very sharp crystals, which is rare for the species. Very lustrous, with excellent vivid color, in limonite matrix.
Svätodušná, Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic (2014)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.7 × 2.6 cm = 2.1” × 1.5” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.1 cm = 0.1” × 0.0”

ER58Z5: Aggregates of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright, with a very intense and deep green color and scattered on a rocky matrix. The crystals, even though not especially large, are really abundant and have very good quality.
Svätodušná, Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic (2000)

Specimen size: 11 × 4.5 × 6.2 cm = 4.3” × 1.8” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

ME26AG9: A druse on a rocky matrix, very rich in well-defined Langite micro-crystals than are much more isolated than usual. They are very bright and have a magnificent blue color, deeper and more intense tjhan usual with this rare species.
The sample is from the Jordi Vilallonga collection.
Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic (2004)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.1 × 1.1 cm = 2.9” × 1.6” × 0.4”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

VM27AE5: Dipyramidal Libethenite crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are bright, have a very deep color and are on matrix, with rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. The sample is from the type locality for the species.
Ľubietová (Libethen), Banská Bystrica  Slovak Republic

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3 × 2.2 cm = 2.2” × 1.2” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.1” × 0.0”

EA56V1: Euchroite from the type locality. Groups of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, excellent color and luster and on matrix, with concretionary growths of microcrystalline Azurite.
Farbište, Poniky, Slovenské Rudohorie Mountains, Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (10/2011)

Specimen size: 8 × 5.4 × 4.5 cm = 3.1” × 2.1” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

ET11AI4: Druse, on matrix, of very sharp Azurite crystals that are very bright and have an extraordinary very vivid color. Among the best known for this mine.
Špania Dolina (Herrengrund), Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (05/2017)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.8 × 1.7 cm = 2.5” × 1.5” × 0.7”

EH6AF5: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2017. Rosette aggregates, on matrix, of lenticular Azurite crystals, very bright and with a very vivid and uniform color and partially coated by spherical Malachite. It is from a very recent find at a locality that is a classic for Slovakian mineralogy.
Špania Dolina (Herrengrund), Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (05/2017)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 4.6 × 1.9 cm = 3.4” × 1.8” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

EJ46AF5: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2017. Rosette aggregates on matrix of lenticular Azurite crystals, very bright and with a very vivid and uniform color and partially coated by small spherical Malachite growths. It is from a very recent find at a locality that is a classic for Slovakian mineralogy.
Špania Dolina (Herrengrund), Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (05/2017)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 5.5 × 6.2 cm = 3.9” × 2.2” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

EK96AF5: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2017. Rosette aggregates on matrix of lenticular Azurite crystals, very bright and with a very vivid and uniform color and partially coated by spherical Malachite. It is from a very recent find at a locality that is a classic for Slovakian mineralogy.
Špania Dolina (Herrengrund), Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (05/2017)

Specimen size: 13.3 × 10 × 5.8 cm = 5.2” × 3.9” × 2.3”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

VK48AE4: Aggregates, on matrix, of well developed lenticular Devilline crystals with a deep and uniform green color. A World classic.
Špania Dolina (Herrengrund), Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (2004)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.8 × 2.5 cm = 1.8” × 1.5” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

EQ14R9: Growths of Quartz crystals forming irregular bundles. The crystals are completely coated by intensely bright and iridescent oxides of iron and manganese. On a matrix of Quartz and Limonite.
Banská Štiavnica (Schemnitz), Banská Štiavnica District, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (2009)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 6.4 × 3.5 cm = 3.3” × 2.5” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

EG66R9: Growths of Quartz crystals forming irregular bundles. The crystals are completely coated by intensely bright and iridescent oxides of iron and manganese. On a matrix of Limonite.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section of the March 10, 2011 edition.
Banská Štiavnica (Schemnitz), Banská Štiavnica District, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (2009)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 6 × 4 cm = 4.5” × 2.4” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.3 cm = 0.4” × 0.1”

EQ89V2: Group of three large translucent crystals with split growths showing smaller crystals, a lot of them doubly terminated, transparent, very bright and practically colorless. The locality, a great European classic, hasn’t supplied collector’s specimens since long ago.
Banská Štiavnica (Schemnitz), Banská Štiavnica District, Banská Bystrica Region  Slovak Republic (05/2011)

Specimen size: 15.5 × 8.5 × 9 cm = 6.1” × 3.3” × 3.5”

Main crystal size: 14 × 4.5 cm = 5.5” × 1.8”

MQ76AK9: Group of doubly terminated floater crystals, transparent and very bright, with a slightly smoky tone. An alpine classic from the collection Carles Manresa (no. 4147) whose collection entry shows that it was previously in the collection of Joaquín Folch Girona, who got it in an exchange with the Sulzbachs, Zurich, in 1950. We will send to the buyer, together with the specimen, the label and collection record of Carlos Manresa and the label and handwritten record from the Folch collection.
Sidelangetscher, Furka Pass area, Urseren, Uri  Switzerland (±1950)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5 × 3.7 cm = 2.2” × 2.0” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 3.3 cm = 2.2” × 1.3”

VF37AE7: Floater aggregate of Calcite crystals with oriented faces forming parallel growths of extraordinarily flattened crystals (a habit that is well known as “papierspat.” The aggregate is partially coated, mainly on the back, by Chlorite, very sharp Orthoclase (adularia variety) crystals and small Quartz crystals.
The sample is from the duplicates collection of Joaquín Folch, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Griesseren Valley, Maderanertal, Uri  Switzerland (±1952)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 6.2 × 5 cm = 3.8” × 2.4” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 5.8 × 3.2 cm = 2.3” × 1.3”

EX76AD2: Single smoky Quartz crystal, transparent, very bright and with a very deep and uniform color, with Hematite inclusions on its terminal faces and with very visible right-handed rhombohedral faces.
Uri  Switzerland (1992)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 3.6 × 2.7 cm = 2.6” × 1.4” × 1.1”

ED98AK6: Rosette-like books of lamellar Hematite crystals with well defined hexagonal outlines, very lustrous, on matrix. A European classic of excellent quality and very aesthetic.
Bächi Valley, Reckingen, Grafschaft, Goms, Wallis (Valais)  Switzerland

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.7 × 3.9 cm = 1.8” × 1.5” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.8” × 0.6”

TC36G3: Typical group of tabular crystals, bright and with the side edges very well shaped. The group stands on smoky Quartz. More aerial than usual.
Cavradi, Curnera Valley, Tujetsch (Tavetsch), Vorderrhein Valley, Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden)  Switzerland

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 1.6” × 0.9” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.9 cm = 0.9” × 0.7”

VC37Z4: Parallel growths of Orthoclase (variety adularia) crystals that are very bright, translucent, have very well defined faces and edges and are with oriented growths of dark green Chlorite. A Swiss classic.
Central St Gotthard Massif, Leventina, Ticino (Tessin)  Switzerland (±1979)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 6.2 × 4.8 cm = 3.9” × 2.4” × 1.9”

ML67AK9: Extraordinarily brilliant Galena crystals, with sharp faces and edges, on matrix with Quartz crystals and small, very sharp, rhombohedral Siderite crystals. The specimen is very typical, comes from one of the great classic Galena localities for collections and is accompanied by a handwritten old label.
Neudorf, Harzgerode mining district, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt/Sachsen-Anhalt  Germany

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.6 × 4.4 cm = 2.2” × 1.8” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

TK67T2: Fine “oldie” with a group of cube-octahedral crystals on matrix, some of them with very well marked spinel law twins, that display a good luster considering it is an ancient sample from a classic locality. The piece is from the collection of John Marshall. The collection card is lost, but the pedigree remains testified by the number of small labels on the back side.
Freiberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.9” × 1.5” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.7 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

MC38AK7: Free standing group of prismatic crystals, very sharp, with excellent terminals faces, and very brilliant.
This specimen, from a classic German locality, comes from the collection of Thomas P. Moore, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Freiberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.3 × 1.7 cm = 1.0” × 0.5” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”

TV37AH4: Very aerial growth of very bright and extraordinarily well defined native Antimony crystals. The sample was analyzed by Dr. Frank Keutsch, currently one of the best experts on sulphides and native elements. We’ll send to the buyer a copy of Dr. Keutsch’s label.
St. Andreasberg mining area, Goslar District, Harz, Lower Saxony/Niedersachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 1.2 × 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.5” × 0.4” × 0.2”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

SZ27AC3: Aggregate of prismatic crystals formed by a translucent hexagonal prism and pinacoidal termination with a very well defined geometrical zone with a snowy white color. A German classic that previously was in the Bally Museum collection, whose label we’ll send along with the Stoppani label to the buyer.
St. Andreasberg mining area, Goslar District, Harz, Lower Saxony/Niedersachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 5.5 × 5 × 3.4 cm = 2.2” × 2.0” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 3 cm = 1.9” × 1.2”

TZ66AK3: Aggregate of well defined crystals, some of them extraordinarily sharp, something quite rare for the species. Lustrous and with a little matrix on the back. A rarity from a classic locality.
Pöhla, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.8 × 1.9 cm = 0.9” × 0.7” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

TG88AF4: Dendritic growths of strongly elongated native Silver twinned crystals that conserve very fresh surfaces contrasting with the black Arsenic matrix.
The sample is from a classic German locality and it is from the Vallecillo collection, from Madrid.
Pöhla-Tellerhäuser Mine, Pöhla, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.9 × 4.2 cm = 2.2” × 1.5” × 1.7”

TP46AI8: Very aerial growth of extraordinarily well developed Bismuth crystals that are very bright and on matrix with Calcite. A German classic and a miniature of great quality that is from the Frank Keutsch collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Schlema-Hartenstein District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3 × 1.5 cm = 1.4” × 1.2” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

SB27AF0: Parallel growths of translucent Calcite crystals tinted by reddish Hematite inclusions with very flattened Siderite crystals that have a pale cream color, and white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals on the back.
The sample is from the Francesco S. Stoppani collection (catalog number 0440), whose label we’ll send to the buyer with another from Mineralien N. Stötzel, of Siegen. As is the case with so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality
Schlema-Hartenstein District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 13.3 × 10.5 × 4.8 cm = 5.2” × 4.1” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.5 cm = 1.2” × 1.0”

TB56W7: Very well defined crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with very acute terminations and more isolated than usual. They have excellent luster and color and are on matrix. The locality, a classic for the species, has produced few samples of this quality.
Callenberg North open cut (No. 1), Callenberg, Zwickau, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany (1977)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 6.2 × 3.4 cm = 2.5” × 2.4” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.3 cm = 0.3” × 0.1”

MR91AE5: Aggregate of strongly elongated Hydroboracite crystals that are very sharp, colorless, completely clear and have an exceptional luster. They are on matrix, with transparent Gypsum crystals. Of the best quality for the species.
Kohnstein Quarry, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen District, Thuringia/Thüringen  Germany (2009)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 9.7 × 6.9 cm = 4.5” × 3.8” × 2.7”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.6” × 0.1”

MA87AJ8: Group of twinned Bournonite crystals, very typical for the locality and a great classic for the species. The crystals, one of them clearly dominant, are very well defined, extraordinarily bright and are on matrix. An excellent German classic that is with an old paperboard collectible box with a transparent cover and handwritten notes that we also will send to the buyer.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 62 of the 2019/01 edition.

Horhausen, Flammersfeld, Altenkirchen (Westerwald), Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz  Germany

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.2 × 1.5 cm = 1.4” × 1.3” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

MY96AJ1: Parallel group of very sharp, twinned Bournonite crystals with very well defined and bright faces and edges. An excellent miniature, a German classic from the Thomas P. Moore collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Georg Mine, Horhausen, Flammersfeld, Altenkirchen (Westerwald), Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz  Germany

Specimen size: 3 × 2 × 1.9 cm = 1.2” × 0.8” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 0.9” × 0.6”

MA89AJ3: Pyromorphite crystals whose morphology is different from the well-known morphology in other mines in this classic district. Short-prismatic crystals with slight curvatures on faces and edges and a lot of them doubly terminated. The crystals, on matrix, are bright and have a greenish-brown color.
Mercur Mine Group (Mercur Mine), Bad Ems, Bad Ems District, Lahn Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz  Germany

Specimen size: 5 × 3.8 × 4 cm = 2.0” × 1.5” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

MC37Y3: Botryoidal growth with an uncommon shape for Bad Ems samples. The aggregate has a pleasing color, between cream and slightly brown, and it is on matrix, with small microcrystals of Quartz.
Rosenberg Mine, Braubach, Bad Ems District, Lahn Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz  Germany

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.7 × 1.7 cm = 2.2” × 1.9” × 0.7”

TX66AB3: Aggregates of stalked crystals with slightly curved edges and with very good pinacoidal terminations. They are bright and have a clear brown color, very typical for the locality, a great European classic for the species.
Rosenberg Mine, Braubach, Bad Ems District, Lahn Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz  Germany

Specimen size: 7.5 × 4 × 2.8 cm = 3.0” × 1.6” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.9 cm = 0.7” × 0.4”

SC7AD6: Very sharp white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals implanted on a matrix of Quartz crystals with small twinned Chalcopyrite crystals on both the Quartz and the Dolomite. An excellent German classic.
Eupel Mine, Niederhövels, Wissen, Flammersfeld, Altenkirchen (Westerwald), Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz  Germany

Specimen size: 16.8 × 10.5 × 6.5 cm = 6.6” × 4.1” × 2.6”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

SD99AC3: Slightly deformed rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with a pale-brown to pinkish color, with small twinned Chalcopyrite crystals on their surfaces and on a base of Quartz crystals with a very poorly developed prism. It is an excellent German classic for the species and the locality. As is the case with so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality.
Eupel Mine, Niederhövels, Wissen, Flammersfeld, Altenkirchen (Westerwald), Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz  Germany

Specimen size: 17.8 × 10.2 × 4.4 cm = 7.0” × 4.0” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

ER48AG0: A cluster of translucent Fluorite crystal cubes with some of their edges partially coated by reddish micro-crystalline Quartz. The crystals, with a slightly yellowish green color, have a quality superior to what has been known for the locality.
Cäcilia Mine, Freiung, Stulln, Wölsendorf West District, Upper Palatinate/Oberpfalz, Bavaria/Bayern  Germany

Specimen size: 15.7 × 12.3 × 4.5 cm = 6.2” × 4.8” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 3.2 cm = 1.4” × 1.3”

EB46T5: Aggregate, on a metallic matrix, of cuboctahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges in which the forms of the cube and the octahedron have an equal size. It is from a find by Frank de Wit in 2007 from which we offer all of the available samples. The piece is with a label signed by Frank that we'll send to the buyer.
Meyer Quarry, Hastenrath, Eschweiler, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia/Nordrhein-Westfalen  Germany (07/04/2007)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.8 × 2 cm = 2.4” × 1.9” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

TT66AK9: A discovery due to the hard work of amateur collectors, a treasure recovered in an unexpected place, the currently abandoned Four de Cluzel Mine. Very sharp Fluorite crystals, translucent and bright yellow lemon with uniform color, are topped by a parallel growth of very sharp tabular Baryte crystals. Both the Fluorite and Baryte are partially and selectively coated with small water-clear crystals of Quartz. Because of their color, luster and crystal size, these are among the most beautiful French Fluorites.
Four de Cluzel Mine, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France (04-08/2018)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.8 × 6.2 cm = 3.4” × 3.1” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 7.2 × 5 cm = 2.8” × 2.0”

TG67Z9: Polycrystalline growth of cubic Fluorite crystals with very well marked phantoms, with blue color and partially coated by small Quartz crystals. We note the size of the crystals, unusually large for the locality.
Le Burc Mine, Alban-Le Fraysse area, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 9.7 × 7.3 × 4.8 cm = 3.8” × 2.9” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 7.7 × 7.3 cm = 3.0” × 2.9”

SR26AC0: Spheroidal aggregates, on matrix, of very bright and deep colored Azurite crystals, an uncommon species at this mine which is famous for its Fluorite.
Le Burc Mine, Alban-Le Fraysse area, Tarn, Occitanie  France (2002)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.9 × 2 cm = 1.4” × 1.1” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

NF76AI0: Radial aggregates and fan-like growths of acicular Pyromorphite crystals on matrix. They are very bright and have a very intense and uniform color. An European classic seen only from old collections.
Saint-Salvy Mine, Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 4.8 × 2.6 × 1.9 cm = 1.9” × 1.0” × 0.7”

TG89AK7: Group of very sharp, transparent, thin platy Hydroxylbastnäsite crystals, lustrous, intense and uniform caramel color, on a matrix of white rhombohedral Dolomite
A French classic from the collection of Anna and Danilo Rolando (No. 9606) whose label we will send to the buyer.
Trimouns Mine, Luzenac, Ariège, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 5 × 3.6 × 5.6 cm = 2.0” × 1.4” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

MH88AJ4: Parallel growth of very sharp laminar Hydroxylbastnäsite-(Ce) crystals that are transparent and bright with a very intense honey color and on matrix with rhombohedral Calcite crystals. A classic of French and worldwide mineralogy.
Trimouns Mine, Luzenac, Ariège, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.8 × 4.7 cm = 2.7” × 2.3” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

EL90AI8: Parallel growth of two crystals of Allanite-(Ce) on Calcite matrix with a good length, very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright, with a very intense and deep color and with small Hydroxylbastnäsite-(Ce) crystals related. A French classic.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2019, page 72
Trimouns Mine, Luzenac, Ariège, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4 × 4.4 cm = 2.7” × 1.6” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 0.3 cm = 0.9” × 0.1”

EL13W7: From a very recent find. Sharp tristetrahedral crystals with an excellent luster. They are larger than what has been known for the locality. They are on matrix, with Chalcopyrite and Quartz crystals. The find has been described in number 107 of ‘Le Règne Minéral’ magazine.
Lina Mine, level 06-07, Alzen, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie  France (2012)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3 × 1.7 cm = 1.8” × 1.2” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

EM96W7: From a very recent find. Sharp tristetrahedral crystals with an excellent luster and they are larger that has been known for the locality. They are on matrix, with Chalcopyrite and Quartz crystals. The find has been described in number 107 of ‘Le Règne Minéral’ magazine.
Lina Mine, level 06-07, Alzen, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie  France (2012)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.3 × 2 cm = 2.7” × 2.1” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

EP76W7: From a very recent find. Sharp crystals showing the faces of the tetrahedron and tristetrahedron. They have an excellent luster and are larger than has been known for the locality. They are on matrix, with Chalcopyrite and Quartz crystals. The find has been described in number 107 of ‘Le Règne Minéral’ magazine.
Lina Mine, level 06-07, Alzen, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie  France (2012)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 5 × 2.8 cm = 3.3” × 2.0” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

EC27AI5: Druse, on matrix, of globular aggregates formed by small crystals that are unusually well defined for the locality, more evident on the aggregates at the bottom of the sample.
Mine La Vidale area, Asprières, St. Martin de Bouillac, Aveyron, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.7 × 2.7 cm = 1.7” × 1.5” × 1.1”

ML96R9: Globular growths of barrel-shaped orange yellow crystals with a good luster. The crystals are on a matrix with small crystals of Quartz.
La Vidale Mine (Brezies), Asprières, Saint-Martin de Bouillac, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, Occitanie  France (2008)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.2 × 3.6 cm = 3.6” × 2.8” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.3 cm = 0.4” × 0.1”

ET94AK3: Group of well developed Pyromorphite crystals, with very curved faces and edges, bright greenish yellow, free standing, on a Quartz matrix. The specimen is big for this deposit.
Mine La Vidale area, Asprières, St. Martin de Bouillac, Aveyron, Occitanie  France (05/2017)

Specimen size: 16 × 11.4 × 4.7 cm = 6.3” × 4.5” × 1.9”

T13RAX7: Scalenohedral crystals with slightly curved faces and edges. On a rock matrix, they are transparent and extraordinarily bright. Some of the crystals are colorless, strongly contrasting with other honey color Calcite crystals. Of a great quality and among the best well known for this locality.
Espira-de-l'Agly, Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 15.5 × 10.5 × 6.5 cm = 6.1” × 4.1” × 2.6”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.6 cm = 0.5” × 0.2”

SG96AC0: Spheroidal Azurite aggregates, one of them clearly dominant, that are bright and with a very deep color. They are on a rocky matrix, with small but very well defined and bright Cerussite crystals. As is the case with so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality.
Mas Dieu, Mercoirol, Alès, Gard, Occitanie  France (2004)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.8 × 2.4 cm = 2.2” × 1.9” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0,9 cm = 0.4” × 0.0”

SE86AE3: Druse, on a rocky matrix, of very sharp trapezohedral crystals that are colorless, transparent and very bright.
The sample is with a label from the Stoppani collection that we’ll send to the buyer. As is the case with so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality.
Bagard Quarry, Bagard, Anduze, Alès, Gard, Occitanie  France (2006)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.5 × 4 cm = 3.4” × 3.0” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.6” × 0.3”

EB88AG7: Aggregate of Calcite crystals, very rich with faces and whose length is very much larger than usual for this quarry. The crystals show predominant scalenohedron and rhombohedron forms with slight curvatures on their faces and edges. They are colorless and between translucent and transparent.
The sample is from the Christophe Marot collection (cat. nr.. C7-8), whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Bagard Quarry, Bagard, Anduze, Alès, Gard, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 13.8 × 8.3 × 7.7 cm = 5.4” × 3.3” × 3.0”

Main crystal size: 5.7 × 5.7 cm = 2.2” × 2.2”

SH96AE3: Druse, on a rocky matrix, of crystals showing single prisms and terminal rhombohedra in very well defined parallel growths. The crystals have very well defined color zones due to reddish Hematite inclusions.
The sample is with a label from the Stoppani collection that we’ll send to the buyer.
Cadacu Quarry, Laval-Pradel, La Grand-Combe, Alès, Gard, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 10.5 × 9.4 × 3.2 cm = 4.1” × 3.7” × 1.3”

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

TP89X7: Aggregate of cubic crystals, of large size for the locality, between translucent and transparent, bright and showing well defined phantom growths. Very notable for the locality.
Durfort Mine, Durfort-et-Saint-Martin-de-Sossenac, Sauve, Le Vigan, Gard, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 10.5 × 9.7 × 5.7 cm = 4.1” × 3.8” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 2.7 cm = 2.1” × 1.1”

LA96AK8: Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals, translucent, very lustrous and extraordinarily intense and uniform blue. The fluorite grew in the void left by a scalenohedral Calcite crystal with some relict faces covered by epitactic Quartz.
The specimen is from the Philippe Morelon collection (number 962), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Le Beix Mine, Saint-Germain-près-Herment, Herment, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (1980)

Specimen size: 11.3 × 6.2 × 4.7 cm = 4.4” × 2.4” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

TP70AK8: Octahedral Fluorite crystal with polycrystalline growths on one of its lower vertices, translucent, deep pink, on Albite matrix. An alpine classic.
Aiguille Verte, Mont Blanc Massif, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (±2010)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4 × 2.8 cm = 2.0” × 1.6” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

EB52R3: Parallel growth of very sharp octahedral crystals, with very smooth faces, translucent and of an excellent color, very uniform and with mauve shades. The group, much more complete and aerial than usual, is on a matrix of Albite.
Argentière Glacier, Bassin d'Argentière, Mont Blanc, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2009)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.2 × 2.6 cm = 1.7” × 1.3” × 1.0”

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

B9RV6: Group of elongated, clear and shiny crystals, with "faden" growths in them.
Lignarre Valley, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (1991)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.2 × 3.4 cm = 2.5” × 2.0” × 1.3”

R57FV6: Very unusual distorted Quartz, extra-flat and apparently with broken areas, although "in person" it is clear that all faces are complete and undamaged.
Lignarre Valley, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (1991)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.6 × 1.7 cm = 3.0” × 2.6” × 0.7”

TG96AI5: Druse of Quartz crystals on a chalcedony matrix. They are very clear and colorless, very bright, rich in faces and have the typical shape that relates to the name of the mine. An extraordinary sample, very fine and carefully preserved, from a classic French locality for Quartz. We’ll send to the buyer the label from the Jean-Pierre Gilian collection.
La Gardette Mine, Brides gallery, Villard-Notre-Dame, Le Bourg d'Oisans, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2015)

Specimen size: 20 × 8.5 × 11 cm = 7.9” × 3.3” × 4.3”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1 cm = 1.2” × 0.4”

LM94AK4: Group of flattened lenticular crystals of Siderite, translucent, bright and of uniform brown color, on matrix, with small water-clear crystals of Quartz. An excellent French classic from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 362), whose label we will send to the buyer.
La Mure coal Mines, La Mure, Matheysine-Trièves, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (±1994)

Specimen size: 18.4 × 7.2 × 4.4 cm = 7.2” × 2.8” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.4 cm = 1.4” × 0.9”

LN58AK0: Very sharp crystal with very marked parallel growths, a tabular-laminar habit, bright and transparent to translucent, with inclusions and with the edges profiled by a snowy white geometric zoning. The specimen, found on an area near the old Le Mure mine, is from the Philippe Morelon collection (number 349) whose label, which includes more information on the back, will be sent to the buyer.
La Mure area, La Mure, Matheysine-Trièves, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (04/2012)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 7.6 × 0.6 cm = 3.8” × 3.0” × 0.2”

NC14AK5: From a collection displayed for the first time at Munich 2019: Group of very sharp Quartz crystals with visible Dauphine-law twinning, transparent, brilliant, and rich in Chlorite inclusions.
The sample is from the Miguel David Martínez collection (No. 78), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Vallée de la Maurienne, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (1999)

Specimen size: 6 × 2.7 × 3.4 cm = 2.4” × 1.1” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 5.7 × 1 cm = 2.2” × 0.4”

TP90AG5: Group of translucent crystals with very elongated prisms and dipyramidal terminations forming a scepter, and with cyclic twins. The shape is different and better defined than usual for samples from the locality.
Lescure Mine, Mayres, Thueyts, Largentière, Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (± 2014)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 4 × 1.7 cm = 1.1” × 1.6” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1 cm = 0.8” × 0.4”

TQ27AG5: Group of translucent crystals with very elongated prisms and dipyramidal terminations with the cyclic twin. The shape is different and better defined than usual for samples from the locality.
Lescure Mine, Mayres, Thueyts, Largentière, Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (± 2014)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.8 × 1 cm = 1.3” × 0.7” × 0.4”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 0.5 cm = 0.9” × 0.2”

EX14AI4: Aggregate on a limonite matrix of white acicular Cerussite crystals with a silky luster and fibrous aspect resembling the so-called “jackstraw” variety. It is from a locality where samples of such quality are very scarce.
Lescure Mine, Mayres, Thueyts, Largentière, Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.4 × 1.5 cm = 2.1” × 1.3” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.6” × 0.2”

MF46AA9: Single crystal with very well defined faces and edges, a reddish-brown color and on a matrix with fine parallel growths of Baryte crystals. Very good for the locality.
Lantignié, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.4 × 4.4 cm = 1.3” × 0.9” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

TP99AK7: Floater intergrowth of octahedral crystals of Malachite pseudomorphic after Cuprite, very well shaped and larger than usual. A French classic of high quality.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.6 × 2.3 cm = 1.1” × 1.0” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

EH14AE8: Aggregate of Malachite replacing dodecahedral Cuprite crystals. The former Cuprite crystals are very well defined, with smooth faces, a uniform green color and are on matrix.
A French classic that is with an old German label from an unknown collector that we’ll send to the buyer.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.7 × 2.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.7” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.9 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

EJ47AE5: Classic aggregate of Malachite crystals pseudomorphous after Cuprite. They have an octahedral shape beveled by the dodecahedron and are on a matrix of tabular Azurite crystals.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2010)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.9 × 1.5 cm = 1.0” × 0.7” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”

EE96AI1: Floater growth of very sharp equant Azurite crystals that have the false appearance of cubes. They are bright and have a very vivid color.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2005-2009)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.4 × 1.9 cm = 1.0” × 0.9” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.3 cm = 0.7” × 0.5”

EB77AF8: Group of very sharp and flattened crystals with the dominant faces of a rhombohedron, with very well defined faces and edges and a clearer color than usual for the Chessy pieces. The sample is from recent and surprising finds at the old dumps area at that mine.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2010)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.3 × 1.4 cm = 1.3” × 0.9” × 0.6”

ED8AF8: Group of very sharp equant rhombohedral crystals with a more vivid color than usual for the Chessy pieces. The sample is from recent and surprising finds at the old dumps area at that mine.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2009)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.9 × 2.2 cm = 1.4” × 1.1” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”

EQ96AD9: Floater aggregate with rosette growths of tabular crystals with very well defined faces and edges and quite large for the locality. It has an intense and deep blue color and has a small spherulitic microcrystalline Malachite growth. A French classic.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3 × 3 cm = 1.5” × 1.2” × 1.2”

TF86T3: Rosette growths with very well defined faces and edges and with a classic (for Chessy) crystal of Malachite pseudomorph after Cuprite and with minor matrix on its base.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.1 × 2.8 cm = 1.5” × 1.2” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

EH67AG0: Floater aggregate of tabular crystals with sharp faces and edges and a very intense blue color, with silky reflections. A good French classic.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2014)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.5 × 3.2 cm = 1.5” × 1.4” × 1.3”

EB16AI1: Druse of equant Azurite crystals with a very vivid and intense bright color. They have some Malachite growths with a silky luster that replaced Cuprite crystals.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2005-2009)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.9 × 2.5 cm = 1.5” × 1.5” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

ED67Z9: Floater aggregate with rosette growths of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, large for the locality, with an intense blue color and with small microcrystalline Malachite aggregates. A French classic.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 1.7” × 1.5” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2 cm = 1.3” × 0.8”

EM86AG9: Group of Azurite crystals with a short prismatic shape, some of them doubly terminated, with parallel growths and with small Quartz crystals and Malachite coatings. A good French classic.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2017)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.8” × 1.4” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

ET96AD9: Floater aggregate with rosette growths of equant crystals with very well defined faces and edges and with an intense and vivid blue color.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2013)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.4 × 3 cm = 1.9” × 1.3” × 1.2”

EC96AI1: Rosette growths of Azurite crystals with a thick tabular shape. They are very sharp and bright with a vivid color and have Malachite growths with a silky luster that replaced Cuprite crystals, and they also are with small Quartz fragments.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2005-2009)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.5 × 3.2 cm = 2.0” × 1.4” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.1 cm = 0.3” × 0.0”

LY30AK0: Group of equidimensional crystals of Azurite with sharp faces and edges, very bright colors and partially covered by a cute group of Malachite after Azurite crystals. A French classic from the Philippe Morelon collection (number 345) whose label, which includes more information on the back, will be sent to the buyer.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (1998)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.6 × 2.6 cm = 2.0” × 1.8” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.7” × 0.3”

MB50AE2: Botryoidal and spheroidal aggregates of small rhombohedral crystals that are bright and have a very vivid and uniform color. A French classic of great quality.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.7 × 3.3 cm = 2.4” × 1.9” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

TM26AF8: Druse of rhombohedral Azurite crystals with polycrystalline growths and a very vivid color and luster on matrix with fibrous Malachite that has a silky luster. The sample, from a not well-known collection, is very old and has the characteristics of the Azurites that were from the “Mine bleue,” typical of the XIX century.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 9.4 × 6.6 × 2.6 cm = 3.7” × 2.6” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

EX74AG7: Aggregate of very sharp Baryte crystals, translucent, bright and with an intense color.
A sample of great quality from the Christophe Marot collection (cat. nr. C5-1), on whose label that we’ll send to the buyer is that is was acquired from the Frederic Delporte collection.
Maine Mine, Les Reclesnes, Cordesse, Lucenay-l'Évêque, Autun District, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté  France

Specimen size: 12.8 × 12 × 7 cm = 5.0” × 4.7” × 2.8”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 1 cm = 1.4” × 0.4”

EG69AH9: A kind of novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2018, where it appeared to the collectible trade for the first time. Gold forms very bright laminar growths and coatings on an aggregate of deformed Quartz crystals. The locality, as is usual for a lot of novelties, is approximate and generic, so we are waiting for some more precise data.
Loudéac, Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany/Bretagne  France

Specimen size: 2.1 × 2 × 1 cm = 0.8” × 0.8” × 0.4”

MV54AI5: A kind of novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2018, where this Gold appeared to the collectible trade for the first time. It forms very bright laminar growths and coatings on an aggregate of Quartz crystals very much more defined than usual for the locality. The locality, as is usual for a lot of novelties, is approximate and generic, so we are waiting for some more precise data.
Loudéac, Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany/Bretagne  France

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2.1 × 1.3 cm = 0.9” × 0.8” × 0.5”

MR30AI5: A kind of novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2018, where this Gold appeared to the collectible trade for the first time. It forms very bright laminar growths and coatings on an aggregate of Quartz crystals very much more defined than usual for the locality. The locality, as is usual for a lot of novelties, is approximate and generic, so we are waiting for some more precise data.
Loudéac, Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany/Bretagne  France

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.1 × 1.1 cm = 1.0” × 0.4” × 0.4”

LM68AK0: Group of crystals with very marked polycrystalline growths on the surface of the faces, transparent and bright, with inclusions and a very marked color change due a phantom growth, yellowish at the nucleus of the crystals and colorless-reddish on the surface. A French classic. The sample is from the Philippe Morelon collection (number 980) whose label, which includes more information on the back, will be sent to the buyer.
Chaillac Mine, Rossignol vein, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire  France (1995)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 9.8 × 3.1 cm = 4.9” × 3.9” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

ET86AG7: Aggregate of cubic crystals with polycrystalline growths on their faces. They are between transparent and translucent and have a variable color, more reddish on the edges and between yellow and brown on the core area. The sample is of an extraordinary quality compared with the usual Fluorite from this mine, famous for Pyromorphite.
It was personally collected by Christophe Marot (cat. nr. C8-2)
Chaillac Mine, Rossignol vein, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire  France

Specimen size: 16.3 × 11 × 6.3 cm = 6.4” × 4.3” × 2.5”

Main crystal size: 5.1 × 3.8 cm = 2.0” × 1.5”

EB56AC9: Parallel aggregates of Cerussite crystals with a fibrous aspect, a white color and small black Goethite coatings. Good quality for the locality.
Chaillac Mine, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire  France (±1980)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 2.5 × 1.6 cm = 1.8” × 1.0” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.7 cm = 1.6” × 0.7”

MF99AF1: Very aerial aggregate of flattened crystals with a very well defined twin. Their white color contrasts with the brown of the oxide inclusions. The sample is from a classic French locality and has great quality.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2017, page 84
Chaillac Mine, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire  France (± 1980)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.6 × 2.2 cm = 2.5” × 2.2” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

MG26AJ0: Arborescent growths of crystals with a spindled shape, and with very deeply hoppered terminations. The very bright crystals have an unusually intense orange color. A French classic, but different from the usual.
Des Farges Mine (Les Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 5 × 4.8 × 3.1 cm = 2.0” × 1.9” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

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

Specimen size: 5.2 × 5 × 3.9 cm = 2.0” × 2.0” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.1” × 0.0”

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

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.1 × 4 cm = 2.2” × 1.6” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

EG9AI7: Exquisite cluster of small elongated crystals with good, acute or flat pinacoidal terminations. They are bright with an extraordinarily deep and uniform green color and are on a Baryte matrix. An excellent French classic.
Des Farges Mine (Les Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5.1 × 3.4 cm = 2.2” × 2.0” × 1.3”

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

Specimen size: 6 × 5.1 × 4.1 cm = 2.4” × 2.0” × 1.6”

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

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.2 × 2.9 cm = 2.6” × 1.7” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.2 cm = 0.3” × 0.1”

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

Specimen size: 6.9 × 6.5 × 3.3 cm = 2.7” × 2.6” × 1.3”

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

Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.6 × 1.8 cm = 3.0” × 2.6” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

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

Specimen size: 11.6 × 8.5 × 3.5 cm = 4.6” × 3.3” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

EA87S3: Group of Quartz crystals practically dipyramidal, with a scant development of the prism. They are very bright, rich with inclusions and have very evident “window” growths.
Allos Pass, Allos area, Barcelonette, Castellane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur  France

Specimen size: 9.2 × 5.7 × 4.3 cm = 3.6” × 2.2” × 1.7”

EJ89AK9: An English classic in excellent condition, forming a druse of parallel growths of prismatic crystals with flattened rhombohedral terminations. The crystals exhibit oriented reddish zonation due to Hematite inclusions.
Stank Mine, Barrow-in-Furness, former Cumberland, Cumbria  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 12.2 × 9.7 × 5.5 cm = 4.8” × 3.8” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 1.8 cm = 1.3” × 0.7”

TY99AE9: Aggregate of complex Calcite crystals, very rich in faces, with a predominant scalenohedron and a terminal rhombohedron. They are colorless, clear and very bright but have deep red Hematite inclusions in some parts of the sample. This one, an English classic, is from the Buck Keller collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Pallaflat Mine, Bigrigg, West Cumberland Iron Field, former Cumberland, Cumbria  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.3 × 5.4 cm = 2.4” × 2.1” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”

EC70AA1: Aggregate of Calcite crystals, on limonite matrix, with very well defined faces and edges, colorless, transparent and bright and formed by a prism and terminal scalenohedron and rhombohedron. The sample is very typical for the locality, one of the great English classics.
Bigrigg Mine, Bigrigg, West Cumberland Iron Field, former Cumberland, Cumbria  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 9 × 7.6 × 3.7 cm = 3.5” × 3.0” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 1.3 cm = 1.3” × 0.5”

EJ96AJ0: An excellent miniature of this classic Mimetite variety with well-defined and bright orange crystals on matrix.
The sample was in the Moutet collection at Marseille. With the sample we will send to the buyer a label from the prestigious Deyrolle collection, Paris.
Keswick, Allerdale District, former Cumberland, Cumbria  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 4.3 × 2.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.7” × 0.9” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

TC87S3: Group on matrix of prismatic crystals with very well defined faces and edges, and a very bright and yellowish green color. Also from one of the great British mineral localities. It is with a label of the well-known collection of John H. Marshall, of Massachusetts, and a catalog card from the same collection.
Mexico Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Allerdale, former Cumberland, Cumbria  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.6 × 3 cm = 2.0” × 1.4” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.2 cm = 0.3” × 0.1”

EQ56W7: Crystals with very well pronounced curvatures on their faces and edges which give them a "barrel" shape. They are bright and have a clear and uniform green color and cover a Baryte matrix. A good English classic.
Driggith Opencut (Roughton South vein), Caldbeck Fells, Allerdale, former Cumberland, Cumbria  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 8 × 5.8 × 4.6 cm = 3.1” × 2.3” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.1” × 0.0”

SC36AG5: Massive Hematite with Quartz crystals and vugs covered by very sharp Hematite crystals with a lenticular shape and extraordinarily bright. The sample is an English classic, very typical of the locality.
Florence Mine, Egremont, West Cumberland Iron Field, former Cumberland, Cumbria  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.3 × 5.2 cm = 3.0” × 2.1” × 2.0”

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

NK87AJ8: Aggregate of two Bornite (apparently after Chalcocite) crystals, both very well defined but with two very different shapes, one of them prismatic with a polycrystalline termination, while the second one is clearly tabular and forming a cyclic (“sixling”) twin.
The sample, an old English classic, is from the Carlos Prieto collection whose handwritten label we will send to the buyer.
Cornwall  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.4 × 1.6 cm = 0.8” × 0.6” × 0.6”

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

TY68AJ3: Aerial group of cubic-shaped crystals with small octahedral faces and parallel polycrystalline growths. They are bright, with vivid iridescences of dominant blue and green shades. An excellent classic, an “oldie” of English mineralogy.
Carn Brea, Pool, Illogan, Camborne - Redruth - Saint Day District, Cornwall  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.7” × 1.4” × 1.3”

MB89AJ8: Groups, on a Quartz matrix, of dipyramidal Olivenite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and polycrystalline growths. An English classic, unusually well crystallized. It is with an old handwritten label that we will send to the buyer.
Cornwall  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.4 × 2.4 cm = 2.1” × 1.3” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

MD69AJ8: Very sharp octahedral Cuprite crystals that are bright with vivid reddish reflections and are on matrix with small Calcite crystals. An English classic of great quality for the locality and that is with an old handwritten label that we will send to the buyer.
Cornwall  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.4 × 2.1 cm = 1.7” × 1.3” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

T62QB2: Out of the past came this extremely fluorescent English Fluorite, in this case very well placed on its Quartz matrix.
Frazer's Hush Mine, Rookhope District, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 6.5 × 8 cm = 2.6” × 3.1”

TM66X3: Aggregate of very sharp cubic Fluorite crystals. They are translucent, with a deep violet color and have abundant small Chalcopyrite crystals included. An English classic from a not well known locality.
Groverake Mine, Rookhope, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 7 × 6.4 × 4.5 cm = 2.8” × 2.5” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 4.9 × 3.8 cm = 1.9” × 1.5”

MP26AJ4: Group of Fluorite crystals with a flattened cubic shape. The have a great size and are translucent, bright, have a lilac color and are with small Quartz growths. An excellent English classic from a very well-known mine.
Blackdene Mine, Ireshopeburn, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 14.4 × 14.3 × 5.7 cm = 5.7” × 5.6” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 9.2 × 6.4 cm = 3.6” × 2.5”

VF92AE7: Great druse of very sharp cubic crystals that are translucent, rich with inclusions and have a very intense and deep violet color.
The sample, an English classic, is from the A. Mayor collection (number 118) and it was acquired from Jesús Talabán, in Madrid, in 1978.
Blackdene Mine, Ireshopeburn, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 21.3 × 16.2 × 5 cm = 8.4” × 6.4” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 4 cm = 1.8” × 1.6”

VG68Z4: Cubo-octahedral Galena crystal showing an equal development of the cube and the octahedron faces. One of the cube faces is coated by a grayish-yellow Pyrite crust and the crystal is with white small Fluorite crystals. The Galena crystal is very well defined, more so than usual in the samples from this area.
Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4 × 3.8 cm = 2.0” × 1.6” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 3.2 cm = 1.7” × 1.3”

NQ76AH0: Aggregate, very aerial and on matrix, of snowy white Harmotome crystals with very well defined faces and edges.
Strontian, Lochaber, Argyll and Butte  Scotland, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 3.3 × 3.3 × 2.3 cm = 1.3” × 1.3” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1.1 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

EA92AA5: An aggregate of witherite crystals with the faces of the prism and the pyramid forming cyclic twins. The crystals are translucent and lustrous and have a slightly yellowish color. Like so many specimens in this collection, this one is of great quality for the locality.
Settlingstones Mine, Fourstones, Tyne Valley, Northumberland  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 6.5 × 6.3 × 2.2 cm = 2.6” × 2.5” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

EG72AI7: Strontianite crystals on a Quartz matrix that have the very well defined pseudo-hexagonal twin and faces and edges. Furthermore, most of them are doubly terminated. They are translucent and bright. A sample of the best quality for the species.
Oberdorf an der Laming, Laming valley, Bruck an der Mur, Styria/Steiermark  Austria

Specimen size: 7.1 × 3.2 × 3 cm = 2.8” × 1.3” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.7” × 0.2”

EF48AE4: Very aerial parallel aggregate of very sharp crystals, between transparent and translucent, extraordinarily bright and with a deep an intense color, typical of this classic Austrian locality. A miniature of great quality.
Knappenwand area, Untersulzbach Valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg  Austria (2007)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.5” × 1.0” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.7” × 0.3”

ST69AF0: Druse of crystals with dominant rhombohedron faces. They are translucent and extraordinarily bright.
The sample is from the Francesco S. Stoppani collection (catalog number 0946), whose label we’ll send to the buyer. As is the case with so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality.
Oberdorf an der Laming, Laming valley, Bruck an der Mur, Styria/Steiermark  Austria

Specimen size: 7 × 6.7 × 3.7 cm = 2.8” × 2.6” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.5 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

EP87AA5: Druse, on matrix, of complex, twinned Calcite crystals with the dominant faces of a scalenohedron, a prism and a terminal rhombohedron. The crystals are lustrous and transparent and have an intense and uniform yellow color. As in so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality.
La Sambre Quarry, Landelies, Montigny-le-Tilleul, Hainaut Province, Wallonia Region  Belgium

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.9 × 6.1 cm = 3.9” × 3.1” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 2.7 cm = 1.6” × 1.1”

MX11AK3: Aggregate of very sharp hyalophane crystals (Barium-rich Microcline), which form multiple twins, with the Manebach law predominating, transparent, very lustrous and with a bit of matrix at the back.
Zagradski Potok Mine, Zagradski Creek, Busovača, Central Bosnia, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina  Bosnia-Herzegovina (1989-1990)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.9 × 2.2 cm = 1.0” × 0.7” × 0.9”

TP91AI3: Group of complex Sphalerite crystals on a Calcite matrix. They are transparent, extraordinarily bright and have the intense greenish color that characterizes the cleiophane variety. Of the best quality for the locality.
Krushev dol Mine, Madan mining area, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast  Bulgaria (±2011)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 6.8 × 3.2 cm = 5.7” × 2.7” × 1.3”

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

MT50AF3: Complex crystals with equant shape, twinned, translucent and with a very deep green color. They are on a microcrystalline Quartz matrix, with cubo-octahedral Galena crystals.
Krushev dol Mine, Madan mining area, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast  Bulgaria (2012)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 6.8 × 2.6 cm = 3.8” × 2.7” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

TV64V8: From an old and abandoned Bulgarian locality, these individual brown crystals of Pyromorphite look nice perched on the white Quartz matrix.
Something unusual and with some beauty too.
Pcheloyad Mine, level 200, Momchilgrad Obshtina, Kardzhali Oblast  Bulgaria

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.5 × 2 cm = 1.5” × 1.4” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.2 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

TT62V8: From an old and abandoned Bulgarian locality, these individual brown crystals of Pyromorphite look nice perched on the white Quartz matrix.
Something unusual and with some beauty too.

Pcheloyad Mine, level 200, Momchilgrad Obshtina, Kardzhali Oblast  Bulgaria

Specimen size: 4.7 × 1.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.9” × 0.7” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.1 cm = 0.2” × 0.0”

TR63V8: From an old and abandoned Bulgarian locality, these individual brown crystals of Pyromorphite look nice perched on the white Quartz matrix.
Something unusual and with some beauty too.
Pcheloyad Mine, level 200, Momchilgrad Obshtina, Kardzhali Oblast  Bulgaria

Specimen size: 5.1 × 2.1 × 1 cm = 2.0” × 0.8” × 0.4”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.1 cm = 0.2” × 0.0”

TY64V8: From an old and abandoned Bulgarian locality, these individual brown crystals of Pyromorphite look nice perched on the white Quartz matrix.
Something unusual and with some beauty too.
Pcheloyad Mine, level 200, Momchilgrad Obshtina, Kardzhali Oblast  Bulgaria

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.1 × 3.1 cm = 2.3” × 1.6” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.3 cm = 0.3” × 0.1”

EN88AH7: Druse, on matrix, of acicular crystals of Montroseite, a rare iron and vanadium hydroxide, that are bright and have a very dark, almost black, green color.
Prachovice, Pardubice Region, Bohemia  Czech Republic (2005)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 3.7 × 2.4 cm = 2.7” × 1.5” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

ET86AF7: Aggregate of deformed and rounded crystals. A curious growth that is the result of the removal of copper during the mining in which the copper recrystallizes sometimes acquiring the shapes of the objects and machines it has grown on.
In other words, this copper has been formed naturally but is "neoformed" since its origin may be due to human activity in an old abandoned mine.
Zlaté Hory, Olomouc Region, Moravia  Czech Republic (04/2014)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.3 × 3.1 cm = 3.3” × 2.1” × 1.2”

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

EV46AF7: Aggregate of deformed and rounded crystals. A curious growth that is the result of the removal of copper during the mining in which the copper recrystallizes sometimes acquiring the shapes of the objects and machines it has grown on.
In other words, this copper has been formed naturally but is "neoformed" since its origin may be due to human activity in an old abandoned mine.
Zlaté Hory, Olomouc Region, Moravia  Czech Republic (08/2014)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 4.5 × 3.2 cm = 3.5” × 1.8” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

EX27AF7: Aggregate of deformed and rounded crystals. A curious growth that is the result of the removal of copper during the mining in which the copper recrystallizes sometimes acquiring the shapes of the objects and machines it has grown on.
In other words, this copper has been formed naturally but is "neoformed" since its origin may be due to human activity in an old abandoned mine.
Zlaté Hory, Olomouc Region, Moravia  Czech Republic (04/2014)

Specimen size: 12.2 × 7.2 × 3.5 cm = 4.8” × 2.8” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

SH57AF0: Druse of crystals consisting of a prism with very well defined horizontal parallel growths and a flattened rhombohedral termination. They are translucent with a uniform white color.
The sample is from the Francesco S. Stoppani collection (catalog number 0193), whose label we’ll send to the buyer. It has previously been in the Bally Museum and in the Tschechien collection at Pribram (catalog number 9167) whose label we’ll also send. As is the case with so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality.
Příbram, Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia  Czech Republic

Specimen size: 9.1 × 6.2 × 4.4 cm = 3.6” × 2.4” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.5 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

EK46Y7: White Ralstonite growths with coatings of very acute and small Thomsenolite and Pachnolite crystals and with iron oxide inclusions and smooth sections of Siderite and small Pyrite crystals. The sample is from the type locality for the species, and it was in the Claus Hedeegard collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Ivittuut (Ivigtût), Cape Desolation, Sermersooq  Denmark

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.6 × 3.8 cm = 2.5” × 1.8” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

MV47AI5: Groups on matrix of crystals that have the dominant dodecahedron beveled by the trapezohedron. They are very bright and have a very deep and uniform green color. A European classic from the Leif Engman collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Outokumpu, Tornio, Lapland Region  Finland

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.1 × 1.5 cm = 1.1” × 0.8” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”