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Carles Curto Text: Carles Curto (formerly curator of the Geology Museum, Barcelona) & Jordi Fabre
Assistance from John S. White (former Smithsonian curator) John S. White


MEXICO

Malachite
Malachite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Malachite. Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TE27AL7: Arborescent groups on matrix of primary Malachite crystals between acicular and fibrous, with a silky luster and color changes from bright green to darker green. A different kind of specimen from what is usual from the locality.
Milpillas Mine, level 1100, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (01/2020)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 7.1 × 8.2 cm = 3.78” × 2.80” × 3.23”

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


minID: V9Y-GHT




FSU

Tremolite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Tremolite
 

TR37AL7: Flattened crystal between translucent and transparent with a fibrous appearance and a pearly luster and with curious very aerial polycrystalline recrystallizations. The specimen, of great quality for the species, comes from the prestigious Rock Currier collection (No. 6722), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Pamir Mountains, Viloyati Mukhtori Gorno-Badakhshan  Tajikistan

Specimen size: 10.3 × 2.3 × 0.8 cm = 4.06” × 0.91” × 0.31”

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV

Former collection of Rock Currier

minID: MQ2-KUM



Tremolite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Tremolite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Tremolite. Top / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Top / Photo: Joaquim Callén

AFRICA (excl. Morocco)

Andradite (variety demantoid) with Calcite
Andradite (variety demantoid) with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Andradite (variety demantoid) with Calcite. Top / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Top / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Andradite (variety demantoid) with Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
 

MA27AL7: Andradite crystals (demantoid variety) of good size and with a balance between trapezohedron and rhombododecahedron faces. Between transparent and translucent, with good luster and a very intense and uniform green color. On matrix, with aggregates of small Calcite crystals.
Antetezambato outcrop, Antetezambato, Maherivaratra Commune, Ambanja District, Antsiranana Province  Madagascar (2010)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.4 × 4.7 cm = 2.60” × 2.13” × 1.85”

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


minID: FEC-Y1D




BRAZIL

Elbaite
 

TP47AL7: Transparent Elbaite crystal with good luster and a uniform lilac color. We will send the specimen, from a classic Brazilian locality, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, stating that it was previously in the Sullivan collection.
Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 3 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 1.18” × 0.24” × 0.20”

Former collection of Bob Noble

minID: 1J1-XCF



Elbaite. Elbaite.

CHINA

Hematite (variety iron rose) with Quartz
Hematite (variety iron rose) with Quartz. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Hematite (variety iron rose) with Quartz. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Hematite (variety iron rose) with Quartz. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
 

TD53AL7: Rosette-like growths of very flattened sharp lenticular Hematite crystals with good luster and on a matrix of Quartz crystals. A modern classic which is now scarce due to the disappearance of the locality where they used to be found.
Jinlong Hill, Longchuan, Heyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China

Specimen size: 18.1 × 10.2 × 7.3 cm = 7.13” × 4.02” × 2.87”


minID: 7UX-821




THE JAN BUMA FLUORITE COLLECTION

Fluorite with Dolomite
 

FQ68AL7: Clusters of very sharp and shiny Fluorite crystals, sky-blue in color with distinct phantoms and covered with small white Dolomite rhombohedra that also appear as inclusions inside some of the Fluorite crystals.
The specimen comes from the Jan Buma collection (number 070403), whose base with the locality and the collection number we will send to the buyer but not the usual Jan Buma collection card, since in this case we do not have it.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China

Specimen size: 12.3 × 6 × 8 cm = 4.84” × 2.36” × 3.15”

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

Former Jan Buma collection. Number 070403

minID: N56-AMH



Fluorite with Dolomite. Front
Front
Fluorite with Dolomite. Side
Side
Fluorite with Dolomite.


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