Typical record from the Jordi Fabre Collection

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JFD01AN5: In the vicinity of where so many iridescent goethites were found, the famous Filón Sur cut, also yielded some mimetites, some with very sharp orange crystals and, in one very localized find and in a somewhat separate place, these appeared as barrel-shaped mimetites that we could call the 'campylite variety' for its habit. I liked this piece, both for the quality of the Mimetite and for the association with Cerussite crystals, association that, as far as I know, were extraordinarily rare.
Filón Sur open pit (external), Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia  Spain (30/04/2017)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.97” × 1.26” × 0.94”

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

JFD02AN5: What years those were! Extraordinary pyromorphites that became world famous were found during the years 1997 and 1998 in the San Andrés Mine. But not everything ended there, since in 1999 a good piece like this one was still recovered, with a very elegant structure and good crystal quality.
The piece was photographed by Paco Piña and appears on the 'Mina San Andrés' page of the blog MTI
San Andrés Mine, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain (08/1999)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.13” × 1.34” × 1.26”

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

JFD03AN5: Group of Fluorite crystals, more transparent than usual for this locality and with some curious inclusions of what appear to be natural hydrocarbons.
La Florina mining, Gloria Segunda Mine, Hornachuelos, Comarca Valle Medio del Guadalquivir, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 9.1 × 7 × 4.2 cm = 3.58” × 2.76” × 1.65”

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

JFD04AN5: From a very classic locality to which generations of collectors, especially from Aragon and Catalonia, have gone to look for minerals. Lluís Daunis, as always the smartest in the class, found this elegant piece and had it in his collection. It exhibits a second generation of 'classic' radial Scolecite that has grown over a first generation of Scolecite that was less radial.
Estopiñán del Castillo, Comarca La Ribagorza, Huesca, Aragon  Spain

Specimen size: 9 × 5.6 × 4.1 cm = 3.54” × 2.20” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.4 cm = 1.10” × 0.94”

JFD05AN5: The ‘Tres de La Collada’ pocket was a huge cavity that produced thousands of pieces that we had to take with us over several trips with vans. The crystals in that vug were very sharp, isolated, and had a very deep color. Their transparency was not the best known from La Viesca but they were a big hit due to their intensity of color. Where could all those thousands of specimens be now? Sometimes it amazes me how so many pieces find a home so easily.
Among the small format pieces this was the one I kept. I liked the contrast with the Quartz matrix and that the crystal was so idiomorphic and isolated.
La Viesca Mine, Tres de la Collada pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (05/2003)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 3.3 × 3.3 cm = 2.99” × 1.30” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.1 cm = 0.91” × 0.83”

JFD06AN5: One of the best pockets at La Viesca, of the many found at the beginning of this century, was the one called 'Coquera de la Calcita' which produced large Fluorite crystals with a lot of color zoning and a lot of transparency. There was a lot of calcite in that vug so this piece (the one I kept from that vug) shows small white coatings of that mineral. A quite spectacular piece that has made me very happy all these years.
La Viesca Mine, Coquera de la Calcita pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (01/2004)

Specimen size: 11.6 × 9.6 × 7.4 cm = 4.57” × 3.78” × 2.91”

Main crystal size: 8.4 × 6.3 cm = 3.31” × 2.48”

JFD07AN5: Reocín Marcasite is dangerous because it tends to decompose relatively easily, especially in humid climates like Barcelona's. For some reason this piece has remained 'healthy' despite the many years it has resided in my collection. I do not know whether the Dolomite, pinker than usual in Reocín, has anything to do with its good preservation, but the fact is that here it is, resisting the passage of time quite nicely.
Reocín Mine, Reocín, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria  Spain (±1985)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.3 × 3.7 cm = 2.13” × 1.69” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24”

JFD08AN5: Jordi Povill's collection was full of great Spanish classics and most localities were very well represented. This is the case of this Bayldonite from Pardos, which is not only very rich, with a lot of the material, but also has a good Baryte crystal associated with it and small crystals of Azurite that provide contrast.
Pardos, Comarca Señorío de Molina-Alto Tajo, Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain

Specimen size: 8.1 × 6.4 × 4.4 cm = 3.19” × 2.52” × 1.73”

JFD10AN5: For a time we used to see these very dark octahedral fluorites (which could be called “antozonites”) and just as they appeared they disappeared again. This is a representative example of what for some years was a classic at Spanish mineral shows.
Barbeito Mountain, Arteixo, Comarca A Coruña, La Coruña / A Coruña, Galicia / Galiza  Spain (1998)

Specimen size: 7 × 4.3 × 2.7 cm = 2.76” × 1.69” × 1.06”

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

JFD11AN5: According to what I was told, between 1998 and 1999 a very large vug was found in the granite quarries of the Sierra de Madrid, so large that you could walk inside it. This enormous cavity produced many specimens, and despite the fact that many were destroyed by the quarrying work, Madrid fans were able to collect a large number of quality specimens like this one, for which we should highlight the good number of peculiar Calcite crystals, very characteristic of this vug, as well as the Clinozoisite-Epidote Series mineral that adorns many specimens from that vug.
Isabel Quarry (La Saludadora Quarry), La Cabrera pluton, Valdemanco, Comarca Sierra de Guadarrama, Community of Madrid  Spain (02-03/1999)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6 × 4.6 cm = 3.03” × 2.36” × 1.81”

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

JFD12AN5: Quartz (variety amethyst) is not rare in the mining districts of Murcia, but the quality is usually not very high. Perhaps the least known locality is the one located on the Cerro del Águila, from which came thick crystals, somewhat more intense in color than the better known ones in the Los Pajaritos Ravine area.
This one is a good example of this and despite the fact that the images may appear to show a damaged side of the tip, it is in reality a ribbed shape of natural origin.

Cerro del Águila, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (±1967)

Specimen size: 9 × 7.6 × 5.3 cm = 3.54” × 2.99” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 8 × 6.1 cm = 3.15” × 2.40”

JFD13AN5: Alain Martaud spent quite a long time in La Unión digging for minerals and took advantage of the time to obtain a good number of specimens from the area. All 'special', such as this Smithsonite and Galena pseudomorph that has replaced an older Pyrrhotite crystal, which in addition to being interesting (mineralogically speaking) has the great advantage that it makes the specimen stable, so it will not suffer the alteration that so often happens to pyrrhotites. In addition, a small group of the ubiquitous barytes from that area embellish the specimen.
Tomasa Mine, La Fortuna, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (1980-1985)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 6.8 × 6.4 cm = 3.78” × 2.68” × 2.52”

Main crystal size: 9.6 × 6.2 cm = 3.78” × 2.44”

JFD14AN5: Vizille is a classic French mineral locality where many alpine quartzes and very good (and very large) siderites have been found. I kept this piece because I really liked that Quartz, alone and tall in the middle of the piece, and because the specimen was a floater, with a single large Siderite crystal in which are the Quartz and a second generation of siderites, with smaller and lighter colored crystals.
Mésage Mine, Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage, Vizille, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2010)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.6 × 6.1  cm = 2.83” × 2.20” × 2.40”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 0.7 cm = 1.46” × 0.28”

JFD15AN5: Curious and original, I always liked it, and although in Tucson I sold it to Jim Robison, but oh what turns life takes, it came back to me, since when Rob Lavinsky bought Jim's collection he sold this piece to the Belgian collector Wouter Van Tichelen who one day offered it to me, so I bought it from him and it came back to home! (until when? 😉)
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1980)

Specimen size: 9 × 8.3 × 5.7 cm = 3.54” × 3.27” × 2.24”

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

JFD16AN5: This Willemite comes from the great find made in the Preguiça Mine by a group of people from Huelva in the years 2005-2006. In addition to the crystals being quite large for what is found in that mine, they are nicely separated, and the piece is also complemented by a group of Cerussite crystals that enrich it.
When I bought them I had them analyzed by Joan Viñals and the analysis confirmed that they were indeed Willemites.
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 6.1 × 3.7 cm = 2.52” × 2.40” × 1.46”

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

JFD17AN5: This Plattnerite comes from the great find made in the Preguiça Mine by a group of people from Huelva in the years 2005-2006. Very graceful, with the contrast between the very lustrous small crystals of Plattnerite and the white Calcite.
When I bought them I had them analyzed by Joan Viñals and the analysis confirmed that they were indeed plattnerites.

Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo  Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 6.4 × 4.6 cm = 4.02” × 2.52” × 1.81”

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

JFD09AN5: For a short time the Aguablanca mine yielded good epidotes and it was fortunate that at that time a mineral collector was there, and he took care to rescue a good number of pieces. I bought this one from him, a big sharp crystal. I remember that before there was a mine in Monesterio, I went to dig there but found absolutely nothing crystallized, only Chrysotile. One more example of the important work of recovering and saving our mineralogical heritage that mineral enthusiasts do.
Aguablanca Mine, Monesterio, Comarca Tentudía, Badajoz, Extremadura  Spain (09/2006)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 6.8 × 4.4 cm = 3.86” × 2.68” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.1 cm = 1.34” × 0.83”

JFD18AN5: I have always been very fond of Saint-Salvy pyromorphites. They are one of my weaknesses in French mineralogy. They are very curious, labyrinthine, with all the little crystals clustering into tangles or hedgehogs. Due to their delicacy it is very difficult to find any that do not have any damaged crystals, which is why I liked this piece and kept it, for its perfection.
Saint-Salvy Mine, Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Tarn, Occitanie  France (±1980)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.6 × 2.8 cm = 2.76” × 2.20” × 1.10”

JFD19AN5: A great novelty of the year 2017. On the slopes of Jebel Taghouni, next to the Taghouni mine, these Gold crystals were found which, inevitably, tend to be small but are interesting for their association with Erythrite, a very, very unusual association. In this piece the Gold is not sensational, but there are quite a few crystals of it and, above all, a lot of Erythrite, so the contrast of that rare association is clear.
Jebel Taghouni outcrops, Taghouni, Bou Azzer mining district, Amerzgane, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2017)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.1 × 2.9 cm = 2.80” × 1.61” × 1.14”

TMA97AN5: Aerial group of cubo-octahedral Acanthite crystals, very shiny and sharp for the species, and with distinct hopper growths on some of the faces.
We will send the specimen, from a very classic Mexican locality for Acanthite, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Proaño Mine, Fresnillo de González Echeverría (Fresnillo), Municipio Fresnillo, Zacatecas  Mexico

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.3 × 1.1 cm = 0.94” × 0.51” × 0.43”

TPA87AN5: Group of sharp Catapleiite crystals between lamellar and tabular, unusually separated from each other, with very well defined faces and edges, transparent, with bright luster and a lemon-yellow color. In addition, they are in matrix, which is rare.
We will ship the specimen, from one of the great classic localities for this rare cyclosilicate, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec  Canada

Specimen size: 3 × 2.8 × 1.6 cm = 1.18” × 1.10” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.4 cm = 0.35” × 0.16”

TQR27AN5: Very sharp and complete crystal of Serandite, partially doubly terminated, with good luster and a very intense and uniform pink-red color, implanted in a crystal of Aegirine. A curious freak of Nature.
We will ship the specimen, from one of the great classic localities for this rare inosilicate, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec  Canada

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.91” × 0.39” × 0.20”

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

TQT86AN5: Group of trapezohedral Analcime crystals with very sharp and complete crystal forms. They are lustrous, snow-white and partially cover an Aegirine crystal.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec  Canada

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.9 × 1.8 cm = 1.10” × 0.75” × 0.71”

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

TTV86AN5: Group of Pyromorphite crystals, on matrix, with strongly curved faces and edges, with very bright luster and a yellow color with green reflections.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label stating that it was previously in the Sullivan collection.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.9 × 1.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.75” × 0.47”

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

TXA27AN5: Aggregate of very sharp Hematite crystals between lamellar and tabular, with brilliant luster and epitaxial growths of translucent Rutile crystals, which are very lustrous too and with an intense red color. On an Albite matrix, with Quartz crystals.
A Swiss classic that we will ship in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label indicating that it was previously in the Sullivan collection.
Cavradi, Curnera Valley, Tujetsch (Tavetsch), Vorderrhein Valley, Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden)  Switzerland

Specimen size: 3.1 × 1.9 × 1.7 cm = 1.22” × 0.75” × 0.67”

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

TYB47AN5: Floater group of Diopside crystals with very sharp crystal forms and excellent terminations, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and a uniform light green color.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Karo Pit, D-Block Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region  Tanzania

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.4 × 1.6 cm = 1.22” × 0.94” × 0.63”

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

TMG87AN5: Druse of rhombohedral Smithsonite crystals (variety Co-bearing smithsonite) with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, with good luster and an intense pink to mauve color.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label stating that it was previously in the Sullivan collection.

Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2 × 1.8 cm = 1.14” × 0.79” × 0.71”

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

TZB37AN5: Isolated crystal of Euclase, very rich in faces and with excellent terminations. It is transparent, very lustrous, rich in inclusions, colorless and with small white coatings of matrix.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

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

TPB86AN5: Partially doubly terminated crystal of Anatase with a bipyramidal habit truncated by the pinacoid. On matrix, very lustrous, translucent and with vivid bluish reflections when illuminated by an intense point source of light.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.1 × 2.1 × 1.4 cm = 0.83” × 0.83” × 0.55”

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

DCA13AN5: Doubly terminated and complete crystal of Calcite, implanted on matrix, with the dominant forms of a ditrigonal prism, terminated by a very flattened rhombohedron. It is transparent, very lustrous and has an intense and uniform yellow color.
The specimen comes from the Lluís Daunis collection.
Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri  USA

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2 × 2.2 cm = 1.54” × 0.79” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 1.2 cm = 1.38” × 0.47”

ETP26AN5: Cubo-octahedral Galena crystals, with very sharp and shiny crystal forms, on a matrix of white Dolomite crystals with coatings of small, very lustrous Chalcopyrite crystals.
The specimen is from the Claude Perraudin collection.
Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri  USA

Specimen size: 15.7 × 15.3 × 10.2 cm = 6.18” × 6.02” × 4.02”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 4.2 cm = 1.85” × 1.65”

EAM90AN5: Group of Serandite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, with parallel growths, good luster and an intense salmon-pink color, on matrix. They are accompanied by acicular crystals of Aegirine and white prismatic crystals of Natrolite.
Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec  Canada

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.73” × 1.65” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 2.3 cm = 1.30” × 0.91”

NGA13AN5: Smithsonite crystals isolated and in small groups, with very rounded crystal forms, translucent, lustrous and with a snow-white color that strongly contrasts with the dark limonite matrix.
The specimen, of higher quality than usual, comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 771), whose label we will send to the buyer.
El Lirio Mine, Cabezo de Ponce, Llano del Beal, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2016)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 2.6 × 2.7 cm = 2.05” × 1.02” × 1.06”

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

NHG14AN5: Parallel growth of Baryte crystals with limonite inclusions and bordered by small very lustrous Quartz crystals. It is unusual for a piece of this size from this locality to be so elegant.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 222), whose label we will send to the buyer.
San Pedro Mine, De Enmedio Range, Almendricos, Lorca, Comarca Alto Guadalentín, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2007)

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

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.7 cm = 1.38” × 1.06”

NFM14AN5: Very aerial druse of well-outlined lamellar Baryte crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, lustrous and with a uniform and intense sky-blue color. Good quality, and from a mine that has produced very few specimens.
This specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 814), whose label we will send to the buyer.
San Simón Mine, La Parreta, Alumbres, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2020)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 5.9 × 2.7 cm = 1.73” × 2.32” × 1.06”

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

NTP88AN5: Flattened and very sharp crystals of Cerussite, pseudomorphing Anglesite, of good size and definition, contrasting strongly with the dark matrix of limonite. Unlike other similar specimens from this locality, the crystals are not covered by iridescent Goethite, so the morphology of the small Cerussite crystals and also of the original Anglesite can be seen very well.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 634), whose label we will send to the buyer.
San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (1994)

Specimen size: 13.7 × 9.2 × 6.3 cm = 5.39” × 3.62” × 2.48”

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

EMQ26AN5: Group of Calcite crystals dominated by prism forms rich in polycrystalline growths, and with a flattened terminal rhombohedron. It is lustrous, white, and with translucent Fluorite crystals with an intense yellow color. Because of the habit, it is somewhat different from other specimens known from this locality.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2020)

Specimen size: 10.6 × 6.2 × 4.4 cm = 4.17” × 2.44” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 5.3 × 2.2 cm = 2.09” × 0.87”

EPM99AN5: Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and with the cube forms clearly beveled by rhombic dodecahedra faces. They are very transparent, lustrous, and have an intense violet color. On matrix, with scalenohedral Calcite crystals. All very perfect and of high quality.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.2 ×  5.9 × 5.2 cm = 3.62” × 2.32” × 2.05”

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

TMR87AN5: Group of tetrahexahedral crystals of Fluorite, typical of the deposit, with very sharp crystal forms, quite transparent, lustrous, and with a uniform blue sky color.
Jaimina Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Trechorio, Carrales, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.1 × 5.7 cm = 3.43” × 2.80” × 2.24”

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

NRA96AN5: Group of Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, translucent and lustrous, with Siderite crystals and small Pyrite crystals.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 790), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (05/2008)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 5.9 × 5.3 cm = 3.43” × 2.32” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 7 × 4.6 cm = 2.76” × 1.81”

EMB26AN5: Floater group of Pyrite with very sharp crystal forms, lustrous polycrystalline growths and with small remnants of a carbonaceous matrix. Excellent for the locality, from which specimens of such a high quality were not known before.
Saint-Denis-d'Orques, La Flèche, Sarthe Department, Pays de la Loire  France (04/2021)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.7 × 3.8 cm = 2.28” × 2.24” × 1.50”

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

EPC46AN5: Floater group of Pyrite with very sharp crystal forms, lustrous polycrystalline growths and with small remnants of a carbonaceous matrix. Excellent for the locality, from which specimens of such a high quality were not known before.
Saint-Denis-d'Orques, La Flèche, Sarthe Department, Pays de la Loire  France (04/2021)

Specimen size: 6 × 3.6 × 5.7 cm = 2.36” × 1.42” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.71” × 0.47”

ETV86AN5: Floater group of Pyrite with very sharp crystal forms, lustrous polycrystalline growths and with small remnants of a carbonaceous matrix. Excellent for the locality, from which specimens of such a high quality were not known before.
Saint-Denis-d'Orques, La Flèche, Sarthe Department, Pays de la Loire  France (04/2021)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.7 × 3.9 cm = 3.03” × 2.24” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.5 cm = 0.87” × 0.59”

EVA96AN5: Very curious morphology of this Pyrite that forms parallel vertical growths, highlighting some very sharp trihedral terminations, which surprisingly do not seem to correspond to the cubic system. Excellent for the locality, from which specimens of such high quality have hardly ever been seen.
Saint-Denis-d'Orques, La Flèche, Sarthe Department, Pays de la Loire  France (04/2021)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 2.4 × 4.6 cm = 3.43” × 0.94” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.43” × 0.39”

EMR46AN5: Group of Calcite crystals completely covered by small, very shiny Pyrite crystals. A quality classic from this popular mining district.
Peyrebrune Mine, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.7 × 3.1 cm = 2.60” × 2.24” × 1.22”

EMT56AN5: Parallel growths of very sharp lenticular white Calcite crystals, translucent, lustrous, on a matrix with small crystals of Siderite and Pyrite. A quality classic from this popular mining district.
Peyrebrune Mine, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 9.2 × 6.6 × 3.1 cm = 3.62” × 2.60” × 1.22”

TKL50AN5: Very sharp crystals of Fluorite, transparent and lustrous, with an intense and uniform yellow color and with overgrowths on the crystal faces. They are partially covered by small doubly terminated Quartz crystals and implanted on a matrix covered by very dark, almost black, lenticular microcrystals of Siderite.
Peyrebrune Mine, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 10.1 × 6.7 × 6 cm = 3.98” × 2.64” × 2.36”

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

TJK73AN5: Parallel growths of Bournonite crystals forming very sharp cyclic twins, on a matrix of rhombohedral Siderite crystals.
The specimen, of great quality for the locality, comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Saint-Pons area, Barcelonnette, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur  France (2018)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5.1 × 4 cm = 2.20” × 2.01” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.43” × 0.39”

EFG37AN5: Druse of Fluorite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with a bright luster and an intense and uniform yellow color, associated with a small group of Baryte crystals.
A quality French classic that comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.

Fontsante Mine, Tanneron Massif, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur  France

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.6 × 3 cm = 3.03” × 2.60” × 1.18”

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

EFR97AN5: Pyromorphite crystals, some doubly terminated, with sharp crystal forms and slightly curved edges, on a group of colorless Fluorite crystals, between translucent and transparent.
A French classic that comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Chaillac Mine, rossignol vein, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire  France

Specimen size: 8.4 × 4 × 3 cm = 3.31” × 1.57” × 1.18”

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

EFG90AN5: Octahedral Fluorite crystal with very sharp crystal forms, doubly terminated, with good luster and a pink, almost red color, unusually intense and uniform.
The specimen comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Aiguille du Chardonnet, Mont Blanc Massif, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2018)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 3 × 1.9 cm = 1.30” × 1.18” × 0.75”

ERM27AN5: Parallel growth of flattened Quartz crystals, all of them doubly terminated, traversed inside by a very distinct faden growth. They are shiny, transparent, colorless and rich in Chlorite (Group) inclusions.

Plan-du-Lac, Saint Christophe en Oisans, Le Bourg d'Oisans Comune, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (±1995)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.4 × 1 cm = 2.05” × 1.34” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 1.5 cm = 2.05” × 0.59”

EGH87AN5: Polycrystalline aggregate of lustrous Prehnite with very well defined faces and edges, and with curvatures, on matrix. It is associated with Epidote and felty aggregates of Actinolite (variety byssolite). Excellent French classic.
The specimen comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
La Combe de la Selle, Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans, Le Bourg d'Oisans Comune, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (1990)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.3 × 3.6 cm = 3.07” × 2.48” × 1.42”

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

EYB88AN5: Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with geometric color growth, translucent and with a very intense and deep blue color.
A rarity, of great quality for this until now very little known locality.
The specimen comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.

De Margou Mine, Paulinet, Le Haut Dadou, Albi, Tarn, Occitanie  France (2012)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 6.4 × 6.2 cm = 2.52” × 2.52” × 2.44”

EGH56AN5: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and an intense yellow color with a fine geometric zoning on the violet edges.
From a limited find of great quality for what is known from this mine.

La Barre Mine, Saint-Jacques-d'Ambur, Pontgibaud, Saint-Ours, Riom, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (12/2019)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.7 × 1.6 cm = 1.54” × 1.06” × 0.63”

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

EGF76AN5: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and an intense yellow color with a fine geometric zoning on the violet edges.
From a limited find of great quality for what is known from this mine.
La Barre Mine, Saint-Jacques-d'Ambur, Pontgibaud, Saint-Ours, Riom, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (12/2019)

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

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

EMP27AN5: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and an intense yellow color with a fine geometric zoning on the violet edges.
From a limited find of great quality for what is known from this mine.
La Barre Mine, Saint-Jacques-d'Ambur, Pontgibaud, Saint-Ours, Riom, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (12/2019)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.6 × 3.3 cm = 2.36” × 1.81” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.43” × 0.39”

EPF69AN5: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and an intense yellow color with a fine geometric zoning on the violet edges, and also with light blue crystals, which were rare from this find.
A limited find, of great quality for what is known from this mine.
La Barre Mine, Saint-Jacques-d'Ambur, Pontgibaud, Saint-Ours, Riom, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (12/2019)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 5.8 × 2.9 cm = 3.27” × 2.28” × 1.14”

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

EFM91AN5: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and an intense blue color with a fine geometric violet zoning on the edges.
This specimen, with crystals of unusual size for the locality and of a dominant blue color, is rare for what is known from this mine and comes from one specific find that was part of the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
La Barre Mine, Saint-Jacques-d'Ambur, Pontgibaud, Saint-Ours, Riom, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2020)

Specimen size: 12.2 × 6.7 × 5.1 cm = 4.80” × 2.64” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 2.3 cm = 1.30” × 0.91”

EMF49AN5: Very aerial druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, rich in polycrystalline growths, extraordinarily transparent and lustrous and with a uniform pastel green color.
The specimen, of the best quality for this classic French locality, came from the Alain Martaud collection.
Fontsante Mine, Tanneron Massif, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur  France (±1980)

Specimen size: 18 × 15 × 5.5 cm = 7.09” × 5.91” × 2.17”

TFM69AN5: Druse of groups of 'Stilbite' crystals with bow-tie growths, with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, lustrous and with a uniform yellow color.
The specimen, of great quality for the locality, comes from a private collection whose label we will send to the buyer.

Malmberget, Gällivare, Norrbotten, Lappland Province  Sweden

Specimen size: 12.2 × 5 × 2.3 cm = 4.80” × 1.97” × 0.91”

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