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When Jordi offered me a corner on his web page to publish photos of the pieces that I choose I found it an excellent idea. It goes without saying that the project made me very enthusiastic immediately.

It is my intention to show, through my photographs, my point of view of the beauty of minerals, and I hope to add to that a point of charm, that touch of magic that minerals awaken in all those who view them with delight and admiration.

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Cuprite  

 

 


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Cuprite
 
Cuprite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Cuprite. Front with incident light / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front with incident light / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Cuprite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

TMA70AN8
Cuprite crystals formed by the dominant octahedron and cube, beveled by rhombic-dodecahedron faces, with some window growths and with very well defined faces and edges. The crystals, on a rock matrix, are translucent and have a very deep red color, partially masked by their extraordinary luster.

Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora
Mexico

08-09/2015

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.4 × 4.4 cm = 2.48” × 1.73” × 1.73”

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

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  Rhodochrosite with Hisingerite-Neotocite (Series)

Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua
Mexico

Specimen size: 7.9 × 5.2 × 4 cm = 3.11” × 2.05” × 1.57”

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Rhodochrosite with Hisingerite-Neotocite (Series). Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rhodochrosite with Hisingerite-Neotocite (Series). Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rhodochrosite with Hisingerite-Neotocite (Series). Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

EMA89AN8
Botryoidal growths of small rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystals, with very good luster and an a vivid and uniform pink color, covering a botryoidal Hisingerite-Neotocite (Series) matrix. It should be noted that there is a second generation of smaller Hisingerites dotting the botryoidal Rhodochrosite crystals.

 

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Rhodochrosite with Hisingerite-Neotocite (Series)

Cerussite after Anglesite on Goethite  

 

 


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Cerussite after Anglesite on Goethite
 
Cerussite after Anglesite on Goethite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Cerussite after Anglesite on Goethite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

NTV91AN8
Group of very sharp Anglesite crystals pseudomorphed by Cerussite and covered by Goethite which is dominated by iridescence of gold, mauve and blue tones, on matrix,
The specimen, of high quality for the locality, comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 897), 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

Fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez

Specimen size: 9.3 × 8.4 × 5 cm = 3.66” × 3.31” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.24”

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  Cerussite on Goethite

San Valentín open pit, Sancti Espíritu, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)
Spain

±1995

Fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez

Specimen size: 12 × 7.3 × 8.5 cm = 4.72” × 2.87” × 3.35”

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

Cerussite on Goethite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Cerussite on Goethite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

NRF89AN8
Cyclic twins of second generation yellowish white tabular crystals of Cerussite, with very sharp and translucent crystal forms that contrast with the Goethite matrix that presents low iridescence with mostly reddish brown colors.
This specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 822), whose label we will send to the buyer.

 

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Cerussite on Goethite

Fluorite with Quartz, Siderite and Calcite  

 

 


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Fluorite with Quartz, Siderite and Calcite
 
Fluorite with Quartz, Siderite and Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Quartz, Siderite and Calcite. Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Quartz, Siderite and Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

NBA26AN8
Cubic crystals of Fluorite beveled by the rhombo-dodecahedron, translucent and with an intense bluish lilac color, on a Quartz crystal dotted with small cream-colored crystals of Siderite with hexagonal contour, both on the Quartz crystal and on the Fluorite crystals, a fact that shows that a carbonate, in this case Siderite, was the last mineral to form. Different.

Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de Săo Francisco de Assis, Covilhă, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro
Portugal

06/2021

Specimen size: 25.5 × 9.3 × 9.2 cm = 10.04” × 3.66” × 3.62”

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

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  Goethite

Peyrebrune Mine, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie
France

±1975

Specimen size: 12 × 8.8 × 6.3 cm = 4.72” × 3.46” × 2.48”

Goethite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Goethite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Goethite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Goethite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

EFX99AN8
Very aerial botryoidal growth of brilliant greyish Goethite. Excellent for this locality, being from the Peyrebrune mine itself, from which not many Goethites as remarkable as this one are known.

 

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Goethite

Sphalerite with Bournonite and Siderite  

 

 


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Sphalerite with Bournonite and Siderite
 
Sphalerite with Bournonite and Siderite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Sphalerite with Bournonite and Siderite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Sphalerite with Bournonite and Siderite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

EXT96AN8
Group of complex equant crystals of Sphalerite, very transparent and lustrous, with an intense color and a lively interior "fire". Large for the deposit and on a matrix of lenticular crystals of Siderite with a very light cream color, and twinned Bournonite crystals.
This specimen comes from the Alain Martaud collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 02/2021, page 100

Le Villaret pit, Susville, Matheysine-Tričves, Grenoble, Isčre, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
France

1976

Former collection of Alain Martaud

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.3 × 4.5 cm = 3.43” × 2.87” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.7 cm = 0.79” × 0.28”

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  Anhydrite with Celestine

Konrad Mine, Salzgitter, Lower Saxony/Niedersachsen
Germany

±1975

Specimen size: 12.5 × 7 × 4 cm = 4.92” × 2.76” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 12.5 × 5.5 cm = 4.92” × 2.17”

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Anhydrite with Celestine. Front
Front
Anhydrite with Celestine. Rear
Rear
Anhydrite with Celestine. Front with light behind / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front with light behind / Photo: Joaquim Callén

MTA91AN8
Group of sharp Anhydrite crystals in parallel growth, with sharp crystal forms and excellent terminations, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and an intense violet color under artificial light and a flesh color with natural light. They are accompanied by small, completely transparent crystals of Celestine on the front of the specimen. A German classic from an old iron mine.

 

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Anhydrite with Celestine

Sulphur with Celestine  

 

 


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Sulphur with Celestine
 
Sulphur with Celestine. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Sulphur with Celestine. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Sulphur with Celestine. Detail
Detail
Sulphur with Celestine.

MFM3AN8
Groups of Sulphur crystals with dipyramidal habit, with very well defined faces and edges, lustrous, between transparent and translucent, on matrix with stalagmitic growths of small white Celestine crystals.

Racalmuto Mine, Racalmuto, Agrigento (Girgenti) Province, Sicily
Italy

&1950-1960

Celestine very fluorescent long & short UV;

Former collection of Adolf Bull (approximately between 1940-1960)

Specimen size: 14.2 × 9.8 × 7,2 cm = 5.59” × 3.86” × 2.76”

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

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  Bournonite with Pyrite, Sphalerite and Calcite

Stan Trg (Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District
Kosovo

03/2020

Specimen size: 11.2 × 9.1 × 7.7 cm = 4.41” × 3.58” × 3.03”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.3 cm = 0.98” × 0.91”

Bournonite with Pyrite, Sphalerite and Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Bournonite with Pyrite, Sphalerite and Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

MRM73AN8
Twinned Bournonite crystal, isolated, very aerial and large, shiny and on matrix, with complex Pyrite crystals, twinned Sphalerite crystals and small white Calcite crystals. This specimen, from a recent find, recalls the classic bournonites found in the mine in the past. It has been tested that the Bournonite crystal was not mechanically bound to the matrix, corroborating the nature of the specimen.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2022, page 74 and published in the Bulletin ‘MiniBul A.G.A.B.’ on page 83 of number 3/2022

 

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Bournonite with Pyrite, Sphalerite and Calcite

Gold (spinel twin)  

 

 


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Gold (spinel twin)
 
Gold (spinel twin). Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Gold (spinel twin). Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén

TC8AN8
Very stylized parallel growth of Gold crystals.
The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.

Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region
Morocco

2020

With analysis copy

Weight: 1.2 grams

Specimen size: 3.5 × 0.6 × 0.1 cm = 1.38” × 0.24” × 0.04”

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  Gold (spinel twin)

Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region
Morocco

09/2021

With analysis copy

Specimen size: 2 × 1.8 × 1.1 cm = 0.79” × 0.71” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.3 cm = 0.71” × 0.12”

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Gold (spinel twin). Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Gold (spinel twin). Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén

EFA91AN8
Very stylized parallel growths, on a ferruginous rock matrix of Gold crystals of very well defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron, with distinct spinel-law twinning and curious hooked terminations.
The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.

 

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Gold (spinel twin)

Gold (spinel twin)  

 

 


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Gold (spinel twin)
 
Gold (spinel twin). Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Gold (spinel twin). Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén

ETR2AN8
Very stylized parallel growth of Gold crystals of very sharp morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron, with very distinct spinel-law twins and curious hooked terminations.
The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.

Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region
Morocco

09/2021

With analysis copy

Weight: 1.8 grams

Specimen size: 4.4 × 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 1.73” × 0.16” × 0.12”

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  Rhodochrosite with Quartz

Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department
Peru

07/2021

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.5 × 4.4 cm = 3.62” × 2.95” × 1.73”

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

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Rhodochrosite with Quartz. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rhodochrosite with Quartz. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

EAP47AN8
Coralloidal growths of very lustrous rhombohedral Rhodochrosite microcrystals with an intense and uniform pink color, on matrix, with small Quartz crystals. Similar specimens, paler in color, were found in the same mine and time period, which turned out to be manganese-rich calcites, while these specimens with a more intense hue have turned out on analysis to be authentic rhodochrosites. We will send a copy of this new analysis to the buyer.

 

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Rhodochrosite with Quartz

Malachite  

 

 


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

ERB50AN8
Very aesthetic botryoidal growths of Malachite, with bands of different shades of green and an intense silky luster which gives it a peculiar chatoyant appearance.

Shilu Mine, Yangchun, Yangjiang Prefecture, Guangdong Province
China

±1995

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.7 × 3.8 cm = 3.35” × 3.03” × 1.50”

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