April 2022 Update

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TAP14AO3: Very aerial group of complex Calcite crystals with a spheroidal shape, extraordinarily transparent and lustrous, completely water-clear and with a uniform faintly violet tone.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures  Romania

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.4 × 1.5 cm = 0.94” × 0.94” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 0.67” × 0.47”

TAZ76AO3: Group on matrix of lustrous dark grey Stannite crystals whose faces and edges show very pronounced curvatures. The Stannite contrasts with the lamellar crystals of Muscovite and the crystals of Arsenopyrite, which are very sharp and have a lighter metallic tone.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2 × 2.1 cm = 0.91” × 0.79” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.1 cm = 0.51” × 0.43”

MDE47AO3: Two groups of octahedral Franklinite crystals with sharp crystal forms, somewhat lustrous, on a Calcite matrix and with Willemite.
From one of the type localities for the species.
Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin mining district, Sussex County, New Jersey  USA

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.6 × 3.8 cm = 2.83” × 2.20” × 1.50”

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

MXT94AO3: Octahedral Franklinite crystals of considerable size for the species, with very sharp crystal forms, with better luster than usual and on a Calcite matrix with Willemite. A USA classic of very good quality.
From one of the type localities for the species.
Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin mining district, Sussex County, New Jersey  USA

Specimen size: 10.1 × 6.4 × 5.4 cm = 3.98” × 2.52” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2 cm = 1.10” × 0.79”

MAE87AO3: Large Epidote crystals on matrix and with Quartz. With very sharp crystal forms, many of them doubly terminated and with deep green tones with lighter internal reflections. An excellent American classic.
Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough, Alaska  USA

Specimen size: 11.7 × 8.7 × 4.6 cm = 4.61” × 3.43” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 6.1 × 5.1 cm = 2.40” × 2.01”

NXR37AO3: Complex crystal of Calcite, partially doubly terminated, of good size and with the dominant forms of the scalenohedron and terminal rhombohedral faces. Between transparent and translucent, very lustrous, colorless, with small Fluorite crystals and white Calcite crystals. Calcites of this type and with this quality are unusual in La Viesca.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (06/2009)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 4.6 × 4.5 cm = 3.03” × 1.81” × 1.77”

NTD69AO3: Very aerial reticulated growth of flattened and elongated prismatic Cerussite crystals. The crystals, twinned and with good terminations, are translucent and have a satiny luster.
This specimen comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes (number CER-39) and we will send its catalogue file to the buyer.
Luis Mine, Norte vein, Del General Mines, Cabezarrubias del Puerto, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (10/2013)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.42” × 1.06” × 0.55”

MBD37AO3: Stalactitic growth of a group of cubo-octahedral Skutterudite crystals with very sharp and lustrous crystal forms. The group, very aerial on its matrix is a Moroccan classic.
Bouismas Mine, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.8 × 2.9 cm = 2.44” × 1.89” × 1.14”

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

MTF90AO3: Group of doubly terminated Elbaite crystals with very well defined polycrystalline growths, transparent, with good luster and a blue color with violet tones along the prism and green around the pyramid faces. With a small crystal of the same Elbaite, green with yellow tones and a very different appearance, in the area where the two main crystals meet.
Very curious is the great curvature of one of the crystals, elongated and thin, which seems to have suffered extreme pressures to be born and die in another, thicker, crystal.
Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9.1 × 5.9 × 2 cm = 3.58” × 2.32” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 6.9 × 1.3 cm = 2.72” × 0.51”

MFA51AO3: Groups and isolated crystals of Titanite, twinned, with a very well defined twin plane and sharp crystal forms. Translucent, with a bright luster and an intense and uniform green color with yellow tones. On matrix, with small Quartz crystals.
Excellent Brazilian classic, of high quality and difficult to obtain nowadays.
Capelinha, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 9.6 × 6.1 × 2.1 cm = 3.78” × 2.40” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 0.7 cm = 1.02” × 0.28”

TTC69AO3: Unusual polycrystalline fan-shaped growths of translucent, lustrous Quartz crystals on matrix. Intense pink, a natural color that is not due to inclusions of iron oxides.
Huancayo Province, Junín Department  Peru (02/2022)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.6 × 3.6 cm = 2.83” × 2.60” × 1.42”

TTF89AO3: Rosette growths of sharp platy Wurtzite crystals, an uncommon polymorph of Sphalerite. On matrix, with small white Calcite crystals and Pyrite crystals.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send the buyer a copy of the analysis.
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department  Peru

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.3 × 4.1 cm = 2.20” × 1.69” × 1.61”

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

TZX89AO3: Druse on matrix of rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystals, very sharp, with good luster and a very uniform, intense and vivid pink color.
Manuelita Mine, ↓1400 m., Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department  Peru (03/2019 )

Specimen size: 8.6 × 7.8 × 5.8 cm = 3.39” × 3.07” × 2.28”

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

TVY91AO3: Druse on matrix of rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystals, very sharp, with good luster and a very uniform, intense and vivid pink color. Altogether a piece with great aesthetics, very well balanced.
Manuelita Mine, ↓1400 m., Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department  Peru (03/2019 )

Specimen size: 10.4 × 8,4 × 6.3 cm = 4.09” × 3.15” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.47” × 0.31”

TVX46AO3: Translucent, lustrous pale bluish green spheroidal aggregates of Cuprodongchuanite, a rare phosphate of lead, copper and zinc, discovered very recently and approved by the IMA as a new species in 2021. On matrix, with white aggregates of Hemimorphite and small blue crystals of Veszelyite.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.6 × 1.8 cm = 1.42” × 1.02” × 0.71”

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

MJR99AO3: Translucent and lustrous spheroidal aggregates with a pale bluish green color of Cuprodongchuanite, a rare phosphate of lead, copper and zinc, discovered very recently and approved by the IMA as a new species in 2021. On matrix, accompanied by numerous Veszelyite crystals, very sharp and deep blue.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.1 × 1.6 cm = 1.38” × 1.22” × 0.63”

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

TFX71AO3: Very sharp bipyramidal Scheelite crystal, with parallel growths, translucent, lustrous and with a bright orange color. Associated with an unusually transparent-translucent polycrystalline growth of Albite, and also with lamellar Muscovite crystals.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.8 × 4 cm = 2.24” × 1.50” × 1.57”

TBR27AO3: A novelty on the market in 2022. Very aerial and aesthetic arborescent growth of Silver, with a very marked spinel-law twin plane. With small Calcite crystals that adorn it and differentiate it from the classic Hongda silvers.
These pieces come from a find made in a small gold working, currently closed, and which showed no evidence of such good silvers until now.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 3.1 × 1 cm = 3.74” × 1.22” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 8.8 × 0.1 cm = 3.46” × 0.04”