Expominer Virtual 2022

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JFD187AP3: From Montjuïc hill in the city of Barcelona itself, these microcrystalline quartzes are a Catalan classic and although I said I would not part with any Catalan pieces for sentimental reasons, I had two of these so much alike that as an exception I'll keep one and release the other. I liked both of them because they have an intense color and the growth bands are more “pictorial” than what is usual from there.
Montjuïc, Barcelona city, Comarca Barcelonès, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (±1981)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.8 × 4.4 cm = 2.60” × 1.89” × 1.73”

JFD188AP3: Different from the classic 'tin twins' so typical there, and also with a little more luster than usual. I bought it from a collector in Madrid and I liked it for that difference from what is usually seen in that mine.
Penouta Mines, Penouta (San Bartolomé), Viana do Bolo, Comarca Viana, Orense / Ourense, Galicia / Galiza  Spain

Specimen size: 5 × 3.3 × 2.9 cm = 1.97” × 1.30” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 0.87” × 0.55”

JFD189AP3: A kind of forest of very green and very transparent-translucent Fluorapatite crystals. If there were a name to define the piece, it would be: 'showy'. It comes from an important collection and is very well documented.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1970)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 2.09” × 1.38” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.35” × 0.28”

JFD190AP3: Rare, rare, both for its color and for the presentation of the crystals. Despite having seen so many fluorapatites, the truth is that I don't remember seeing another one like this one. Besides, the little 'ball' of Chlorite is intriguing, because I honestly don't know if it is an aggregate of Chlorite crystals or if it is covering some other species.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1997)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.3 × 3.8 cm = 2.56” × 2.09” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.4 cm = 1.38” × 0.94”

JFD191AP3: It's a little love of mine, this piece. The specimen is a floater, it has no damage, everything complete, and everything, both Quartz and Pyrite and even the Muscovite, has quality. As I said, I feel a little love for it.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (±1999)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.3 × 2.4 cm = 3.62” × 2.87” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 9.2 × 2.3 cm = 3.62” × 0.91”

JFD192AP3: I bought it from Alain Martaud and he told me it came from Bou Bekker, which I can certainly believe because it doesn't look anything like Touissit's. The best thing about it is the 'dragon' form of the Azurite crystals and the fact that the 'dragon' is on matrix.
Bou Bekker, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±2012)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.5 × 3.3 cm = 2.44” × 1.77” × 1.30”

JFD193AP3: With its brilliant luster and very sharp crystals, from among the arfvedsonites that came out for a period of time in the Imilchil area, this was one of the ones I chose, both for its sharpness as well as for its general quality.
This specific specimen has been analyzed, so it is quite certain that it is Arfvedsonite.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (01/2012)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.4 × 3.1 cm = 2.60” × 1.73” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 6 × 2 cm = 2.36” × 0.79”

JFD194AP3: Very large plate of innumerable Wulfenite crystals with good color and luster. When I bought it, it drew my attention for its size, its color and luster, and the fact that despite having so many crystals the vast majority of them were in good condition.
Sidi Amer, Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 13.5 × 12.2 × 3.5 cm = 5.31” × 4.80” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.35” × 0.28”

JFD195AP3: The size of the Goethite crystals in this piece made me forget that some of them were broken, but really its size and thickness and its good presentation, well placed in a matrix of Quartz, makes the piece very attractive.
Les Redoutières Mine, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire  France (±1996)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 5.7 × 3.2 cm = 2.32” × 2.24” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.59” × 0.08”

JFD196AP3: Its form is a luxury. The Quartz crystal is long and has a deep twist enabling us to imagine it as a very showy arch, even more so for being on a kind of natural base, also formed of Quartz. Of all the Alpine finds in the Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne area, this one stands out for its attractive deformity.
Le Noirey, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (1980)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 7.7 × 4.6 cm = 4.61” × 3.03” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 11.2 × 2.3 cm = 4.41” × 0.91”

MMA32AP3: Mossy aggregate of acicular Gold crystals, very lustrous, on matrix with small white Quartz crystals. The specimen comes from a French collector who acquired it from a well-known American supplier, whose very detailed information we will send to the buyer.
Olinghouse, Olinghouse mining district, Pah Rah Range, Washoe County, Nevada  USA

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.3 × 1 cm = 1.10” × 0.51” × 0.39”

TXL89AP3: Microbotryoidal growths of Mottramite with a grey-green color that partially cover tabular Wulfenite crystals that have good luster and an orange color. An excellent American classic from a classic locality.
Glove Mine, Glove Mine group, Devil's Cash Box Ridge, Cottonwood Canyon, Amado, Tyndall District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 11.1 × 6.1 × 4.1 cm = 4.37” × 2.40” × 1.61”

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

BRR98AP3: Druse of Fluorite crystals between transparent and translucent, blue with lilac tones, on matrix and with small Quartz crystals. The specimen is an excellent American classic from a classic locality.
Blanchard Mine (Portales-Blanchard Mine), Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 14.4 × 12.5 × 6.6 cm = 5.67” × 4.92” × 2.60”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.43”

MTR47AP3: Very transparent and lustrous Fluorite crystals, with a pale lilac color, on a parallel aggregate of white tabular Celestine crystals.
Tule Mine, Melchor Múzquiz, Municipio Melchor Múzquiz, Coahuila (Coahuila de Zaragoza)  Mexico

Specimen size: 16.1 × 7.9 × 1.4 cm = 6.34” × 3.11” × 0.55”

TLM50AP3: Group of very sharp Malachite pseudomorphs after Azurite crystals, on matrix, with very flattened crystal forms and lenticular shapes, with good luster and a very deep color.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.3 × 3.6 cm = 2.28” × 1.30” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.46” × 0.94”

EFH36AP3: Group of trapezohedral crystals of snow-white Analcime, with small lenticular crystals of Rhodochrosite, prismatic microcrystals of pink Serandite, and elongated Natrolite crystals.
Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec  Canada

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.89” × 1.42” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.4 cm = 1.14” × 0.94”

NGX97AP3: Very aerial, reticulated growth of flattened and twinned prismatic Cerussite crystals with a white color. The specimen comes from the collection of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes (number CER-56) whose label we will send to the buyer.
Luis Mine, Norte vein, Del General Mines, Cabezarrubias del Puerto, Comarca Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha  Spain (06/11/2013)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm = 1.73” × 0.98” × 0.83”

MMB99AP3: Two isolated Pyrite crystals, very sharp, slightly flattened and very lustrous, on matrix. A Spanish classic of high quality.
Ampliación a Victoria Mine, De Alcarama Range, Navajún, Comarca Cervera, La Rioja  Spain (2022)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 5.6 × 5.1 cm = 3.58” × 2.20” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 3.1 cm = 1.22” × 1.22”

NFB6AP3: Two complex rounded Calcite crystals with dominant scalenohedron, rhombohedron and prism forms. They are transparent, with good luster and a pale yellow color, and sit on matrix with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals.
La Florida mining area, Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Comarca Costa Occidental/Saja-Nansa, Cantabria  Spain (2009)

Specimen size: 7 × 4.8 × 2.6 cm = 2.76” × 1.89” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.9 cm = 0.91” × 0.75”

MFA87AP3: Pineapple growth of deformed cubic Pyrite crystals with curvatures, striations and other growth forms, on matrix, with white rhombohedral Calcite crystals, and cubic Fluorite crystals which are transparent, with good luster and an intense yellow color. The specimen is not from the classic Moscona mine, but rather from the Villabona mines.
Villabona Mines, Barrio de la Estación, Villabona, Llanera, Comarca del Nora, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1993)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5.1 × 4.5 cm = 3.07” × 2.01” × 1.77”

NMR90AP3: Group of cubic Fluorite crystals, with a flattened shape and beveled by dodecahedron faces which are much more developed on two of the crystal edges than on the others. They are transparent, extraordinarily lustrous and colorless, and thicker than is usual at this locality when the crystals are elongated. They grew on a matrix of scalenohedral Calcite crystals with iron oxide inclusions that give them their characteristic brownish color.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2022)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.8 × 3.6 cm = 1.65” × 1.50” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1 cm = 0.75” × 0.39”

MLF86AP3: Druse, on matrix, of Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit, transparent, with extraordinary luster and an intense violet color, a color that does not usually occur with such intensity in specimens from the Emilio mine.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.7 × 2.9 cm = 1.61” × 1.46” × 1.14”

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

NEC37AP3: Druse of Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit with slight curvatures on the edges. They are transparent, lustrous, with a color between lilac and blue, and sit on a matrix with small white Quartz crystals.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.1 × 5.6 cm = 3.86” × 2.80” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.87” × 0.63”

NEX68AP3: Group of Fluorite crystals formed by smooth cube and dodecahedron faces, with fine polycrystalline growths, very transparent, lustrous and violet in color with bluish areas.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.9 × 6.2 cm = 2.87” × 2.32” × 2.44”

NFB89AP3: Isolated Fluorite crystal formed by smooth cube and dodecahedron forms with fine polycrystalline growths, between transparent and translucent, lustrous and violet with bluish areas. Like the fluorites from Shangbao, but Spanish! 😉
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2008)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 6.4 × 3.9 cm = 3.78” × 2.52” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 5 cm = 2.05” × 1.97”

NFR87AP3: Druse of Fluorite crystals with smooth cube faces and dodecahedron forms with fine polycrystalline growths. They are translucent, violet in color with bluish areas and sit on a matrix with small white Quartz crystals.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 12.9 × 12.2 × 7.3 cm = 5.08” × 4.80” × 2.87”

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 3.9 cm = 1.81” × 1.54”

MRR37AP3: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, with good luster and a very deep violet color, very unusual in specimens from the Moscona mine. The Fluorite is associated with complex yellowish Calcite crystals dominated by the prism and terminal rhombohedron, and small yellow lamellar Baryte crystals.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (24/12/1999)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.7 × 2.8 cm = 2.44” × 2.24” × 1.10”

MBX66AP3: Druse of very sharp transparent Fluorite crystals, very lustrous, with inclusions of sulphide microcrystals, with an intense yellow color and coatings of white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. An old piece of high quality.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.8 × 6.8 × 4.3 cm = 3.86” × 2.68” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.4 cm = 0.94” × 0.55”

NPP37AP3: Druse, on matrix, of Fluorite crystals between transparent and translucent, with good luster and a uniform yellow color. The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (no. 830), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Villabona Mines, Barrio de la Estación, Villabona, Llanera, Comarca del Nora, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2016)

Specimen size: 16.4 × 15.6 × 4.1 cm = 6.46” × 6.14” × 1.61”

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

TLR99AP3: Fluorite crystals with a cubic shape, one of them clearly dominant, translucent and with intense violet color, on a Quartz crystal partially coated by Muscovite, which is covered in turn by a thin uniform layer of Chlorite.
Minas da Panasqueira, levels 0-1, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (12/2021)

Specimen size: 10.1 × 7.9 × 7 cm = 3.98” × 3.11” × 2.76”

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

MTX86AP3: Obtained at Munich 2022
Parallel growths of Cuprite crystals with dominant octahedron forms, translucent, very lustrous and bright red, on matrix. Because of its color, a rarity for French mineralogy.
Mont-Roc Mine, Mont-Roc, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.5 × 3 cm = 2.24” × 1.77” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

EBB16AP3: Druse of Quartz crystals with poorly developed prisms, translucent, lustrous and uniform white. The specimen comes from recent finds around the old mines of La Boule, which have not been active for a long time.
La Boule Mine, Le Kaymar, Lunel, Montpellier, Hérault Department, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 9.3 × 6.2 × 2.7 cm = 3.66” × 2.44” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 4.4 cm = 2.05” × 1.73”

ELM67AP3: Group of cubo-octahedral Galena crystals partially coated by botryoidal aggregates of dark brown lenticular Siderite crystals. This very old specimen is of optimal quality for the locality.
Trèves Mine, Fournels Valley, Trèves, Gard, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 8 × 4.6 × 3.2 cm = 3.15” × 1.81” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 3.2 cm = 1.30” × 1.26”

ELR87AP3: Group of Calcite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, formed by a dominant scalenohedron, terminated by rhombohedron faces, clearly twinned, translucent, lustrous and on matrix, with Sphalerite microcrystals. The specimen, of high quality for the locality, is from an old find made in 1971. The piece comes from the collection of Pierre-Marie Guy who was the one who found it.
Trèves Mine, Fournels Valley, Trèves, Gard, Occitanie  France (1971)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 8.3 × 6.2 cm = 3.35” × 3.27” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 7.1 × 3 cm = 2.80” × 1.18”

MTV7AP3: Obtained at Munich 2022
Very sharp cubic Fluorite crystals with a slightly flattened habit, translucent and of a uniform yellow color, with inclusions. The specimen comes from the old (1975) Peyrebrune mine, not from the current quarry area.
Peyrebrune Mine, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France (±1975)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 6.1 × 4 cm = 2.52” × 2.40” × 1.57”

TXR49AP3: Globular growths of acicular Pyromorphite crystals with good color, on matrix. The specimen comes from a classic French locality that did not provide many significant specimens.
Saint-Salvy Mine, Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.5 × 4.3 cm = 2.44” × 1.77” × 1.69”

TFA69AP3: Globular growths of acicular Pyromorphite crystals with good color, on matrix. The specimen comes from a classic French locality that did not provide many significant specimens.
Saint-Salvy Mine, Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.1 × 3.6 cm = 2.91” × 2.01” × 1.42”

TMR28AP3: Globular growths of acicular Pyromorphite crystals with good color, on matrix. The specimen comes from a classic French locality that did not provide many significant specimens.
Saint-Salvy Mine, Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 7.7 × 7.1 × 5.3 cm = 3.03” × 2.80” × 2.09”

TBM29AP3: Globular growths of acicular Pyromorphite crystals with good color, on matrix. The specimen comes from a classic French locality that did not provide many significant specimens.
Saint-Salvy Mine, Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 11.2 × 6.8 × 4.4 cm = 4.41” × 2.68” × 1.73”

TLP49AP3: Globular growths of acicular Pyromorphite crystals with good color, on matrix. The specimen comes from a classic French locality that did not provide many significant specimens.
Saint-Salvy Mine, Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 11.2 × 9.4 × 3.8 cm = 4.41” × 3.70” × 1.50”

MLR86AP3: Gastropod (Helix ramondi) fossilized in translucent Opal-CT (variety lussatite), with pearly luster and colors between white and sky blue. It is in its original matrix, without stabilization or repair of any kind. Of very good quality for the deposit, a French classic.
Les Rois Mine, Mur-sur-Allier, Pont-du-Château, Clermont-Ferrand District, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.7 × 2 cm = 2.09” × 1.85” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.63”

MBE47AP3: Obtained at Munich 2022
Antimony as a crystalline aggregate with very well defined parallel growths, very aerial and sparkly. The specimen, from one of the great classic localities for the species, comes from the old collection of Dr. Bartnik, from Leipzig, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Allemond (Allemont), Oisans-Romanche, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.2 × 1.7 cm = 2.05” × 1.26” × 0.67”

MAE37AP3: Obtained at Munich 2022
Crystalline aggregate of Antimony with very well defined parallel and staggered growths. The specimen, from one of the great classic localities for the species, is accompanied by a very old box label, handwritten and probably from the 19th century, which we will also send to the buyer.
Allemond (Allemont), Oisans-Romanche, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.4 × 2.8 cm = 1.89” × 1.73” × 1.10”

MRB87AP3: Very aerial group of Prehnite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, with curvatures and very distinct polycrystalline growths. They are translucent, shiny, and a uniform green, on matrix, with small white crystals of Orthoclase (adularia variety) and felted aggregates of Actinolite (byssolite variety). Excellent French classic from a typical locality for the species.
La Combe de la Selle, Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans, Le Bourg d'Oisans Comune, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 10.7 × 6.5 × 3.9 cm = 4.21” × 2.56” × 1.54”

MLT74AP3: Obtained at Munich 2022
Floater spheroidal aggregate of flattened Azurite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, with a vivid blue color and with small coatings of Malachite crystals pseudomorphing cuprite. A French classic of high quality that comes from the type locality for the species.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France

Specimen size: 7 × 5.5 × 5.4 cm = 2.76” × 2.17” × 2.13”

EPQ56AP3: Flattened Chalcostibite crystals, very lustrous and finely striated, on matrix, with acicular Zinkenite crystals and very sharp rhombohedral Siderite crystals.
Saint-Pons area, Barcelonnette, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur  France

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.8 × 2.2 cm = 1.54” × 1.10” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.3 cm = 0.39” × 0.12”

TFM46AP3: Spheroidal aggregates of lustrous Pyromorphite crystals, with an intense and uniform deep green color, on a Baryte matrix. There is a methacrylate base configured so that the piece fits into it. It comes from the Alain Tuel collection.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 8.1 × 3.6 × 3.4 cm = 3.19” × 1.42” × 1.34”

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

LCX16AP3: Two generations of crystals coexist in this specimen, an earlier generation with elongated crystal forms, lustrous and brown, and a second with crystals of a shorter prismatic shape, with very bright luster and a vivid and uniform green color. On Baryte matrix. An excellent French classic.
Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine  France

Specimen size: 10.2 × 7.6 × 7.1 cm = 4.02” × 2.99” × 2.80”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.08” × 0.04”

EXT37AP3: A good size druse of elongated, transparent, colorless and very lustrous Quartz crystals with a very well defined La Gardette habit, associated with partially altered disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals. An important find from one of the great classic French localities.
À Giraud Mine, La Gardette mining area, Villard-Nôtre-Dame, Le Bourg d'Oisans, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes  France (2018-2019)

Specimen size: 16 × 14.2 × 6.1 cm = 6.30” × 5.59” × 2.40”

Main crystal size: 5.7 × 1 cm = 2.24” × 0.39”

TBB91AP3: Disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with slight curvatures on the edges, accompanied by Galena crystals with very deeply hoppered faces, and twinned Sphalerite crystals. Among the first finds in the Madan area, it comes from a French collection.
Madan mining area, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast  Bulgaria

Specimen size: 14.3 × 9 × 4.4 cm = 5.63” × 3.54” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 1.8 cm = 1.14” × 0.71”

TLB86AP3: Floater group of Leucite crystals pseudomorphed by Orthoclase, maintaining the very well defined original trapezohedron forms, and less corroded than is usual in such specimens.
Loučná pod Klínovcem, Chomutov District, Ústí nad Labem Region  Czech Republic

Specimen size: 4.3 × 4.2 × 4.1 cm = 1.69” × 1.65” × 1.61”

MFX50AP3: Obtained at Munich 2022
Very aerial dendritic growth of deformed Silver crystals. This specimen comes from one of the large classic localities for the species, and is accompanied by unusually detailed locality information stating that it was found in the Fischer Morgengang section of the St. Georg. It comes from the old collection of Dr. Bartnik, of Leipzig, whose label we will send to the buyer.
St. Georg Mine, Fleischer Morgengang section, Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 3.8 × 4.2 × 1 cm = 1.50” × 1.65” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.20” × 0.08”

BTP96AP3: Very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, with good luster and geometric color zoning, intense on the edges. On matrix, with small white Quartz crystals. The specimen is accompanied by an old Danny A. Michel label that we will send to the buyer.
Hermine Mine, Lissenthan, Nabburg, Wölsendorf West District, Upper Palatinate/Oberpfalz, Bavaria/Bayern  Germany (12/03/1996)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 6 × 2.6 cm = 3.70” × 2.36” × 1.02”

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

ETB51AP3: Groups of disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with bright luster and a vivid iridescence, in matrix, with microcrystals of Quartz. The specimen, from one of the great classic German localities, comes from the old collection of Legat Strauss, from Berlin, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Friedrich-Wilhelm Mine, Biersdorf, Daaden, Daaden-Herdorf, Altenkirchen District, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz  Germany

Specimen size: 9.6 × 7.1 × 5.8 cm = 3.78” × 2.80” × 2.28”

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

BFM68AP3: Druse of translucent Fluorite crystals with an intense and uniform violet color. The specimen is an old German classic from a renowned European collection.
Max Mine, Krandorf, Neunburg vorm Wald, Schwandorf District, Upper Palatinate/Oberpfalz, Bavaria/Bayern  Germany

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.4 × 4.2 cm = 3.07” × 2.52” × 1.65”

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

BRM49AP3: Hureaulite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, intense pink in color, on matrix, with Strunzite and green-black coatings of Rockbridgeite. This type locality Strunzite specimen comes from a renowned European collection.
Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Oberpfälzer Wald, Upper Palatinate/Oberpfalz, Bavaria/Bayern  Germany (1957)

Specimen size: 8 × 6.5 × 5.9 cm = 3.15” × 2.56” × 2.32”

MFE70AP3: Obtained at Munich 2022
Very elongated prismatic crystals of Stibnite, some of them with cleavage surfaces, very lustrous, on matrix, with microcrystalline Quartz. The specimen comes from the former Dr. Bartnik collection, of Leipzig, whose label we will also send to the buyer. The difficulty of obtaining specimens from this mining district makes pieces like this quite rare.
Neumühle/Elster, Greiz District, Thuringia/Thüringen  Germany

Specimen size: 10.2 × 9.6 × 3.1 cm = 4.02” × 3.78” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 3 × 0.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.08”

EPP68AP3: Very sharp Sulphur crystals that are translucent and have a very vivid color, on matrix, with spheroidal aggregates of white acicular Aragonite crystals.
Agrigento (Girgenti) Province, Sicily  Italy

Specimen size: 9.8 × 6 × 3.4 cm = 3.86” × 2.36” × 1.34”

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

BRR89AP3: Scalenohedral crystal of Calcite covered by a second generation of botryoidal Calcite crystals and Sulphur crystals with sharp crystal forms. Different.
Agrigento (Girgenti) Province, Sicily  Italy

Specimen size: 16.8 ×10.2 × 6.6 cm = 6.61” × 4.02” × 2.60”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.39” × 0.35”

TBF47AP3: Sphalerite crystals with very sharp crystal forms and twinning, on a matrix covered by small rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystals. The specimen comes from Ferat Voca, a former worker in this classic mine.
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District  Kosovo (2000-2021)

Specimen size: 11 × 5.4 × 4.8 cm = 4.33” × 2.13” × 1.89”

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

TTV86AP3: "Nest" of very sharp and extraordinarily lustrous Pyrite crystals with a parallelepiped shape, on matrix, with flattened rhombohedral Calcite crystals. The specimen came from Ferat Voca, a former worker in this classic mine.
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District  Kosovo (2000-2021)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.1 × 3.8 cm = 2.83” × 2.01” × 1.50”

TLR96AP3: Very aerial group of sharp Pyrite crystals, very lustrous and on matrix, with aggregates of white microcrystals of Calcite. The specimen comes from Ferat Voca, a former worker in this classic mine.
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District  Kosovo (2000-2021)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.3 × 4.5 cm = 3.03” × 2.48” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.55”

TPB96AP3: Very flattened groups of deformed Pyrite crystals, as curious and unusual as they are attractive, on matrix, with white botryoidal coatings of Calcite. The specimen came from Ferat Voca, a former worker in this classic mine.
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District  Kosovo (2000-2021)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 8.8 × 6.3 cm = 3.82” × 3.46” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1 cm = 0.79” × 0.39”

TXR47AP3: Complex and twinned crystals of Sphalerite, on matrix, with rhombohedral crystal coatings of Rhodochrosite with an intense pink color, associated with grey deformed Galena crystals and small, very sharp crystals of Arsenopyrite. The specimen comes from Ferat Voca, a former worker in this classic mine.
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District  Kosovo (2000-2021)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 6.9 × 4 cm = 2.91” × 2.72” × 1.57”

TXM96AP3: Spheroidal aggregates of rhombohedral microcrystals of Rhodochrosite that coat a druse of water-clear and very lustrous Quartz crystals. The specimen came from Ferat Voca, a former worker in this classic mine.
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District  Kosovo (2000-2021)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 6.4 × 3.9 cm = 3.70” × 2.52” × 1.54”

TLM66AP3: Twinned Sphalerite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, on matrix, with groups of deformed Pyrite crystals and coatings of very flattened rhombohedral white crystals of Calcite, between transparent and translucent. Also associated with small rosettes of Rhodochrosite. The specimen comes from Ferat Voca, a former worker in this classic mine.
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District  Kosovo (2000-2021)

Specimen size: 11.9 × 6.9 × 5.3 cm = 4.69” × 2.72” × 2.09”

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

TTP99AP3: Stalactitic druse of prismatic Arsenopyrite crystals, very sharp and shiny, with aggregates of rhombohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite, small white crystals of Quartz and lamellar hexagonal groups of Pyrite crystals pseudomorphing Pyrrhotite. The specimen comes from Ferat Voca, a former worker in this classic mine.
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District  Kosovo (2000-2021)

Specimen size: 15.8 × 6.2 × 5.9 cm = 6.22” × 2.44” × 2.32”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.59”

MRB27AP3: Obtained at Munich 2022
Parallel growths of lamellar crystals of Hematite, very sharp, with a fine growth contact on one of the edges that may appear broken, but is not, sitting on a matrix of Quartz crystals (smoky variety)
Note the precision with which the location of discovery is given.
Turbealp, Turbe, Albrunhorn-Turbhorn area, Binn Valley (Binntal), Wallis (Valais)  Switzerland

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.7 × 4.8 cm = 2.68” × 2.24” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 3.6 cm = 1.65” × 1.42”

BRM26AP3: Groups of octahedral Fluorite crystals with minor cube and rhombododecahedron faces, unusual in this type of specimen. The crystals are pink and translucent, on matrix with small Albite crystals.
Zinggenstöcke, Oberaar Lake area, Grimsel area, Hasli Valley, Bern  Switzerland

Specimen size: 16.2 × 10.7 × 4.7 cm = 6.38” × 4.21” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.63” × 0.39”

MPQ70AP3: Obtained at Munich 2022
Groups of very sharp octahedral Cuprite crystals, on matrix, lustrous and with vivid iridescent tarnish. An old English classic from the old collection of Dr. Bartnik of Leipzig, whose label we will also send to the buyer.
Cornwall  England / United Kingdom

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.4 × 5.4 cm = 3.31” × 2.52” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.35” × 0.20”

EFT97AP3: Group of very lustrous transparent cubic Fluorite crystals with an intense green color that is characteristic of old pieces from this locality, which look purple when switching from incandescent light to sunlight.
Heights Quarry, Westgate, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham  England / United Kingdom

Specimen size: 8 × 7.9 × 2.9 cm = 3.15” × 3.11” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.55”

MXE96AP3: Elongated prismatic Kyanite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, transparent, lustrous, and intense blue, on a matrix of Muscovite (fuchsite variety).
Borisovskie Sopki, Plast, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Ural Federal District  Russia

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.1 × 2.2 cm = 2.40” × 1.61” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.94” × 0.08”