April 2023 Update

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TJR67AP8: Spheroidal aggregates of Rhodochrosite microcrystals with very bright luster and unusually intense pink color, on an Ilvaite matrix.
A high quality Mexican classic.
Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.4 × 2.5 cm = 2.01” × 1.73” × 0.98”

TRM66AP8: Druse of very sharp tabular Baryte crystals, transparent, with good luster and an intense and uniform blue color.
The specimen, from a little-known mine, comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez Pérez (number 2560), whose label we will send to the buyer.
San Manuel Mine, San Jorge mining group, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Portmán, La Unión, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.3 × 2.6 cm = 2.52” × 2.09” × 1.02”

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

TMA1AP8: Very sharp crystals of Chalcocite, of very good size, twinned, with faces and edges very well defined, flattened, very lustrous, and on a Pyrite matrix.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Las Cruces Mine, fase 6, levels 130-135, ↓175 m., Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia  Spain (01/2020)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 5 × 4.2 cm = 3.43” × 1.97” × 1.65”

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

TBM37AP8: Very aerial group of complex Sphalerite crystals, translucent and with an intense and uniform orange color, on matrix, with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.9 × 2.7 cm = 1.93” × 1.54” × 1.06”

TBR92AP8: Very aerial group of complex Sphalerite crystals, translucent, with very good luster and a very deep and uniform reddish color, on matrix, with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals.
The specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection (number BLD-11) and was previously in that of Eugeni Bareche (number 2023).
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain (±1984)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.3 × 5.5 cm = 2.56” × 1.69” × 2.17”

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

TBT50AP8: Group of complex Sphalerite crystals, large for the locality, translucent, with very good luster and a very deep and uniform reddish color, on matrix, with white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals.
This extraordinary specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection (number BLD-19) and was previously in Raúl Sanabria Orellana's.
Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), level 4, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 11.5 × 10 × 9.5 cm = 4.53” × 3.94” × 3.74”

TBS96AP8: Group of cubo-octahedral Galena crystals, on matrix, one of them clearly dominant, very aerial and of good size, lustrous, and with fine polycrystalline growths on the faces.
The specimen, a great classic of Spanish mineralogy and of high quality, comes from the collection of the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes (number GAL-1019) and was previously in those of Jordi Povill and Josep Monné Porqueras.
Regia Mine, Bellmunt del Priorat, Comarca Priorat, Tarragona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 9 × 8.5 × 7 cm = 3.54” × 3.35” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 6 × 5 cm = 2.36” × 1.97”

TVE91AP8: Druse, on matrix, of very sharp Fluorite crystals, extraordinarily transparent and lustrous and of an intense and uniform blue color.
A Spanish classic of high quality which comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez (number 2150), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2010)

Specimen size: 13.1 × 8.4 × 4.5 cm = 5.16” × 3.31” × 1.77”

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

TBC27AP8: Spheroidal growths of very fine acicular crystals of Pyromorphite, with transparency and an intense green color, on a slate matrix partially covered with Quartz.
A classic from the past, which comes to us from the collection of Yvan Delqué.
Saint-Salvy Mine, Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 5.2 × 5.1 × 3.2 cm = 2.05” × 2.01” × 1.26”

TDE48AP8: Spheroidal growths of very fine acicular crystals of Pyromorphite, with transparency and an intense green color, on a slate matrix partially covered with Quartz.
A classic from the past, which comes to us from the collection of Yvan Delqué.
Saint-Salvy Mine, Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Tarn, Occitanie  France

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.3 × 3.8 cm = 3.43” × 2.48” × 1.50”

MFG16AP8: Parallel growths, on a limonite matrix, of fine tabular Baryte crystals, with slight curvatures, transparent, with great luster and an intense and uniform light blue color with very good contrast to the matrix, and in perfect condition, which in these barytes is like a small miracle.
Jebel Ouichane mines, Beni Bou Ifrour, Nador, Nador Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (11/2022)

Specimen size: 14.3 × 10.7 × 6.3 cm = 5.63” × 4.21” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.2 cm = 1.38” × 0.87”

TTV68AP8: Grandidierite floater crystal with unusually well developed crystal forms, translucent, and with an intense and uniform blue-green color.
An excellent classic from Madagascar.
Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region (Fort Dauphin Region), Toliara Province (Tuléar)  Madagascar

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 1.26” × 0.87” × 0.55”

TZA64AP8: Elbaite crystal with very marked longitudinal parallel growth and excellent terminations, transparent, lustrous, red to pink in color in the prism and green in the area of the termination.
Rubaya, Bahunde, Masisi Territory, North Kivu Province (Kivu)  Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) (2021)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2 × 1.5 cm = 1.81” × 0.79” × 0.59”

TVA96AP8: Elbaite crystal with excellent terminations, transparent, lustrous, with a color between red and pink in the prism and green in the zone of the termination.
Rubaya, Bahunde, Masisi Territory, North Kivu Province (Kivu)  Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) (2021)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 2.1 × 1.6 cm = 2.17” × 0.83” × 0.63”

TTV96AP8: Complete floater crystal, doubly terminated with complex terminations, between transparent and translucent, lustrous, and green in the prism and pink in the area of the termination.
Of much better quality and transparency than is usual in this deposit.
Naipa Mine, Alto Ligonha pegmatite, Zambezia Province  Mozambique (2002)

Specimen size: 10.6 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 4.17” × 0.79” × 0.63”

THA67AP8: Druse of transparent Quartz crystals, with very good luster and an intense pink color (variety pink quartz), with small spherical aggregates of Eosphorite.
Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.7 × 4.8 × 1.8 cm = 3.03” × 1.89” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.43” × 0.28”

TXL37AP8: Elbaite crystal (rubellite variety) with excellent terminations, transparent, with good luster and a color between red and pink.
Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 2.5 × 0.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.98” × 0.31” × 0.31”

TXM51AP8: Two Elbaite crystals (rubellite variety), one of them clearly dominant, with very smooth pinacoidal termination, transparent, lustrous, and with the intensity of color and excellent quality that distinguishes specimens from this find.
Jonas pocket, Itatiaia, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 4.8 × 1.3 × 0.9 cm = 1.89” × 0.51” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 0.9 cm = 1.89” × 0.35”

TBF56AP8: Centered groups of elongated and slightly flattened Stibnite crystals, lustrous and very aesthetic. Bolivian stibnites from this locality are not very common.
Salvadora Mine, Yarvicoya, Municipio Caracollo, Cercado Province, Oruro Department  Bolivia

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.6 × 1.4 cm = 2.52” × 1.81” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 0.3 cm = 1.77” × 0.12”

TBM26AP8: Complete floater Corundum crystal with short prism and well developed pinacoid faces, with sharp edges and very marked triangular growth figures. Translucent, lustrous, and with an intense red color.
Mysore District, Karnataka  India

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.71” × 0.55” × 0.39”

TAM87AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.3 × 0.8 cm = 0.67” × 0.51” × 0.31”

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

TAB48AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2 × 0.9 cm = 0.91” × 0.79” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.16” × 0.12”

TBM69AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.71” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.24” × 0.12”

TRM68AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.98” × 0.87” × 0.31”

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

TXM87AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.34” × 1.06” × 0.47”

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

TFB64AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 4.8 × 2.4 × 1.7 cm = 1.89” × 0.94” × 0.67”

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

TMM69AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.6 × 1.2 cm = 2.40” × 1.42” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.16” × 0.12”