Rosell Minerales
RM2403 Baryte
Victoria mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, Cartagena-La Unión, Murcia, SpainRich specimen formed by several aggregates of thick pseudo-hexagonal baryte crystals, with luster, white to yellowish colour, that stand out on a matrix of goethite. The baryte specimens from this Spanish mine are highly prized by collectors. This specimen belongs from the former J. Astor collection (Barcelona). With old labels.
Size: 8 x 5.5 x 3.8 cm.
Main crystal: 0.8 cm.
Found in ca. 1996.
Col. Joan Astor (Barcelona)
Classic locality

RM2264 Aragonite - Calcite
Victoria mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Cartagena, Murcia, SpainShowy specimen in the form of divergent stalactitic aggregates, with a patina of manganese oxides on the back side. Aerial and good sized. A very curious piece of this mine from Murcia.
Size: 8 x 7 x 6.5 cm.
Col. J.A. Robles (La Unión, Murcia)
RM2002 Gahnite
Victoria mine, Val d'Aran, Arres, Lleida, Catalunya, SpainIn this old specimen from Manchion collection we can observe several octahedral gahnite crystals with defined faces and edges, a uniform deep blue color and accompanied by yellowish sphalerite. Such samples are very difficult to obtain and only from time to time appears a classic like this, only from old collections.
Size: 6.5 x 5.3 x 2.8 cm.
Main crystal: 5 mm.
Col. Manchion.

RM1792 Baryte
Victoria mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, Cartagena-La Unión, Murcia, SpainThese specimens of orange-colored baryte are a classic of the mineralogy of the La Unión-Cartagena area. This piece stands out for the intense brightness and a marked color zoning, which shows banded zoning on the tabular crystals, those form aesthetic rosettes. Very elegant specimen.
Size: 4.5 x 4.3 x 3.3 cm.
RM897 Baryte
Victoria mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, Cartagena-La Unión, Murcia, SpainSpecimen with a good size formed by a rich group of tabular baryte crystals, very sharp and brilliant, showing pseudohexagonal forms and with a uniform ocher color. A mine poorly represented in collections.
Size: 9.8 x 8.3 x 6.5 cm.
Main crystal: 18 x 17 mm.
RM905 Baryte
Victoria mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, Cartagena-La Unión, Murcia, SpainOn a thin limonite matrix we can enjoy two aggregates and aesthetic baryte rosettes formed by lenticular crystals are arranged. Both aggregates are complete, but one of them shows an unusual perfection. It comes from a mine known for its ocher tone barytes,but this shape is not very common in this mine.
Size: 9.0 x 7.0 x 3.5 cm.
Main crystal: 23 x 20 mm. (roseta)
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