Rosell Minerales
RM1298 Baryte with marcasite, pyrite, chalcopyrite and quartz
Bou N'has Mine, Oumjrane area, Alnif, Er Rachidia, Meknès-Tafilalet, MoroccoGood size parallel growth of tabular crystals of barite, very sharp and with very well defined faces and edges. They show a pale blue to grey color, translucent and very bright and have flattened crystals of marcasite showing the twin known as "cockscomb". On a quartz crystal matrix with cubic pyrite and minor chalcopyrite.
These mines are located approximately 50 km south of Alnif, near the border with Algeria. This area was already mined in medieval age for the extraction of copper. In the 60s of the last century, French companies expanded shafts and mineral extraction.
Size: 8.4 x 5.7 x 4.0 cm.
Main crystal: 20 x 18 mm.
Found in 2013.
RM1334 Quartz var. Amethyst with inclusions
Imilchil, Er Rachidia, Meknès-Tafilalet, MoroccoDruse of quartz crystals var. amethyst, well defined faces and short prism. Transparent to translucent with inclusions of acicular prismatic crystals, probably epidote.
Size: 6.5 x 5.3 x 2.7 cm.
RM1349 Arfvedsonite with zircon and feldspar
Jebel Ewargizen, Imilchil, Er Rachidia, Meknès-Tafilalet, MoroccoGroup of prismatic arfvedsonite crystals, showing parallel growth, one of the predominant and elongated. With striated faces and polycrystalline terminal faces. Dark green color, near black, in a feldspar matrix with very small prismatic zircon orange crystals.
Size: 6.5 x 3.8 x 3.5 cm.
Main crystal: 62 x 15 mm.
Found in 2011.
RM1329 Arfvedsonite with feldspar
Jebel Ewargizen, Imilchil, Er Rachidia, Meknès-Tafilalet, MoroccoGroup of interpenetrated prismatic arfvedsonite crystals, showing parallel growth. With defined faces and polycrystalline terminal faces. Dark green color, near black, in a feldspar matrix with very small prismatic zircon orange crystals.
Size: 4.3 x 3.7 x 3.6 cm.
Main crystal: 42 x 20 mm.
Found in 2011.
RM1351 Pyrite with quartz
Bou N'has Mine, Oumjrane area, Alnif, Er Rachidia, Meknès-Tafilalet, MoroccoVery brilliant specimen formed by numerous polysynthetic growths of octahedral pyrite crystals. The golden color is superior and brilliance, as we said before, is really excellent. With white milky quartz. A fine piece from a not well represented locality.
These mines are located approximately 50 km south of Alnif, near the border with Algeria. This area was already mined in medieval age for the extraction of copper. In the 60s of the last century, French companies expanded shafts and mineral extraction.
Size: 8.0 x 5.3 x 3.5 cm.
Main crystal: 8 x 8 mm.
Found in 2013.
RM1335 Baryte with marcasite
Bou N'has Mine, Oumjrane area, Alnif, Er Rachidia, Meknès-Tafilalet, MoroccoGood size parallel growth of tabular crystals of barite, very sharp and with very well defined faces and edges. They are translucent and accompanied by very bright and small marcasite.
These mines are located approximately 50 km south of Alnif, near the border with Algeria. This area was already mined in medieval age for the extraction of copper. In the 60s of the last century, French companies expanded shafts and mineral extraction.
Size: 7.9 x 5.5 x 4.3 cm.
Found in 2013.
RM1350 Galena with sphalerite, pyrite, marcasite and quartz
Bou N'has Mine, Oumjrane area, Alnif, Er Rachidia, Meknès-Tafilalet, MoroccoGroup of aesthetic cube-octahedral galena crystals, defined faces and edges, and with a better quality than usual for the locality. They are disposed on a matrix covered by brilliant quartz crystals. Accompanied by aggregates of honey color sphalerite complex crystals. With pyrite and flattened twinned marcasite.
These mines are located approximately 50 km south of Alnif, near the border with Algeria. This area was already mined in medieval age for the extraction of copper. In the 60s of the last century, French companies expanded shafts and mineral extraction.
Size: 7.4 x 5.0 x 4.5 cm.
Main crystal: 8 x 8 mm.
Found in 2013.
RM1300 Baryte with marcasite, siderite and quartz
Bou N'has Mine, Oumjrane area, Alnif, Er Rachidia, Meknès-Tafilalet, MoroccoElongated baryte crystals with very well defined faces and edges, transparent, very bright, with a brownish-yellow color and with darker selective micro-inclusions on some of the faces. On a pyrite matrix with marcasite twins, orange micro-siderite and quartz crystals.
These mines are located approximately 50 km south of Alnif, near the border with Algeria. This area was already mined in medieval age for the extraction of copper. In the 60s of the last century, French companies expanded shafts and mineral extraction.
Size: 7.7 x 6.4 x 2.4 cm.
Main crystal: 40 x 14 mm.
Found in 2013.
RM1301 Galena with pyrite, marcasite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite
Bou N'has Mine, Oumjrane area, Alnif, Er Rachidia, Meknès-Tafilalet, MoroccoA very rich group of cube-octahedral galena crystals, brilliant, nice luster, defined faces and edges, and with a better quality than usual for the locality. They are disposed on a matrix covered by brilliant quartz crystals and small honey color sphalerite. Accompanied by aggregates of golden pyrite crystals, bright and sharp, flattened brilliant marcasite and chalcopyrite.
These mines are located approximately 50 km south of Alnif, near the border with Algeria. This area was already mined in medieval age for the extraction of copper. In the 60s of the last century, French companies expanded shafts and mineral extraction.
Size: 9.3 x 7.0 x 4.4 cm.
Main crystal: 6 x 5 mm. Galena
Found in 2013.
RM1302 Baryte with marcasite and quartz
Bou N'has Mine, Oumjrane area, Alnif, Er Rachidia, Meknès-Tafilalet, MoroccoFine quality specimen that shows aggregates of tabular crystals of baryte, with a slight bluish tone, brilliant and with defined faces and edges. Accompanied by several marcasite crystals showing various twins, such as "cockscomb", as aggregates or very aesthetic individual crystals. On a quartz crystal matrix.
These mines are located approximately 50 km south of Alnif, near the border with Algeria. This area was already mined in medieval age for the extraction of copper. In the 60s of the last century, French companies expanded shafts and mineral extraction.
Size: 6.8 x 5.4 x 5.3 cm.
Main crystal: 12 x 10 mm.
Found in 2013.
RM1357 Baryte and marcasite
Bou N'has Mine, Oumjrane area, Alnif, Er Rachidia, Meknès-Tafilalet, MoroccoHuge size parallel growth of tabular crystals of barite, very sharp and with very well defined faces and edges. They are translucent and very bright and have flattened crystals of marcasite showing the twin known as "cockscomb".
These mines are located approximately 50 km south of Alnif, near the border with Algeria. This area was already mined in medieval age for the extraction of copper. In the 60s of the last century, French companies expanded shafts and mineral extraction.
Size: 10.7 x 7.3 x 4.5 cm.
Main crystal: 34 x 27 mm.
Found in 2011.
RM1312 Galena with pyrite, marcasite and quartz
Bou N'has Mine, Oumjrane area, Alnif, Er Rachidia, Meknès-Tafilalet, MoroccoRich group of galena cube-octahedral crystals, some of them complex, good luster, defined faces and edges, and with a better quality than usual for the locality. They are disposed on a matrix covered by small and brilliant quartz crystals. Accompanied by several aggregates of golden pyrite sharp crystals, brilliant, with aggregates of flattened and twinned marcasite. Very fine specimen with crystals in both sides.
These mines are located approximately 50 km south of Alnif, near the border with Algeria. This area was already mined in medieval age for the extraction of copper. In the 60s of the last century, French companies expanded shafts and mineral extraction.
Size: 10.4 x 9.2 x 3.8 cm.
Main crystal: 14 x 13 mm.
Found in 2013.
RM1229 Baryte with calcite
San Pedro mine, Sierra de Enmedio, Almendricos, Lorca, Murcia, SpainAesthetic group of well-developed baryte crystals from this Murcian locality. They are disposed forming a "open-book" shape with parallel growth. They stand out as being covered with small, bright and transparent crystals of calcite, some chalcedony, peppered by small crystals of goethitized pyrite and manganese oxydes. A piece of an unusual locality not easy to find in the mineral market.
Size: 8.7 x 5.8 x 4.4 cm.
Main crystal: 35 x 25 mm.
Found in 2011.
RM1228 Pyrite
La Blanquiza mine, Valdeperillo, Cornago, La Rioja, SpainThese old specimens of pyrite belong to one of those curiosities that Nature offers us. In these pieces we can see crystals those are showing no apparent cubic symmetry. They have, more or less marked, parallelepiped forms unusually flattened. The edges are completely natural and the crystal has been consolidated on its matrix to avoid its possible detachment.
This kind of crystals put into question certain aspects of the cubic symmetry of pyrite. For more information on this topic you can read articles like King & Prewitt 1979 (Amer. Min., 64, 1265-1271).
Size: 11.0 x 4.7 x 4.0 cm.
Main crystal: 22 x 19 x 17 mm.
Found in 1990's.
RM1224 Pyrite
La Blanquiza mine, Valdeperillo, Cornago, La Rioja, SpainThese old specimens of pyrite belong to one of those curiosities that Nature offers us. In these pieces we can see crystals those are showing no apparent cubic symmetry. They have, more or less marked, parallelepiped forms unusually flattened. The edges are completely natural and the crystal has been consolidated on its matrix to avoid its possible detachment.
This kind of crystals put into question certain aspects of the cubic symmetry of pyrite. For more information on this topic you can read articles like King & Prewitt 1979 (Amer. Min., 64, 1265-1271).
Size: 8.4 x 6.8 x 4.3 cm.
Main crystal: 26 x 22 x 18 mm.
Found in 1990's.
RM1226 Pyrite
La Blanquiza mine, Valdeperillo, Cornago, La Rioja, SpainThese old specimens of pyrite belong to one of those curiosities that Nature offers us. In these pieces we can see crystals those are showing no apparent cubic symmetry. They have, more or less marked, parallelepiped forms unusually flattened. The edges are completely natural and the crystal has been consolidated on its matrix to avoid its possible detachment.
This kind of crystals put into question certain aspects of the cubic symmetry of pyrite. For more information on this topic you can read articles like King & Prewitt 1979 (Amer. Min., 64, 1265-1271).
Size: 10.5 x 7.7 x 5.0 cm.
Main crystal: 22 x 14 x 13 mm.
Found in 1990's.
RM1225 Pyrite
La Blanquiza mine, Valdeperillo, Cornago, La Rioja, SpainThese old specimens of pyrite belong to one of those curiosities that Nature offers us. In these pieces we can see crystals those are showing no apparent cubic symmetry. They have, more or less marked, parallelepiped forms unusually flattened. The edges are completely natural and the crystal has been consolidated on its matrix to avoid its possible detachment.
This kind of crystals put into question certain aspects of the cubic symmetry of pyrite. For more information on this topic you can read articles like King & Prewitt 1979 (Amer. Min., 64, 1265-1271).
Size: 8.0 x 7.3 x 4.6 cm.
Main crystal: 26 x 22 x 13 mm.
Found in 1990's.
RM1203 Arsenopyrite with quartz, manganoan calcite and boulangerite
Trepča Stan Terg Mine, Trepča, Kosovska Mitrovica, KosovoBrilliant specimen showing a very well defined crystals of arsenopyrite covering the matrix, some of them with good size. They are accompanied by brilliant quartz crystals, pinkish calcite due to the content of Mn and small groups of boulangerite needles. A very luminous specimen.
Size: 8.3 x 6.8 x 5.2 cm.
RM1153 Azurite with malachite
Khanong open pit, Sepon Mine, Vilabouly, Savannakhét, Lao People's Democratic RepublicA novelty in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2015. A rich group of well defined azurite crystals, good brilliance and with transparence. The blue color is very intense. With malachite fan-shaped aggregates. They are disposed in a vug into the gossan-cuprite matrix. Showy specimen from a copper and gold mine located in Laos, not well-known and less represented in collections. Few specimens from this mine had been previously seen in the market but with lower quality.
Size: 8.0 x 7.0 x 4.8 cm.
Main crystal: 8 x 5 mm.
Found in 2015.
RM1154 Azurite with malachite
Khanong open pit, Sepon Mine, Vilabouly, Savannakhét, Lao People's Democratic RepublicA novelty in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2015. A rich group of well defined azurite crystals, good brilliance and with transparence. The blue color is very intense. They are disposed in a vug into the gossan-cuprite matrix. Showy specimen from a copper and gold mine located in Laos, not well-known and less represented in collections. Few specimens from this mine had been previously seen in the market but with lower quality.
Size: 9.7 x 5.8 x 4.6 cm.
Main crystal: 4 x 4 mm.
Found in 2015.
RM1050 Hematite
N'Chwaning III Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape, South AfricaGroup of very sharp hematite crystals, one of them of greater size and rich in faces. We can observe the positive and negative rhombohedrons truncated by the pinacoid and perfectly visible the hexagonal dipyramid well developed. Metallic luster is excellent and it has an intense black color. A very interesting speciemen of this South African mine.
It comes from the specimens of Luis "Louie" Bravi Antonio Teixeira Leite (1942-1999), a Portuguese mineral dealer who lived many years in South Africa.
Size: 2.8 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm.
Ex-coll. M. Ecker - Louie Leite

RM1032 Grossular (var. Hessonite) with quartz
Gilgit, Gilgit-Baltistan, PakistanGroup of grossular, hessonite variety. Good orange to brown color, translucent and defined faces and edges.
Size: 6.3 x 6.0 x 5.0 cm.
Main crystal: 12 x 10 mm.
RM1031 Grossular (var. Hessonite) with quartz
Gilgit, Gilgit-Baltistan, PakistanGroup of grossular, hessonite variety, one of them bigger. Good orange to brown color, translucent and curved faces and edges.
Size: 6.0 x 5.8 x 4.7 cm.
RM980 Baryte
Rambla de la Voltada, Zona Campos de Golf, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Atamaría, Cartagena, Murcia, SpainGroup of stalactitic aggregates of barite crystals. They are very aerial disposed and formed by bladed crystals with chisel-shaped terminations. With a really good brilliance, some transparence and white color with yellowish tone. A good size specimen. A notable recent find from this Mediterranean mining area that never stops to surprise us.
Size: 9.7 x 7.5 x 6.0 cm.
Main crystal: 26 x 12 mm. aggreg.
Found in 12/2014.
RM977 Baryte
Rambla de la Voltada, Zona Campos de Golf, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Atamaría, Cartagena, Murcia, SpainGroup of stalactitic aggregates of barite crystals. They are very aerial disposed and formed by bladed crystals with chisel-shaped terminations. With a really good brilliance, some transparence and white color. A good size specimen. A notable recent find from this Mediterranean mining area that never stops to surprise us.
Size: 8.8 x 6.5 x 5.4 cm.
Main crystal: 26 x 12 mm. aggreg.
Found in 12/2014.
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