Rosell Minerales
RM991 Sphalerite with siderite
Corta San Valentín, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Sancti Spiritu, La Unión, Murcia, SpainFrom a classic Murcian loocality as corta San Valentín comes this specimen formed by a large group of bright sphalerite crystals with tetrahedral and complex shapes, good brightness and partially covered bu lenticular and rhombohedral orange siderite crystals. A very aesthetically striking contrast color.
Size: 7.8 x 6.5 x 3.5 cm.
Main crystal: 10 x 10 mm.
Found in 2013.
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.
RM974 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 notable recent find from this Mediterranean mining area that never stops to surprise us.
Size: 8.8 x 7.0 x 5.3 cm.
Main crystal: 25 x 12 mm. aggreg.
Found in 12/2014.
RM894 Prehnite
Oficarsa quarry, Cerro de las Culebras, Carchelejo, Jaén, Andalucía, SpainGlobular aggregates of prehnite with a delicate light green color. With well defined and very bright crystal terminal faces. We can observe the radial growth on a sectioned aggregate. These brilliant specimens are quite unusual in this closed quarry.
Size: 8.3 x 6.2 x 3.5 cm.
RM931 Vanadinite
ACF Mine, Mibladen, Khénifra, Meknès-Tafilalet, MoroccoSpecimen with a very good size formed by several groups of vanadinite crystals, with an intense red to brownish red zoning color, translucent, very brilliant and showing a defined prism truncated by pinacoidal faces. On a rocky matrix. Different than usual.
Size: 13.0 x 12.4 x 3.0 cm.
Main crystal: 8 x 6 mm.
RM883 Sphalerite with arsenopyrite and pyrite after pyrrhotite
Trepča Stan Terg Mine, Trepča, Kosovska Mitrovica, KosovoGroup of crystals of pyrrhotite completely replaced by brilliant pyrite crystals, which perfectly preserve the hexagonal shape of the original species. It is accompanied by groups of sphalerite crystals, very sharp, intense black color and good luster, with complex forms and twins. With some arsenopyrite. A very aesthetic, brilliant (more than in pictures) and classic European specimen.
Size: 8.0 x 6.4 x 4.7 cm.
RM922 Aurichalcite with calcite
Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Mapimí, Durango, MéxicoIn this specimen we can observe two generations of aurichalcite. A first generation as small rosettes formed by lanceolate greenish crystals and second with thiner crystals, needle-like, some of which are included in rhombohedral calcite crystals, with a light blue color. Stand in a very aesthetic way on the matrix of goethite. A very balanced sample.
Size: 7.5 x 5.5 x 3.8 cm.
RM640 Calcite with fluorite and Baryte
Moscona Mine, Villabona area, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Asturias, SpainCurious specimen of calcite from Moscona. Formed by some crystals, one of them predominant, with complex rhombohedrall faces with echeloned growth. Accompanied by tabular barite crystals and on a yellow fluorite matrix.
Size: 8,6 x 7,3 x 4,4 cm.
Main crystal: 28 x 25 mm.
RM596 Proustite
Mine de Bouismass, Bouismass, Bou Azzer, Ouarzazate, Souss-Massa-Draâ, MoroccoUnusually species for this Moroccan mine. The dealer confirmed the locality, I initially thought in Imiter. This is a group proustite crystals with good red color, brilliance and transparence, some of them contacted due to the cavity, others showing terminations and striated faces. In calcite matrix.
Size: 6,0 x 5,2 x 3,7 cm.
Main crystal: 4 x 1 mm.
RM534 Orthoclase with clinozoisite
La Batllòria, Montseny-Montnegre Mts., Sant Celoni, Vallès Oriental, Catalunya, SpainGroup of huge size orthoclase crystals, showing the complex faces of the baveno twin together with complex prisms and false rhombohedrons. Nice slightly orange color and defined edges and faces. It is accompanied by small crystals of light green clinozoisite, some quartz and limonitized pyrite. It was collected many years ago near of the Montseny massif; this area was well known for orthoclase mineral collectors. A classic from a classic collection. Mr. Daunis and Mrs. Ruscalleda (wife) collection were specialized in Spanish quartz and orthoclase specimens.
Size: 13,0 x 11,0 x 6,5 cm.
Main crystal: 45 x 43 mm.
Found in 1970's.
Ex-coll. Daunis-Ruscalleda
RM436 Quartz with pyrophyllite and Pyrite
Arestui, Llavorsí, Lleida, Catalunya, SpainA brilliant quartz crystals from a well known Catalan area, in the Pyrenees, very appreciated for the quality of its hyaline crystals. A rich group of quartz crystals showing a elongated prism and developed and deformed rhombohedral terminal faces. Transparence and brilliance are excellent, with very well defined faces and edges. They are partially covered by small aggregates of pyrophyllite, between colorless to slightly yellow, with some goethitized pyrite. These specimens usually occur in geodes and it is very common find them falled down inside the vug; this specimen shows that one of the crystals has been lost, without affecting the beauty of the whole. This huge size sample is a nice representative of the known Llavorsí's quartz crystals.
Size: 9,2 x 7,0 x 4,8 cm.
Main crystal: 3,7 x 1,4 cm.
Found in 2009
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