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Excellent specimen of hydroboracite, with a very good size, formed by numerous radial aggregates of acicular crystals. Very good brilliance, transparence and with color zoning, between colorless to slightly honeyed. This specimen has a former owner's handwritten label. A display museum specimen.
These specimens from the Siglo XX Mine present defined, brilliant, translucent and light orange colour monazite-(Ce) crystals. They are accompanied by hyaline quartz and black-brown cassiterite on matrix. Some are twinned. Monazite is found in small quantities in this mine.
Monazite gets its name from the Greek word μουάζω "monazein" meaning "to be alone," alluding to its isolated crystals and their rarity when they were first found. Monazite is generally found in granitic pegmatites, but these crystals are found in hydrothermal veins with tin and the absence of thorium (generally an accompanying element of monazite).
Group of twinned prismatic scolecite crystals, very brilliant and transparent. It is accompanied by small hyaline crystals of fluorapophyllite-(K), bright and very defined. Scolecite is a rather rare species of the zeolite group from India. With handwritten label by J. Viñals and belonged to the Nicolau collection (Barcelona).
Excellent specimen formed by numerous colorless acicular crystals of bultfonteinite, a rare hydrated calcium fluorosilicate, which is accompanied by beige prismatic crystals of olmiite, a hydroxysilicate of calcium and manganese. The specimen is very representative of these species. This is the type locality for olmiite. We include pooldervaartite because it is very common since it forms a series with olmiite.
Group of prismatic celestine crystals, of very good size and from a classic Spanish locality for the species. It occurs in crystals defined by orthorhombic prisms of different orders. Translucent, brilliant and with a soft bluish tone. It belongs from the E. Nicolau collection (Barcelona), labeled by J. Viñals.
A great sample of arsenopyrite, pale gold to silver in colour with slight iridenscence and a bright metallic lustre, with several intergrown crystals all showing complex striations and serated crystal edges. Accompanied by black ferberite. Good sized and fine specimen.
Group of tabular crystals of calcite of hexagonal shape, with color zoning and small recrystallizations of the same calcite in some areas of the piece. Crystals are on a matrix with fluorite, quartz and small pyrite crystals. It shows a intense reddish tone under UV light. Aesthetic specimen from this classic Moroccan locality.
A very attractive large specimen of beautiful "star" muscovite mica from Linópolis. These specimens are some of the most distinctive and eye-catching pieces of mica from any locality for their wonderful morphology. This piece has a full coverage of lovely golden-yellow color, incredibly well-formed, star shaped twinned crystals of muscovite on quartz matrix.
Aesthetic group of topaz crystals aesthetically disposed on a rhyolite matrix. Some of them isolated and very rich in faces. They show very well defined faces and edges, with an excellent transparency and a uniform tone. From a classic locality.
A defined fluorite cubic aggregate, echeloned growths with absolutely striking green and purple phantoms inside the otherwise glassy crystals. Cubes are lustrous on all sides and free of any considerable damage. The interior is quite fascinating as is characteristic for the Okorusu Mine. This cluster of fluorite is very aesthetic and typical for the locale.
Highly lustrous, rounded faces, jet-black spinel octahedrons included in a calcite matrix from this less well-known locality. Crystals of this size and quality are rare from here and this is a fine and good sized specimen from the E. Nicolau (Barcelona) Collection.
Interesting specimen due to the town where it comes from. It is a druse (both sides) of small, brilliant jarosite crystals from this small ballast quarry for railway tracks, located in the area known as "La Corraliza" to the NNE of the town of Vall d'Uixó. With old label from J. Viñals.
Globular aggregates of prismatic baryte crystals, bright, defined, translucent and with a whitish color. A classic of Murcian mining.
In this specimen we can observe several cubic galena crystals, very brilliant and defined, with faces of the cube truncated by the octahedron. They are accompanied by complex sphalerite spinel twin crystals. Disposed on a matrix with quartz and lenticular calcite crystals.
Scalenohedral rhodo crystals with a whitish patina. They are accompanied by very brilliant hyaline quartz crystals.
Group of cubic fluorite crystals, with transparence that allows us to see the inner violet geometric zoning. Polysynthetic growths on faces. In matrix with baryte.
Este ejemplar de fluorita de la cantera Berta nos muestra grupos de cristales pero también cristales aislados. La matriz es la granodiorita de color rojo "antigua" y se halla tapizada por diminutos octaedros de fluorita casi incoloros. Si algo hay que destacar de esta pieza es que los cristales octaédricos de fluorita muestran en los vértices las caras del rombododecaedro, del cubo y del tetraquishexaedro.
Radial aggregates of needle like erythrite crystals. They stand out from the goethite matrix.
Radial aggregates of needle like erythrite crystals. They stand out from the goethite matrix.
Radial aggregates of needle like erythrite crystals. They stand out from the goethite matrix.
Radial aggregates of needle like erythrite crystals. They stand out from the goethite matrix.
This is a specimen of tabular barite crystals, colorless to yellowish tones and very good transparence. It belongs from the Mines d'Osor, currently closed and from which it is impossible to obtain these specimens. The mine closed in 1979 and had eleven levels, with a 290 meter deep shaft. You can still see the ruins of the old facilities and the well from which sphalerite, galena and fluorite were extracted and treated.
A rich group of epidote crystals of a very good size and an intense green, almost black color. The crystals show very well defined prism faces of different orders. This crystal shape is quite unusual for this Moroccan locality.