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RM1559   Pyrite
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This good sized pyrite specimen shows us several interpenetrated crystals, two of them dominant, with marked striated cube faces and pyritohedron. Faces and edges have a characteristic curvature. Excellent brilliance. Only two small corners are dinged. These are specimens with more than two decades from this classic pyrite Spanish mine.

Size: 4.5 x 4.0 x 3.7 cm.
Main crystal: 3.2 x 3.0 cm
Found in 1990's
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RM1561   Pyrite
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This good sized pyrite specimen shows us several interpenetrated crystals, one of them dominant, with marked striated cube faces and pyritohedron. Faces and edges have a characteristic curvature. Excellent brilliance. Only one small corner is dinged. These are specimens with more than two decades from this classic pyrite Spanish mine.

Size: 3.8 x 3.4 x 3.2 cm.
Found in 1990's
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RM1562   Pyrite
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This pyrite specimen shows us several interpenetrated crystals, one of them dominant, with marked striated cube faces and pyritohedron. Faces and edges have a characteristic curvature. Excellent brilliance. These are specimens with more than two decades from this classic pyrite Spanish mine.

Size: 3.8 x 3.3 x 3.2 cm.
Found in 1990's
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RM1539   Fluorite and dolomite
CaF₂
  -  3. Halides

Rich group of fluorite crystals, cubic, transparent and very brilliant. With a yellow color with greenish tones. They are partially covered by snowy white rhombohedral curved dolomite crystals. From a classic Spanish mine.

Size: 7.0 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm.
RM1551   Quartz var. Chalcedony
SiO₂
  -  4. Oxides and hydroxides

A floater nodule with blackish and whitish spheroidal forms with some visible crystalline faces. They're a silicified fossil sponge which have preserved the original morphology of the biological specimens.

Size: 6.2 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm.
Found in 2016
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RM1553   Quartz var. Chalcedony
SiO₂
  -  4. Oxides and hydroxides

A floater nodule with blackish and whitish spheroidal forms with some visible crystalline faces. They're a silicified fossil sponge which have preserved the original morphology of the biological specimens.

Size: 6.7 x 3.6 x 3.0 cm.
Found in 2016
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RM1555   Quartz var. Chalcedony
SiO₂
  -  4. Oxides and hydroxides

A floater nodule with blackish and whitish spheroidal forms with some visible crystalline faces. They're a silicified fossil sponge which have preserved the original morphology of the biological specimens.

Size: 4.4 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm.
Found in 2016
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RM1521   Fluorite
CaF₂
  -  3. Halides

Rich group of cubic fluorite crystals, very sharp, transparent and with a greenish to yellow tone very characteristic of these fluorites. This specimen is from the mines of Sant Marçal (also called of the Matagalls Mt.), located in the massif of El Montseny. Nowadays not many samples are seen with this quality. A classic of the Catalan Mineralogy.

Size: 10.5 x 8.2 x 3.8 cm.
Main crystal: 15 x 12 mm.
Fluorescent under long wave UV
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RM1490   Hematite
Fe₂O₃
  -  4. Oxides and hydroxides

These hematite specimens belong from ancient finds (ca 1980s) in a mine located on the property of the Piquín farmhouse. In this huge size sample we can see an aesthetic botryoidal aggregates, with an exceptional luster. Even botryoidal "negative" cavities are observed, inward. In the fracture zones of the specimen, radial fibrous aggregates forming botrioids are revealed. A piece of quality without equal and very difficult to find nowadays.

Size: 9.8 x 7.5 x 6.0 cm.
Found in 1980s.
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RM1487   Pyroaurite-2H

Pyroaurite-2H is a polytype formerly known as sjögrenite (discredited). This specimen belongs from a classic Italian locality for the species. A matrix of marble with calcite on which stand out numerous foliaceous aggregates of tabular orange color pyroaurite. This specimen has its pedigree in the collections Pierini and Vochten. The label of the latter accompanies this interesting piece.

Size: 5.7 x 4.5 x 3.4 cm.
Found in 1993.
Excol. G. Pierini / R. Vochten
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RM1489   Senegalite and turquoise

Senegalite is a rare aluminium phosphate. In this specimen we can observe several prismàtic transparent crystals on blue turquoise. This specimen is from the type locality for the species.

Size: 5.5 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm.
Found in 2016.
Fluorescent under long wave UV
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RM1485   Malachite with quartz and calcite
Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂
  -  5. Carbonides and nitrates

Superb and brilliant specimen formed by botryoidal aggregates of malachite, of intense green color, and covered by small hyaline quartz crystals. Quartz gives it this aesthetic brilliance. Matrix is formed by a stockwork of altered chalcopyrite. Malachite specimens from this locality and with this shape are unusual.

Size: 8.7 x 5.5 x 5.0 cm.
Found in 2016.
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RM1483   Andradite
Ca3Fe3+2(SiO4)3
  -  9. Silicates

Druse of trapezohedral crystals of andradite from this classic Spanish locality. Intense brilliance, with colors between brown to reddish. On a granatite with epidote. This is a specimen with pedigree from the Gustav Beck collection.

Size: 6.7 x 4.2 x 3.6 cm.
Main crystal: 8 x 8 mm.
Col. Gustav Beck
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RM1482   Pyrite
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A floating specimen, all brilliance. It is a rich group of crystals with dominant cube and dodecahedron faces. One of them stands out for its size and the large number of cube, dodecahedron, octahedron, pyritohedron faces. As we said, nice luster and characteristic golden color. It presents small damage without affecting the quality of the sample. An excellent specimen from this Peruvian mine.

Size: 6.7 x 5.5 x 3.8 cm.
Main crystal: 2.8 x 2.8 cm.
Found in 2016.
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RM1510   Rhodochrosite with fluorite and quartz

A huge size rhodochrosite crystal with an intense red color and well defined scalenohedral forms. Good color and transparence. On a solid rocky matrix with hyaline quartz and cubic fluorite crystals (fluorescent). A good specimen hard to find...

Size: 6.5 x 6.0 x 5.0 cm.
Main crystal: 16 x 8 mm.
Fluorescent under long wave UV
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RM1494   Vanadinite with coronadite, mottramite and goethite
Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl
  -  8. Phosphates, arsenates and vanadates

Two generations of vanadinite crystals. A good-sized brilliant crystals, with echeloned growths and defined faces and edges. With good color yellow and peppered by deep black coronadite globular aggregates and covering the matrix. Another generation shows small crystals (<1 mm) but with a nice luster, transparence, and yellowish tone. Both are on goethite with mottramite crystals.

Size: 8.5 x 7.7 x 4.6 cm.
Found in 2012
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RM1495   Smoky quartz with hematite and feldspar
SiO₂
  -  4. Oxides and hydroxides

A very curious piece composed by a group of quartz crystals, one of them of greater size, with a slight smoky tone and an exceptional transparence. Black almost metallic inclusions of hematite are observed in the top faces of the crystal. Also on them. With a minor feldspar matrix. A very aesthetic specimen.

Size: 4.5 x 4.4 x 3.2 cm.
Main crystal: 37 x 14 mm.
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RM1497   Spahlerite with baryte
ZnS
  -  2. Sulfides and sulfosalts

Large group of sphalerite crystals with an exceptional brilliance, honey color and transparency that allows light to play with the honey colors. Peppered on back side by small crystals of baryte showing flattened shapes. A little gemmy miniature. Troya mine was closed in 1993, only a few years before these specimens were collected in 1990. Nowadays the mine is collapsed and flooded.

 

Size: 4.4 x 3.0 x 1.8 cm.
Main crystal: 6 x 4 mm.
Found in 1990s
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RM1496   Bournonite with siderite
CuPbSbS3

Aesthetic crystals of bournonite, twinned, with echeloned growths, very bright and sharp. They are disposed on a matrix with lenticular siderite crystals. It is hard to find samples of this classic German locality. If on hand they are all brilliance, under loupe crystals are amazing.

 

Size: 4.5 x 4.2 x 3.5 cm.
Main crystal: 3 mm.
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RM1500   Fluorite with baryte
CaF₂
  -  3. Halides

Rich group of cubic crystals of fluorite, of intense color between violet and purple. They are disposed on a matrix of baryte, with tabular crystals in book shape, dull luster and zoned. Good size for display...

 

Size: 11.4 x 8.4 x 4.7 cm.
Main crystal: 22 x 22 mm.
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RM1499   Spahlerite with dolomite
ZnS
  -  2. Sulfides and sulfosalts

On a white matrix formed by several white dolomite crystals, sharp and with curved faces and edges, we can enjoy a crystal of sphalerite very brilliant, with transparence and a very uniform toasted honey color. Very aesthetic specimen. From a former German Col. Nr.812.

 

Size: 10.0 x 6.5 x 4.2 cm.
Main crystal: 8 x 5 mm.
Found in 1990s
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RM1509   Wulfenite and baryte
Pb(MoO₄)
  -  7. Sulfates, chromates, molybdates and wolframates

In this good size specimen we can observe a group of tabular wulfenite crystals showing well defined faces and parallel growths. They are interpenetrated between them and accompanied by small but perfect tabular wulfenite crystals on matrix. The brilliance is excellent and in thin parts they show transparence. They are very aerial disposed on a matrix of baryte crystals, with cerussite and dolomite.

Size: 9.8 x 7.8 x 4.5 cm.
Main crystal: 17 x 15 mm.
Found in 12/2012.
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RM1519   Baryte
Ba(SO4)

This specimen of baryte is one of the most aesthetic I've had to be sold... Added to its quality, the crystallographic "games" are more than interesting. It shows two barite crystals connected by a contact twin and sharing faces of different orders orthorhombic prisms. Very sharp faces and edges. With transparent to translucent zones and an exceptional brilliance. It preserve some of the original matrix. No damage. An exceptional specimen.

Size: 8.4 x 5.5 x 3.7 cm.
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RM1493   Fluorite
CaF₂
  -  3. Halides

Group of fluorite crystals showing cubic faces with edges beveled by tetrahexahedron. Brilliance, transparence and with a slight bluish tint. A very aesthetic miniature from this classic fluorite Spanish locality.

Size: 5.7 x 5.5 x 3.0 cm.
Main crystal: 12 x 12 mm.
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RM1507   Fluorite
CaF₂
  -  3. Halides

Group of fluorite crystals showing cubic faces with edges beveled by tetrahexahedron. Brilliance, transparence and with a slight bluish tint. A very aesthetic miniature from this classic fluorite Spanish locality.

Size: 5.2 x 3.8 x 2.2 cm.
Main crystal: 10 x 10 mm.
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