Fine Mineral Specimens from all over the world
December 2024, fine minerals from different localities
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CF01 - Elbaite variety Rubellite. Malkhan pegmatite field, Krasnyi Chikoy, Krasnochikoysky District, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia.
Very nice terminated prismatic crystal of Elbaite, translucent, very bright and with intense colors. In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 3.5 cm x 1.5 cm
Price: 280€ Available
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CF02 - Elbaite variety Rubellite. Malkhan pegmatite field, Krasnyi Chikoy, Krasnochikoysky District, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia.
Excellent gemmy prismatic crystal of Elbaite, with perfect terminations, translucent, very bright and with an intense color. In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 2 cm x 0.8 cm
Price: 180€ Available
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CF03 - Rhodochrosite . Uchucchacua mine, Oyón, Lima, Perú.
Group of scalenohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite with very well defined faces and edges, one of them clearly dominant and biterminated. The crystals are transparent showing a nice red color, good luster and disposed on matrix coated by Manganese oxides. Veery nice specimen from a classic Peruvian locality. The condition is excellent. The main crystal size is 1 cm.
Specimen size: 3.5 cm x 4 cm
Not available
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CF04 - Rhodochrosite . Uchucchacua mine, Oyón, Lima, Perú.
Scalenohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite, transparent to translucent showing a nice red-pink color, good luster and disposed on matrix coated by Manganese oxides. A nice specimen from a classic Peruvian locality. The condition is excellent.
Specimen size: 3.2 cm x 2.2 cm
Price: 90€ Available
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CF05 - Rhodochrosite . Uchucchacua mine, Oyón, Lima, Perú.
Scalenohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite, transparent, with a deep red color, good luster and disposed on matrix coated by Manganese oxides. A nice specimen from a classic Peruvian locality. The condition is excellent. The main crystal size is 1 cm.
Specimen size: 5.0 cm x 3 cm
Price: 190€ Available
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CF06- Pyrite with Calcite. Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department, Peru.
Large Pyrite crystal with a cubic shape, with a very intense bright and finely striated surfaces on some of the faces. Accompanied by Calcite crystals with intense fluorescence (Manganocalcite).
Specimen size: 11 cm x 8 cm
Price: 170€ Available
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CF07- Pyrite with Calcite. Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department, Peru.
Large Pyrite crystal with a cubic shape, with a very intense bright and finely striated surfaces on some of the faces. With smaller cubic crystals of Pyrite and Calcite crystals with intense fluorescence (Manganocalcite).
Specimen size: 9 cm x 5 cm
Not available
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CF08- Fluorite. Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias), Spain.
Single Fluorite crystal with a cubic habit and finely beveled by the dodecahedron. Completely transparent, with excellent luster and a very pale lilac color, on a matrix of white scalenohedral Calcite crystals. No damage. In excellent condition. Better in person.
Specimen size: 8 cm x 6.5 cm
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CF09- Fluorite. Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias), Spain.
Group of Fluorite crystals with cubic habits and finely beveled by the dodecahedrons. Transparent to translucent, with good luster and a nice lilac color, on a matrix of white scalenohedral Calcite crystals. No damage. In excellent condition. Better in person.
Specimen size: 8.5 cm x 7 cm
Price: 180€ Available
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CF10- Fluorite. Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias), Spain.
Fluorite crystals with cubic habits and finely beveled by the dodecahedrons. Transparent, with good luster and a very pale color, on a matrix of white scalenohedral Calcite crystals. No damage. In excellent condition. Better in person.
Specimen size: 6.5 cm x 4 cm
Price: 120€ Available
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CF11 - Amethyst Quartz. Piedra Parada (Las Vigas), Tatalia, Veracruz, México.
Amethyst Quartz crystals with a very well marked color zoning, more concentrated on the terminations. Luster, color and transparency are excellent. No damage.
Specimen size: 5 cm x 4 cm
Price: 90€ Available
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CF12 - Baryte. Oumjrane mines, Alnif, Tarhbalt, Er Rachidia, Morocco.
Nice mineral specimen formed by aggregates of thin tabular crystals of Baryte. The crystals are translucent and very bright composing a fine
specimen from Morocco. No damage, in excellent condition.
Specimen size: 6 cm x 3.5 cm
Price: 80€ Available
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CF13 - Sphalerite, Arsenopyrite and Calcite. Stan Treg mine, Trepca Complex, Trepca Valley, Mitrovica, Kosovo.
Sharp crystals of Sphalerite and Arsenopyrite with very well defined faces and edges and excellent brilliance. Also with lenticular crystals of Calcite.
Specimen size: 7.5 cm x 6 cm
Price: 80€ Available
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CF14- Dolomite. Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Navarra, Spain.
Very well defined rhombohedral crystals of Dolomite forming an interpenetration twin. An excellent classic specimen from
Spain.
Specimen size: 6.5 cm x 5 cm
Price: 60€ Reserved
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CF15 - Baryte. Teresita mine, Portman, La Unión, Murcia, Spain.
Group of sharp tabular crystals of Baryte with good brightness and very nice blue color. Excellent quality for the locality. The condition is
excellent without damage.
Specimen size: 8 cm x 5 cm
Price: 100€ Available
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CF16 - Baryte. Teresita mine, Portman, La Unión, Murcia, Spain.
Group of sharp tabular crystals of Baryte with good brightness and very nice blue color. Excellent quality for the locality. The condition is
excellent.
Specimen size: 7.5 cm x 7 cm
Price: 100€ Available
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CF17 - Cassiterite. Viloco mine, Loayza Province, La Paz, Bolivia.
Group of very well formed twinned crystals of Cassiterite, very bright, translucent and with a dark brown color. The condition is excellent.
Specimen size: 5 cm x 4 cm
Price: 140€ Reserved
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CF18 - Vivianite. Rosia Poieni mine, Muska, Alba, Romania.
Aerial and lustrous crystal of Vivianite with high transparency, strong brilliance and a pleasing and intense emerald green color. The Vivianite crystals grew into a matrix of Diorite rock with Quartz. No damage, natural contact on one side where the crystal were attached to the Quartz of the matrix.
Specimen size: 5 cm x 5 cm
Price: 160€ Available
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CF19 - Vivianite. Rosia Poieni mine, Muska, Alba, Romania.
Vivianite crystal with high brilliance and intense green color. The Vivianite crystal grew into a matrix of Diorite rock breccia. Specimen in
excellent condition.
Specimen size: 4 cm x 2.5 cm
Price: 180€ Available
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CF20 - Vivianite. Rosia Poieni mine, Muska, Alba, Romania.
Glossy well formed crystals of Vivianite in parallel growth forming a thick specimen in a matrix of Diorite rock. The dimension, the quality, the brilliance and the deep green color are fantastic. Great Vivianite specimen without damage.
Specimen size: 7.5 cm x 4 cm x 3 cm
Price: 290€ Available
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CF21 - Cuprite. Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai, Russia.
Very sharp octahedral Cuprite crystals, with clearly dominant octahedron faces and minor shapes of the cube and the dodecahedron, with good luster and reddish reflections. Some of the crystals are partially covered by small crystallizations of Copper as seen. No damage, in excellent condition.
Specimen size: 4.5 cm x 4 cm
Price: 160€ Reserved
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CF22 - Apophyllite with Stilbite. Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India.Ferberite and Fluorapatite.
This specimen features doubly terminated Apophyllite crystals forming bow-tie clusters, with a pleasant apple-green color. Disposed on a matrix of
very well formed stilbite crystals. Great contrast to the matrix. No damage.
Specimen size: 9 cm x 4.5 cm
Price: 60€ Available
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CF23 - Apophyllite with Stilbite. Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India.Ferberite and Fluorapatite.
This specimen features doubly terminated Apophyllite crystals forming bow-tie clusters, with a pleasant apple-green color. Disposed on a matrix of
very well formed stilbite crystals. Great contrast to the matrix. No damage.
Specimen size: 7 cm x 5 cm
Price: 60€ Available
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CF24 - Cassiterite. Panasqueira mines, Aldeia de Sao Francisco de Assis, Covilha, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Very bright crystal of Cassiterite disposed on matrix of Muscovite. Large crystal for the Panasqueira mines. No damage. The crystal size is 2
cm.
Specimen size: 6 cm x 4.5 cm
Price: 140€ Available
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CF25 - Pyrite with Sphalerite. Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department, Peru.
Group of octahedral crystals, very bright and very well defined faces and edges, the dominant form is the octahedron but also having the faces of
the cube, less developed but evident. The faces are bright, defined and undamaged. With aggregates of Sphalerite.
Specimen size: 4.8 cm x 3.2 cm
Price: 60€ Available
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CF26 - Acanthite. San Juan de Rayas Mine, Guanajuato, Municipio Guanajuato Mexico.
Cubo-octahedral crystals of Acanthite, very bright, and with well defined faces and edges, with a bit of
Quartz matrix. No damage, in perfect condition. Very good size crystal for the specie.
Specimen size: 2 cm x 1.5 cm
Price: 140€ Available
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CF27 - Mimetite. Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico.
Very well defined botryoidal growths of Mimetite with a very intense and uniform yellow color. With Limonite
matrix. A Mexican classic in very good condition and quality.
Specimen size: 2 cm x 1.5 cm
Price: 50€ Available
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CF28 - Spessartine Garnet with Quartz and Feldspar. Tongbei, Yunxiao, Fujian Province, China.
Sharp trapezohedral Spessartine crystals with very well developed faces and edges and very well defined growth patterns. The crystals have very good transparency, they are extraordinarily bright and with a very intense and vivid color. On Microcline Feldspar and with smoky Quartz crystals. In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 8 cm x 3 cm
Price: 280€ Available
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CF29- Siderite with Fluorapatite and Marcasite. Panasqueira mines, Aldeia de Sao Francisco de Assis, Covilha, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Nice combination specimen composed of a main well formed crystal of Siderite, green Fuorapatites and Marcasite with very good brilliance. The condition is excellent.
Specimen size: 5 cm x 4 cm
Price: 80€ Available
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