Fine Mineral Specimens from all over the world
January 2026, New selection of fine mineral specimens
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CJ01- Fluorite. Yongchun, Quanzhou, Fujian, China.
A fine Fluorite specimen composed of a group of crystals with the forms of the octahedron, cube and dodecahedron. The crystals are transparent to translucent with a marked color zoning. It shows a nice pale purple color in the center and with a pale green color along the edges. No damage.
Specimen size: 8.5 cm x 7.5 cm
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CJ02- Ilavite with Quartz. Huanggang Mine, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
Large specimen of Ilvaite, with well developed prisms, good brilliance and marked terminal faces. Crystals of Ilvaite with very well defined faces and edges, perfect terminations, a good size, and especially with a nice luster. The supply of samples with these characteristics has currently decreased. Accompanied by Quartz crystal. No damage.
Specimen size: 9 cm x 8.5 cm
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CJ03- Fluorite with Quartz. Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca del Oriente, Asturias, Spain
Transparent to translucent well formed Fluorite crystals, with an intense and deep lilac color and very good brilliance. With small biterminated Quartz crystals scattered on same faces. Unusual color and appearance, very different from this classic locality. Very good Berbes specimen coming from an old collection. No damage.
Specimen size: 8 cm x 4.5 cm
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CJ04- Fluorite with Calcite. La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.
Floater specimen. It is formed by a cubic crystal of Fluorite with echeloned bevels and beveled by the dodecahedron with an intense violet color. It has a very good transparency and with well defined geometrical color zoning. Accompanied by Calcite crystal. No damage.
Specimen size: 6 cm x 3 cm
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CJ05- Fluorite. Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca del Oriente, Asturias, Spain
Another fine Spanish classic mineral. Floater group of cubic crystals of Fluorite with polycrystalline growths on their faces, with geometrical color zoning, very bright and with an intense and vivid colors. No damage.
Specimen size: 5.5 cm x 5.5 cm
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CJ06- Baryte with Fluorite. Xiefang mine, Rujin, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China.
Group of Baryte crystals with tabular shapes showing a very high brilliance and a vivid yellowish orange color. These new specimens stand out for the striking contrast of the Baryte crystals with the matrix of botryoidal crystallized Fluorite with a deep purple/violet colors. The Fluorite and Baryrte are brightly fluorescent under longwave ultraviolet light and the Fluorite also shows good fluorescence under shortwave ultraviolet light. An excellent specimen in very good condition.
Specimen size: 7.5 cm x 5 cm
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CJ07- Baryte with Fluorite. Xiefang mine, Rujin, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China.
Group of Baryte crystals with tabular shapes showing a very high brilliance and a vivid yellowish orange color. These new specimens stand out for the striking contrast of the Baryte crystals with the matrix of botryoidal crystallized Fluorite with a deep purple/violet colors. The Fluorite and Baryrte are brightly fluorescent under longwave ultraviolet light and the Fluorite also shows good fluorescence under shortwave ultraviolet light. An excellent specimen in very good condition.
Specimen size: 7 cm x 5 cm
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CJ08- Aquamarine with Cassiterite and Muscovite. Pingwu mine, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Sichuan, China.
Polycrystalline aggregate of twinned Cassiterite crystals, with very sharp crystal forms, extraordinarily lustrous and with a deep black color, on a matrix of very sharp lamellar Muscovite crystals. With many completely gemmy tabular Beryl crystals dominated by the pinacoid, with the prism faces being little developed. They are completely transparent, with very good luster and a uniform pale blue color (Aquamarine variety), accompanied by very sharp and lustrous lamellar crystals of Muscovite. This is a very elegant combination specimen. No damage.
Specimen size: 8 cm x 7 cm
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CJ09- Rhodochrosite. Wutong Mine, Liubao, Cangwu, Wuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.
Aggregates of extremely flattened platy Rhodochrosite crystals with very well defined crystals, a very intense pink color and on matrix with Quartz crystals. Different from all material previously found at this mine. In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 7 cm x 5 cm
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CJ10- Scheelite with Calcite. Yaogangxian Mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China.
Pyramidal fluorescent crystals of Scheelite with very well defined faces and sharp edges, excellent luster and a very uniform tan color. With small transparent well formed crystals of Calcite. Nice and aesthetic specimen. No damage.
Specimen size: 8 cm x 6 cm
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CJ11- Emerald. Muzo, Muzo mining district, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia.
Emerald crystals, one of them aerial and clearly dominant with very sharp prismatic form, good termination, translucent to transparent, with good luster and an intense color. On matrix of white crystals of Calcite. No damage.
Specimen size: 4.5 cm x 3 cm
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CJ12- Emerald. Muzo, Muzo mining district, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia.
Large and terminated prismatic crystal of Beryl, variety Emerald, with good luster and an intense color, on matrix of white Calcite. The crystal is around 3 cm in height.
Specimen size: 4.5 cm x 4 cm
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CJ13 - Hemimorphite and Cerussite. Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo.
Botroydal growths of Hemimorphite with a vivid and intense blue color accompanied by aggregates of Cerussite crystals. A beautiful blue Hemimorphite from the M'fouati mine in the Congo. No damage.
Specimen size: 5.5 cm x 3 cm
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CJ14 - Sphalerite. Las Mánforas Mine, Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria , Spain.
Crystals of Sphalerite with very marked parallel and polycrystalline growths, with the predominant forms of the tetrahedron with slight curvatures on the faces and edges. One of them is dominant and completely transparent and with very high brilliance and excellent caramel color. This piece comes from some small-scale finds made in the mine after it had already closed. There is currently no more access to the galleries. A jewel.
Specimen size: 7 cm x 5 cm
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CJ15 - Ferberite with Siderite. Panasqueira mine, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Portugal.
Spectacular parallel growth of Ferberite crystals, elongated, flattened, very bright and withy very well defined faces and edges. Partially coated by Siderite. In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 7 cm x 4 cm
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CJ16- Fluorapatite with Quartz. Panasqueira mine, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Portugal.
Well formed flattened prismatic crystals of Fluorapatite with a nice light blue color and very good brilliance. On matrix of Quartz crystals. The condition and the aesthetic are very good.
Specimen size: 7 cm x 4 cm
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CJ17 - Galena with Pyrite. Huanzala Mine, Huanzala, Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash, Peru
The Pyrite-Galena specimens from Huanzalá are well known to mineral collectors worldwide. They stand out for their brilliance and richness of crystallographic forms. The Galena crystals show a very high brilliance with metallic gray color and forms of cube and octahedron. The Pyrite crystals show octahedron faces and an excellent goldtone, with very bright luster and are part of an aesthetic combo along with Galena. In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 4.5 cm x 4 cm
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CJ18- Ferberite with Marcasite. Panasqueira mine, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Portugal.
Group of twinned (this twin is known in German as “sperkise”) crystals of Marcasite, sharp, very well defined and bright. The Marcasite crystals are disposed on two bright crystals of Ferberite in parallel growth with very well defined faces and edges. Nice classic Panasqueira specimen in very good condition.
Specimen size: 5 cm x 2.5 cm
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CJ19- Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mine, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Portugal.
Very bright group of Fluorapatite crystals with an intense green color and very good transparency. The condition is very good, it is natural contacted on the back where it was attached to the matrix rock.
Specimen size: 4.5 cm x 4 cm
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CJ20- Topaz. Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah USA.
Group of very sharp Topaz crystals on a rhyolite matrix. They have very well defined faces and edges, are bright and with nice color. In excellent condition, no damage.
Specimen size: 3 cm x 2 cm
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CJ21- Fluorite. La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.
Group of Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit with staggered growths on the faces, transparent, with bright luster and and nice color. With well defined geometric color bands. No damage.
Specimen size: 2.7 cm x 2.7 cm
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CJ22- Fluorite. Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca del Oriente, Asturias, Spain.
Sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent to translucent, with good luster, vivid purple color and marked geometric color zoning in different shades. No damage.
Specimen size: 3 cm x 3 cm
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CJ23- Topaz with Fluorite. Panasqueira mine, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Portugal.
Aggregate of Topaz crystals, translucent with transparent edges. They are colorless, very bright and are accompanied by small crystals of Fluorite, transparent and with intense blue color. This quality of Topaz is very scarce in the Panasqueira mines. No damage. A good specimen for the Panasqueira collectors.
Specimen size: 7 cm x 5 cm
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CJ24- Fluorite. La Sirena cut, La Collada mining area, La Collada, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias, Spain.
From the La Sirena cut, right next to the Josefa-Veneros vein, but their fluorites are so different. This one is a fine group of Fluorite crystals with marked polycrystalline growths, transparent, with a light green color with purple tones on the edges. With small matrix. The pieces from this mine are really scarce and very demanding by collectors. In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 8.5 cm x 6.5 cm
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CJ25- Fluorite with Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mine, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Portugal.
Group of spheroidal cubo-octahedral Fluorite crystals with rough polycrystalline surfaces, with an intense blue color and disposed on matrix with Chlorite. Accompanied by prismatic crystals of Fluorapatite with a well defined color zoning with purple hues. In excellent condition, no damage.
Specimen size: 6.5 cm x 4 cm
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