Fine Mineral Specimens from all over the world
New selection of mineral specimens for sale, December 2020
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BG02 - Spessartine Garnet. Tongbei, Yunxiao, Fujian Province, China.
Perfect gemmy crystal of Spessartine Garnet with very well defined faces and edges. It is aesthetically disposed on matrix of Albite and Muscovite. The crystal has an excellent color, high luster and very good transparency. In perfect condition. A cute Spessartine specimen.
Specimen size: 4.5 cm x 4 cm
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BG04 - 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. These samples from this mine are increasingly
difficult to obtain. In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 7 cm x 5 cm
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BG05 - Spessartine Garnet with Quartz and Feldspar. Tongbei, Yunxiao, Fujian, China.
Sharp trapezohedral Spessartine crystals with very well defined 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. They are on Microcline Feldspar and with smoky Quartz crystals. These samples from this mine are increasingly difficult to obtain. In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 7 cm x 5 cm
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BG06 - Fluorite with Pyrite. Yaogangxian mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan, China.
Transparent Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with the forms of the octahedron, cube and dodecahedron and with very well developed faces and edges. The color, luster and transparency are excellent. Attached to a bit of matrix with small crystals of Pyrite.
Specimen size: 5 cm x 4 cm
Price: 120€ Available
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BG07 - Fluorite. Yaogangxian mine, Yizhang Co, Chenzhou, Hunan, China.
Group of cubic violet crystals of Fluorite with very well defined geometrical color zoning, high brilliance and transparency. In excellent condition. Fine small Fluorite specimen
Specimen size: 3.5 cm x 3 cm
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BG08 - Galena with Quartz. Krushev Dol mine, Madan, Bulgaria.
Interesting Madan specimen composed by a large complex silvery crystal of Galena with very high brilliance and disposed on matrix of Quartz.
Some of the faces show hollow structures and forms of dissolution. Great Bulgarian Galena in excellent condition. Better in person.
Specimen size: 9.5 cm x 6.5 cm
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BG09 - Rhodochrosite . Uchucchacua mine, Oyón, Lima, Perú.
Group of scalenohedral Rhodochrosite crystals with very well defined faces and edges. The crystals are translucent showing a nice red color, good luster and disposed on matrix coated by Manganese
oxides. A pretty miniature specimen from a classic Peruvian locality. The condition is exceelnt, without damage.
Specimen size: 5.5 cm x 3.8 cm
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BG10 - Chalcopyrite with Quartz, Sphalerite and Galena. Deveti Septemvri mne, Madan, Bulgaria.
Attractive specimen composed of sharp and very well developed crystals of Chalcopyrite showing an intense yellow color. They are associated to Quartz, Sphalerite and Galena. In excellent
condition, no damage.
Specimen size: 12 cm x 10 cm
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BG11 - Galena with Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite and Quartz. Krushev Dol mine, Madan, Bulgaria.
Group of cubic crystals of Galena, some of them have the vertices truncated by the triangular faces of the octahedron. Some of the cubic faces show hollow structures and forms of
dissolution. The Galena crystals are coated by small shiny crystals of Chalcopyrite. Also with Sphalerite. Great Galena from the Madan Complex. It is in excellent condition, without any
noticiable damage.
Specimen size: 13 cm x 8 cm
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BG12 - Pyrite with Sphalerite and Quartz. Borieva mine, Madan,
Bulgaria.
Very interesting new find from the Borieva mine in Madan, Bulgaria. Cluster of complex crystals of Pyrite with very high brilliance and vivid color and partially coated by Sphalerite crystals and
Quartz. Attractive and aesthetic specimen in excellent condition.
Specimen size: 5 cm x 3.5 cm
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BG13 - Pyromorphite. Daoping mine, Guilin, Guangxi, China.
Group of doubly terminated Pyromorphite crystals with parallel growths and hollow terminations. They are very bright and have a vivid and uniform grass green color. Accustomed to a very different
aesthetics on Pyromorphite samples from the Daoping mine, the finds between 2012 and 2013 surprised us with these very aerial and stylized shapes, whose crystals have very well defined faces and
edges and showing a color and luster of great quality.
Specimen size: 4 cm x 1.3 cm
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BG14 - Rubellite with Albite. Male, Lampala, Mogok, Myanmar.
Good-looking Elbaite variety Rubellite specimen with an intense magenta color and showing natural growth shapes resembling "mushrooms". It consists of radial sprays of pink crystals on Albite
matrix. No damage. Small cute specimen.
Specimen size: 4 cm x 4 cm
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BG15 - Bournonite. Canutillos mine, Machacamarca District, Cornelio Saavedra Province, Potosí, Bolivia.
Lustrous crystals of Bournonite with very well
developed faces and edges and displaying the classic cogwheel shape. A very good quality Bournonite miniature
specimen with nice twinnings at very good price.
Specimen size: 3 cm x 2.5 cm
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BG16 - Cinnabar. Las Cuevas mine, Almadén, Ciudad Real, Spain
A classic mineral specimen from "Las Cuevas", Almaden. It is composed by crystals of blood-red Cinnabar with rhombohedral faces and small drops of native Mercury. Aesthetic piece coming from one of the ancient mercury mines at the Almaden Mining District that have been in production since the Roman age, 2000 years ago, and were closed many years ago.
Specimen size: 6.5 cm x 5.5 cm
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BG17 - Fluorite. Aiguille Verte, Mont Blanc Massif, Chamonix, France.
Very well defined octahedral crystal of pink Fluorite to 0.6 cm in size which is perched on a matrix of white Adularia. Good Alpine Fluorite from a classic locality
in the Mont-Blanc massif. It is in very good condition, undamaged crystal.
Specimen size: 7 cm x 3 cm
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BG18 - Topaz. San Luis de La Paz, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Prismatic terminated crystals of Topaz with very good transparency, lustrous faces and nice cognac color. The crystals are on matrix of grey
Rhyolite and. From a less known Mexican locality. These Topazs look so much like the
samples from Utah.
Specimen size: 3 cm x 2.5 cm
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BG19 - Topaz. San Luis de La Paz, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Terminated crystals of Topaz with very good transparency, lustrous faces and nice cognac color. The crystals are on matrix of grey Rhyolite. From a less known Mexican locality. These Topazs look so much like the samples from Utah. In excellent condition. No damage.
Specimen size: 3.5 cm x 2 cm
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BG20 - Topaz. San Luis de La Paz, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Terminated crystals of Topaz with very good transparency, lustrous faces and nice cognac color. The crystals are on matrix of grey Rhyolite. From a less known Mexican locality. These Topazs look so much like the samples from Utah. In excellent condition. No damage.
Specimen size: 3.5 cm x 2 cm
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BG21 - Brookite with Quartz. Zard Mountains, Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Aesthetic Brookite specimen composed by a well formed and terminated main crystal of lustrous Brookite to 1.5 x 1.5 cm attached to a group of faden Quartz crystals.
Another small Brookite crystals are present.
Specimen size: 4cm x 3.5cm
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BG22 - Wulfenite. Stone Crack mine,
Kurutag Mountains, Xinjiang, China.
Nice specimen of Wulfenite from a new find in China. It is formed by a set of tabular Wulfenite crystals with an intense orange color, very bright and settle on a Gossan matrix. The condition is excellent.
Specimen size: 3.5 cm x 2 cm
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