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[Jordi Fabre]

Floater group of very well defined dodecahedral crystals of Copper with fine alignments formed by the recrystallization of Copper microcrystals.
With a little matrix and casts of vanished Quartz crystals. An American classic.

[Jordi Fabre]

Group of cuboctohedral crystals of Galena that have polycrystalline and partially skeletal growths.

[Jordi Fabre]

Floater aggregate of parallel growths of thin tabular Baryte crystals and partially coated by white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and small Pyrite crystals.

[Tobi]

[Jordi Fabre]

Group of Fluorite crystals with clearly dominant cube faces markedly beveled by the dodecahedron. A 'modern classic' from Spain.

[Jordi Fabre]

Polycrystalline growths of complex Calcite crystals with dominant scalenohedral forms. The specimen comes from the Villabona Mine, which has not produced many quality specimens and should not be confused with the much more prolific Solís Mine.

[Jordi Fabre]

Brown greenish Andradite crystals (variety topazolite) on matrix with the dominant forms of the rhombododecahedron combined with those of the trapezohedron.

[Jordi Fabre]

Isolated crystal of Olivenite on matrix with very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminal faces, lustrous and very deep olive green.

[Jordi Fabre]

Group of very sharp laminar crystals with small rhombohedral white Calcite crystals. The sample is from the initial finds of the locality between September 2002 and March 2003

[Niels Brouwer]

Wow, that's really a spectacular specimen Jordi! I love how delicate those thin baryte crystals are.

Have you seen any of the blue ones from that locality?

[Jordi Fabre]

[Jordi Fabre]

Matrix group of Ullmannite crystals of cubic habit, with well defined faces and edges.

[Jordi Fabre]

Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, with a cubic habit beveled by the dodecahedron. On matrix, with white Quartz crystals.

[Jordi Fabre]

A large doubly terminated scepter and stepped crystal of Diaspore with polycrystalline terminations partially covered in some areas by leafy growths of Margarite.

[Jordi Fabre]

Group of very sharp Azurite crystals with a lenticular habit, with fine polycrystalline growths, very well defined faces and edges and more vivid color than usual in Chessy specimens. This piece is from a find from 1820 and is from the type locality for the species.