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[Jordi Fabre]

Group of octahedral Fluorite crystals with polycrystalline growths on an Albite matrix. A classic Alpine specimen.

[Jordi Fabre]

Floater growth of flattened reticulated prismatic twins of Cerussite with a rosette-like appearance different from other specimens commonly seen from this locality.

[Jordi Fabre]

Floater aggregate with polycrystalline growths of hexahedral Silver crystals with very defined faces and edges and with small dark coatings of Acanthite.

[Jordi Fabre]

Aggregate of very sharp, colorless and transparent Stokesite crystals on a little Microcline matrix with Albite.
These Stokesites, found in 1999 and featured in an article in The Mineralogical Record in 2012, are considered the best crystallized Stokesites in the world.

[Jordi Fabre]

Prehnite crystals with very marked curvatures and polycrystalline growths. A French classic from one of the most typical localities for the species.

[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?