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Tourmaline (schorl), beryl

Group of schorl crystals with small aquamarine beryl. Overall size: 66 mm x 51 mm. Weight: 110 g. Collected in summer 2001.

Davib East Farm, Erongo Mountain, Usakos and Omaruru Districts, Erongo Region, Namibia.

Description from the vendor: "From the latest find of excellent schorl we selected this extremely aesthetics and brilliant doubly terminated schorl. A floater specimen with some small gemmy aquamarine beryl associated with it giving color to the full combination. A beauty!"

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[Gail]

Beautiful Schorl Carles!

[Carles Millan]

Calcite, sphalerite

Overall size: 109 mm × 87 mm × 36 mm. Main crystal size: 109 mm × 36 mm. Description from the vendor: "Doubly terminated Calcite with Sphalerite. Elegant doubly terminated scalenohedral Calcite crystal, showing a well defined twin, good color and notable transparency. With a small Sphalerite crystal matrix. The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with it. Minor fluorescence long & short UV."

Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA.

Fabre Minerals photos.

[Carles Millan]

Stibnite, calcite

Stibnite crystals on a calcite lenticular crystal. Overall size: 125 mm x 47 mm. Calcite crystal: 47 mm wide.

Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi, Hunan, China.

Ref.: "Fine Minerals of China", Guanghua Liu, page 162.

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Fluorite, sphalerite, dolomite

Fluorite and sphalerite on dolomite. Note that the main fluorite crystal contains a sphalerite crystal inside. Overall size: 90 mm x 60 mm x 52 mm. Main fluorite crystal edge: 16 mm. Weight: 199 g. Ex Dr. Steve Neely collection.

Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA.

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Hübnerite, quartz

A grouping of brownish-black bladed terminated hubnerite crystals with red translucency measuring 28 mm x 20 mm in size, about 5 mm in thickness, is set aesthetically amongst water clear colorless crystals of quartz to 39 mm in length. Shows all around 360º and measures 66 mm x 45 mm x 35 mm in size overall. Mass: 89g. Until 2007 it belonged to the prestigious Dawn and Jim Minette collection, Boron, California.

Huayllapon mine, Pasto Bueno, Pallasca, Ancash, Peru. According to the mineralogist Cosme Pérez-Puig Obieta this specimen was extracted from the Chabuca vein in the Huayllapon mine.

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Beryl, muscovite, schorl

Single transparent to translucent beryl crystal showing faces {1000}{1010}, with very straight and well defined edges and some acicular schorl inclusions, on muscovite. Size: 102 mm x 85 mm overall. Beryl crystal size: 48 mm wide edge to edge, 64 mm tall. Weight: 505 g.

Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza Valley, Nagar, Gilgit, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

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Ferberite, quartz, mica

Group of parallel grown ferberite crystals with mica and a very transparent quartz crystal. Overall size: 75 mm x 50 mm x 40 mm. Main ferberite crystal: 36 mm wide. Quartz crystal: 31 mm wide. Weight: 330 g. Belonged to the Josep Amigó (1924 - 2008) collection, Barcelona, from 1993 until his decease.

Panasqueira Mines, Level 2, Panasqueira, Covilhã, Castelo Branco District, Portugal.

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Tourmaline (elbaite)

Group of translucent to transparent pink elbaite (rubellite) crystals, vertically striated. Undamaged. Overall size: 69 mm x 51 mm. Main crystal: 69 mm long, 16 mm wide.

Paprok, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan.

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Calcite, fluorite

Gemmy rich amber colored doubly terminated twinned calcite crystal, set alongside a translucent purple cubic fluorite crystal with phantom. No damage. Overall size: 82 mm x 60 mm x 40 mm. Main calcite crystal: 82 mm long. Fluorite crystal: 27 mm on edge. Ex Dr. Steve Neely collection.

Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA.

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Pyrite

Pyrite pyritohedral {210} crystals. Overall size: 64 mm × 40 mm × 35 mm. Main crystal size: 34 mm × 31 mm. Weight: 194 g.

Ambasaguas, Muro de Aguas, Rioja, Spain.

Fabre Minerals photos.

Description from the vendor: "A floater sample of pyritohedral crystals, without any other accessory faces and with very well defined faces and edges. The luster is excellent. The time that has passed since it was mined seems to confirm that the piece is very stable because Sr. J. Amigó purchased it in 1994 and it remains unaltered. Ambasaguas, Logroño Spain (1994)"

[Carles Millan]

Aegirine, orthoclase

Group of several aegirine crystals combined with others of orthoclase, all of them well defined. Overall size: 85 mm x 83 mm. Main aegirine crystal: 85 mm long, 9 mm wide. Weight: 235 g. Field collected in 2007.

Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi ( https://www.foro-minerales.com/forum/files/malosa_141.jpg )

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Pyrite

Group of undamaged octahedral {111} pyrite crystals. Overall size: 65 mm x 60 mm. Main crystal size: 24 mm on edge.

Huanzala mine, Huallanca, Dos de Mayo, Huánuco, Peru.

Group of undamaged octahedrical crystals. Overall size: 65 mm x 60 mm. Main crystal edge: 24 mm. Mass: 202 g.

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Dolomite

Group of undamaged translucent dolomite rombohedral crystals. Overall size: 125 mm x 95 mm. Main crystal longest edge: 80 mm. Weight: 777 g. Purchased in 1976 from Joan Montal for 43€.

Azcárate Quarry, Eugi, Esteribar, Navarra/Nafarroa, Spain.

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Pyrite

Group of octahedral {111} crystals in combination with small cubic {100} faces. Overall size: 52 mm x 47 mm x 45 mm. Main crystal: 27 mm on edge, 44 mm tall. Weight: 113 g. Complete all around except for the attachment point, which has a size of about 10 mm x 10 mm. Ex-Martin Zinn collection.

If you love the octahedral pyrites as I do please see a similar specimen at https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=5785#5785

Mina Huanzala, Huallanca, Dos de Mayo, Huánuco, Peru.

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