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The incredible valleys with Pyrite cubes in La Rioja, Spain
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PostPosted: Aug 12, 2016 02:44    Post subject: Re: The incredible valleys with Pyrite cubes in La Rioja, Spain  

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Fantastic Carles! Oh, did I mention, my birthday is in April :-)

Pierre, I sincerely wish you a happy birthday eight months from now.


Haha, thank you Carles. I enjoyed that one and will remember it for future use:-)

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PostPosted: Aug 12, 2016 02:58    Post subject: Re: The incredible valleys with Pyrite cubes in La Rioja, Spain  

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Haha, thank you Carles. I enjoyed that one and will remember it for future use:-)

Pierre,

This kind of specimens are rather affordable. No stratospherical prices.
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PostPosted: Aug 12, 2016 05:21    Post subject: Re: The incredible valleys with Pyrite cubes in La Rioja, Spain  

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Haha, thank you Carles. I enjoyed that one and will remember it for future use:-)

Pierre,

This kind of specimens are rather affordable. Not stratospherical prices.


I know Carles, you will be surprised what an average priced specimen (Euro or US$) cost us in Rand. Time it with 14 or 17. South Africans very rarely buy specimens from abroad for this very reason. On the other hand, you can buy very nice specimens here for very little compared to overseas prices. I swap with a few friends in Spain and it has worked well. I hope you understand, my 'hint' was a joke. The Bible clearly teaches me not to covet :-) :-) All the best Carles, your collection has given me a lot of pleasure!

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PostPosted: Aug 12, 2016 06:02    Post subject: Re: The incredible valleys with Pyrite cubes in La Rioja, Spain  

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I hope you understand, my 'hint' was a joke.

Of course, I understood right away.

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All the best Carles, your collection has given me a lot of pleasure!

Many thanks for your kind comments.
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PostPosted: Aug 12, 2016 07:08    Post subject: Re: The incredible valleys with Pyrite cubes in La Rioja, Spain  

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A large and nice specimen from that locality, on display at the museum of my hometown:
Gorgeous! But I fear the right lower cube might get loose some day and drop. Just a matter of time...
Or maybe it has been glued yet, as many Navajun specimens are due to the texture of the matrix that tends to lose the pyrite crystals quickly :(
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PostPosted: Aug 13, 2016 09:14    Post subject: Re: The incredible valleys with Pyrite cubes in La Rioja, Spain  

Pierre Joubert wrote:
Carles, you will be surprised what an average priced specimen (Euro or US$) cost us in Rand. Time it with 14 or 17.

I guess it does not depend much on such ratio, 14, 17, or one thousand. Just think on the Japanese yen change rate. It should rather be a matter of the country household average income. But anyway Navajun pyrites are among the best quality/price ratio minerals you can buy. Why? Because of their abundance. The deposit may easily last one hundred more years. So keep calm and don't rush to get one good specimen yet.

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PostPosted: Aug 19, 2016 11:23    Post subject: Re: The incredible valleys with Pyrite cubes in La Rioja, Spain  

My humble contribution to this topic, a specimen I once had in my collection:


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 Mineral: Pyrite
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Navajún, Comarca Cervera, La Rioja, Spain
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PostPosted: Aug 24, 2016 05:20    Post subject: Re: The incredible valleys with Pyrite cubes in La Rioja, Spain  

Additional info, we already had a thread about that pyrites: Pyrite specimens from Ampliación a Victoria Mine, Navajún, La Rioja, Spain

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