Mineral Specimens - page 3
Spain

MV27R9: Parallel growth of crystals on a base of white Quartz. Crystals are transparent, bright and have an excellent, very deep, color with color zoning specially concentrated on the edges.
Soliva Quarry (AVE Quarry works), Can Sala, Riudarenes, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (2006)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.5 × 6.2 cm = 3.74” × 2.95” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.8 cm = 1.57” × 1.50”

TC2240DKL: Quartz crystals (amethyst variety), partially doubly terminated and forming scepter growths on Quartz (smoky variety), with traces of a Microcline matrix. It comes from a unique find in a place discovered by Lluís Daunis and later lost.
We will send the buyer the autographed label from the Daunis collection.

Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 10.4 × 6 × 4.3 cm = 4.09” × 2.36” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 5.7 × 3.5 cm = 2.24” × 1.38”

TC280DGR: Single crystal of Quartz (smoky variety) bright, transparent, with a dense smoky color and with a little bit of Microcline matrix with Mica. We will send the buyer the autographed label from the Daunis collection.
Les Mallorquines, Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 6.5 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 2.56” × 0.79” × 0.63”

NQ66W4: Single crystal of very deep colored smoky Quartz. It is transparent and bright and it is on a small matrix of Microcline and Albite, with leafy growths of Muscovite. The crystal shows a notable phantom growth at its termination.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (04/2004)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 3.7 × 3.2 cm = 3.58” × 1.46” × 1.26”

JMB12AP8: Two Quartz crystals, intense dark brown (smoky variety), transparent, lustrous, with a small, sharp crystal of Microcline and microcrystals of Clinozoisite-Epidote at the base and at the terminations.
Santa Coloma de Farners, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (1977)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.8 × 2.5  cm = 1.61” × 1.10” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 1.3 cm = 1.61” × 0.51”

NP14AJ5: Microcline crystal with simple forms and skeletal growths and a smoky Quartz crystal with a very deep color and superficial recrystallization of white Quartz.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (2004-2010)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 6.2 × 5.3 cm = 2.44” × 2.44” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 4.1 cm = 2.05” × 1.61”

NJ6AI0: Aggregate of crystals with very well defined parallel growths, Manebach law twinned with a pale pink color.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (±2006)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 8.5 × 3.4 cm = 3.39” × 3.35” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.75”

NF66AI7: Microcline crystals with very well defined Baveno-law twins, with a pale pinkish color, with a parallel smoky Quartz crystal and groups of white Albite crystals. The sample is from the Daunis collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (2004-2010)

Specimen size: 9 × 7.5 × 5.6 cm = 3.54” × 2.95” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 5 × 3.2 cm = 1.97” × 1.26”

NB27AJ5: Very well defined smoky Quartz crystals with shades between gray and brown and on matrix with sharp Microcline crystals. From a more or less well-known locality but where only a few samples of this quality were collected.
Can Berenguer Hill, Gualba, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (2015)

Specimen size: 13.7 × 9.5 × 6.6 cm = 5.39” × 3.74” × 2.60”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 2 cm = 1.77” × 0.79”

NAX89AP9: Vug of tabular Baryte crystals with good sharp terminations, lustrous, transparent and golden in color in most of the crystal, but with translucent white edges.
Excellent specimen for this historic locality, with the added advantage of not having Pyrite whose decomposition over the years could have harmed it.
Osor Mines, Osor, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (1978)

Specimen size: 14.2 × 11.3 × 6.7 cm = 5.59” × 4.45” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.4 cm = 0.47” × 0.16”

TC260NVA: Druse of white Baryte crystals with a lenticular habit, with Gypsum and coatings of intense green microcrystals of Conichalcite (analyzed)
Santa Isabel cut, De Enmedio Range, Almendricos, Lorca, Comarca Alto Guadalentín, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (12/2020)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5.7 × 5.6 cm = 3.07” × 2.24” × 2.20”

TC290BRB: Druse of white Baryte crystals with a lenticular habit, with Gypsum and coatings of intense green microcrystals of Conichalcite (analyzed)
Santa Isabel cut, De Enmedio Range, Almendricos, Lorca, Comarca Alto Guadalentín, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (12/2020)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.8 × 5 cm = 3.31” × 2.68” × 1.97”

JXE9AP8: Floater tabular Baryte crystal with parallel growths, translucent, with very good luster and an intense and uniform yellow color.
The specimen, from a quarry little known for collection-quality specimens, comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly.
Armasa Quarry, Lesaka, Comarca Cinco Villas, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.8 × 0.7 cm = 1.06” × 0.71” × 0.28”

JBF76AP8: Calcite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial on the matrix, with a very evident, transparent, lustrous and colorless contact twin.
The specimen, from a quarry little known for twinned specimens, comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly.
Arambeltz Quarry, Ziordia (Ciordia), Comarca Barranca, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5 × 3.9 cm = 2.24” × 1.97” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2 cm = 1.26” × 0.79”

JEM96AP8: Rhombohedral Dolomite crystals, transparent, very lustrous, colorless and on matrix, with lenticular Magnesite crystals.
This specimen has a very different crystallography than usual, and comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly and was previously in the Folch collection (duplicates) whose handwritten label we will attach.
Asturreta Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.9 × 3.3 cm = 2.48” × 1.93” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.4 cm = 1.10” × 0.94”

MR90AH7: Aerial group of sharp rhombohedral Dolomite crystals that are twinned and bright, between transparent and translucent, with phantom growths and fine alignments of black globular growths, probably Graphite, a Spanish classic.
Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain

Specimen size: 8 × 7 × 5.5 cm = 3.15” × 2.76” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 3 cm = 1.34” × 1.18”

SV490MRX: Group of very sharp Dolomite crystals, two of them clearly dominant, rhombohedral and
with very marked, transparent and lustrous penetration twins. With internal growth figures and external sprinklings of very tiny Chalcopyrite crystals.
Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (1998)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 9.7 × 9 cm = 4.09” × 3.82” × 3.54”

Main crystal size: 7.5 × 5.4 cm = 2.95” × 2.13”

SV480EFX: Group of very sharp Dolomite crystals, two of them clearly dominant, rhombohedral, with
very marked penetration twins, between transparent and translucent, in rock matrix. Worthy of note is a great dark phantom in the main crystal, quite uncommon in such a size in specimens from this locality. A classic for Spanish mineralogy and especially for this species.
Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain

Specimen size: 12.5 × 11.8 × 10.2 cm = 4.92” × 4.65” × 4.02”

Main crystal size: 6.6 × 4 cm = 2.60” × 1.57”

HM780EM: Group of very sharp rhombohedral Dolomite crystals, transparent, with good luster, a slightly gray color and on matrix. An excellent Spanish classic.


Asturreta Quarry, 'el pozo', Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 11.8 × 6.8 cm = 5.71” × 4.65” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 3 cm = 2.17” × 1.18”

JLX27AP8: Very aerial group of tapered Aragonite crystals with very sharp terminations, between transparent and translucent and cream-colored.
A Spanish classic that comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly.
Azcárate Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (1999)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 5.9 × 4.2 cm = 4.02” × 2.32” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.1 cm = 1.57” × 0.43”

NXM10AQ0: Very sharp floater crystal of Gypsum, doubly terminated and with an “arrow” habit. Completely transparent and very lustrous.
Segorbe, Comarca Alto Palancia, Castellón / Castelló, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana  Spain

Specimen size: 4.5 × 2 × 1.4 cm = 1.77” × 0.79” × 0.55”

JAF14AP8: Prismatic Gypsum crystals on matrix, many of them very elongated, with good terminations, transparent, with good luster and a deep red color due to clay inclusions stained by Hematite.
A Spanish classic that comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly.
Chella, Comarca Canal de Navarrés, Valencia / València, Valencian Community / Comunitat Valenciana  Spain

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5 × 4.7 cm = 2.91” × 1.97” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 0.1 cm = 1.10” × 0.04”