Mineral Details

Rogerley mine, Frosterley, Durham Co., England - Very nice and esthetic fluorite specimen ! The rock hosts a number of cubic fluorites showing the classic green color under artificial light that becomes blue under the sunlight ! The fluorite crystals  are up to 1.5 cm on the edge and most of them are 1 cm on the edge ! I count close to more to 2 dozen crystals ! Among them there are dark black, with metallic luster, galena crystals 1 cm in size ! An old timer since this specimen has been aquired in the 2000 ! it comes with the orihinal label from the mine. Overall size is 5.5x5.5x4.5 cm

Rogerley mine, Frosterley, Durham Co., England - Very nice and esthetic fluorite specimen ! The rock hosts a number of cubic fluorites showing the classic green color under artificial light that becomes blue under the sunlight ! The main fluorite crystals is 1.7x1.3 cm on the edge and there are several others all around ! there are more than 2 dozens crystals here ! Among them there are dark black, with metallic luster, galena crystals of 0.5-0.7 cm on the edge. An old timer since this specimen has been aquired in the 2000 ! it comes with the original label from the mine. Overall size is 6x3.5x3.5 cm

Rogerley mine, Frosterley, Durham Co., England - Very nice and esthetic fluorite specimen ! The rock hosts a number of cubic fluorites showing the classic green color under artificial light that becomes blue under the sunlight ! An old timer since this specimen has been aquired in the 2000 ! most of the crystals are 0.8-1 cm on the edge and form a nice cluster that dominates the whole specimen. There are at least more than 3 dozens crystals here ! Among the fluorites athere are also some galena crystals of 1 cm on the edge, black in color. Very nice specimen ! it comes with the orihinal label from the mine. Overall size is 7x5.5x5 cm

Sakavalana pegmatite, located 25 km south of the village of Mandosonoro, SW of Antsirabe, Fianarantsoa province, Madagascar - Very rich specimen ! There are a lot of pezzottaite crystals up to 0.3 cm and all are nicely located on the large albite crystals. The pezzottaites show a nice bright gemmy pink color. Very esthetitc. Overall size is 4.5x4x3 cm.

HOOSY, MADAGASCAR - A very nice biterminated corundom on scist matrix ! The crystal is 2.3 cm long and 1.6 cm wide ! Great red/violet color. Very esthetic ! Overall size is 3x2.7x1.8 cm

Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico - Very nice deep blue crystals of azurite forming a cluster of 3x3x1.5 cm in size. The crystals are well shaped and up to 1.8x1.5 cm in size ! Very esthetic cluster. Overall size is 3x3x1.5 cm. Weight is 21 gr

Panasqueria Mine, Beira Baixa, Portugal - This specimen of muscovite is host to a group of color zoned crystals of apatite. This inky blue color is rare from Panasqueira. All but one of the crystals are complete. The back crystal is on the edge of the specimen and is about 80% complete. Overall size is 6.5x5.0x4.6 cm. Ex Luis Miguel Fernandez Burillo collection

Monteponi mine, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, sardegna, Italy - Very nice off-matrix cerussite specimen of 3.5x1.5x1 cm in size. Classic striated crystal. From an old collection if the 70ies.

Gilgit, Pakistan - Esthetic specimen hosting 3 terminated tourmalines up to the size of 5 cm ! all of them show a green termination and are biterminated. The termination of one of them can be seen through the waterclear color of a quartz crystal. There are alsoquartz, lepidolite/clevelandite books and hesagonal apatite crystals ! nice specimen of 5.5x3x2.5 cm.

ABBADIA SAN SALVATORE MINE, MONTE AMIATA, SIENA, ITALY - A quite large and heavy specimen mostly composed by cinnabar. The whole rock is covered by tiny, brilliant red crystals of cinnabar. Not easy to find such large old timer specimen from this well known locality ! The whole rock is 7.5x6x4 cm in size.