Mineral Specimens / Portugal - Panasqueira

Preguiça Mine

Descloizite is a mineral not well known in good quality specimens from the European continent. Even considering that the Preguiça Mine, in Portugal, was known for years for its Descloizite and a wide variety of zinc minerals, the quality of the samples was not especially high because the crystals were too small or not esthetic.
Between 2005 and 2006 groups of collectors from Huelva (Spain) were intensely working that mine and finally found some pockets with specimens of Descloizite of high quality, some of them particularly esthetic (and scarce) stalactitic or columnar and associated with white Calcite.
In our opinion these specimens can be considered as the best Descloizites found in Europe.

Just to be certain, we analyzed them and the analysis proved that they are definitely Descloizite. To be more exact, slightly copper rich Descloizite, but the mineral species is Descloizite. We will send a copy of this analysis to our customers who buy this material.

Descloizite with Calcite

ND26T4: Columnar growths of small dipyramidal crystals of Descloizite, partially coated by white crystals of Calcite and on a matrix of limonite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.7 × 3.8 cm = 2.8” × 2.2” × 1.5”

Descloizite with Limonite

NC46T4: Columnar growths of small dipyramidal crystals of Descloizite, partially coated by white crystals of Calcite and on a matrix of limonite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 2.7 × 1.9 cm = 2.8” × 1.1” × 0.7”

Descloizite with Calcite

NR56T4: Aggregate of dipyramidal crystals of Descloizite with very well defined faces and edges and very bright, with crystals of Calcite, between colorless and white, on limonite matrix.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.1 × 4.1 cm = 2.9” × 2.0” × 1.6”

Descloizite with Calcite

NA76T4: Groups of dipyramidal crystals of Descloizite with very well defined faces and edges and very bright, with very acute crystals, between colorless and white, of Calcite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.1 × 2.3 cm = 2.5” × 1.6” × 0.9”

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Descloizite with Calcite

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NK86T4: Columnar growths of small dipyramidal crystals of Descloizite with very well defined faces and edges and very bright. On stalagmitic botryoidal growths of Calcite and crystals of the same mineral, clear and very bright.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 10.9 × 4.3 × 3.4 cm = 4.3” × 1.7” × 1.3”

Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV

Descloizite with Calcite

NZ26M9: Group on matrix of Limonite of small, very bright crystals, a lot of them doubly terminated, that form sharp dipyramids.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7 × 4.2 × 2.4 cm = 2.8” × 1.7” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.1” × 0.0”

Descloizite with Calcite

NY66M9: Group, on Limonite matrix, of small crystals, very bright and most of them doubly terminated and forming dipyramids of very well defined faces and edges. The group is partially covered by a "nest" of white crystals of
Calcite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 7.6 × 4.9 cm = 3.1” × 3.0” × 1.9”

Descloizite with Calcite

NV86M9: Very aerial and esthetic columnar growths of small, extraordinarily sharp and very bright crystals. They are dipyramidal and most of them doubly terminated. A group of white crystals of Calcite is on the Descloizite groups.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.5 × 2.7 cm = 2.6” × 2.2” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 1 cm = 0.0” × 0.4”

Descloizite with Calcite

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NF26J1: Group of extraordinarily defined and bright small crystals. These crystals are dipyramidal, of very well defined faces and edges and many of them doubly terminated. In this case Descloizite is the base of a group of scalenohedral crystals of white Calcite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.9 × 3.7 cm = 2.6” × 2.3” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

Descloizite with Calcite

NA26J1: Columnar growths of very bright small crystals, many of them doubly terminated and forming dipyramids of very well defined faces and edges. The groups contrast on a wall of scalenohedral crystals of white Calcite on a matrix of Limonite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 5 × 3 cm = 2.0” × 2.0” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

Descloizite with Calcite

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NX47M9: Growth of dypyramidal crystals, most of them doubly terminated, of Descloizite. They have good luster and very well defined faces and edges. Grown on Limonite matrix, they were later covered by a generation of scalenohedral crystals of Calcite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 6.9 × 3.8 cm = 4.0” × 2.7” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 01 × 0.1 cm = 0.4” × 0.0”

Descloizite with Calcite

NE6I8: Columnar, very aerial growths of dipyramidal crystals, most of them doubly terminated, with very well-defined faces and edges. They have good luster and are on white Calcite crystals.
The specimen has been published in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 19 in number 2008/2.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.6 × 2.5 cm = 2.3” × 1.8” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

Descloizite with Calcite

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NB46I7: Flattened group of columnar growths of small, very bright, crystals most of them doubly terminated, forming dipyramids with very well-defined faces and edges. On one of its sides there is an esthetic growth of very acute scalenohedral crystals of white Calcite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 9.9 × 5.8 × 3.6 cm = 3.9” × 2.3” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

Descloizite with Calcite

NA10J1: Very aerial and esthetic columnar growths of small but extraordinarily defined and bright crystals. Those are dipyramidal and have very well defined faces and edges and most of them are doubly terminated. The matrix is a group of crystals of white Calcite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.3 × 2.1 cm = 1.5” × 0.9” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

Descloizite with Calcite

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ND66I7: Group of columnar growths of small, very bright crystals, most of them doubly terminated, forming dipyramids with very well defined faces and edges. On one of the growths there is an esthetic group of lenticular crystals of white Calcite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 4.9 × 5 cm = 2.9” × 1.9” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

Descloizite

NV9I8: Columnar and arborescent groups, very aerial and esthetic, of dipyramidal crystals, most of them doubly terminated, with very well-defined faces and edges. They have good luster.
This specimen was photographed in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 75, page 23.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.8 × 1.4 cm = 1.7” × 1.1” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

Descloizite with Calcite

NR47I7: Group on Limonite matrix of small very bright crystals, most of them doubly terminated, forming dipyramids with very well-defined faces and edges. The specimen is very esthetic because of its attractive crests and vugs. A wide surface of the sample is covered by a layer of acute scalenohedron of white Calcite.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 14 × 11.8 × 6.2 cm = 5.5” × 4.6” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

Plattnerite with Calcite

MN12M9: Irregular aggregate of black crystals, small but very well defined and bright, of this very uncommon species. They are on a matrix of globular Calcite whose color is between orange and white.
Mina da Preguiça, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja Portugal (03/2007)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 6.9 × 4 cm = 4.1” × 2.7” × 1.6”

Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV

Fluorapatite

Fluorapatite with Siderite, Arsenopyrite, Pyrite, Ferberite, Schorl-Dravite and Muscovite

TP93T3: Group of short crystals of Fluorapatite, one of them clearly dominant, with unusually and extraordinarily bright terminal faces, a clear concentric color zoning and showing Ferberite inclusions. It is on matrix, with Arsenopyrite, Siderite, Ferberite and Schorl-Dravite. A great classic from a classic mine.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal (±1990)

Specimen size: 9 × 8.9 × 6.6 cm = 3.5” × 3.5” × 2.6”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.3 cm = 0.9” × 0.9”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV

Quartz with Fluorapatite

N14CKF4: A neat group of brilliant, sharp Quartz crystals, some of which are doubly terminated, accompanied by tabular green Fluorapatite and small lenticular crystals of Siderite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal (1994)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.5 × 5.5 cm = 2.8” × 2.2” × 2.2”

Fluorapatite fluorescent long & short UV

Fluorapatite with Siderite and Dolomite

N36JK9: Tabular crystals of Fluorapatite on matrix, well defined faces and edges and with an excellent luster. Partially covered by Siderite and Dolomite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (2000)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.3 × 3.7 cm = 2.4” × 1.7” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.7” × 0.3”

Zoned fluorescence long & short UV

Fluorapatite with Quartz and Siderite

N58WA0: Fluorapatite well positioned on its matrix of quartz covered with siderite. Although the color of the Fluorapatite is not intense the photo does not do it justice.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 13 × 4.5 × 6.6 cm = 5.1” × 1.8” × 2.6”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.6 cm = 0.6” × 0.2”

Fluorapatite with Pyrite, Siderite and Muscovite

TP47H9: The crystal is tabular, very aerial and with a very marked zonation of its color. It is esthetically implanted on a matrix with Muscovite and Siderite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.2 × 2.7 cm = 3.7” × 2.8” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 0.9” × 0.7”

Intense fluorescence long & short UV

Fluorapatite with Siderite and Muscovite

N88GK9: Group of crystals of Fluorapatite, with an attractive pale green color and excellent brilliance, on matrix, with Muscovite and Siderite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (2000)

Specimen size: 13.3 × 7.8 × 5.6 cm = 5.2” × 3.1” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.8 cm = 0.6” × 0.3”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Fluorapatite with Siderite and Muscovite.

Fluorapatite

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TM76H4: The crystal has a very special and very rare habit. It is extraordinarily flat, and it has a tabular appearance. It is also partially doubly terminated because its lower termination is only interrupted by the small group of crystals at left.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.5 × 1.4 cm = 1.3” × 1.0” × 0.6”

Intense fluorescence long & short UV

Fluorapatite with Mica

JM97E9: A parallel growth of three crystals. Although it is Fluorapatite, its transparency gives it a gentle color, the crystals are tabular and the prism is quite thin. The elegant layout of the crystals on the matrix of Muscovite gives it a nice touch.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 7 × 3 cm = 3.3” × 2.8” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.7 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

Extremely fluorescent long & short UV

Fluorapatite with Siderite

N47F2: The size of the crystal is not that large, but the very gentle violet color is magnificent and the partial coating of small crystals of Siderite make this an attractive specimen.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3 × 1.5 cm = 1.5” × 1.2” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

Fluorescent long & short UV

Ferberite

HF27P8: Group of crystals of good size, thick, with unusual very acute terminations of velvety luster and very bright, not cleaved, lateral faces with subtle polycrystalline growths. The sample is with a numbered collection label without a name reference.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal

Specimen size: 12.7 × 5.9 × 3.8 cm = 5.0” × 2.3” × 1.5”

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Ferberite with Siderite and Fluorapatite

NF36K9: Excellent group of Ferberite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, partially covered by small Siderite crystals and tabular Fluorapatite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (2001)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 6.6 × 5 cm = 4.6” × 2.6” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3.8 cm = 1.8” × 1.5”

Fluorapatite with zoned fluorescence long & short UV

Ferberite with Muscovite and Quartz

N11YK9: Prismatic Ferberite crystal, doubly terminated and thicker than usual for this locality. Partially recovered by Muscovite and Siderite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.4 × 3.3 cm = 2.1” × 1.3” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.8 cm = 1.3” × 1.1”

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Ferberite with Muscovite and Quartz. Top

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Ferberite with Quartz and Siderite

NE61G8: Good group enhancing the front crystals with very acute terminations. The back of the piece is totally covered by little crystals of Siderite also covering a doubly terminated prismatic crystal of Quartz.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (2001)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.6 × 3.5 cm = 3.1” × 2.6” × 1.4”

Ferberite with Siderite

N13BIK9: Parallel growth of prismatic crystals of Ferberite partially covered (totally on the rear) by Siderite crystals, most of them doubly terminated.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal (1995)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 4.7 × 3.8 cm = 3.0” × 1.9” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.7” × 1.1”

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Ferberite with Siderite

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NB6E6: Very well defined, floater crystals of Ferberite. There is also some Mica and Siderite with them. Given their brilliance and perfection you can consider them to be one of the better quality Ferberites from the Panasqueira mines.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5.3 × 2.5 cm = 2.2” × 2.1” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 3.4 cm = 2.2” × 1.3”

Ferberite with Fluorapatite, Arsenopyrite and Muscovite

NH66M8: A curious Ferberite crystal group with multiple and irregular growths, and good luster. The crystals, on matrix, are with well defined and bright crystals of Arsenopyrite, laminar crystals of Muscovite and small crystals of Fluorapatite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (2002)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 9 × 7.5 cm = 3.7” × 3.5” × 3.0”

Fluorapatite very fluorescent long & short UV

Ferberite with Fluorapatite, Arsenopyrite and Muscovite.

Sulfides

Pyrite

CK36D3: Colored Pyrite with curved cubes covering a flat Calcite matrix.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal

Specimen size: 12 × 10 × 1.3 cm = 4.7” × 3.9” × 0.5”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

Pyrite-Marcasite with Arsenopyrite

NB11M9: Aggregates of sharp cubic crystals of Pyrite with groups of Marcasite and all in a matrix of Arsenopyrite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.7 × 4.4 cm = 3.4” × 2.6” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.2 cm = 1.0” × 0.5”

Arsenopyrite with Pyrite

N11CG1: A group of prismatic crystals partially covered by Pyrite crystals, locally iridescent and positioned on a Muscovite matrix.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (1988)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 8.5 × 5.5 cm = 3.3” × 3.3” × 2.2”

Arsenopyrite with Siderite and Pyrite

TF56H4: The group, very aerial, is a floater group of prismatic crystals of Arsenopyrite, most of them doubly terminated and forming a kind of wall with small crystallized nucleus of Pyrite and Siderite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal

Specimen size: 7.1 × 3.5 × 2.8 cm = 2.8” × 1.4” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”

Epitaxial Arsenopyrite-Marcasite with Pyrite

RF96N4: Multiple parallel growths of Arsenopyrite and Marcasite of very sharp and well defined forms, epigenetic on Pyrite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal (±1982)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.9 × 5.2 cm = 3.1” × 2.7” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.8 cm = 0.7” × 0.7”

Epitaxial Arsenopyrite-Marcasite with Calcite, Siderite and Chalcopyrite

TP88P3: Epitaxial growths of very well defined crystals of Marcasite, with excellent luster, on prismatic crystals of Arsenopyrite and with thin coatings of small crystals of Siderite in some areas.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 13 × 8.2 × 6.2 cm = 5.1” × 3.2” × 2.4”

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Siderite with Quartz

N14CK9: Barrel-shaped crystals of Siderite on a group of Quartz crystals and small crystals of Arsenopyrite and Pyrite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.4 × 5.2 cm = 2.8” × 2.5” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.2 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”

Quartz with Siderite and Ferberite

N14QM9: Lenticular, creamy crystals of Siderite that partially cover a Quartz crystal. On the Siderite there are small growths of Muscovite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (1999)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 5 × 4.7 cm = 4.6” × 2.0” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.7 cm = 0.5” × 0.3”

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Siderite with Quartz and inclusions

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Siderite with Quartz and inclusions. Top

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E12EK9: Flattened rhombohedral Siderite crystal group, covering Quartz and small crystals of Arsenopyrite and Pyrite some of them included on the Quartz.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 8.6 × 5.5 cm = 4.6” × 3.4” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

Siderite with Quartz and Fluorapatite

N9FK9: Flattened rhombohedral Siderite crystal, well defined, partially covered by prismatic Fluorapatite crystals on Quartz matrix.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal (1998)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.8 × 4 cm = 2.2” × 1.9” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 4 cm = 1.8” × 1.6”

Fluorapatite fluorescent long & short UV

Siderite with Arsenopyrite, Chalcopyrite and Sphalerite

N47CK9: Group of flattened rhombohedral and well defined Siderite crystals, partially covered by Arsenopyrite, with epigenetic Chalcopyrite on Sphalerite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 16 × 11.3 × 4.8 cm = 6.3” × 4.4” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.7 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

Siderite with Quartz

N7CK0: Crystal of tabular habit partially covered by small Pyrite crystals. The base is a group of Quartz crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.1 × 6.2 cm = 2.3” × 2.0” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3.5 cm = 1.6” × 1.4”

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Siderite with Quartz

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NC64G8: An encrustation of little crystals of Siderite covers the rhombohedral terminal faces of a Quartz prism. Two of the crystals have a big size enhancing from the group.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 11.1 × 6.2 × 5 cm = 4.4” × 2.4” × 2.0”

Siderite with Quartz

NE36G8: Magnificent formation of lenticular crystals of Siderite, very clear cream colored and covering a matrix of Quartz crystals.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (2002)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 9.8 × 4.4 cm = 4.2” × 3.9” × 1.7”

Siderite with Quartz

N32MA0: Perfect Siderite crystals perched on a also perfect Quartz. Great esthetics.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (1998)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 4 × 4.5 cm = 3.0” × 1.6” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.6 cm = 1.2” × 1.0”

Quartz

Quartz with Siderite

E13DE2: Neat and brilliant Quartz with neat and brilliant Siderite. A floater with the base of the Quartz and Siderite re-crystallized.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 7 × 5 × 4.5 cm = 2.8” × 2.0” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 4.5 cm = 2.2” × 1.8”

Doubly terminated Quartz with Ferberite inclusions

NB36F4: A floater, doubly-terminated and with all the terminations perfect. In the center there is a very curious inclusion of small crystals of black Ferberite and others of Schorl-Dravite, which is acicular and a lighter color.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (2004)

Specimen size: 17 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm = 6.7” × 1.4” × 1.0”

Quartz with Fluorapatite and Mica

N14YE2: A very clean and well defined Quartz Crystal. The upper termination is very unusual, with one of the faces far better developed than is normally the case. So overall it looks like the termination is flat. It also has some small crystals of Fluorapatite and Mica on the rear of the Quartz.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa Portugal (1999)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 2.2 × 1.9 cm = 3.3” × 0.9” × 0.7”

Quartz with Fluorapatite and Siderite

P14ZF2: A crystal of Quartz that is partially coated by Siderite acts as the base for the prisms of doubly-terminated Fluorapatite, which is light lilac and has internal zoning.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa Portugal (1997)

Specimen size: 15 × 3.5 × 3 cm = 5.9” × 1.4” × 1.2”

Fluorapatite fluorescent long & short UV