Pre-Ste. Marie 2010 Update

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TX46Q6: “Book” aggregates of thick tabular crystals with very well defined blue color from one of the great classic localities of North America.
The sample has a Geary Murdock collection label that we’ll send to the buyer.
Hardin County, Illinois  USA

Specimen size: 6 × 7 × 5.3 cm = 2.4” × 2.8” × 2.1”

TD86Q6: White trapezohedral crystals. They are bright, have very well defined faces and edges and are partially coated by small crystals of Apophyllite-(KF). The sample is of excellent quality for the locality, a classic for American zeolites.
Cornwall Mines, Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania  USA

Specimen size: 9.9 × 7.1 × 4.2 cm = 3.9” × 2.8” × 1.7”

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

TA67Q6: A floater, a nodular aggregate of crystals that have very well defined faces and edges, with an excellent luster and an extraordinary blue color, with small nodules of Malachite. The quality is excellent for the locality.
La Sal District, North Mountain, La Sal Mountains, Grand County, Utah  USA

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.6 × 3.5 cm = 2.4” × 1.8” × 1.4”

TF14Q6: Radial groups of laminar crystals that are transparent and have very well defined faces and edges and are on a small matrix. The sample is very representative of the material recently found, at the end of last year, in the Ojuela mine and slightly different from previous ones.
Lugar San Juanito, Mina Ojuela, Mapimí, Durango  Mexico (10/2009)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.9 × 2.9 cm = 1.8” × 1.1” × 1.1”

TD6Q6: Radial groups of very thin and separate laminar crystals. They are transparent and have very well defined faces and edges and are on a thin matrix of Limonite. The sample is very representative of the material recently found, at the end of last year, in the Ojuela mine and slightly different from previous ones.
Lugar San Juanito, Mina Ojuela, Mapimí, Durango  Mexico (10/2009)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.2 × 3.3 cm = 3.0” × 2.4” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.4 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

TC26Q6: Radial groups of very thin and separate laminar crystals. They are transparent and have very well defined faces and edges and are on a thin matrix of Limonite. The sample is very representative of the material recently found, at the end of last year, in the Ojuela mine and slightly different from previous ones.
Lugar San Juanito, Mina Ojuela, Mapimí, Durango  Mexico (10/2009)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 4.8 × 3.7 cm = 3.1” × 1.9” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.3 cm = 0.5” × 0.1”

TB26Q6: Radial groups of very thin and separate laminar crystals. They are transparent and have very well defined faces and edges and are on a thin matrix of Limonite. The sample is very representative of the material recently found, at the end of last year, in the Ojuela mine and slightly different from previous ones.
Lugar San Juanito, Mina Ojuela, Mapimí, Durango  Mexico (10/2009)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 4.7 × 3.6 cm = 3.7” × 1.9” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.3 cm = 0.5” × 0.1”

TC76Q6: Floater group of thick prismatic crystals. They are bright, very transparent and have a neat yellow color and have the particularity that they are both fluorescent and phosphorescent under an ultraviolet light.
Red River Floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba  Canada (2009)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.5 × 4.6 cm = 2.6” × 2.2” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.1” × 1.0”

TB76Q6: Floater group of thick prismatic crystals. They are bright, very transparent and have a neat yellow color and have the particularity that they are both fluorescent and phosphorescent under an ultraviolet light.
Red River Floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba  Canada (2009)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.6 × 4.5 cm = 2.5” × 2.2” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.2 cm = 1.1” × 0.9”

MJ87Q6: Very aerial aggregate of bright tabular crystals that have very well marked faces of a flat dypyramid, strong color zoning, darker on terminal faces and clearer on the dipyramid and prism, forming the “steer eye” as it is popularly known in Panasqueira. The piece is a complete floater and is especially elegant due to the esthetic growth of the group on the matrix of Muscovite.
It is from one of the last great finds in Panasqueira, the year 2003.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 3, Beira Baixa  Portugal (11/2003)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 9.8 × 4.5 cm = 4.9” × 3.9” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.2 cm = 1.3” × 0.9”

TC47Q6: Parallel growth with a prominent tetrahedral-face, aerial and sharp, with very well defined faces and edges and an excellent luster. The matrix is especially rich in small crystals of Quartz and cube-octahedral crystals of Galena.
Boriaeva Mine, Madan, Smolyan, Rhodope Mountains  Bulgaria (2008)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm = 1.4” × 0.9” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.7 cm = 0.9” × 0.7”

TA50Q6: Dodecahedral crystals beveled by trapezohedron faces. They are isolated or in groups and are translucent, very bright and with an excellent green color. They are on matrix with Quartz, a very rare association on this locality.
Antetezambato, Ambanja, Diana, Antsiranana  Madagascar (08/2009)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 6.8 × 3.6 cm = 4.4” × 2.7” × 1.4”

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

TT86Q6: Tabular crystals, two of them clearly dominant, very bright and with an excellent green color, with dipyramidal faces and geometrical color zoning, darker on pinacoidal faces. They are on a matrix of Albite crystals.
Sapo Mine, Ferruginha District, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais  Brazil (±2007)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.8 × 1.8 cm = 1.1” × 1.1” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.9 cm = 0.7” × 0.4”

TQ26Q6: Very bright and transparent crystal of very well defined faces and edges and an excellent rhombohedral termination. The color is uniform green with neat bluish shades.
Pederneira Mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 1.5” × 0.3” × 0.2”

TT96Q6: Parallel growth of two transparent and bright crystals that have very well defined faces and edges and excellent sharp acute rhombohedron terminations in. The color is uniform green with slight bluish shades.
Pederneira Mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 0.9 × 0.9 cm = 1.7” × 0.4” × 0.4”

TR88Q6: Very transparent and bright crystal that has very well defined faces and edges and an excellent sharp acute rhombohedron termination.. The color is uniform green with slight bluish shades.
Pederneira Mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 1 × 0.9 cm = 2.1” × 0.4” × 0.4”

TK26Q6: The piece is as esthetic as mineralogically interesting. Elongated, with very well defined faces and edges and green color with bluish areas on its intermediate zone. Its termination is sharp and complete, formed by the flat face of the pinacoid and the faces of a rhombohedron. In its lower termination the crystal is partially hollowed and has acicular growths of the same Elbaite and furthermore it is joined on its back to a skeletal wall of a second crystal, also with acicular growths.
Pederneira Mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais  Brazil (2006)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 3.3 × 2.3 cm = 3.4” × 1.3” × 0.9”

TM67Q6: Stalagmitic growth of small crystals of Amethyst with a modestly developed prism, a very deep violet color and intense luster, standing on a base of crystals of the same mineral and all in basalt matrix.
Cantera Santa Ana, Artigas  Uruguay (08/2009)

Specimen size: 9.9 × 9.8 × 6.4 cm = 3.9” × 3.9” × 2.5”

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

TV6Q6: Stibnite crystals partially included in groups of scalenohedral Calcite crystals that are very transparent, much of them doubly terminated and, as a curiosity, some of them forming a “butterfly” twin.
Xikuangshan Mine, Lengshuijiang, Hunan  China (10/2009)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.4 × 2.1 cm = 1.8” × 1.3” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.2 cm = 0.7” × 0.5”

TK47Q6: Stibnite crystals partially included in groups of scalenohedral Calcite crystals that are very transparent, much of them doubly terminated and, as a curiosity, some of them forming a “butterfly” twin.
Xikuangshan Mine, Lengshuijiang, Hunan  China (10/2009)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 6.7 × 4.6 cm = 2.7” × 2.6” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

MR51Q6: Complete tabular crystals, one of them clearly dominant and of considerable size for the locality. The crystals, on Muscovite matrix, are very bright and have good transparency and an excellent clear uniform blue color. They are formed by a short prism, a big terminal pinacoid and the faces of three dipyramids, which is relatively infrequent in Beryl.
Shaobaodin Mountains, Pingwu, Sichuan  China (08-09/2009)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 7 × 5.4 cm = 2.9” × 2.8” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 6 × 5 cm = 2.4” × 2.0”