Pre-Ste. Marie 2010 Update

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AF38Q6: Group of sharp crystals with very well defined faces and edges, some of them with parallel growths. They are very transparent, bright and have an intense yellow color. They are on matrix.
Barrick's Meikle Mine, Elko County, Nevada  USA (1998)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.7 × 5.4 cm = 2.5” × 2.2” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.6 cm = 1.2” × 1.0”

AN58Q6: Very aerial growth of isolated elongated crystals, very well defined. The crystals show an excellent luster and perfect terminations, with slight reddish inclusions of Hematite and curious, very bright and transparent, crystals of Calcite.
Santa Eulalia, Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (1995)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.7 × 2.7 cm = 2.5” × 2.2” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 0.8 cm = 1.5” × 0.3”

AQ8Q6: Group of bright crystals of Prehnite with yellowish green color, with a flattened Quartz crystal and small Orthoclase crystals.
Cantera "de los Gallegos", paraje La Saludadora, Valdemanco  Spain (03/1999)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.4 × 2.2 cm = 2.8” × 2.1” × 0.9”

AJ64Q6: Group of bright, very acute, scalenohedral crystals of Calcite. They are on a group of bright transparent, deep yellow colored cubic crystals of Fluorite.
Mina Moscona, Solís, Corvera, Asturias  Spain

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.7 × 3.1 cm = 2.3” × 1.9” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 1.3 cm = 1.2” × 0.5”

AE26Q6: An esthetic miniature from the famous pocket “El Reguerín”. It is an almost complete cubic crystal of Fluorite that has geometrical color zoning with changes of color from the clear blue on the external part to clear lilac in the core and deep violet lines and stripes on the different inner zones. On a matrix coated by Quartz.
Geoda del Reguerín, La Viesca, La Collada, Asturias  Spain (04/1994)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.5 × 3.9 cm = 1.5” × 1.0” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.1 cm = 0.9” × 0.8”

AJ58Q6: Parallel growth of two crystals of Quartz with a small aggregate of micro-crystals of Pyrite near the top.
Minas da Panasqueira, Level 2, Beira Baixa  Portugal

Specimen size: 7 × 2.3 × 1.9 cm = 2.8” × 0.9” × 0.7”

AR96Q6: Very transparent and bright honey-colored elongated prismatic crystals of barite with curvatures and acute terminations and on a base very rich in native Sulfur. The piece is not perfect, having some broken crystals, but its esthetics are very good.
Machów Mine, Tarnobrzeg, Podkarpackie  Poland

Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.4 × 4.6 cm = 3.3” × 2.1” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 0.6 cm = 1.3” × 0.2”

AP63Q6: Groups of twinned cubic crystals with a very good luster and color zoning clearer in the external part. The piece is on matrix and has small growths of Quartz crystals.
Heights Quarry, Westgate, Weardale, Durham County, England  United Kingdom

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 2.5” × 1.4” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

AP97Q6: The group is typical of the locality one of the great English classics. The crystals, on Limonite matrix, are bright, clear and complex, made by a prism, a scalenohedron and a terminal rhombohedron.
The specimen comes with a label from the U.S. National Museum (Smithsonian Institution).
Bigrigg Mine, Bigrigg, Cumbria, England  United Kingdom

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.5 × 3.2 cm = 2.9” × 1.8” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.7 cm = 0.9” × 0.7”

AR62Q6: Floater and complete crystal. It is transparent, has a very good luster and a very good deep smoky color with mauve shades.
Puiva, Saranpaul, Tyumenskaya Oblast, Prepolar Ural  Russia

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.2 × 0.6 cm = 1.1” × 0.9” × 0.2”

AL90Q6: Group of prismatic crystals of good size, with very well defined faces and edges and an extraordinary color and luster.
ACF shaft, Mibladen, Midelt  Morocco (07/1996)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.1 × 2.7 cm = 2.1” × 2.0” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

AH16Q6: Groups of octahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges and a deep red color on internal reflection. They are in a cavity that protects them.
Mashamba West Mine, Shaba  Congo D.R. (1994)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.4 × 5.4 cm = 3.3” × 2.9” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

AT47Q6: Floater growth of Anatase crystals, most of the doubly terminated and in parallel growths. The Anatase crystals are completely coated by epitaxial Rutile that gives to the piece its characteristics color and luster.
Cuiabá district, Gouveia, Minas Gerais  Brazil (03/2003)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 1.6 × 1.9 cm = 1.3” × 0.6” × 0.7”

AN63Q6: Centered aggregates of very thin prismatic crystals of Natrolite with excellent terminations and with a crystal of Apophyllite-(KF) in a cavity of a basaltic matrix.
Nasik, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 9.7 × 8.4 × 7.4 cm = 3.8” × 3.3” × 2.9”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.1 cm = 0.7” × 0.0”