Initial Ste. Marie 2011 Update

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MX90S9: Group of very sharp crystals, some of them doubly terminated, extraordinarily bright and of a very deep color with strong transparency under a strong light. The group, on matrix, has a strong quality.
Puit IX, Touissit, Oujda  Morocco

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.3 × 3.8 cm = 2.1” × 1.3” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1 cm = 0.8” × 0.4”

TK52S9: Transparent complex crystals of intense green color, on matrix. They have dominant forms of the trapezohedron and the dodecahedron, but they also show cube faces, small but perfectly visible. Some of the crystals have curious deformations, to the degree that one of them is almost completely flattened.
Antetezambato, Ambanja, Diana, Antsiranana  Madagascar (08/2009)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 6.3 × 4.8 cm = 2.9” × 2.5” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.7” × 0.5”

HK26S9: Druse of complex Sphalerite crystals. They are transparent, very bright, and have a very intense orange color with red shades being partially coated by microcrystalline Quartz.
Rucheng Mine, Chaojia, Rucheng County, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (2009)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.2 × 3.8 cm = 1.9” × 1.3” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”

TC67S9: Very aerial group of prismatic crystals with hollow terminations and curvatures on their edges. The crystals have an intense green color, are translucent and bright.
Daoping Mine, Guilin, Guangxi  China (2009)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2.2 × 2.1 cm = 0.9” × 0.9” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.5” × 0.3”

TJ87S9: Group of translucent crystals with an intense green color and on matrix. Some of them are doubly terminated, with slight curvatures on their edges and hollow terminations.
Daoping Mine, Guilin, Guangxi  China (2009)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.7” × 1.5” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

MB46S9: Groups of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, of an unusually intense pink color, with globular growths of white acicular crystals of Scolecite and on a basaltic matrix.
Nasik, Maharashtra  India (±2002)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.5 × 3.4 cm = 3.3” × 3.0” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.6” × 0.2”

TB56S9: Centered growths of very thin and elongated, almost acicular, crystals with very well defined faces and edges and excellent color and luster. On a basaltic matrix with white crystals of Heulandite and Stilbite.
Wagholi Quarry, Poona, Maharashtra  India (09/2009)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 4.3 × 3.3 cm = 1.7” × 1.7” × 1.3”

ML27S9: Centered growths of very thin and elongated, almost acicular, crystals with very well defined faces and edges and excellent color and luster. On a basaltic matrix with small crystals of Stilbite.
Wagholi Quarry, Poona, Maharashtra  India (09/2009)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.2 × 2.9 cm = 1.9” × 1.7” × 1.1”

MH66S9: Very sharp crystals of very well defined faces and edges. They are transparent, bright and have a slightly pink color, being on a Quartz matrix with leafy aggregates of Muscovite.
Skardu, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 2.8 × 3.9 cm = 1.8” × 1.1” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.7” × 0.5”

EA86S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. Group of crystals, of pistachio green color, with very simple forms but with a very uncommon habit, the predominance of a very well developed frontal pinacoid that results in the crystal being really smooth. The crystals are bright and deep green, almost black.
Raywoo Mine, Quetta, Balochistan  Pakistan (2011)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.9 × 3 cm = 2.0” × 1.9” × 1.2”

EB7S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. A floater crystal of green pistachio color, with very simple forms but with a very uncommon habit, the predominance of a very well developed frontal pinacoid that results in the crystal being really smooth.
Raywoo Mine, Quetta, Balochistan  Pakistan (2011)

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

ED57S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. A floater crystal of green pistachio color, with very simple forms but with a very uncommon habit, the predominance of a very well developed frontal pinacoid that results in the crystal being really smooth.
Raywoo Mine, Quetta, Balochistan  Pakistan (2011)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 7 × 6.2 cm = 2.8” × 2.8” × 2.4”

EC47S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. A floater crystal of green pistachio color, with very simple forms but with a very uncommon habit, the predominance of a very well developed frontal pinacoid that results in the crystal being really smooth.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 29 in number 2011/2
Raywoo Mine, Quetta, Balochistan  Pakistan (2011)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.9 × 4.6 cm = 2.8” × 2.7” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 3.2 cm = 1.7” × 1.3”