Leonite - Pasquasia mine, Enna, Sicily, Italy
(#12504_LEON_DANI)
Very nice classic leonite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:160 gr.
Crystal size:40 mm
Overall size:Piedmont
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Löllingite - Huanggang mine, Chifeng Prefecture, Inner Mongolia Aut. Region, China
(#11104_LOLL_DANI)
Very nice metallic lollingite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:678 gr.
Crystal size:25 mm
 Overall size:86mm x 60 mm x 60 mm
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Mordenite - Montresta - Oristano prov. - Sardinia - Italy
(#GM25047)
Several cottony tufts of white mordenite cover almost entirely, but in a chaotic manner, the surface of this Sardinian specimen.
From a find in the last century.
Specimen weight:700 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 8
Overall size:135mm x 97 mm x 65 mm
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Malachite - L'Etoile du Congo mine - Lumumbashi - Haut Katanga - Zaire
(#GM25041)
Beautiful and shiny dark green zoned malachite plate with lighter stripes.
Only the front is polished, the other faces are natural.
On the back there is ...
Specimen weight:220 gr.
Crystal size:--
Overall size:110mm x 37 mm x 25 mm
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Baryte - La Union - Murcia - Spain
(#GM25039)
Baryte center of a geode with a whitish/pale grenish color and crystals arranged all around the piece.
Very aesthetic!
Specimen weight:1340 gr.
Crystal size:mm.28
Overall size:127mm x 75 mm x 110 mm
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Colemanite - Bigadiç - Balikesir Prov. - Marmara Region - Turkey
(#GM25038)
The surface of this specimen is covered with whitish, translucent crystals of colemanite, an uncommon borate.
Traces of this mineral are also in the underlying part of the specimen.
Specimen weight:700 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 27
Overall size:100mm x 88 mm x 57 mm
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Halite - Swakopmind Constituency - Erongo region - Namibia
(#GM25036)
This druse composed of numerous very large, pale pink colored halite crystals.
They are many parallelepipeds placed side by side not orthogonally, whose composition resembles a 'dovetail' crystallization.
Very aesthetic !!
Specimen weight:600 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 56
Overall size:135mm x 135 mm x 75 mm
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Spessartine garnet - Wushan Spessartine mine - Tongbei - Yunxiao Co. - Zhangzhou pref. - Fujian prov. - China
(#GM25032)
The surface of this druse is densely covered with large and small spessartine garnets, that have a very dark brown color.
Some are so dark that they look like ...
Specimen weight:550 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 8
Overall size:100mm x 100 mm x 52 mm
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Calcite psd Aragonite - Cozzo Disi mine, Casteltermini, Sicily, Italy
(#12476_ARAG_DANI)
Classic sicilian combo belonging to the past. This specimen offer nice and large calcite psd aragonite.
Specimen weight:1180 gr.
Crystal size:26 mm on edge
Overall size:190mm x 155 mm x 65 mm
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Nepheline - Osa quarry, Osteria dell'Osa, Latium, Italy
(#11018_NEPH_DANI)
Classic nice water clear Nepheline xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:176 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:125mm x 60 mm x 25 mm
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Analcime- Siusi Alp, Gardena Valley, Italy
(#12550_ANAL_DANI)
Superb Analcime xx on matrix from a classic locale.
Specimen weight:790 gr.
Crystal size:25 mm
Overall size:115mm x 100 mm x 60 mm
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Topazolite - Bellecombe, Aosta Valley, Italy
(#12493_TOPA_DANI)
Very nice, classic yellow-green topazolite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:523 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:110mm x 85 mm x 55 mm
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Fluorite - Huanggang mine, Chifeng Prefecture, Inner Mongolia Aut. Region, China
(#12105a_FLUO_DANI)
Transparent cubo-octahedric Fluorite xls on matrix.
Specimen weight:229 gr.
Crystal size:28 mm on edge
Overall size:125mm x 90 mm x 25 mm
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Pargasite - Luc Yen - Yen Bai - Vietnam
(#GM25008)
Some green pargasite crystals are clearly visible on the white matrix of saccharoid marble.
On the back you can see a large brown crystal of hydroxylclinohumite, of which a tip can also be seen in front.
The sample was etched ...
Specimen weight:260 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 10
Overall size:100mm x 95 mm x 22 mm
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Marcasite, Fluorite, Galena - Moscadroxius-Genna Tres Montis mine, Silius, Sardinia, Italy
(#12516_MARC_DANI)
A classic trio. Shiny Marcasite with super nice Galena xx and Fluorite xx.
Specimen weight:2200 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm (marc), 40 mm (f)
Overall size:140mm x 100 mm x 65 mm
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Meionite,Sissone Valley, Chiesa in Valmalenco, ,Lombardy
(#12478_MEIO_DANI)
Very nice for the species large Meionite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:192 gr.
Crystal size:10 mm
Overall size:95mm x 80 mm x 25 mm
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Campylite - Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England, UK
(#12471_CAMP_DANI)
Very nice deep orange campylite crystals of textbook shape.
Specimen weight:509 gr.
Crystal size:4 mm
Overall size:110mm x 90 mm x 60 mm
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Diopside - Betroka district, Anosy, Madagascar
(#10776s_DIOP_DANI)
Very nice diopside crystals cluster.
Specimen weight:300 gr.
Crystal size:90 mm
Overall size:110mm x 65 mm x 45 mm
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Baryte - Mibladen mining distr. - Midelt Prov. - Drâa-Tafilalet Region - Morocco
(#GM24100)
Excellent druse completely covered by lamellar barite crystals.
The color is rather dark orange, with some black dots here and there, probably made up by goethite.
Very aesthetic !
Specimen weight:535 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 20
Overall size:130mm x 80 mm x 50 mm
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Fluorite, calcite and pyrite - Sant Cugat del Vallès - El Papiol - Baix Llobregat - Barcelona - Catalonia - Spain
(#GM24097)
Numerous small fluorite crystals are seeded across the surface of this sample.
They have a beautiful bright green color and are semi-transparent.
Some squat, translucent ...
Specimen weight:750 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 4
Overall size:110mm x 100 mm x 58 mm
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Calcite, Dolomite - San Giovanni Mine, Sardinia, Italy
(#12533_CALC_DANI)
Top aesthetic combo with a history.
Specimen weight:549 gr.
Crystal size:40 mm biterminated
Overall size:120mm x 80 mm x 60 mm
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Almandine garnet - Timmelsjoch, Bozen, South Tirol, Trentino-Alto-Adige, Italy
(#11058_ALMA_DANI)
Large almandine garnet on mica schist.
Specimen weight:1832 gr.
Crystal size:30 mm
Overall size:145mm x 130 mm x 60 mm
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Dolomite, Quartz - Traveresella mine, Traversella, ,Piedmont, Italy
(#11057_DOLO_DANI)
An Italian classic. Dolomitex xx on matrix with minor quartz xx.
Specimen weight:363 gr.
Crystal size:20 mm (q), 10 mm (d)
Overall size:115mm x 70 mm x 55 mm
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Epidote and calcite - Tormiq Valley - Pakistan
(#GM24086)
A big epidote crystal (28 mm.) is clearly visible on the surface of this cluster.
It is surrounded by numerous other smaller epidotes and white areas with calcite crystals ...
Specimen weight:760 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 28
Overall size:100mm x 90 mm x 70 mm
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Quartz - Cavnic mine - Cavnic - Maramures Co. - Romania
(#GM24085)
A large crystal of very bright quartz is flanked by a smaller one.
On one side other mini-quartzes are grown and are partly covered by yellowish calcites.
The tip of the main quartz is perfect.
Very aesthetic specimen !
Specimen weight:1400 gr.
Crystal size:--
Overall size:105mm x 90 mm x 135 mm
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Multicolored chalcedony - Monterufoli - Pomarance - Pisa prov. - Tuscany - Italy
(#GM24081)
Half of a typical large chalcedony nodule which is hollow inside and variously colored with bluish and ochre shades
Specimen weight:995 gr.
Crystal size:
Overall size:147mm x 97 mm x 75 mm
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Aurichalcite - Buche al Ferro, Coronato Mount, ,Tuscany, Italy
(#11200_AURI_DANI)
Classic deep blue aurichalcite needles on limonite matrix.
Specimen weight:621 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:Italia
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Arsenopyrite, Quartz- Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
(#11153_ARSE_DANI)
Nice arsenopyrite xx cluster with quartz crystals.
Specimen weight:146 gr.
Crystal size:10 mm (a)
Overall size:110mm x 40 mm x 50 mm
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Thomsonite - San Vito quarry, San Vito, Mt Somma, Campania, Italy
(#10890_THOM_DANI)
Nice nearly colorless thomsonite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:562 gr.
Crystal size:8 mm
Overall size:110mm x 70 mm x 55 mm
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Calcite - Castellaccio mine, Morfasso - Emilia Romagna , Italy
(#10881_CALC_DANI)
Classic white calcite rhombohedrons on matrix.
Specimen weight:796 gr.
Crystal size:up to 20 mm
Overall size:160mm x 85 mm x 60 mm
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Plancheite and Unknown - Tantara mine, Shinkolobwe, Haut Katanga, Democratic Rep. of Congo
(#12409_PLAN_DANI)
Rare plancheite globular xxwith a dark brown unidentified mineral (possibly heterogenite).
Specimen weight:41 gr.
Crystal size:1 mm
Overall size:90mm x 55 mm x 20 mm
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Mimetite - Su Zurfuru mine, Fluminimaggiore, Sardinia, Italy
(#11159_MIME_DANI)
Superb mimetite xx on matrix.ls.
Specimen weight:342 gr.
Crystal size:3 mm
Overall size:110mm x 70 mm x 30 mm
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Creedite - Colquiri mine, Inquisivi, La Paz, Bolivia
(#10997_CREE_DANI)
Rare creamy creedite xx. Old bolivian stuff.
Specimen weight:482 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:98mm x 85 mm x 55 mm
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Andalusite - Bregaglia Valley, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
(#MINS8971)
Very well represented prismatic Xls of Andalusite on quartzite 2,8 cm tall.
The Andalusite shows an intense colour and a good luster.
Classic old italian Alpine stuff.
Classic italian stuff.
Specimen weight:310 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2,8 cm
Overall size:105mm x 60 mm x 50 mm
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Fuchsite, Quartz - Linopolis, Divino das Laranjerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil
(#11196_FUCH_DANI)
Splendid fucsite xx with ialine quartz xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:435 gr.
Crystal size:10 mm rosettes
Overall size:105mm x 110 mm x 40 mm
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Smithsonite - Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
(#11081_SMIT_DANI)
Light brown classic smithsonite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:148 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:116mm x 50 mm x 60 mm
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Datolite - Taro Valley, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
(#11056_DATO_DANI)
Superb datolite xx of complex form on matrix.
Specimen weight:98 gr.
Crystal size:10 mm
Overall size:95mm x 70 mm x 30 mm
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Vanadinite - Mibladen mine - Midelt - Khénifra prov. - Meknès-Tafilalet reg. - Morocco
(#GM24052)
Gorgeous cluster that is covered by very big, brilliant,dark red colored and perfect crystals of vanadinite.
No damages.
From a recent find in the classic locality of Mibladen in Morocco.
Specimen weight:610 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 19
Overall size:110mm x 50 mm x 45 mm
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Aragonite Coli Piacenza prov. - Emilia-Romagna Italy
(#GM24040)
A vein that is completely covered by white minicristals of aragonite cross the whole sample.
Typical from this locality of Emilia-Romagna.
Specimen weight:680 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 2
Overall size:125mm x 95 mm x 70 mm
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Rhodonite, Kutnohorite - Molinello mine, Reppia, Liguria, Italy
(#11183a_RHOD_DANI)
Very nice pink rhodonite xx with creamny kutnohorite on matrix.
Specimen weight:436 gr.
Crystal size:3 mm
Overall size:100mm x 85 mm x 50 mm
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Anhydrite and Ankerite - Campiano mine, Montieri, ,Tuscany, Italy
(#11019_ANHY_DANI)
Very nice combo of white anydrite xx with creamy ankerite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:184 gr.
Crystal size:15 mm
Overall size:105mm x 70 mm x 45 mm
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Fluorite with Anhydrite - Campiano Mine, Montieri. Grosseto Province, Tuscany Italy.
(#MINS8924)
Cluster of pale green fluorite cubocthaedrons up to 1,8 cm with adamantine luster and Anhydrite in associaton purchased in the early 80.
Specimen weight:800 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,8 cm
Overall size:120mm x 80 mm x 100 mm
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Amethyst quartz and goethite - Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
(#GM24022)
A large druse completely covered by quartz crystals with a beautiful amethyst color.
Most crystal tips are darker.
The black traces that can be seen are of goethite and ...
Specimen weight:550 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 10
Overall size:125mm x 110 mm x 43 mm
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Grossular garnet - Asbestos - Les Sources RCM - Estrie - Québec - Canada
(#MINS8882)
This cluster is seeded of several grossular crystal up to 8 mm wide all of them are transparent with excellent glassy luster and sharp striations.From an old find.
Specimen weight:1016 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 8 mm wide
Overall size:120mm x 90 mm x 50 mm
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Galena, Sphalerite, Quartz - Casapalca mine, Casapalca, Huarochiri, Lima
(#11140_GALE_DANI)
Very nice galena xx, with sphalerite xx and with quartz xx.
Specimen weight:1120 gr.
Crystal size:15 mm
Overall size:130mm x 80 mm x 60 mm
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Sphalerite, Galena - Cerro de Pasco, Pasco, Peru
(#11014_SPHA_DANI)
Quartz crystals cluster covered by calcite or aragonite.
Specimen weight:540 gr.
Crystal size:3 mm
Overall size:110mm x 90 mm x 45 mm
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Topaz on Feldspar - Gilgit, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
(#BALD0790)
Nice group of Topaz's crystals, with amber zoning, are implanted on a Feldspar matrix. The crystals are shiny, translucent and well formed. Sample in very good conditions, photographed under strong light.
Specimen weight:458 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 20 mm
Overall size:95mm x 59 mm x 75 mm
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Quartz var. Agate - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
(#BALD0786)
Gorgeous translucent Quartz var. Agate's slice, with different zoning, natural colors, glossy and brilliant on both faces.
Specimen weight:910 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:160mm x 130 mm x 8 mm
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Galena with pink Dolomite - Trepča valley, Mitrovica, Mitrovica District, Kosovo
(#BALD0784)
On shiny, up to 30 mm, Galena's crystals, the Dolomite has partially crystallized in rhombohedral crystals wiht a nice pink color, creating this way a pleasant chromatic contrast. A classic from a classic locality. Photographed under strong light.
Specimen weight:590 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 30 mm
Overall size:105mm x 77 mm x 39 mm
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Manganite - Moanda Mine, Moanda, Léboumbi-Leyou Department, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon
(#BALD0781)
The Manganite is an uncommon mineral, but the one coming from Moanda mine is really rare. Here we have a sample with very shiny black crystals, that cover the entire surface of the sample. Rare and interesting, photographed under strong light.
Specimen weight:382 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 7 mm
Overall size:95mm x 65 mm x 40 mm
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Grossular Garnet var. Hessonite, Faiallo pass, Liguria , Italy
(#11206_HESS_DANI)
Specimen very rich a dark red hessonite crystals on matrix.
Specimen weight:597 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:110mm x 75 mm x 50 mm
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Hutchinsonite - Quiruvilca mine, Santiago de Chuco, La Libertad, Peru
(#12041_HUTC_DANI)
Museum piece for size and quality. Very very fresh bright metallic hutchinsonite crystals on matrix.
Specimen weight:1165 gr.
Crystal size:3 mm1
Overall size:140mm x 120 mm x 55 mm
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Dundasite, Baryte - San Giovanni mine, Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy
(#11276_DUND_DANI)
Very nice white dundasite xx on a baryte xx.
Specimen weight:67 gr.
Crystal size:1 mm
Overall size:55mm x 55 mm x 10 mm
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Paravauxite (TL) - Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, ,Potosí Department, Bolivia
(#11011_PARA_DANI)
Rare! Gemmy paravauxite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:284 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:90mm x 110 mm x 30 mm
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Cuprian adamite (var. of adamite) and hemimorfite - Ojuela mine - Mapimì - Mun. de Mapimì - Durango -Mexico
(#GM23054)
Excellent cluster almost completely covered by almost colorless crystals of hemimorphite.
Here and there several blue-green crystals of cuprian adamite are in good evidence ...
Specimen weight:160 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 8
Overall size:98mm x 80 mm x 34 mm
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Celestine - Little Wild Horse Canyon, Emery Co.,Utah, USA
(#11064_CELE_DANI)
Very nice celestine crystals cluster
Specimen weight:460 gr.
Crystal size:20 mm
Overall size:95mm x 50 mm x 60 mm
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Cobalt-bearing Calcite - Mashamba West Mine, Sicomines copper-cobalt project, Kolwezi mining district, Lualaba, DR Congo
(#BALD0774)
Cobalt-bearing Calcite's crystals up to 12 mm, with a nice pink color, in very good conditions, completely cover the matrix. Very aesthetic sample, photographed under strong light.
Specimen weight:292 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 12 mm
Overall size:106mm x 86 mm x 35 mm
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Scolecite on Stilbite with Heulandite and Calcite - Pune District, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India
(#BALD0770)
A wonderful fan of Scolecite's crystals up to 85 mm is partially covered by small Calcite's crystals. Everything is contoured by Stilbite's crystals up to 38 mm and pink Heulandite. Very elegant sample, particular and aesthetic, photographed...
Specimen weight:391 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 85 mm
Overall size:150mm x 86 mm x 91 mm
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Babingtonite on Calcite with Okenite and Gyrolite - Malad Quarry, Maharashtra, India
(#BALD0768)
The grey basalt geode is completely covered by very shiny and well formed Calcite's crystals, on which stands out dozens of black Babingtonite's crystals, very shiny and well formed too, a tuft of Okenite's crystals and some Gyrolite's...
Specimen weight:665 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 5 mm
Overall size:127mm x 92 mm x 55 mm
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Chalcedony pseudomorph after unknown mineral - Nashik District, Nashik Division, Maharashtra, India
(#BALD0764)
Chalcedony's microcrystals have completely replaced another mineral, whose identification isn't possible. Very brilliant and aesthetic, photographed under strong light.
Specimen weight:576 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:98mm x 88 mm x 75 mm
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Analcime with Natrolite, Rhodochrosite and Aegirine - Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
(#BALD0757)
Analcime's crystals, the biggest of 50 mm, are partially covered by 22 mm Natrolite's crystals, also biterminated, nice well formed Rhodochrosite's rosettes up to 15 mm and Aegirine, both in big crystals up to 38 mm and in small, slender...
Specimen weight:945 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 50 mm
Overall size:170mm x 130 mm x 82 mm
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Malachite on Copper - Jezkazgan, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
(#BALD0756)
Superb arborescent Copper's sample, partially crystallized, covered by a Malachite's spherettes patina, that gives it a pleasant appearance. In very good conditiond and really very aesthetic.
Specimen weight:124 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:97mm x 82 mm x 15 mm
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Selenite - Alabaster quarries, Fuentes de Ebro, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
(#BALD0753)
Extremely transparent Selenite's crystals up to 30 mm are scattered on a matrix of massive gypsum/alabaster, that has a cut at the base. The Selenite's crystals coming from this locality are considered among the best in the world. Aesthetic...
Specimen weight:726 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 30 mm
Overall size:111mm x 100 mm x 103 mm
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Hemimorphite - San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Chihuahua, Mexico
(#BALD0745)
Hemimorphite's mamelons developed on the matrix, made up of countless small shiny crystals with an unusual intense azure-grey color. From an unique and no longer repeated finding in 2005. Aesthetic and colorful sample.
Specimen weight:875 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:112mm x 85 mm x 63 mm
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Hydroboracite - Kohnstein Quarry, Niedersachswerfen, Harztor, Nordhausen District, Thuringia, Germany
(#BALD0740)
From a 2011 finding in an inactive quarry, this nice sample of Hydroboracite, with shiny crystals up to 40 mm, intertwined with each other. Uncommon mineral, on a matrix of probable Anhydrite.
Specimen weight:992 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 40 mm
Overall size:125mm x 108 mm x 48 mm
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Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite - Huaron mining district, Cerro de Pasco, Pasco, Peru
(#10735_CHAL_DANI)
Very nice combo offering both shiny chalcopyrite xx with siderite xx.
Specimen weight:277 gr.
Crystal size:22 mm (c), 16 mm (s)
Overall size:95mm x 60 mm x 20 mm
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Pyrite - Niccioleta mine, Massa Marittima, ,Tuscany, Italy
(#11149_PYRI_DANI)
Very nice classic pyrite xx on massive pyrite matrix.
Specimen weight:741 gr.
Crystal size:35 mm
Overall size:130mm x 40 mm x 80 mm
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Graphite - Ollano - Mallare - Savona prov. - Liguria - Italy
(#GM22031)
Massive specimen of this interesting native element.
From a classic italian locality for this specie.
Specimen weight:140 gr.
Crystal size:--
Overall size:100mm x 40 mm x 30 mm
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Kunzite (var. of spodumene) - Dara-e-Pech Pegmatite field - Dara-e-Pech Distr. - Kunar - Afghanistan
(#GM22026)
Excellent big floater of kunzite, without matrix.
It has a nice pink color, is good terminated and is completely transparent.
A high quality specimen !
Specimen weight:72 gr.
Crystal size:--
Overall size:122mm x 37 mm x 5 mm
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Inesite and Hubeite on Quartz - Fengjiashan Mine (Daye copper mine), Daye Co., Huangshi, Hubei, China
(#BALD0712)
An aesthetic group of Inesite's crystals up to 23 mm, with a nice pink color, lays on big Quartz's crystals, with small brown Hubeite's crystals. With two cuts in the rear.
Specimen weight:331 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 23 mm
Overall size:93mm x 101 mm x 48 mm
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Duftite e coronadite - Sabine's Shaft - Mount Bonnie mine - Grove Hill - Victoria-Daly Region - Northern Territory - Australia
(#GM21037)
The surface of this cluster is covered by little, blak colored spheres of coronadite.
Among them there are some areas with greenish duftite: some of them are crystallized, others with a thin crust.
Specimen weight:390 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 3
Overall size:104mm x 55 mm x 44 mm
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Actinolite - Habach valley - Bramberg am Wildkogel - Zell am See Distr. - Salzburg - Austria
(#GM21033)
Several brilliant, dark green and almost black colored crystals of actinolite are inserted in the matrix of this specimen.
Many of them are visible on the surface all around it.
Specimen weight:450 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 16
Overall size:105mm x 90 mm x 41 mm
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Semseyite, Sphalerite - Herja Mine, Baia Mare, Romania
(#12104_SEMS_DANI)
This specimen offer nice semseyite xx of texbook shape on a matrix with a multitude of spahlerite xx.
Specimen weight:464 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:115mm x 95 mm x 68 mm
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Calcite, Barrage EDF, Pau, France
(#12092_CALC_DANI)
Very nice crystals of complex form and superb luster.
Specimen weight:111 gr.
Crystal size:15 mm
Overall size:95mm x 45 mm x 25 mm
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Epidote - Epidote occurrence - Escales reservoir - Ribagorça - Huesca - Aragón - Spain
(#GM21009)
Several fans are made by long, dark green colored crystals of epidote anda are seeded over a large area of the matrix.
They are partially intersecting ...
Specimen weight:800 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 15
Overall size:120mm x 67 mm x 85 mm
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Baryte - Moscona mine, Villabona, Asturias, Spain
(#10450_BARY_DANI)
Very nice blue baryte crystals cluster.
Specimen weight:208 gr.
Crystal size:18 mm
Overall size:95mm x 60 mm x 30 mm
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Spinel - Luc Yen - Yen Bai Prov. - Vietnam
(#GM20083)
Big dark violet colored crystals of spinel are in good evidence over the whitish matrix.
The specimen was etched to eliminate the calcite that covered the crystals.
Specimen weight:350 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 36
Overall size:102mm x 50 mm x 55 mm
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Analcime - Mount Olladri quarries, Monastir, Sardinia, Italy
(#10859_ANAL_DANI)
A classic. Transparent gemmy analcime xls on matrix.
Specimen weight:432 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:110mm x 50 mm x 65 mm
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Fluorite over chalcedony - Mahodari - Nasik distr. - Maharastra - India
(#GM20056)
A big, yellow-brown colored sphere of fluorite is stunning in the center of a cluster of chalcedony.
Typical from this classic indian location.
Specimen weight:665 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 42
Overall size:130mm x 125 mm x 50 mm
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Galena - Montevecchio mines, Arbus, Sardinia, Italy
(#11034_GALE_DANI)
Perphaps not very aesthetic but certainly uncommon specimen of small galena xls on matrix.
Specimen weight:390 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:115mm x 70 mm x 45 mm
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Grossular, var. Hessonite with Diopside and "Chlorite" - Bellecombe, Châtillon, Aosta Valley, Italy
(#BALD0699)
A very glossy and very brilliant carpet of Hessonite's crystals up to 7 mm, covers the sample almost completely. The red color of the garnet makes a good contrast with the green "Chlorite". There are also a few Diopside's crystals up to 6 mm.
Specimen weight:303 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 7 mm
Overall size:150mm x 72 mm x 70 mm
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Smithsonite perimorph on Calcite - San Giovanni Mine, Punta della Torre, Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
(#BALD0669)
From a very recent find in the abandoned mine of San Giovanni, this interesting sample of Smithsonite perimorph on pre-existent Calcite. From the unique geode discovered, only a few dozens of good quality samples has been collected. Rare.
Specimen weight:728 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 98 mm
Overall size:98mm x 85 mm x 73 mm
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Helvite on albite - Navegador mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
(#8669c_HELV_DANI)
Very nice yellow helvite crystals cluster on albite with mica.
Specimen weight:511 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:110mm x 95 mm x 75 mm
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Opal - Fornaccia - Fornovolasco - Vergemoli - Apuan Alps - Lucca Prov. - Tuscany - Italy
(#GM19015)
Interesting specimen of brilliant white opal, that becomes yellow-lemon at the U.V. SHORT wave
Specimen weight:223 gr.
Crystal size:--
Overall size:125mm x 60 mm x 38 mm
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Garnet var. Spessartine and Quartz - Tongbei, Heping village, Yunxiao, Fujian province,China
(#10031_SPES_DAN)
Super combo offering splendid blood red spessartine xls with smoky quartz crystals.
Specimen weight:381 gr.
Crystal size:20 mm (q), 10 mm (s)
Overall size:120mm x 80 mm x 38 mm
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Bertrandite, Quartz, Fluorite, Pyrite, Ferberite - Kara-Oba W deposit, Karazhal, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
(#BALD0615)
On a group of milky Quartz's ctystals up to 66 mm, hundreds of white Bertrandite's crystals up to 5 mm are laid down, with two nice octahedral green Fluorite's crystals (22 mm), Ferberite (10 mm) and a myriad of extremely shiny Pyrite's
Specimen weight:390 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 5 mm
Overall size:100mm x 70 mm x 78 mm
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Quartz - Assemini, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
(#2445_QUAR_DANI)
Large plate of flattened yellow quartz on matrix.
Don' know if it is citrine or colored yellow by come inclusion.
Specimen weight:744 gr.
Crystal size:up to 17 mm
Overall size:170mm x 110 mm x 55 mm
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Baryte over rhodochrosite - Felsobanya mine - Maramures - Romania
(#GM18055)
The cluster is covered by pink rhodochrosite: some blades, pale grey-blue colored barytes are grown over it.
Some of them are encrusted by yellow-brown carbonate ...
Specimen weight:1330 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 25
Overall size:143mm x 87 mm x 68 mm
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Quartz ver. Herkimer Diamond - Middleville, Town of Newport, Herkimer Co., New York, USA
(#BALD0594)
Probably, the Herkimer Diamond is the most known Quartz's variety in the world. This sample is a group of biterminated, very shiny, translucent and well formed crystals, with insignificant ruptures, almost invisible to the naked eye.
Specimen weight:183 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 50 mm
Overall size:100mm x 34 mm x 50 mm
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Amethyst quartz - Su Marralzu quarry - Osilo - Sassari prov. - Sardinia - Italy
(#GM18035)
A big crystal of amethyst quartz is stunning in the middle of this specimen.
Its top is not fulll, it has some cavities: it seems an aggregate of three crystals that are ...
Specimen weight:565 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 25
Overall size:97mm x 85 mm x 75 mm
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Owner : Rolando Minerals (Torino - Italy) 