Silver var. Kongsbergite - Imiter Mine - Imiter Distr. - Tinghir Prov. - Drâa-Tafilalet Region - Morocco
(#GMA26015)
An evident, sculptural, leaf native Kongsbergite specimen from 2016 finds at the Imiter Mine of Morocco.
It's standing on a black matrix ...
Specimen weight:340 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 45 x 37
 Overall size:62mm x 45 mm x 67 mm
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Boulangerite - Brosso mine, Brosso,Piedmont, Italy
(#11388_BOUL_DANI)
Nice tiny metallic acicular boulangerite xx on matrix
Specimen weight:52 gr.
Crystal size:4 mm
Overall size:45mm x 30 mm x 25 mm
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Senarmontite - Djebel Hammimat Mine, Ain Babouche, Ain Beida, Constantine Province, Algeria (Type Locality)
(#MINS9146)
Cluster of rare Senarmontite in octahedral crystals up to 4 mm richly set on matrix from the type locality.
Specimen weight:31 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 4 mm
Overall size:26mm x 23 mm x 25 mm
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Baryte - Barega Mine, Villamassargia (SU), Sardegna, Italia
(#FERR1604)
Showy druse, covered by brilliant, perfect xls of green Baryte with excellent transparence too.
From a unique historical finding dating about 50 years ago.
Classic!
Specimen weight:1556 gr.
Crystal size:4 cm
Overall size:160mm x 100 mm x 70 mm
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Cobalto-Austinite, Roselite - Aghbar mine, Bou Azzer district,,Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco
(#12494_COBA_DANI)
Suberb bright green rare Cobalto_Austinite xx with nice magenta Roselite xx.
Specimen weight:337 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:88mm x 85 mm x 35 mm
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Ericaite - Panel 14, Boulby Mine, Loftus, Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England, UK
(#MINS9100)
A single lustrous brownish cubic crystal of Ericaite embedded in syslte matrix coloured rerracotta red by association with Hilgardite.
Specimen weight:5 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 5 mm
Overall size:14mm x 12 mm x 14 mm
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Copper (native)- Oumjrane mining area, Tinghir, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco
(#12768_COPP_DANI)
Very nice arborescent native copper.
Specimen weight:3 gr.
Crystal size:8 mm
Overall size:35mm x 45 mm x 5 mm
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Axinite - Bourg d'Oisans,Haute Savoie, France
(#10522a_AXIN_DANI)
A classic. Nice axinite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:80 gr.
Crystal size:17 mm
Overall size:80mm x 25 mm x 45 mm
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Erythrite - Aghbar mine - Bou Azzer distr. - Tazenakht - Ourzazate prov. - Souss-Massa-Draa reg. - Morocco
(#MINS9049)
Dark red colored crystals of erythrite up to 2,8 cm long in fan formation over the matrix.Showy.
Specimen weight:54 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2,8 cm long
Overall size:55mm x 18 mm x 38 mm
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Cerussite, Baryte - Touissit, Oriental Region, Morocco
(#12388_CERU_DANI)
Nice specimen offering transparent cerussite xx and pink baryte blades. Classic combo.
Specimen weight:90 gr.
Crystal size:20 mm on edge
Overall size:50mm x 43 mm x 36 mm
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Erythrite - Sara Alicia Mine, San Bernardo, Álamos Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
(#MINS9009)
This erythrite is not from Morocco, but from Mexico! Bright pink to magenta fibrous acicular crystal clusters, nicely isolated on matrix. A very uncommon thing on the market, as this is old material from over 20 years ago (or more). seldom seen in s.
Specimen weight:135 gr.
Crystal size:1-2 mm
Overall size:57mm x 54 mm x 40 mm
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Luinaite-(OH) - Bald Hornet Prospect, Snoqualmie Mining District, King County, Washington, USA
(#MINS9003)
Sprays of Luinaite-(OH) in/on a nice quartz xl.Luinaite-(OH) is a very rare Tourmaline Group species, only found in about nine places in the world. The only reported locality for this species in North America is the Bald Hornet Claim.
Specimen weight:12 gr.
Crystal size:3-4 mm
Overall size:16mm x 14 mm x 37 mm
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Sudoite - Cedec Valley - Gran Zebrù, Valfurva - Sondrio prov. - Lombardy - Italy
(#MINS9015)
Several rare hexagonal pearly sudoite crystals up to 6 mm hosted in a porphyritic dyke outcropping along the side of Cima di Pale Rosse at about 3000 m amsl. Alpine mineral.
Specimen weight:90 gr.
Crystal size:Up to mm. 6
Overall size:65mm x 50 mm x 18 mm
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Boulangerite - Bottino Mine, Tuscany, Italy
(#11698_BOUL_DANI)
Superb metallic acicular boulangire xx on matrix
Specimen weight:77 gr.
Crystal size:10 mm needles
Overall size:45mm x 20 mm x 30 mm
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Protochabourneite - Sant'Olga tunnel - Monte Arsiccio mine - Sant'Anna di Stazzema - Stazzema - Apuan Alps - Lucca prov. - Tuscany - Italy (TL)
(#MINS8946)
Dark grey metallic Protochabournéite in sub.mm xls on matrix from the type locality.
Specimen weight:20 gr.
Crystal size:< 1 mm
Overall size:38mm x 30 mm x 12 mm
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Vladimirite - Irthem Mine - Bou Azzer District - Morocco
(#MINS8881)
Very rare Vladimirite in white acicular xls up to 2 mm in sprays richly scattered on calcite matrix.
Specimen weight:38 gr.
Crystal size:Acicular up to 2 mm
Overall size:55mm x 50 mm x 18 mm
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Silver on Calcite - Bouismas Mine, Tansifite Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
(#BALD0787)
Arborescent 35 mm Silver emerges from the white Calcite matrix. Interesting sample, collected in 2010. Photographed under strong light.
Specimen weight:254 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:77mm x 55 mm x 57 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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Azurite - Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
(#BALD0780)
Numerous Azurite's crystals, up to 15 mm, cover the matrix. The color is a very intense blue, with waxy shine. Photographed under strong light.
Specimen weight:211 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 15 mm
Overall size:87mm x 80 mm x 45 mm
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Volkovskite - Boulby Mine, Loftus, Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England, UK
(#MINS8836)
This is a parallel-growth cluster of bladed, glassy and gemmy, orangey crystals of Volkovskite.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:3,5 cm tall
Overall size:14mm x 9 mm x 35 mm
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Vantasselite - Bihain, Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium (Type Locality)
(#MINS8832)
Specimen rich of nice silky white rosettes of Vantasselite up to 3 mm wide on matrix from the type locality.
Specimen weight:28 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3 mm
Overall size:62mm x 40 mm x 20 mm
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Vanadinite var: Endlichite - Touissit, Oujda-Angad, Oriental region, Morocco
(#10619_VANA_DANI)
Old yellow vanadinte var. endlichite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:193 gr.
Crystal size:10 mm
Overall size:65mm x 55 mm x 25 mm
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Silver - Imiter mining district, Tinghir Cercle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
(#BALD0777)
Important arborescent Silver's aggregate, with some elongated small crystals. Original sample, not to be confused with the filamentous ones on Acanthite that, as a well known fact, are artificially obtained. Photographed under strong light.
Specimen weight:24 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:40mm x 28 mm x 32 mm
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Endlichite (Arsenic-bearing Vanadinite) - Touissit - Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
(#BALD0772)
Hexagonal Endlichite's crystals up to 7 mm, some biterminated, show bright shine and cover the matrix, on which there are black Descloizite's traces. Nice and aesthetic sample, photographed under strong light.
Specimen weight:272 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 7 mm
Overall size:92mm x 68 mm x 55 mm
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Epidote - Imilchil, Er Rachidia Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
(#MINS8657)
A very attractive specimen of sharp, lustrous, translucent, prismatic Epidote crystals up to 1,0 cm wide in "fan"-shaped aggregates on Quartz matrix.
Specimen weight:251 gr.
Crystal size:up to 1,0 cm wide
Overall size:110mm x 35 mm x 50 mm
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Azure Baryte - Nador Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
(#BALD0758)
Nice Azure Baryte's sample, in crystals with intense azure color, shiny and intertwined with each other. Very aesthetic.
Specimen weight:114 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 52 mm
Overall size:71mm x 65 mm x 42 mm
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Azurite with Malachite - Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
(#BALD0752)
Numerous Azurite's crystals with an intense blue color, with needle-like Malachite, completely cover the limonitic matrix. The sample is partially crystallized also on the rear.
Specimen weight:295 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:90mm x 64 mm x 58 mm
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Proustite - Imiter mine, Imiter district, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco
(#11496_PROU_DANI)
Tiny but beatifull proustite crystals on matrix with pyrargiryte xx.
Specimen weight:40 gr.
Crystal size:1 mm
Overall size:42mm x 40 mm x 26 mm
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Baryte - Bou Nahas, Oumjrane mining area, Morocco
(#MINS8401)
From the moroccan desert nice barite twinned crystals with pyrite and quartz in associacion.
Specimen weight:15 gr.
Crystal size:4,3 cm wide
Overall size:17mm x 12 mm x 43 mm
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Vanadinite - Vein 12, Jbel Tadaout, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
(#MINS8541)
A very aesthetic and classy Moroccan specimen of red-orange vanadinite barrels to 10 x 9 mm wide set on contrasting, matte-black, botryoidal crust of either goethite or manganese oxides.
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 10 x 9 mm
Overall size:40mm x 37 mm x 18 mm
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Linarite - Baccu Locci Mine, Villaputzu, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy
(#FERR1591)
Miniature of Linarite featuring several tabular blue crystals. From a unique finding at the Baccu Locci outcrops made about 20 years ago.
Specimen weight:20 gr.
Crystal size:
Overall size:29mm x 22 mm x 16 mm
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Arsenic-bearing Vanadinite (Endlichite) - Erupción Mine, Los Lamentos Mts (Sierra de Los Lamentos), Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
(#BALD0725)
Well crystallized, brown Endlichite's crystals, almost all hoppered, are implanted on a carpet of shiny white Calcite's crystals.
Specimen weight:104 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 6 mm
Overall size:67mm x 42 mm x 31 mm
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Scainiite - Dimitrij vein, Ľudovít adit, Dúbrava Sb deposit, Dúbrava, Liptovský Mikuláš District, Žilina Region, Slovakia
(#MINS8426)
This piece features compacted grey "fibers" of scainiite on matrix.
Specimen weight:6 gr.
Crystal size:
Overall size:27mm x 10 mm x 13 mm
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Boracite, Hilgardite - Boulby mine, Loftus, England, UK
(#11702_BORA_DANI)
Nice geminated and non geminated boracite xx on matrix with some pinkish rare hilgardite xx in association.
Specimen weight:6 gr.
Crystal size:3 mm
Overall size:45mm x 35 mm x 27 mm
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Heulandite - Mt. Olladri, Monastir, Cagliari, Sardegna, Italy
(#FERR1469)
Plate featuring several clean pearl white xls of Heulandite well disposed on matrix.
From the findings of about 15 years at this quarry that alse produced good samples of Ferrierite.
Specimen weight:263 gr.
Crystal size:2 cm
Overall size:110mm x 80 mm x 30 mm
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Boulangerite with Siderite and Quartz - Bottino Mine, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
(#BALD0641)
Acicular Boulangerite's crystals, like hair, with Siderite and Quartz. Typical mineral for this locality, difficult to find.
Specimen weight:124 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 15 mm
Overall size:78mm x 50 mm x 33 mm
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Vanadinite - Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
(#FERR1382)
Specimen featuring orange aggregates almost spherical of Vanadinite xls, scattered on matrix.
Very recent and limited find from a well known moroccan locale.
Specimen weight:132 gr.
Crystal size:dia 1 cm
Overall size:70mm x 55 mm x 25 mm
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Quartz var. Chalcedony - Sidi Rahal, Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz Region, Morocco
(#8719_CHAL_DANI)
Nice chalcedony with the shape of twin balls.
Specimen weight:86 gr.
Crystal size:na
Overall size:55mm x 38 mm x 42 mm
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Roselite on Quartz with Goethite - Aghbar Mine (Arhbar Mine), Aghbar, Bou Azzer District (Bou Azer District), Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
(#BALD0579)
Group of isolated Roselite's crystals, very nice, with good color, translucent, in very well conditions. The biggest crystal, twinned and biterminated has really remarkable dimensions (10 mm).
Specimen weight:122 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 10 mm
Overall size:65mm x 45 mm x 46 mm
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Axinite with Epidote - Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
(#BALD0575)
Group of nice, well formed and shiny crystals, with light pink color, in paragenesis with 8 mm Epidote. Classic Alpine's fissure mineral.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 5 mm
Overall size:52mm x 53 mm x 19 mm
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Azurite and Malachite - Oum Sisi, Alnif, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
(#7217_AZUR_DANI)
Very interesting combo offering most unusal flattened azurite crystals up to 13 mm covering/repkcing perphaps baryte crsytals? with globular malachite.
Specimen weight:530 gr.
Crystal size:13 mm
Overall size:130mm x 125 mm x 55 mm
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Owner : GMineral (Voghera - Italy) 