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RM3331   Kyanite
Al2OSiO4
  -  9. Silicates

Laminar crystals of kyanite, with a bluish tone, from this deposit located on the road between Canillas del Aceituno and Sedella. This specimen belongs from the Peter Seroka collection and is accompanied by the label.

Size: 8.3 x 5.4 x 4.5 cm.
Found in ±1998.
Col. Peter Seroka (#235).
60 €
RM3327   Hydroboracite

Excellent specimen of hydroboracite, with a very good size, formed by numerous radial aggregates of acicular crystals. Very good brilliance, transparence and with color zoning, between colorless to slightly honeyed. This specimen has a former owner's handwritten label. A display museum specimen.

Size: 11 x 6.9 x 4.6 cm.
Main crystal: 24 mm.
160 €
RM3281   Monazite-(Ce), cassiterite and quartz
Ce(PO₄)
  -  8. Phosphates, arsenates and vanadates

These specimens from the Siglo XX Mine present defined, brilliant, translucent and light orange colour monazite-(Ce) crystals. They are accompanied by hyaline quartz and black-brown cassiterite on matrix. Some are twinned. Monazite is found in small quantities in this mine.
Monazite gets its name from the Greek word μουάζω "monazein" meaning "to be alone," alluding to its isolated crystals and their rarity when they were first found. Monazite is generally found in granitic pegmatites, but these crystals are found in hydrothermal veins with tin and the absence of thorium (generally an accompanying element of monazite).

Size: 7.7 x 5.5 x 4.9 cm.
Main crystal: 3.5 mm.
Col J. Viñals. Col. E. Nicolau (Barcelona).
190 €
RM3279   Scolecite

Group of twinned prismatic scolecite crystals, very brilliant and transparent. It is accompanied by small hyaline crystals of fluorapophyllite-(K), bright and very defined. Scolecite is a rather rare species of the zeolite group from India. With handwritten label by J. Viñals and belonged to the Nicolau collection (Barcelona).

Size: 8.2 x 2.6 x 2 cm.
Col J. Viñals. Col. E. Nicolau (Barcelona).
190 €
RM3278   Bultfonteinite and Olmiite-poldervaartite
Ca2SiO3(OH)F·H2O

Excellent specimen formed by numerous colorless acicular crystals of bultfonteinite, a rare hydrated calcium fluorosilicate, which is accompanied by beige prismatic crystals of olmiite, a hydroxysilicate of calcium and manganese. The specimen is very representative of these species. This is the type locality for olmiite. We include pooldervaartite because it is very common since it forms a series with olmiite.

Size: 7.2 x 5.7 x 4.9 cm.
Col. E. Nicolau (Barcelona).
Type Locality
RM3238   Arsenopyrite and ferberite
FeAsS

A great sample of arsenopyrite, pale gold to silver in colour with slight iridenscence and a bright metallic lustre, with several intergrown crystals all showing complex striations and serated crystal edges. Accompanied by black ferberite. Good sized and fine specimen.

Size: 8.5 x 8 x 5.5 cm.
Main crystal: 2.5 x 2.2 cm.
150 €
RM3237   Calcite, fluorite and Pyrite
Ca(CO3)
  -  5. Carbonides and nitrates

Group of tabular crystals of calcite of hexagonal shape, with color zoning and small recrystallizations of the same calcite in some areas of the piece. Crystals are on a matrix with fluorite, quartz and small pyrite crystals. It shows a intense reddish tone under UV light. Aesthetic specimen from this classic Moroccan locality.

Size: 8.9 x 6.5 x 6 cm.
Main crystal: 20 mm.
Fluorescent under long wave UV
60 €
RM3236   "Star" twinned muscovite
KAl₂(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂
  -  9. Silicates

A very attractive large specimen of beautiful "star" muscovite mica from Linópolis. These specimens are some of the most distinctive and eye-catching pieces of mica from any locality for their wonderful morphology. This piece has a full coverage of lovely golden-yellow color, incredibly well-formed, star shaped twinned crystals of muscovite on quartz matrix.

Size: 8.5 x 7.5 x 5.8 xm.
Main crystal: 15 mm. star
85 €
RM3250   Topaz on rhyolite

Aesthetic group of topaz crystals aesthetically disposed on a rhyolite matrix. Some of them isolated and very rich in faces. They show very well defined faces and edges, with an excellent transparency and a uniform tone. From a classic locality.

Size: 7.2 x 5.4 x 2.4 cm.
Main crystal: 12 mm.
Classic locality
130 €
RM3252   Spinel and calcite

Highly lustrous, rounded faces, jet-black spinel octahedrons included in a calcite matrix from this less well-known locality. Crystals of this size and quality are rare from here and this is a fine and good sized specimen from the E. Nicolau (Barcelona) Collection.

Size: 7.7 x 5.7 x 3 cm.
Main crystal: 1 cm.
Col. E. Nicolau (Barcelona).
RM3263   Jarosite

Interesting specimen due to the town where it comes from. It is a druse (both sides) of small, brilliant jarosite crystals from this small ballast quarry for railway tracks, located in the area known as "La Corraliza" to the NNE of the town of Vall d'Uixó. With old label from J. Viñals.

Size: 5.8 x 4.4 x 0.8 cm.
45 €
RM3254   Baryte
Ba(SO4)

Globular aggregates of prismatic baryte crystals, bright, defined, translucent and with a whitish color. A classic of Murcian mining.

Size: 6.6 x 3.7 x 5.2 cm.
Main crystal: 8 x 7 mm.
45 €
RM3283   Galena, twinned Sphalerite, Quartz and Calcite
PbS
  -  2. Sulfides and sulfosalts

In this specimen we can observe several cubic galena crystals, very brilliant and defined, with faces of the cube truncated by the octahedron. They are accompanied by complex sphalerite spinel twin crystals. Disposed on a matrix with quartz and lenticular calcite crystals.

Size: 8.6 x 7.3 x 4.5 cm.
Main crystal: 16 x 14 mm. galena.
100 €
RM3284   Fluorite and Baryte
CaF₂
  -  3. Halides

Group of cubic fluorite crystals, with transparence that allows us to see the inner violet geometric zoning. Polysynthetic growths on faces. In matrix with baryte.

Size: 5.7 x 4.7 x 3.7 cm.
Main crystal: 16 mm.
Classic locality
45 €
RM3289   Fluorite
CaF₂
  -  3. Halides

Este ejemplar de fluorita de la cantera Berta nos muestra grupos de cristales pero también cristales aislados. La matriz es la granodiorita de color rojo "antigua" y se halla tapizada por diminutos octaedros de fluorita casi incoloros. Si algo hay que destacar de esta pieza es que los cristales octaédricos de fluorita muestran en los vértices las caras del rombododecaedro, del cubo y del tetraquishexaedro.

Size: 5.9 x 5.4 x 2.6 cm.
Main crystal: 8 mm.
Fluorescent under long wave UV
70 €
RM3286   Erythrite
  -  0.

Radial aggregates of needle like erythrite crystals. They stand out from the goethite matrix.

Size: 7.2 x 6.2 x 4.7 cm.
Main crystal: 3 mm.
Found in 02/2018.
40 €
RM3293   Erythrite
  -  0.

Radial aggregates of needle like erythrite crystals. They stand out from the goethite matrix.

Size: 12 x 8.5 x 4 cm.
Main crystal: 3 mm.
Found in 02/2018.
55 €
RM3291   Erythrite
  -  0.

Radial aggregates of needle like erythrite crystals. They stand out from the goethite matrix.

Size: 8.5 x 6.5 x 5.8 cm.
Main crystal: 3 mm.
Found in 02/2018.
55 €
RM3292   Erythrite
  -  0.

Radial aggregates of needle like erythrite crystals. They stand out from the goethite matrix.

Size: 4.6 x 3.8 x 3.6 cm.
Main crystal: 4 mm.
Found in 02/2018.
Classic locality
40 € 25 €
RM3326   Baryte
Ba(SO4)

This is a specimen of tabular barite crystals, colorless to yellowish tones and very good transparence. It belongs from the Mines d'Osor, currently closed and from which it is impossible to obtain these specimens. The mine closed in 1979 and had eleven levels, with a 290 meter deep shaft. You can still see the ruins of the old facilities and the well from which sphalerite, galena and fluorite were extracted and treated.

Size: 9 x 6 x 2.8 cm.
Found in ±1980.
50 €
RM3323   Epidote
(CaCa)(AlAlFe³⁺)O[Si₂O₇][SiO₄](OH)
  -  9. Silicates

A rich group of epidote crystals of a very good size and an intense green, almost black color. The crystals show very well defined prism faces of different orders. This crystal shape is quite unusual for this Moroccan locality.

Size: 4.9 x 3.3 x 2.6 cm.
Main crystal: 2 cm.
Found in ±2021.
50 €
RM3321   Microcline
K(AlSi₃O₈)
  -  9. Silicates

Well-defined twinned microcline crystal from a very unusual locality, not seen in collections. It cbelongs from the collection of Peter Seroka, known for his interest in feldspars.

Size: 6.2 x 3.5 x 2.7 cm.
Col. Peter Seroka (L'Escala, Girona) #987
40 €
RM3315   Smithsonite

Botryoidal aggregates of smithsonite with a very tastefull bluish green colour, translucent and with brilliance. They are disposed on matrix. From a very interesting American locality. It fluoresces intensely under LW-UV light.

Size: 9.5 x 6.2 x 3.8 cm.
Fluorescent under long wave UV
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RM3274   Torbernite and quartz
Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·12H₂O
  -  8. Phosphates, arsenates and vanadates

Various small but very defined torbernite crystals. They are arranged on a matrix of crystallized quartz. Unusual for this Portuguese town.

Size: 9.6 x 5.3 x 3.9 cm.
Presents radioactive activity ☢.
35 €
RM3270   Vesuvianite
Ca₁₉Fe³⁺Al₄(Al₆Mg₂)(◻₄)◻[Si₂O₇]₄[(SiO₄)₁₀]O(OH)₉
  -  9. Silicates

Vesuvianite crystal, with defined faces, doubly terminated, green to dark brown in color. It is labeled as coming from the Imilchil area. Good size and aesthetics.

Size: 6 x 4.5 x 3.7 cm.
Main crystal: 2.9 cm.
Col J. Viñals. Col. E. Nicolau (Barcelona).
55 €