Mimetite in small bright orange barrels and gemmy and brilliant wulfenite of the same color (main crystal: 7 mm), all on a matrix of pinkish barite. Piece delivered in a protective box of Jousi type. 3,7 x 3,5 x 2 cm. Reference : 2582-LM2T
Almost floating piece composed of vanadinite with very different fronts and backs: on one hand, we see small red vanadinite crystals, shiny, anarchically distributed on larger orange crystals, all arranged in the same orientation, and on the other hand, these same large crystals, this time of red...
This piece is essentially composed of a large tabular barite crystal (7 cm in its diagonal) transparent to white according to the different zonations, seeming to be pierced by a main colorless and brilliant quartz. The edges of this thick baryte crystal (8 mm) show a polysynthetic growth. Other...
A group of brown, shiny axinite crystals with clean, intact edges. Chlorite is present as an inclusion on the back. Old piece from the Dodo mine in the Polar Urals (Russia). 5,2 x 4,8 x 4,3 cm. Reference : 2590-LM2T
Rare amorphous aluminum phosphate, evansite is here expressed in small blue spherules on a matrix of extreme lightness. 4,3 x 3 x 2,5 cm. Reference : 2595-LM2T
Numerous small grossular garnets (hessonite variety), very bright, accompanied by clinochlore. Piece from the Bellecombe rodingites in the Aosta Valley (Italy). 4 x 3,5 x 1,8 cm. Reference : 2602-LM2T
Floating specimen 7.3 cm long composed of pseudohexagonal rosettes of silvery pink muscovite associated with small crystals of yellow apatite. This 1989 discovery in Brazil was reported in Mineralogical Record vol. 21 of 1990. 7,3 x 5,2 x 3,5 cm. Reference : 2605-LM2T
Very dark brown almost black scheelite single crystal, with very smooth surfaces and superb brilliance, 4.3 cm edge. Its color is an impressive icy blue under short Uvs. Pieces from this former South Korean mine closed in 1973 are rare of this quality and extremely priced! Here the price takes...
Orange topaz crystal of 1 cm, gem, well finished and bright, nicely arranged on the edge of a small cavity naturally formed in the rhyolite. This same crystal also has the particularity of including a small blade of hematite 2 mm high. Finally, a little purple fluorite is present opposite the...
Pyromorphite in bright, grass-green acicular microcrystals, typical of the locality. 4,6 x 3,5 x 4,5 cm. Reference : 2552-LM2T
Yellow/green pyromorphite, brilliant, very curved and crystallized in small spherical groups (facies called "campyllite"), on a quartz matrix. 4,5 x 3 x 2,5 cm. Reference : 2555-LM2T
Olivenite in rather brilliant microcrystals of a typical dark green. Sample which presents rather well, coming from the mythical mine of Cap Garonne in the Var exploited at the end of the XIXth - beginning of the XXth century, and now transformed into a museum. 4,5 x 2,5 x 2,5 cm. Reference :...
Crystals of octahedral pyrite with curved faces typical of the talc quarry of Luzenac in Trimouns (Ariège). The pyrite is bright and in excellent condition. Some uncrystallized quartz is present at the back of the piece. 4,5 x 4,5 x 3,5 cm. Reference : 2559-LM2T
Small acicular crystals of light green pyromorphite, shiny, coated on a schist gangue. Piece coming from a rare small locality in Aveyron, whose last work dates back to 1950. 11 x 7 x 3,5 cm. Reference : 2563-LM2T
Group of polysynthetic cubes of violet fluorite with green heart visible especially in backlighting), brilliant and translucent from the former large mine of Fontsante in the Var. 6 x 4,8 x 3 cm. Reference : 2565-LM2T
Floating piece composed of albite of a very beautiful brilliance of white color, sometimes colorless or still green, and of epidote, of the classic alpine locality of Saint-Véran. The main crystal is of good size (about 3 cm high). 4,7 x 3 x 3 cm. Reference : 2568-LM2T
Yellow fluorite with pinkish edges, translucent and extremely bright, associated with some crested barite. A classic from the Rossignol mine in Chaillac (closed and inaccessible since 1997), nevertheless of very good quality. 10,9 x 8,5 x 4,3 cm. Reference : 2572-LM2T
A plate of siderite rhombohedrons with an excellent brilliance and a superb dark chocolate color on the surface associated with some small hyaline quartz needles with a very nice luster. This is a remarkable quality piece from a small alpine occurrence near Vizille in Isère. 10,2 x 5,7 x 4,2 cm....
Bright red, gemmy and brilliant sphalerite, nestled within small white dolomite crystals and hyaline quartz needles. Nice quality piece, typical of the old mines of La Mure in Isère. 3,7 x 3,5 x 3 cm. Reference : 2579-LM2T
Azurite in discoidal crystallization of 4,6 x 2,9 cm on white kaolinite matrix.Their formation in depth, at a high pressure, led to this type of crystallization unique in the world for azurites, and to their name of azurite "sun".A great Australian classic of the most beautiful effect in your...
Azurite in very fine discoidal crystallization of 5.5 x 4 cm on a matrix of white kaolinite.Their formation in depth, at high pressure, has led to this type of crystallization unique in the world for azurites, and to their name of "sun" azurite.A great Australian classic of the most beautiful...
Several small discs of royal blue azurite with fibroradial borders, on a matrix of white kaolinite.Their formation in depth, at a high pressure, led to this type of crystallization unique in the world for azurites, and to their name of azurite "sun".A great Australian classic of the most...
