Quartz on barite - Embournegade, Tarn, France
Small, bright white quartz on crested barite from the former Embournegade mine in the Tarn region of France, which yielded quartz-covered blue fluorite instead. 7 x 5 x 3,5 cm. Reference : 3630-LM2T
Small, bright white quartz on crested barite from the former Embournegade mine in the Tarn region of France, which yielded quartz-covered blue fluorite instead. 7 x 5 x 3,5 cm. Reference : 3630-LM2T
Group of large beige/green siderite petals in very good condition. 14 x 9 x 6 cm. Reference : 3631-LM2T
Blue fluorite covered with small bright quartz, some biterminated, colored by iron oxides. A typical Tarn piece, from a less famous deposit than the neighboring Burc or Montroc. 11 x 9 x 6,5 cm. Reference : 3633-LM2T
9 x 4,5 x 2,5 cm. Reference : 3634-LM2T
The siderite is crystallized around a vertical axis. A little goethite covers the siderite petals at the base of the piece. Not to be confused with Peyrebrune, some 30 km southwest of Peyreblanque. 6,5 x 5 x 5 cm. Reference : 3636-LM2T
The pyrite is brilliant and shows interesting growth patterns (see close-up photo). 7 x 5 x 1 cm. Reference : 3637-LM2T
A locality that has produced some of France's finest prehnites! Here the byssolite is not developed, but the prehnites are brilliant and in very good condition. 4,5 x 3,5 x 2 cm. Reference : 3639-LM2T
Blue fluorite nestled in small iron oxide-colored quartz, deliberately left in to preserve this pleasant contrast. 8 x 5 x 4 cm. Reference : 3641-LM2T
Biterminated quartz with chlorite inclusions. Brilliant surfaces. 5 x 1,7 x 0,9 cm. Reference : 3644-LM2T
Pretty little brilliant quartz, known as "diamond", from Saint-Jean-de-Valériscle in the Gard. 2,3 x 2,7 x 2,2 cm. Reference : 3645-LM2T
Pretty little brilliant quartz, known as "diamond", from Saint-Jean-de-Valériscle in the Gard region. 3 x 2,2 x 1,5 cm. Reference : 3646-LM2T
Floating piece composed of a green fluorite octahedron partially covered with white microquartz, then a generation of colorless cubic fluorite. Kaolin is still present at the base. 4,5 x 4 x 3,5 cm. Reference : 3647-LM2T
Goethite, very finely crystallized on the surface, with attractive brilliance, from a small locality in the Tarn region, in the commune of Montredon-Labessonnié. 8 x 8 x 3 cm. Reference : 3649-LM2T
Granite slab sprinkled with small crystals of colorless to yellow fluorite with violet centers. Bright surfaces and well-defined edges. Note the presence of white star-shaped barite. This atypical shape is natural, due to an obstacle having prevented their growth; the entire bottom of the piece...
A bush of epidotes in long, well-terminated, brilliant crystals from this classic French deposit. 7 x 4 x 5,2 cm. Reference : 3652-LM2T