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Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 07.12.2024 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates
I’ve posted excellent new specimens in this Europe Update with many classics, including superb Alpine smoky quartz, pyromorphite from several localities, fluorite, hematite, specimens from the German silver mines and more.
Tags: Aachen, Alberoda, Alicante, Allerdale, Ambas Aguas, Ambasaguas 1 Mine, Andalusia, Antequera, Aosta Valley, Argentière Glacier, Arnsberg, arsenic, arsenic specimen, Asturias, Attica, Aue-Bad Schlema, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, azurite, azurite crystal, azurite fine mineral, azurite specimen, Bad Ems, Bad Ems-Nassau, Baden-Wurttemberg, Beihilfe Mine, Berbes District, Bigrigg, Branes Quarry, Braunlage, Bulgaria, calcite, calcite crystal, calcite fine mineral, calcite specimen, Caldbeck, Camino Cabezo Agudo, campylite, Castres, Cavardiras Valley, Cerro Canaleja, Chamonix, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Clara Mine, Cologne, Copeland, Córdoba, Cornish olivenite, Cornwall, Corrèze, Courmayeur, Covera De Asturias, Cumbria, Disentis, Djurkovo Mine, Driggith Open Cut, Dry Gill Mine, East Attica, Egremont, El Ponton de Solis, Elba, England, English mimetite, Erzegebirgskreis, Eschweiler, Felsenmeer, ferruginous quartz, Florence Mine, fluorite, fluorite Clara Mine, fluorite crystal, fluorite fine mineral, fluorite Germany, fluorite specimen, fluorite twin, France, Freiburg, Galena, galena crystal, galena fine mineral, galena Germany, galena specimen, German galena, Germany, Ghiac, Goslar District, Greece, green pyromprphite, Grisons, gwindel, Gwindel Chamonix, Gwindel fine mineral, gwindel France, Gwindel smoky quartz, Gwindel specimen, Halsbrücke, Hastenrath, hematite fine mineral, hematite specimen, Hemer-Sundwig, Italy, Konski Dol Mine, la rioja, Laki, Lavreotiki, Lavrion Mining District, Les Farges Mine, Los Vives, Lower Saxony, Madan District, Madan Ore Field, magnesioriebeckite, magnesioriebeckite inclusion, Málaga, Marciana, Meyer Quarry, mimetite, mimetite crystal, mimetite fine mineral, mimetite specimen, mimetite variety campylite, Mittlesachsen, Moscona Mine, Muro de Aguas, native arsenic, native arsenic specimen, native silver, negative crystal inclusions, North Rhine - Westphalia, Nouvelle-Aqiuitane, Oberwolfach, Occitanie, Olivenite, olivenite crystal, olivenite specimen, Orihuela, Oviedo, Piz Cavardiras, Plovidiv, Procchio, pseudomorph after silver, purple fluorite, pyrargyrite, pyrargyrite crystal, pyrargyrite fine mineral, pyrargyrite specimen, pyrite, pyrite crystal, pyrite cube, pyrite fine mineral, pyrite specimen, pyromorphite, pyromorphite crystal, pyromorphite fine mineral, pyromorphite specimen, quartz, quartz crystal, quartz epimorph, Quartz epimorph after Calcite, quartz fine mineral, quartz inclusions, quartz negative crystal inclusions, quartz pseudomorph, quartz pseudomorph after calcite, quartz specimen, Resuperferolitica Mine, Rhineland-Palatinate, Rhodope Mountains, Riebeckite, Riebeckite Inclusions, Russein Valley, safflorite, safflorite pseudomorph, safflorite pseudomorph after silver, safflorite specimen, Saint-Salvy Mine, Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Santa Eufemia, Sauerland, Saxony, scorodite, scorodite crystal, scorodite fine mineral, scorodite specimen, Shaft 366, Silver, silver pseudomorph specimen, smoky quartz, smoky quartz crystal, smoky quartz fine mineral, smoky quartz specimen, Smolyan Oblast, spain, Spanish fluorite, spanish pyrite, St. Andreasberg, Sursleva, Swiss gwindel quartz, Swiss Quartz, Swiss smoky quartz, Switzerland, Tarn, Tracy Kimmel Collection, Triolet Glacier, Tuscany, twinned fluorite, UK mimetite, Ussel, Val Ferret, var. Smoky Quartz
Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 08.05.2021 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates
I’ve added great specimens from the Pete Richards collection, from localities around the world, including Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Spain, Greece, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico and more.
Tags: actinolite, actinolite crystal, actinolite inclusions, Adamite, adamite crystal, adamite fine mineral, adamite for sale, adamite specimen, almandine crystal, almandine fine mineral, almandine garnet, almandine specimen, andradite, andradite crystal, andradite fine mineral, Andradite Garnet, andradite specimen, Aragonite, aragonite crystal, aragonite fine mineral, aragonite fluorescence, aragonite specimen, Austria, Austrian almandine, Austrian garnet, barite, barite crystal, barite fine mineral, barite specimen, Baryte, baryte crystal, baryte specimen, Basque Country, Bolivia, Boulangerite, boulangerite crystal, boulangerite specimen, bournonite, Buffalo, calcite, calcite crystal, calcite fluorescent, calcite helictite, calcite specimen, Canutillos Subdistrict, Capodarso, Carinthia, Cavnic, Charcas, Chihuahua, danburite, danburite crystal, danburite fine mineral, danburite specimen, Dos de Mayo province, Durango, Enna, Erzgebirge, Gaisberg Tal, garnet crystal, garnet fine mineral, garnet specimen, Germany, Giumentaro Mine, Granatenkogel, Greece, helictite, Huallanca District, Huancavelica Dept., Huanuco, Huanzala mine, Huaron Mining District, Imst District, Iowa, Italy, Japan Law Twin, La Libertad Department, la rioja, Linwood Mine, Machacamarcha District, Mallnitz, Mapimi, Marmures, Mega Horio, Mexico, Mezica, Mezica Mines, Milos, Mun. de Charcas, Mutiloa Guipuzcoa, native silver, navajun, Navajun pyrite, Obergurgl, Ojuela Mine, Pampa Blanca District, Pasco, Peru, Pete Richards collection, Pöhla Mine, Potosí, pyrite, pyrite crystal, pyrite cube, pyrite fine mineral, pyrite specimen, quartz, quartz crystal, quartz fine mineral, quartz specimen, quartz twin, Quiruvilca Mine, Romania, San Luis Potosí, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Santiago de Chuco Province, Saxony, Scott Co., Serifos Island, sicily, Silver, silver crystal, silver fine mineral, silver specimen, Slovenia, Sölden, South Aegean, spain, spanish pyrite, sphalerite, sphalerite crystal, sphalerite fine mineral, sphalerite specimen, Spittal an der Drau District, tetrahedrite, tetrahedrite crystal, tetrahedrite fine mineral, tetrahedrite specimen, Tomokoni Mine, Troya Mine, Tyrol, USA, victoria mine, vivianite, vivianite crystal, vivianite fine mineral, vivianite specimen, West Camp, wulfenite, wulfenite crystal, wulfenite fine mineral, wulfenite for sale, wulfenite specimen, Zacatecas
Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 01.11.2014 | Filed under: Adventurers
We have all had that moment when looking at a pyrite from Navajún, Spain: “No way are those cubes natural!” Well, if you’d like to adventure to the remarkable place where they do in fact come out of the ground, this post will take you to this beautiful region of Spain, and to the Victoria Mine.
Tags: castilruiz, la rioja, navajun, piritas, piritas de navajun, pyrite, pyrite cleaning, pyrite crystals, pyrite cube, pyrite cubes, pyrite mine, pyrite navajun, pyrite preparation, pyrite preservation, pyrite repair, Ray McDougall, Raymond McDougall, san felices, soria, spain, spanish pyrite, victoria mine
