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The Portugal Gallery includes a number of specimens from different localities in Portugal (excluding Panasqueira which has its own Gallery). Pages 1 to 3 are devoted to some pegmatites in central Portugal and show quartz, apatite, albite and others. |
WPOR-02/116 - Autunite Nossa Senhora do Assunçao Mine, Aldeia Nova, near Ferreira de Aves (Viseu District, Portugal) Nice isolated yellowish green square (with bevelled corners) crystals of autunite to 2 mm. on edge on a matrix of white quartz. Highly fluorescent in a yellowish color. Collected in 2002 long before most of the samples currently seen in the market. 9.3x5.5x4.9 - 30 € |
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WPOR-02/117 - Autunite Nossa Senhora do Assunçao Mine, Aldeia Nova, near Ferreira de Aves (Viseu District, Portugal) A piece of massive white quartz with a cluster of yellowish green square (with bevelled corners) crystals of autunite being the largest 5 mm. across. Highly fluorescent in a yellowish color. Collected in 2002 long before most of the samples currently seen in the market. 7.5x5x4.6 - 45 € |
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WPOR-02/118 - Autunite Nossa Senhora do Assunçao Mine, Aldeia Nova, near Ferreira de Aves (Viseu District, Portugal) Coating of nice yellowish green square crystals of autunite to 4 mm. on edge on a matrix of white quartz. The largest crystals present bevelled corners. Highly fluorescent in a yellowish color. Collected in 2002 long before most of the samples currently seen in the market. 5.4x3.5x1.8 - 18 € |
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WPOR-02/119 - Autunite Nossa Senhora do Assunçao Mine, Aldeia Nova, near Ferreira de Aves (Viseu District, Portugal) Coatings of nice yellowish green square crystals of autunite to 4 mm. on edge on a matrix of white quartz with some oxide coating. The largest crystals present bevelled corners. Highly fluorescent in a yellowish color. Collected in 2002 long before most of the samples currently seen in the market. 7.5x3.8x2.2 - 30 € |
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WPOR-02/120 - Torbernite and autunite Nossa Senhora do Assunçao Mine, Aldeia Nova, near Ferreira de Aves (Viseu District, Portugal) Piece of massive white to smoky quartz with some square plates of apple-green torbernite (partly dehydrated to meta-torbernite) to 5 mm. on edge with thin rims of yellowish autunite . Quite interesting. 6.8x6.5x3.2 - 65 € |
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WPOR-02/34 - Torbernite Nossa Senhora do Assunçao Mine, Aldeia Nova, near Ferreira de Aves (Viseu District, Portugal) Piece of white opaque quartz with some square plates of emerald-green torbernite (partly dehydrated at the borders to meta-torbernite) to about 0.2 cm. on edge. 5.8x4x3.2 - 15 € |
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WPOR-02/35 - Torbernite Nossa Senhora do Assunçao Mine, Aldeia Nova, near Ferreira de Aves (Viseu District, Portugal) Piece of white opaque quartz with some square plates of green torbernite (partly dehydrated to meta-torbernite) to about 0.2 cm. on edge. 7.2x4.2x2.7 - 18 € |
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WPOR-02/36 - Torbernite on quartz Nossa Senhora do Assunçao Mine, Aldeia Nova, near Ferreira de Aves (Viseu District, Portugal) Group of two crystals of opaque white to translucent colorless zoned quartz to about 8 cm. long with a scattering of emerald-green square tablets of torbernite to 0.1 cm. across. 8.2x7.7x3.2 - 25 € |
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WPOR-02/37 - Torbernite on quartz Nossa Senhora do Assunçao Mine, Aldeia Nova, near Ferreira de Aves (Viseu District, Portugal) A matrix of partly crystallized white to smoky quartz with a partial coating of green square crystals of torbernite (partly dehydrated to meta-torbernite) to about 0.2 cm. on edge. 6.5x6x4.7 - 30 € |
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WPOR-03/70 - Spessartine on albite Portugal II Quarry, Malpartida, near Almeida (Guarda District, Portugal) Tiny lustrous translucent red crystals of spessartine to less than 2 mm. across on an albite matrix with some muscovite associated. 4.2x3.9x2.6 - 12 € |
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WPOR-03/71 - Spessartine on albite Portugal II Quarry, Malpartida, near Almeida (Guarda District, Portugal) Tiny lustrous translucent red crystals of spessartine to about 2 mm. across on an albite matrix with some muscovite associated. 6.8x5.7x4.3 - 20 € |
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WPOR-02/17 - Quartz and tourmaline Portugal II Quarry, Malpartida, near Almeida (Guarda District, Portugal) A matrixless lustrous translucent singly terminated crystal of greyish smoky quartz. Presents several lustrous striated crystals of black tourmaline. The tourmaline across the termination of the quartz is a 1.8-cm. doubly terminated crystal. The other tourmaline has a trigonal termination (one face is lacking) at the upper end and is recrystallized at the bottom one. Undamaged with the exception of the tourmaline face. 4.8x2.5x2.4 - 25 € |
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WPOR-02/18 - Quartz, tourmaline and apatite Portugal II Quarry, Malpartida, near Almeida (Guarda District, Portugal) A matrixless doubly terminated lustrous crystal of dark smoky quartz. Presents a partial coating of and is heavily included by creamy microcline. There are some lustrous crystals of black tourmaline to 1.2 cm. long some of them terminated. At bottom termination there is some white albite and a few white to colorless hexagonal crystals of apatite. Just a small broken area in a side crystal at back of the specimen. 5x2.5x2 - 27 € |
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WPOR-02/20 - Quartz Portugal II Quarry, Malpartida, near Almeida (Guarda District, Portugal) Matrixless cluster of two parallel crystals of lustrous translucent greyish smoky quartz. One tiny nick in one termination, otherwise undamaged. 3.6x3x2.4 - 12 € |
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WPOR-02/21 - Quartz and muscovite Portugal II Quarry, Malpartida, near Almeida (Guarda District, Portugal) A piece of pegmatite with a couple of singly terminated smoky quartz crystals, the largest being 3.5 cm. long, and several greenish muscovite books and twins to about 1 cm. across. 4.8x4.5x3 - 10 € |
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WPOR-02/22 - Quartz Portugal II Quarry, Malpartida, near Almeida (Guarda District, Portugal) Floater singly terminated crystal of lustrous dark smoky quartz slightly translucent when backlit. There is some creamy microcline included and at the termination as seen in the pictures. Bottom is contacted and recrystallized. Undamaged and very nice. 8x4x2.7 - 50 € |
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WPOR-01/1 - Quartz Quintela de Azurara, Mangualde (Viseu District, Portugal) A matrixless singly terminated lustrous translucent crystal of greyish smoky quartz. Some muscovite flakes associated. Undamaged except at bottom where it was attached to the matrix. 4.7x4.7x3.5 - 25 € |
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WPOR-01/2 - Quartz and microcline Quintela de Azurara, Mangualde (Viseu District, Portugal) A nice lustrous transparent flattened 4x1.7x1-cm. crystal of light smoky quartz on a piece of creamy microcline partly coated by fine-grained greenish muscovite. The quartz crystal is undamaged but unfortunately has been (carefully) reattached to the matrix. 6x6x3.8 - 20 € |
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