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Proberylo claim-Sapucaia pegmatite - Minas Gerais - Brazil

In this page we offer some exceptional samples coming from the legendary mine of Sapucaia, well known for the wonderful phosphates, aquamarina and quarz too. We visited 4 times during the 2009 the mine and this page is a "love" act for : Fantastic Sapucaia !
  00 - the dumps in june 2009. 40 degrees under those trees, a terrible light cause the white of the rock and some dangerous snakes, the "cascavel"
    01 - some vugs full of pink strengite 

 area  3x2 cm

 the sample 9x5 cm

 price : € 60,00

    01b - a vug full of phosphosiderite, in the previous sample 

 area  3x2 cm

   01c - some robertsite spheres, in the previous sample

 area 8 mm 

    01d - some laueite crystals and robertsite spheres, in the previous sample

  area 6 mm

 

 02 - pink strengite and red bermanite

  area 10 mm

 the sample 5x5 cm

 price : € 60,00

     sold

 02b - stewartite, yellow crystals with whiteite at right

 area 3 mm

 02c - orange spheres of cacoxenite on jahnsite

 area 3 mm

 02d - bermanite - little crystals on strengite

 area 1 mm

  

 00 - joao guitar : my guide at Sapucaia, showing a vug full of muscovite crystals
 03 - strengite, some violet crystals

 area 3 mm

 the sample 5x3 cm

 price : € 50,00

 03b - laueite - little group of orange crystals with robertsite

 area 4 mm

 03c - jahnsite - a vug full of lustrous crystals

 area  10 mm

 03d - frondelite - Sapucaia is the type locality for this nice phosphate

 area 3 mm

 nb. all these in the sample n.3

 04 - bermanite - three vugs full of well definited red crystals

 this vug 15x15 mm

 the sample 7x3 cm

 price : € 60,00

        sold      

 04b - bermanite crystals in vug, in the previous sample
 04c - robertsite - some brown spheres in the previous sample 

 area 5 mm

 04d - some violet spheres of phosphosiderite, in the previous sample

 area 4 mm

 

 05 - dark pink spheres of variscite

 area 5x2 cm !!!

 the sample 10x6 cm

 price : € 75,00

     sold

 05b - phosphosiderite and variscite in the previous sample

 area 6 mm

 05c - robertsite - brown spheres

 area 5 mm

 05d - bermanite red crystals on strengite and some yellow spheres not analized

 area 4 mm

nb. all in the sample n.5

 06 - a wonderful sample with lot of good phosphates

here some laueite crystals on strengite

 area 12 mm

 the sample 6x5 cm

 price : € 60,00

 06b - phosphosiderite on frondelite
 06c - pink strengite on meurigite-K needles, on frondelite

area 10mm

 06d -beraunite and strengite

nb. all these at the sample n.6

 07 - some pink strengite crystals

 area 12 mm

 the sample 6x4 cm

 price : € 45,00

      sold

 07b -a vug full of yellow cacoxenite
 07c - some jahnsite crystals

area 8 mm

 07d - a vug full of cacoxenite on jahnsite crystals