Real quarry, Real, Penalva do Castelo, Viseu, Portugal
Apatite cristals máx 6mm Self collected
Blue apatite from Real quarry pice with 5cm. Self collected.
Blue fluorapatite on albite. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, 2006.
© Rui Nunes 2006
Apatite cristal whith 3cm. Self collected.
Floater fluorapatite crystal cluster. Rui Nunes' photo, December 2007.
© Rui Nunes 2007
Fluorapatite crystals on matrix. Collection and photo Rui Nunes, 2007.
Pink fluorapatite crystal on matrix. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, January 2007.
White fluorapatite crystals with muscovite and quartz on a feldspar matrix. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, November 2007.
Cristals up 3mm self collected
Fluorapatite crystal group on matrix. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, January 2007.
Corvaceira quarry, Castelo de Penalva, Penalva do Castelo, Viseu, Portugal
Rui Nunes' collection and photo, January 2007.
Purpurite, field of view 50x40mm
Massive tryphylite. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, December 2011.
© Rui Nunes 2011
3 mm white fluorapatite crystal on center. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, November 2007.
Fluorapatite crystals on a quartz matrix. Rui Nunes' photo, December 2007.
Light pinkish apatite, muscovite and quartz. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, November 2007.
Fluorapatite crystal in a specimen with quartz and muscovite. Rui Nunes' collection and photo, January 2007.
Aesthetic specimen composed of intense violet fluorapatite crystals grouped , at times more greenish at the core, with high luster standing out upon a scarce orthoclase/quartz matrix. Collected in summer 1994 Coll and photo.- Carlos G. Bargueño
Sandiães, Castelo de Penalva, Penalva do Castelo, Viseu, Portugal
Botryoidal muscovite. Rui Nunes' collection and photo, April 2008.
© Rui Nunes 2008
Fluorapatite intergrown crystals. The specimen size is 16 mm. Rui Nunes' collection and photo, 2006.
Feldspar, muscovite and tiny quartz crystals. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, 2006.
Fluorapatite crystals up to 5mm on Cleavelandite - Overall size 3x2,5x2cm - June of 2000
© Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra
Sample massive with 7x5x2cm - March of 2007
autunite with feldspat and quartz, size 5x5 cm, found in 2005.
© klaus ludwig
Sample with 5x3x3cm - March of 2007
Venturinha, Sezures, Penalva do Castelo, Viseu, Portugal
Molybdenite embedded in quartz. Collection and photo Rui Nunes, January 2010.
© Rui Nunes 2010
Companheiro No. 1 quarry, Sezures, Penalva do Castelo, Viseu, Portugal
Molybdenite on Quartz. Size 3x1,2 cm. Photo and Collection Jacques-Yves Desescaut.
© JY. Desescaut
Plate crystal with 13x10x7cm - April of 2001
Sample crystallized with 6x4x4cm - April of 2006
Crystal purple with 1x1x1cm - June of 2005
Very nice Fluorapatite crystal with 3x2x1cm on floater feldspar macle with 10x5x2cm - March of 2008. See other photos
Blue Fluorapatite crystals up to 1,5cm with acicular Schorl crystals up to 4cm - March of 2008. See other photos
Crystal with 6x2cm on Orthoclase - January of 1989
Schorl crystals up to 2,5cm on Quartz crystal with 3,5x2x2cm - December of 2007
Pink feldspar and muscovite. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, 2006
Beryl cristals on Quartz and Muscovite, field of view 200X150mm
Feldspar group and muscovite on quartz. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, 2006.
A tabular crystal of ferberite in the center with some muscovite and cassiterite in an albite matrix. Specimen collected in 2007. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, May, 2022.
Cassiterite crystals on quartz. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, 2005.
© Rui Nunes 2005
Nice blue apatite with an unusual form, maybe disturbed by muscovite? Crystal size: 5 mm.
© nuno afonso
Rui Nunes' collection and photo, December 2007.
Muscovite on microcline. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, January 2007.
Larger crystal with 2x1,5x1cm - June of 2005
Beryl cristals up to 20 cm., seen on the right site of the mine, 1999
Cleavelandite crystals up to 5mm with Fluorapatite crystals on Orthoclase matrix with 5x4x4cm - April of 2005
Parallel crystallization on Ortoclase - Overall size 5x4x3cm - April of 2005
Penalva do Castelo, Viseu, Portugal
Lamelar crystals up to 7mm - Field with 5x3,5cm - March of 2007
Red quartz sample with 5x4x3cm - February of 2010
© Martins da Pedra photo & collection
Pink feldspar, muscovite and colourless quartz. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, 2006.
Muscovite. Size 7x5cm. Photo and Collection Jacques-Yves Desescaut.
Crystal terminated with 7x6x6cm - April of 2001
Aquamarine in quartz,cristal is roundabout 3 cm.
a very dark smoky quartz, size 12 cm, found in comp. 1 in 1996.
Sample crystallized with 5x4x3cm - March of 2007
Colourless fluorapatite crystal with muscovite on quartz. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, December 2007.
beryl and quartz, size 6 cm.
Beryl crystal 12 x 7 cm. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, January 2010.
Pink Orthoclase crystal with biterminated quartz crystal on face with Albite - Overall size 4x3x2,5cm - April of 2005
Muscovite. Size 12x5cm. Photo and Collection Jacques-Yves Desescaut.
Cristals up 3mm Self collected
Crystal terminated with 6x5x5cm - April of 2001
Crystal with 10x7x5cm - October of 2002
Plate crystal with 13x11x5cm - April of 2001
Group of Fluorapatite crystals, with small acicular Tourmaline over Albite Matrix. Collected 2008 Maximum size 140 mm Apatite Crystal max. size 65 mm
Colourless fluorapatite crystals with felsdpar and minor muscovite. Rui Nunes' photo, December 2007.
Fluorapatite intergrown crystals 20 mm. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, 2006.
Bertrandite crystals up 6mm Collected by A.Monteiro
Biterminated group and floater - 7x5x5cm - May of 2011. Gift from Monteiro.
Fluorite crystal (edge 1.5 mm) found in a miarolitic cavity in the granite quarry. collected in 10/2008
© Dr. Cesar Menor-Salvan 2008
Floater Macle with 10x5x2cm - March of 2008 See other side in http://www.mindat.org/photo-159217.html
Cleavelandite in parallel crystallization with Muscovite crystal on Ortoclase crystal with 4,5x4x3cm - April of 2005
Colourless fluorapatite crystal on muscovite, quartz and albite. Rui Nunes' specimen and photo, 2006.