I’ve posted excellent new specimens in this Europe Update (click here) with many classics, including superb Alpine smoky quartz, pyromorphite from several localities, fluorite, hematite, specimens from the German silver mines and more. From the collection of John S. White, Tracy Kimmel, and older collections, this is a great selection of European specimens.

Quartz, var. Smoky Quartz, Ghiac, Triolet Glacier, Val Ferret, Courmayeur,
Aosta Valley, (Mont Blanc massif), Italy – 10.1 cm

Quartz, variety smoky quartz, gwindel, Argentière Glacier, Chamonix,
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France – 10.9 cm

Quartz, var. Smoky Quartz, Gwindel – Piz Cavardiras, Cavardiras Valley, Russein Valley,
Disentis, Sursleva, Grisons, Switzerland – 5.0 cm

Pyromorphite, Les Farges Mine, Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aqiuitane, France – 5.6 cm

Pyromorphite, Saint-Salvy Mine, Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie, France
Field of view 1.6 cm

Scorodite, Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Freiburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany – 3.3 cm

Fluorite, Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Freiburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany – 5.6 cm

Safflorite pseudomorph after silver, with skutterudite, Shaft 371, Hartenstein,
Zwickau District, Saxony, Germany – 6.5 cm

Pyrargyrite, St. Andreasberg, Braunlage, Goslar District, Lower Saxony, Germany
Field of view 0.8 cm

Galena, Meyer Quarry, Hastenrath, Eschweiler, Aachen, Cologne,
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany – 6.1 cm

Pyromorphite, Bad Ems, Bad Ems-Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany – 3.9 cm

Quartz var. Ferruginous Quartz, Felsenmeer, Hemer-Sundwig, Arnsberg, Sauerland,
North Rhine – Westphalia, Germany – 9.7 cm

Fluorite, Beihilfe Mine, Halsbrücke, Mittlesachsen, Saxony, Germany – 9.4 cm

Azurite, Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece – 5.1 cm

Close-up of the above specimen
Field of view – 1.2 cm

Galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, Konski Dol Mine, Madan Ore Field,
Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria – 4.7 cm

Quartz epimorph after Calcite, Djurkovo Mine, Laki, Rhodope Mountains, Plovdiv, Bulgaria – 7.3 cm

Hematite var. Kidney Ore, Florence Mine, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England – 10.2 cm

Hematite var. Kidney Ore, Florence Mine, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England – 9.2 cm

Mimetite, Driggith Open Cut, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England – 5.0 cm

Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England – 3.3 cm

Calcite, Bigrigg, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England – 3.1 cm

Olivenite, Cornwall, England – 5.0 cm

Fluorite, Berbes District, Asturias, Spain – 6.4 cm

Pyromorphite, Resuperferolitica Mine, Cerro Canaleja, Santa Eufemia,
Córdoba, Spain – 2.6 cm

Pyrite, Ambasaguas 1 Mine, Ambas Aguas, Muro de Aguas, La Rioja, Spain – 5.4 cm

Quartz w Riebeckite Inclusions, Camino Cabezo Agudo, Los Vives, Orihuela, Alicante, Spain

Quartz w Magnesioriebeckite Inclusions, Antequera, Málaga, Andalusia, Spain

Quartz on fluorite, Moscona Mine, El Ponton de Solis, Covera De Asturias, Asturias, Spain – 6.5 cm

Quartz, Brañes Quarry, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain – 3.3 cm

Quartz (negative crystal inclusions), La Facciata Quarry, Torano, Carrara,
Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy