Joan Abella i Creus

Joan Abella i Creus (Sabadell, Barcelona, 1968) is a Catalan gemmologist and mineralogist who discovered abellaite, a mineral that receives this name in his honor.

It consists of three parts: the first is a well-illustrated discussion of the history of mining in the area from the proto-Iberian era to the present.

who wrote about the silver of the Balcoll mine in Falset (Tarragona), a mine exploited since the fourteenth century by the Counts of the Mountains of Prades and lords of the Barony of Entenza,[2] which describes as specimens of acantite can be used to create samples of silver wire made by man, it was translated immediately into several other languages.

[4] The finding of the breithauptite in the Balcoll mine also stands out, the best crystallized specimens of this species never to date anywhere in the world.

It was discovered at the Eureka mine, at Castell-estaó (La Torre de Cabdella, Lleida).