International Minerals
Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
Size: 5.9 x 5.2 x 3.3 cm
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Two glassy interlocked fluorite crystals of very good quality are set on a beautiful cluster of white calcite. The overall picture is amazingly attractive and there is no damage to be found. Also the backside is just a little contacted, not broken. Very lovely specimen from this classic locale!
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca, Bolognesi Province, Áncash, Peru
Size: 17.1 x 15.2 x 7.5 cm
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A large, heavy and totally impressive floater-specimen of pure galena, crystallized in cubo-octahedral habit and associated with beautiful white calcite, especially at the backside and periphery. The backside also holds some smaller patches of chalcopyrite.
Galena crystals range from a few millimeters to around 2.5 centimeters, show mirroring luster and "melted" edges. There is no damage anywhere which is a small miracle on a heavy piece like this! Wonderfully aesthetic and alegant, full of pretty details and impressive in size and quality!
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 5.5 x 4.9 x 4.4 cm
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It's a wonderful Shigar Valley paragenesis that combines white albite with surrounding silvery muscovite and a rich number of sparkling red spessartine crystals, distributed over the whole specimen. The bottom is contacted but the rest is in flawless condition all over! The little garnets with sizes up to 8mm are bright red, well defined and lustrous. Very aesthetic and elegant!
Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District, Attika Prefecture, Greece
Size: 24 x 14 x 9 cm
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Lavrion is one of the great classic European locales for aragonite and has produced many great pieces. Still, among all those specimen I have hardly every seen a specimen of a size and quality comparable to this very specimen! The main view is a great display of light blue aragonite that is absolutely amazing! The botrioidal shapes offer a very 3-dimensional landscape that beautifully shines in ordinary daylight. The rather intensive blue color is caused by copper salts inclusions and is uniform throughout the whole specimen. This sure is a dramatic aragonite of intensive color and great quality from of the minerals best sources!
Izumrudnye Kopi area, Malyshevo, Ekaterinburg, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Urals Region, Russia
Size: 6.2 x 5.3 x 3.9 cm
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A single impressive crystal of colorless, transparent phenakite on black mica schist! The bulky crystal is rather large for this rare gemstone and in perfect condition. At some spots and at the pieces core there are inclusions of mica as is characteristic for the famous Izumrudnye Kopi belt but large areas around 1 cm deep into the crystal are transparent. The specimen is complete all around with only minimal edge-wear.
Pieces from this locale are real classics and especially transparend pices like this one are highly coveted!
Ras Koh Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 4 x 2.3 x 1.1 cm
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This epidote specimen is from a recent find in the western Pakistani Mountains that revealed a completely unique and highly aesthetic "bow tie" shape. Sprays of dark green, lustous epidote form this sharp clusters in a just lovely way.This specimen is a dominant epidote "bow tie" of considerable 4 cm in size. It is accompanied by a second, smaller cluster that is equally perfectly developed. Highly attractive and in very best shape!
Navegadora claim, Conselheiro Pena, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size: 5.5 x 3.9 x 3 cm
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Etched spessartine of deep blood-red color with supreme luster on all sides! As a complete floater there is no damage anywhere, just the beautifully structured surface as is characteristic for the locale! While this is generally a loose single cristal, there is one quartz attached to it which makes for a very nice visual effect! Most special however is the incredibly gemmy interior! Provide some backlight and the deep red color radiates its magic glow! An absolutely fantastic specimen from this important locale!
Altai Mts (Rudnyi Altai), Eastern Kazakhstan Province, Kazakhstan
Size: 9.6 x 6.9 x 5 cm
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Honey yellow calcite of beautiful design and arrangement! The main crystal of 5.1 cm scalenohedral calcite sits at the very center of this vivid, 3-dimensional specimen. It is well defined, flawless and of great luster and transparency! All around extends a landscape af sparkling calcite. A really excellent specimen from an uncommon locale that shows best quality and aesthetics alike!
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Instead of "just" being a single crystal, this tourmaline is set on a kind of tourmaline shard, a piece that obviously was part of a larger crystal that broke off and completely re-healed on all sides. The bi-colored crystal is gemmy and lustrous with a flat termination. It is completely free of damage. An unusual specimen from this famed locale!
Paprok, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
Size: 10.2 x 2.1 x 1.8 cm
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This Paprok tourmaline unites everything we look for in a high class specimen! Nice combination of colors, great luster, a sharp pointed termination and even small side-crystals, all found in this crystal of remarkable size! The tourmaline is gemmy from bottom to top, almost transparent and displays an amazing color zoning: Orange at the lower half, deeply emerald green in the middle and strikingly pink at the terminal zone. The termination itself has a pyramidal shape, is lustrous and with a brilliant surface structure, all perfect and unharmed! All over, this specimen is flawless and nicely lustrous along the striated prism faces. Two small side-crystals near the bottom complete the picture. A marvelous tourmaline with no downsides!
Pune District, Maharashtra, India
Size: 10.1 x 7.6 x 5.2 cm
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A rich spray of ocean green apophyllite showing very best sparkling luster and great clarity is set on a snow white matrix of well crystallized stilbite! The quality on this specimen is just outstanding and miraculously all crystals are in perfect condition with razor-sharp edges! Set atop the apophyllite are single isolated stilbite crystals like sugar candy. Being completely free of damage this is an excellent specimen of great color, quality and aesthetics!
Paprok, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
Size: 7.3 x 2.1 x 1.9 cm
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Rich open colors, good size and a brilliant design make this tourmaline a real stunner! The crystal is semi-transparent at the bottom, where the color is a rich pink. The further up you look the glassier and more transparent it gets! The color changes about halfway up, first to a layer of white and then to an intensive glassy apple green! A small patch at the tip is pink again which puts just the cherries atop the icing! Most spectacular is the sharp, multifaceted termination that is unusually well developed! The whole specimen is perfectly flawless all around and highly lustrous. A stunning textbook tourmaline crystal!