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Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 3.7 x 3 x 1.6 cm
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The brookite crystal on this lovely little specimen is a stunning 2.3 cm long and shows best maroon color with the characteristic hourglass painting. The dominant crystal is associated with some quartz, beautifully arranged around the brookites base. A side-crystal at the back is broken but which is long re-healed and not visible from the front anyway. Fantastic aesthetics, highest crystal quality and a flawless condition make this floater from the worlds best brookite locality a total stunner!
Paprok, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
Size: 6.7 x 3.6 x 1.7 cm
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This is really impressive aesthetics! A single tourmaline of gemmy quality and intensive green color is associated with a compact quartz crystals, perched to its side. The tourmaline itself has amazing quality from bottom to top and a distinctive twin-termination. The quartz is a translucent, fully developed single crystal that adds a totally unique aspect to this specimen. It has an abrasion at the tip but which is at least partly re-healed. The tourmaline on the other hand is perfect with only a missing side-crystal at the bottom. It's an absolutely unique specimen of superb quality and outstanding design!
Yangshuo Mine , Guilin, Guangxi Province, China
Size: 7.1 x 5.5 x 3.8 cm
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This cluster of thick pyromorphite crystals has pseudomorph transformed into sky-blue plumbogummite which is unique for this famed locale and the 2014 pocket. The crystals are attractively arranged like fingers on a hand. Some crystals still show remnants of the original pyromorphite which is a nice detail and interesting from the mineralogical point of view. The whole thing is in very best condition and highly attractive for it's sweeping shape and the lovely color!
Ras Koh Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 6.5 x 5.7 x 4 cm
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Unlike most specimens from this unique find the „bow tie“ habit epidote aggregates of this specimen are not loose but on matrix which adds much to the overall flavor here! The epidote has some contacts at the back but is all complete and flawless on the front where it displays its unusual shape with best sparkling luster! The matrix around the base is a combination of white calcite and some silvery green byssolite. The specimen is a complete floater and in very good condition all around!
Carbonera Mine, Near Nazca, Ica Dept., Peru
Size: 8.7 x 6.1 x 3.2 cm
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A nice display of gemmy green dioptase on a chrysocolla covered matrix. The chrysocolla covers the whole of the front face as well as some of the sides, where the rock matrix must have had cracks before it was worked out. Ranging from white to a light turquoise this is a nice background. The dioptase crystals are single isolated, translucent and sparkling with some micro crystals which is rather characteristic for the locale. The largest dioptase crystal is 1.3 cm long. All crystals are in perfect condition.
Zard Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 3.4 x 2.2 x 1.1 cm
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This small thumbnail specimen shows ideal aesthetics, best quality and is in outstanding condition! The single doubly terminated anatase crystal is 1.3 cm long, lustrous and flawless. It has a small patch of limonite at the backside which adds some rust-brown color to the otherwise black and white specimen. The crystal is set on a sparkling white cluster of pure quartz that is in fact a complete floater without damage or contacts! All in all this is a remarkably lovely specimen with no downsides!
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The rich purple color of this apatite is absolutely beautiful and it comes with a bright luster and in a well shaped crystal! Especially the prism faces display this intensive purple that is easily visible at normal room light but definitely reward some direct downlight. If you look from the apatite’s top you can see the hexagonal structure of the crystal. From this perspective it has the best wet-look luster while the purple gives way to a colorless zone with greenish inclusions. It’s a vivid and completely flawless crystal on matrix.
Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion, La Libertad, Peru
Size: 6.9 x 2.8 x 2.4 cm
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It's a rather massive and heavy aggregate of dark red huebnerite with some associated white quartz. The crystals are mostly too dark to illuminate but along the edges and at the protruding main crystal it is possible to shine through and highlight the gemmy red huebnerite. The piece is not quite perfect as there are some broken side-crystals. Fortunately the main crystals are terminated.
Tole, Wana, South Waziristan, Pakistan
Size: 12.7 x 6.2 x 5.4 cm
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This is a wild stack of brilliant quartz crystals some of which show the classic "Faden", most others are just very well developed stacky and doubly terminated glassy crystals. The untamed arrangement has its very own charm with attractive showcase presence! Apart from one small damage at the lower backside this specimen is in very best condition. Beautiful and dramatic in person!
Tormiq valley, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 3.5 x 2.8 x 0.8 cm
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Epidote from the Alpine type clefts of Pakistan are a well known species that impresses with gemmy quality and a multitude of different shapes!
This smaller specimen is composed of several short doubly-terminated crystals and is in very good condition with only small issues. Nice shape and quality!
Lily Mine, Pisco Umay, Ica Department, Peru
Size: 6.1 x 4.2 x 3.7 cm
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A single spray of forest green atacamite crystals is set on a sparkling quartz covered rock matrix. The cluster has a diameter of around 2 cm with individual crystals reaching close to 1 cm. Under direct light you will find the crystals to be rather gemmy and sparkling and there are only very minimal abrasions present. A nice specimen for this rare material!
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca, Bolognesi Province, Áncash, Peru
Size: 20.5 x 17.8 x 12 cm
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The mix of calcite, galena and chalcopyrite is not only a characteristic paragenesis for the locale but it's also a vibrant combination. White scalenohedral calcite crystals up to 6.5 cm are set on a landscape of metallic black galeny embedded in white calcite and golden chalcopyrite microcrystals. The specimen is quite stunning in size and shows overall very good quality and condition!