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Kongsberg Silver Mining District, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway
Size: 4.5 x 2.4 x 1.4 cm
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This is a beautiful silver miniature from the classic Silver Mining District in Kongsberg. It has a very lovely shape, excellent patina and traces of calcite.
Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Idaho, USA
Size: 3.7 x 3.4 x 2.7 cm
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This specimen is a floater all around without any damage! The color is a mixture between green an yellow, what looks very good in person.
Pizzo Lucendro, St. Gotthard Massiv, Tessin, Switzerland
Size: 4 x 3 x 1.7 cm
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What an awesome apatite from the Swiss Alps! The Pizzo Lucendro is much more famous for producing some of the best hematites in the world then for good findings of apatites. Even more I was surpirsed to find this specimen together with some smaller pieces from that find. It is a floater all around without any damage worth to mention. It is one of the very finest apatites I have ever seen from Switzerland!
Teixerinha mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size: 7.6 x 2.4 x 1.7 cm
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Three verdelites are parallel and stepped grown here! The crystals have a beautiful green color, very fine luster and are highly glassy! The termination is well pointed and at the lower area of the cluster is grown into some lepidolite. The smallest crystal is repaired once, what is fully acceptable on a piece like this. Free of damage and a perfect fit for the advanced collector!
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Extremely rare and outstandingly beautiful! To see the whole overwhelming elegancy of this specimen, you would have to watch the video in awe! Brilliant quality, a perfect composition and wonderful contrast all add up to this fantastic specimen of Alpine apophyllite.
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This anatase shows a perfect and flawless pointed tip, as is rare at this species. The doubly terminated crystal is almost black but shows a slight blue shimmer when illuminated directly. It is accompanied by some quartz and sits perfectly on a grey and rust-brown matrix. A marvelous and perfect piece with a mysterious character in person.
Saurüssel, Zemmgrund, Zillertaler Alpen, Nordtirol, Austria
Size: 5.7 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm
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This piece is outstanding in any respect. Two marvelous amethyst sceptres are combined a this piece with a number of side-crystals. The whole piece is free of any damage, is a floater and is just amazingly rich in details. Perfect purple scepter-heads are in dramatic contrast to green chlorite and yellow and red rutile needles. The faces of the bigger sceptre show windows between perfectly sharp edges. Nothing more to say, this piece is perfect!
Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 3.2 x 2.8 x 1.6 cm
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The superb aesthetics of this wonderful piece is simply outstanding. The 1.5 cm main crystal is of a deep red color, is totally clear and in perfectly unharmed condition. Sitting on a snow-white quartz-matrix of perfect proportion accompanied by a couple of gemmy clear quartz crystals this brookite specimen is a uniquely beautiful marvel. Perfect on all sides and impressive in person!
Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size: 4.5 x 2.8 x 1.9 cm
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This apatite crystal from the Colconda Mine especially impresses with a deep purple color and a blue core that is to be revealed when backlit. The surface shows a fine striation and very good luster. The backside is contacted but not broken. While there is some minor damage present, the general condition is good and absolutely acceptable, considering the pretty coloring and the nice composition of two crystals that are grown together to one fine specimen of color intensive apatite.
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The combination of pink, orange and yellow on this marvelous piece is simply beautiful. The single tourmaline crystal shows a perfect modified termination that is free of any damage, just like the rest of this fine piece. The accompanying side-crystals, connected to the main-tourmaline by a matrix of mica, very much perfect the picture of pure textbook aesthetics. A piece of unique charm in perfect condition.
Huanggang Mine, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia, China
Size: 7.3 x 6.8 x 3.1 cm
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This quartz specimen is utterly unique for its dramatic cross shape. A doubly terminated quartz horizontally lies across a vertical quartz of equal shape and quality. The surface of both main crystals is highly structured and beautiful. All over this specimen you find smaller quartz as well as some white feldspar at the bottom. Rarely have I seen a quartz specimen of such distinctive character with so many details to be discovered.
Grieswies, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 7.7 x 4.8 x 6.1 cm
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The largest pericline crystal here is 3.5 cm long and looks like carved from porcelain. It is set atop a cluster of evenly nice pericline and lustrous, colorless quartz crystals. Except for some peripheral contacts there are no issues here, even the bottom is fully crystallized.