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Serra do Caldeirão, Pontes e Lacerda, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Size: 4.1 x 1.9 x 1.3 cm
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Unusually bright golden color and a vivid sheen are most intriguing attributes of this remarkably well shaped gold specimen from the famous finds in Pontes e Lacerda. It shows complex hoppered growth in a utterly perfect and sweeping way! The three-dimensionial structure is rich in geometrical forms which is just gorgeous in person! There is no damage or contact or any kind of inperfection. The color is a distinctive yellow that is only characteristic for this fabulous find and superior to just about anything we have seen so far from Brazil!
Val Giuv, Tujetsch, Vorderrhein Valley, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 10.8 x 9.6 x 6.1 cm
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A prominent outline, stark contrast between smoky quartz and adularia and a staggering crystal quality are united at this fabulous piece. Especially the main quartz, protruding at the very center, shows beautiful surface structure and a intensive red-brown core, a color you rarely find at smoky quartz specimens. Great composition and outline make for an attractive specimen that sparkles with brilliant surfaces. Some smaller damage is evident but the overall condition is fine with no major breaks. A small chip to the main crystal is not visible from the front. The bottom of this fine piece is nicely crystallized with adularia and grass-green epidote, characteristic for Val Giuv.
Dreislar Mine , Dreislar, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Size: 10 x 6.8 x 2.8 cm
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Dreislar Mine was a classic European barite mine that produced many great pieces with a typical paragenesis of barite and chalcopyrite. On this piece you find white tabular barite with tiny dots of chalcopyrite, alternated with white to beige dolomite and attached clusters of golden chalcopyrite up to around 0.7 cm. The piece is nicely attractive, vibrant and with no obvious damage. Classic!
Grieswies, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 9.4 x 7 x 4.9 cm
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This lovely and fragile quartz specimen is out of an old find from the 1980s. It is composed of an elongated piece of matrix studded by glassy and highly lustrous quartz crystals, chaotically arranged yet with absolutely charming character. Despite the thin crystals this specimen is flawless with only peripheral contacts but no actual damage. Absolutely spectacular in person and a real eye-catcher!
Stefanie Mine, Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnsiche Alpen, Carinthia, Austria
Size: 5.1 x 4.4 x 2.5 cm
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What a beautiful wulfenite from Bleiberg, Austria. This is an exceptional group of wulfenites, perfectly situated on the top of the matrix. The crystals have a bright orange color, great luster and sharpness. It is free of damage, except one small broken crystal in the middle of the crowd, what does not really detract the beauty of this specimen at all. To get a good wulfenite from this locale has become very difficult in the past, so I was very lucky to get this piece.
Grieswies, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 5 x 4.3 x 2.7 cm
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This is a rich and lustrous rutile on matrix from Grieswies that shows rutile crystals up to a little over 1 cm. The rutile is developed as knee-twins and shows very good luster!The crystals are generally opaque but show a dark red shimmer at downlight due to some gemmy red patches. The overall aesthetics is great with the main crystal cluster sitting nicely atop the characteristic and well contrasting matrix.This is an aesthetic rutile matrix piece of exceptionally fine quality with no damage at all!
Zamser Grund, Zillertaler Alpen, North Tyrol, Austria
Size: 7.2 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm
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This picturesque quartz specimen is a sceptre variety with a tightly packed cluster of smaller quartz crystals attached to the stem. The overall visual impact is just marvelous!
The sceptre head is 3.5 cm long, very well developed and with a sharp, pointed termination. The backside is a little etched but also free of damage. With some purple tinge here and there, this is a wonderful specimen of unique aesthetics!
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"The Crown", as we call this spectacular specimen, shows all the features of a real queens crown: the sweeping aesthetics, the vibrant quality, the pure elegance! Characteristic for the locale the quartz crystals show beautiful green chlorite inclusions behind a surface of best shiny luster! The five main crystals are all perfectly sharp and free of damage. Fanning out from a common, compact white quartz center they are all struggling for attention, one more beautiful than the other! The terminations are all brightly lustrous and sharp. One crystal has one insignificant wilbur, the rest is 100% perfect. Lower backside and bottom show contacts but also no damage. This is one major piece from the Schinschlucht that amazes with absolute best quality and aesthetics!
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Very nice single crystal tourmaline of remarkable size and great gemmy green color! The termination as well as some part at the base show pink color too which adds a nice color contrast. The termination is somewhat irregular with contacts and intergrown microcrystals but has a very nicely terminated protrusion and a piece of white feldspar. The piece is repaired but has no damage. What is special about this piece is definitely the brilliant crystal quality and the very attractive bi-color effect!
Ras Koh Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 4.4 x 3.2 x 2.7 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 strikes with a playful, catchy shape and very good quality alike. A broken crystal at the front is long re-healed and thus all natural, as is the rest of this complete and all brilliant floater specimen!
Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia
Size: 14.7 x 9.4 x 8.8 cm
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This is a wonderful specimen of colorless calcite from Tsumeb in very good cabinet size! The calcite comes in rhombohedral, transparent crystals the largest of which reach around 3 cm in diameter. A rather large number of those crystals is arranged on a sublime matrix of bordeaux-red siderite and bright green mottramite that provides a great play of colors to support the colorless calcite. The special piece is very 3-dimensional and showing a great architecture! All in all this is a rich specimen of high quality that is free of any relevant damage!
Dammastock, Göschener Alp, Göschenen, Uri, Switzerland
Size: 4.3 x 2.9 x 1.2 cm
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As you can immediately see in the picture, this piece shows very unusual growth: Like a 2.1 cm broad gwindel grown atop the 2.9 cm broat base. To anticipate your question: This crystal is completely perfect and what looks like a break is all re-crystallized and obviously happened aeons ago, long before the narrower part of the gwindel grew along. The gwindel is of the closed variant which is even more rare. The body is completely impid without any inclusions or internal cracks! Very much unique and of best quality!