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Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, USA
Size: 3.1 x 2.2 x 1.9 cm
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Small but oh, how beautiful! This 3 cm piece of matrix shapes a small vug lined with quartz microcrystals of rusty orange color. Right of the center of this array is a single spray of gemmy blue linarite. The tabular crystals are strikingly brilliant with intensive color and top notch luster! This lovely specimen has some history and includes a label from John Passaneau. Absolutely wonderful in person and of great perfection!
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Rose quartz, the lovely pink variety of quartz, is the rarest and thus highest valued of the quartz family. But of course it's not only the rarity but most of all the striking beauty that makes this species so treasured among collectors! Sparkling luster, a nicely balanced composition and intensive pink color are features of this beautiful specimen! The whole piece is in exceptionally well condition with only some contacts but no actual damage. A splendid rose quartz from Brazil that strikes with intensive color!
Pizzo Lucendro, St. Gotthard Massiv, Tessin, Switzerland
Size: 2.5 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm
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Phenakite is a rare colorless gemstone that might easily be mistaken for adularia by strahlers. But the chances of you having a disguised phenakite in your cases is slim as this mineral is so extremely rare in the Alpine region! This specimen is an outstanding one dispite its thumbnail size. The sharply defined crystal shows very best luster and a mostly gemmy interior. It is a complete crystal without any damage! A rare chance for this uncommon mineral especially as there is no chlorite present which impairs most Alpine phenakite. Absolutely fantastic in person!
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The matrix is a complex, if not chaotic assebly of schist, quartz and feldspar with limonite and some rutile needles. Protruding from this sparkling chaos stands a single towering quart of brilliant quality! The tapering tessin quartz shows beautiful striations with best luster and is completely glassy! A fantastic and undamaged specimen with a winning character of untamed nature!
Forsterbachtal, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 7 x 2.5 x 1.8 cm
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This sceptre is absolutely brilliant from bottom to tip! Pristine colorless quartz with a sharp, gemmy, wet-look luster termination! The broad stem shows some side-crystals of quartz, calcite and what under the microscope appears to be orange prehnite on the front. Surface structure and those orange blooms somehow resemble a heart shape which makes this specimen additionally charming and almost unreal. I love this crystal and I got the feeling it loves me back!
Forsterbachtal, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 5 x 2.8 x 2.6 cm
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It's a jewel of a quartz crystal that features fantastic luster, glassy interior and a sweeping composition of interlocked crystals. It is a complete floater without any damage or even abrasion. Some inclusions of orange-brown limonite add color to the otherwise glassy quartz.
Mörchnerkar, Zemmgrund, Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria
Size: 8.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm
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It's a very unusual amethyst with a large and highly complex sceptre head. The piece must have detached from the matrix during development so the stem is terminated while there are some contacts on the backside and the tip. Due to this contacted tip we decided to turn it upside down so that now you can see the white stem protruding from the top. Like this the 6 cm glassy sceptre head with lovely purple patches is the main attraction and presents its structured, waxy surface dominantly. A very nice, unusual, convoluted piece that rewards a close examination!
Sweetwater Mine, Missouri, USA
Size: 20 x 14 x 12.2 cm
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The main crystal on this impressive Sweetwater Mine galena specimen
has stunning 7.5 cm on edge! It is in outstainding condition, very well developed and shows bright mirroring luster all around!
The galena is set on a marvelous matrix that is a mix of smaller galena crystals, chalcopyrite and dolomite with larger scalenohedral calcite in a sweeping jackstraw assembly.
This specimen has absolutely impressive aesthetics and great showcase presence due to size and contrast!
The condition is overall great with no visible damage anywhere.
Serifos Island, Cyclade Islands, South Aegean, Greece
Size: 5.5 x 4.2 x 2.4 cm
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It's an exceptionally fine exemplar of Prase from the unique finds at Serifos Island. The quartz shows the characteristic waxy luster, surface structure and green color, caused by actinolite inclusions. Several crystals of different sizes are aesthetically arranged and in very best condition. A small broken crystal in the middle is nicely re-healed and hardly visible.
Very attractive and increasingly hard to come by due to the collecting prohibition on the island!
Dara-i-Pech pegmatite field, Chapa Dara District, Kunar, Afghanistan
Size: 4 x 2.6 x 1.5 cm
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Blue tourmalines are extremely rare and coveted, especially when it comes to high quality and aesthetics. This crystal is 3.3 cm long with a pyramidal termination at the top and a flat termination at the bottom. The color is very intensive and expecially good towards the termination where the crystal is gemmy. The bottom has a 3 mm black zone, finished by a beautiful purple layer that is thin but remarkably intensive! The crystal is set on a sharp and glassy quartz crystal that is equally good in quality and condition.
Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan , Pakistan
Size: 5.5 x 4.8 x 3.7 cm
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Stak Nala is famous for its Tourmalines, very often in attractive association with white albite. A complex paragenesis on the other hand is not easy to find from this locale.
This unusual specimen is a rare combination of schorl, albite, apatite and garnet in appealing composition!
The main crystal is a schorl at the center with a size of 4,6 x 1,5 cm. It is embedded in snow-white albite like a coat that leaves only the front open.
At middle hight of that front side there is a single skin-colored apatite that is very well developed and a real eye-catcher!
This combination is absolutely gorgeous and extremely rare. Some garnet at the backside adds even more to the exceptional character of this specimen.
The condition is extremely well all around.
Zinggenstock, Grimsel area, Hasli valley, Berner Oberland, Switzerland
Size: 6.1 x 5.1 x 3.5 cm
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A single fluorite octahedron is set on a characteristic granite matrix. The fluorite is in flawless condition, transparent and with very distinctive pink color. With a size of 2.1 cm in diameter it is rather remarkable considering its quality and design. A classic specimen of fluorite on matrix from the legendary Rufibach cleft!