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Quartz from the Koralpe in Styria, a very old rock mass, is not found easily which makes this a great collectors piece. The color of this smoky quartz is absolutely top, a warm brown, dark and intense. The frontside shows jsut brilliant luster. The backside is another story, it is heavily broken and contacted. Fortunately the termination is largely intact with only some edgewear. Definitely a great piece for the locale despite some drawbacks but which are only visible from the backside.
Brand, Felbertal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 6.7 x 3 x 2.6 cm
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A doubly terminated smoky quartz floater with a distinctly developed scepter head. The crystal is translucent to transparent, where especially the terminations are quite clear. The whole piece is free of damage with only minor edgewear here and there. One side-crystal is broken but re-healed, the main crystal is all complete and sharp. An interesting and unusual specimen from this uncommon locale in Felbertal!
Ankogelgruppe, Anlauftal, Gasteinertal, Pongau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 5.7 x 3.1 x 2.7 cm
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The glassy and lustous quartz includes sharp and thick needles of red rutile. The color combination of rutile and orange limonite is quite dramatic and beautiful in person. Turning the piece around you will find a distinct sagenite pattern that covers the bottom and parts of the lower backside before immersing into the quartz. With no damage at all on best quality quartz and utterly attractive inner life, this is a wonderful specimen that's equally unusual and appealing!
Val Gronda da Cavrein, Vorderrheintal, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 6 x 5.2 x 3.4 cm
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This is a wonderful floater of epidote and quartz showing great aesthetics and quality. The golden jewel like quartz is building a perfect base for the perfect crytallized epidote.Even for the famous Knappenwand this would be impressive, and I have never seen a good combination of quartz and epidote there.The combination is very typical for Val Cavrein, while this is the best piece I have seen so far. Overall a real alpine jewel that is extremely rare.
Paprok, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
Size: 5.5 x 4.9 x 4 cm
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The combination of light green tourmaline and lilac lepidolite is amazingly beautiful in person! The glassy main tourmaline stands out over 3 cm atop the lepidolite/tourmaline mix, is flawless and has a brilliant complex termination. The base is distinctly three-dimensional and in very best condition.
Ras Koh Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 13.4 x 10.8 x 8.2 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 sure is one of the more impressive pieces of the find and it strikes with sheer size and a flood of details alike! The main view is a wonderland of dozens of sparkling, nested epidote "bow ties" of best quality! While the front is a jet black landscape of high class epidote, the backside is much more covered in byssolite and calcite microcrystals. Contacts are limited to the backside and the periphery, the front is all perfect and beautiful! A formidable epidote specimen from this unusual find!
Kristallwand, Frosnitztal, East Tyrol, Austria
Size: 9 x 5.4 x 5.2 cm
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Out of a recent years spectacular find by Obkirchner/Doppelhofer, this is for certain one of the very best titanite specimens ever found at the Kristallwand! The titanite shows a rare red-brown color that is characteristic for the locale that only produced a small number of high class specimens. All crystals are of very best quality! Gemmy, highly lustrous and with exceptionally sharp development! The largest titanite crystal is 1.8 cm which is quite a dramatic size for this locale! The overall aesthetics is compelling as the titanite is set on a beautiful matrix with a surface that is covered in small titanite and adularia microcrystals. There are no damages to report only minimal abrasions that are barely noticeable. An exceptional piece from a unique find!
Mibladen, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Morocco
Size: 4.9 x 4.6 x 2.9 cm
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This beautiful cerussite on barite is really something special for its beautiful aesthetics! It is a characteristic piece from Mibladen with a dominant cerussite cluster atop. The cerussite is glassy and lustrous with a marvelous golden-brown color. The whole cluster is complete and free of any damage or even abrasions. It sits upon a perfectly well crystallized matrix of tabular white barite that is painted in some rust-red iron oxide. The overall balance is just the way we like it and there are no downsides here. The backside is contacted but but the cerussite is flawless even here!
Quincy Mine, Hancock, Houghton Co., Michigan, USA
Size: 10.2 x 6.5 x 3.6 cm
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A classic and highly aesthetic combination of white calcite and native copper in a sweeping shape! The main calcite crystal is surrounded by branching copper structures and set on a massive piece of rock matrix. Inside the transparent crystal you can even see some copper which is a rarity known to occur at the Quincy Mine. Naturally the copper inside the calcite is not oxidised and thus much brighter than the free structures. Overall this is an intriguing piece of playfully interwoven copper and calcite in surprisingly well condition!
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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 its not only the rarity but most of all the striking beauty that makes this species so treasured among collectors!
This lovely specimen features a solid cluster of short prismatic rose quartz crystals with best sparkling luster and intensive pink color! Very nice and in best condition!
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Very nicely crystallized rose quartz of striking pink color and sculpturesque composition! The single crystals are arranged as a semicircle which is very attractive in person, also from the backside. A lovely specimen of high quality and in best condition all over. The special shape and intensive pink color make this appealing piece very much unique!
Rauriser Schwarzkopf, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 6.7 x 5.5 x 4.8 cm
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A rare and highly aesthetic paragenesis of dominant cubical pyrite, glassy colorless quartz and silvery arsenopyrite on a nice and beautiful orange matrix! Alpine pyrite is a rare thing to find, especially in such well arranged composition. The crystals are virtually perfect and complete all around. Sure, the pyrite is not as golden as Peruvian specimens but a comparison would be foolish anyway. This is Alpine and for that it's spectacular indeed!