Mixed Minerals
Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
Size: 14.3 x 12.4 x 12 cm
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This is a beautiful matrix specimen of calcite with great aesthetics. It is very 3-dimensional in person and very showy from all around.
San Antonio Mine, Viloco, Loayza, La Paz, Bolivia
Size: 8.5 x 4.7 x 3.7 cm
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Black cassiterite crystals are sharing this specimen with metallic arsenopyrite crystals in a nice harmonic way. Glass quartz needles and some smaller siderite add a nice contrast and perfect this fine combination-piece. This piece is a sparkling beauty as all of these minerals are of finest quality with wonderful luster and free of any damage. While a smaller part at the back is contacted, around three thirds of the specimen are crystallized and offer a brilliant view. Stunning from a mineralogical standpoint - remarkably beautiful most certainly!
Morro Velho mine, Nova Lima, Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size: 8.2 x 6.1 x 2.3 cm
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Lovely colorless and translucent dolomite crystals are adorned with second generation tabular pyrrhotite and small acicular cubanite. The backside is simple grey rock but with some attached pyrrhotite that must have grow after the piece detached. A very nice and attractive specimen of rare material from the world's oldest gold mine that shut down in 2003 after 278 years of mining!
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
Size: 13.7 x 11.6 x 6.2 cm
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This excellent large cabinet sized specimen shows an association of colorful fluorites and milky white, highly lustrous quartz. The fluorite comes as glassy cubes with green at the center and purple along the edges. A very nice combination that stands out among the white quartz. The quartz itself shows brilliant luster and is sharply developed. What is special are well defined phantoms inside the quartz! The whole specimen is in excellent condition with some edge-wear on the quartz but no actual breaks. Very good and very attractive in person!
Val Nalps, Vorderrhein, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 7.9 x 5.5 x 3.4 cm
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The calcite in this specimen comes as a three-dimensional arrangement of very thin transparent tabular crystals with great luster! The elegance of this cluster is absolutely lovely and rare in such considerable size. Condition is overall very good with only some hardly discernible wear. Have a look on the video for a better look on shape and quality of this lovely calcite specimen!
Mibladen, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Morocco
Size: 4.9 x 4.4 x 2.6 cm
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This rare crystal habit instantly reminds me of a fossile or maybe of a leaf reflecting the sunbeams. There is one small damaged zone at the right side of this specimen not visible from the front and minor over all. The rest is in brilliant condition. As a floater there are crystalls on all sides with colors ranging from orange to red and brown on the backside. Condition, quality and the mentioned crystal habit are making this an astounding mineral specimen. Totally appealing and of unique elegance.
Mibladen, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Morocco
Size: 12.9 x 5.4 x 3.8 cm
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An elongated piece of rock hosts single isolated, candy-red vanadinite crystals with just marvelous luster. The matrix also holds smaller crystals on all sides - it must have broken off in an early stage, when vanadinite still grew - which nicely gives us an insight on all stages of crystal growth. A dark grey coating on the matrix provides a stark contrast for the amazingly beautiful vanadinite. A highly appealing specimen in very good condition.
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An unusually lovely calcite specimen from Serifos Island that was found at an underground excavation on a small peninsula near the islands southwestern corner. The distinctive shape of this floater specimen is that of a Greek olive tree, old and gnarled, with sharp calcite crystals instead of leaves. Especially those leaves are lustrous and translucent while the trunk is opaque yet still totally snow-white. A striking arborescent specimen of elegant, 3-dimensional beauty!
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 11.6 x 9.2 x 4.2 cm
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Several single isolated spheres of vivid yellow brucite are set on a rock matrix with a thin hydromagnesite layer that provides an elegant silvery background. This arrangement very much emphasises the brucite which comes a vividly lemon-yellow, translucent and lustrous spheres up to 2 cm in diameter. It's an uncommon specimen of rare quality and composition!
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 13 x 4.4 x 2 cm
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Vibrant lemon-yellow brucite with great transparency and luster is arranged as a formidable landscape. The front is composed of botryoidal brucite that show excellent vividly colored quality! The backside is completely crystallized and equally flawless. Size, color and condition make this an impressive and very much appealing specimen!
Erfurter Steig, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 10.2 x 9.8 x 6 cm
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This combination of quartz and adularia is crystallized all around with a group of glassy quartz at the front and a nice adularia covered landscape at the back. The bottom is contacted but re-crystallized. The overall condition is very good but there is one damaged crystal at the front.
Neue Thüringer Hütte, Habachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 21 x 17 x 17 cm
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This massive 3.6 kg quartz group was found by my father Anton Watzl senior in 1987 near the "Neue Thüringer Hütte". It rested inside a 5 meter deep cleft together with smaller specimens like adularia, titanite and skeletal quartz. Both crystals are of excellent quality, glassy and lustrous. The condition is overall very good. One crystal is damaged at the tip but luckily that is not visible from the front. The bottom is not broken but contacted or re-crystallized after detachment. During extraction from the cleft the two crystals went apart and had to be glued together but that is nothing you would easily see. Size, quality and composition make this an eye-catcher of pure Alpine quartz!