Mixed Minerals
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A single quartz crystal, clear like an icicle and sharp like glass! The flattened tessing habit crystal shows really just amazing quality with best wet-look luster on front and backside as well. It is associated with a cluster of schist matrix covered in quartz. The main crystal has a small damage at the lower backside but apart from that it is flawless right up to the sharp chisel-tip termination!
Tarcal, Eperjes-Tokaj Mts., Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hungary
Size: 9.3 x 6.2 x 4.9 cm
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Shaped like a crown on a head of porous matrix this hyalite specimen (or Opal-AN) is especially distinctive in appearance. Inside the circular boundaries there is a structure of cream-white aragonite, organically protruding and prominent. The hyalite is perfectly water-clear and in a very good condition. This piece offers perfect aesthetics and brilliant quality as you nicely can see in our video. An attractive piece from a unique locality!
Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia
Size: 7.1 x 6 x 2.2 cm
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A bizarrely bulky specimen that shows characteristic cerussite growth patterns like imprinted on its surface. All around there are no broken or damaged parts only unusual etchings and striated crystallization. The cerussite is in large parts transparent and of cream-white color. At the bottom it is grown into some matrix which is also crystallized and sparkling. A highly attractive choice that is both unusually shaped and characteristic for the famous locale.
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Two scepter heads with a slight smoky tinge are protruding from a well crystallized quartz matrix forming a 90° angle. Especially those heads are of good quality, limpid and free of any noteworthy flaws. The smaller, grape-like arranged quartz have tiny glaring red inclusions we deem to be lepidocrocite. Most special about this fine piece is the exceptional aesthetics - 3-dimensional and in very good condition. A striking piece in person!
Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
Size: 8.8 x 7.6 x 5.9 cm
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This is an excellent matrix specimen of calcite! Except a small contact no damage is present!
Berbes Mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
Size: 7.1 x 4.7 x 3.2 cm
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Very nice cubes of good color are situated on the brwonish matrix!
Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion, La Libertad, Peru
Size: 12.3 x 7.5 x 10.3 cm
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A complete floater of brilliantly lustrous, golden pyrite and elongated white quartz, brought to us from the around 4700 meters high mining area Mundo Nuevo. The piece is in best condition and shows a very distinct composition: Attached to a beautiful matrix-like cluster of pyrite and quartz is a massive single pyrite crystal, around 6 cm in diameter, that exhibits the more unusual dodecahedral shape in a modified, rounded, bevelled and striated way. Very well shaped and dramatically situated on this beautiful piece!
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 6.6 x 5 x 2.2 cm
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Lovely aesthetics meets best crystal quality! The branching shape of this pure brucite specimen reminds me of a gnarly old tree. The piece is perfectly crystallized all around with bright yellow, gemmy and lustrous brucite!
Mörchnerkar, Zemmgrund, Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria
Size: 5.5 x 3 x 2.6 cm
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A doubly terminated amethyst with characterictic convoluted sceptre-architecture and very nice purple color. The crystal is overall in very good condition, both terminations are perfect. There is a break at the backside but that doesn't impair the terminations or the front view at all.
Panasqueira Mine, Panasqueira, Castelo Branco District, Portugal
Size: 6.3 x 2.9 x 1.1 cm
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An elongated floater specimen of apatite on siderite. The apatite crystals are of characteristic Panasqueira quality, all brilliantly lustrous and transparent - in parts even gemmy! Some minuscule edgewear and a damaged patch at the lower left periphery lowers the price on this otherwise remarkably fine specimen. The Panasqueira Mine is know as one of the very best apatite locales worldwide, which you can very well see on this lovely miniature piece.
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Very nicely crystallized rose quartz of striking pink color and sculpturesque composition! It's a rather chaotic assembly but with aesthetic overall shape that is 3-dimensional and rich in details. The largest single crystal on this piece is a doubly terminated 2.7 cm crystal at the top. Associated to the pink quartz are veins of white quartz which adds some contrast to the otherwise pure rose quartz specimen. The whole piece is in best condition on all sides.
Mogok Township, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar)
Size: 5.7 x 5.5 x 4.1 cm
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The single ruby on this specimen has a visible size of 1.6 cm and is absolutely brilliant! It is in very best condition and highly lustrous on all sides. The color is a lovely pink with a whitish zone in the center. The ruby is set on a exceptionally well crystallized white calcite matrix. A splendid ruby specimen of highest appeal!