X-Mas Sale 2025
Cisma Mine, Baiu?, Maramure? Co., Romania
Size: 9.3 x 5.7 x 4.2 cm
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The thick, blocky stibnite crystals on this specimen are quite characteristic for the Cisma Mine. Still, this classic old European piece has exceptionally fine aesthetics. The metallic black stibnite is gracefully arranged on a contrasting white barite matrix of perfect proportion. While the backside is somewhat contacted, the front is completely unharmed and nicely crystallized all over. Very 3-dimensional and statuesque!
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca, Bolognesi Province, Áncash, Peru
Size: 6.5 x 6.5 x 3.5 cm
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A nicely balanced combination of pyrite and galena that stands out in a very beautiful and aesthetic way. Holding it in hands it immediately emanates a worthy feeling of high quality and appealing looks. While the golden pyrite is straight and harmonic, the galena is excessively modified and magnificently fascinating. Smaller white calcite crystals are adding nice accents. This specimen has no visible damage at all. An incredibly nice choice!
Ritterkopf, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 14.5 x 3.2 x 3.2 cm
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This 14.5 cm single crystal quartz shows dramatic luster and clarity and is virtually perfect from bottom to tip! One of the prism faces has a beautiful growth of pericline, smaller quartz crystals, limonite and hematite which adds much in respect of aesthetics and appeal!
Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA
Size: 6.2 x 1.3 x 0.9 cm
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This one is a very special crystal from the Himalaya Mine that shows best open color! The tourmaline is intensively pink and gemmy with a small smoky quartz side-crystal that provides a great contrast! Fascinating enough this smoky quartz is doubly terminated and all perfect! The tourmaline itself also is in best condition and very well designed with a pointed pyramidal termination, emphasized by a sudden color-change from pink to white. This fine specimen has quite a history as it has been in the collections of Bill Larson and Fabian Wildfang for many years!
Mogok Township, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar)
Size: 4.3 x 4.2 x 4.1 cm
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Size, color and perfection of this single spinel crystal are rather spectacular! The octahedron is complete and virtually flawless - consulting my loupe I find only very small chips that are insignificant and hard to identify. The crystal has no contacts and is lustrous on all eight faces. The interior needs some backlight but when provided with that it reveals a deep cherry-red color that is unusually satiated. A large and dominant marvel of pure elegance and with it's very own mysterious appeal!
Ritterkopf, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 7.3 x 6.5 x 3.7 cm
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This group of white calcite crystals was found at the Ritterkopf massiv below the Glockkaserkar. It's a fine locality piece with interlocked crystals up to 2.8 cm with good clarity and nice waxy luster. There are minimal peripheral contacts and a small damage but most crystals are complete. In the video you can see how the backside is all natural.
Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District, Attika Prefecture, Greece
Size: 21.5 x 13 x 11 cm
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The organic shape of a coral makes this large aragonite specimen alive! You can see two different crystal shapes - a fragile spiky structure is grown on the more rounded main branches - all of which are in flawless condition and in sweeping shape all around! This piece was found in 1985 as a small label on the backside indicates. A beautiful and disctinctively three-dimensional specimen from the historic mining area Lavrion.
M'Ssici, Alnif County, Tinghir Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco
Size: 14 x 9.6 x 6.2 cm
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This type of azurite growth is rather untypical and rare but also quite charming and intriguing! The azurite has grown in a stalagmite-like fashion on a quartz matrix. Partly the azurite has been pseudomorph replaced by malachite which emphasizes the three-dimensional character as you can very well see in our video. The piece has been found around the year 2010 and has been in a French collection until we were able to purchase it. There is no damage present and even most of the underside is crystallized.
Itauz Mine, Zhilandy group, Satpayev, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
Size: 9.7 x 6.5 x 2.2 cm
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The unusual aesthetics of this specimen reminds me of a leaf that got caught on a rocky cliff. The thin arboresque copper is exceptionally well formed, shows a reddish coppery color and no damage.
Ex Thomas Weiland collection.
Laman celestine deposit, Qala e Naw District, Badghis, Afghanistan
Size: 7 x 6 x 3.5 cm
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This celestine is from a new find that has produced a moderate number of fine celestine specimens.
This piece has a total size of 7 cm and shows a main crystal with a size of 4.1 x 2,6 cm.
Especially the intense blue color of the coelestin, which stands out against the yellowish background, is very appealing here.
The crystals are shiny, partly transparent and sharp-edged. The main view doesn't show any damage or even abrasions. Only the underside of the lower side-crystal is contacted but you don't see that from the front.
In our video you can see the aesthetics and quality very nicely!
Without a doubt, one of the more beautiful pieces we have seen of the find so far!
Val Giuv, Tujetsch, Vorderrhein Valley, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 7.5 x 6.2 x 4.2 cm
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A great combination of two quartz crystals, brotherly standing side by side, encompassed by multiple white adularia crystals. This whole specimen is in exceptional condition with just some microscopic edgewear on the smaller crystal and one or two contacts. Even the bottom is crystallized and a beautiful, sparkling view. With two main crystals of finest quality and many beautifully contrasting adularia, this is a magnificent piece!
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A characteristic combination of snow white tabular barite on a bed of metallic stibnite. The barite comes as up to 5 cm large and around 0.7 cm thick sharp plates that are translucent to transparent with all main crystals in perfect shape. The contrast to the metallic grey, tufted stibnite is quite striking in person!There is no considerable damage here only some minor peripheral issues which are totally acceptable on a major piece like this!All in all this is a great, elegant and very classy piece from B?iu?, Romania which did not produce new specimen for many years now.