A lovely twin tourmaline specimen of brilliant quality and nice open colors! The two crystals are not quite parallel - they show a slight yet aesthetically important v-shape that leads up to a very complex termination on the larger main crystal. The smaller crystal at the right has a flat termination that seems contacted but not broken. The gemmy crystals display distinct color zoning, from pink to green, white and pink again at the termination. Very attractive and brilliant!
This gemmy tourmaline strikes with rich colors and a well cut polyhedral termination! The vitreous crystal shows a beautiful color zoning that reaches from brownish orange at the bottom to vibrant emerald green and pink at the top. Very intense and bright! Even with low illumination this crystal openly shows its amazing play of colors! Very attractive in person!
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 specimen is a dominant epidote "bow tie" that is accompanied by a smaller version attached to it like in an acrobatic performance. Both clusters are in best condition! A lovely specimen of exceptional aesthetics!
This is one amazing piece of fluorite! The all limpid crystal is a complete floater in very best condition that shows marvelous surface structure on all sides! Under closer inspection you would find three cubical crystals that are so heavily modified that the basic shape is hardly discernible. The color is a light but distinctive ocean green thats homogenous throughout the specimen. What it comes down to is a rounded, all crystallized shape of glassy green fluorite that is utterly beautiful and attractive in person!
One single white thread, the "Faden", stretches 16 cm from bottom to top and connects a large number of sparkling, sharp and gemmy quartz crystals to an amazingly beautiful and sweeping sculpture! This specimen is pristine all around! So much so that when you turn it in your hands you never want to stop, you want to take in all the 3-dimensional elegance! High quality, superb aesthetics, stunning size and best condition!
Yes, it is only a single crystal. But the quality of this one is absolutely incredible, beautiful and amazing in person! Warm brown color - intensive yet not too dark - fills the glassy crystal body. It is confined in a casing of super-lustrous prism faces with a sharp pyramidal termination. Especially those pyramidal faces show lovely surface structure, like subtle waves on a calm lake. There is not a single scratch all the way down to the recrystallized, partly feldspar-covered bottom. This is a wonderful exemplar of Swiss smoky quartz in uttermost perfection!
Lustrous and sharp lazulite crystals up to 9 mm are forming this dramatic stalagmite. There is associated white quartz and brown, glassy siderite adding some contrast to the ink-blue lazulite. The dark crystals appear almost black at normal room-light but direct downlight reveals gemmy parts and fresh blue and green patches. Very nice and attractive piece from this important locale that produced some of the best of the species!
Good calcite specimens from the eastern Alps are scarce and mostly limited to the Glocknerhauptkamm, the main ridge of the Glockner. This specimen was found by the famous collector Gottlieb Obkircher and is one of the finest found in this region! A thin plate of matrix is covered in white adularia and some contrasting dark chlorite. Upon this matrix lies a massive piece of colorless calcite like a stranded whale. The calcite is perfect, glassy and with a characteristic shimmer! A grand specimen of superb Austrian calcite on matrix as we have hardly seen alike!
It's a smaller but very attractive topaz floater from the unique find at Fazenda do Centro. The quality is abolutely amazing. The water clear topaz is encompassed by a beautifully structured etched surface in overall very good condition. There is minor edge-wear present but which is hardly discernible on this fascinating specimen. The shape is like a vivid flame as you can see in our video!
Highest quality quartz, accompanied by a single 4.5 cm pericline crystal. The quartz has best vibrant luster, a brilliant glassy interior and a sharp pointed termination. At its left there is some silvery chlorite but just so much that it accomplishes the beauty of this specimen without disturbing the quality. Dreiherrenspitze (Picco dei Tre Signori) on the border between Austria and Italy is a rather uncommon locale for mineral specimens but this is surely a very attractive specimen of superb quality and appealing aesthetics!
L'Etoile du Congo (French for "The star of Congo") is among others known for very attractive sky-blue chrysocolla specimens in varying formations. This striking miniature features a single bulbous shape atop a chrysocolla encrusted piece of grey rock. The aesthetics is very well defined and there is no damage!
Stibiotantalite is an extremely rare antimony tantalum niobium oxide that usually comes as dark brown to reddish crystals, often opaque and unattractive. In some exceptional cases however stibiotantalite develops well defined crystals with bright gemmy yellow color!
This crystal is exactly that and despite the rather small size it is an impressive piece for the material that shines with great crystal quality and a superb and flawless termination!