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Mibladen, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Morocco
Size: 8.3 x 5 x 2.6 cm
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Two balls of cerussite sit atop a red barite surface like amphibious pop eyes. The crystals are perfect all around and transparent with a smoky color. The backside is contacted but not damaged. Both crystals are 2.2 cm in diameter. This is a characteristic specimen for Mibladen with stark contrast and well defined aesthetics!
Kongsberg Silver Mining District, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway
Size: 7.2 x 5 x 4.1 cm
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Kongsberg, the mother of silver deposits. Almost 400 years of mining history make this locale THE most famous silver mining regiong of the world. The specimen we have here is very much typical with several wires, one of which proturdes a staggering 4 cm off the main body. The bottom parts are associated with white calcite and some green malachite at the back. The silver itself shows great silvery luster, in parts coated with a nice natural patina. Classic old Kongsberg material in most attractive shape, 3-dimensional and elegant!
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A single quartz crystal, not spectacular at first glance but a real beauty in detail! The quartz is water-clear and shows perfect luster on all sides. The arrow-head shape is quite unusual and distinctive. With no damage and a re-healed bottom, this specimen is very attractive in person. The backside holds some small hematite and muscovite inclusions, very characteristic for an Alpine quartz specimen. A stunningly beautiful single crystal!
Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 4.5 x 4 x 1 cm
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The superlative brookite specimens of Kharan district, more precisely the Rashkoh Mountains, were first found in the early 2000s. Since then, a number of clefts have been opened to reveal such incredible crystals as this one!
A single, doubly terminated brookite tile of uttermost quality is perched on a well proportioned piece of rock to form this pice of pure aesthetics! The brookite is 3.7 cm long, transparent and blood-red with a lustrous surface! It is in best condition all over!
This brookite is a real blast, featuring a dominant and large main crystal with beautiful drawings and very best quality. Have a look on our video to get a 360° impression!
Serra do Caldeirão, Pontes e Lacerda, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Size: 4.1 x 1.9 x 1.3 cm
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Unusually bright golden color and a vivid sheen are most intriguing attributes of this remarkably well shaped gold specimen from the famous finds in Pontes e Lacerda. It shows complex hoppered growth in a utterly perfect and sweeping way! The three-dimensionial structure is rich in geometrical forms which is just gorgeous in person! There is no damage or contact or any kind of inperfection. The color is a distinctive yellow that is only characteristic for this fabulous find and superior to just about anything we have seen so far from Brazil!
Val Giuv, Tujetsch, Vorderrhein Valley, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 10.8 x 9.6 x 6.1 cm
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A prominent outline, stark contrast between smoky quartz and adularia and a staggering crystal quality are united at this fabulous piece. Especially the main quartz, protruding at the very center, shows beautiful surface structure and a intensive red-brown core, a color you rarely find at smoky quartz specimens. Great composition and outline make for an attractive specimen that sparkles with brilliant surfaces. Some smaller damage is evident but the overall condition is fine with no major breaks. A small chip to the main crystal is not visible from the front. The bottom of this fine piece is nicely crystallized with adularia and grass-green epidote, characteristic for Val Giuv.
Dreislar Mine , Dreislar, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Size: 10 x 6.8 x 2.8 cm
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Dreislar Mine was a classic European barite mine that produced many great pieces with a typical paragenesis of barite and chalcopyrite. On this piece you find white tabular barite with tiny dots of chalcopyrite, alternated with white to beige dolomite and attached clusters of golden chalcopyrite up to around 0.7 cm. The piece is nicely attractive, vibrant and with no obvious damage. Classic!
Grieswies, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 9.4 x 7 x 4.9 cm
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This lovely and fragile quartz specimen is out of an old find from the 1980s. It is composed of an elongated piece of matrix studded by glassy and highly lustrous quartz crystals, chaotically arranged yet with absolutely charming character. Despite the thin crystals this specimen is flawless with only peripheral contacts but no actual damage. Absolutely spectacular in person and a real eye-catcher!
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
Size: 16.9 x 11.2 x 9.7 cm
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A large cluster of brilliant scalenohedral calcite that is crystallized on all sides. Only the bottom is contacted, the rest is all complete and in near perfect condition. Several doubly terminated crystals, the largest of which is 12.5 cm long(!), are sitting atop a more massive but evenly sparkling calcite body. The mostly transparent crystals are milky white at the inside but intensively orange-brown "cognac" colored at the completely gemmy edges. An imposing, characteristic specimen for the famous Elmwood Mine, one of the worlds best localities for high class calcite!
Stefanie Mine, Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnsiche Alpen, Carinthia, Austria
Size: 5.1 x 4.4 x 2.5 cm
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What a beautiful wulfenite from Bleiberg, Austria. This is an exceptional group of wulfenites, perfectly situated on the top of the matrix. The crystals have a bright orange color, great luster and sharpness. It is free of damage, except one small broken crystal in the middle of the crowd, what does not really detract the beauty of this specimen at all. To get a good wulfenite from this locale has become very difficult in the past, so I was very lucky to get this piece.
Grieswies, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 5 x 4.3 x 2.7 cm
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This is a rich and lustrous rutile on matrix from Grieswies that shows rutile crystals up to a little over 1 cm. The rutile is developed as knee-twins and shows very good luster!The crystals are generally opaque but show a dark red shimmer at downlight due to some gemmy red patches. The overall aesthetics is great with the main crystal cluster sitting nicely atop the characteristic and well contrasting matrix.This is an aesthetic rutile matrix piece of exceptionally fine quality with no damage at all!
Zamser Grund, Zillertaler Alpen, North Tyrol, Austria
Size: 7.2 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm
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This picturesque quartz specimen is a sceptre variety with a tightly packed cluster of smaller quartz crystals attached to the stem. The overall visual impact is just marvelous!
The sceptre head is 3.5 cm long, very well developed and with a sharp, pointed termination. The backside is a little etched but also free of damage. With some purple tinge here and there, this is a wonderful specimen of unique aesthetics!