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Serifos Island, Cyclade Islands, South Aegean, Greece
Size: 7.8 x 5.8 x 3.8 cm
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This wonderful floater specimen of dark andradite is a super-elegant exemplar from this classic locale as you won't find alike! It is completely crystallized with well developed trapezohedral garnets with a nice silky surface. What looks black in normal light becomes a dark and satiated red when provided with direct backlight - at least at the edges, where smaller crystals are more easily lit. Between the garnet there is also some hematite but which is the only association on this specimen. Condition is overall extremely good. There are two contacts but no acutal damage or even abrasions.
Grieswies, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 7.2 x 5 x 3.7 cm
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The quality of this spectacular quartz specimen is absolutely top notch and flawless! The main crystal is a stocky, sharp quartz that is well centered on a pristine cluster of evenly glassy and lustrous crystals, interlocked to form a 3-dimensional floater! With no downsides this is an Alpine quartz specimen of highest level!
Ex Josef Kolb collection
Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion, La Libertad, Peru
Size: 7 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm
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The quality of this single isolated pyrite cube is absolutely stunning and beautiful!
Best golden luster and a unique surface structure that looks almost machine made! This brilliant crystal is freely set on a three-dimensional matrix of white quartz and pyrite side-crystals.
The whole specimen is in superb condition. Some rough patches at the backside of the main crystal are in fact just contacts, no damage.
Boekenhoutshoek area, Nkangala District, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Size: 10.8 x 6.9 x 4.1 cm
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Even rarer than the fine purple cactus-quartz from Boekenhoutshoek is the yellow variant which makes for a stunning contrast! These crystals are highly lustrous, sharp and translucent to transparent. The bright yellow color is caused by inclusions of hematite and goethite and is really intensive here!
The piece is from a collection in South Africa where it has been for over 20 years. Quality and condition are totally outstanding!
Gasteinertal, Pongau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 8.4 x 4.7 x 4 cm
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It's not only a completely transparent etched quartz crystal with best luster but also in surprisingly well condition! At some parts you can see the original hexagonal shape - for example when you look from the top, but also there are some flat faces left. The top and bottom terminations are completely etched. Brilliant luster and perfect transparency make this look like a sculpture of pure ice!
Ritterkar, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 27.5 x 16.5 x 12.5 cm
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This huge rutilated quartz from the Ritterkar is surely not for everyone. It is wild, it is untamed and rugged. But it is also full of natural beauty! Lustrous quartz is mixed with silvery schist matrix and orange limonate. Inside the quartz you can see rich rutile inclusions but also a strong orange color that originates in iron oxide filling out small cracks in the quartz. There are many contacts but the more you look, the more you realize: there really is no damage here. If you are in for a natural beauty of stunning size then have a closer look on this unusual specimen!
Laghman Province, Nuristan , Afghanistan
Size: 4.8 x 1.9 x 1.6 cm
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The distinctive bend this tourmaline crystal describes is a compelling eye-catcher. Combine that with the superb luster, the wonderful complex termination, the pronounced three colors and the fact that this is actually a complete doubly terminated crystal and you got one astonishing specimen indeed! The surface is all lustrous and with fine striations. Simply beautiful!
Monte Prosa, Central St. Gotthard Massif, Tessin (Ticino), Switzerland
Size: 5 x 3.5 x 2.8 cm
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The main iron rose on this little specimen has a diameter of 1.1 cm. That's not large but all the more beautiful. A perfectly defined, freely presented and lustrous rosette of fine hematite blades in utter perfection. This extremely fine iron rose is set on a crystallized white feldspar matrix. A second hematite aggregate further down completes the picture.
Galenstock, Rhone Glacier, Wallis, Switzerland
Size: 3 x 2.3 x 1.6 cm
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A lovely fluorite on quartz from a recent find last summer on Galenstock in Switzerland. The fluorite has2.3 cm in diameter and shows stunning quality! As you can see in the picture, the balance of fluorite and the small quartz crystal is really appealing. The fluorite itself strikes with intensive pink color, great clarity and a beautifully structured, lustrous surface. While the backside of the specimen is contacted and rough, the front is really exceptional.
Serpieri Mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District, Attikí Pref., Greece
Size: 6.3 x 3 x 2.3 cm
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The Serpieri mine is the type locality of Glaucocerinite and it is knows for still being the world's best locale for this extremely rare mineral. This is a very light weight floater of brown limonite, almost completely covered in bright sky blue glaucocerinite. This color is what makes the mineral so attractive. The micro-botryoidal crystals have a characteristic waxy luster. Some edges of the three-dimensional structure are damaged, which is where you can see the limonite matrix, but most is intact. An attractive rarity of strikingly intense color!
Tormiq valley, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 10.2 x 6.3 x 2.3 cm
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One more fine hematite also in combination with titanite!
Weißeck, Lungau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 6.6 x 2.7 x 1.7 cm
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Another very nice alpine fluorite with great color and also crystallized at the back. Currently in the A. Watzl Sr. Collection