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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
Panasqueira Mine, Panasqueira, Castelo Branco District, Portugal
Size: 7 x 5 x 3.9 cm
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This is an exquisite and well-situated crystal of apatite on matrix from Panasqueira. The crystal has a very good luster and a very interesting green color.
Amertal, Felbertal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 2.8 x 1.9 x 1.5 cm
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While it is very hard to find any titanites on matrix, this crystals is perfectly situated on it. It has a very good twinned shape. Free of damage!
Berbes Mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
Size: 6.7 x 4.3 x 3.9 cm
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This fluorite of high quality shows a great contrast to the yellowish quartz!
Pederneira Mine, São José da Safira, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size: 10.3 x 9 x 3.3 cm
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WOW, a steel blue indigolite of high quality is perfectly shooting out of the matrix in a dramatic way. The beautiful long elongated crystal has an impressive length of 9.5cm and shows a very fine pointed termination. It is repaired once, what is highly accepted by many collectors, as more or less all pieces are repaired from this mine! The matrix consists of feldspar, some lepidolite and good crystalized quartz. It is a while ago now sice a good pocked was found at the Pederneira mine and I was very lucky to find such a good piece in an old collection.
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 8 x 6.5 x 5.2 cm
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A group of perfectly clear quartz crystals fanning-out and reaching to the sky. While the upper crystals are of truly fantastic luster and sharpness (you can see through them as through a window!) the ones at the bottom are milky but still without damage. The crystals are almost colorless but possess a very slight coloring as is typical for the region of Cavradi. The “vâ€-shaped zones at the bottom are contacted and to the most part healed. What add an extra bonus to the general appearance are numerous white calcite crystals, spread across the whole piece. Especially lovely in my opinion are those tiny ones, sitting atop the terminations of the quartz. Very lively and pretty!
Knappenwand, Untersulzbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 9.5 x 6 x 6 cm
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Epidote with byssolite, albite and calcite on matrix. Fantastic!This specimen is simply unique in any respect. No reparations, no damage, not a single scratch. The piece offers a view on a alpine landscape, where green grass, moss and lichen are dominating the vegetation, scattered with rocks and some gnarled trees.The epidote is brilliantly lustrous and is in stark contrast to the white calcite. This is a superb and highly detailed piece of outstanding quality. For a better view on the sparkling luster, please watch the video!
Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion, La Libertad, Peru
Size: 6.4 x 4.5 x 2.3 cm
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This piece shows unusually nice aesthetics. One single isolated main crystal of hübnerite is nested in a chaotic group of sparkling and clear quartz needles. The main crystal with a size of 2.2 x 1.1 cm is impressive and very much emphasized by the accompanying quartz and hübnerite side-crystals. This is a supberb piece of perfect composition!
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 3 x 2.4 x 2.4 cm
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One tabular hematite crystal with small spots of sparkling red rutile, perched on a beautiful white matrix. Both sides of the hematite are perfectly mirroring. It is free of any damage, with one healed part at the side that is not visible from the front. A perfectly aesthetic piece without any drawbacks!