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The main titanite has a size of 2.7 cm and prominently shows its gemmy side with a mix of mossy green and brown. The crystal is very well defined and sharp. Towards its left end it starts to get encompassed by some chlorite which also dominates the back of the specimen where a tight cluster of titanites is present as you can very well see in our video. The titanite cluster is set on a small piece of feldspar/chlorite matrix that is crystallized even at the bottom.
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One single titanite is prominently set on a flat piece of very beautiful matrix that itself is completely covered in filigree feldspar and chlorite. The titanite is 2.3 cm long, sharp, transparent and with nice brown and green coloring. The overall looks of this specimen is just unique and it is in outstanding condition all around!
Huanggang Mine, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia, China
Size: 5 x 3.2 x 2.1 cm
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This is a very attractive specimen of purple fluorite with sphalerite crystals atop. The fluorite comes as a stack of very nicely crystallized modified cubes. Those cubes are transparent and lustrous with frosted bevels. Set between the fluorites you can see sphalerite crystals of intensive orange-red color which nicely contrasts with the purple fluorites. The piece is a floater with only minimal contacts and in best condition.
Zinggenstock, Grimsel area, Hasli valley, Berner Oberland, Switzerland
Size: 8.7 x 6.6 x 6.6 cm
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The main crystal at this high quality smoky quartz specimen is a stocky exemplar of best luster and clarity with a distinctive brown color. The growth pattern is rather unusual, two parallelly intergrown crystals forming a single large and dominant quartz. It is prominently nested between a number of smaller crystals that display the same beautiful quality. A brilliant and highly attractive smoky quartz on matrix!
Auernig, Mallnitz, Ankogel, Hohe Tauern, Carinthia, Austria
Size: 6.6 x 2.4 x 1.8 cm
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This superb doubly terminated quartz shows perfectly developed tessin-quartz habit without any compromise. Both terminations are sharp and pointed and almost perfectly symmetric. Minimal contact induced roundings at the tips are only visible with the loupe. The quartz is transparent with characteristic chlorite inclusions which add a very nice green color that is especially strong towards the terminations. Absolutely amazing single quartz specimen of highest elegance!
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Two metallic grey galena cubes are aesthetically set on a small piece of rock matrix with an association of small but brilliant red sphalerite crystals. The galena has that unusual and very distinctive "fortification" style that is due to octahedral modifications and a second generation galena overgrowth. This mechanic, machine-made-look is fascinating in person and a well desired feature on those galenas from the Tri-State Mining disctrict of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma!
Kristallwand, Frosnitztal, East Tyrol, Austria
Size: 5.4 x 4.2 x 2.1 cm
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Typical for this site, the crystals on this piece have a reddish brown color, which is particularly nice in the glassy crystals! It is a very natural piece of matrix that is covered on both sides with adular microcrystals. There's a whole lot of brown titanites on the front, with a single larger main crystal standing out prominently! Very attractive in person!
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.
Água Branca Mine, Ouro Fino, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size: 7.8 x 2.3 x 1.7 cm
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It has the ocean blue color, it has the pointed termination, it has the addition of fine purple lepidolite. This tourmaline is quite lovely indeed and even if it is not a hundred percent perfect (there is a broken side-crystal at the backside somewhere at the top of the lepidolite zone and it is repaired once) it is certainly a pretty crystal! The combination of blue, pink and purple is what sets this tourmaline apart from the crowd!
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Size and quality of the emerald crystals on this specimen is utterly amazing for this locale. The longest crystal reach 3 cm in length, they are totally gemmy and with a rich and intensive green color that you could only truthfully describe as "emerald green"! None of the crystal has even the smallest impairment.
The emeralds lie on a velvety matrix of feldspar and mica, which is uncommon in this beauty.
As you can see in our picture and video, the quality and especially the color of the crystals are really impressive!
The piece comes with a label from London base collector David Lucas.
Surrein, Sedrun, Tujetsch, Grischun, Switzerland
Size: 5.3 x 4.9 x 2.6 cm
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One single round tabular hematite crystal is embedded in brilliant transparent quartz. Seldomly can you see such well designed combination, paired with sharp and clear crystal quality! The main quartz has 2.5 cm in length and is prominently set on a piece of matrix that is overgrown with small quartz and anatase microcystals! There is no damage!
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It's a lovely little quartz crystal of brilliant quality with an unusually distictinve “faden”. It is limpid and lustrous and well developed. There are minor contacts present but no actual damage.