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Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 10.8 x 4.7 x 1.7 cm
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It's an elegant sculpture of bright yellow brucite on a small piece of rock matrix. The brucite shows very best color and quality with wonderful luster and transparency! It is perfect all around which is hard to imagine on a delicate piece like this. An exceptional and highly appealing piece of this bright mineral!
Großer Finagl, Untersulzbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 10.3 x 9.5 x 6.2 cm
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Adularia, pericline and chlorite are all stacked upon each other on this very attractive, distinctly three-dimensional specimen. The piece was found around 1993 by Gerhard and Hannes Hofer and made it's way to Austrian collectors Karl Podpeskar and Dr. Reinhard Dallinger (both labels are enclosed with the piece). Despite its age the piece lost nothing of its brilliance and is free of any damage. Even the backside is completely crystallized and beautiful. A charming specimen of amazing Alpine character!
Grieswies, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 9 x 6.3 x 2.5 cm
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This brilliant and sparkling shard of quartz is a complete floater with only minimal and hard to notice abrasions. The quartz is transparent, complex and lustrous on front and backside. Some chlorite and limonite add a spark of life to this sharp and sweeping sculpture!
Ankogelgruppe, Anlauftal, Gasteinertal, Pongau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 3.6 x 3 x 2.9 cm
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A complex stepped pyrite with nice bronze colored patina all over. The crystal is attached to some white feldspar at the back and bottom but is otherwise pure pyrite in near-perfect condition. Shape and color of this specimen are unusual and beautiful in person!
Zambezi Valley, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
Size: 7.7 x 3.3 x 1.9 cm
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It's a striking amethyst from the new finds in the Zambezi Valley. The crystal has a size of 7.7 cm with a 4.8 cm long scepter head of brilliant quality! It is glassy and highly lustrous and has the most intensive purple color, especially near the pointed termination! The stem is white quartz with characteristic dots of red hematite inclusions. The whole specimen is in very best damage-free condition and even the bottom is not broken but crystallized.
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 2.9 x 2.1 x 1.2 cm
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This hematite specimen is constructed from several stacked tiles that are sharply defined on all sides and beautifully jeweled with fire red rutiles. There is some feldspar at the base but apart from that it's just solid hematite. The condition is superb with just some insignificant abrasions but nothing that's visible from the front. Absolutely gorgeous little specimen!
Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia
Size: 12.2 x 7 x 4.4 cm
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The rich combination of lime-green cuprian smithsonite on white dolomite is utterly amazing! The luminous smithsonite crystals are color intensive, highly lustrous and gemmy! Specimens of such gorgeous abundance are hard to find nowadays but never lost anything of their appeal!
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The perfection of this beautiful quartz arrangement is totally stunning in person and all main cyrystals are completely flawless!
A second generation of small quartz crystals that is distinctly visible in the pictures is in fact solely grown on the backside of the main crystals. However, through the glassy crystal bodies and the pristine surface those crystals are easily visible and beautifully reflect the light in all directions!
Some iron oxide between the main crystals adds a golden orange color which makes this specimen even more interesting and alive!
At the base you will find pericline and calcite.
Ex Ingeborg and Anton Watzl sen. collection.
Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
Size: 7.6 x 3.3 x 4.1 cm
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This is a very interesting calcite with a beautiful aesthetics. It is much more 3-dimensional in person than shown on the photos. The color changes from the upper to the lower side, what highlights the main crystal very well.
Schinschlucht, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 7.1 x 4.8 x 3.4 cm
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This crystal is very glassy and perfect all around! It has some beautiful inclusions of chlorite, while the matrix is partially coverd by a brwonish layer. It has an intense luster and a great visual impact! I was very lucky to get it out of a collection, as I have not seen any pieces in that quality from new findings!
Konar Province, Nuristan, Afghanistan
Size: 5.1 x 4.8 x 3.8 cm
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Two beautiful tourmalines in combination with some cleavelandite are foarming this outstanding piece! We have two different crystal habits here, while the left one shows the common flat termination, the other one is well pointed and very elegant! To see both together side by side on one piece is very rare and unique! The crystals are translucent, glassy and of bright pink color! This is a choice piece and was in the private collection of Herb Obboda for years! Stunning in person!
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 11.6 x 9.7 x 6 cm
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Now, this is an extraordinary piece! I love the wild beauty and the chaotic aesthetic of these perfectly lustrous and clear quartz crystals. Size, quality, composition: It all fits on this piece. The crystals are grown on a matrix, which is more or less completely covered in quartz and calcite. You will not find a downside, this is a perfect floater and flawless all around. Especially lovely is the doubly terminated quartz, riding piggyback at the very top.This specimen might not be everybody’s taste but then, which one is?