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Laghman Province, Nuristan , Afghanistan
Size: 9.8 x 7.9 x 1.9 cm
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This fabulous kunzite specimen is a complete floater in perfect condition all around! The quality of this sculpturesque etched piece is amazing in person: Gemmy, lustrous and sharp with intensive lavender color! Our video shows how immensely glassy and simply gorgeous this piece is as a 3-dimensional specimen! Definitely a stunner without any downsides at all!
Schwarze Wand, Hollersbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 5.3 x 3.1 x 3.5 cm
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The largest garnet on this fine specimen is prominently set atop a cluster of smaller crystals with associated green clinochlore microcrystals. It's a beautiful exemplar of this rare material that counts as a top Alpine classic! Brilliant cherry red dodecahedrons are crowded on this impressive specimen, beautifully sparkling and sharp! The variety in crystal sizes and the combination with clinochlore makes this an outstanding and appealing specimen for any collection of rare Alpine minerals!
Saurüssel, Zemmgrund, Zillertaler Alpen, Nordtirol, Austria
Size: 13 x 6 x 5 cm
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This quartz is quite characterisic for the locale. Stepped growth with etched faces, a sharp termination and some associated hematite, feldspar and limonite make the origin obvious! The crystal is mostly opaque but has a brilliantly glassy part at the sharp termination. This part even has some purple color which can be revealed by some direct white light from the right angle. The whole specimen is in very good condition with even the bottom being re-healed, not broken.
Bortelhorn, Binn valley, Wallis, Switzerland
Size: 5.5 x 2.4 x 2.1 cm
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Water-clear, beautifully skeletalized and absolutely flawless! This amazing quartz shows unique shape and outstanding quality! The upper half of the specimen has an unusually tapering yet well defined shape while the lower half is much more skeletalized and leaves no discernible crystal habit. Those two halfs combined make for a lovely specimen of unusual sparkling character!
Dassu, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 4.5 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm
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Shape and size of this exceptional garnet crystal are totally unusual! The crystal is a floater of elongated pseudo-prismatic shape with a size of 4.5 cm! It is a complete floater with a perfectly shaped upper termination and a small quartz crystal sitting on the fully crystallized bottom. The spessartine is mostly dark but with an inner fire burning beneath the beautifully structured and flawless surface!
Hyderabad District, Telangana, India
Size: 9.7 x 4.8 x 3.7 cm
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A sharp phantom quartz crystal of splendid quality from the unique finds in Hyderabad. The crystal is highly lustrous on all sides and grants a 360° view on the very well developed and distinctive purple and pink phantom. The condition is really great with only contacts at the side and micro-abrasions here and there but no damage. Our video shows the beautiful quality of this excellent quartz!
Val Giuv, Tujetsch, Vorderrhein Valley, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 12.6 x 9.5 x 5.7 cm
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A perfect floater with a very interesting combination between a yellow calicte, a smoky quartz and some small adularia crystals, which makes this specimen truly unique! I have never seen such a nice combination before from this locale. Some small chlorite is also present partially.
Brusson Mine, Brusson, Aosta Valley, Italy
Size: 6.8 x 5.4 x 1.9 cm
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A very good gold is well situated on a quartz matrix here!It has a bright yellow color and good luster! The contrast of the yellow gold to the white quartz is intense and makes the piece very showy! Alpine gold is very rare and therefore this is a perfect fit to every alpine collections! Beautiful in person!
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WOW, this is a very choice crystal of high standard!The colors are well-defined and intense here! The pointed termination is skeletal like shaped, while the lower part of the crystal is smooth!The condtion is very good and just very tiny edgewear, which is hardly visible, is present!
Knappenwand, Untersulzbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 7.7 x 2.9 x 2 cm
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See the pictures and don't forget to breath! This epidote group is not just of incredible aesthetics, but most of all holds a perfect quality. I don't know if I have ever seen such fantastic luster on an epidote! The whole front surface of the main crystal is like a flawless mirror, erupting from a group of nesting smaller crystals. Wonderful! As you might have guessed, the crystal is repaired once, but this is almost invisible from the front and thus absolutely acceptable, considering the marvelous aesthetic and uniqueness of this specimen. Most of the side crystals are perfect too, while two of them are broken, which does not at all disturb the outstanding aesthetic of this piece.
Mt Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China
Size: 7.4 x 6.8 x 3 cm
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Like fruity, sugar-sweet candy, these two crystals lie on a shimmering grey muscovite matrix and let your mouth water. Fantastically lustrous and of marvelous orange color, these crystals are truly impressive and just awesome. The nicely structured surface is sparkling and allows a deeper view into the clear crystal. While the smaller crystal has one tiny wear, the main crystal is absolutely perfect. To see the fascinating beauty of this piece, please watch the video!
Goboboseb Mts., Brandberg Area, Erongo Region, Namibia
Size: 7.4 x 4.8 x 3.3 cm
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The textbook aesthetics of this piece, combined with highest quality is just amazing. The main crystal is a smoky quartz scepter with beautiful inclusions and skeletal pyramidal faces - the "windows". This main crystal proturdes from a base of nicely fanned out quartz crystals that show bright red inclusions. All in all this is a specimen of pure aesthetics made of brilliant quality crystals and perfectly composed.