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Eagle`s Nest Mine, Placer Co., California, USA
Size: 2.2 x 1.1 x 0.5 cm
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This adorable little gold from the famous Eagle's Nest is shaped like a seahorse which provides a unique and just lovely aspect to this already nice specimen. With great luster and filigree structure this is a very special piece with no downsides. If you are into thumbnails, this is surely worth a second look!
Floitengrund, Zillertaler Alpen, North Tyrol, Austria
Size: 4.5 x 3.3 x 1.1 cm
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A beautiful cream-colored apatite specimen from Floitengrund!It is a single crystal, with only minimal chlorite-encrustation at the bottom where it detatched from the matrix. The crystal is transparent, flawless, lustrous and shows absolutely beautiful striations due to its unusual growth!
A remarkably fine single crystal specimen from a not so well known location in the Zillertal Alps!
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 6.2 x 3.8 x 3.4 cm
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Aesthetics is everything!
This unmistakable Cavradi-specimen scores with its unique composition that unites a perfect colorless quartz with a structure of white albite that holds a group of metallic hematite plates with little rutile crystals on them. Striking outline, best quality, contrast and an overall unusual yet highly attractive appearance make for a simply breathtaking small cabinet specimen with absolutely no downsides!
Paprok, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
Size: 3.6 x 1.3 x 0.8 cm
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A lovely twin tourmaline specimen of brilliant quality and nice open colors! The two crystals are not quite parallel - they show a slight yet aesthetically important v-shape that leads up to a very complex termination on the larger main crystal. The smaller crystal at the right has a flat termination that seems contacted but not broken. The gemmy crystals display distinct color zoning, from pink to green, white and pink again at the termination. Very attractive and brilliant!
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This gemmy tourmaline strikes with rich colors and a well cut polyhedral termination! The vitreous crystal shows a beautiful color zoning that reaches from brownish orange at the bottom to vibrant emerald green and pink at the top. Very intense and bright! Even with low illumination this crystal openly shows its amazing play of colors! Very attractive in person!
Ras Koh Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 3.8 x 3 x 1.3 cm
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This epidote specimen is from a recent find in the western Pakistani Mountains that revealed a completely unique and highly aesthetic "bow tie" shape. Sprays of dark green, lustous epidote form this sharp clusters in a just lovely way.
This specimen is a dominant epidote "bow tie" that is accompanied by a smaller version attached to it like in an acrobatic performance. Both clusters are in best condition! A lovely specimen of exceptional aesthetics!
Dongpo Ore Field, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
Size: 10.4 x 8.6 x 4.2 cm
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This is one amazing piece of fluorite! The all limpid crystal is a complete floater in very best condition that shows marvelous surface structure on all sides! Under closer inspection you would find three cubical crystals that are so heavily modified that the basic shape is hardly discernible. The color is a light but distinctive ocean green thats homogenous throughout the specimen. What it comes down to is a rounded, all crystallized shape of glassy green fluorite that is utterly beautiful and attractive in person!
Tole, Wana, South Waziristan, Pakistan
Size: 16.1 x 4.8 x 3.3 cm
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One single white thread, the "Faden", stretches 16 cm from bottom to top and connects a large number of sparkling, sharp and gemmy quartz crystals to an amazingly beautiful and sweeping sculpture! This specimen is pristine all around! So much so that when you turn it in your hands you never want to stop, you want to take in all the 3-dimensional elegance! High quality, superb aesthetics, stunning size and best condition!
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Yes, it is only a single crystal. But the quality of this one is absolutely incredible, beautiful and amazing in person! Warm brown color - intensive yet not too dark - fills the glassy crystal body. It is confined in a casing of super-lustrous prism faces with a sharp pyramidal termination. Especially those pyramidal faces show lovely surface structure, like subtle waves on a calm lake. There is not a single scratch all the way down to the recrystallized, partly feldspar-covered bottom. This is a wonderful exemplar of Swiss smoky quartz in uttermost perfection!
Val Gronda da Cavrein, Vorderrheintal, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 8.2 x 6.9 x 5.8 cm
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This very distinctive short prismatic quartz crystal strikes with superb luster and a complete, limpid transparency throughout the whole crystal! Tthrough one of the steep pyramidal faces that act as window to the inside you can see right to the bottom where a nice green byssolite lawn is visible. The crystal is perfect on all sides on the bottom and the termination. There are some contacts but no damage at all! Very attractive and of highest quality!
Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada
Size: 8.8 x 3.5 x 2.2 cm
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Lustrous and sharp lazulite crystals up to 9 mm are forming this dramatic stalagmite. There is associated white quartz and brown, glassy siderite adding some contrast to the ink-blue lazulite. The dark crystals appear almost black at normal room-light but direct downlight reveals gemmy parts and fresh blue and green patches. Very nice and attractive piece from this important locale that produced some of the best of the species!
Großglockner, Glockner Group, Hohe Tauern, Carinthia, Austria
Size: 15.9 x 12.4 x 6.3 cm
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Good calcite specimens from the eastern Alps are scarce and mostly limited to the Glocknerhauptkamm, the main ridge of the Glockner. This specimen was found by the famous collector Gottlieb Obkircher and is one of the finest found in this region! A thin plate of matrix is covered in white adularia and some contrasting dark chlorite. Upon this matrix lies a massive piece of colorless calcite like a stranded whale. The calcite is perfect, glassy and with a characteristic shimmer! A grand specimen of superb Austrian calcite on matrix as we have hardly seen alike!