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What at first sight looks like a souvenir from a tourist shack – a coral reef, trapped inside a glass sculpture – is in fact a fully natural phenomenon. A perfectly grown prismatic quartz scepter with a sharp, pointed termination shows the nicest interior life I have seen so far. A beautiful, 3-dimensional rock formations, pink and yellow colored is perfectly visible through the transparent and flawless quartz. Absolutely amazing in person and a highly unusual view. The bottom shows some contacts, but generally the specimen is in very good condition.
Camissinone Mine, Zogno, Brembana Valley, Bergamo Province, Lombardy, Italy
Size: 6.5 x 4.8 x 5.5 cm
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I love the exceptional beauty of this etched specimen as it offers something immensely fascinating to the viewer. Color, shape and the incredibly perfect clarity sum up to an astonishing etched fluorite specimen. Very massy and 3-dimensional, flawless and simply beautiful. The color might be a little more to the green side of the spectrum but that is hard to capture on a picture. A piece that is even better in person!
Camissinone Mine, Zogno, Brembana Valley, Bergamo Province, Lombardy, Italy
Size: 10.2 x 4.9 x 4.2 cm
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The colorplay of this specimen is quite spectacular. While the main part is colorless with a slight yellow tinge this fluorite has a intense purple core that spreads its color throughout the whole crystal. The many details and fine structures make the search for flaws a difficult task, but a search without results anyway. This floater-piece is free of any damages and a wonderful piece of great aesthetics!
Green Monster Deposit, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, USA
Size: 6.6 x 5.9 x 4.1 cm
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A complex arrangement of highly lustrous, doubly terminated epidote with glassy, colorless quartz on a small piece of garnet-rich matrix. The largest epidote is 4.6 cm long and 1.6 cm thick with sharp terminations and great mossy green color. All crystals are flawless and combine for a brilliant 3-dimensional sculpture of great aesthetics and quality!
Frunthorn, Valsertal, Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 3.9 x 3.5 x 2.9 cm
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A stunning fluorite of incredible quality from the Swiss Alps! There is not much to say, as the picture speaks for itself here!!
Valsertal, Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 10.3 x 7.1 x 3.7 cm
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Somehow typical yet somehow unusual. The large main crystal emerges from a piece of matrix, completely overgrown with small white quartz crystals. It is terminated at the bottom and flawless all over. The backside is nicely encrusted with some grey-brown matrix and quartz crystals of differing size. At the lower left side there is a weirdly curved quartz, a detail I have only rarely seen. This is a lustrous, attractive specimen of distinctive composition and remarkable crystal quality!
De'an Mine, Wushan, Jiangxi Province, China
Size: 8.9 x 6.7 x 2.7 cm
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Shaped like a snow covered christmas tree, this is a nicely aesthetic specimen of octahedral fluorite on a white contrasting quartz matrix. The fluorite crystals are of a marvelous color combination, green at the center and deeply purple at the edges with a size that ranges from only a few millimeters up to 1.3 cm on edge. The fluorites faces are frosted. The matrix is a mat of thousands of white quartz needles that have been growing on green fluorite - you can still see the imprint as well as a small leftover of the fluorite. The periphery is contacted but the rest is in well condition with only some minor edgewear.
Serra do Caldeirão, Pontes e Lacerda, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Size: 4.4 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm
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This fine gold specimen is out of a completely new find from 2015 that has rapidly made a name for itself as a source for world class gold specimens. Best color, filigree growth and a vibrant sheen are trademark for this locale and are main feature of this very specimen. The ferny hoppered growth on this piece is perfect to the last detail and 3-dimensionally alive. It is a perfect floater and free of any abrasions or the like. A fantastically fine piece with no downsides!
Wolfskofel, Schwarzenbachtal, Ahrntal, South Tyrol, Italy
Size: 6.2 x 2.5 x 2 cm
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A single quartz crystal of great quality, perfectly gemmy, sharp and with a nice alpine-type surface striation. The bottom is completely crystallized and flawless. At the lower backside the quartz is encrusted with some hematite and feldspar which is nicely visible through the water clear crystal. The luster is very good all around though I have to admit, it is even better at the backside. A negligible drawback on a otherwise great crystal!
Piz Vatgira, Val Nalps, Tujetsch, Vorderrhein Valley, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 8 x 7.5 x 4.1 cm
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The quality of these quartz crystals is absolutely top, showing brilliant luster on all sides and a completely transparent, glassy core. The surface is nicely structured and sparkling as you better can see in our video. There is a minimal chip at the termination but which is not visible from the front. The specimens backside has some contacts but no damage. An appealing piece of great quality and no considerable damage!
Felbertal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 8 x 3.5 x 3.7 cm
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A beautiful skeletalized quartz crystal of intriguing shape, bent like a tree in the wind or a pillar unter to heavy a weight. Despite the heavy etching you can still make out the hexagonal quartz-shape when you view this piece from the top, which also reveals the marvelous scaly termination. There is practically no damage here, only a very small chip at the bottom which is only visible at close inspection of those parts (which includes turning the piece upside down). The surface is lustrous all around, enclosing a crystal body that is completely water-clear. A brilliant piece of Alpine skeletal quartz in person!
Knappenwand, Untersulzbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 3.6 x 3 x 1.8 cm
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The main crystal here is close to 3 cm in diateter and 0.8 cm thick which is just outstanding for the locale, especially if you consider the brilliant quality! Totally glassy and lustrous with fine needles of greenish byssolite at the inside. This is a floater that is, with the exception of one or two small dings, in best condition. A real marvel all around and exceptionally rare for this famous locale!