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Dara-i-Pech pegmatite field, Chapa Dara District, Kunar, Afghanistan
Size: 1.5 x 0.9 x 0.5 cm
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Stibiotantalite is an extremely rare antimony tantalum niobium oxide that usually comes as dark brown to reddish crystals, often opaque and unattractive. In some exceptional cases however stibiotantalite develops well defined crystals with bright gemmy yellow color!
This crystal is exactly that and despite the rather small size it is an impressive piece for the material that shines with great crystal quality and a superb and flawless termination!
Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 8.7 x 6.5 x 3.3 cm
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This is a gorgeous paragenesis of aquamarine and apatite on muscovite. The specimen features a 2.8 cm main aquamarine and a brilliant 1.5 cm fluorapatite. The whole assembly looks stunning in person and is in very best condition! Orange iron oxide coating on the muscovite brings a nice color and contrasts with the intensive pink apatite. The aquamarine is admittedly rather pale but makes up for this with very good luster, gemmyness and nice bevelled terminations. Our video gives a good impression about quality and aesthetics of this fine specimen!
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Mun. de Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico
Size: 3.5 x 3.4 x 2 cm
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Green malachite is certainly the best contrasting combination for this single royal blue azurite crystal! The azurite is 1.4 cm in size and is prominently set at the top of this beautiful and well balanced matrix. It is flawless all around, shows best bright luster and just amazing blue color at direct illumination! It's a brilliant thumbnail sized specimen of best quality and aesthetics!
Dara-i-Pech pegmatite field, Chapa Dara District, Kunar, Afghanistan
Size: 3.8 x 2.8 x 2.7 cm
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A 1.4 cm apatite aggregate that strikes with intensive violet color is set on a white quartz matrix. The crystals are very well developed and without damage. Our video gives a nice impression of shape and the lovely apatite color!
Schinschlucht, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 8.7 x 4.8 x 3.8 cm
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This is a distinctive high quality floater specimen of transparent quartz with fascinating green chlorite phantoms inside. The 8.1 cm main crystal is doubly terminated and set on a beautiful cluster of white quartz with some orange calcite in between. The whole specimen is in outstanding condition, brilliant and of striking aesthetics with intriguing chlorite phantoms which make it highly unusual and appealing in person!
Boldut Mine, Cavnic, Maramures Co., Romania
Size: 14.9 x 12.6 x 6.9 cm
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The combination of chalcopyrite and quartz with calcite is well known for the Boldut mine but I must say that this one is especially nice when it comes to contrast and crystal quality. Single isolated glassy white quartz crystals stand amidst chalcopyrite that comes as grey blocks with sharp golden shiny individuals in between. Also the white/pinkish calcite rose is of lovely shape and in very best condition!
Tormiq valley, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan
Size: 3.9 x 3.7 x 2.2 cm
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One single main titanite is set on a highly attractive matrix of chlorite, white calcite and green titanite side-crystals. It is around 2.2 cm long, brilliant, sharp and intensively green! The crystal is repaired which greatly reduces the price on this otherwise outstandingly beautiful high class specimen!
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This whole fluorite composition is amazingly three-dimensional and crystallized all around!
Unlike many specimens from the locale this one is highly lustrous which is as rare as it is beautiful!
The complexly interlocked crystals are all in very best condition. Even the bottom is crystallized.
The piece comes with collection lables of Dr. Reinhard Dallinger, Karl Podpeskar as well as from Ingeborg and Anton Watzl sen.
Laman celestine deposit, Qala e Naw District, Badghis, Afghanistan
Size: 6.9 x 3.7 x 3.3 cm
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It's a highly aesthetic celestine from the new finds in the Laman celestine deposit. The piece shows a 2.3 cm long main crystal sitting centrally on a very nicely crystallized matrix. The matrix is coated with fine orange/brown calcite crystals, which creates an excellent contast. The single celestine shows a beautiful and intense blue color, it is sharp-edged and free of damage. In our video you get a very good impression of the quality of the crystal and the stunning aesthetics!
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Faden quartz specimens from Crete are known but not exactly common. This specimen shows a remarkable size and a very distinctive white faden that runs through the crystal. The quartz is transparent and lustrous and very well defined. Only the right side shows a contact and some damage but that's hardly visible from the front. Apart from that this is a striking specimen with a broad window-like front and an easily visible faden!
Erongo Mts., Karibib Constituency, Namibia
Size: 7.3 x 6 x 2.6 cm
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This is a particularly well shaped, oval fluorite aggregate.
It has a blueish white perimeter and a dark center.
But is it really a dark center? Only in bad lighting!
Add only a little direct backlight and that center shines bright with different colors. Mostly yellow and brown but also red, purple and green are present.
Very colorful and aesthetic!
The backside is etched and has a rim of muscovite and feldspar.
The pictures show the piece in different lighting. It's amazing how different the colors appear in natural light and artificial light!
Galmihorn, Münster, Wallis, Switzerland
Size: 11 x 8.8 x 5 cm
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This piece has a remarkable size and impresses above all with a very nice composition. Surrounded by smaller, short prismatic crystals sits a single, massive main crystal of captivating quality. Highly lustrous, transparent, sharp, undamaged and with a pleasantly warm and intense brown color. The secondary crystals are of comparable quality and undamaged save for some peripheral contacts. You can see this high quality very nicely in our video!