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Ras Koh Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 3.3 x 1.5 x 0.8 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 is a singly "bow tie" cluster, distinctively developed and with bright luster! It is completely free of any damage or contacts. A piece of distinct shape and characteristics!
Pyingyi Taung, Male, Singu Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar)
Size: 6.2 x 5.3 x 3.9 cm
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The intensive cherry-red color as seen in the pictures is not exaggerated at all and best sparkling luster even emphasizes the pristine quality and aesthetics! The crystals are short prismatic with very well cut polyhedral terminations that are just amazingly complex! Amidst those sparkling tourmalines are several transparent quartz crystal which provides a nice contrast to the intensively colored tourmalines. Apart from peripheral contacts at the matrix this piece is flawless with all crystals perefctly intact! Absolutely wonderful and of top-notch quality!
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When travelling the Alps it's increasingly hard to get good rocks but sometimes - all too rarely - you get lucky! This incredible quartz is one of those kick-ass specimens that gets us Alpine collectors going! All prims faces, safe for the backside which is somewhat rough, are extremely lustrous and beautifully structured! The terminal pyramid is sharp and with exceptionally well defined architecture! The quartz is glassy from bottom to top with only very minimal internal cracks or impurities. The bottom, where the crystal detached from the rock, is completely re-healed, even crystallized. Absolutely amazing in quality and size! What a sublime crystal!
Middleville, Town of Newport, Herkimer, New York, USA
Size: 6.5 x 3.8 x 3.5 cm
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One single sharp and well developed "Herkimer diamond" is set atop a natural piece of rock, accompanied by smaller feldspar crystals on all sides of the rock-matrix. The quartz is 4 cm long and - as is characteristic for the locale - of exceptionally high quality and with very minimal inclusions! It is all flawless and sharp with most of the faces, edges and corners freely visible. Definitely a very well designed specimen of distinctive architecture as you can also see in our video!
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It’s a gorgeous rose quartz from a newer find of summer 2019. What’s so very special about this find is the exceptional quality of the quartz that is very transparent and with lovely pink color through and through! The construct of this specimen is impressive too as it is a combination of short prismatic crystals at the base with thin sail-like quartz plates along the upper side. These “sails” have originally been thin coatings on calcite which later on dissolved, leaving only the quartz. Very beautiful and elegant!
Zinggenstock, Grimsel area, Hasli valley, Berner Oberland, Switzerland
Size: 9.7 x 8 x 5.4 cm
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A lovely and characteristic group of high quality smoky quartz is set on a white contrasting matrix. Luster and clarity of the quartz is absolutely stunning, the condition is close to perfect with only one tiny, hardly discernible chip. The matrix is naturally broken and makes for a perfect background for the superb arrangement of high class smoky quartz!
Zinggenstock, Grimsel area, Hasli valley, Berner Oberland, Switzerland
Size: 6.1 x 5 x 2.5 cm
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I've hardly seen such crazy composition! A 2.1 cm pink fluorite sits right at the tip of a smoky quartz crystal, accompanied by a smaller smoky side crystal and set on a contrasting piece of white matrix! The octahedral fluorite is translucent to transparent with a very nice pink color and a dramatic surface structure of strongly modified faces but with sharply defined edges and corners. Some dark purple spots add even more life to the already nice crystal. The straight smoky quartz is all glassy and lustrous acting as the perfect stand. Some contact at the back is rather unobtrusive. Perfect balance, stark contrast and flawless crystals!
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!