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This tourmaline shows dramatic size and amazing colors! The specimen was found in Novo Cruceiro and went to the collection of French collector Labyey Andre in 1987, where it stayed until recently. This crystal is of just beautiful and elegant appearance. The blueish color of the main body contrasts with the dark strawberry red of the main termination and several smaller terminations of intergrown side-crystals. Superb luster, a translucent colorful crystals body, outstanding condition and a shape that opens towards the top. This singel crystal tourmaline is more than the sum of its attributes. It is not repaired and has virtually no flaws!
Zambezi Valley, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
Size: 7.7 x 3.3 x 1.9 cm
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It's a striking amethyst from the new finds in the Zambezi Valley. The crystal has a size of 7.7 cm with a 4.8 cm long scepter head of brilliant quality! It is glassy and highly lustrous and has the most intensive purple color, especially near the pointed termination! The stem is white quartz with characteristic dots of red hematite inclusions. The whole specimen is in very best damage-free condition and even the bottom is not broken but crystallized.
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 2.9 x 2.1 x 1.2 cm
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This hematite specimen is constructed from several stacked tiles that are sharply defined on all sides and beautifully jeweled with fire red rutiles. There is some feldspar at the base but apart from that it's just solid hematite. The condition is superb with just some insignificant abrasions but nothing that's visible from the front. Absolutely gorgeous little specimen!
Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia
Size: 12.2 x 7 x 4.4 cm
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The rich combination of lime-green cuprian smithsonite on white dolomite is utterly amazing! The luminous smithsonite crystals are color intensive, highly lustrous and gemmy! Specimens of such gorgeous abundance are hard to find nowadays but never lost anything of their appeal!
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The perfection of this beautiful quartz arrangement is totally stunning in person and all main cyrystals are completely flawless!
A second generation of small quartz crystals that is distinctly visible in the pictures is in fact solely grown on the backside of the main crystals. However, through the glassy crystal bodies and the pristine surface those crystals are easily visible and beautifully reflect the light in all directions!
Some iron oxide between the main crystals adds a golden orange color which makes this specimen even more interesting and alive!
At the base you will find pericline and calcite.
Teufelsmühle, Habachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 7.2 x 3.6 x 3.2 cm
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Spectacularly lustrous and completely limpid through and through without even the slightest impurity! While the bottom is partly broken, the rest of the crystal is completely flawless down to the smallest detail! The crystal shows the original hexagonal shape but is etched all around. We have seen many Alpine skeletal quartz but the quality of this one is truly phenomenal!
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 4 x 3.1 x 2.7 cm
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Three tourmaline crystals are vertically protruding from a white cluster of cleavelandite. Like the towers of a castle those crystals are rather prominent and contrast well against the white background. The dark crystals have intensive blue zones towards the pyramidal terminations which is uncommon, considering that green is by far the predominent color on comparable specimens. The condition is extremely well all over. There is a small contact on the lower front but apart from that I couldn’t see anything imperfect.
Hiefelwand, Grieswies, Raurisertal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 2.6 x 1.9 x 1.9 cm
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Finding a good and appealing scheelite from the Austrian Alps is next to impossible. Luckily this excellent single crystal exemplar was part of the Karl Podpeskar collection that we recently acquired.
And it is a fabulous specimen indeed! Perfect dipyramidal shape and juicy orange color are combined on this rare crystal that is complete all around and without any damage. Both tips are somewhat rough but which is contact induced, not damaged.
The crystal is translucent, in parts even transparent and shows very nice luster.
It was found by Hubert Fink around the year 1990.
Großer Finagl, Untersulzbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 10.7 x 7.3 x 6 cm
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Alpine prehnite is hard to come by so we were happy when this specimen came in the collection of Karl Podpeskar. It’s a prehnite from Großer Finagl, a summit between Untersulzbachtal and Habachtal. The piece shows a three-dimensional landscape of pure prehnite. The condition is excellent with only some periphery contacts.
Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
Size: 7.6 x 3.3 x 4.1 cm
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This is a very interesting calcite with a beautiful aesthetics. It is much more 3-dimensional in person than shown on the photos. The color changes from the upper to the lower side, what highlights the main crystal very well.
Schinschlucht, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 7.1 x 4.8 x 3.4 cm
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This crystal is very glassy and perfect all around! It has some beautiful inclusions of chlorite, while the matrix is partially coverd by a brwonish layer. It has an intense luster and a great visual impact! I was very lucky to get it out of a collection, as I have not seen any pieces in that quality from new findings!
Berbes Mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
Size: 6.7 x 4.3 x 3.2 cm
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Another fine fluorite of great aesthetics!