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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!
Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan , Pakistan
Size: 4 x 3 x 2.1 cm
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The perfect, doubly terminated elbaite crystal is attached to a pristine white floater piece of albite, all sparkly and lovely! The elbaite shows a color combination that is quite characteristic for Stak Nala: dark forest green with some apple green and a dominant pink termination. A perfectly attractive appearance, combined with best quality and condition make this miniature specimen a superb choice for any collection of tourmaline classics!
Mörchnerkar, Zemmgrund, Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria
Size: 3.8 x 3 x 1.5 cm
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An amethyst gwindel? Well, not really, but it sure looks like one!
The unusual crystal shape totally resembles a gwindel but it misses the characteristic twist. The quartz shows intensive purple color and is mostly transparent. The backside it is a shard of white quartz that is broken and completely re-healed. The amethyst itself is practically flawless with only microscopic edge-wear. Totally unique and catchy for its intensive color and the unusual shape!
Zinggenstock, Grimsel area, Hasli valley, Berner Oberland, Switzerland
Size: 5.7 x 4.1 x 3.2 cm
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The dark, almost black color of the main smoky quartz is just amazing in person! The crystal is 4.5 cm long, has a sharp, pointed termination and a distinct right-handed habit. It sits on a contrasting white matrix, accompanied by several smaller side-crystals.
Perfect aesthetics meets best flawless crystal quality!
Forsterbachtal, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 2.2 x 1.3 x 0.9 cm
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This little jewel is a very pronounced sceptre with a 1.3 cm broad head on a thin 0.4 cm stem. The head is well cut and glassy with no kind of abrasions anywhere. The stem somewhat clouded and with a yellowish tinge. A catchy little specimen of distinctive shape!
Quincy Mine, Hancock, Houghton Co., Michigan, USA
Size: 7.8 x 5.9 x 4.3 cm
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A classic specimen of calcite with copper on matrix that is highly aesthetic due to nice composition and color contrast. Scalenohedral calcite crystals are protruding from the top, showing their pinkish color that is induced by copper inclusions and contrasting with the dark brown, patinated copper that is present all over the matrix. White feldspar and some quartz are even more accentuating calcite and copper. Very nice in person and a real classic from this old Mine!
Oberzeiring, Pölstal, Murtal district, Styria, Austria
Size: 13.4 x 7.8 x 6.9 cm
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Blue aragonite is limited to a handful of localities only, with Oberzeiring in Styria being the most classic and famous. Unfortunately this locale is closed down for around fifty years now and specimens date back to the 1950s and 1960s. This peculiarity shows lovely sky-blue color due to oriented inclusions of Aurichalcite. On this massive specimen the surface is intensively blue, while on the sides one can see the layers of different shades of blue to white. The bottom holds some matrix and thus shows how the zeiringite gradually grew on the rock. To me this piece is a scientific study and an impressive and attractive mineral specimen of historic value alike!
Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia
Size: 8.1 x 7 x 3.7 cm
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A very well defined pseudomorphosis of malachite after azurite with one single crystal jutting out from a matrix-like cluster of malachite, azurite and feldspar. The specimen is in very best condition all around with no visible damage! The azurite is almost completely converted to shiny green malachite though towards the termination there are patches of lustrous and sharp azurite as you can very well see in the second picture and the video. Quality and shape of this pseudomorphosis are totally exceptional and beautifully elegant! Ex Fabian Wildfang collection
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The shape of this high quality tourmaline crystal is absolutely unique and elegant in its very own unusual way! While the base at least indicates a typical tourmaline habit, this completely changes from there on and the crystal tapers towards a 3mm thick and a little over 1 cm long glassy blade at the top. This last part is slightly greenish to almost colorless which stands in contrast to the intensively pink colored main part. The overall quality is just excellent with brilliant luster and a glassy crystal core. It is repaired but which is very well done and hardly visible. An amazingly beautiful tourmaline specimen!
Fazenda do Centro, Castelo, Espírito Santo, Brazil
Size: 19.6 x 11.4 x 3.8 cm
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This topaz specimen is most impressive for its size and also for its unusual growth! It comes from a staggering 2017 find near a farm in Fazenda do Centro, Brazil. The exceptional and rather spectacular pocket yielded a number of skeletal topaz of different colors that are absolutely unique in the world! The floater crystals of this pocket are of unique shape due to heavy 3-dimensional etchings and razor-sharp etches! This specimen is beautifully etched all around and with a wonderful glassy ice-blue color that changes to champagne at the small extension at the very bottom! Bicolor topaz is extremely rare, but bicolor skeletal topaz is almost impossible to get! The main view is all complete and flawless. On the backside you see breaks but which are not exactly fresh but re-healed. Small edge-wear is present but also not visible from the front. Most spectacular is probably the incredibly beautiful surface structure that you can very well see in the second picture. It displays a wealth of little details that is rather overwhelming in its very own natural charm! The crystal itself is clear to the center without even the slightest impurities or internal cracks! A unique piece from this exceptional one-time find in Brazil!
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Switzerland is not exactly known for great scheelite which makes this striking little specimen even more exceptional! The well defined crystal is sharp and has a beautiful caramel color! It is in very best condition all around with a small quartz crystal stuck to the side. A marvelous rarity of its intensive color and sharp octahedral shape!