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Monte Prosa, Central St. Gotthard Massif, Tessin (Ticino), Switzerland
Size: 8.8 x 3.6 x 1.6 cm
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An elegant adularia floater of high quality and appealing character. The crystals are stacked upon each other, composing an ivory tower of stunning aesthetics. The crystals are mostly clear and highly lustrous as is unusual for the locale. A piece without flaws, elegantly beautiful and unusual in shape and quality!
Gotthard tunnel, Switzerland
Size: 6.6 x 4.7 x 4.2 cm
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The outline of this wonderful specimen reminds me of the Mountains where it has been found. In the seventies a 17 km long tunnel has been drilled right through the central St. Gotthard Massiv and is now one of the longest and most important road tunnels of the world. Minerals where hardly of greater concern at that time but fortunately for us a certain amount of the minerals found during the process has been recovered. One of those selected pieces is this fascinating pink fluorite. It is impressively lustrous, clear at the inside and covered in a sparkling layer of white apophyllite at the upper backside that gives the impression of a snow covered mountaintop. This apophyllite is quite typical for tunnel-pieces but otherwise quite rare and well asked for. The bottom of the fluorite is cleaved or in parts contacted but the main part is in excellent condition and very much elegant.
Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
Size: 9.5 x 5.8 x 4.5 cm
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Elba Island is one of the great classical localities of Europe and has produce a great many different minerals over the centuries. While, as type locality of elbaite, Elba is primarily known for fine tourmaline specimens, many other great mineral specimens have been unearthed here. This superb specimen is a shiny example for the high quality this locale produced. Highly lustrous hematite crystals up to 2.5 cm in diameter are clustered across a heavy matrix like a sparkling crown. The hematite is associated with small quartz needles as is characteristic for the locale. The metallic luster has a red tinge to it, revealed at closer inspection under direct downlight. This is an outstanding and just staggering hematite specimen from one of the most famous classic locales!
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A rich plate of fantastic Alpine character, studded with white adularia and contrasting apple green titanite up to 1.5 cm in lenght. The plate is crystallized all over with an evenly beautiful backside, overgrown with adularia and dark chlorite. At the sides you even find iron roses, up to 0.9 cm in diameter. All over this large specimen is in great condition, nothing to worry about. Size, quality and the staggering combination of so many brilliant minerals renders this specimen absolutely unique and amazingly beautiful!
Stefanie Mine, Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnsiche Alpen, Carinthia, Austria
Size: 9.7 x 8.5 x 4.9 cm
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This specimen from the classic Sefanie Mine, where wulfenite has been described in 1785 for the very first time, shows a rock surface that is spread with single isolated, brilliant wulfenite crystals. The tabular crystals are of bright luster, translucent to even transparent and in perfect condition. The largest crystal is 1.1 cm on edge, the others reach around 0.6 cm. A piece of highest crystal quality from the "Herbertschachtscholle" that is surprisingly intact and appealingly natural!
Malkhan pegmatite field, Krasnyi Chikoy, Transbaikalia, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia
Size: 14.6 x 10 x 6.5 cm
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Marvelous and intriguingly picturesque, this paragenesis shows a well balanced combination of tourmaline, mica and feldspar. The whole group of crystals is arranged atop a large white feldspar crystal that is well visible at the pieces left side (the feldspar is broken and re-crystallized at the unspectacular backside as you can very well see in the video). The lower half of the piece is dominated by nice blue cleavelandite, associated with white mica. The further up you look, the more you get excited about the rich presence of gemmy pink rubellite, sparkling and dominant with brilliant color and quality! A fantastically aesthetic specimen in near-perfect condition that impresses with a great variety of beautiful details!
Gamsmutter, Habach Valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 4.1 x 3.6 x 1.5 cm
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Alpine tourmaline is a rare thing to have especially if it is supposed to be attractive!While most significant classic schorl specimen are from Lohning quarry in Rauris Valley, this lovely piece was found at the Habach Valley. It is a sparkling composition of thin, jet black tourmaline needles all showing best luster. Both front and backside are equally beautiful with flat terminated schorl crystals and some chlorite in between. There is no damage to speak of. A 360° appealing Alpine schorl specimen!
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 8.5 x 7.6 x 4.5 cm
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A brilliant quartz specimen of unusually attractive aesthetics! The cluster of glassy, highly lustrous quartz prisms with beautiful inclusions at the lower parts is perched on a sparkling schist matrix. The quartz is well defined with pointed terminations all in best condition. The matrix is a very lively combination with feldspar, quartz and brown limonite in perfect condition. Overall this piece strikes as a well balanced and exceptionally aesthetic Alpine beauty!
Göschener Alp, Göschenen, Uri, Switzerland
Size: 6.5 x 5.9 x 3.6 cm
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A pink fluorite floater specimen that's in best condition all around! What at first glance might appear like dark matrix at the lower parts of the piece are in fact chlorite-inclusions, shining through the crystals. The fluorite is lustrous, sharp and transparent with a distinctive pink color!
As you can see in our video, the piece is crystallized all around. A superb cluster of Alpine fluorite in very best shape!
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The bright variety of colors is most certainly the reason why we love tourmalines so much! And this single crystal is a bright shiny star when it comes to open and gemmy colors. At least five different zones are easily visible - dark mossy green, deep water blue, grassy green, white and candy pink at the termination - with transitions and shifts that make it even more irresistable! Incredibly enough, the crystal is gemmy and lustrous from bottom to top! Naturally the tourmaline is repaired three times which is inevitable on such an elongated thin crystal. The termination is partly contacted but also shows the bevelled habit. This piece is both, an interesting collection piece for the intriguing and uncommonly visual crystal development as well as a beautiful gemstone of rich open colors!
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What this little crystal has to offer is uttermost brilliance, sharpness and very nice colors! The tourmaline is completely glassy from bottom to top where it ends in a sharply cut polyhedral termination. Absolutely lovely in person!
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This large and sweeping sculpture is from an unusual find in Minas Gerais that is characterized by tiny tourmaline needles completely covering every surface of the main crystals which generates a lovely visual effect! This whole specimen is not free from damage as there are several repairs but all main crystals as well as the majority of small side-crystals and attachments are well terminated and complete. This is definitely an attractive specimen of beautiful moss-green color with pink terminations and details. Very nice and unusual in person!