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The crystal habit of this quartz specimen is very much unique showing odd angles wherever you look! As a doubly terminated floater it has only one re-crystallized contact at the back and is otherwise complete and sharply defined! Condition is extremely good with only very few minuscule abrasions and no actual damage. A very nice and attractive specimen of glassy and lustrous quartz that shows this exceptionally striking shape!
Navegadora claim, Conselheiro Pena, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size: 4.8 x 3 x 2.8 cm
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Incredible, juicy, cranberry-red color radiates from this fine specimen even at low illumination, waiting to explode at direct backlight. The 3-dimensional shape feels very much alive, combined with glassy quartz for the contrast. The spessartine has just the fantastic quality the Navegadora claim is famous for. Being a perfect floater this fine piece is perfectly crystallized at the bottom and has only some minor issues at the backside, not visible from the front. Still, those issues sure lower the price for you. A great piece of superb aesthetics and utterly gemmy spessartine!
St.Gertraudi, Bez.Kufstein, Nordtirol, Austria
Size: 11.3 x 7.9 x 3.8 cm
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Blue aragonite from the Austrian Alps is a highly desired variety and usually is found at the fabous Styrian Erzberg. Even rarer is this specimen form St. Gertraudi, famous for copper minerals like azurite. It is a very showy piece with unusual blocky crystals of lovely baby-blue color. The periphery is broken but all crystals on the main display are in great condition. The specimens backside resembles a gravel field and is all natural. Very unusual in shape and exceedingly rare for the locale!
Erfurter Steig, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 15 x 7.5 x 6.5 cm
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Vibrant, 3-dimensional and of dramatic size!
This is a distinctive and highly aesthetic quartz specimen from the Rauris Valley that shows fantastic quality and a very lively, untamed appearance. The quartz is to the largest part limpid with best luster. It is a combination of several doubly terminated crystals that are connected in unusual angles.
Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
Size: 3.5 x 3.5 x 1.7 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 there.
This is an exceptionally aesthetic example for a high class hematite specimen with white contrasting quartz needles at the periphery. The hematite comes in metallic black, blocky and sharp crystals, beautifully arranged like a bouquet of flowers. The condition is flawless, aesthetics and quality speak for themselves. A brilliant little specimen from Elba Island!
Sandkopf, Kleines Fleißtal, Hohe Tauern, Kärnten, Austria
Size: 7.4 x 4.8 x 3.5 cm
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It's a highly attractive scepter specimen that features several elongated crystals fanning out from a small piece of matrix. The condition is exceptional with only small abrasions on those glassy and lustrous sceptres! The piece is repaired as one crystal went off as a whole, but that is not visible from the front.
This fine piece is certainly a jewel from this famous find at the Sandkopf near Heiligenblut.
Ex Alois Steiner Collection, Ex Ingeborg and Anton Watzl Collection.
Felbertal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 9 x 7.4 x 6.4 cm
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This kind of combination is exceedingly rare and only known from this very location! A brilliant single quartz crystal is embedded in a nest of snow-white and sparkling adularia that is partly covered in dark green chlorite. The piece is a complete floater of incredible aesthetics! The adularia forms a vug-like structure with chlorite and quartz assembled at the inside. The quartz has a sharp pointed termination and is glassy with a vivid internal landscape of inclusions.
The whole piece is free of any damage and absolutely gorgeous in person! Have a look on our video for a better impression!
Berbes Mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
Size: 7.5 x 6.3 x 2.2 cm
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Wow, what an excellent fluorite from this famous area! The individual fluorite cubes are brilliant and glassy with striking purple color and fantastic luster! The combination with white quartz really improves on the aesthetics and makes this a stunningly lovely specimen. There is no damage at all and even the backside is crystallized. An outstanding specimen even for the Berbes standard!
Panasqueira Mine, Panasqueira, Castelo Branco District, Portugal
Size: 8.2 x 3.6 x 3.1 cm
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A striking combination of fluorite and siderite on a high quality quartz crystal. The quartz shows brilliant wet-look luster and a water clear interior at the termination while further down there is some dark clinochlore coating. One of the quartz' main faces holds a lovely mix of white siderite and purplish fluorites the largest of which reaches 1.4 cm on edge. The whole thing is in best flawless condition and very attractive all around!
Gamsmutter, Habach Valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 4 x 3.4 x 2.1 cm
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A miniature floater specimen of olive-green titanite on a sparkling, crystallized feldspar matrix! The largest main crystal, protruding from the very center of the matrix, is a little over 2 cm long, gemmy, lustrous and with a nice green to brown coloring. It has a 1 mm ding on the back but apart from this, the specimen is in absolutely best condition! A lovely little stunner from Habach Valley!
Tiefengletscher, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland
Size: 9.1 x 8 x 6.9 cm
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The single crystal sits centrally on a light, feldspar-rich granite matrix, which gives it an excellent distinctive look. Like a monument or a rocket ready to launch! At the same time, the smoky quartz shows excellent quality. High gloss, super transparent and in top condition. While a side-crystal on the back is contacted, the main crystal is all complete, sharp and flawless! A distinctive and marvelous specimen!
Ras Koh Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 5.5 x 4.1 x 3.6 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 specimen strikes with a playful, catchy shape and very good quality alike. The piece is 360° perfect! A base of several nested epidote clusters is the base for a single isolated "bow tie" that protrudes from the top.
Textbook aesthetic meets best crystal quality!