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This piece has very nice aesthetics, although the color is not presented accurately in the picture. In nature it has more like a greenish tinge, with much more distinct pink cores at various spots. The one flaw I have to admit is a broken side-crystal at the right, which made me reduce the price on this piece. Still, it is hard to find a specimen like this on the market. Rare crystal habit, nice color and great overall aesthetics speak for itself.
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This specimen is composed of a number of schwatzite crystals of varying size, sitting on a white and pinkish matrix that is crystallized on all sides. There is some damage visible on this piece, but none of which is very salient. The piece mainly impresses with a perfect composition.
Knappenwand, Untersulzbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 8 x 5.6 x 2.3 cm
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Imposing, fascinating and utterly beautiful! This historic specimen of epidote – painted by the German artist Eberhard Equit! – is stunningly perfect in composition and quality as well. The bottom is crystallized and leaves just one single flaw to the whole piece: One of the main crystals has a small chip at the side of the tip, but this is not visible from the front and only visible if you are searching for it. All in all, this is a fantastic piece, with outstanding luster and clarity that shows wonderful brown, red and green colors when illuminated from the back. Marvelous!
Camissinone Mine, Zogno, Brembana Valley, Bergamo Province, Lombardy, Italy
Size: 8.1 x 7.4 x 4.6 cm
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Most special about this fluorite is the wonderful purple core that shines through the otherwise greenish clear fluorite. The whole piece is very much etched on all sides and is in perfect condition. This piece is not quite as clear as the one above but still a perfect floater with unique aesthetics. Very nice in person!
Les Droites-Nordwand, Montblanc-Massiv, Chamonix, France
Size: 7.7 x 4.4 x 4.2 cm
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These two perfect pink fluorite crystals are riding the quartz like an untamed beast. Hardly ever can you find a specimen of this quality, where quartz and fluorite both are virtually flawless and combined to a specimen of this brilliant aesthetics! Found at the northern face of “Les Droites†– which, according to Reinhold Messner, counts as the “most savage of the Alpine mountain-faces†– this piece is truly unique. A eye-catcher for any possible showcase!
Zinggenstock, Grimsel area, Hasli valley, Berner Oberland, Switzerland
Size: 10.1 x 7.7 x 7.7 cm
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While the picture is great, this specimen is even better! The quality of the quartz - not just the main crystal, but all of them - is simply perfect and extraordinarily lovely. There is a lot of 3-dimensional structure and detail that bring this piece to life. One utterly stunning feature about the composition is the presence of a gwindel at the right of the main crystal. Go ahead and watch the video, it is much better visible there!This piece is out of the historic Rufibach-find, but has a smoky color that is even better than the typical pieces from this find. While some of the side-crystals are contacted – not broken! – the rest is perfectly flawless! A masterpiece of this mineral!
Zinggenstock, Grimsel area, Hasli valley, Berner Oberland, Switzerland
Size: 7.3 x 6.1 x 5.9 cm
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Another one from the famous Rufibach-find. As before, the quality of the quartz is just fabulous and absolutely gemmy. The specimen is in a perfect condition with just some contacts but no real damage. It is nicely 3-dimensional and overall a wonderful piece. It is to mention that the bottom is cut but that's not visible anyway. A remarkably fine piece of superb quality!
Val Giuv, Tujetsch, Vorderrhein Valley, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 9.8 x 7.7 x 6.3 cm
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This gwindel is just mind-blowing! The crystal is extraordinarily massy and of a dark brown coloring. The presence of side crystals makes the whole piece a real eye-catcher. Admittedly, there is some damage present, gravest of which is a broken side-crystal at the lower left – you can see that in the picture. To compensate for this, there are numerous features I love about this piece, fantastic luster and coloring are just two of those. The internal color-structure of the gwindel is something I have never seen before. A line at the very center of the crystal, similar to a “fadenâ€, is emerging at the bottom and extending to the top, where it expands like a fountain. A rare and impressive piece of nature!
Großer Happ, Venedigergruppe, Hohe Tauern, Prägraten, Osttirol, Austria
Size: 4.1 x 3.7 x 2.5 cm
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A wonderful piece of pure aesthetics. The combination and proportion that shape this specimen are just gorgeous. Like a mountain hiker carrying his backpack, this sharp and purely white pericline crystal carries the lustrous adularia. The specimen is a floater in outstanding condition!
Val Gronda da Cavrein, Vorderrheintal, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 8.3 x 6.7 x 6.5 cm
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Fantastic quality and a whole variety of pretty details are bringing this piece to life and making it very much appealing! The quartz is of outstanding clarity and purely colorless, which is typical for the region of Cavrein. At the frontside there is some greenish adularia, as well as some rust-brown iron oxide visible, that upvalue the visual impact. Even more to its benefit there is a doubly-terminated quartz crystal lying across the top of this piece. Very appealing indeed!
Rotbach, Ahrntal, South Tyrol, Italy
Size: 7.6 x 4.8 x 3.3 cm
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Now, this quartz holds some of the prettiest actinolithe I have ever seen! When looking closer, you would not be surprised if fish swam through this water-clear quartz, vegetated with tufted green actinolithe. Simply beautiful!The specimen is in superb condition. There is one recrystallized contact at the top, the bottom is flawless. At the back you can see some matrix, where the piece detached from the rock. Luster and clarity of the quartz are brilliant. Appealing and unique!
Zinggenstock, Grimsel area, Hasli valley, Berner Oberland, Switzerland
Size: 5.3 x 4.8 x 3.2 cm
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The quality of this quartz is absolutely fantastic! Perfect clarity and luster, not one single crack and a sharp, flawless tip! The main-crystal as well as some of the side-crystals are right-handed.What is truly remarkable about this piece is not just the outstanding quality, but also the awesome textbook-composition. This specimen might be small, but it is a real stunner of extraordinary aesthetics!