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Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Mun. de Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico
Size: 10.6 x 7.2 x 2.9 cm
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Rich and sparkling, colorful and gemmy! This is a flat plate of pure azurite and malachite of just best quality, crystallized on front and backside. Particularly the front shows a spectacular plethora of sharp, lustrous, royal blue crystals. At some peripheral regions you can see beginning pseudomorphosis, adding some nice spots of green malachite. A just brilliant Milpillas azurite that's much better in person!
Forsterbachtal, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 5 x 3.2 x 1.8 cm
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A water-clear floater of very much unusual shape! Perfect wet-look luster shines on every crystal face - and there are plenty of faces, fine structures, windows and terminations. Scattered across the quartz are some single isolated pyrite crystals around 3-4 mm in diameter. Characteristic iron oxide coatings between the gaps adds some golden orange shimmer to the specimen. The whole piece is near-perfect. Only at the bottom there are some minor chips but the rest is flawless. Intriguing and beautiful in person!
Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size: 11.6 x 5.6 x 2.3 cm
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Good crystallized rose quartz is a Brazil-exclusive thing and this fine specimen is no exception. It’s a strikingly beautiful structure of rose quartz crystals in very different sizes and shapes that makes the all-quartz specimen look like some vivid piece of art. From layers of solid quartz covered in fine micro-crystals to larger well defined prisms this specimen holds a fascinating variety. The quartz is all great luster and intensive color on a sweeping shape! The backside is totally flat as it seems to have been grown on some kind of crystal, probably feldspar as there is still some residue visible. Size and quality of this rose quartz specimen are absolutely stunning and very much elegant in person!
Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion, La Libertad, Peru
Size: 4.4 x 2.6 x 2.8 cm
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The main crystal on this piece is prominently sitting on a high class quartz matrix of nice 3-dimensional composition. Especially though the color of the augelite is what impresses most: A refreshing green of intense coloring as is rare on pieces like this. The matrix is a floater with only some small contacts, while the main crystal is absolutely flawless and brilliant. A rare piece of striking aesthetics!
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 5.7 x 3.8 x 1.9 cm
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This is a very unusual specimen. Not only the sheer rareness of colorless goshenite itself makes this piece so special, nor the amazing textbook aesthetics but much more the shape. A perfect hexahedron is displayed on a piece of albite with accompanying green tourmaline crystals. A look at its backside will definitely astound you, finding an imprint of another crystal like a hole in the goshenite, which is perfectly recrystallized around the edges. A small natural wonder, completely flawless and of excellent crystal quality!
Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion, La Libertad, Peru
Size: 5.6 x 4.6 x 3.5 cm
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A beautifully developed single pyrite crystal on a matrix of glassy white quartz and some sharp metallic tetrahedrite at the lower back. The unchallanged main attraction here is the pyrite, measuring 2.8 cm on edge. It shows wonderful bevelled edges, distinct striations and a great golden luster. The backside is studded with small, very sharp tetrahedrite crystals. There is no damage on the main crystal, only a small crack at the side. A nice miniature that especially lives from the relatively large end especially well developed pyrite crystal.
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 12.1 x 8.3 x 6.7 cm
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With a length of over 12 cm this dominant quartz crystal is most impressive and shows outstanding quality. The wonderfully structured surface is lustrous, all the way up to a perfect termination. The quartz is gemmy clear with very slight phantoms at the upper part. It’s nice to see this beautiful crystal accompanied by other quartz and some matrix. If you look closely, you can even see the bottom crystallized at this specimen. This is a true classic for any Alpine collection!
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The main crystal on this specimen stands out like a sweet candy. Perfectly clear, lustrous and doubly-terminated, it sits on a cluster of smaller quartz crystals of the same quality. This fascinating aesthetics is one of a kind and even improved by smaller inclusions. The bottom is fully crystallized and the whole piece is in a good condition, with just some small damage which hardly visible.
Eisseehütte, Timmeltal, Venedigergruppe, Prägraten, Osttirol, Austria
Size: 11.3 x 3.3 x 2.5 cm
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A doubly-terminated floater with the slight amethyst-coloring that’s typical for the location. The terminations of this elegant crystal display beautiful windows. The prismatic faces are etched which is very pretty and attractive. All in all, this is a very interesting and nice piece for any collector of Alpine minerals or uncommon quartz specimens.
Oberdorf an der Laming, Steiermark, Austria
Size: 8.6 x 5.1 x 4 cm
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Found in the world's best strontianite-locale, this specimen shows an unusual crystal habit. A number of elongated prisms with pointed terminations are nicely clustered on a white and grey matrix, like the spikes on a hedgehog. The coloring of the crystals is typical beige with a zone of brownish orange at the center. A really good piece of fine aesthetics!
St.Gertraudi, Bez.Kufstein, Nordtirol, Austria
Size: 7.7 x 5 x 3.3 cm
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Seldom - if ever - have we seen a historical classic like this! The composition is just perfect: Green malachite and shiny blue azurite, grown on a generation of dolomite crystals, covering a white matrix. The contrast and play of colors is simply spectacular! A truly remarkable piece, one of which is more than hard to come by these days from this classic locale.
Piz Miezdi, Valsertal, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 11 x 9.1 x 6.7 cm
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To unveil the fabulous beauty of this specimen you HAVE to watch the video!The striking main crystals seem to be riding on this group of smaller quartz crystals like on a frozen wave. This piece is fantastically 3-dimensional, shows best quality and exceptional aesthetics. Fabulous indeed!