Mixed Minerals
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Gemmy and sharp crystals with great color are fantastically composed on this specimen. Perfectly aesthetic, this barite from the classic locale in Sardinia is a real treasure for any showcase. Overall this specimen is in a very good condition, with just some contacts on side crystals. The main crystal is absolutely perfect and very much appealing!
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
Size: 5.7 x 5.1 x 2.9 cm
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Let's start with a stunner! This fluorite specimen from the famous Yaogangxian Mine in China is absolutely outstanding for its special shape that does not at all remind us of fluorite at first view. Still, at closer sight you find evidence of this fabulous piece being a group of spinell twins of superb quality and exceptional formation. Being a floater, this piece is even in brilliant condition all around. Accompanying pyrite crystals add the icing on the cake and leave this breathtaking fluorite specimen without peer!
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
Size: 5.3 x 5.1 x 2.6 cm
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This is in fact a quite astonishing piece at closer inspection. Have a look at the main crystal (also in our video) and you immediately get stunned by the brilliant luster, the water-clear bright blue crystal and its neat purple phantom. The fluorite is a cube with modified edges, accompanied by a second smaller cube of matching quality. The matrix is a dark contrasting combination of quartz encrusted with tiny pyrite and muscovite. The major issue about this piece is a broken quartz side-crystal that is visible at the lower main view. Fortunately there is nothing to worry about the fluorite that is completely intact and of pristine quality. An appealing specimen from this famous locale.
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 6.5 x 4 x 4.5 cm
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A striking and well balanced arrangement of tabular hematite, gemmy red rutile and brilliant colorless quartz on matrix. Main aspect here is certainly the massy 3.3 cm hematite "wheel" with its mirroring luster and the perfect outline. Sitting on it are fire red rutile crystals. While one of the hematite side-crystals is damaged, the main crystal is totally unharmed with only a contact at the bottom. The quartz shows the characteristic Cavradi-quality: lustrous, water-clear and with beautiful surface structure. This is a very 3-dimensional piece of classic Alpine aesthetics, a rare composition and a real stunner!
Göschener Alp, Göschenen, Uri, Switzerland
Size: 6.1 x 3.8 x 3.2 cm
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This is a high quality smoky quartz from the Swiss Alps. On the back side some matrix is attached, what distinguishs it very well from a single crystal.It is in a very good condition over all without any damage worth to mention. Very fine in person!
Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
Size: 15.7 x 9.6 x 7.5 cm
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Among the classic high quality hematite from Elba this surely is the king! Over 15 centimeters of 3-dimensionally arranged hematite, playfully associated with small white quartz needles shows the wonderful aesthetics of a coralreef with vugs and caves and towering crystals all around. The whole specimen is in best condition and presents a richness of sharp, mirroring crystals. A real stunner in person!
Pampa Blanca, Huancavelica Department, Peru
Size: 5.3 x 3.4 x 3.2 cm
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An epidote of striking aesthetics with prominent shape and a quartz side-crystal of just the right proportion. The epidote is of dark brown and green coloring with good luster on all sides. The whole piece is in very good condition. The backside shows a broken but healed crystal. All the main crystal forming a textbook silhouette are flawless. An outstanding piece!
Tarcal, Eperjes-Tokaj Mts., Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hungary
Size: 8.2 x 7.4 x 4.5 cm
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Shaped like a crown on a head of porous matrix this hyalite specimen (or Opal-AN) is especially distinctive in appearance. Inside the circular boundaries there is a knob of cream-white aragonite, perfectly centred and prominent. The hyalite is perfectly water-clear and in a very good condition. This piece offers perfect aesthetics and brilliant quality as you nicely can see in our video!
Wolfskofel, Schwarzenbachtal, Ahrntal, South Tyrol, Italy
Size: 10.2 x 5.2 x 3.6 cm
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Wow, what a great sceptre! The asymmetrical piece holds a sceptre head, over 8 cm in size, lustrous and perfect. While the head is mostly translucently white, the body is in parts completely clear. At the piece's bottom you see some mica and pericline attached to the quartz, which even adds some more beauty. Great structure, unusual growth and high quality add up to this fantastic and imposing piece. Watch our video for a 360 degree view!
Ras Koh Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 8.1 x 7.1 x 5 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.
The specimen strikes with its overall size and very massy epidote clusters. The characteristics is a little unusual, much more frayed and with byssolite microcrystals to be found in every gap between the epidote. Impressive and in excellent shape!
1st Sovetskii Mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
Size: 9.2 x 7.9 x 5 cm
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What a stunning calcite! This specimen consists of two generations of calcite! The surface of the crystal has a very interesting and special structure and good luster. At the bottom, some small crystals of quartz are present! It is in a very good condition without any damage worth to mention.
Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion, La Libertad, Peru
Size: 8.5 x 7.7 x 3.9 cm
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The lovely aesthetics with its catchy outline speaks very much for itself. Sparkingly white and glassy quartz crystals provide a comforting nest for numerous brilliant hübnerite crystals (the largest of which is 2.1 x 1.1 cm large) that are scattered across the whole piece. It is from smaller pocket of fine specimens found in 2014. The hübnerite crystals are of brilliant luster and shape and show no damage at all. A superb piece of dramatic impact!