Alpine Treasures 45
Furka pass area, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland
Size: 3.6 x 3.6 x 1.1 cm
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Superbly brilliant, beautifully defined, and almost completely perfect. Only with a magnifying glass can you see a 1 mm chip on the top right corner, that's all. A whitish spot on the right edge is unusual, but here, too, everything is perfect. It's an excellent singly crystal smoky quartz gwindel.
Röhre Böckstein, Gasteinertal, Pongau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 3.4 x 3.2 x 3.1 cm
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This lovely fluorite was found at the Böckstein tube in Gastein valley and it is utterly stunning in person!
It consists of a distinctive main crystal that is interlocked with a smaller fluorite and sitting on a small piece of matrix.
With an edge length of up to 2.7 cm, the main crystal is quite remarkable and also in excellent condition.
On closer inspection and also visible in the image, the fluorite shows a distinctive phantom inside.
The pale green color, characteristic of this area, is wonderfully elegant and shines from the translucent crystal even in normal ambient light. Absolutely amazing and beautiful!
Floitengrund, Zillertaler Alpen, North Tyrol, Austria
Size: 18.5 x 3.2 x 2.7 cm
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It's a completely perfect single quartz from Floitengrund. The crystal is 18.5 cm long and perfectly crystallized aven at the bottom, covered with chlorite, feldspar, and muscovite.
It is almost completely transparent. However, because the back is partially covered with chlorite, it doesn't necessarily look that way in the picture. Have a look on our video for a better impression.
Perfect from bottom to top and utterly impressive!
Rauriser Schwarzkopf, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 16.5 x 10.1 x 5.3 cm
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Rust brown cubical pyrite crystals are distributed over a bed of white quartz, partly tinged with orange iron-oxide. The pyrite is largely in perfect condition, only near the periphery can you identify some wear. Overall this is a highly appealing landscape specimen that emphasizes those pyrites though strong contrast against the white matrix.
Floitengrund, Zillertaler Alpen, North Tyrol, Austria
Size: 19.7 x 7.8 x 5.5 cm
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With impressive 19.7 cm this is a truly remarkable quartz, particularly impressive due to its sharp crystal architecture and brilliant luster. The piece is completely undamaged, with not the slightest abrasions anywhere, save for the very bottom. The back is partially covered with fine chlorite and features smaller side-crystals, as you can clearly see in our video. A fantastic piece with a distinctive Dauphiné habit and first-class quality.
Sattelkar, Obersulzbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 11.8 x 7.8 x 11.3 cm
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This is essentially a single short-prismatic smoky quartz with a small side-crystal at the lower front. The underside is completely crystallized, making the piece a floater, as can be clearly seen in our video. The crystal displays an intense smoky color and is largely transparent with only a few internal cracks. The condition is almost perfect. Only minor abrasions are visible at the bottom. An attractive specimen of beautiful quality and unique appeal.
Narèt area, Sambuco Valley, Lavizzara, Ticino, Switzerland
Size: 3.5 x 2.8 x 2.2 cm
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Doubly terminated, translucent and completely flawless. The hexagonal prismatic fluorapatite is white to cream colored and has a pearlescent shine. The main termination is flat and lustrous, the underside is somewhat more convoluted but undamaged as well. Definitely a magnificent Alpine apatite crystal!
Grieswies, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 10.6 x 6.8 x 6.1 cm
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A magnificent piece that catches the eye not only with its wonderful quality but also with its vibrant matrix.
The main crystal is approximately 8 cm long and exceptionally beautiful, displaying perfect luster on all six prism faces!
The spots you see in the picture are inclusions just below the surface which looks lovely without disturbing the lustrous and nicely structured surface.
A superb crystal and virtually perfect.
The matrix, as mentioned before, is particularly vibrant. A mixture of rock, quartz, chlorite, pericline, and siderite.
Monte Prosa, Central St. Gotthard Massif, Tessin (Ticino), Switzerland
Size: 5 x 3.5 x 2.8 cm
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The main iron rose on this little specimen has a diameter of 1.1 cm. That's not large but all the more beautiful. A perfectly defined, freely presented and lustrous rosette of fine hematite blades in utter perfection. This extremely fine iron rose is set on a crystallized white feldspar matrix. A second hematite aggregate further down completes the picture.
Ramsauer Kluft, Obersulzbachtal, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 15.3 x 13.2 x 7.3 cm
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Interlocking, colorless quartz crystals with brilliant luster and excellent transparency form this remarkable specimen. The terminations are all undamaged, and also otherwise, hardly any damage is visible here. Only the lower section contains a few broken secondary crystals. A marvelous specimen of dramatic size and three-dimensional composition!
Scharn, Hollersbachtal, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 14.5 x 14.5 x 12 cm
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What’s most striking here is the incredibly dark brown color of those nice and lustrous crystals. A wild sculpture of interlocked crystals that is particularly three-dimensional! Yes, there are some damaged crystals but most irregularities you can see are just contacts, no actual breaks. It’s interesting that on the underside, where the piece is trimmed, you can see some metallic galena which is rather rare for the locale. This piece might not be quite perfect but it's stunning all the same, presenting its rough and natural beauty.
Großer Finagl, Untersulzbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 10.7 x 7.3 x 6 cm
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Alpine prehnite is hard to come by so we were happy when this specimen came in the collection of Karl Podpeskar. It’s a prehnite from Großer Finagl, a summit between Untersulzbachtal and Habachtal. The piece shows a three-dimensional landscape of pure prehnite. The condition is excellent with only some periphery contacts.