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Val Nalps, Vorderrhein, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 5.1 x 4.3 x 3.5 cm
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This is a rare fluorite specimen from the Nalps valley that shows exceptional transparency and very nice pink color at the center! The piece shows an interesting two-generation growth. The first generation fluorite is pink and has green chlorite all over its surface. Its backside has crystallized white feldspar.
On top of the original fluorite is a second generation of fluorite which is colorless, well developed and shows very good luster and a nice surface structure. Unusual growth, nice quality and very good condition all come together on this appealing specimen. There is a small abrasion at the tip but the rest is complete and in superb condition.
Tormiq valley, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 7.5 x 3.8 x 1.5 cm
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Epidote from the Alpine type clefts of Pakistan are a well known species that impresses with gemmy quality and a multitude of different shapes!
This is an exceptionally thick and meaty exemplar as you hardly find it on the market. The main crystal itself is 6.5 x 2.6 x 1.3 cm, nicely transparent and lustrous and with a sharp and well cut habit. At the base it is intergrown with smaller epidotes one of which is broken. But still, as the main crystal is so impressive and in really great condition this is an excellent epidote from this important locale!
Tole, Wana, South Waziristan, Pakistan
Size: 6.6 x 3.9 x 2.5 cm
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Very unusual and beautiful “faden”-quartz from Tole that is a real jewel in person! It’s a floater specimen in perfect condition all around and with a prominent main crystal. This main crystal is 4.6 cm long, sharply designed, glassy, lustrous and with a distinct “faden” from bottom to top!
Hocharn, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 26 x 7.2 x 4.9 cm
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This 26 cm quartz crystal is a complete floater and absolutely flawless!
It shows superb luster and very good clarity through and through! The termination is somewhat rounded but not damaged or even abrased. While the frontside is all smooth and lustrous with fine striations, the backside is encrusted with quartz, feldspar and some iron oxide. All in all this is a stunning piece of dramatic magnitude!
Fibbia, Fontana, Central St. Gotthard Massif, Ticino, Switzerland
Size: 7.5 x 6 x 5.1 cm
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A single adularia of unusually gemmy quality is set on a crystallized piece of matrix. The adularia is virtually flawless, well crystallized and has those completely transparent zones that are rare in this material. Absolutely nice and beautiful!
Ankogelgruppe, Anlauftal, Gasteinertal, Pongau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 25.5 x 8.7 x 6.8 cm
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This is a fantastic and unique masterpiece of natural art!
A pyrite group sits in the center of a lively floater specimen of calcite and chlorite with an spectacular total size of 25.5 cm! The pyrite group itself has a size of 5 x 3.5 cm and consists of nested pyrites that have a characteristic and wonderfully appealing reddish-brown patina.
Due to this coloring, the pyrite clearly stands out from the matrix without effort!
The matrix is a beautiful natural landscape of white calcite and greenish shimmering chlorite with some rutiles in between. All is in outstanding condition and crystallized all around!
This piece even stands perfectly on its own without the need of a base.
Hans Fleißner from Carinthia found the excellent piece in extremely difficult, steeply sloping and highly rockfall-prone walls of the rear Anlauftal.
Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park Co., Colorado, USA
Size: 5.6 x 3.9 x 3 cm
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This piece is a really exceptional and highly attractive paragenesis of nice red rhodochrosites on white quartz, as well as grey galena and golden chalcopyrite.
It is really beautiful how the galena and chalcopyrite concentrate on the right half, while quartz is dominant on the left.
The rhodochrosite crystals show superb luster and clarity and have elegant raspberry red color.
A lovely specimen in very best condition.
The piece comes with a label from Austrian dealer and collector Wilhelm Niemetz who had the piece in his private collection for many years.
Bruchgraben, Hollersbach valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 10 x 4.3 x 3.5 cm
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A particularly nice piece is this titanite on adularia from the Bruchgraben in Hollersbach valley. Total specimen size is 10 cm, the single titanite itself is 1.9 x 1.1 cm. This piece was found around the year 1990 by Rupert Hochwimmer who discovered the locale which yielded some of the best titanites of the Alpine region. Unfortunately no new material has come from there since that sensational find. The main crystal shows beautiful grass green color, it is flawless and well developed. The single crystal is set on a bright white bed of adularia crystals which strongly emphasizes the crystal. Absolutely amazing and of best quality!
Ankogelgruppe, Anlauftal, Gasteinertal, Pongau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 3.7 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm
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This pyrite with a great patina of limonite comes from a recent find made by a friend of mine here in Austria. I have never seen such a great floater of pyrite with sharp edges and completely pristine all around from this locale. I chary picked this out of the findings from the recent years while this is among the very finest specimens I got. Very intense reddish color what is hard to show on pictures. Much better in person!
Tatara Mine, Village Tatara, Khyber Agency, KPK Province, Pakistan
Size: 4.1 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm
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This crystal comes from a unique find of albites which has been made this spring in Pakistan. This specimen consists of many crystals which are stacked together forming this outstanding group of very good aesthetics. It is very hard to get such elongated crystals of albite in this quality. The gemminess and luster are very fine, but what is most important is the purple color, what I have never seen before on albite. The color of this specimen is really unique!! This specimen is in a very good condition over all. The mine is closed, so there won't come more specimens of this kind on the market.
Teixerinha mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size: 3.9 x 1.4 x 1 cm
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That's another combination of tourmaline with lepidolite. The lepidolite on the tourmaline is perfectly situated and makes a very nice contrast to the green color. It's much better in person!
Mörchnerkar, Zemmgrund, Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria
Size: 7.8 x 3.5 x 3 cm
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This is a very lovley amethyst from the Austrian Alps. In the last years just a few specimens of good quality came to the market from this locale, and this is one of it.