Mixed Minerals
Berbes Mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
Size: 11.9 x 10.7 x 8 cm
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WOW, what a beautiful specimen! Many fluorites of beautiful color are well situated on the quartz matrix of yellowish color! The crystals have a size up to 1.2 cm on edge, showing some great phantoms! The dramatic crack in the matrix makes a unique appearance to this specimen, and it is completely stable!
Mulla Ghori, Khyber Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
Size: 6 x 1.8 x 0.35 cm
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Absolutely amazing in size and quality, this extremely rare eudidymite is an important specimen for Zagi Mountains that is much better known for its bastnäsite. The tabular shape includes a orange-brown layer that adds a just lovely color to this otherwise fully transparent crystal. This is a spectacular single crystal for the species that shows beautiful complex modification, highest quality and and is free of any damage all around. Incredible!
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca, Bolognesi Province, Áncash, Peru
Size: 23 x 18 x 9 cm
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Not only is this a piece of exceptionally high quality but it is also HUGE! Over 5 kg of pure pyrite is dramatically crystallized as a large and most complex cluster! Basic crystal shape is simple cubical but there is a lot going on here when it comes to modifications, surface structrue and playfully intergrown crystals of different sizes. The whole frontside is absolutely perfect and amazingly beautiful! The backside has only small contacts but is to the largest part also crystallized and evenly lustrous and sparkling! A fantastic golden sculpture that really draws attention!
Mörchnerkar, Zemmgrund, Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria
Size: 3.5 x 3 x 1.9 cm
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Unusual, almost botryoidal growth makes this iron rose specimen unique. The several hematite rosettes perched on this adularia matrix are exceedingly thick, yet lovely composed of hundreds of tiny hematite plates. The surface is sparkling in manyfold tempering colors. Very compact, delicate and perfectly developed. An exceptional specimen from Mörchnerkar, home of Austrias best hematite specimens.
Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion, La Libertad, Peru
Size: 11.6 x 9.2 x 8.9 cm
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This massive pyrite complex is a formidable piece of unusually fine architecture! It is a complete floater, which is rare on pyrite, especially in such large and dominant size. The largest crystal is over 7 cm in diameter and very well developed with striations and bevells and just beautiful, golden surface structure! Several of such high quality pyrites are stacked together to form this fist-sized ball. Some white quartz is attached to the bottom, the rest is pure golden lustrous pyrite. And flawless! No damage or abrasions anywhere to find! Definitely an excellent specimen for the material!
Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, Trigo Mts., La Paz Co., Arizona, USA
Size: 4.6 x 4.4 x 3 cm
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Its a very well defined specimen of wulfenite on matrix that features one single main crystal of striking quality! That crystal is 1.5 cm broad, sharp, gemmy and lustrous and shows the most intensive orange color! Set at the center of a brown piece of rock matrix it is very prominent and dashy. It has a microscopic abrasion at the edge but is otherwise perfect all around. The matrix has some small wulfenites distributed over its surface. Very attractive in person for its marvelous quality and composition!
Styrian Erzberg, Eisenerz, Styria, Austria
Size: 21 x 17 x 12 cm
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This is a massive specimen that combines a brown rock matrix with white curls of aragonite. It is not a piece of distinctive individual crystals but rather a characteristic locality specimen with great showcase presence due to its dominant size and the well emphasized contrast. Naturaly there are many broken curls here which is unavoidable on a large specimen like this.
Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
Size: 9.5 x 7.3 x 4.3 cm
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This is an amazing group of galena with high quality. Most of the specimens I have seen coming out from Russia are heavily damaged, or just of lower quality. This specimen is perfect all around, without any damage of importance. Also the bottom side is crystallized with some small crystals of calcite. The calcites in between look very nice, giving the specimen a particular character. It is very 3-dimensional in person, what is not very good visible on the pictures.
Bou Nahas, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tarhbalt, Er Rachidia, Meknes-Tafilalet, Morocco
Size: 9 x 7.8 x 4.7 cm
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This floater is basically an aggregate of sparklingly lustrous barite crystals that exhibit a color range from creamy white to dark smoky brown. The piece is virtually free of damage, with just some minor wear at the backside. I love the shape of a 3-dimensional jigsaw puzzle composed of hundreds of clustered crystals. A highly lustrous appealing piece of barite with even some matrix at the backside.
Hubei Province, China
Size: 7.9 x 7.3 x 6.3 cm
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All in all this is a outstanding piece that impresses in many ways! The combination of doubly terminated amethyst on beautiful lustrous calcite, accompanied by salmon colored apophyllite of unusual crystal habit is just unique. Not even the book "China" by Berthold Ottens shows comparable specimens! There is no damage to be found on this fabulous piece of pure stunning elegance. A rare piece of highest quality you will harldy find alike on the market or even in private showcases around the world!
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White stocky quartz crystals are clustered to form this sparkling floater specimen. The quartz is mostly glassy and transparent with superb luster and very little edgewear. The bottom side is equally nice with smaller crystals but therefor additional white adularia, tiny hematite and even at some spots some titanite, which is a totally characteristic association for the locale. Elegant and appealing in person!
Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion, La Libertad, Peru
Size: 6.5 x 4.8 x 3.5 cm
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The largest pyrite on this specimen is 2.8 cm on edge, cubical and nicely lustrous. It is in combination with smaller pyrite crystals and a coating of colorless quartz crystals that covers around half of the piece and provides a great contrast!
The overal condition is great with only some minor edgewear. An appealing miniature specimen from the important Mundo Nuevo Mine!