International Minerals
Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia
Size: 5.9 x 4 x 3 cm
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What once was a massive azurite crystal is now completely replaced by silky green malachite while still showing the original well defined crystal shape. As a patchwork of different shades of green this specimen appears vivid and elegant and is in very best condition! The backside shows brown and white residues of a porous matrix. A marvelous pseudomorphosis from the classic mines of Tsumeb!
Tormiq valley, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 7 x 1.9 x 0.7 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 single crystal in stunningly clear and lustrous with very nice warm color. When you turn it in your hand you can easily see the color-change from green to brown. The condition is very well with harldy anything to report.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 11 x 7.7 x 2.7 cm
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A cluster of vividly yellow brucite spheres are set on a rock matrix with a thin hydromagnesite layer that provides an elegant silvery background. The individual spheres show a diameter of up to 1.5 cm. Unlike many pale and unattractive brucite specimens we have seen on the market these crystals shine with the most vibrant lemon-yellow color, strikingly emphasized on the smooth hydromagnesite matrix. The matrix itself is only around 1 cm thick and presents another very nice surface at the back, featuring a single 2x1 cm brucite cluster.
It's a remarkable specimen of excellent quality and very nice aesthetics!
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 6.3 x 3.8 x 2.5 cm
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The quality of this botryoidal brucite specimen is absolutely wonderful and stunning! It's gemmy, lustrous, perfectly crystallized all around and with the most vibrant lemon-yellow color you can find! At the left side it has some rock fragments, the rest is pure brucite of superb quality and distinctive formation. An outstanding specimen of this marvelous and appealing mineral!
Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 3.7 x 3 x 1.6 cm
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The brookite crystal on this lovely little specimen is a stunning 2.3 cm long and shows best maroon color with the characteristic hourglass painting. The dominant crystal is associated with some quartz, beautifully arranged around the brookites base. A side-crystal at the back is broken but which is long re-healed and not visible from the front anyway. Fantastic aesthetics, highest crystal quality and a flawless condition make this floater from the worlds best brookite locality a total stunner!
Alpinus Mine, Rubelita, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size: 6.1 x 3 x 1.7 cm
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The doubly terminated tourmaline crystal is set on a small piece of white quartz which looks just lovely in person! It has exceptionally fine quality and a beautiful color zonation that goes from blue near the quartz to green with a pink core. The whole specimen is in very best condition with only one single restoration but no chips or abrasions. Have a look on our video for a better impression on the high quality of this tourmaline!
Paprok, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
Size: 6.7 x 3.6 x 1.7 cm
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This is really impressive aesthetics! A single tourmaline of gemmy quality and intensive green color is associated with a compact quartz crystals, perched to its side. The tourmaline itself has amazing quality from bottom to top and a distinctive twin-termination. The quartz is a translucent, fully developed single crystal that adds a totally unique aspect to this specimen. It has an abrasion at the tip but which is at least partly re-healed. The tourmaline on the other hand is perfect with only a missing side-crystal at the bottom. It's an absolutely unique specimen of superb quality and outstanding design!
Yangshuo Mine , Guilin, Guangxi Province, China
Size: 7.1 x 5.5 x 3.8 cm
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This cluster of thick pyromorphite crystals has pseudomorph transformed into sky-blue plumbogummite which is unique for this famed locale and the 2014 pocket. The crystals are attractively arranged like fingers on a hand. Some crystals still show remnants of the original pyromorphite which is a nice detail and interesting from the mineralogical point of view. The whole thing is in very best condition and highly attractive for it's sweeping shape and the lovely color!
Ras Koh Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 6.5 x 5.7 x 4 cm
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Unlike most specimens from this unique find the „bow tie“ habit epidote aggregates of this specimen are not loose but on matrix which adds much to the overall flavor here! The epidote has some contacts at the back but is all complete and flawless on the front where it displays its unusual shape with best sparkling luster! The matrix around the base is a combination of white calcite and some silvery green byssolite. The specimen is a complete floater and in very good condition all around!
Carbonera Mine, Near Nazca, Ica Dept., Peru
Size: 8.7 x 6.1 x 3.2 cm
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A nice display of gemmy green dioptase on a chrysocolla covered matrix. The chrysocolla covers the whole of the front face as well as some of the sides, where the rock matrix must have had cracks before it was worked out. Ranging from white to a light turquoise this is a nice background. The dioptase crystals are single isolated, translucent and sparkling with some micro crystals which is rather characteristic for the locale. The largest dioptase crystal is 1.3 cm long. All crystals are in perfect condition.
Zard Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 3.4 x 2.2 x 1.1 cm
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This small thumbnail specimen shows ideal aesthetics, best quality and is in outstanding condition! The single doubly terminated anatase crystal is 1.3 cm long, lustrous and flawless. It has a small patch of limonite at the backside which adds some rust-brown color to the otherwise black and white specimen. The crystal is set on a sparkling white cluster of pure quartz that is in fact a complete floater without damage or contacts! All in all this is a remarkably lovely specimen with no downsides!
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The rich purple color of this apatite is absolutely beautiful and it comes with a bright luster and in a well shaped crystal! Especially the prism faces display this intensive purple that is easily visible at normal room light but definitely reward some direct downlight. If you look from the apatite’s top you can see the hexagonal structure of the crystal. From this perspective it has the best wet-look luster while the purple gives way to a colorless zone with greenish inclusions. It’s a vivid and completely flawless crystal on matrix.