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Hiefelwand, Grieswies, Raurisertal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 3.7 x 2.9 x 1.9 cm
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It is almost impossible to get a good scheelite from the Austrian Alps! This is a very good crystal with a bright orange color from the famous Rauris valley in Salzburg. With a size of 3.7cm in length this crystal is much bigger then most of the pieces I have seen with this color! It is a perfect fit to every alpine collection and brings some color into it!
Santa Rosa mine, Itambacuri, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size: 4.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm
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The color zonation of this touramline is exceptional and very hard to find! It is starting with grass green on the top, changing to white at the middle and ending with steel bule at the bottom! Some small edgewear is present, but this is hardly visible! It needs some light from the back to see the colors, but this does not needs to be very strong! It looks beautiful in a showcase with some light from the sides!
Brandberg Area, Erongo Region, Namibia
Size: 10.1 x 8.2 x 6.2 cm
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This amethyst specimen tells a story of how it grew in the region of Erongo/Namibian. You can see contacted zones, where the African rock lay against the amethyst crystal. Despite these contacts there is no damage visible on the amethyst at all.Most striking about this piece is the over eight centimeter long, doubly terminated crystal resting on the vertical crystal. It holds a beautiful deep purple color and some very fine, gemmy parts. The whole piece is an agglomeration of nice details with luster, color and crystal habit. A quartz that reveals its beauty and uniqueness at closer sight.
Mörchnerkar, Zemmgrund, Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria
Size: 9 x 8.2 x 2.2 cm
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Size matters! This iron rose from this classic locale is a truly impressive specimen. Perfectly developed on all sides with great luster and even with some accompanying quartz to complete the picture. This piece is a floater and in perfect condition. A true masterpiece for any advanced collector!
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Like a warming campfire, this calcite specimen captures the viewer with its many details. You find two generations of calcite: Generation one is transparent with a grey coating, while the second Generation is of a pleasant skin color and highly lustrous. There is no considerable damage present, unless you count a smaller chip at the very bottom of the specimen. All the main crystals are perfect and simply beautiful.
Hilarion Mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District, Attiki Pref., Greece
Size: 4.6 x 2.2 x 1 cm
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The bright green color of this mixite specimen is one of a kind! Unfortunately the picture and video don't really live up to this truly bilious green. The whole main face of this specimen is covered with tufted mixite needles. The red-brown matrix adds a nice contrast and holds some mixite at the backside too. Definitely one of the best pieces of this extremely rare mineral we have seen to date!
Großer Happ, Venedigergruppe, Hohe Tauern, Prägraten, Osttirol, Austria
Size: 16 x 10 x 7.5 cm
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An absolutely dramatic piece of snow-white pericline on matrix, holding some beautiful adularia crystals of outstanding condition. Out of a find from around ten years ago, this is one of the few very best pieces to be found at this locale. This admirable specimen is naturally broken all around, which gives it an even more impressive character. As a piece of sheer aesthetics, high quality and imposing size this piece is a king among Alpine feldspar specimens.
Eagle`s Nest Mine, Placer Co., California, USA
Size: 3.3 x 1.6 x 0.9 cm
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The search for a perfectly composed gold specimen with pristine luster and color has finally found its happy ending! A sculpture of shiny flattened gold crystals protrudes from a perfectly white quartz crystal. The aesthetics of this piece is typical for the Eagle's Nest Mine yet is it hard to find such an outstandingly composed specimen. A perfect choice for any collector of thumbnails or high quality mineral specimens in general.
Alta Floresta Gold Province, Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Size: 2 x 1.4 x 1.1 cm
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Small and compact but with a whole lot of compressed beautiful details and great golden sheen. This is a single, hoppered grown gold crystal that appears folded like some origami masterpiece. The shape is distinctly 3-dimensional and perfect all around. This piece definitley lives up to the high reputation of Alta Floresta, where so many high class gold crystals have been found!
Erfurter Steig, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 14 x 10.7 x 11.3 cm
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One single quartz crystal stands out from a complex matrix of glassy quartz crystals, white adularia and some brown limonite. The main crystal is perfectly flawless and of very good quality. The matrix is mostly unharmed too but right beside the main quartz there is a rough zone which is partly due to contact, partly damaged. A rewarding Alpine specimen if you can live with some imperfection!
Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 4.5 x 2.8 x 2.2 cm
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The Hunza valley is arguably the largest corundum deposit in the world, best known for its ruby on marble specimens. This piece shows the more rare blue sapphire color, ranging from steel blue to purple with some patches of light pink. The staggering 3.4 cm long hexagonal crystal lies on a white calcite matrix of perfect contrast. A likewise rare and appealing specimen from the famous Hunza valley.
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Mare, Maramures Co., Romania
Size: 10.9 x 7 x 5.9 cm
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Hundreds of thin stibnite needles are exploding in all directions, held together only by sparkling white quartz that fills the gaps and competes with the stibnite in beauty and charm. Herja is well known for its hedgehog type stibnite specimens but this combination with contrasting quartz is a rare sight and stunningly beautiful at that. Watch our video for a better impression of this unusual item!