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Tormiq valley, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 12.9 x 3.6 x 3.5 cm
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This epidote from the Alpine-type clefts of the Haramosh Mountains is an excellent floater of several interlocked crystals. It is gemmy with nice forest green and brown color at direct backlight. Both, the horizontal and the vertical crystals are doubly terminated, complete and in best condition. Some attached adularia even enhances the Alpine feel that comes with this fine specimen.
Forsterbachtal, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 8.6 x 3.1 x 2 cm
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This is a perfect jewel of highest quality!
A floater of water-clear interlocked quartz crystals with wet look luster all over the countless crystal faces! The curved shape you see in the pictures is due to a complex architecture of many larger and smaller crystals, some of them with a lovely Herkimer diamond appearance. Absolutely brilliant, lovely and in flawless condition!
Forsterbachtal, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 6.5 x 2.9 x 1.5 cm
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I totally love the aesthetics of this one! An elongated vertical quartz has attached wing-like crystals on both sides which makes this really an unusually attractive piece. If you take a closer view you will realize that the main crystal is not even a single quartz but a combination of several towering ones that lead right up to a dual-pointed termination. It is a brilliant and unique specimen in very best condition!
Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 7.2 x 7.1 x 3.7 cm
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Size and quality are really amazing on this stunning apatite specimen! The single crystal is a good 2 cm long and close to 2 cm in diameter. It has superb luster and clarity and the distinctive pink color you see in the pictures. The flawless and very well developed crystal is set at the center of a lovely matrix of silvery mica and white albite. Absolutely stunning aesthetics and excellent crystal quality!
Erongo Mts., Karibib Constituency, Namibia
Size: 3.5 x 2.7 x 2.5 cm
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This lovely fluorite from the Erongo Mountains has cubical fluorites up to 0.7 cm on edge that are are bright green and transparent and beautifully set on an off-white piece of feldspar matrix. Between the fluorites you can also see some sky-blue aquamarines. The whole specimen is in exceptionally well condition and highly attractive all around!
Zard Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 2.5 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm
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This nice thumbnail specimen features a 1.5 cm main anatase on a white matrix, accompanied by a protruding colorless quartz. The main crystal is a flawless doubly terminated crystal, interlocked with a second smaller crystal at the bottom. Very attractive composition with a distinctive main crystal at the center!
Knappenwand, Untersulzbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 6.3 x 2.6 x 2.6 cm
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Epidote is still at its best when it comes in combination with fine hairy byssolite as it is unique for Knappenwand specimens! The tousled blueish byssolite stands in contrast with the sharp prismatic, lustrous and gemmy green epidote crystals on which it is grown. This is a complete floater of crystals only with no matrix. Some side-crystals show contacts or minimal dings but the main crystals are complete and undamaged.
Ritterkar, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 3.3 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm
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A glassy quartz crystal with amazing rutile needles inside! The quartz shows striking luster and clarity which makes the rutile inside quite flashy. There are minimal abrasions and a contacted backside but the overall condition is good!
Alta Floresta Gold Province, Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Size: 3.1 x 2.6 x 1.8 cm
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This gold specimen is an older Brazilian one that was found long before the spectacular finds in the Serra do Caldeirão claims. We were fortunate to be able to trade it from a French collector. It has an arboreal shape with very well developed structures of gold crystals and hoppered growth. Strong golden color, nice luster and some intergrown colorless quartz makes this a stunning specimen as you can much better see in our video!
Erongo Mts., Karibib Constituency, Namibia
Size: 2.6 x 2 x 1.8 cm
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A beautiful green fluorite from the Erongo Mountains that features two interlocked cubes of great transparency and luster and with striking emerald green color.
The fluorites are set on a small piece of feldspar matrix with little flowers of mica.
The condition is very good with only microscopic abrasions here and there.
A lovely and picturesque fluorite thumbnail!
Gastein valley, St. Johann im Pongau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 5.5 x 4.3 x 4.1 cm
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Fluorites from the Gastein valley aren't exactly common, especially in such lovely shape.
We got that piece only recently when we acquired a collection from an Austrian strahler.
This specimen features lovely greenish fluorites on a translucent white calcite matrix.
The individual fluorite octahedrons are up to 1.2 cm on edge, undamaged and with a nice chlorite-green color that contrasts with the white background.
As you can see in our video, the piece is complete and crystallized even at the backside.
Alto Ligonha Pegmatite Field, Zambezia Province, Mozambique
Size: 6.5 x 2.4 x 1.9 cm
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The clarity and open colors of this single crystal elbaite are really amazing in person! It is gemmy, in parts even transparent, and has a distinctive color zoning from pink to colorless at the middle section and pink again toward the complex pyramidal termination! Even normal room light illumination is enough to let this piece shine, as you can see on the second picture which was taken without direct backlight. The crystal is in superb condition with some kind of inter growth on the backside but no damage or repair. A striking tourmaline with beautiful open colors!