International Minerals
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!
Jean Baptiste Mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion mining district, Lavreotiki, Attica, Greece
Size: 6.7 x 5.9 x 1.5 cm
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The Jean Baptiste mine is one of four interconnected mines near the village of Agios Konstantinos. Another one of those mines is the Serpieri Mine which is the type locality of glaucocerinite, an extremely rare mineral that can only be found in a handfull of mines worldwide! The mineral displays intensive turquoise-blue color on a surface of botryoidal crystals with a waxy luster. This floater shard is covered on front and backside in glaucocerinite and is largely intact. Beautiful bright color and the sheer rarity makes this specimen special!
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!
Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan , Pakistan
Size: 8.5 x 7 x 6.8 cm
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This is a flawless and brilliant tourmaline crystal, nested in sparkling white cleavelandite, set on a lustrous white quartz crystal! The piece has nice hand size and just sweeping aesthetics! There is absolutely no damage of any kind! The tourmaline shows best luster, has a distinctive, well developed termination and very good clarity, especially towards the termination. The lower two thirds contain a beautiful dark green to black and opaque core which strongly contrasts with the white cleavelandite! This core penetrates through the matrix and is visible at the bottom where it is broken but completely re-healed. Also the quartz is re-crystallized at the underneath!
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Aesthetically stacked quartz crystals of glassy quality with a distinctive "Faden" that runs through the center. The crystals are all complete with only a re-crystallized contact at the bottom. Small chips at the terminations are present but hardly discernible. It's an overall brilliant and attractive specimen of finest quartz!
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.
Berbes Mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
Size: 19.8 x 11.3 x 7.5 cm
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A ridge of glassy and lustrous violet fluorite cubes is arranged like the gems on a crown over a sparkling white quartz matrix. This dramatic specimen has been found in the 90's by Alfred Kugler and has been in his collection ever since. The fluorites are in very best condition with lovely open violet color through and through!
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.
Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion, La Libertad, Peru
Size: 6.9 x 2.8 x 2.4 cm
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It's a rather massive and heavy aggregate of dark red huebnerite with some associated white quartz. The crystals are mostly too dark to illuminate but along the edges and at the protruding main crystal it is possible to shine through and highlight the gemmy red huebnerite. The piece is not quite perfect as there are some broken side-crystals. Fortunately the main crystals are terminated.
Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari manganese fields, South Africa
Size: 20 x 20 x 8.5 cm
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This classic paragenesis is a complete floater that is covered with a rich abundancy of different minerals! Most significant is the very rare gaudefroyite that comes as black and shiny hexagonal prisms many of which are over one centimeter long. Pieces with such a rich display of this rare material are exclusive for the Kalahari manganese fields and thus very much desired. Between black gaudefroyite there is contrasting red andradite, transparent calcite, white barite as well as some metallic black hausmannite at the edge. A classic and characteristic association for the region. Due to the sheer weight of piece some damage is unavoidable but the overall impression is very good and without any major issues.