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Mogok Township, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar)
Size: 4.2 x 2.7 x 2.5 cm
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This very attractive specimen features a single elongated ruby crystal that is embedded in a piece of white calcite. The ruby is 2.7 cm long, up to 1 cm thick and doubly terminated! With it's striking quality and intensive red color it nicely contrasts against the calcite which makes for a really catchy look! High quality ruby in best aesthetics from the world's finest locale for this material!
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This towering specimen is a breathtaking exemplar from a 2020 find in the Felber valley. Dozens if not hundreds of sparkling green titanite crystals are virtually deluging this fabulous floater specimen! Sharp, bright and gemmy and with beautiful yellowish green color! The matrix is a filigree structure of white adularia with some metallic green chlorite. Very attractive in composition and contrast and in great hand-size!
Großer Wartkopf (Waschkopf), Untersulzbachtal, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 5.2 x 5 x 4.5 cm
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This highly unusual fluorite was found by Gerhard and Hannes Hofer and was displayed at the Bramberg museum. It is a complete floater in excellent condition, glassy and with intensive pink color. What is most unusual are the rounded tips and edges. The whole specimen is etched but without disturbing the distinctive octahedral main shape. Very attractive, exceptional and of superb quality!
Amertal, Mittersill, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 4 x 3 x 2.1 cm
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Excellent combination of one single gemmy titanite crystal on chloritized adularia. The crystal has very nice and open green color that is quite catchy against the grey and white background. It shows no damage whatsoever. One patch at the front edge might have been a chip or contact but is completely re-crystallized. Picture one shows the piece with some applied backlight, picture two uses only front illumination. With a crystal size of over 2.5 cm this titanite is quite impressive and attractive.
Teufelsmühle, Habachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 31 x 26 x 26 cm
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Beautiful, large Skeletal Quartz from the famous find area (Teufelsmühle) in the Habach valley. The crystal is undamaged ans has 10.6kg! Shooting in artificial light and natural light. Found by Heinz Kirchtag and Andreas Steiner around 1990.
Speibingklamm, Hollersbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 11.2 x 7 x 5 cm
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During the 1990s some of the best Alpine titanite specimens have been found in the Hollersbach valley. This amazing specimen features a single twin-crystal of gemmy green (at the center) and brown (towards both terminations) color! It has a dramatic size of 3.5 cm and is completely perfect!
The crystal is set on grey rock matrix that has titanite microcrystals all over it.
A superb and unique specimen, found by Andreas Steiner.
Neudorf, Harzgerode, Harz Mts, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Size: 6 x 4.6 x 3.4 cm
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Galena from Neudorf counts among the European top-classics and are featured in the most important mineral museums around the globe!
This is one especially bright, brilliant, well composed specimen of classic galena with quartz and siderite that shows a single isolated galena on a contrasting background of brown siderite and pristinely white quartz. The whole piece is in outstanding condition and of marvelous textbook aesthetics!
The single galena is set right at the dividing line that separates the white quartz on the left from the amber brown siderite on the right. This special composition adds a kind of "yin and yang" aesthetics that is unique and absolutely amazing in person!
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A near perfect doubly terminated aquamarine of intensive ocean blue color that is characteristic only for the Medina pegmatite field. The surface has slight etchings which creates a superb beautiful structure with best luster! Towards the terminations the prism is slanted and etched which gives a very special appearance to this outstanding crystal! With gemmy interior, great luster and overwhelming color this is a brilliant aquamarine in excellent condition!
Val Nalps, Vorderrhein, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 6.9 x 4.3 x 2.3 cm
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An attractive composition of two elongated high quality smoky quartz crystals with some rock matrix around the connecting point. Both crystals are transparent, sharp, lustrous and with excellent pyramidal terminations. The longer crystal has some abrasion at one edge but is otherwise flawless.
Grieswies, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 9.7 x 2.6 x 1.8 cm
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Most special about this single crystal quartz is certainly the unusual "bend" it shows at the lower part. Apparently the crystal broke during growth and later on reconnected which gave it that impossible shape. The quartz has brilliant quality all over. Great transparency and luster and a flawless termination. If you like unusual crystals, this one might be just the one for you!
Zinggenstock, Grimsel area, Hasli valley, Berner Oberland, Switzerland
Size: 5.8 x 3.9 x 1.8 cm
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A single pink fluorite octahedron sits on a natural feldspar rich rock matrix. The fluorite has no damage and is very well shaped. Its color is not particularly strong but it is there nonetheless as you can see in our picture and video. A lovely little specimen without any downsides!
Hyderabad District, Telangana, India
Size: 6.9 x 6.2 x 4.4 cm
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A new find near the city of Hyderabad has recently produced a number of amazing phantom quartz specimens. This one is a lovely spray of glassy crystals with superb hematite phantoms inside! The crystals shows brilliant quality and are in great condition with only minimal abrasions. Through the glassy quartz you have a wonderful view on the very distinctive purple to red phantoms. Colorful and highly appealing!