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Schlatenkees (Schlaten glacier), Gschlöss Valley, Tauern Valley, East Tyrol, Austria
Size: 13.7 x 7.5 x 6.6 cm
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A classic prismatic quartz crystal of transparent interior is completely covered in a uniform not-too-heavy coating of chlorite microcrystals which makes it strikingly unique! Also the bottom is fully crystallized and partly covered in chlorite. There is no damage whatsoever. The coating grants the crystal a fabric-like texture which feels and looks quite wonderful. Still, through this chlorite you can easily see the internal transparency of the crystal, which is amazingly beautiful if you have some love for the unusual and natural! Found by Gottlieb Obkircher some 20 years ago.
Riedingsee, Weißeck, Lungau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 9.3 x 7.5 x 4.5 cm
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Lovely water-green color, nice sparkling luster and attractive sweeping composition makes this an excelent fluorite specimen that's absolutely gorgeous in person! The three-dimensional shape and overall very engaging aesthetics are hard to visualize on picture and video and are much more pristine in person. Glassy fluorite cubes with nice shiny luster are stacked on a piece of whiteish rock matrix. The whole specimen is in superb condition all around. A really wonderful piece without downsides!
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The structure of this intriguing rose quartz specimen is highly unusual. However you turn it there is always an interplay of sparkling crystals and distinct imprints of some other material that has dissolved long ago. Along the upper ridge there are even some smoky quartz crystals adding variation to the otherwise single-colored specimen. The lovely pink color is something that is exclusive for this region and rarely found even here. The condition is overall well with some contacts but no breaks. Absolutely beautiful and unusual!
NEAT Tunnel, Central St Gotthard Massif, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
Size: 6.1 x 5 x 4.1 cm
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An unusual and pretty paragenesis that displays a sagenite grid on white albite associated with siderite. There are actually several sagenite layers cutting through the albite making this a very interesting an rare specimen from the NEAT construction site. The piece is a complete floater that's crystallized on all sides. A fascinating specimen of unusual composition!
Amertal, Mittersill, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 4.1 x 2 x 1.3 cm
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This is a very fine titanite crystal with adularia at its side which is exceptionally rare! The crystal is in remarkably well condition with hardly any abrasion at all and it is really well developed like a sharp arrow head.
Attached to the side are a couple of sharp white adularia crystals which prominently stick out due to the stark contrast. (Picture 1 is taken with backlight, pictures 2-4 are taken in natural light only)
Berbes Mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
Size: 6.7 x 5.6 x 5 cm
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This short prismatic doubly terminated crystal has similar shape to the Herkimer specimens and is aesthetically perched on a small piece of matrix of grey rock and calcite. These Herkimer-style quartz specimens are known from the Berbes area but exceedingly rare! The quartz is glassy with some iron oxide inclusions that adds some orange-brown color to the otherwise colorless crystal. One tip is somewhat damaged but which is hardly visible from the front.
Solar Wind claim, Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah, USA
Size: 3.4 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm
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Without doubt Tomas Range is the world's best locality for specimen quality bixbyite. Highly lustrous jet-black bixbyite cubes with distinctive modifications are well known from this locale and important on an international level!
This specimen is a highly aesthetic exemplar of two intelocked crystals on a pile of towering topaz crystals and in very best condition! A super attractive specimen for this rare mineral!
La Marina Mine, Pauna, Colombia
Size: 4.1 x 3.4 x 2.3 cm
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This is truly an eye-candy from the La Marina Mine! It is a combination of fluorapatite with albite on barite with a distinctly three-dimensional character. The main aggregate of light pink apatite is stunningly beautiful, highly lustrous and gemmy. It is towering over a brilliant combination of sparkling white albite and yellowish tabular barite. The whole composition is amazingly beautiful, of highest quality and in superb condition!
Großer Happ, Venedigergruppe, Hohe Tauern, Prägraten, Osttirol, Austria
Size: 20 x 12 x 9.1 cm
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Snow white pericline and pristine adularia on a piece of beautiful natural matrix! It is a wonderful specimen indeed that strikes with size, quality and composition alike! The whole specimen is in exceptionally well condition with pericline crystals reaching over 3 cm and a large adularia that's 4.2 cm in diameter! Those white crytals sit attractively on a grey matrix of chlorite and feldspar. A spectacular sight of Alpine beauty!
Dorfertal, Hohe Tauern, Prägraten, East Tyrol, Austria
Size: 4.3 x 3.3 x 2.1 cm
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This rare pyrite specmen from the Dorfertal near Prägraten am Großvenediger was found around 2016 at works for the settling basin at the serpentine quarry. It is a singel cubical pyrite in rust-brown color that shows strong striations on all sides. The pyrite is set on a contrasting white feldspar matrix that is an undamaged floater. The crystal itself is flawless too.
Tormiq valley, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 8.5 x 5.9 x 3.1 cm
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This wonderful quartz is a complete and flawless floater! Not only is the main quartz free of even the smalles abrasions. But also every single side-crystal as well as the actinolithe heavy underside are crystallized and perfect. The quartz is transparent with rich and beautiful actinolithe inclusions which color the quartz green, especially near the matrix. Elegant, attractive and of best quality!
Zinggenstock, Grimsel area, Hasli valley, Berner Oberland, Switzerland
Size: 5.1 x 3.1 x 2.6 cm
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One complete and flawless fluorite octahedron is beautifully presented on a characteristic piece of Zinggenstock-matrix. The fluorite is pink and translucent to even transparent and it is very well defined. It has sharp edges while the crystal faces themselves are etched. A beautiful and aesthetic single crystal specimen from this classic locale!