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Leckbachrinne, Habachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 9.8 x 6.3 x 5.5 cm
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The presentation of emerald crystals on this specimen is just staggering! The matrix of dark, silvery glittering mica schist is the perfect base for two bright green emerald crystals that are held up and shown quite freely. Both crystals are encased at both terminations but the sides are almost completely free and five out of six side faces are visible! The color is an intense emerald-green that is easily brought out through the translucent crystals. The size of the two crystals is 1.9 x 0.7 cm and 1.5 x 0.4 cm. Not without reson is Leckbachrinne Europes best location for emerald crystals!
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 10.2 x 5.5 x 5 cm
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Best Cavradi smoky quartz combined on a cluster that shows a distinct X-shaped outline. The quartz is all flawless, incredibly lustrous and sharp. The piece seems to have detatched from the rock ages ago - enough time to let the quartz grow back and leave a perfectly crystallized surface. This is a high class smoky quartz specimen with no downsides from the famous Cavradi gorge!
Rimpfischwäng, Findelgletschergebiet, Zermatt-Saas-Fee-Gebiet, Wallis, Switzerland
Size: 6.2 x 5 x 3.3 cm
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An extraordinarily rich specimen of cherry-red garnet that is a total stunner not only for the locale but for the Alps in general! The middle section of this pieces main view is a lovely sparkling combination of tiny orange garnet and silvery muscovite and is completely surrounded by a crown of rather large, flawless garnet crystals, reaching over 1 cm in diameter. The backside shows some contacts but no considerable damage. With no downsides, this is an important piece of Alpine garnet of exceptionally fine quality. To cap it all, the shape of this piece even reminds me of the most famed Matterhorn, near which it was found. Absolutely astonishing and beautiful in person!
Laghman Province, Nuristan , Afghanistan
Size: 8.8 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm
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A first class specimen from the Laghman Province in Afghanistan! It has good size and is absolutely stunning with superb quality and intensive, beautiful colors! The crystal is semi-transparent at the bottom, where the color is a rich pink. The further up you look the glassier and more transparent it gets! The color changes about halfway up, first to cherry red and then to a light and perfectly glassy green! Most spectacular is also the sharp, multifaceted termination that is unusually well developed! The whole specimen is perfectly flawless all around and highly lustrous. An outstanding piece from Laghman!
Zinggenstock, Grimsel area, Hasli valley, Berner Oberland, Switzerland
Size: 10.9 x 8.3 x 7.5 cm
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The aesthetics of this fine smoky quartz specimen is utterly perfect. The main crystal - a perfect smoky quartz crystal, 2.5 cm in diameter - protrudes from a group of supporting side-crystals, perched on a natural floater-piece of sparkling white matrix. The whole piece is very well balanced. Still, the main attraction here is the dominant main crystal: Quality at the absolute top level on a somehow uncommon crystal - at close inspection you see the not quite straight growth on its left side. 360° of condensed beauty and quality! The specimen was part of a legendary find in summer 1969 by Ernst Rufibach, the so called “Rufibach cleft” which yielded a number of spectacular specimens of smoky quartz and pink fluorite!
Tole, Wana, South Waziristan, Pakistan
Size: 11.8 x 5.9 x 4 cm
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It is not easy to show the exceptional beauty of this specimen in a picture. Brilliant glassy quartz crystals are three-dimensionally arranged along a thread that runs right through the center. The combination of crystals in different dimensions makes this specimen rich and vibrant all around! The whole speciment is without damage and beautiful on all sides!
Murursprung, Ankogelgruppe, Lungau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 3.8 x 1.3 x 0.9 cm
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Definitely one of the finest single rutile crystal we have ever seen coming from Austria! It is exceptionally large, free of any damage and shows some nice red color, although - due to its thickness - only at the surface. Unlike most other known crystals this rutile is even doubly terminated with a very beautiful and well structured crystallization at the bottom! The whole crystal is brightly lustrous as you can well see on our video. While the Ankogel group is usually famous for great sagenite rutile, this fantastic crystal is massive and exceptionally thick. A real stunner in person!
Val Nalps, Vorderrhein, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 11.9 x 7.1 x 5.6 cm
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Found in a very small vug that contained only three pieces of specimen quality, this is the only one on matrix! A single 4.1 cm quartz with faszinating fire-orange rutile inclusions! Even at low illumination the crystal radiates the intensive color of hundreds of rutile needles, embedded in a colorless, glassy quartz body. The main crystal is set on a beautiful matrix and associated with several smaller crystals, some with rutile, some without and completely water-clear! The backside of the main crystal is contacted but aside from that the whole specimen is in outstanding condition! After many years in Swiss museums this exceptionally rare specimen of rich color and pristine quality has found its way to us and is now waiting for a new home!
Fibbia, Fontana, Central St. Gotthard Massif, Ticino, Switzerland
Size: 8.8 x 5.8 x 3 cm
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Fibbia is by far Switzerlands most significant source of hematite in the iron rose aggregate! This specimen is an exceptionally well balanced combination of one single isolated iron rose and two smoky quartz crystals grown atop a very well crystallized adularia matrix. The well defined hematite is only very loosely connected to the adularia thus you are able to see its beauty from all around. At some patches the hematite grew around single towering adularia which makes for lovely details in close-up. The quartz is all perfect, glassy and doubly terminated. The matrix is all natural and there is no damage anywhere here. Very well defined and stunning aesthetics made from high quality crystals!
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 8.4 x 8.3 x 3.4 cm
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One prominent quartz crystal of excellent quality is set on a light grey rock matrix with accompanying smaller crystals. The main crysal is 4.3 cm long, glassy, sharp and flawless. Absolutely amazing Cavradi quartz quality!
Kaprun, Glocknergruppe, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 9.5 x 8.6 x 6.3 cm
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Quality of both from the front visible quartz crystals is rather spectacular with polyhedral development, super-gemmy interior and brilliant luster all around! The combination with calcite makes this piece even more interesting. As you can see in the video the specimen is very three-dimensional. Quartz and calcite crystals on the back are contacted but not broken.
Karakana Mine, Dara-i-Pech pegmatite field, Chapa Dara District, Kunar, Afghanistan
Size: 5.9 x 4.4 x 3.3 cm
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Quality and aesthetics of this little jewel are absolutely outstanding and amazing! The indigolite is set on a quartz shard that’s completely crystallized on all sides - even the bottom! The 3,4 cm main tourmaline is stuck through the quartz floater with a perfect termination also on the bottom. It is perfectly gemmy and lustrous with a intensive blue color! The termination is somehow frayed yet perfect and without any damage! Very special is also the matrix which is translucent white and perfectly crystallized all around. Have a look on the attached picture for a view of the bottom face which is beautifully structured and highly lustrous! Our video nicely shows the 3-dimensional shape and the high crystal quality!