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There are pieces where everything fits, where quality and aesthetics are combined on a piece of high mineralogical value, and this is one of those pieces. The perfect pyramidal fluorite crystal is grown on a quartz and feldspar matrix with some chlorite to adds a nice color aspect in contrast to the luscious pink fluorite. Being nicely etched, the pointed termination is very much lustrous and sharp. This specimen is distinctly 3-dimensional, beautiful on all sides and without any downsides. No flaws, not broken at the bottom. This is an absolutely unique specimen from the St. Gotthard road tunnel.
Ampanivana pegmatite, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar
Size: 6.5 x 4.8 x 3.9 cm
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Two parallel grown doubly terminated tourmaline crystals of excellent quality are accompanied by a quartz of unusual shape to form this marvelous piece. The tourmaline crystals are twins in size, shape and quality and would be totally indistinguishable could they be separated. As a unity they are impressive and lovely alike. The color is a fresh strawberry red with mossy green terminations. This whole specimen is literally free of any scratch, a perfect floater and beautiful on all sides as you can very well see on our video!
Barra do Salinas, Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size: 8.2 x 2.5 x 2.3 cm
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This gemmy, doubly terminated tourmaline holds great color, changing from a brilliant orange to light green. The crystals shows interesting growth structure with strong modifications and etchings all over. A very much unique crystals in good condition with only some minor edgewear at the sides which is only visible at closer view due to all of those remarkably fine details. Definitely a prominent crystal from famous Barra de Salinas!
Serra do Caldeirão, Pontes e Lacerda, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Size: 3.4 x 2.6 x 1.4 cm
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This fine gold specimen is out of a completely new find from 2015 that has rapidly made a name for itself as a source for world class gold specimens. Best color, filigree growth and a vibrant sheen are trademark for this locale and are main feature of this very specimen. The eye-catching shape is that of an exotic fish, majestetically floating through a coral reef. With hoppered growth, sharp crystals and a 3-dimensional structure this is a brilliant example for the high quality of Brazils new gold deposit - one that has already been closed by police forces just several months after its discovery. Watch our video to have a better look on the full extent of beauty of this dramatic gold specimen!
Serra do Caldeirão, Pontes e Lacerda, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Size: 4.5 x 1.7 x 1.4 cm
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This fine gold specimen is out of a completely new find from 2015 that has rapidly made a name for itself as a source for world class gold specimens. Best color, filigree growth and a vibrant sheen are trademark for this locale and are main feature of this very specimen. The main view of this 360° flawless specimen is a face of perfect hoppered growth from tip to bottom. The backside - or simply the other side, for there is no obvious front or back - is a more 3-dimensional, blossom-like structure and of matching beauty. A perfectly aesthetic gold specimen of highest quality from this fabulous new Mine near Pontes e Lacerda, Brazil.
De'an Mine, Wushan, Jiangxi Province, China
Size: 13.5 x 7.3 x 4.1 cm
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A highly aesthetic specimen of octahedral fluorite on a snow-white contrasting quartz matrix. Or to be precise, the matrix is in fact a massive green fluorite that is covered in thousands of tiny quartz needles to provide this fantastic background. The fluorite crystals are of a marvelous color combination, green at the center and deeply purple at the edges. The size ranges from only a few millimeters to 1.7 cm on edge. The condition here is good and complete with contacts and breaks only at the periphery. A fine piece of beautiful colors and crystal quality.
De'an Mine, Wushan, Jiangxi Province, China
Size: 12 x 11.6 x 5 cm
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A highly aesthetic specimen of octahedral fluorite on a white contrasting quartz matrix. Or to be precise, the matrix is in fact a massive green fluorite that is covered in thousands of tiny quartz needles to provide this fantastic background. The fluorite crystals are of a marvelous color combination, green at the center and deeply purple at the edges. The size ranges from only a few millimeters to 2.1 cm on edge. The condition here is good and complete with contacts and breaks only at the periphery. While the left half is tightly packed with fluorite crystals, the right half offers a snow-white plain with single isolated crystals. A very aesthetic duality composed of high quality crystals.
Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 8.6 x 5.2 x 3.2 cm
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A monumental, bulky, alpine type diopside specimen showing marvelous luster and deep green color on a doubly terminated crystal on matrix. The main crystal is almost 7 cm long with a square profile of 1.5 x 1.3 cm, strongly reminding me of an Egyptian obelisk. Due to this extraordinary thickness backlight is blocked entirely but at direct illumination you can make out the typical dark green color. This whole piece is a floater, the matrix is covered in small diopside crystals and chlorite on all sides. Absolutely stunning in size and quality this specimen is totally unique!
Mt Xuebaoding, Ping Wu, Sichuan Province, China
Size: 14.3 x 8.9 x 7.1 cm
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Quite unusual and of great quality, this is a brilliant aquamarine specimen from Xuebaoding Mountain. A cluster of tabular hexagonal crystals with associated muscovite and schorl. The aquamarine is gemmy and superbly lustrous with nicely beveled corners. Being a floater specimen it is particularly 3-dimensional and beautiful on all sides. There is no damage present anywhere here. Our video shows a fantastic look on this remarkable specimen.
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If I where supposed to carve a perfect tourmaline specimen, that's about how I would do it. The doubly terminated pink tourmaline with blue-green terminations is perched on a lovely, fragile looking piece of white matrix of perfect proportion. Pure textbook aesthetics with a flawless high quality tourmaline. At the backside of the crystals termination you see some matrix (watch the video for this detail) which does not at all disturb the picture. A great piece of exceptionally fine aesthetics!
Ampanivana pegmatite, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar
Size: 5.5 x 3.7 x 3.5 cm
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A robust, 3.7 cm wide, translucent tourmaline crystal of bright cherry-red and mossy-green colors that is free of any damage. Even the bottom is not freshly broken but fully rehealed. The termination is a lustrous shape of appealing modification, more like a dodecahedron. The crystal is associated with a white quartz crystal, nicely improving the overall aeshtetics of this specimen. Even you have a colorful tourmaline here but just a little direct illumination makes this piece a real stunner!
Ampanivana pegmatite, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar
Size: 1.9 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm
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This rare mineral, named after David London, professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Oklahoma, is the cesium-dominant analogue of rhodizite. All major finds worldwide occured in Madagascar where also this fine specimen origins. The single lemon-yellow translucent crystal with a greenish core is a perfectly symmetric mixed crystal of rhomb-dodecahedron and deltoid-dodecahedral. It is flawless all around and striking in its simplicity. A fine example of a very rare mineral out of a unique 2015 find.