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Beautiful aesthetics meets best crystal quality! An utterly brilliant arrowhead shaped quartz, accompanied by a evenly fine side crystal, dramatically emerges from the top of a silvery schist matrix. At the crystals foot there is a cluster of matrix-like quartz to support the main crystal. Completely water-clear, flawless and with superb luster on all sides, this crystal is just terrific and highly appealing!
Valsertal, Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 17.2 x 6.7 x 6 cm
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The main crystal on this specimen is a doubly terminated, 14.7 cm long and virtually flawless crystal of decent smoky color. It virtically protrudes from a vivid rock/quartz/adularia matrix that is completely crystallized on all sides. The quartz is limpid with only a few internal cracks and shows very good luster all around. Wonderful quality, amazing aesthetics and dramatic size are combined on this totally impressive Swiss smoky quartz specimen!
Eiskögele, Glocknergruppe, Stubachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 8 x 5.5 x 3.2 cm
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Brace yourself! This fantastic piece shows apple-green, sharp-edged titanite crystals of pristine quality on a contrasting silvery matrix that is lovely encrusted with snow-white feldspar. A totally outstanding piece from the Eiskögele north face with a frosty past. It was found under harshest conditions in 2003, the hottest summer in a century and probably the only summer such a find was even possible, as in other times the permafrost holds this region under its icecold reign. Its like a miracle that there is no damage at all on this incredible piece. Stop here in awe and have a look on our video!
Grieswies, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 12.3 x 10.7 x 8.3 cm
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Three colorless quartz crystals around 7 cm in length stick out of this quartz specimen like spikes at the back of an iguana. At the backside there is one crystal missing, the rest is all complete with only very minor edgewear. The quartz is glassy and lustrous, holding some second generation quartz and small white feldspar at the backside which is well visible through the transparent quartz crystals. An aesthetic and very much appealing piece of Rauris quartz!
Cuetu l'Aspa, Berbes Mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
Size: 9.8 x 6.5 x 5.6 cm
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A very 3-dimensional aragonite specimen of translucent quality. The crystals are shaped like tentacles or very old, gnarled trees. The piece is in perfect condition and has no obvious front or backside. A nice and appealing aragonite from Berbes, much better known for fine fluorite specimens.
Elfriedestollen, Zillergründl, Zillertal, Tirol, Austria
Size: 17.5 x 10.5 x 9.5 cm
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This large and impressive specimen is a fantastic combination of apophyllite with chlorite on a massive skeletal quartz floater. The apophyllite covers the quartz like a layer of snow or, where it is encrusted with chlorite, like moss on a rock's surface. The Elfriedestollen (or Elfriede Tunnel) was driven through massive rock in the 70s and 80s as part of the constructioni of the hydroelectric power plant. As a by-product, several different minerals have been recovered in the process, this very piece to be one of the most spectacular and brilliant. A real stunner in person of exceptional sparkling quality!
Pizzo Lucendro, St. Gotthard Massiv, Tessin, Switzerland
Size: 9 x 4.5 x 2.1 cm
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An elongated stack of translucent to transparent white adularia crystals of highest luster, classy and aesthetic. A line of smaller adularia stretches from bottom to tip like a spine to support the crystals weight. Some chlorite brings color to the picture while not overdoing it. A perfectly elegant adularia specimen from Pizzo Lucendro, beautifull all around and free of damage!
Steinbruch Rehrl, Vorderkrimml, Wald im Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 8.8 x 7.3 x 5.2 cm
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It's the color! Straight away, if you are searching for an Alpine fluorite with fantastically bright blue color and great aesthetics, you are at the end of your quest. As newer finds in Krimml not nearly have the same quality it is truly hard to find a matching specimen. Especially the largest fluorite cube at the specimen's center is highly attractive, acting as a window to a unusually dark purple core that is very strong in yellow light but completely dissappears in white light. It's this color-change that makes fluorite from Krimml so special and famous!The whole piece is a floater and crystallized on all sides. There is no considerable damage, only a small contact that's not apparent at all. A piece of fantastic color and a rare chance for any Alpine collection!
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This is a beautiful piece of petrified wood, replaced by chalcocite and some other green copper mineral at the surface, probably malachite. This is a quite rare piece and beautiful with its unusual natural look. Undamaged on all sides and appealing in person!
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Yes, its small, but what a lovely specimen this is! The sceptre head prominently rests on the thinner body and impresses with great quality: superb luster and a colorless, transparent crystal. What at first sight looks like some impurities inside the crystal is in fact mostly due to the phantom of the original crystal that has been overgrown by the sceptres head. This is a small beauty that seems to exceed its physical size by far!
Cerro de Pasco, Pasco province, Pasco department, Peru
Size: 7.2 x 5.5 x 3 cm
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This highly attractive specimen of enargite atop a matrix of quartz and small lustrous pyrite crystals was found about 1950 in the ancient mines of Cerro de Pasco by an Italian mining geologist working at that time for the respective mining company. It is published in the book "Peru - Paradise of Minerals" by Jaroslav Hyrsl, page 322. The main crystal is 4.7 cm long and 2.5 cm across. It is perfectly arranged on the contrasting white matrix to form this piece of perfect aesthetics! The surface is vertically striated and shows nice tempering colors from dove blue to rust red. The mines of Peru have produced some of the finest enargite specimens and this is without question one of the most striking ones!
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A doubly terminated single crystal that is impressive 12.3cm in size! It has the characteristic dark metallic black color with a greenish sheen to the surface. The crystal is completely flawless and remarkably elegant, sharply developed and with a small amount of orthoclase to one of the faces, as is characteristic for the locale at Mt. Malosa. It dates back to the early mining period in Malawi, where first considerable aegirine crystals have been found 25 years ago and is absolutely outstanding in person!