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Eagle`s Nest Mine, Placer Co., California, USA
Size: 6.5 x 5.6 x 1.1 cm
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Brigth golden color and brilliant luster immediately attract attention and lead the eye further to the outstanding, branching shape of this classic Eagle's nest gold specimen! At closer view one discovers the fine structure featuring a variety of patterns and crystallizations. The sweeping shape is intergrown with small white calcite patches as is typical for the locale. Absolutely stunning in person for the unique, highly appealing shape and the superb quality!
Camissinone Mine, Zogno, Brembana Valley, Bergamo Province, Lombardy, Italy
Size: 5 x 3.9 x 2.5 cm
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A glassy foater specimen of etched fluorite from Italy. The surface is frosted but smooth enough to let you see inside the clear crystal. It is free of any damage and shows a greenish tinge. Very appealing in person!
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This is a very characteristic quartz sceptre from the classic locale of Rauris. It offers superb luster, especially at the skeletal termination, good clarity and an overall good condition. There is a small chip at the very tip but due to the highly structured termination this is hardly apparent. With around 6.5 cm the head of this scepter is the dominant part of this specimen and an appealing one in person!
Wolfskofel, Schwarzenbachtal, Ahrntal, South Tyrol, Italy
Size: 7.2 x 2.3 x 1.7 cm
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It's basically two glassy quartz crystals that protrude in opposite directions. The base of those two main crystals is a cluster of smaller quartz but which are crystallized all around so that this is even a floater specimen. Very nice in person, undamaged and from an uncommon locale in South Tyrol!
Val Giuv, Tujetsch, Vorderrhein Valley, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 6.8 x 2.8 x 0.7 cm
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A glassy, tabular adularia specimen of distinguishing shape. Through the whole crystal runs a white faden, as found in certain Alpine quartz specimens. The adularia is in perfect condition and shows mirroring luster.
Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia
Size: 3.3 x 2.7 x 1.1 cm
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Not very spectacular at first sight but a rare combination that is practically exclusive for Tsumeb. At closer view you find brown copper branches on a matrix of brownish-yellow tsumcorite and similarly colored wulfenite. A nice and extremely rare specimen from the type locality of tsumcorite.
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This is a characteristic piece from Serifos Island in very best condition! All crystals are just perfect with only one contact at the base. The intensive green color, caused by actinolite inclusions, is easily lit through the translucent crystals. The surface has a nice waxy luster and fine organic structure. Perfect in shape and quality!
Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion, La Libertad, Peru
Size: 11.1 x 8.5 x 5.7 cm
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This piece is absolutely matchless! Two cubical pyrite crystal are stacked upon each other like father and child. Both crystals show very fine striations, modified corners and great luster. Both are almost perfect with just some tiny, almost invisible chips. The whole composition of this piece is a wonderful interplay of white quartz crystals, pretty and unharmed all around, with those superb pyrite crystals harmonically set in the middle. A world class specimen and definitely one of the very best to have come from the Mundo Nuevo Mine!
Mörchnerkar, Zemmgrund, Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria
Size: 2.8 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm
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Very nice single crystal apatite that displays characteristic and sharp hexagonal growth with superb luster. It is widely transparent but with some inclusions and internal cracks at the center. The backside is contacted but there is no damage to be found here. It was found around 2005 by Heiz Kirchtag and Kurt Novak.
Surrein, Sedrun, Tujetsch, Grischun, Switzerland
Size: 7.4 x 5 x 4 cm
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Highest quality meets mindblowing aesthetics! An elongated, salient quartz crystal protrudes from a marvelous matrix that is covered in smaller quartz crystals of matching quality and white bladed calcite. Especially the main crystal impresses with perfect quality, luster, gemminess and an unharmed, pointy termination. Truly a superb piece from Switzerland!
Wagholi, Poonah District, Maharashtra, India
Size: 7.5 x 5 x 3.7 cm
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One single cluster of brigth blue cavansite is set at the center of a grey rock matrix, covered in stilbite microcrystals. A rather characteristic and well balanced specimen for this famous locale!
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I love sceletal quartz, especially when they are as well shaped as this specimen. The whole piece is heavily corroded on all sides which leaves a totally unique picture. The main view shows great luster on a structured surface that reminds of a snake's skin. Anyhow, the cherry on this cake is the white adularia sitting on the quartz. A small detail that truly adds much to the general aesthetics of this fine specimen. There are no contacts or imperfections on the quartz, an inconspicuous fracture on the adularia being the only speck on an otherwise perfect picture.