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Hocharn, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 4.4 x 3.9 x 2.3 cm
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What I like on this specimen is for sure the very distinctive design. A single cubical pyrite crystal is set atop a well balanced piece of matrix, consisting of white calcite and orange/brown ankerite. The pyrite has nice luster and is undamaged.
Val Gronda da Cavrein, Vorderrheintal, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 14.1 x 6.2 x 5.7 cm
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The quality of this quartz is positively breathtaking! While some of you might not be that happy about some intergrown crystals at the backside (even if those are all perfectly crystallized and the iron oxide coating adds a really beautiful golden color) but I am sure we could all agree on the water-clear crystal body, the wet-look luster and the sharp pointed termination! Absolutely amazing and flawless all around!
Jebel Ouichane, Guelaia Cercle, Nador Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
Size: 8.4 x 6.3 x 6.2 cm
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It's a barite from the famous finds at the open-pit mine in Jebel Ouichane. As characteristic for these specimens the light blue barite comes as blade-like tabular crystals of great transparency and luster. They are arranged as a beautiful and three-dimensional spray. The piece is a floater with only some residual iron-oxide here and there which adds this certain natural flavor! Like an ice-sculpture this specimen reflects the light from every angle as you can easily see in our video!
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This compact pink tourmaline cluster is exceptionally impressive and lovely in person! The beautiful pink color paired with superb luster and rich architecture makes this an outstanding and extremely attractive specimen! It is in overall best condition with only very minimal abrastions which are hard to even find due to the exuberant richness of details! Some attached cleavelandite adds a little extra and perfects the aesthetics! Absolutely amazing as you can nicely see in our video!
Val Giuv, Tujetsch, Vorderrhein Valley, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 4.7 x 3.1 x 1 cm
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This closed gwindel specimen shows a very distinctive twist and is in best condition! The quartz is transparent all the way without internal cracks or impurities. Its surface has a slight chloritization which is a bit stronger on the narrow faces and hardly there on the broad main faces. A very well designed closed gwindel from Val Giuv!
Hyderabad District, Telangana, India
Size: 7 x 6.2 x 5.5 cm
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This specimen from the spectacular finds near the city of Hyderabad strikes with unusually distinctive and color intensive hematite phantoms! Especially the larger main crystals are glassy and lustrous and in fantastic condition. Some of the smaller quartz show some peripheral damage but the main crown is intact and quite amazing! It is an exceptionally fine piece of superb quality!
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One single fluorite cube of dark purple color is set on a contrasting and sparkling shard of quartz covered barite which again is set on a piece of limestone matrix. The fluorite is sharp and well defined with a silky surface. A patch on the front face is contacted, not freshly broken. Apart from that it's flawless. A highly aesthetic and lovely specimen!
Krumltal, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 9.2 x 3.6 x 2.9 cm
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This specimen offers a distinctive quartz of best brilliant luster, superb clarity and well defined crystal architecture. The quartz is associated with an aesthetic growth of ankerite, chlorite and smaller quartz crystals which extends mostly over the backside but also, which adds much to the aesthetics of this specimen, is visible along the left and right side of the highly lustrous main quartz. The condition is extremely well. There are minuscule contacts here and there but no actual damage. Even the bottom is crystallized.
Erongo Mts., Karibib Constituency, Namibia
Size: 4.5 x 3 x 2.3 cm
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This beautiful combination impresses with its large, perfectly shaped and aesthetically presented main ilmenite that has a diameter of 2.4 cm. The ilmenite has a very nice orange/brown patina with some fine black structures showing through. It sits on a construct of smaller ilmenite crystals, several quartz crystals and black schorl, which is quite rare as a combination. The entire piece is a floater and, apart from small contacts, undamaged.
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 5.1 x 3.2 x 4 cm
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A lovely combination of tourmaline with a single white quartz crystal.
Aesthetics here is really exceptional and I can honestly say that the piece is somewhat more brilliant in person.
The tourmaline shows great luster on the prism faces and is frosted at the termination.
What is interesting here is that the tourmaline is rather broad (2,5 cm, while only 2,4 cm high) but it is only between 0,5 cm and 1 cm thick, which enables the light to enter the crystal from behind and bring out the blue color near the termination.
The backside of the tourmaline holds a little secret landscape with white cleavelandite, a small quartz and a thin tourmaline freely standing out.
Really lovely in person!
The quartz is glassy, well developed and in very good condition.
Pingwu mine, Huya, Xuebaoding, Sichuan Province, China
Size: 5.6 x 4.2 x 3 cm
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A wonderful scheelite from the Pingwu mine that shows very best dark orange color. It is sharply developed and in perfect condition. The luster is amazing here and especially towards the tips of the octahedron it has beautiful gemmy patches! The single crystal has 2.5 cm on edge. Our video gives a good impression of the quality and aesthetics of this superb specimen!
Pyingyi Taung, Male, Singu Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar)
Size: 5 x 4.4 x 1.8 cm
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This lovely rubellite is from a recent find in Pyingyi Taung and shows brilliant crystal quality and strong color! Several sparkling rubellites are set on a contrasting dark matrix, together with white quartz crytals. The tourmalines are gemmy, intensively red and show complex terminations. Nice composition and stunning crystal quality make this piece attractive