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A brilliantly aesthetic "crown" of glassy quartz with green chlorite phantoms and some yellowish iron oxide coating. This colorplay is very much intriguing and adds much to the overall beauty. All main crystals are virtually perfect with highest luster and extremely sharp pointed terminations. Around the periphery there are some contacts and older rehealed breaks but nothing I personally would be concerned by. An appealing piece in person of utmost crystal quality and striking composition.
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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.
Ampanivana pegmatite, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar
Size: 3.7 x 2.9 x 2.7 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 has a typical and perfectly developed deltoid-dodecahedral shape and is free of any damage. The size is rather dramatic and exceptional as so few pieces of this mineral have been found so far. A major example of a very rare mineral out of a unique 2015 find.
Tokambohitra, Sahatany Valley, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar
Size: 3.5 x 3.1 x 1.6 cm
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This small marvel is a very well balanced association of two parallel pink and green tourmaline crystals on smoky quartz. It is a complete floater and free of any considerable damage. Tourmaline and quartz alike have pointed terminations and show good transparency. A small piece of huge aesthetics and remarkable crystal quality that is much attractive in person!
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3-dimensionally arranged acicular rutile needles on tabular hematite, characteristic for the famous locale of Novo Horizonte. The straw-yellow rutile is in surprisingly good condition though, as is inevitable on a fragile piece like this, not perfect. An appealing piece of metallic luster and stark contrast.
Eagle`s Nest Mine, Placer Co., California, USA
Size: 6.8 x 4.5 x 3.2 cm
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WOW, what a marvelous gold from the famous Eagle's Nest Mine. Its 3-dimensional beauty lets you dream of the soaring eagle, which the mine is namend after. The quality of the flattened crystalized gold is totally astonishing as is typical for the locale. Sharp crystals of marvelous brigth luster and superg golden color are 3-dimensionally grown on a well proportioned white quartz matrix. This piece is truly a masterpiece and definitely one of a kind!
Bor Pit, Dal'negorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
Size: 18.3 x 12.7 x 7.7 cm
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The shape of this datolite/quartz combination is extremely rare and in an untamed and chaotic way very aesthetic! A rather large pastel green and lustrous datolite crystal, 5.2 cm across, sits amid a "V" shaped array of unusual quartz crystals. The weird quartz shape that gives the impression of shifted layers results from intergrown calcite that dissolved later on. The whole piece is in exceptional condition and shows a number of smaller datolite crystals on all sides. Dal'negorsk is known as the worlds best locality for specimen-quality datolite which is clear when you see this fantastic and utterly unique specimen!
Shaft 371, Schlema-Hartenstein District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Size: 8.1 x 6.3 x 2.8 cm
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Sparkling colors on a snow-white barite background are totally intriguing and bizarrely attractive in person! Unlike normal chalcopyrite with its uniform golden sheen, this specimen is a rich play of colors, ranging over all kinds of tempering colors from blue and green to purple and loud pink. The white background provides the dramatic contrast for all those colors and makes this a just wonderful piece. The background is largely crystallized too with only some contacts and peripheral breaks. A unusual piece of sparkling colors and a manifold of tetrahedral crystals up to around 1 cm in diameter.
Felbertal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 10.8 x 5.8 x 5.2 cm
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This is truly an exceptional piece of unique, etched shape! Our video reveals the 3-dimensional character of this amazing quartz. The upper part shows a deep gash as if someone wanted to cut away a major piece. Very fragile looking and astounding in a way. The quartz is completely clear with a mostly silky surface - yet in some parts a look to the interior is granted through glassy surface patches. A floater without damage that is full of pretty details and impressive as a whole!
Teischnitztal, Dorfer Tal, Kals, East Tyrol, Austria
Size: 3.7 x 1.5 x 0.8 cm
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Quality and color of this incredible titanite crystal are absolutely matchless indeed and much better in person! The slender twin-crystal has a brilliant gemmy core of just amazing color, apple green to dark emerald green, appealingly gleaming in the light. The crystal shows some edgewear but the mindblowing quality more than makes up for that. I have in fact hardly ever seen a crystal like that so go on and have a look on our video, where color and gemminess are displayed much better!