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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
Röhre Böckstein, Gasteinertal, Pongau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 3.4 x 3.2 x 3.1 cm
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This lovely fluorite was found at the Böckstein tube in Gastein valley and it is utterly stunning in person!
It consists of a distinctive main crystal that is interlocked with a smaller fluorite and sitting on a small piece of matrix.
With an edge length of up to 2.7 cm, the main crystal is quite remarkable and also in excellent condition.
On closer inspection and also visible in the image, the fluorite shows a distinctive phantom inside.
The pale green color, characteristic of this area, is wonderfully elegant and shines from the translucent crystal even in normal ambient light. Absolutely amazing and beautiful!
Riedingsee, Weißeck, Lungau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 13.7 x 6.9 x 5 cm
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The crystallized white matrix holds a number of light green fluorite cubes, many of which show a purple core. Especially in daylight this color nicely contrasts with the white matix. The condition is overall very good with only some small abrasions here and there. From the collection of Karl Podpeskar.
Grieswies, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 8.5 x 5.1 x 4.1 cm
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A lovely combination specimen of quartz and pericline accented by warm limonite from the renowned Rauris valley. What makes this piece particularly striking is the way the glass-clear quartz crystals protrude between the pericline crystals like sharp spikes. This growth habit creates a vivid, dynamic appearance and gives the specimen remarkable three-dimensionality and presence. Upon closer inspection, delicate rutile needles can be seen within the quartz, adding another refined detail for the attentive collector. A lively and highly aesthetic piece of great quality and in virtually perfect condition.
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 8.8 x 7.7 x 4.3 cm
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There were many aquamarines on the market in the last years. In my opinion most of them are just too blocky and therefore not so interesting for the modern collectors nowadays.The size of the crystal on this specimen is well-proportioned to the very good crystallized matrix of feldspar and quartz. The beveled termination of the crystal is very rare and most of the aquamarines have just flat terminations, what makes a big difference in my opinion. The crystal is very gemmy and has incredible mirror luster what is much better in person then. Over all the whole specimen is well-balanced and all is on the position where it should be! It is completely free of damage and natural all around. This specimen is definitely for the advanced collector,who is also looking for small differences which have a big impact on the specimen.
Berbes Mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
Size: 8.6 x 6.1 x 3.9 cm
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This is definitely the best Berbes Fluorite I have ever offered for sale! The combination of purple fluorite with barite is very high valued by collectors nowadays. This specimen has many very translucent crystals with great quality and the best luster you can look for. Fluorites from Berbes rarely have this quality! I have recently got this specimen out of a european collection while the collector decided to let this one go just because he got a substitute of similar appearance. I had great luck to get this one and I proudly offer it for sale on the newly launched website! What an amazing specimen!
Bassin d`Argentiere, Mont-Blanc massif, Haute-Savoie, France
Size: 4 x 3.5 x 1.4 cm
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What a beautiful closed gwindel from France! This is the first specimen of this kind which I have got, and it is not from Switzerland. It has a very nice coating of chlorite, what looks very nice in person and highlights the special shape even more. Except for the bottom it is completely free of damage. For a gwindel of this type, the size is really good. A gwindel of this caliber is very hard to get and a perfect fit for everybody who is looking for quartzes and alpine minerals.
Tokovaya river, Ekaterinburg, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia
Size: 2.8 x 2.2 x 1.4 cm
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Good alexandrites from this locale are very rare and hard to get. This specimen changes the color very nice between green and purple, depending on the light.