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Moonlight Mine, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Size: 9.5 x 7.4 x 2.5 cm
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This is no ordinary amethyst specimen like the ones from Brazil or Uruguay but it sparkles with blood red hematitet inclusions just below the surface. Amethyst of the "Thunder Bay style" is exceptionally beautiful for the strong colors: intensive purple amethyst studded with deep red hematite! The inclusions on this specimen are especially rich and fill up almost all of the pyramidal quartz crystals. Around the periphery where it is broken you can nicely see the different color zones. White at the bottom, intensively purple on the upper half and with a thin zone of red hematite. The surface shows wet-look luster and is mesmerizingly beautiful! The Moon Light mine is one of the lesser know localities at Thunder Bay - there is no public collecting allowed there - but this specimen has the absolutely top quality!
Lily Mine, Pisco Umay, Ica Department, Peru
Size: 7 x 5 x 3.2 cm
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A strikingly beautiful paragenesis of malachite, quartz and paratacamite! The rock matrix is covered in a layer of white quartz from which a number of isolated malachite bunches stand out. Atop all of this is a second generation of quartz that covers the whole surface in a sparkling and attractive way! Single paratacamite crystals are found here and there, the largest of which is close to 5 mm in diameter. There is no damage anywhere!
Mörchnerkar, Zemmgrund, Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria
Size: 5.1 x 2.9 x 1.8 cm
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This gorgeous specimen is composed of a sharply developed and color-intensive amethyst sceptre head on a comparatively large quartz body. The body is translucent with chloritization and hematite microcrystals at the backside. The amethyst contrasts both in color and in quality. It is transparent, sharp and shows dark purple color.
Großer Finagl, Untersulzbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 8.6 x 8.2 x 4.4 cm
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This is a particularly beautiful and elegant apatite specimen that features glassy apatites on a matrix of snow-white pericline with silvery grey chlorite. The crystals reach up to 1.2 cm in diameter and are perfectly transparent, well developed, lustrous and flawless. The arrangement might seem a bit muddled on the picture but is much clearer in person when you see the three-dimensional shape, the sparkling luster and the contrast. This fine specimen was found at the remote summit region of Großer Finagl from where it found its way to us in fantastic condition all around!
Grieswies, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 6.7 x 3.4 x 2.8 cm
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It's a lovely specimen of high class knee-twin rutile on a sparkling white feldspar/chlorite matrix. The rutile is dark but with fire red accents at direct illumination. It is sharply developed and near-perfect with only one small but visible chip. Absolutely gorgeous specimen of brilliant rutile from the Rauris valley!
Kleinelend valley, Ankogelgruppe, Malta, Spittal an der Drau, Carinthia, Austria
Size: 3.2 x 2.5 x 1.6 cm
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This little floater specimen of pericline and chlorite holds a single 1.4 cm titanite crystal. It's a doubly terminated twin crystal of nice olive green color! The whole specimen is in very best condition. The crystal has a hardly discernible ding at the side but both tips are just perfect. Absolutely nice and beautiful!
Kleinelend valley, Ankogelgruppe, Malta, Spittal an der Drau, Carinthia, Austria
Size: 3.5 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm
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This thumbnail specimen features a number of apple green titanite crystals as well as some white apatite on a contrasting dark chlorite matrix. The largest titanite at the top is 1.5 cm long, sharp and transparent and undamaged. Several other crystals are distibutet over all sides of the small matrix piece and show equally good quality. Below the main titanite you can see a nice glassy apatite, close to 1 cm long and of superb quality.
Elk Creek, Meade Co., South Dakota, USA
Size: 7.1 x 6 x 3.5 cm
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This barite from Elk Creek shows impossibly good quality and super attractive aesthetics!
Luster, clarity, color and sharpness all are as good as it gets!
Matrix is a well sized rock with a cream-yellow growth of calcite and a barite side crystal.
In the middle of that matrix stands an upright 4.4 cm barite that is perfectly gemmy and with a wet-look luster that is absolutely top-notch!
With its wonderful amber brown color it is an amazing crystal in person!
It is sharp and flawless and with beautiful surface structure!
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 7 x 3.6 x 1.4 cm
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A towering cluster of black schorl is aesthetically set on a piece of rock matrix which is in this extent very unusual for Alpine clefts! The needle thin tourmalines are three-dimensionally arranged along a zentral spine and rises more than 4.5 cm from the matrix. Some of the crystals even show the fire-red color this mineral only shows when very thin and very pure. A remarkable piece of Alpine tourmaline!
Mogok Township, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar)
Size: 3.3 x 2.6 x 1.7 cm
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Aesthetics and quality are absolutely lovely here!
The 2.9 cm ruby shows brilliant deep red color and is in flawless condition.
Especially towards the tip it is gemmy and brilliant cutting material!
There also is a small side-crystal which makes the piece vibrant and even more attractive.
The crystallized white calcite matrix is a perfect background that emphasizes the ruby in a stunning way!
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 6.2 x 4 x 4 cm
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A single garnet of beautiful quality is set atop a crystallised matrix of white albite, partly covered in some thin grey coating. The crystal is exceptionally well developed, sharp, gemmy, red and undamaged. A splendid specimen without any downsides!
Hocharn, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 34.5 x 9.3 x 6.4 cm
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Enormous size, quality and also the almost flawless condition are unique on this dramatic crystal!
It is an alpine rock that you can hardly get enough of:
The crystal is clear and shiny from bottom to top.
While it is largely transparent at the bottom, increasingly vivid chlorite inclusions come into play further up, making the crystal extraordinarily beautiful and appealing.
In the upper quarter, the beautiful and multi-layered phantom is clearly visible, almost like in a polished gemstone.
You can see this in the pictures above, but the entire specimen is far more impressive in real life than pictures could ever convey.
We have made a hand-held video for this crystal, in which you can see the inner workings of the quartz very nicely.
The tip is a bit rough, but not damaged and finely crystallized.
Further down, there are occasional associations with smaller quartz or chlorite, but only very minimal damage, which is impressive and almost unbelievable for a piece of this dimension!
Even the underside is not broken but completely crystallized, as you can see in the third picture.
It's hard to imagine what it means to discover and recover such a specimen in a chasm!
The vivid and natural beauty of this crystal is absolutely impressive and is taken to a whole new level here by its monumental size.