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Wilden See, Wilden Kogel, Hohe Tauern, Osttirol, Austria
Size: 10.8 x 6 x 6.2 cm
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A rather massive quartz specimen of light yet distinctive smoky color. It is a combination of classic prismatic quartz with a large gwindel in the center. The piece has no damage, only some very small chips. The overall quality is not great but well enough with a lustrous and very well developed surface and a mostly clear crystal. This is a extremely rare gwindel from the Hohe Tauern region and of stunning size as well!
Amertal, Felbertal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 14.6 x 12.4 x 8.1 cm
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A fantastic combination of a large, water clear skeletal quartz on a snow white adularia matrix. The whole thing is a floater and undamaged all around. I actually find both the front and the back absolutely beautiful, with a different character but matching quality. The frontside shows the skeletal quartz in all its beauty, the backside scores with large and sharp adularia. The quartz is all perfect, intensively skeletallized yet still showing the typical quartz-termination. The adularia is sharp, translucent white and associated with some, but very little chlorite. Best quality meets unbeatable, unique aesthetics!
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This is quartz of absolutely top quality!
The piece shows best glassy crystal quality with brilliant luster and sharp tessin quartz habit. Some side-crystals at the main crystals base boost the aesthetics to stunning textbook level! The whole thing is flawless and crystallized right to the bottom. Perfect in any way!
Muttenhorn, Gletsch, Furka pass area, Goms, Wallis, Switzerland
Size: 7.3 x 7.2 x 4.2 cm
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This is a spectacular Alpine quartz with a quality that is one or two levels above everything else you might have seen from Switzerland! A perfect, pointed and glassy main quartz crystal stands at the very center of this specimen and is surrounded by a row of sparkling side-crystals! The aesthetics is absolutely textbook and perfect all around with no downsides at all! All crystals are of incredibly high quality: Perfectly glassy bodies, sharply defined habit with all flawless pointed terminations and a striking wet-look luster on all sides! Have a look on our video for a better impression of this mindblowing quartz specimen! Its undoubtedly a quartz that satisfies even the highest quality standards!
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 6 x 4.7 x 4 cm
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A super aesthetic miniature specimen of high class aquamarine on a vivid matrix. The main crystal is 3.5 x 1.5 x 0.9 cm, glassy and lustrous on all sides. It is accompanied by a second crystal of equal quality and protrudes from a beatiful black and white schorl-adularia matrix! The piece is a complete floater and free of any kind of damage! Overall this piece is very 3-dimensional, well defined and simply beautiful!
Ras Koh Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 4.6 x 1.9 x 1.7 cm
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This epidote specimen is from a recent find in the western Pakistani Mountains that revealed a completely unique and highly aesthetic "bow tie" shape. Sprays of dark green, lustous epidote form this sharp clusters in a just lovely way.
This specimen is a combination of two epidote "bow ties" that are attached to each other like in an acrobatic performance. Both clusters are in best condition! A lovely specimen of exceptional aesthetics!
Pyan Pyit, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar)
Size: 10.9 x 7.4 x 8.2 cm
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Large transparent brown phologopite crystals with contrasting white marble. The main crystal is stunning 5.5 cm broad which is really gigantic for the mineral! It is very easily lit, has a warm brown color and is complete all around. Some crystals on this specimen are in fact cleaved (not so the main crystal) but which is not so obvious and doesn't compromise the overall aesthetics. This is a remarkable specimen for this rare mica variety!
Ritterkopf, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 11.6 x 4.4 x 2.9 cm
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The quality of this single crystal quartz is absolutely amazing! Best wet-look luster and a completely limpid body! The shape is a flattened prism with pointed termination in overall very good condition but with some abrasions towards the tip. The bottom is completely crystallized and associated with some pericline. A very intriguing specimen from this remote locale!
Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mts, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
Size: 2.4 x 2 x 1.4 cm
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Tsavorite is an extremely rare, green variety of grossular that has been found only around the Tsavo Plain in southern Kenia, close to Tanzania. Rarest of all are euhedral crystals like this sharp and gemmy exemplar! The crystal shows superb open color, a rich mint to apple green that is bright and intensive yet not too dark. Inside the tsavorite you see some internal cracks but the surface is pristine and playfully developed! The backside is covered in black graphite matrix. Outstanding, attractive and extremely rare!
Fibbia, Fontana, Central St. Gotthard Massif, Ticino, Switzerland
Size: 5.8 x 3.4 x 3.1 cm
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Fibbia is by far Switzerlands most significant source of hematite in the iron rose aggregate habit! This is a superb example for the high quality and aesthetics this locale is capable of! The single isolated iron rose is exceptionally sharp and displays absolutely best metallic luster! It is completely flawless and set on a likewise undamaged piece of matrix. The rock-matrix is covered in sparkling adularia which is impressively beautifull all over! Aesthetics and crystal quality are pushed to the highest quality on this fabulous Alpine specimen!
Frunthorn, Valsertal, Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 5.6 x 4.6 x 3.7 cm
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Frunthorn is well known for great fluorite specimens but this one has the very rare color that is not pink but actually RED! The octahedral crystals are flower-like attached atop a piece of matrix, associated with some smoky quartz. Miraculously this fluorite is all perfect and really gemmy at the inside. The surface is frosted in some parts but shows perfect wet-look luster in other parts! This wonderful specimen of exceptionally rare quality and color is for sure one of the finest from this famous locale!
Tormiq valley, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan
Size: 5 x 3.8 x 3.5 cm
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A brilliant jewel from the Haramosh Mountains! It is a rich paragenesis of titanite, ilmenite, adularia and quartz on matrix that displays just brilliant quality! At first glance you immediately see the striking green, doubly terminated titanite that horizontally lies across the beautiful white feldspar matrix. The crystal is doubly terminated, sharp, lustrous and of bright color! It has got a contact on the right termination but apart from that it is perfect! The titanite is held up by white rhombic adularia crystals. Right on its side stands a single water-clear quartz crystal of uttermost perfection. Inside this crystal you can see tabular black ilmenite which makes for a beautiful visual effect! Overall the aesthetics of this specimen is overwhelming and very much distinctive!