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Rogerley Mine, Frosterley, Weardale, North Pennines, Co. Durham, England, UK
Size: 12.6 x 9.6 x 5.1 cm
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The reason for the low price here are some broken crystals which is undeniable. But if you can live with some imperfection this is a piece that offers fluorites of superb quality and beauty! The largest crystal has 2.3 cm on edge, is totally gemmy and in best condition. Absolutely amazing quality and color!
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 8 x 5.3 x 4.6 cm
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This is a fine doubly terminated glassy quartz with association of smaller quartz, calcite and feldspar on a rock matrix. The specimen is in very best condition all around with superb interlocked quartz on a matrix that is crystallized with feldspar micro-crystals on all sides.
Forsterbachtal, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 4.5 x 3 x 1.7 cm
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This small quartz floater is a real jewel in respect of quality and shape. Nice glassy quartz with brilliant luster reflects the light on a multitude of crystal faces. The condition is virtually flawless. Even at close examination you will marvel over the multitude of perfectly crystallized details! Very attractive in person!
Grieswies, Rauris, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 8 x 6.1 x 2.5 cm
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This large 8 cm gwindel is from the one time historic find by Josef Kolb in july 1977 which yielded a small number of superb gwindel specimens. While quartz from the Rauris valley is well known and relatively common, the gwindel habit is extremely rare and almost impossible to come by!
As is characteristic for the find this specimen has chloritized tips but a lustrous and clear front and backside through which you can look right through the glassy crystal body. With great condition, dramatic elongated habit and a distinct twist this gwindel specimen is a stunning specimen from a very well known and documented historic find!
Mörchnerkar, Zemmgrund, Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria
Size: 3.6 x 1.6 x 1.1 cm
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Very nice sceptre from the Mörchnerkar that shows the characteristic surface structure at the prism faces and very good quality overall! The oversized head is set on a small colorless stem with some mica at the touching point. The purpe color is especially strong at the termination but extends down around half the crystal length. Condition is flawless altogether!
Gamsmutter, Habach Valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 10.6 x 8.8 x 5 cm
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The single most interesting crystal on this paragenesis is set at the very top: A brilliant golden colored 1.3 cm titanite twin crystal of gemmy quality and in fantastic condition! It is emphasized by the beautiful matrix, covered in white pericline and grey calcite with some smaller titanites in between. A look on our video reveals the superb quality much better!
Kleines Fleißtal, Hohe Tauern, Carinthia, Austria
Size: 22 x 11.3 x 7.4 cm
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It is a large natural landscape-type of specimen that strikes with very strong contrast and a lovely composition. Yellow shining quartz is perched on a matrix that is covered in brown siderite, creme colore pericline and some snow white quartz microcrystals. The largest quartz that stands out on the top is 5 cm long, glassy, sharp and undamaged. All over the condition is very good although not quite perfect. Some broken smaller crystals are visible though not quite significant on a large and natural piece like this.
N`Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Size: 3.4 x 3 x 2 cm
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Color, shape and the radiating quality immediately draws one towards this piece like the calming flickering flames of a bonfire! This rhodo has the intensive fire red color that you would desire in a specimen of this beautiful mineral. The individual crystals reach a length of up to 3 cm, they are glassy and in very good condition with only minimal cleavages and contacts. It’s a compact piece of gorgeous aesthetics and fantastic crystal quality!
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 10.2 x 8.8 x 1.4 cm
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The way this quartz has developed is amazing and totally unique. As you can see in our video this is only a thin shard, fully transparent and highly lustrous on both sides. One side is shaped like a flat bowl, showing an inward curve constructed from countless shiny crystal faces. The other side is different, it has two flat faces that are arranged at a distinctive 40° angle. But regardless of the apparently complex history of this specimen (did it originally split off a larger crystal?) this is an unusuall and very attractive specimen in near flawless condition and of best quality!
Hyderabad District, Telangana, India
Size: 9.1 x 6.3 x 4.3 cm
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A new find near the city of Hyderabad has recently produced a number of amazing phantom quartz specimens. This one is a dominant main crystal accompanied by several small side-crystals. The quartz is transparent and lustrous and shows a beautiful and distinctive purple hematite phantom inside. What is interesting is that the hematite reaches the surface at some parts on the backside which makes for a nice and very natural look. Condition is overall good. There is a broken side-crystal on the back and some contacts around the base but nothing distracting from the overall beauty of this fine quartz.
Cavradi, Val Curnera, Tujetsch, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 3.7 x 2.6 x 1.1 cm
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This floater of pure metallic hematite is really just lovely! Coutless hematite plates are stacked upon each other, all are very well developed and in best condition! Some fire-red rutiles give evidence of the locale where it was found. It is a brilliant little specimen of superb quality
Montevecchio Mines, Guspini, Sardinia, Italy
Size: 12.3 x 7.5 x 4.6 cm
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This is a rare, at least 50 years old cerussite from Sardinia that is still in excellent condition! It has a total size of 12.3 cm with individual sprays of cream colored cerussite up to 3.7 cm. The stark contrast of pale cerussite on the dark, almost black matrix nicely emphasizes the cerusste. Also the backside is completely natural and vividly crystallized. As the included old label states, the matrix is presumably psilomelane, a compound of different manganese oxides. A splendid specimen for the collector of historic rarities.