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Dösenbach valley, Ankogel Group, hohe Tauern, Carinthia, Austria
Size: 6.3 x 3.9 x 3.2 cm
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An utterly beautiful and aesthetic quartz specimen of best quality! The main quartz crystal is glassy, perfect and superbly lustrous! At the lower parts there are some green chlorite inclusions which adds a very nice color effect! At the crystals base is a cluster of smaller side crystals and cream-colored pericline. The overall aesthetics of this specimen is just marvelous, the quality is striking!
Wagholi, Poonah District, Maharashtra, India
Size: 15.6 x 11.7 x 7.4 cm
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What a striking specimen, consisting of numerous crystlas of cavansite, situated on an excitingly contrasting, white matrix of stilbite. While cavansite is pretty common over all, this specimen is very different from the crowd. The matrix of this piece is very 3-dimensional, which looks extraordinaryly fine in person and makes this specimen so unique. It is richly loaded of royal blue crystals up to 2.8 cm in size and with bright luster. Both, the cavansite and the stilbite are sparkling in person, what is not visible on the photos and make this a choice specimen. Much better in person!
Shengus, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan
Size: 9.9 x 6.2 x 6.1 cm
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A striking paragenesis of sharp spessartine on quartz and feldspar from the Haramosh Mountains! The specimen features beautiful blood-red spessartine up to 1.4 cm in diameter set on a landscape-like matrix of white feldspar. One single frosted quartz crystal marks the center and provides for a unique layout! The whole specimen is in best condition while of course the flawless spessartine crystals that stick out due to the sharp contrast are the main attraction here and sparkle with very best striking quality!
Ras Koh Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 3.2 x 1.7 x 0.9 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 is a singly "bow tie" cluster, distinctively developed and with bright luster! It is completely free of any damage or contacts. The backside has some white calcite that adds a nice visual effect. A piece of distinct shape and characteristics!
Geren Valley, Oberwald, Goms, Wallis, Switzerland
Size: 10 x 8 x 5 cm
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As we are based rather close to the Alps we frequently reach opportunities for great and rare rocks from that region. This specimen is a very rich paragenesis that combines rather large and dominant rutile on a matrix of wonderful sparkling muscovite and snow-white pericline. The specimen is very much 3-dimensional and resembles the alpine landscape full of beautiful details! The large rutile “knee” at the center is 2 cm long and over 1 cm thick which is just exceptional for the locale! There is no damage all over the specimen, only some peripheral contacts. It is a classic old piece, found in 1969 and still hasn’t lost ist unique value!
Le Bourg-d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Size: 3.4 x 3 x 1.7 cm
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This sharp and brilliant axinite specimen is from the classic locale in Le Bourg-d’Oisans and shows one very well defined crystal of characteristic brown color with a slight purple tinge. The axinite – a ferro-axinite to be precise – is a super brilliant marvel in person! It is extremely sharp and 100% perfect! The surface is higly lustrous on all sides and shows nice striations. The 2.8 cm long main crystal itself is especially glassy, like a scalpel made of glass! The axinite sits on a small yet perfectly proportioned piece of matrix that is again studded by small axinite and green epidote crystals. Concerning aesthetics and quality this is one very striking specimen from the Type Locality!
Tormiq valley, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan
Size: 6.1 x 4.7 x 3 cm
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A fabulous thick twin crystal of vibrant green titanite is set atop a marvelous matrix with sparkling white albite! Shape and quality of the main crystal are stunning in person! The surface is super lustrous on all sides with intriguing structures and striations all over. Being thus thick and meaty it shows particularly strong and open color. The crystal prominently sits atop a wonderful matrix that presents a glittering fireworks of white albite that stand out agains the somewhat grey matrix in a distinctively 3-dimensional way. There is absolutely no damage here, only uttermost perfection and beauty!
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This rose quartz specimen has the aesthetics of a nice piece of jewelry. Rose quartz crystals of distinctive pink color are fanning out from the center forming a disc shape with a jagged outline. Condition, quality and color are exceptionally fine and beautiful on this excellent rose quartz specimen!
Tormiq valley, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 12.5 x 5.5 x 1 cm
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This epidote from the Alpine-type clefts of the Haramosh Mountains is an excellent floater of parallel grown crystals. The longest crystal is around 9 cm long and dominant between a couple of smaller crystals. It is gemmy with nice forest green color at direct backlight. It shows a wonderful crystallization and is sharp all around and in very good condition. An attractive specimen for any collector of those famous Alpine-type minerals!
Dassu, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 10 x 9.2 x 6.5 cm
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An excellent combination specimen that features two sharp and gemmy topaz crystals with nice champagne color. The topazes are set on a cluster of transparent quartz, sparkling white albite and some brownish mica. Some peripheral microcrystals of schorl and garnet are present as well. The main topaz at the top is 2.7 cm long and completely transparent without anything to disturb the view. It is very well cut with a bevelled, highly lustrous termination. The second topaz shows equal quality at a length of 1.9 cm. An overall fascinating piece in appealing cabinet size!
Riemvasmaak, Kakamas, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Size: 6.2 x 4.2 x 3.1 cm
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A beautiful composition of absolutely brilliant fluorite octahedrons and white short prismatic quartz. The fluorites are situated at the upper ridge which lets them really shine with intensive green color even at roomlight illumination. The condition is outstanding all around!
Aschamalm, Untersulzbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 14 x 5.8 x 4 cm
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This amazing quartz has brilliant quality and very unique and elegant aesthetics! The main crystal is all glassy and super-lustrous with some includions but which doesn't take anything from its beauty. It is accompanied by a smaller side-crystals, a doubly terminated quartz at the base. That side-crystal is repaired once but which is hardly visible at all. There is some residual rock matrix around the base, the rest is all nicely crystallized quartz in best condition.