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Mineral Specimens with Albite
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5.0 x 2.6 x 1.8 cm. A showy and excellent Pakistani specimen of a gemmy and lustrous, tri-colored, pencil tourmaline wrapped in pearlescent, bladed cleavelandite, and nicely accented by smaller tourmalines and a couple of quartz needles. The terminations of the tourmalines are indicolite blue, grading downward to green to black schorl. Classic and cute material from Stak Nala.
4.2 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm. A BEAUTIFUL, CLASSIC and OLD-TIME combination specimen from the famous Little Three Mine of San Diego County of a 1.0 cm gemmy and lustrous, orange spessartine garnet aesthetically attached to the side of a lustrous, jet-black schorl crystal with an etched termination. The schorl is exquisitely wrapped in contrasting, floral-like, bladed cleavelandite. This complete all-around beauty dates to the 1960s and is from the Norm Dawson Collection, owner and operator of the White Queen Mine from 1948-1992.
2.4 x 1.8 x 1.6 cm. This is a superb and beautiful, competition-level, tabular manganotantalite crystal nestled in bladed albite. This pristine beauty is from the Allan Young Thumbnail Collection, who has won the prestigious Desautels Award for Best Rocks, with thumbnails such as this.
10.5 x 5.9 x 5.3 cm. Seldom do you see aquas from anywhere but Shigar in Pakistan with such lustre to them, and color at the same time. This is an intensely blue crystal that looks richly included by albite in the photo, but ACTUALLY you are looking right through 2-inches of almost totally transparent, gem-grade, mostly clean crystal to see the little albite rosettes on the BACK of the specimen, here. The crystal cluster is complete all around 360 degrees, without damage. Also, its a floater...meaning it broke off in the pocket at some point from the "mother rock" and solution healed over the break on the bottom, as well - so it’s doubly-terminated although the bottom termination is flat and dull compared to the top. Lastly, it’s a very interesting piece visually because of the curving "phantom" zones within both crystals caused by albite and schorl inclusions during growth of the top zone. The terminations are lustrous and window-clear. Weight is 385 grams.
12 x 9 x 7cm. This is a tourmaline cluster from the Pederneira Mine, worked recently between 1998-2005, now seemingly mined out for this material. It measures 12cm x 9 cm tall x 7cm deep and is an aesthetic cluster of several multicolored "watermelon" tourmalines perched on crystallized, contrasting matrix of cleavelandite (the white blades). The crystals are all terminated, including the one pointing to the right - it has a natural contact notch where another crystal grew into it, but is not broken or damaged at all. The colors, especially the multiple hues contrasted on the stunning, sparkling white matrix, are really well developed here.
8.5 x 6.2 x 4 cm. What you have here is a bright green fluorite crystal sitting beside a glassy, very dark green tourmaline crystal, which itself sits atop a green tourmaline of a lighter color. All sit on a bed of sparkly, bladed stark white albite.
6.4 x 5.5 x 3.4 cm. What a beautifully balanced and aesthetic specimen out of the collection of Marty Zinn! What makes this specimen special, I think, is that the matrix albite, instead of being a formless lump, is euhedral, with one of the flat faces forming the backdrop for the muscovites and spessartines. So they are presented in a form that is rare, with all the crystals on the same plane. The largest spessartine measures 1.4 cm across. Ex. Marty Zinn Collection.
6.4 x 4.5 x 2.8 cm. Clear beryls such as this are actually more unusual than aquamarine beryls, PARTICULARLY when they are glass-clear such as these two sensational tabular crystals! One of the beryls here is around 3 cm, and the other is just under 2 cm. Both crystals are in pristine condition; one of them has a bit of included matrix material along one edge. But that is not all this specimen has going for it: there is also a beautiful cream-colored crystal of albite, along with smaller white ones, intergrown with muscovite blades.
8.2 x 7.2 x 5.8 cm. Super gemmy and lustrous, light green brazilianite crystals to 2.8 cm RICHLY and aesthetically cover two faces on a large, partially euhedral albite crystal from recent finds at Linopolis, Brazil.
13.3 x 6.5 x 4.8 cm. A STUNNING and DRAMATIC CABINET combination specimen from Paprok, Afghanistan. Two, parallel-growth, lustrous schorl crystals have striking, gemmy, indicolite-blue terminations! The schorls are beautifully and aesthetically accented by gemmy, water-clear, smoky quartz crystals and wrapped in snow-white albite. This is an outstanding, essentially pristine, complete all-around combo piece, with only minimal contacting at the base, on the back and out of sight from this famous locality.
6.5 x 5.0 x 2.5 cm. A gemmy and lustrous, cognac-colored topaz crystal wrapped in bundles of bladed cleavelandite from an uncommon Pakistan locality, Sissi in the Haramosh Mountains. This unusual, very elongated, 4.0 cm, topaz is gemmy and has very distinctive horizontal color zoning. Two very gemmy and sharp smoky quartz crystals to 1.1 x 0.7 cm tall proudly sit on the back.
6.2 x 4.6 x 3.8 cm. A fine specimen featuring two euhedral Morganites on a Clevelandite and Mica matrix, with a small Tourmaline thrown in among the Cleavelandite for accent. The largest Morganite is 4.5 cm across, has sharp hexagonal faces (is contacted along the base, of course), and rich pink color. The core is a nice deep pink, surrounded by a lighter and partially gemmy zone, with the outer portion dark pink again, so it is slightly zoned but throughout is not subtle or "pastel" in color. There is even an included Tourmaline needle inside the main crystal.
9.2 x 7 x 6.6 cm. This giant 7 cm crystal has intense mint-green color, is very gemmy, and has a dodecahedral crystal habit. Associated with it are Tourmalines and Cleavelandite blades.
5.9 x 4.2 x 3.8 cm. A gemmy and lustrous, 1.7 cm across, raspberry-red rubellite crystal perched on bladed cleavelandite.
6.3 x 5.2 x 2.2 cm. A fine, doubly-terminated cluster of gemmy and lustrous, parallel-growth, green tourmaline crystals embedded in and visible on both sides of a sliver of albite.
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