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Mineral Specimens with Albite
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Lustrous and gemmy cream-colored flattened hydroxyl-herderite crystals to 1.9 cm aesthetically set on a bed of sparkly, tiny colorless hydroxyl-herderite needles, all of which are set on the top of a blocky albite crystal. A very nice display piece and from a VERY UNCOMMON Brazilian locality for this species until this small find of last year. 6.2 x 5.3 x 4.5 cm
A dramatic and aesthetic specimen of a large, sharp, lightly etched, translucent and lustrous smoky quartz crystal jutting vertically off a matrix of spessartine-coated white albite. The gemmy orange to brown spessartines partially grow up the sides of the smoky. Displayed to best advantage, the small bits of damage atop the smoky termination is very much minimalized and it presents like a more expensivce specimen. 7.5 x 7.1 x 5.4 cm
11.1 x 7.5 x 6.0 cm. Lustrous, color-zoned, purple fluorite cubes to 5 mm are aesthetically scattered on the knobby and nubby, 3-dimensional matrix of white albite crystals on this fine, cabinet specimen from the summer, 2008 find in the Monster Pocket at the Dreamtime Mine of Teller County, Colorado.
7.1 x 6.8 x 4.8 cm. Gemmy and lustrous, dark cherry-red spessartine garnets to 8 mm are richly and stunningly scattered on the dramatic, starkly contrasting, blocky, stepped, albite crystal matrix. An outstanding combination specimen from this well-known locale.
5.3 x 3.8 x 1.8 cm. The Corrego do Urucum pegmatite of Brazil has historically produced some of the world’s finest morganite specimens and this is certainly an excellent example. A gem, beautiful pink morganite is richly embedded with green tourmaline pencils and areas of bladed cleavelandite. This thick morganite crystal has sharp crystal faces, excellent clarity and color saturation. Both sides have beautiful stepped edges. An excellent and classic Brazilian morganite specimen that probably dates to the 1970s or 1980s and was in the Norm Dawson Collection, former owner of the White Queen Mine. 54 grams.
8.3 x 6.4 x 3.4 cm. Lustrous, color-zoned, purple fluorite cubes to 5 mm are aesthetically scattered on the knobby, 3-dimensional matrix of white albite crystals on this fine specimen from the Summer, 2008 find in the Monster Pocket at the Dreamtime Mine of Teller County, Colorado.
5.8 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm. Beautiful, gemmy and lustrous, watermelon tourmalines are attached to both sides of the very showy matrix of pearlescent, blades cleavelandite richly accented with lustrous, purple lepidolite. The large tourmaline is 4.5 cm. It has superb and classic Pederneira tourmaline color characteristics, with very bright colors. The striking, central core of vivid, raspberry-red has a thin, outer sheath of green. The lustrous cap is a spectacular, gemmy, teal-blue. The horizontal tourmaline penetrating the large tourmaline is fascinating. This is a very beautiful, very aesthetic matrix tourmaline specimen.
5.5 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm. Beautiful, vivid pink morganite crystals accented with contrasting cleavelandite from Afghanistan. The dominating, tabular crystal is beautifully gemmy and lustrous and has textbook, hexagonal form. It is pristine and is 4.7 cm wide. A very showy and aesthetic, two-sided, gem crystal specimen.
8.9 x 4.7 x 4.4 cm. A striking and classic specimen of two, intergrown, highly lustrous, superbly crystallized, salmon-colored serandite crystals aesthetically framed by starkly contrasting tabular and blocky albite crystals. This excellent specimen is nicely accented with lustrous, black aegirine needles to 2.0 cm and a single, very well-placed front and center, gemmy, amber, 5 mm leucophanite crystal. This is a fairly large, dramatic and highly desirable combination specimen with serandite from this famed locale. Ex. Larry Conklin specimen.
4.7 x 4.3 x 3.8 cm. Perched high on a matrix of crystallized, lustrous, white albite is an elegantly beveled, equant, glassy and translucent, forest green crystal of apatite measuring 2.5 cm across. Smaller gemmy crystals of apatite are also present. A very nice miniature from the now-famous find of 2007.
6.0 x 4.2 x 4.2 cm. On bladed and lustrous white albite is a cluster of beveled, glassy and translucent, forest green, apatite with the largest crystal measuring 2.3 cm across. The largest crystal is also doubly terminated. The small sidecar crystal has an attachment contact. From the now-famous find of 2007.
6.8 x 6.3 x 5.0 cm. Nicely emplaced on the matrix of lustrous white albite are discrete and isolated crystals of apatite, to 2 cm across, that have sharp tabular form. One is more barrel-shaped and equant, amidst them. These crystals are glassy and translucent with a forest green color. From the famous 2007 find.
8.3 x 6.9 x 4.8 cm. This is a fine specimen with unusually isolated and upright crystals that miraculously are pristine. Several discrete, really lustrous crystals of apatite, to nearly 2 cm across, abound on the grayish-white lustrous albite matrix. They are mostly tabular, doubly terminated, glassy and translucent, forest green - very characteristic of this pocket from 2007.
5.5 x 4.1 x 3.7 cm. Nestled in a vug of lustrous, white albite is a cluster of apatite crystals, to 2.4 cm across. They are tabular, with the largest crystal being doubly terminated. The crystals are glassy and translucent, with a forest green color. From the famous find of 2007.
6.3 x 4.4 x 3.7 cm. Nicely emplaced on the matrix of lustrous white albite are discrete crystals of apatite, to 1.5 cm across, that have sharp tabular form. These crystals are glassy and translucent with a forest green color. From the famous 2007 find.
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