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Mineral Specimens with Albite
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10.8 x 7.4 x 7.4 cm. A SIMPLY STUNNING, one-of-a-kind tourmaline and quartz CABINET specimen from Stak Nala. The tourmalines have SUPER gemmy terminations, unusual for Stak Nala tourmalines. The doublet tourmaline in the front is the RARE and desirable, pink varietal. The huge milky quartz is highly lustrous, has a razor-sharp termination, front and back, with only the slightest edge wear. The white, bladed cleavelandite is a very nice accent. There is even a tiny, orange spessartine garnet to add color. Almost certainly a 1980s piece.
5.3 x 5.2 x 2.8 cm. As you can see, this is an absolutely TEXTBOOK crystal of topaz, pristine, with perfect symmetry. It is 1.5 cm in height, and it is wrapped by the termination of a milky euhedral quartz crystal. There is some bladed accenting albite as well.
6.4 x 4.5 x 3.2 cm. A sculptural and very fine combination specimen from the famous Upper New Street trap rock quarry of Paterson, New Jersey. The white "wing" and the white matrix back are albite pseudomorphing anhydrite crystals! The "body" is beautifully and richly covered with blocky, orange chabazite crystals and pearlescent, colorless heulandite crystals. Ex. George Feist Collection.
8.4 x 5.3 x 3.9 cm. An OLD-TIME and showy specimen of dark brown eosphorite crystals surrounded by carbonatian apatite-(OH) on cleavelandite matrix from the renowned pegmatites at Newry, Maine. A glassy, green elbaite crystal on the end, next to the eosphorites is a very nice accent. Ex. George Elling Collection, Ex. John Albanese.
5.0 x 3.8 x 3.4 cm. A rare Canadian pseudomorph of pinkish albite that has replaced crystals of scapolite.
9.2 x 8.5 x 5.0 cm. A HIGHLY UNUSUAL and showy pseudomorph from the San Diego County pegmatites of a lustrous and silvery, 6.5 cm, muscovite pseudo after a tourmaline crystal from the less well-known Pat Rat Mine. The pseudo is nicely set in albite matrix and accented with orangey-red spessartine garnets. This RARE piece is from the collection of Chuck Houser, a well-known San Diego County collector. Self-collected by Chuck during late 80’s/early 90’s while the mine was owned and worked by Fred Stevens.
2.6 x 1.7 x 1.4 cm. This is a classic display specimen from one of the most storied and well known districts in Colorado. The pegmatites near the Lake George area of Colorado have produced what collectors and dealers know to be the finest Amazonite specimens from the standpoint of color, quality, wonderful display specimens and excellent associations. This particular specimen is a great display piece featuring sharp, well-formed, translucent, blue-green color Amazonite crystals aesthetically associated with minor white Albite. This specimen was collected over 30 years ago (August 1976), when Richard Kosnar found some of the finest color Amazonite from Colorado extant. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
10.2 x 10.2 x 6.5 cm. An INCREDIBLY FINE combination CABINET piece from Pakistan. A large, 5.6 x 4.0 cm, gemmy and lustrous, light-champagne-colored topaz crystal sits at a divergent angle to a 13.5 cm, water-clear, lightly frosted quartz crystal. The topaz has a wonderful, complex termination. The large crystals are beautifully accented by two, embedded schorl crystals and a bed of bladed, snow-white albite. Ex. Gene Meieran Collection.
8.4 x 6.9 x 5.5 cm. A whopper spessartine garnet crystal, measuring 2.3 cm, is nestled in a cluster of large, euhedral crystals of albite. The spessartine is a fine wine-red, with intense glassy luster and very sharp faces. A tube-like book of layered muscovite crystals is on one side of the spessartine. It is quite uncommon to find good spessartines of this size!
10.2 x 8.4 x 4.5 cm. A STRIKING, LARGE and gemmy morganite crystal beautifully accented with bladed, white albite and a thick nest of green tourmaline crystals from a recent find at the very famous Corrego do Urucum pegmatite of Brazil. The very glassy morganite on this CABINET piece is 7.5 x 6.9 cm and is a thick, 3.8 cm wide. The gemmy side has beautiful stepped edges and the other side has a lightly frosted face.
4.4 x 4.4 x 3.2 cm. A gorgeous, gemmy and lustrous, multi-hued green tourmaline with a very gemmy, light purple/lavender termination from Pech, Afghanistan. The pinacoid termination is extremely glassy and the tourmaline is beautifully complimented by the snow-white albite. A very high quality tourmaline from this famous locality, as purple and green tourmalines are not that common.
9.0 x 7.1 x 6.0 cm. Pearlescent, lustrous, sharp albite variety pericline crystals to 2.6 cm aesthetically and richly cover matrix on this superb specimen from an UNCOMMON for the species, but famous Austrian locality - Griewies in the Rauris Valley. No damage to the major crystals. From the collection of noted Alpine collector, Rolf Wein.
16.0 x 9.9 x 6.9 cm. A 4.5 cm GEM crystal of tourmaline, a beautiful light pastel pink color, on a matrix of glittery albite. The tourmaline is a superb compound crystal with all terminations complete and shining with glassy bevels. The crystal stands well out from the matrix and is exposed all around.
6 x 5.3 x 3.9 cm. Muscovite is almost always seen as an "accessory" mineral - except on rare occasions, as with this gorgeous specimen. The bladed crystals are bright pearly silver, in a complex intergrowth, with euhedral cleavelandites playing the role of accents on this specimen. Ex. Feist Collection.
17.2 x 11.4 x 9.8 cm. There are HUNDREDS of little jackstraw elbaite tourmaline crystals on this large cleavelandite matrix. They are lustrous, gemmy, a bottle-green color. This was apparently the side of a shallow pocket where the cleavelandite formed in shard-like layers and became the perfect host for the formation of this incredibly rich tangle of little gem crystals.. A unique pocket specimen showing how these things form, and also very pretty. Ex. George Elling Collection.
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