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Mineral Specimens with Albite
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5.9 x 4.3 x 3.0 cm. A supremely gemmy and lustrous, pink tourmaline with a green base aesthetically attached to a grayish-white albite crystal cleavage from the famous Himalaya Mine. This gorgeous, 5.9 cm crystal has the best pink color and clarity that you can image. It is also beautifully striated and the termination is pristine. Yes, the tourmaline is contacted, but it remains a beautiful representation of what the Himalaya Mine has produced. Old material.
10.2 x 7.5 x 5.1 cm. This specimen is from the recent finds of Amazonite in Ethiopia. This showy specimen features beautiful, blue-green color, well formed crystals on Albite matrix. These are easily some of the finest quality Amazonite specimens to hit the market in recent years. Aside from the specimens that occur at the Pike's Peak Batholith in Colorado, these are some of the most impressive Amazonite specimens around. This specimen has nice color and form and is not at all pitted like many crystals from this area. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
10.0 x 8.5 x 7.0 cm. A DRAMATIC CABINET specimen featuring a 4.3 cm-tall, very gemmy, intense green tourmaline crystal with a slightly blue-indicolite termination proudly projecting upward amidst a field of lustrous, stark-white albite blades all atop a matrix of feldspar...call it the Sword in the Stone! This SUPERB and AESTHETIC piece hails from the famous Golconda Mine of Brazil and is a highly desirable old-timer from a collection we picked up in California recently containing nothing past 1980 or so. The quality and aesthetics, the stark contrast to the crystallized albite blades of the matrix is classic for this mine from the 1960s but few are seen for sale nowadays.
16.5 x 9.9 x 5.8 cm. A large plate of sharp, euhedral crystals of light creamy pink crystals of microcline, with small crystals of light gray/green albite, and on the edge of the specimen, two translucent, light purple octahedrons of fluorite. The larger of these two fluorites measures 1.7 cm along the edge. From a small private collection of long-collected Argentine minerals built up by a US expatriate down there.
18.1 x 12.1 x 7.9 cm. Two large, tabular, 5-cm crystals of smoky quartz lie flat against the matrix of sharp, euhedral crystals of cream-colored microcline - with another quartz of the traditional prismatic form growing at their base. Pale greenish-gray albites are here and there. From a small private collection of long-collected Argentine minerals built up by a US expatriate down there. From the Rumi Tueu Mine.
7.8 x 7.5 x 5.1 cm. A SUPERB example of a Colorado "white cap" amazonite crystal, with a thin layer of white microcline at the termination that makes these so distinctive and desired by collectors. Even without the white cap, this is a great amazonite specimen, with fine robin’s-egg blue color, but more importantly, a wonderful architectural form; it is a large compound crystal with terminations at 3 different levels. There is a sparing amount of microcline matrix present. . Large whitecaps like this are exceedingly uncommon and hard to obtain in good specimens!
11.4 x 8.9 x 6.4 cm. The Little Three Mine in California has a special place in the heart of many collectors. This is a large combo specimen, with two lustrous, transparent smoky quartz crystals and books of shiny muscovite, intergrown with albite. There is a small, bright orange gemmy spessartine you can see sitting on one of the muscovites. Ex. Chris Korpi San Deigo collection.
9.5 x 7.5 x 7.0 cm. A LARGE, 5.3 cm, translucent, lightly frosted, green and pink fluorite octahedron jaunitly perched atop matrix of muscovite and albite from Chumar Bakhoor, Pakistan. This is classic and excellent material from this famous pegmatite locality. The fluorite is complete all-around, but is contacted on the back, which is out of sight. Ex. Chris Korpi Collection.
8.4 x 6.6 x 5.7 cm. An unusual locality piece from this small tourmaline mine, featuring a 7-cm doubly-terminated quartz in a cluster of others, all perched dramatically on a knob of albite crystals. The quartz is GEM, clear and crisp, accented by a sparkling coating of minute secondary crystallization on top of some side faces. the overall effect is really striking. Sold to Hauck by Russ Behnke, 1975. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
5.9 x 4.9 x 4.2 cm. A stunning combo specimen from Pakistan! The tourmaline you see here is not a schorl (black) tourmaline, but is actually an extremely dark green - except for the termination, where you see a slice of gemmy green! Right next to the tourmaline is an unusually bright and jewel-like crystal of quartz - with, fortunately, it best side facing forward. The tourmaline is nestled between two fans of bladed, snow-white cleavelandite - not at all blobby, but delicately bladed and flower-like.
9.9 x 8.5 x 8.4 cm. The fine termination of a huge Stak Nala tourmaline crystal emerges from the snowy cleavelandite that wraps it all around. Other than some truly MICRO-edge wear, it is in wonderful condition. Shocking for the size! The crystal measures 9 cm in length, and a chunky 3.5 cm across the termination. It is schorl-dark for most of its length, with a very thin teal layer at the termination, and hints of bottle green elsewhere. This is a very dramatic and showy specimen.
5.5 x 4.5 x 3.9 cm. A VERY gemmy topaz, with blocky form and corner bevels, nestled in a bed of bladed albite. The topaz measures 3.4 cm top to bottom. There is a very slight bit of edge wear.
4.7 x 3.2 x 2.8 cm. An attractive specimen of gemmy orange spessartine resting within skeletal albite from the famed Little Three Mine. The garnet has beautiful color, lustre, and classic stepped faces noted for this locality. The best pieces from the mine, like this one, occur on contrasting white albite or quartz matrix for stark contrast! As is typical for this mine, the garnet shows some resorption and natural cracking along some of the crystal faces - the product of etching in situ and very common among garnets found here. This one, though, shows less such changes to the crystal over time than most. CLASSIC and highly sought-after material, with the neat skeletal matrix.
13 x 12 x 9 cm. The sparkling brilliantly white Cleavelandite provides a stunning matrix for the gemmy rocket-like tourmalines, and a host of smaller tourmalines dotting the backside as well. An elongated, gemmy, clear quarts crystal runs along the front horizon, providing a dramatic front view leading the eye up to the tourmalines and away from a normally boring bottom periphery.
15 x 14 x 12 cm. The crystal here is VERY GLASSY and has a high color saturation for an aqua from Shengus. It measures 9 x 3.5 x 3 cm in size and rises majestically from the matrix. It presents as a dramatic specimen because the 9-cm-tall aqua is perched on CRYSTALLIZED matrix, for startling contrast not just in color but in crystal form as well.
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