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Mineral Specimens with Beryl
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8.7 x 6 x 4.2 cm. Beautiful large Aqua (8.7 x 3.2 x 3.2 cm) with exceptionally good color and internal phantoms. Not often will you find an Aqua with such a nice blue color, and it is intricately zoned near the termination with multiple shades of darker blue stripes, which contributes even more to the aesthetics. To add to the excellent luster, great size (8.7 x 3 cm!), and color, there is associated Schorl, Quartz, and Albite (anchoring the crystal to the matrix, so you can see it is not repaired).
8.2 x 3.3 x 2.4 cm. Striking GEM QUALITY Aqua - long and slender with a lovely light-blue color. The crystal is gemmy for an incredible 6 cm of its 8 cm length, and you can look down the attractive well-developed termination through the crystal to the base - always highly desirable in a top gem crystal like this Aqua. The luster is very good - ranging from slightly frosted to mirror-like and clear. Sitting on a matrix of Quartz and Albite, this is a choice, very aesthetic specimen.
5.5 x 4.0 x 3.0 cm. A LARGE, DISTINCTIVE, OLD-TIME, doubly terminated emerald crystal from Malyshevo, Urals, Russia. This crystal has good translucency, color saturation and is nicely accented with embedded mica. This huge emerald is essentially pristine, with only trivial edge wear and probably dates to the time of the Russian czars. The backlit photo highlights the rich blue-green color saturation. Ex. George Elling Collection. 126 grams.
3.6 x 3.1 x 2.4 cm. Look how beautifully this Erongo Mountains aquamarine sits up on the carefully-trimmed matrix! What is more, it is doubly-terminated. And, unlike many aquas from this locality, it is really gemmy through the top half, with a perfect, glassy termination.
3.7 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm. A fantastic mini of aqua on matrix! The aquamarine is PRISTINE, super-gemmy, complete and undamaged all around and with a perfect termination. It has been trimmed out with just enough matrix to accent it and act as a natural base; it projects out at a very pleasing 45 degree angle. It is clear as glass, so much so that you can read through it with no distortion. There are some tiny needles of schorl included inside towards the bottom.
5.9 x 4.0 x 3.4 cm. This is a rare large floater crystal of morganite weighing 114 grams from San Diego County in California, out of the collection of Gene Meieran. It is a FLOATER, with ornately modified form. The color is an excellent pastel pink. It features a couple of clear "window" faces that give a window into the interior, as well as silky faces - some of these being made up of many smaller faces at all sorts of angles. This fine and rare California piece is also quite fine for what it is - and has unusually good pink color for the locality. These were mined in several periods and this is likely from the 1960s-70s era.
5.4 x 4.1 x 3.1 cm. These Connecticut beryls have gotten so hard to obtain, particularly in this size and quality! This is a superb old-timer! It is a fat, chunky, DOUBLY-TERMINATED, 130-gram crystal that is complete all the way around and undamaged. It is translucent-to-transparent (so many are opaque), and you can see will into the wonderful top termination. The faces are razor-sharp, and lustrous. Ex. Elling collection.
5.4 x 0.8 x 0.7 cm. An absolutely glass-clear and super-gemmy aquamarine floater crystal with a beautiful, natural pebbly surface from etching by corrosive solutions in the pocket. It is DOUBLY-TERMINATED (one termination has some small natural pockmarks in it). What is wonderful about this crystal is that it is somewhere between a euhedral (regular flat-faced) crystal and a more typically-etched crystal that has lost its faces. It still has its faces, but also has this beautiful surface. And it is truly SO gemmy you cannot believe it! Weighs 8 grams.
5.9 x 4.5 x 3.9 cm. Fabulous cluster of very fine Aquas, combined with Schorl, Microcline, and Albite. The largest Aqua is about 3.7 cm, and like the other Aquas, has good color, excellent luster, and is about 40-50% GEMMY.
6.6 x 4.2 x 3 cm. Aesthetic geometric set of Aqua sprays. The Aquas, which are up to 3 cm! in length, have superb luster and a pleasing light blue color. The terminations are mirror-like, and one even has a Schorl crystal included in the termination that makes it look like a clock face. An excellent and very cool specimen.
9.8 x 6.5 x 4.5 cm. Splendid nest of lovely Aqua crystals intermixed with Schorl. The Aquas, which range up to about 1.5 cm, have good luster and an attractive blue color that transitions from light to medium along the length of the crystals.
3.5 x 1.6 x 1.6 cm. This gemmy aquamarine crystal is technically doubly-terminated, even though both terminations show natural etching and have a "spiky" look to them. But what makes this crystal so special is not its quality anyway; it is the spessartine garnet floating dead-center inside of it, and very clearly visible! The spessartine grew on the surface of the aquamarine early in its growth, and then was engulfed as the aqua grew later.
7.4 x 5.2 x 4.9 cm. A super-gemmy, water-clear crystal of aquamarine (2 cm) stands straight up at the edge of a cluster of bladed muscovites. Another gem crystal lies on its side behind it.
12.4 x 10.3 x 6.8 cm. This is a large and beautiful combo piece featuring a water-transparent, very light blue aquamarine crystal (2.5 cm) jutting out of a matrix studded with quartz crystals, muscovite books and a large, sharp, textbook orthoclase crystal (right near the aqua). There is another fine orthoclase crystal near the larger one.
4.0 x 3.5 x 3.4 cm. A lustrous, 3.3 cm, dark green emerald crystal nicely set in quartz matrix from Brumado. MATRIX Brumado emeralds are RARE. One end is nicely terminated, while the other end is partially terminated and partially contacted. Here is your chance to get a matrix emerald from a renowned locality. These are VERY SELDOM on any market and this showy piece is from the Gene Meieran Collection, famous for his beryl collection.
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