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Mineral Specimens with Beryl
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A stellar cluster of upright aquamarines, complete all around 360-degrees, that is perched smack on top of crystals of smoky quartz. Its amazing, really, that it grew this way and survived! The aquas are majestic, how they reach up to a multilevelled termination. It look slike a cityscape on a mountain! 6.1 x 5.2 x 4.7 cm
A GEM aquamarine about 2.5 cm long, perched in the side of a very sharp and lustrous schrol crystal - great contrast and stark symmetry make this piece have a lot of impact. 3 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm
This specimen is "elegant" in every sense. It features a slender but super quality aqua, 3.5 cm long, perched gently on a sharply angled microcline crystal decorated with schorl and fluorite. Just a really fine piece that stands out from the crowd of Erongo pieces! 4.1 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm
Great combination piece with several aquas perched amidst a cluster of smoky quartz! The larger aqua is 2.5 cm and has a sceptred termination pointing front. The smaller aqua is about 2 cm and features a stunning, gemmy, sharply bevelled prismatic termination. The piece as a whole is very bright and 3-dimensional. 6.25 x 4.9 x 3.0 cm
A stunning specimen with unusual contrast in that this top quality, gemy, glassy aqua cluster is perched smack dab in the middle of jet black schorl, rather than just associated with it as is normally the case. Out of thousands of Erongo pieces i have seen, i cannot recall another with quite such aspect. The contrast enhances the blue hue and also makes the aqua look like a jewel set in the rock, enhancing the damatic effect of the piece as a whole. 7.5 x 6.8 x 3.7 cm
This elegant cluster has a lot of pizzazz, with sharp, lustrous, very gemmy (for Erongo material) aquas shooting every which way! 6.7 x 3.8 x 3.4 cm
A very "juicy" cluster with about the richest blue color you can ask for in an Erongo aqua, moreintense blue even than pakistani aquamarine material. It has an inner brightness to it that intensifies the color, and extremely good lustre. VERY 3-dimensional in person....the pic does not quite convey how dramtic it is. 6.1 x 5.1 x 4.5 cm
Several slender, exceptionally gemmy aquamarine crystals perched jauntily on a crystal of etched feldspar, and with a sharp schorl at its base. VERY elegant miniature of competition quality. 4.4 x 4.3 x 2.6 cm
A most unusual plate, like none others I have seen from here, with incredibly lustrous crystals that are unusually squat. They are all solidly interjoined and connected into a thin plate that is complete all around. 11.3 x 7.0 x 2.6 cm
A stunning combination piece with a 2 inch aqua perched diagonally and in contrast to one of the most lustrous schorls you will ever see! I think the pics say it all! 11 x 8 x 7.5 cm
The pic pretty much says it all...this is one of the most extremely sculptural combos I have seen, and althoug a slender spray, is dramatic beyond its size. Repaired (the fluorite attachment) 4.8 x 3.4 x 2.4 cm
13.4 x 12.9 x 9.4 cm. This is a HUGE specimen with a fabulous cluster of large, complete, terminated aquamarine crystals. The crystals are GEMMY, a light blue in color. They measure up to 2.5 cm in length and up to just over 2 cm across the termination. This cluster of over a dozen fine crystals is arranged in a row, with two gorgeous rosettes of large bladed muscovite crystals accenting them like flowers just above. The aquas are ALL TERMINATED and complete, and have fine luster.
8.2 x 6.9 x 2.9 cm. These emerald crystals will not be winning any awards or cutting fine stones, but - they are from AUSTRIA, so the specimen is significant as a locality piece! They actually are rather gemmy, in fact, even if slightly encrusted with the matrix schist. The longest one is 2 cm, and there are two smaller ones on the edge of the specimen. An old specimen, and hard to obtain!
4.6 x 0.4 x 0.3 cm. Check out the bizarre TAPERED form of this rare heliodor crystal from a find at the Mimoso do Sul mine in Brazil. It has good gemminess and a fine greenish-yellow color, as well as good luster. Ex.. Benjamin Schumer Collection.
1.6 x 1.6 x 0.8 cm. A bright grass-green Columbian emerald, with both terminations intact! (two small crystals are growing out of one of the terminations). It is translucent-to-transparent, and while not quite cutter quality, it has a lot of gemminess to it. In fact, parts of it COULD cut nice smaller stones. But this should be preserved as a fine crystal without cutting. Weighs 5 grams.
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