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Mineral Specimens with Beryl
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8.3 x 6.8 x 5.9 cm. A sharp hexagonal 4 x 3 x 2.75 cm crystal, plush pink color, set atop unusual crystallized matrix - I am making a guess that it is quartz-coated lepidolite, or perhaps quartz-infused or quartz-replaced muscovite or lepidolite. The matrix is odd. Sculptural, trimmed nicely, oddly interesting! This crystal is unusually transparent for the find.
8.8 x 6.0 x 4.3 cm. A sharp hexagonal 5.25 x 2.75 x 2.2 cm crystal, plush pink color, set atop snowy blades of crystallized cleavelandite matrix Beautiful specimen, perfectly sized and balanced small cabinet...with a 2-inch gem morganite smack in the middle! The crystal is complete on BOTH sides, freestanding, and undamaged.
11.9 x 8.4 x 7.8 cm. A sharp hexagonal 5.25 x 3 x 2 cm crystal, plush pink color, set atop crystallized cleavelandite matrix as if nestled into snow. I like the aesthetics on this one very much, as with the above, for the stark contrast of the sharp gemmy hexagon atop to the random-ordered white blades below! The piece is complete all around. The crystal is freestanding, clean and complete all around on the back as well. It is obviously gemmy, transparent, and has a good pink color to it. The shape is RAZORSHARP showing not even minor contact or etching.
10 x 6.6 x 2.4 cm. This is a superb, glassy, gem-clear tabular crystal of aquamarine, sitting in a field of aesthetic bladed muscovites, from Pingwu. The aqua measures 2.8 cm across. The faces really are like glass! It has a faint blue color that does not come out in the photo.
3.1 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm. A super-cutie from the garnet suite of Bill Larson - featuring a spessartine garnet that has wrapped itself around a gemmy, terminated 3-cm aquamarine crystal - with a bit of accenting albite at the base.
8.3 x 1.8 x 1.3 cm. The top half of this superb and sizeable gem crystal of aquamarine is PURE CUTTER QUALITY. The crystal is complete, undamaged and without contacts, and has a perfect, glassy termination on top. It was shot under natural conditions; under halogen case light, it lights up a wonderful blue color, as you can see in the shot of the termination. Weighs 45 grams.
2.1 x 1.4 x 1.4 cm. Red beryls have become astonishingly rare and expensive on the market, in any quality. Here is a crystal that is complete and doubly-terminated, and beautifully exposed on the stark white contrasting matrix. It measures 0.6 cm in length and 0.5 cm across the termination. Fine luster. It was marked as "repaired", and since the crystal itself shows no signs of damage or repair, this means it was simply put back in its place in the matrix after coming off, so you can see no evidence that it has been repaired.
6.2 x 6.1 x 3.8 cm. A very showy and aesthetic Chinese specimen with UNUSUALLY BLOCKY, gemmy and glassy, aquamarine crystals artfully set on muscovite matrix from Mt. Xuebaoding. This aqua crystal form is rarely seen in Chinese aquas. The aquas are very nearly pristine, with only a slight contact on the upper left hand corner. Barely visible and certainly not a detraction.
2.9 x 2.7 x 2.0 cm. A beautiful and classic cluster of gemmy and lustrous, intergrown, light emerald-green emerald crystals from the famous Muzo Mine of Colombia. The emeralds reach 1.7 cm and have striking parallel-growth faces. Highly representative of this historic emerald locality. The green color saturation is striking. 13 grams.
5.0 x 1.0 x 0.9 cm. A superb, pristine, complete gem crystal from find sin the mid-1980s. Note the steep termination, classic for beryls from the Jos Plateau! Most of these were cut in the day, treated to enhance the color and butchered for gems. Weight is about 45 carats. Ex. Charlie Key.
14.3 x 12.4 x 6.8 cm. A total combo plate for your all-included Erongo pocket! This specimen of crystallized feldspar matrix hosts several aquas to 1 inch clustering about a 2-inch crystal of aquamarine on one side; and balancing it is an approx. 2-inch SHARP, doubly-terminated schorl in counterpoint. Ex. Charlie Key.
6.5 x 3.8 x 3.1 cm. A 1.2 cm, well-terminated, gemmy and lustrous, gooseberry-red beryl crystal attractively set in contrasting snow-white rhyolite matrix from the famous Violet Claims, Wah Wah Mts., Utah. The crystal has excellent color and gemminess. Highly representative of this rare beryl varietal.
5 x 3 x 2.5 cm. This large crystal weighs in at over 300 carats and is complete all around, terminated and with GLASSY lustre on ALL faces. The color is intense! VERY FEW Colombian emeralds reach sizes of this magnitude, and of those a vanishingly small percentage survive "geology" itself in the form of crystals we would want as collectors after millions of years in the ground. Then, they have to survive mining, extraction, and those ruthless jewelers and faceters who break up lovely crystals for a sliver of rough inside. This is a phenomenal crystal.
14.5 x 13.0 x 8.0 cm. This is a brilliantly lustrous, sparkling blue specimen that is large and unrepaired. The major crystal is 4 inches tall, and 2 inches across the termination! ALL crystals here are GLASSY, with the best lustre I have seen, almost glassy and polished in appearance. Even the terminations share the incredible lustre and clarity. Within the larger crystal is a large moving water bubble, easily seen; and a few smaller ones as well. The whole piece is a pocket floater! It broke away from the pocket wall and the backside was microcrystallized, so it is complete even on the bottom in a technical sense. Small schorl crystals are scattered on the aquas.
7.1 x 4.6 x 4.2 cm. This is a very dramatic piece with a central emerald flanked by "wings" of crystallized calcite. The 2.8-cm-tall emerald is of top color and glassy lustre, and is very large for such a specimen. It is entirely transparent throughout, though with internal veils as usual in a specimen. You can see right through it to the underlying matrix!
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