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Mineral Specimens with Beryl
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4.2 x 2.8 x 1.9 cm. A bright and gemmy crystal of scheelite, measuring 1.5 cm, sits right next to a cluster of tabular beryls! One ding on the top of a beryl. But a beautiful combo overall - rare in such close proximity to one another, even from this productive locale.
16.5 x 10.4 x 7.9 cm. There are TWO BIG, FAT, GEMMY morganites tightly intergrown side-by-side on the bladed white albite matrix here. Together, they stretch 10.5 cm! The larger of the two, though it is hard to distinguish where one starts and the other begins, is 6 cm. Both are thick and chunky, the larger over 3 cm thick! Most importantly, there is significant gemminess to both of these large crystals. They feature frosted faces intermixed with glassy "windows" into the gemmy interior.
3.6 x 1.4 x 1.1 cm. This aquamarine crystal has admittedly got a fair amount of wear on it, particularly around the termination. But, it is quite gemmy and glassy, and terminated on top, with a naturally-healed break on the bottom. It weighs 8 grams.
9.5 x 8.4 x 3.9 cm. You are likely familiar with the aquamarine and schorl specimens that have come from the Erongo Mountains in Namibia over the past few years. Here is a NEW FIND in the area - crystals of bi-colored beryl to 1.5 cm shooting out all over from a mass of acicular schorl (which is velvety on the back of the specimen). You can clearly see the green tips terminations that cap the otherwise colorless beryl crystals.
3.4 x 2.8 x 2.2 cm. Not from Columbia, but from BRAZIL - a cluster of maybe a DOZEN tightly intergrown crystals of bright green emerald! They are completely joined at one end, so you could probably call this a compound crystal. The crystals are not gemmy enough to cut, but they definitely qualify as "translucent to transparent" rather than opaque or just "translucent." And, they have the best bright emerald green color.
15.4 x 13.5 x 8.2 cm. Here are two large CHINESE emeralds - on matrix, yet beautifully exposed, so you get the best of both worlds! They are both FIVE CENTIMETERS in length, and have pretty bright green color. You really do not get gem emeralds from here, but these ARE slightly translucent. And their surfaces actually have a nice luster, not apparent in the photo.
3.9 x 2.9 x 2.2 cm. A sculptural and aesthetic Erongo aqua specimen. A doubly terminated, pristine, gemmy and lustrous, 3.2 cm aqua crystal is beautifully attached to etched albite. The termination of this fine aqua is wonderfully gemmy and has excellent color.
6.0 x 4.5 x 3.0 cm. A GEM, water-clear, tabular aquamarine crystal aesthetically set in pearlescent muscovite and snow-white albite from recent finds at Mt. Xuebaoding, China. The aqua is 3.0 cm high and is pristine. The complexity of the facet-like crystal faces strongly resembles a cut stone! Fascinating!
2.8 x 1.0 x 0.8 cm. A very gemmy, lustrous and nicely etched doubly-terminated yellow-green heliodor from the Walking Stick Mine, Zimbabwe. The base of the crystal was broken, but healed. These beryls were mined in the late 1970s and some were horded by the miner, Bob Contat, a geologist over there. Very, very uncommon. 18 carats or 3.5 grams. From the estate of geologist Bob Contat who found and worked this claim in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
3.5 x 3.5 x 2.8 cm. A cute and aesthetic Erongo toenail of a gemmy and lustrous aquamarine crystal, with a typically very gemmy termination, very nicely accented by a jackstraw cluster of lustrous, jet-black schorl crystals and resting on a bit of contrasting feldspar. This is essentially a damage-free, showy specimen.
6.4 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm. Two opposing, very gemmy and lustrous, intensely blue aquamarine crystals aesthetically set in feldspar matrix from recent finds at the Erongo Mountains of Namibia. The large aqua is 4.1 cm long and the "thumb" aqua is 2.5 cm long.
8.5 x 5.8 x 5.2 cm. The famous Corrego do Urucum pegmatite of Brazil has historically produced some of the world’s finest morganite combination specimens and this is certainly a SUPERB example. A GEM, 5.1 cm, beautiful pink morganite crystal is aesthetically attached to the end of a starkly contrasting albite matrix. Lustrous, green tourmaline pencils richly cover the albite and many are very interestingly embedded in the very nearly pristine morganite. This fat morganite crystal has sharp crystal faces, excellent clarity and color saturation. An outstanding Brazilian morganite specimen. This beauty probably dates to the 70s or 80s.
3.9 x 2.2 x 2.0 cm. A RARE and SPLENDID combination specimen from the famous pegmatites at Pech, Afghanistan. A pristine, 1.8 cm, sharply hexagonal, colorless, gem goshenite beryl crystal, two water-clear quartz crystals and a bit of albite are very aesthetically attached to the side of a lustrous, polychrome tourmaline crystal. There are even a couple of small tourmalines embedded in the goshenite! Most of the tourmaline is jet-black schorl. The gemmy area at the termination has a thin, green zone, followed by glassy, colorless zone and is attractively capped by a beautiful blue termination. SELDOM do you see a goshenite beryl so attractively combined with a polychrome tourmaline from Pech! Ex. Wayne and Stevia and Laura Thompson collection.
7.2 x 4.8 x 3.6 cm. A CLASSIC and AESTHETIC Austrian specimen of a 2.2 cm, gemmy and lustrous, rich green, emerald crystal jauntily set in lustrous, biotite schist from the famous Habachtal area. The emerald is pristine and very sharp. Excellent material from the Rolf Wein Collection, a noted Alpine collector, which he obtained in 1966.
4 x 1 x .8 cm. A superb Aqua from the famous locality of Jos, Nigeria. This terminated 6g crystal is very gemmy, has superb luster, and has that deeper blue color that is so rare and so very desirable. Ex. Charlie Key.
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