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Mineral Specimens with Beryl
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4.8 x 3.4 x 3.1 cm. The "classic" Erongo combo, aquamarine and schorl, with the aquamarine represented here by two DOUBLY-TERMINATED crystals, one 3.5 cm and the other just under 4 cm, in association with glossy black crystals of schorl tourmaline. One of the aquas lies attractively right on top of the large schorl!
6.4 x 4.5 x 2.8 cm. Clear beryls such as this are actually more unusual than aquamarine beryls, PARTICULARLY when they are glass-clear such as these two sensational tabular crystals! One of the beryls here is around 3 cm, and the other is just under 2 cm. Both crystals are in pristine condition; one of them has a bit of included matrix material along one edge. But that is not all this specimen has going for it: there is also a beautiful cream-colored crystal of albite, along with smaller white ones, intergrown with muscovite blades.
0.9 x 0.8 x 0.3 cm. A gemmy and showy red beryl "rose" thumbnail from the Thomas Range of Utah. This tabular crystal has textbook hexagonal form. Ex. Dick Jones Collection.
5.9 x 1.4 x 1.3 cm. A fine Brazilian aquamarine gem crystal - complete and DOUBLY-TERMINATED. The crystal has a silky luster, and is super-transparent through the center - in fact virtually flawless. This fine crystal weighs 16 grams. Ex. Norm Dawson Collection (Norm once owned the White Queen Mine).
1.6 x 1.6 x 1.1 cm. A gem emerald crystal of very fine spectral green color - a compound crystal that has multiple shelf terminations (all complete). It is accented by small grayish crystals of calcite. The emerald crystal, which extends down behind the patch of calcite you see, measures 1.5 cm in length.
8.8 x 8.8 x 4.0 cm. This specimen consists of about ten glassy gem crystals of beryl, with fine hexagonal tabular form, on a field of muscovite crystals. The beryls measure to 3 cm across.
19.4 x 1.1 x 0.9 cm. This is a fine Pakistani aquamarine that is doubly-terminated. It is gemmy, with fine luster. Weighs 37 grams.
8.2 x 2.4 x 1.9 cm. A large, doubly-terminated gem crystal of Brazilian aquamarine with a beautiful silky luster, from the collection of Norm Dawson. Weighs 70 grams.
6.2 x 4.6 x 3.8 cm. A fine specimen featuring two euhedral Morganites on a Clevelandite and Mica matrix, with a small Tourmaline thrown in among the Cleavelandite for accent. The largest Morganite is 4.5 cm across, has sharp hexagonal faces (is contacted along the base, of course), and rich pink color. The core is a nice deep pink, surrounded by a lighter and partially gemmy zone, with the outer portion dark pink again, so it is slightly zoned but throughout is not subtle or "pastel" in color. There is even an included Tourmaline needle inside the main crystal.
7.2 x 6.7 x 3.2 cm. A fine Morganite crystal, weighing nearly 264 g. Fine color and luster. The Morganite is zoned, with a row of small included Tourmaline crystals growing along the top edge of the phantom. Ex. Gary Hansen Collection.
2.9 x 2.2 x 1.6 cm. A super red beryl measuring 0.6 cm -- sharp, complete, perfectly terminated, and with fine ruby-red color and translucency.
5.2 x 3.2 x 2.0 cm. A fine Erongo specimen of a 3.4 cm, gemmy and lustrous aquamarine crystal set on a floater, microcline crystal.
3.0 x 2.7 x 2.7 cm. An aesthetic cluster of aquamarine crystals from the Erongo Mountains in Namibia. All are terminated.
5.3 x 3.4 x 3.4 cm. From Norm Dawson, the White Queen mine owner's personal collection, a 56-gram specimen of fine morganite cutting rough. Probably collected in the 1960s-1970s.
7.8 x 7.8 x 5.5 cm. A gemmy aquamarine sticking up from the snowy, euhedral albites, with the pretty matrix sprinkled with bright red-orange spessartines - and two of them have formed right on the termination of the aquamarine crystal. The aqua measures 2.5 cm, and is gemmy, complete and terminated. Books of muscovite are also embedded in the matrix.
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