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Mineral Specimens with Beryl
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7.6 x 3.9 x 3.4 cm. A large emerald nicely set in muscovite schist matrix from the emerald mines at Malyshevo, Urals. The euhedral, lustrous, pastel-green crystal is crudely terminated. The backlit photo highlights the color and translucency. Classic Russian material and highly representative of this important locality. This is a huge example for the location.
6.2 x 5.8 x 5.5 cm. Morganite from the Mesa Grande District of California, which includes the famous Himalaya Mine, is rarely available. A 2.5 cm rosette of lustrous, gemmy to translucent, pastel-pink, compound morganite crystals is very aesthetically set front and center in a fine cluster of intergrown, euhedral, translucent smoky quartz crystals. This excellent, older piece has an excellent provenance, having been in the collection of prominent California collector and dealer Thomas W. Warner. Warner, born in 1915, was a very active collector and dealer from the 1930s until his death in 1955. He is said to have assembled the finest California pegmatite collection of the time. The label for this specimen is featured in Thomas Warner's Mineralogical Record Biographical Archive.
11.0 x 9.8 x 7.0 cm. A water-clear, gemmy and lustrous, light blue aquamarine crystal with pleasing internal crazing is beautifully set on the cabinet matrix of pearlescent, silvery-brown muscovite plates with a few accessory quartz points on this fine specimen from the Shigar Valley of Pakistan. Classic, older material from the late 1980s to mid-1990s. Ex. Saller Collection of Germany.
5.2 x 2.4 x 2.1 cm. Two pair of beautiful, rose-red beryl crystals are aesthetically set on the foot-shaped rhyolite matrix on this fine piece from the Wah Wah Mountains of Utah. The crystals are gemmy and lustrous and reach 9 mm. The upper right-hand crystal, at 7 mm, is doubly terminated and is particularly gemmy. This is a very fine large miniature representation of the rare species with glowing color, from this noted locale. Ex. Saller Collection of Germany.
16.8 x 11.0 x 10.4 cm. Some of the finest quality Aquamarine specimens come from the various pegmatites in the Pakistani Himalayas, especially in the Shigar Valley. Matrix specimens of Aquamarine are still fairly uncommon in the world, and to find an association piece such as this is amazing. The piece hosts a solitary, euhedral, gentle blue color, prismatic crystal of Aquamarine measuring 3.8 cm long which is protruding from a hefty matrix comprising sharp, well-formed, distinct, lightly frosted crystals of Smoky Quartz (some are doubly-terminated) which are associated with contrasting snow-white crystals of Albite and minor Muscovite. Rarely does one see Aquamarine on doubly-terminated Quartz crystal matrix from this area, but to have the addition of the white Albite is a nice bonus. The great color contrast, associations and overall size of the piece make it a superb specimen of this classic material.
21.1 x 13.5 x 7.2 cm. This large specimen is classic Nagar material, and elegantly exhibits a robust, very gemmy, 2 x 2 x 2 inch crystal on a plate of beautiful pseudo-hexagonal muscovite blades. All of the small crystals are equally bright, gemmy, and terminated. The whole piece is pristine. The specimen measures over 8 inches across.
16.2 x 3.6 x 3.4 cm. A fine, giant aquamarine crystal from the less well-known Padre Paraiso area of Minas Gerais. The glassy, highly lustrous crystal has beautiful sea-green color, textbook hexagonal form and sharp, modified, pinacoidal termination. The crystal has excellent translucence and there is even a hollow tube that starts on the side. This huge crystal is essentially pristine. Ex. Wes Parker Collection. Weighs 327 grams.
3.5 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm. Goshenite (colorless beryl) is actually amongst the rarest of the beryls. From the Erongo Mountains, you certainly see a ton of aquamarines for every goshenite that turns up. This complete-all-around, pristine and translucent crystal has smooth, glassy faces with crackly interiors. The scattered embedded schorl pencils are a very nice accent. You can see the aquamarine blue core on the cleaved base. Interesting.
3.0 x 3.1 x 2.6 cm. Red Beryl is certainly among the most recognizable, desirable and rarest of minerals from the Western United States. This Beryl variety is one of the great combinations of rarity and beauty in the mineral world. The classic "gooseberry" color crystals have attracted collectors for years, and are now in short supply and high demand. This piece features a beautiful, translucent, sharp, lustrous, hexagonal prismatic crystal measuring 8 mm aesthetically flaring off Rhyolite matrix. The quality is very good and the fact that the crystals are on matrix is notable. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
8.5 x 4.8 x 4.6 cm. A superb 7 x 2.2 x 2 cm aquamarine here looks like it is about to leap off a well-trimmed matrix of schorl and albite. The piece is, for the size range, one of the most dramatic I saw of this new lot for those who like simple, stark dominant-crystal aesthetics. The aquamarine is freestanding on half its length, and is complete-all-around. It is nearly pristine with just the tiniest bits of edge wear (I am told this is from the difficulty of collecting these while having to hang upside down). It has the most intense deep blue color I’ve seen before in an Erongo specimen, with a translucent and deeply colored body and a gemmy termination atop. The intense color, and large size, combined with lustre and a contrasting schorl association, all conspire to make this a special pocket considered by those who saw them recently at the 2009 Denver show to be among the best aquamarine finds here in about a decade of quite sporadic aquamarine mining.
7 x 3.9 x 3.4 cm. This specimen features a single, very thick, 7 x 2.2 x 2 cm crystal with minor associated aquamarine and schorl at its base. It has some very minor edge wear, just a few nicks on the sides of the termination, and is otherwise pristine and complete all around. Very dramatic and 3-dimensional.
9.8 x 8.5 x 7.0 cm. The larger crystal measures 6.5 x 3 x 2 cm in size, and the smaller is about 4.5 x 3 x 2 cm. These robust, 3-dimensional crystals stick out dramatically from a matrix of albite, and with schorl in the background for contrast. The matrix is actually a portion of an albite crystal, not just massive rock. It has the most intense deep blue color I have seen before in an Erongo specimen, with a translucent and deeply colored body and a gemmy termination atop. The intense color, and large size, combined with lustre and a contrasting schorl association, all conspire to make this a special pocket considered by those who saw them recently at the 2009 Denver show to be among the best aquamarine finds here in about a decade of quite sporadic aquamarine mining.
8.7 x 8.6 x 5.7 cm. This specimen features a large, robust aquamarine impaling the matrix of schorl and hyalite opal. The aquamarine actually does run all the way through, and sticks out the other side. It is 7 cm long, though only 4-4.5 cm sticks up from the matrix after it passes through. The aquamarine is pristine and undamaged though some of the schorls surrounding it are broken and have edge wear. It has the most intense deep blue color I have seen before in an Erongo specimen, with a translucent and deeply colored body and a gemmy termination atop. The intense color, and large size, combined with lustre and a contrasting schorl association, all conspire to make this a special pocket considered by those who saw them recently at the 2009 Denver show to be among the best aquamarine finds here in about a decade of quite sporadic aquamarine mining.
10 x 8 x 6 cm. A huge 10 x 3 x 2.2 cm crystal, doubly-terminated, sits astride a cluster of robust schorl crystals (on albite core matrix). This crystal is huge for the locality, and has the intense deep blue color of this new pocket. It is actually complete-all-around, and has both terminations. It has the most intense deep blue color I have seen before in an Erongo specimen, with a translucent and deeply colored body and a gemmy termination atop. The intense color, and large size, combined with lustre and a contrasting schorl association, all conspire to make this a special pocket considered by those who saw them recently at the 2009 Denver show to be among the best aquamarine finds here in about a decade of quite sporadic aquamarine mining.
7.8 x 7.4 x 4.5 cm. One of the most aesthetic pieces to my eye, in the lot I saw, this 6.5-cm-tall crystal stands front and center, backed up by crystallized feldspar matrix and schorl accents. The crystal is freestanding for over half its height, is complete-all-around, and has almost no edge wear at all. It is as close to pristine as you can get from here. It has the most intense deep blue color I have seen before in an Erongo specimen, with a translucent and deeply colored body and a gemmy termination atop. The intense color and large size are unusually fine for this locale.
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