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7.6 x 6.7 x 5.0 cm. A 5.5-cm-long aquamarine crystal sticks straight up from a nest of contrasting schorl here. The associated shorter but thicker aquamarine at the base of the piece is about 3.4 cm tall (and much thicker). All schorl is pristine, and the contrast is really what will make this pocket famous down the road.
9.8 x 7.7 x 5.3 cm. This specimen features two deep blue crystals, 5.5 and 3.5 cm, perched on schorl matrix. The crossbar appearance of the doubly-terminated larger crystal (1.5 cm width), set against the black schorl, is striking and unusual. This is a very 3-dimensional specimen. The aquamarines have the glassy lustre this pocket will be known for and are very gemmy at their tips.
10.1 x 7.3 x 4.5 cm. This specimen is a starburst of intergrown schorl and aquamarine, shooting out from all angles. It is a very 3-dimensional specimen overall, with crystals on 3 sides and contacted in back where it was removed from matrix. Most of the aquamarines are 2 cm or so in length (though one is 3 cm). A robust, very gemmy aquamarine is nested in the center of it all. All aquamarines on the display face are fully terminated and exceptionally glassy.
7.6 x 7.6 x 5.5 cm. A straight-up 5.6 x 1.6 x 1.2 cm aquamarine, with intense blue color, is the dominant part of this specimen. It rises from a base of contrasting white albite nesting around the bottom termination, and contrasts then with the schorl and smaller aquamarines on the knoll of matrix which sits behind. The top of the termination is gemmy, and the whole crystal quite glassy by the standards of this locality. Some of the smaller flanking aquamarines (under 1 cm) are broken off at their tips, but this main crystal is pristine and also freestanding.
12.4 x 6.8 x 5.8 cm. Aquamarines and schorl combine here to make a very fine, contrasting, 3-dimensional specimen featuring 3 core aquamarines on which a nest of smaller aquamarines hang off. The larger two aquamarines in front are 5.5 and 6 cm long. The 5.5 cm crystal is doubly-terminated with both tips gemmy. The other crystal is partly doubly-terminated, with some of the bottom tip showing and the rest buried in white albite. The large crystal behind them is about 4 cm tall and 2.3 cm wide, notable for its gemminess, and glassy lustre. It is, in turn, crossed by a 4-cm-long doubly-terminated crystal hanging off its backside. All major crystals are pristine. All crystals have the robust blue which is characteristic of this pocket and much more lustrous, and less gray-blue, than most previous finds.
13.1 x 11.1 x 9.8 cm. This specimen has superb color and an amazing 3-dimensional arrangement of the aquamarines upon the contrasting schorls. The large aquamarine is doubly-terminated and 9.5 x 2.9 x 2.7 cm in size. It graces the back or the front of this specimen depending on how you view it. From one side, you have a shocking cluster of robust, very gemmy aquamarines hanging off the schorl backdrop, featuring this largest doubly-terminated crystal in the middle. From the other display angle of view, you have what looks like a totally different, more elegant specimen, featuring several robust aquamarine tips poking up over hills of schorl (and with the forest of accenting aquamarines below, like trees on a slope). Overall, this has some of 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. With its unique aesthetics and schorl contrast, this is a major display quality, cabinet aquamarine that is different then anything that ever came out of Brazil or Pakistan.
16.7 x 16.5 x 8.8 cm. This is the largest really fine specimen in what was said to be about 90% of the pocket contents, which came to Denver show of 2009. This pocket will be remembered for the intense blue color, quite unlike anything from Pakistan or Brazil; and a combination with schorl matrix. These crystals are stunning in their richness and abundance on this well-trimmed piece of matrix. The largest doubly-terminated crystal is 9 x 2.7 x 2 cm in size, with several smaller ones present as well. All major crystals are terminated and pristine. Overall, this has some of 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 x 4 x 2.8 cm. This is a superb specimen. It has deeper color and a cleaner aesthetic style, than others from the find that I have seen. The crystal is freestanding, complete-all-around. The color as you see here is very intense. Also, it is nearly pristine. Most of the more exposed crystals from this pocket, and locale, have significantly more chatter to them. The lustre is excellent especially for this locality, from which most aquamarines are relatively more dull. Joe Budd photo.
3.8 x 3.0 x 2.6 cm. A robust, very bright 2.5 x 1.7 x 1.2 cm aquamarine is here hanging off a sharp schorl, for a really nice contrast of color and geometry. The aquamarine is phantomed, with a clear internal core and a flat hexagonal termination down hidden beneath the glassy and pristine surface termination. This blurs together in the photo but is more evident in person. Ex. Laura and Stevia Thompson Collection.
4.4 x 1.2 x 1.0 cm. A flawless, totally gem quality crystal of intense blue aquamarine from a region that produces such quality only in small pockets, and very rarely. This aquamarine is distinct in its combination of clarity, color, and termination style. Ex. Laura and Stevia Thompson Collection.
5.1 x 1.1 x 1.0 cm. A really unique aquamarine, out of how many thousands we have seen from here. The termination bubbles out into some amazing complex thing with a complex form that seems to me to have too many faces and yet there it is...much better, more lustrous, and gemmy, in person. Ex. Laura and Stevia Thompson Collection.
3.8 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm. A strange aquamarine, bizarre in what its termination has chosen to do. Ex. Laura and Stevia Thompson Collection.
3.8 x 1.1 x 0.7 cm. The little orange spessartine at base gives this away as Shengus, or from the quality of the aquamarine I would think it was Shigar. Interestingly, the pristine aquamarine crystal has a nice accent: a 3mm twinned microlite hanging off the side. Ex. Laura and Stevia Thompson Collection.
4.4 x 1.3 x 1.3 cm. A totally flawless m crystal of aquamarine, with a superb and unusually sharp termination. Ex. Laura and Stevia Thompson Collection.
2.4 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm. Being an unusual combination in any case, and an elegant matrix thumbnail at the same time, makes this a very distinct aquamarine specimen for any thumbnail collection. The cassiterite is 1.5 cm across, and the aquamarine and cassiterite are both complete around the other side. Ex. Laura and Stevia Thompson Collection.
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