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Mineral Specimens with Beryl
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You might or might not have seen examples of the pretty and strange tapered aquamarine crystals that came out of a pocket in Dassu around a year ago. This is the ONLY matrix specimen I know of from the pocket. And, more than that, the aesthetics are just incredible – it could not be more wonderfully presented on the muscovite/cleavelandite matrix. It shows the frosty, tapaered tip with a small flat termination characteristic of this amazing find. Rare AND beautiful, and still affordable even though I paid dearly for it. If you thought these crystals were cool, but aren’t into standalone specimens, here is your matrix piece! 6 x 2.7 x 1.5 cm
A fine miniature from the 1976-1977 find here, brought out by dealer Tony Jones. I got it from a collection about 6 years ago and Tony validated it was one of his (and it still had his label, too). These are VERY rare on the market!!! And this is a failry large specimen 5.6 x 1.1 x 0.8 cm
Most Chinese aquas are tabular, short prismatic crystals. This exquisite aqua on muscovite is more prismatic, doubly terminated, transparent, lustrous, with a good blue color. I particularly like the way this 2.7 cm tall aqua sits up on the micaeous matrix. An unusual specimen from a source of plenty of aquas of different habit! 5.7 x 5.2 x 3.2 cm
Two parallel growth, lustrous, transparent, sea foam green, aquamarine crystals, exhibit great prismatic form with modifying bi-pyramidal faces, terminating in a base. The gem weight is 55 grams. A fine oldtime Brazilian aquamarine! This is a beautiful piece with a style and color about it clearly distinguishable form Pakistani material. 6.5 x 2.4 x 1.8 cm
A classic old Russian aqua, illustrated in Phil's 1970s book entitled Classic Mineral Localities of the World. It is a sharp crystal and notable for both that symmetry of form and also the intense color! 3.8 x 2.3 x 1.5 cm
VERY GEMMY, better in person and a baby clue color 1.9 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm
3.0 x 1.1 x 1.0 cm
2.7 x 1.0 x 0.7 cm
3.3 x 1.3 x 1.0 cm
2.1 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm
A beautiful spray of gently curved, 2.7-cm-tall emerald curvving up the face of these large, sharp calcites! The piece is very unusual, in its aesthetics, and makes for a very balanced miniature wiht incredibly bright color to it. the sharp form of the calcite contrasts starkly with the classic hexagonal beryl crystals in the middle . The emeralds are a rich and vibrant green, of high gemminess and brightness, and BETTER IN PERSON! 3.9 x 3.6 x 3.2 cm
This is a huge aqua for the price, with intense blue color an unusually dark hue for Shigar aquamarine. It weighs i nat a hefty 1245 grams or almost 3 pounds in weight. The piece displays beautifully, and is very gemmy in teh top portion. The opacity of the lower half contributes to the deepness of color, and is actually a good thing in this case. The whole huge crystal has just one teeny little, inconsequential ding on one side edge, that you cannot see but can only feel by touch. It is basically pristine, and is definitely unrepaired - remarkable for a crystal of such size. 17.2 x 8.8 x 7.0 cm
A stunning GEM crystal of Aqua from a recent find - not just gemmy, but GEM read-through, glassy, transparent, etc etc. The crystal is complete nad totally pristine except for a small conchoidal break at the back edge of the very bottom 1/2 inch , not visible anyways. It has 2 interesting attributes at its termination: !) minor etching o nthe sides adds minute vertical lines at the edges which reflect light nicely; and 2) it has very unusual, interesting, microcrystalline aquamarines accenting the termination - its an effect I have not seen before, and it adds a lot of sparkle to an otherwise typical basal termination. These are two of the gemmiest, glassiest, large unrepaired aqua singles of this quality that I have ever had the privilege to offer my customers for under 10k. I couldn't believ ehte quality for the price, when they got unpacked - I bought them as a friend travelled through the DFW airport en route to the Denver show, directly from Peshawar. 13.5 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm
This is also a stunning GEM crystal of Aqua from a recent find - not just gemmy, but GEM read-through, glassy, transparent, etc etc. The crystal is complete nad totally pristine. It weighs a bit less than the above, but is the same height and has the same visual impact. These are two of the gemmiest, glassiest, large unrepaired aqua singles of this quality that I have ever had the privilege to offer my customers for under 10k. I couldn't believ ehte quality for the price, when they got unpacked - I bought them as a friend travelled through the DFW airport en route to the Denver show, directly from Peshawar. 13.5 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm
WOW. This incredible dramatic specimen, about 13 inches across, is just amazing to me in that it survived the aeons. I think the aesthetics speak for itself. The small inclusions you see are casued by microlite, taken into the crystals during growth. The piece has one repair about the midpoint, and I actually purchased it in two portions - and we only then found they went together in somewhat of a minor miracle! The two portions had come apart in geologic time, and were separated in the pocket when it was found, not realized to connect. There is a small discontinuity to the smoothness at the join because, over time, aquamarine recrystallized minutely over the break and so each half has a few millimeters of extra growth added after the break. When they were rejoined, we left this slight dip at the join as illustrative of the natural processes which form such impressive large pegmatite specimens, rather than grind down the secondary growth to make a perfectly smooth fit. Elsewhere, the pieces fit together semalessly, and you would not even know it was repaired if I did not tell you. It is a LARGE and very striking piece, geometrically, and I think one of the more impressive beryls to come out of here, for sheer visual appeal. 32.5 x 22.9 x 12.8 cm
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