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ex. Charlie Key
Charlie seems to have stashed away the best of these that I have ever seen, and this is one of several, each elegant and unique in their own way, that to me are completely novel in what you can expect for a chrysocolla stalactite growth but beyond that are jsut spectacularly sculptural specimens for ANY species!
ex. Charlie Key
Charlie seems to have stashed away the best of these that I have ever seen, and this is one of several, each elegant and unique in their own way, that to me are completely novel in what you can expect for a chrysocolla stalactite growth but beyond that are jsut spectacularly sculptural specimens for ANY species!
ex. Charlie Key
A classic from this defunct locale! This is a DOUBLE PSEUDOMORPH showing a change of chemistry twice over to end up with a complete chrysocolla replacement of the original azurite crystal habit, with malachite as a transitional stage. Large and beautiful specimens of this calibre are very rare and hard to obtain. This piece i find particularly elegant because of the curvature of the azurites, and the sharp preservation of this form after two rounds of chemical replacement. Often, the pseudos get rounded with time and change. This one, however, is super sharp! For size, overall aesthetics, color hue, and curvaceous form - one of the best I know of!
ex. Charlie Key
NEVER seen anything from this place except libethenite, nor a brochantite quite like this from anywhere but a small find in Morocco...But, the thing is, this is also one of the world's great examples of crystallized euhedral brochantite - regardless of locale. This is an very large plate, with high quality and brilliant lustre. It is much more impressive in person, with the short, stout crystals to 5 mm leaping out and sparkling nicely. Its very hard to photograph how dramatic the contrast is for the deep forest green on the intense blue background, and I can assure you the impact in person is worth every bit of the money (again, aside from the beauty, I think its a significant piece for the species anyhow). IMPOSSIBLE TO PHOTOGRAPH - TURST ME, THIS THING IS DAZZLING in person.
6.5 x 6.3 x 2.5 cm. A beautiful specimen from a new and thus far very small find in China! Balls of blue-green chrysocolla, isolated on a field of gemmy quartz crystals - quite striking and very different-looking from other worldwide chrysocolla specimens, which tend not to have this isolation of crystals and are more often "wall-to-wall" chrysocolla.
6.4 x 6.3 x 3.8 cm. These specimens combining two copper minerals, chrysocolla and malachite, in a nice balance are snapped up quickly when they appear. That is because of the beautiful color contrast. Sometime there is just a bit of chrysocolla, but this one has a perfect balance of the two minerals, in a really unusual and "artistic" design.
6.9 x 6.5 x 3.2 cm. No, this is NOT man-made - it truly is a completely natural, absolutely bizarre occurrence of botryoidal chrysocolla from the Congo. As you can see from the photos, it looks wet and melted, almost like plastic! It is not polished - this is the natural luster. And you have to love the intense deep turquoise color. WOW - cool stuff, unlike anything else out there!
10.0 x 6.8 x 3.4 cm. Congo has produced such a dizzying array of copper minerals and copper-mineral combos recently - we try to present for auction a good variety of these beautiful specimens. This one features dark green balls of malachite on a field of robins-egg blue chrysocolla.
2.5 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm. A GLORIOUS thumbnail of transparent chalcedony coating turquoise-blue chrysocolla stalactites from the famous Ray Mine of Arizona. This is about as good as it gets, with the twin spires dominating this beautiful piece. Ex. Sam Nasser collection.
A classic from this defunct locale! This is a DOUBLE PSEUDOMORPH showing a change of chemistry twice over to end up with a complete chrysocolla replacement of the original azurite crystal habit, with malachite as a transitional stage. Large and beautiful specimens of this calibre are very rare and hard to obtain. This piece i find particularly elegant because of the curvature of the azurites, and the sharp preservation of this form after two rounds of chemical replacement. Often, the pseudos get rounded with time and change. This one, however, is super sharp! For size, overall aesthetics, color hue, and curvaceous form - one of the best I know of! 6.2 x 4.7 x 2.9 cm
NEVER seen anything from this place except libethenite, nor a brochantite quite like this from anywhere but a small find in Morocco...But, the thing is, this is also one of the world's great examples of crystallized euhedral brochantite - regardless of locale. This is an very large plate, with high quality and brilliant lustre. It is much more impressive in person, with the short, stout crystals to 5 mm leaping out and sparkling nicely. Its very hard to photograph how dramatic the contrast is for the deep forest green on the intense blue background, and I can assure you the impact in person is worth every bit of the money (again, aside from the beauty, I think its a significant piece for the species anyhow). IMPOSSIBLE TO PHOTOGRAPH - TURST ME, THIS THING IS DAZZLING in person. 13.4 x 7.8 x 4.2 cm
8.6 x 8.2 x 5.8 cm. An amazingly sculptural copper-mineral combo specimen from Congo. What you have is botryoidal chrysocolla, in beautifully-developed and distinct "balls", with a covering of green malachite microcrystals. The turquoise color of the chrysocolla peeks out here and there for a pretty color contrast. Large and eye-catching!
14 x 12.6 x 2.4 cm. Outstanding large plate of partially gemmy! blue-green botryoidal Chrysocolla coating a plate of botryoidal Heterogenite. The luster on both minerals is superb, and the pics cannot possibly do the exceptional aesthetics of this piece justice.
11.1 x 7.3 x 4.3 cm. A very attractive and unusually 3-dimensional plate of this great combo, with lustrous round aggregates of the heterogenite perched atop starkly contrasting, waxy-lustrous, chrysocolla. Modern classics, but hard to get in such quality today! This is a very attractive piece of large size.
4.2 x 2.7 x 2.5 cm. This is classic Ray material from the 90s and the specimen is very showy. It features three pristine 1 inch stalactites grown together, on a tree-trunk larger stalactite. A thin layer of quartz coats the whole piece, giving it a sparkle.
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