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Mineral Specimens with Elbaite
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2.9 x 2.2 x 2.2 cm. This Himalaya tourmaline crystal (out of the Charles Hansen collection) has VERY unusual color and zoning for the locality - easier to appreciate in person. The bottom is a very light grassy green, but as you move up towards the termination, you can see in the center a dark green core. The crystal is capped by a bright scarlet termination. Again, very unusual, and a fine crystal overall! Weighs 30 grams.
4.9 x 0.8 x 0.8 cm. A super-fine GEM QUALITY tourmaline from Paprok, with the brightness, clarity and luster that make these among the world’s best tourmalines. It is a bright grassy green, with a beautiful (and well-formed) pink termination. Weighs 8 grams.
5.4 x 3.9 x 1.3 cm. Literally found on "The Road to Mandalay", here is a cluster of about a dozen gemmy, lustrous crystals of pink tourmaline, to one centimeter, still embedded in but well exposed on the surface of a marble matrix.
4.0 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm. A striking, gemmy and lustrous, polychrome tourmaline from the Otjua pegmatites of Namibia. The stepped, black pinacoidal terminations dramatically rest atop the main body, which is cranberry-red with golden-yellow highlights. Very nearly pristine, with only a tiny bit of contacting on the black termination of the sidecar crystal. 16 grams.
7.5 x 4.3 x 3.8 cm. A STRIKING, OLD-TIME Cruzeiro Mine specimen. A 5.5 cm, lustrous, pastel-pink, 3-sided, drill bit-like, tourmaline crystal dramatically rises from a nest of highly contrasting, gemmy, green tourmaline crystals. One side is nicely accented by a white cleavelandite plate. The termination of the spear is gemmy and is a nice amber color. The main tourmaline is pristine and the couple of broken green tourmalines are certainly not a detraction and are in fact, hardly noticeable. A dramatic specimen from the Sam Cooper Collection. Cruzeiro pieces like this date to the 1960s or 70s.
8.4 x 2.2 x 1.9 cm. This is a large and intense gem tourmaline crystal. It is a TOP GEM QUALITY crystal, of an incredibly pretty teal color, trending to a hint of more green towards the bottom. It is complete all around, and terminated on top. As is common with these, a few of the smaller sidecar/sub-crystals along the sides are not terminated, but this is hardly a detraction. The large one IS terminated. At 67 grams, this is a sizeable crystal, too. This knockout of a tourmaline came out of the collection of Dave Stoudt.
5.1 x 1.1 x 0.9 cm. A superb, pure top gem crystal of tourmaline, DOUBLY-TERMINATED and complete all around. It has the bright grassy green with pink tip that is characteristic of many of the fine tourmalines from Paprok. Weighs 10 grams. It is not easy to find these top Paprok crystals doubly-terminated!
3.3 x 1.9 x 1.9 cm. A cluster of pink-and-green tourmalines from California, to 1.5 cm. Admittedly a lot of the terminations are damaged or contacted, but cute nonetheless.
7.8 x 2.1 x 1.6 cm. A GORGEOUS, "cityscape" cluster of parallel-growth tourmaline crystals beautifully accented by a bit of pastel-pink lepidolite from Coronel Murta, Brazil. The emerald-green tourmaline crystals have superb gemminess and lustre and have nicely complimentary, yellow-green terminations. Complete all-around and very nearly pristine, with only a broken tip on the lowest sidecar crystal.
2.2 x 0.8 x 0.6 cm, 1.7 x 0.9 x 0.8 cm. A great historic 2-crystal set of vivid, gemmy pink Tourmaline crystals with an old German label dating to circa 1940. Rich Kosnar obtained the specimens from Charlie Key years ago along with the glass vial and label pictured. Now these are two individual crystals, and not one crystal broken in half, although only one of them is terminated, while the other is contacted on both ends. It is impossible to know for sure which mine these crystals came from, but the history and pedigree make them a highly collectible pair of San Diego County Tourmalines. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
7.2 x 6.4 x 3.7 cm. A very colorful association specimen featuring many lilac colored, sharp, gemmy, hexagonal Apatite crystals which are associated with a few gemmy, prismatic green Tourmaline crystals on contrasting off-white color Feldspar matrix. The piece can be displayed from either side, one shows the associated Tourmaline crystals, but perhaps the best Apatite crystal is on the reverse side of the specimen. This association of two well known gem pegmatite species is not very common to find in the mineral world, and the color combination is very appealing. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
13 x 12 x 9 cm. The sparkling brilliantly white Cleavelandite provides a stunning matrix for the gemmy rocket-like tourmalines, and a host of smaller tourmalines dotting the backside as well. An elongated, gemmy, clear quarts crystal runs along the front horizon, providing a dramatic front view leading the eye up to the tourmalines and away from a normally boring bottom periphery.
11.6 x 7.5 x 7.3 cm. A remarkable single crystal with much more elegance, due to its splaying form, than you would normally expect of a single large tourmaline. It is complete and nearly perfect all around, 3-Dimensional, and without repair. Note how the top of the piece elegantly splays out from the narrower base, making this less "lumpy" than many large tourmalines from the locale). It is extraordinarily translucent given the size, and practically GLOWS when backlit at all, a wonderful bubblegum pink color. Inside, you can see from the top a "phantom" core of darker tourmaline within, which is an interesting bonus. It weighs in at 1 kilo.
21 x 15 x 14 cm. Stunning white Cleavelandite is host, and it is sprinkled with metallic purple lepidolite as well so that color abounds and everything is nice and sparkly. The gorgeous multicolored tourmalines (to 4.3 inches or 11 cm in height) stick up and out; while gemmy, clear, perfect quartz points grow amongst the tourmaline on the right side and stick out laterally towards the viewer in front. The tourmalines have a very 3-dimensional geometry, poking out every which way. Ex. Martin Zinn Collection.
15 x 14 x 12 cm. This is one of only several dozen large blue-caps to come out of the infamous find by Bill Larson in 1972, which put the Tourmaline Queen back on the map and incidentally jumpstarted modern specimen mining as well. I confirmed the origin of the piece with him to be sure it really was one of the famous few. Most major pieces went into musuems, or into the collections of prominent buyers at the time. This piece was one that I found in a small private investment collection assembled in the 1970s, unprepped since the day it was found and attached to a massive piece of quartz which Sandor Fuss was able to brilliantly trim off for me without losing the crystal in the process. The tourmaline itself measures 9 x 5 x 4 cm in size.
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