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Mineral Specimens with Elbaite
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5.3 x 3.8 x 1.8 cm. The Corrego do Urucum pegmatite of Brazil has historically produced some of the world’s finest morganite specimens and this is certainly an excellent example. A gem, beautiful pink morganite is richly embedded with green tourmaline pencils and areas of bladed cleavelandite. This thick morganite crystal has sharp crystal faces, excellent clarity and color saturation. Both sides have beautiful stepped edges. An excellent and classic Brazilian morganite specimen that probably dates to the 1970s or 1980s and was in the Norm Dawson Collection, former owner of the White Queen Mine. 54 grams.
5.8 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm. Beautiful, gemmy and lustrous, watermelon tourmalines are attached to both sides of the very showy matrix of pearlescent, blades cleavelandite richly accented with lustrous, purple lepidolite. The large tourmaline is 4.5 cm. It has superb and classic Pederneira tourmaline color characteristics, with very bright colors. The striking, central core of vivid, raspberry-red has a thin, outer sheath of green. The lustrous cap is a spectacular, gemmy, teal-blue. The horizontal tourmaline penetrating the large tourmaline is fascinating. This is a very beautiful, very aesthetic matrix tourmaline specimen.
4.5 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm. A gorgeous, gemmy and lustrous, bi-colored tourmaline from the Cruzeiro Mine and Steve Smale Collection. The gemmy body is a rich, cranberry-red with a green termination and a green zone, near the base. The termination has an interesting, undamaged, cavity, where another crystal once was. There is a super, gem, cranberry nodule at the base. This is definitely old-time material from the 1960s or 1970s from this renowned pegmatite. Complete-all-around and pristine. Weighs 32 grams.
6.1 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm. This is a classic specimen from the late-1990s pocket of blue-caps found in the Sapo Mine…and never seen since. These represent one of the most famous, most distinct, most sought-after finds of tourmaline since the Maine greens and the California blue-caps of the 1970s. At 23 grams, with such equant form, this is a respectable example. As a bonus, it is, crudely but surely, doubly-terminated on bottom.
6.2 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm. A 25-gram, brilliantly colorful crystal from the so-called "lipstick pocket" which Steve Smale obtained en masse while teaching math in Brazil in the 1980s, and brought back to trade and sell ever since. However, he long ago parted with the lesser pieces and this was a final miniature in his miniature tourmaline gem crystal suites. It has a riveting, totally gemmy core body of green grading to a light blue color in the middle, then to a lavender hue as you approach the termination, and finally to the intense cranberry cap. It is pristine, and complete-all-around, except only a small contact point in the back where a minor secondary crystal was attached in the pocket. Ex. Steve Smale Collection.
5.5 x 3.8 x 2.1 cm. A very aesthetic and very rare combination piece from the Himalaya Mine and the Irv Brown Collection. A classic, 3.3 x 2.2 cm, pink tourmaline with a green cap is very artfully attached to a snow-white albite crystal blade. The back of the tourmaline and albite crystals are totally covered with tiny, bladed stilbite crystals. This is an outstanding and rare association piece from this historic mine. Tourmaline is pristine, gemmy and lustrous.
11.8 x 6.5 x 5.0 cm. Three gemmy and lustrous, polychrome tourmalines to 5.6 cm are dramatically embedded in the side of a glassy, transparent to translucent, complete-all-around cabinet quartz crystal from recent finds at the Pederneira Mine. The placement, composition and color contrast of the tourmalines on the side of the sharp quartz crystal are stunning.
3.7 x 1.2 x 1.1 cm. A very gemmy, beautiful, old-time Cruzeiro tourmaline from the Steve Smale Collection. This crystal has very pleasing shades of cranberry-red and an interesting, modified, pinacoidal termination. Red Cruzeiro crystals of this quality came out in the 1960s and 70s and are very uncommon and are highly desired. Weighs 10 grams.
9.3 x 1.0 x 0.9 cm. A gorgeous, gemmy and lustrous, bi-colored, pencil tourmaline from recent finds at the Pederneira Mine. The vivid green gemmy body is highlighted by a beautiful, teal-blue section in the middle and has a hint of pink in the core at the base. The steep, three-sided, pyramidal termination is black and has very interesting, vertical etching. This highly representative gem crystal is nearly pristine.
6.7 x 3.6 x 1.6 cm. An aesthetic and striking polychrome tourmaline crystal cluster from recent finds at the Pederneira Mine of Brazil. This stunning piece looks like a stylized "7". The gemmy and lustrous crystals are mostly green, but the "arm" crystal has a gorgeous, teal-blue, indicolite zone. Both crystals have a core of light cranberry-red. The tourmalines are beautifully complimented by a sprinkling of gemmy, pink lepidolite crystals. The distinctive, spiky termination is comprised of many, parallel-growth crystals. This complete-all-around super piece is nearly pristine.
4.1 x 1.8 x 1.5 cm. A really fine hydroxylherderite miniature from Virgem da Lapa and the Eric Asselborn Collection. A 2.4 cm, doubly terminated, lustrous, translucent, tan hydroxylherderite crystal has a strikingly angled, 4.1 cm, super-flattened, gem, indicolite crystal embedded on the side, with two more tourmaline sections set on the other side. It is a very rare association piece from an old find of the early 1970s or late 1960s.
3.5 x 1.6 x 1.5 cm. A very richly colored, blue-capped tourmaline from the now famous and unobtainable pockets of the late 1990s at this remote mine. These blue-caps were the hit of the tourmaline market at the time, and no more have been found there to this day. These Jack obtained from the first selection of material when it came out, with the thickest caps of blue, richest color, and least damage. Ex. Jack Halpern Collection.
4.6 x 2 x 1.9 cm. A very richly colored, blue-capped tourmaline from the now famous and unobtainable pockets of the late 1990s at this remote mine. These blue-caps were the hit of the tourmaline market at the time, and no more have been found there to this day. These Jack obtained from the first selection of material when it came out, with the thickest caps of blue, richest color, and least damage. Ex. Jack Halpern Collection.
An excellent specimen of CARVING GRADE tourmaline from the famous Dunton Quarry in Newry, Maine. This beautiful bi-colored, cranberry and green, tourmaline is gemmy, translucent, striated and lustrous. The crystal is completely, if crudely terminated, and there is a gemmy and lustrous 2.0 cm yellow feldspar(?) crystal on the termination. This piece is complete all-around and has very, very trivial damage. Classic material that is hard to obtain and quite different in appearance from Brazilian tourmalines. 4.5 x 3.8 x 3.0 cm
4.4 x 1.6 x 1.4 cm. A beautiful, gemmy and lustrous, doubly terminated, watermelon tourmaline from recent finds at Pech. The pastel-pink core, wrapped in green, is capped by a very glassy and gemmy, vivid apple-green termination. The basal termination was broken, but healed with multiple, stepped faces. Doubly terminated Pech tourmalines are not that common, even healed ones like this. Weighs 18 grams.
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