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Mineral Specimens with Elbaite
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3.8 x 3.6 x 2.1 cm. An astonishingly unrepaired cluster with incredible aesthetics. The larger crystal is just a hair over 2 cm tall. Both crystals are gemmy and lustrous, glassier in person. Ex. Laura and Stevia Thompson Collection.
2.3 x 1.7 x 1.0 cm. Intense, neon blue-green color here makes this a standout even among other single thumbnail crystals, with its unusually intense pastel hue. Ex. Laura and Stevia Thompson Collection.
3.6 x 3.3 x 3.0 cm. A stunning specimen that looks like nothing so much as dark tourmalines stuck in a wad of hot pink bubblegum. The color here is maximal for an Afghani morganite, and is much more intense, in person. The crystal is translucent, with some transparent areas, but universally bright and lustrous. The morganite is a floater, complete-all-around and fully terminated. Ex. Laura and Stevia Thompson Collection.
5.9 x 1.4 x 1.0 cm. This specimen is a very colorful tourmaline with intense colors. I exchanged this a few years ago from the noted tourmaline miniatures suite of collector Steve Smale. It may not be huge in size, but in impact, it leaps out at you for the sheer saturation of color, and glassy internal clarity. Weighs 20.2 grams.
5.0 x 0.8 x 0.7 cm. Fine elbaites from the Jonas Mine are rarely seen in dealer stocks today, briefly available only in the late 1970s just after they came out from a now-infamous 1978 pocket. This slender, transparent crystal is gorgeous…classic in color and with the typical transparency and glassiness of a Jonas piece. Almost all have the same color saturation, too, with little variability, helping to make this a classic pocket that has a characteristic and immediately seen style to the pieces. This cranberry colored, transparent crystal is associated with a bit of pastel pink lepidolite. It weighs 31.7 carats or just over 6 grams.
4.8 x 0.4 x 0.4 cm. A classic, gemmy and lustrous, bi-colored, pencil tourmaline from the Himalaya Mine. The beautiful "Himalaya" pink body has a small zone of colorless or very light gray just below the pink termination. There is even a little lepidolite corsage embedded in the side, just below the termination, as an interesting accent. Gemmy, excellent material like this probably dates to the 1980s. Ex. Wes Parker Collection. Weighs 7.44 carats.
9.4 x 7.4 x 4.1 cm. A sharply terminated, glassy, transparent to translucent quartz strikingly accented with a canted book of pearlescent, silvery muscovite blades and an adjacent, indicolite-blue tourmaline shard from recent finds in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The quartz has interesting internal crazing. The termination is complete-all-around. A striking quartz combination piece from Brazil.
12.8 x 2.9 x 2.8 cm. The Golconda Mine of Brazil has produced a stunning array of tourmalines in widely different colors and crystal forms. This striking cabinet crystal is certainly different from most tourmalines you will see. The lustrous, translucent, well-striated, polychrome tourmaline is doubly terminated and one side has a preferential sheath of yellowish-tan lepidolite. Most of the tapered crystal is sea-green with zones of pleasing cranberry-red, especially at the pyramidal termination. This termination also has a highly unusual, planar extension of tourmaline. The thicker, lustrous, pinacoidal termination is a gorgeous, bluish-purple. Older material dating to the 1960s or 1970s. Weighs 132 grams. Ex. George Elling Collection.
2.5 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm. From the find in late fall of 2007. This is a nice polychrome single Tourmaline crystal from the most famous Tourmaline locality in Pakistan. This crystal features several colors ranging from a very light pink shade at the tip of the pyramidal termination, ranging into a thin colorless ("Achroite") zone, then a beautiful yellow-green color which gives way to an olive-green color and ends with an essentially black shade throughout the rest of the prism. The piece is rather gemmy and has good luster along the prism faces.
5.2 x 3.6 x 2.8 cm. A very fine Little Three tourmaline with uncommonly good sharp form, and more translucency than usual for the material. Probably from the 1970s-1980s. Ex. William Larson Collection.
1.8 x 0.9 x 0.9 cm. Parallel needles and growth tubes, some of which are filled with a solid crystalline material, make this a rare cat’s-eye effect tourmaline from San Diego. This was a gift to Bill Larson from the gem collection of the late Dr. Edward Gubelin, of Switzreland. Weighs 12.2 carats. Ex. William Larson Collection.
3.8 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm. A superb crystal of Tourmaline King Mine tourmaline. Old, valid King mine pieces are extremely hard to obtain. This is not only classic in color, but has a nice old label from the late 1800s or early 1900s. Weighs 32 grams. The hue on this is subtly different from other County mines and it clearly is legit. Ex. William Larson Collection.
9.6 x 8.0 x 7.7 cm. The tourmaline is sharp and lustrous, 5 cm across. It is, typically for the Little Three Mine, very dark and not very colorful. But the overall piece, in combination with a sharp and lustrous quartz (complete, though with some minor edge wear), is significant for the mine and striking in symmetry. Ex. William Larson Collection.
7.3 x 4.8 x 2.8 cm. A superb cluster, with top color and lustre, and good symmetry. No repairs. Out of all the Himalayas mined, so few were in clusters, fewer with no repairs, and fewer still actually with good robust color as we have here. This is a particularly elegant cluster, with lustrous terminations and side faces (so often, Himalayas lack lustre atop). Out of all the crystals he mined, this is one of the few classic Himalayas Bill Larson kept back for their collection, over 25 years of operating the mine. Ex. William Larson Collection.
6.7 x 5.1 x 4.9 cm. A classic dark green crystal from this mine, with little jewel-like topaz crystals atop. The association is unusual, though it happens time to time. This crystal is very dark, as they all are generally, but has a nice surface sheen and green color when backlit strongly. It is large and impressive, in person. Ex. William Larson Collection.
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