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Mineral Specimens with Elbaite
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An intensely blue, gemmy and lustrous indicolite tourmaline crystal from Pech, Afghanistan. The termination corner bruise is on the back and is out of sight. The backlit photo highlights the beautiful blue color and intensity. 3.2 x 1.5 x 1.2 cm
This is a very rare elbaite with an internal “flame” of flashy blue within a field of lavender, which can be seen quite easily just below the termination. This spectral phenomenon is extremely uncommon in tourmalines from anywhere in the world! 2 x 2 x 1.5 cm
A DRAMATIC and AESTHETIC specimen of a gemmy and lustrous, 3.9 cm, blue-green indicolite tourmaline nicely attached to the side of a lustrous, translucent and etched, smoky quartz crystal from the famous Cruzeiro Mine of Brazil. This fine piece is from the collection of Steve Smale. Steve tells me, that this is one of the very first Brazilian pieces he bought on his first trip to Brazil in the 1960s. 9.0 x 6.2 x 5.4 cm
Absolutely glass-clear and flawless from top to bottom, this Madagascar tourmaline is DOUBLY-TERMINATED as well - with a fine bottle-green color. This gem-quality crystal weighs 9 grams. 8.2 x 0.7 x 0.7cm
A GEM tourmaline crystal with fine bottle-green color, sharply-terminated and complete all around. Micro-wear along one edge, practically invisible to the naked eye and only visible on very close inspection. So it is practically pristine. 3.2 x 1.5 x 0.7cm
A pristine, wonderfully-terminated tourmaline crystal - in person, a little less bluish and more greenish than the pic shows - absolutely gem quality! 3.4 x 0.9 x 0.8cm
A DOUBLY-TERMINATED pink tourmaline from the Himalaya Mine, translucent to transparent, weighing 37 grams. A bit of green right at one of the terminations. The crystal has natural growth anomalies at either end, but is fully terminated and undamaged! 5.0 x 2.1 x 2.0cm
A truly breathtaking, colorful, extremely gemmy tourmaline crystal with deep and vivid blue and green hues. It is terminated and complete all around except for trivial edge damage on some back faces and a few little nicks on front that are not detracting. The color is breathtaking and it lights up unusually well for such a large indicolite because of the slenderness of the crystal. That is a little cookeite-coated quartz crystal sticking out of the termination! 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm
This stunning green-capped crystal is complete all around. It has glassy luster not just on the sides and a flaring basal termination. 8 x 4.8 x 4.6 cm
This specimen hosts some of the most vivid red, lustrous, beautiful tourmalines I have yet seen from Burma for the style ("mushrooms"). They really ARE this juicy, in person. Maybe more so. What is amazing to me is that they drape over a euhedral large feldpsar crystal and so you get a most unusual contrast. I have not seen such a nice association piece of this combo from here, before. The piece just glows, when in a showcase....again, it is somewhat MORE colorful, even, in person. I would rank it as one of the better matrix mushroom tourmalines I have seen for the aesthetics, even though individually the tourmalines are not so large 11.6 x 9 x 7.2 cm
Lustrous elbaite specimen. An eye pleasing blue-green color along with a sculptural quality depicted by the multiple, terminated, side car crystals, highlights this specimen. 12.7 x 5.2 x 2.9 cm
This specimen brings together two of the rarer members of a complex pegmatite association of minerals. A navy blue crystal core of elbaite var, indicolite morphed into a city scape of pastel blue, translucent, pyramidal, terminations. Flanking the indicolite is an acicular spray of snow white albite and a complex crystal of very lustrous, golden-brown, stibiotantalite that even emits red highlights, The indicolite measures 3.0 cm in length and the stibiotantalite is 2.5 cm across. This is truly, a fine and rare combo specimen. 4.3 x 6.4 x 2.5 cm
A BRIGHT pink and gemmy tourmaline collected in 1975 in the Queen Mine. It is terminated and complete all around, with minor damage. Weighs 11 grams.ex Ruggiero collection 2.8 x 1.6 x 1.5cm
A large, intricate cluster of untold numbers of tourmaline crystals, from the nearly invisible to 4 cm! In fact, the cluster is a floater, cemented together by thousands of micro-crystals, so nearly all the crystals are terminated, all the way around this specimen! and all tourmaline!! this is much better, and more green, in person. There is no attachment area with unterminated crystals. ex Ed Ruggiero collection, purchased in the 70's. It IS a remarkable piece for the overall aspect of it, and the sheer amount of tourmaline in one bundle! 9.9 x 6.5 x 6.0cm
An old specimen (from the 70''s) from an unusual African locality, and a FINE one: this is a big, fat, gemmy crystal (though fairly dark so it is harder to see the gemminess) of a bottle-green color. It has a very unusual termination, with three glassy faces divided by thrree frosted ones. The crystal is complete all around, and weighs a substantial 60 grams. A hard one to obtain, for the tourmaline collector out there - sat in a collection for decades until recently. ex Ruggiero collection 5.4 x 2.7 x 2.6cm
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