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3D62 - Hambergite - $ 200 SOLD Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California, USA thumbnail, 1.5 x .8 x .5 cm ex. Marilyn Dodge
Very nice example of a hard-to-find species in good crystals, since they tend to etch or dissolve away and leave you without euhedral and 3-dimensional crystals often enough. THIS ONE, however, has sharp faces and a real termination! This tabular crystal is sharp, has good luster, and is partially gemmy. As good a Hambergite as you are likely to find from any locality, particularly from this mine.
CH12 - Quartz with Hambergite inclusion - $ 150 SOLD Little Three Mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California, USA miniature, 4.6 x 3.0 x 2.0 cm ex. Chuck Houser
An unusual piece with a sharp linear inclusion of a hambergite crystal, floating there inside the terminated quartz!
CK11 - Hambergite (huge floater XL!) - SOLD Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego Co., California, USA miniature, 5 x 2 x 0.7 cm ex. Chris Korpi
This remarkable crystal is not only huge, but it is a floater as well! It is entirely translucent and the crystal form is very interesting and sculptural. Altogether, it is a very significant San Diego rarity but moreover it is a good hambergite even by worldwide standards
CK4 - Hambergite on Lepidolite - SOLD Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego Co., California, USA miniature, 4.5 x 3 x 2 cm ex. Chris Korpi
A super combination piece featuring a snow-white 1 cm twinned hambergite crystal perched amongst lustrous, translucent, rich purple lepidolite crystals. Unique and visually appealing, too!
ES66 - Hambergite (twinned) - $ 1250 Turakuloma Range, Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan? small cabinet, 5.7 x 4.6 x 2.3 cm ex. Ernie Schlichter
This satiny, spectacular cluster of reticulated , twinned hambergite is quite good for the locality, illustrating interesting reticulated growth patterns more common in cerussite than in hambergite. This rare beryllium borate is uncommon from teh locality, as well - not many good specimens have been found, to my knowledge. It is on tabular, off white crystals of another mineral that may have altered also to hambergite (?).
MD-160221 - Hambergite - - Archived Shengus (Shingus), Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan small cabinet, 6.7 x 3.7 x 1.9 cm.
6.7 x 3.7 x 1.9 cm. This is a robust, complete, floater crystal of hambergite showing unusually good terminations (usually they are long and tapered, or etched) that are broad, lustrous, and complete. The crystal is doubly-terminated, though the bottom termination is not as well formed as the top. It is a very, very sharp example of new finds here which have really redefined the quality of a terminated hambergite we could expect to own in a collection, bringing this rarity up to a display-level it has not often been seen in before. This is from the Gene Meieran Collection.
MD-169906 - Hambergite, Elbaite - - Archived Hyakule, Sankhuwasabha District (Sankhuwa Sahba), Kosi Zone, Nepal small cabinet, 7.5 x 2.0 x 1.2 cm.
7.5 x 2.0 x 1.2 cm. Hambergite is a rare accessory mineral in gem pegmatites. This elongated pearlescent and translucent, white crystal is doubly-terminated and also hosts a 1.4 cm long, elbaite crystal (itself doubly-terminated!). Hambergite is a beryllium, borate and sharp elongate crystals are known from only a few localities. Ex. Paul Stahl Collection. The other side of this specimen is shown in photo #21341
MD-180057 - Hambergite - - Archived Mika pegmatite, Rangkul' Highlands, Pamir Mts, Viloyati Mukhtori Gorno-Badakhshan (Viloyati Badakhshoni Kuni), Tajikistan miniature, 4.7 x 1.9 x 0.8 cm.
4.7 x 1.9 x 0.8 cm. An extraordinarily sharp hambergite crystal of a fine, euhedral quality and with a sharp prismatic termination. Ex. Martin Zinn Collection.
MD-20361 - Hambergite, Quartz - - Archived Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA small cabinet, 5.9 x 4.3 x 1.4 cm
Thin striated inclusions inside the quartz have been determined to be hambergite. 5.9 x 4.3 x 1.4 cm
MD-20404 - Hambergite, Quartz - - Archived Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA miniature, 4.9 x 4.5 x 2.2 cm
Small white hambergite crystals perched on quartz, itself on a matrix of a feldspar fragment. 4.9 x 4.5 x 2.2 cm
MD-20405 - Hambergite - - Archived Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA miniature, 5 x 2 x 0.7 cm
This remarkable crystal is not only huge, but it is a floater as well! It is entirely translucent and the crystal form is very interesting and sculptural. Altogether, it is a very significant San Diego rarity but moreover it is a good hambergite even by worldwide standards. 5 x 2 x 0.7 cm
MD-20406 - Hambergite, Lepidolite - - Archived Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA miniature, 4.5 x 3 x 2 cm
A super combination piece featuring a snow-white 1 cm twinned hambergite crystal perched amongst lustrous, translucent, rich purple lepidolite crystals. Unique and visually appealing, too! 4.5 x 3 x 2 cm
MD-20577 - Tourmaline, Albite (Var: Cleavelandite), Hambergite - - Archived Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan small cabinet, 7.5 x 6 x 5.5 cm
This specimen is from a rare and very special find: a small pocket hit around 1992 and characterized by the thin, richly-colored blue cap on the prism termination. So far as I am aware, this was the ONLY such find at Stak Nala (which is certainly now more or less defunct for tourmalines of this habit). They remain one of the Holy Grails of tourmaline collectors and frankly, I do not think there are more than several dozens to be had. This one came to me after going through 2 collections, and was purchased at the time they came out as one of the more bright and colorful specimens. This is one of the very gemmiest and brightest of the lot , I guarantee, as most had rather dull lustre, in person. True, the tourmaline is mostly embedded, but the albite actually serves to highlight and contrast the blue termination, and serves to hide what is usually a murky green tourmaline core in any case, making for better dramatic display all around. The tourmaline is deeply nestled in the overlaying leaves of white Cleavelandite , but the top 1 cm-plus of the termination erupts from the Cleavelandite and is both complete and visible ALL around. Also, the tourmaline is doubly-terminated as the bottom tip sticks out from the Cleavelandite at the base of the specimen! At the base, pointing downwards near the tourmalines second termination, there is a Cleavelandite-covered crystal of hambergite which, like the tourmaline, has a free termination but is otherwise embedded. Sort of a bonus, that! 7.5 x 6 x 5.5 cm
MD-209868 - Hambergite - - Archived Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA miniature, 4.4 x 1.5 x 0.9 cm.
4.4 x 1.5 x 0.9 cm. Known primarily for its wonderful tourmaline specimens, the Himalaya Mine also produced a plethora of much rarer species like this beryllium borate: a hambergite specimen. The piece has a satiny lustre and possesses a creamy white color. This remarkable crystal is euhedral, doubly terminated and is a floater as well. It is entirely translucent and the crystal form is very interesting and sculptural. Ex. Bill Larson Collection.
MD-215055 - Hambergite - - Archived Paprok, Nuristan Province (Nurestan; Nooristan), Afghanistan small cabinet, 5.5 x 4.6 x 2.5 cm.
5.5 x 4.6 x 2.5 cm. Matrix hambergites are for some reason rare and for that matter good sharp crystals are pretty rare on a worldwide basis in and of itself. Afghanistan has recently produced some of the best yet known, for the species. Some are giants, but few are sharp and gemmy. This specimen hosts a gorgeous, 2.3 x 1.1 x 1 cm crystal of hambergite, sharply twinned and with sharp faces and edges as opposed to the usual etched faces we often see. Both the sharpness and the twinning are extremely uncommon, even from this productive locale. It is perched as if floating on a cloud of albite matrix.
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