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Mineral Specimens with Hematite
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6.8 x 3.9 x 2.8 cm. An elegant combination specimen from China, featuring a lone, slender quartz crystal rising above a bed of thin, platy hematites.
5.7 x 5.3 x 5.0 cm. An aesthetic cluster of lustrous and glassy, hematite-included quartz crystals from recent finds at the Orange River of Namibia. Ex. Charlie Key Collection.
6.3 x 4.8 x 4.2 cm. A classic, superb cluster of hematite "iron roses" from the famed St. Gotthard Massif of Switzerland. This piece looks like a pinwheel of lustrous, gray, parallel-growth hematite blades whirling around the central hole.
9.9 x 7.6 x 6.5 cm. The slender quartz crystals, with their rich coloration from rusty-red hematite, extend up to 7 cm from the base of platy hematite. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
10.4 x 8.8 x 7.9 cm. A large and fine specimen of red quartz from recent finds on the Namibian side of the Orange River - not only showing the beautiful red color that some quartzes from there have shown due to rich hematite inclusions, but also showing dramatic sceptering. The red cap has wrapped itself around a colorless euhedral crystal that is clearly visible as the "stalk". This central crystal is surrounded by smaller accenting crystals of red quartz. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
4 x 3 x 3 cm. This fine specimen consists of a beautiful lustrous 2 cm fan of Hematite blades growing out of a clear Quartz crystal. The beveled edges of the crystals are stunning, and the mirror-like luster is nicely highlighted by the surface striations. Ex. Martin Lewadny Collection.
6.9 x 5.9 x 2.9 cm. This specimen, an English classic, combines both specular (glittery, platy crystals) and "kidney ore" hematite (forming the matrix) with quartz crystals on a single specimen. You can see the kidney ore at the right edge of the specimen; it is shaped as a convex "bubble" here - can sometimes (when bare, with reddish-brown color) look like kidneys, which is where the name is derived. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
4.1 x 1.9 x 1.1 cm. A tiered group of clear quartz crystals with incredibly sharp red phantoms inside: an earlier generation of crystals that were covered with a coating of red hematite, then engulfed when growth continued.
5.4 x 4.9 x 4.4 cm. From the Namibian side of the Orange River, a cluster of crystals of glassy quartz, which get their color from rich inclusions of hematite.
3.9 x 2.4 x 1.9 cm. This fine Orange River specimen is a sharp phantom - you can clearly see the razor-sharp crystal inside that was coated in hematite - then engulfed by a later generation of growth.
4.9 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm. A fine Orange River red quartz specimen - this, a fine single crystal with a phantom inside just barely contained by a later growth of clear quartz.
10.9 x 5.4 x 4.0 cm. There are two tightly intergrown quartz crystals here, both doubly-terminated (the larger one has a healed lower termination). The top of the larger quartz is water-clear and gives a spectacular view of the golden, shimmering acicular rutile crystals inside. Chunky hematite is wrapped around the side of the two quartzes, and some hematite is also included inside the fatter quartz crystal.
13.4 x 9.1 x 4.6 cm. This is something you almost never see - an old French hematite specimen. This is a rich, large cluster of blocky, striated crystals, massed together on matrix. Ex. Lesnicks and James F. Villaume Collections.
3.4 x 2.8 x 2.8 x 2.8 cm, 3.3 x 3.3 x 3.3 cm, 3.1 x 2.8 x 2.8 cm, 2.4 x 2.4 x 2.4 cm. Four examples of sharp, octahedral crystals of magnetite that have been pseudomorphed by hematite, retaining the shape of the original magnetites. Collector Dave Stoudt picked these up during his travels in South America, in 2003.
16.0 x 8.5 x 8.2 cm. A superb Lechang combination of quartz and hematite, featuring a profusion of larger crystals. The crystals are very clear, and have wonderful color from the hematite inclusions. The matrix is covered with deep grey, platy hematite crystals.
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