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ex. Charlie Key
This is perhaps the rarest color here...Exquisitely colored a rich citrine, burnt yellow color, this matrix specimen of prismatic, nearly equant, quartz crystals is very impactful. They are glassy, and translucent, with the largest crystal reaching 3.5 cm in length. A few crystal heads are minorly damaged but the overall effect of these deeply colored crystals makes these few flaws of little or no significance.
ex. Charlie Key
This huge plate consists of lustrous and translucent quartz crystals, to 3.0 cm in length, heavily included reddish-iron color by hematite. Most of the crystals are leaning in one direction, toward the top of the specimen as if away from the direction of flow within the vug. Fiery color, pristine condition - and HUGE !
ex. Charlie Key
Clearly emanating from milky or colorless cores, these orange colored, hematite included, lustrous and translucent quartz crystals, to 2.5 cm in length, make an attractive LARGE plate of color contrasts.
ex. Charlie Key
The beauty of this quartz plate lies in two areas. Several crystals are not only doubly-terminated , but appear to have grown as "bow ties" with a main crystal being wreathed by smaller crystals displaying parallel growth. Then there is the exquisite light rose color emparted by hematite inclusions, along with the glassy and translucent highlights of the crystals. The largest "bow tie" is 6.0 cm in length. Aesthetic as it can be!
ex. Charlie Key
In the entire collection, this is perhaps my favorite miniature specimen, in terms of beauty and competition-level worthiness. It features a twinned, mirror-bright, 3 x 3 x 2.75 cm crystal on matrix, with accents of calcite. It displays magnificently vertically as shown or horizontally as well. Totally pristine and complete all around save for a small natural contact on one edge of the lower-rear, this is as close to a "jewel" as you can ever ask for a "black" mineral species! It HAS TO BE among the finest imagineable hematite miniatures, but more than that its a damned good miniature, period.
ex. Charlie Key
The suite of Oranje River quartz was one of Charlie's prides, built up over 20 years as this locality steadily produced a trickle each year. This is one of the most dramatic pieces, i fnot the largest (we have plates to 12 inches!), featuring the most intense red coloring due to hematite inclusions. It is a pristine and lustrous specimen with excellent 3-dimensionality and form, much more apparent in person. The largest crystal is 8 cm. Comes with custom lucite display base.
ex. Charlie Key
Incredible , gorgeous combination specimen featuring two large ettringite crystals of lemon yello whue, perched on sparkling and contrasting CRYSTALLIZED white calcite AND Gaudefroyite, further accented by a hematite crystal atop. The hematite is striking, and is 2.25 cm long and doubly terminated, pseudo-scalenohedral in form. The ettringite crystals are to 4.5 cm in length and shimmer with electric sheen on the surface, and have deep color that does not convey well in the photos. The overall contrast is striking. This is a very rare, large example of the species in super aesthetic form. It was found in the mid to late 1980s. Comes with custom lucite display base.
ex. Charlie Key
I have simply NEVER seen such hematite crystals from anywhere! Charlie says he obtained the two best of a small pocket, found some time ago. This one features a spray of upright columnar crystals to 6 cm leaping off from andradite garnet matrix! No damage, and complete all around - it is a magnificent specimen period and a truly unprecedented hematite about which I cannot rave enough. I know that Charlie considered it one of the top pieces in the collection. Comes with custom lucite display base.
ex. Charlie Key
The second example of columnar hematite in the collection, from teh same pocket, and with qually bizarre habit. This piece shows only slightly less elegant display than the above, but is overall larger, more hefty, and more impressive crystalographically for the sheer size of the hematite crystals - and its still pretty darned displayable and dramatic! Like the above specimen, it is remarkably complete all around and displays 360-degrees. It is MUCH MORE lustrous in person. One of the most astonishing Kalahari specimens I have ever seen...and I think of some significance for hematite as a species, as well
ex. Charlie Key
This is a superb miniature of rounded, colorless, calcite rhombs with bright orange hematite inclusions which don’t quite reach the terminations, giving the crystals vivid color zoning highlighted by the transparent edges thus. The crystals are lustrous, translucent, and reach 2.5 cm across. A super fine Tsumeb calcite of a rare habit!
ex. Charlie Key
Colorless rhombs of gemmy and glassy calcite to 3.0 cm across have received a preferential, thick dusting of reddish-brown, lustrous hematite, presenting a deep red color when all those faces angle forward. Underneath, from teh side, you can look into the crystals through thte clear colorless windows of the rhombohedral faces. The color contrast is superb and the sculptural form of the piece, very 3-dimensional, is also nice. There is only very minor wear (a few small rubs) and contacting on the massive matrix of the right side periphery, that keep this from being priced far higher for the overall size and display quality here.
ex. Charlie Key
SHARP, incredibly deep red crystals that are thoroughly infused with microscopic hematite grains, giving them a deep ruddy red color. The piece is pristine and complete 360-degrees except a few very miniscule little nicks. This is a CLASSIC style for Tsumeb. However, large specimens in this condition are very rare.
An extremely aesthetic cluster of translucent, red-orange, botryoidal fluorite majestically rises from a druse of chalcedony. The cluster is comprised of approximately 5 intergrown spheres and stands 4 cm high. The whole sculptural quality of the specimen is outstanding. These red fluorites are very uncommon, and with lustre and translucency such as this one, more so. This would be one of the better examples I have seen
A gemmy crysatl with lots of cutting value, and interesting hematite association! It is, as most of these are, sadly without its very tip.In this case, a little less than usual is off, but if you tilt it back it displays well and the hematite and the glassy lustre make it still of some value besides its intrinsic worth as cutting material....so its a rhodo that looks like a $1000 thumbnail at first, but doesn't cost near it because of the termination ding.
ex. Marilyn Dodge
This is a superb Hematite for any locality. These twinned crystals (the fabulous termination belongs to the dominant crystal) have a fantastic mirror-like luster, which makes it devilishly hard to photograph. This is a terrific thumb, and far better in person!
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![Quartz with Hematite from Oranje River, Namibia [db_pics/pics/ckorqtz-94c.jpg]](db_pics/pics/ckorqtz-94c.jpg)
![HEMATITE (twinned) with CALCITE from Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa [db_pics/pics/cktsr-16a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/cktsr-16a.jpg)
![HEMATITE (twinned) with CALCITE from Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa [db_pics/pics/cktsr-16b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/cktsr-16b.jpg)
![QUARTZ with Hematite inclusions from Oranje River, Namibia [db_pics/pics/cktsr-30a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/cktsr-30a.jpg)
![ETTRINGITE with HEMATITE and GAUDEFROYITE on CALCITE from N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa [db_pics/pics/cktsr-35a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/cktsr-35a.jpg)
![ETTRINGITE with HEMATITE and GAUDEFROYITE on CALCITE from N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa [db_pics/pics/cktsr-35b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/cktsr-35b.jpg)
![ETTRINGITE with HEMATITE and GAUDEFROYITE on CALCITE from N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa [db_pics/pics/cktsr-35c.jpg]](db_pics/pics/cktsr-35c.jpg)
![COLUMNAR HEMATITE on ANDRADITE from Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa [db_pics/pics/cktsr-36a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/cktsr-36a.jpg)
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![Calcite with Hematite inclusion from Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia [db_pics/pics/cktsu-28a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/cktsu-28a.jpg)
![Calcite with Hematite inclusion from Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia [db_pics/pics/cktsu-28b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/cktsu-28b.jpg)
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![Hematite from N’Chwaning Mine, near Kuruman, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa [db_pics/pics/d21b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/d21b.jpg)
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