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Mineral Specimens with Hematite
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4.4 x 3.1 x 2.8 cm. Jewel-like, pristine hematite barrels to 2 cm on matrix! This piece has MIRROR-lustre all over, and flashes from a million angles! It is a superb an example for the species.
4.6 x 3.1 x 2.4 cm. A poker chip crystal of dolomite has grown right against a super-sharp crystal of quartz. Both the quartz and the dolomite are tinted a rust color by inclusions of hematite. This is a superb combination piece from the well known Brazilian suite of Richard Gaines.
1.7 x 1.6 x 0.4 cm. A cutie thumber of this now classic combination of bright, golden rutile crystals shooting off of a base of platy, metallic hematite.
7.8 x 5.2 x 5.0 cm. You have seen mostly small specimens of this combination from Brazil, with perhaps a small platy crystal of hematite with needles of rutile shooting from it. This one is a completely different style, a series of LARGE platy hematite crystals, with the rutile embedded in their jagged peripheries. They are stacked in a really attractive design, staggered back 3-dimensionally. This is a wonderful small cab of this combo and a great example of Brazilian hematite of this style, which you just do not see out there in this size and richness.
8.3 x 7.6 x 7.5 cm. This is a wonderful Pea Ridge calcite not only because it is nearly a floater of fine, freestanding crystals, but also because the crystals are richly included with hematite, giving them a "classic" looking tint. The crystals measure to over 5 cm, and are doubly-terminated. There is just a small crust of matrix on the back which serves to anchor the crystals.
5.1 x 3.4 x 1.3 cm. This is an example of the"classic" form that you see both from Minas Gerais and from Switzerland. And it is a FINE example, a complete floater with no contact or damage. It has fine flashy metallic luster and a beautiful stacked, stepped form.
6.8 x 4.6 x 3.1 cm. A REMARKABLY fine, large and aesthetic specimen from this now well-known find! What makes this piece so special is its uncommon 3-dimensionality, with one platy hematite superimposed in front of another. The specimen has an almost perfect balance of shimmering, golden rutile crystals and metallic-looking tabular hematite.
2.8 x 2.6 x 1.8 cm. Beautiful pair of highly lustrous Hematite crystals, on matrix! The mirror-luster shows off wonderfully the delicate striations on the faces of these highly-modified crystals.
7.3 x 4.8 x 3.0 cm. An EXCELLENT specimen of sparkly, dark cherry-red andradite garnet crystals preferentially coating splendent hematite crystals and nicely accented by a glassy, colorless, complex calcite crystal from the famous Wessels Mine of South Africa.
4.0 x 3.2 x 1.2 cm. A striking specimen of this now well-known combo from Brazil, combining shimmering, bright golden acicular rutile crystals with shiny-metallic, platy crystals of hematite. This specimen has two stacked crystals side by side, and is beautiful on both sides - complete all around, with the contact on the bottom. The hematite really gleams, like a polished metal machine part!
7.2 x 5.5 x 5.3 cm. A CLASSIC, OLD-TIME and showy specimen of lustrous, chocolate-brown, botryoidal hematite "kidney ore" from the famed and long-closed iron mines at Egremont, England.
7.3 x 5.6 x 4.4 cm. A old-time, showy and excellent specimen splendent, striated, jet-black hematite crystals nicely accented with needle quartz from a classic locality - Rio Marina, Elba Isle, Italy. This is a highly representative specimen of the species and locality. Ex. George Elling Collection.
4.2 x 3.1 x 2.9 cm. A large, finely-formed, pseudo-scalenohedral crystal of hematite from the famous Wessels Mine. The crystal is complete, with natural contact and mineral attachment on the back side. It is decorated with little wind-colored andradite garnets. Fine, shiny-metallic face, very sharp! Circa 1980s.
10.2 x 6.8 x 1.8 cm. A showy, old-time CABINET pseudomorph plate of radiating clusters of rust-red hematite after actinolite blades from an uncommon German locality - the Maxhutte Mine, Saxony. Ex. George Feist Collection.
3.7 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm. Pakistan has produced a great variety of Titanite specimens, in a great range of colors and habits. Some of the varying finds include disc-like, tabular pinkish crystals and steep, honey colored wedge shaped crystals, but the most popular and attractive of all the habits of Titanite from this locality would have to be the rich grass green twinned crystals on Orthoclase (var: Adularia). These are "Alpine-type" Titanite crystals, and would be worth a great deal to any Alpine collector if there were found in Austria, Italy or Switzerland. In fact, these specimens are so indicative of true Alpine pieces, one can sometimes have a great deal of difficulty trying to discern which pieces are from Pakistan and which are from the Alps. This specimen features a very pronounced, sharp, highly lustrous, rich green color, twinned crystal of Titanite associated with a very gemmy, "Alpine"-quality, sharp, lustrous, doubly-terminated Quartz crystal which is included with silvery-black Hematite and sitting atop beautiful sharp, lustrous, porcelain-white Orthoclase (var: Adularia) crystal matrix.
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