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Mineral Specimens with Hematite
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Andradite garnet here completely coats on all sides, like a drape, the underlaying hematite crystal which has perfect crystallography and now looks like a sparkling red hematite more than anything! That crystal is 2.7 cm tall. Pristine and complete, this is a most unusual display specimen! 4.8 x 4.5 x 3.8 cm
So reflective that you can see your face i nit (or the hand of our photographer as you see here), this is a brilliantly mirror-lustrous, COMPLETE crystal of hematite, that makes for a dramatic miniature. The large crystal is perched on two small crystals at its base, and is a floater. It has some contact asymmetry on the backside, but is not damaged and is crystallized all around. We did not clean the back, leaving some pocket clay on to prove this point. The sides are as razorsharp and lustrous as the front, and as bright! It displays in a case like a reflective mirror, and is one of the finest, if not the priciest, hematites in the update. 5.1 x 4.3 x 2.0 cm
15.4 x 10.2 x 8.8 cm. Two GIGANTIC, translucent calcite crystals, with hematite coloring selectively on the faces on one side, giving this specimen an amazing presence and emphasizing its strange scaly faces! This is not, as some Chinese specimens are, from a big find with lots of pieces available, but is quite unique and specimens like it are certainly not widely available; in fact you will not see anything like it with any Chinese dealers these days. This large showpiece came out of the collection of Ed David.
13.0 x 12.5 x 5.5 cm. A CLASSIC, OLD-TIME and SHOWY English CABINET plate RICHLY covered with lustrous, pink, hematite-tinted calcite scalenohedrons in a jackstraw pattern from Cumbria. The largest calcite is 3.1 cm. This is certainly one of the most desirable and uncommon in good specimen calcite varietals from Egremont. The label states that this piece is from an old collection, 1890. Ex. George Elling Collection.
9.6 x 7.8 x 5.5 cm. Very glassy and lustrous beta quartz crystals to 2.6 cm are aesthetically scattered on mounded matrix covered with sparkly, black hematite blades on this CLASSIC, OLD-TIME and showy specimen from the famous Florence Mine of Egremont, England. The matrix is fascinating in itself, being a skeletal-looking, hematite kidney ore. Ex. George Elling Collection.
8.4 x 7.0 x 5.3 cm. A LARGE and showy, mirror-bright and striated, euhedral, black hematite crystal partially encased in complimentary magnesite from the famous Brumado deposit of Brazil. This is a significant, big Brumado hematite, highly representative for the locality, which is not diminished by the scattered contacting. Ex. George Elling Collection.
8.9 x 6.9 x 5.0 cm. No, these are not bright little red garnets . . . They are tiny crystals of super-sparkly calcite, some of which have inclusions of deep red hematite - giving them this uniquely jewel-like look! What is particularly nice is that the red ones stand out against the surrounding brownish ones, providing a sharp contrast that makes the piece even prettier. Unique and pretty!
11.9 x 8.8 x 5.4 cm. A large, beautiful specimen of Thunder Bay amethyst, which is so distinctive that you know what it is a mile away - due to the rich inclusions of rusty-red hematite that gives it this wonderful color. You can see the very dark purple of the amethyst around the bottom of the crystals. These are BIG crystals, with the typical glassy luster.
16.3 x 14.5 x 8.7 cm. A large specimen decked wall-to-wall with quartz included by rusty-red hematite and with specular hematite around the base. This specimen is in fact a solid mass of quartz and hematite - the crystals are all the way around, back, front and sides, and you can display the piece from any number of angles beautifully. These old Frizington quartzes-with-hematite are huge European classics, and this superb example passed through the Harvard Mineralogical Museum and the collections of Ed David and Richard Kelley.
10.0 x 7.0 x 4.3 cm. Very glassy and lustrous, smoky quartz crystals to 2.3 cm are aesthetically scattered on mounded CABINET matrix covered with sparkly, black hematite blades on this CLASSIC, OLD-TIME and showy specimen from the famous Florence Mine of Egremont, England. The matrix is fascinating in itself, being rounded, matte-finish galena. A couple of the quartz crystals are very lightly bruised or contacted, but this remains an excellent representation of these species from a famous locality and looks good from several points of view. Ex. George Elling Collection.
6.6 x 4.9 x 4.9 cm. These elegant Le Chang quartzes have such a "classic" look to them, with their subtle rusty-red hematite inclusions giving them a look similar to some English calcites. The quartz matrix at the bottom has a sprinkling of shiny black specular hematite as well. The crystals here measure to 3.5 cm in length; they lean in towards one another to make a very aesthetic specimen.
5.4 x 2.9 x 2.1 cm. These have to be some of the most interesting and pretty pseudomorphs in the mineral kingdom - though much better in person than in the pics. What you have is a magnetite crystal that has been pseudomorphed by sparkly magnetite - with skeletal "wings" with pronounced ribs on either side of the central spine. This is a really sharp and aesthetic one, beautifully balanced!
11.3 x 7.0 x 4.2 cm. We have lately been featuring some very unusual specimens from the old Santa Eulalia mining area, and this is no exception: a branching, floater cluster of translucent calcite crystals richly included with hematite, which gives them their color. The calcites are complex compound crystals, growing out from a central area in roughly a V pattern.
6.5 x 5.5 x 5.0 cm. A DRAMATIC and AESTHETIC Chinese specimen of a 3.1 cm, water-clear quartz crystal "lighthouse" set on a rocky promontory of bladed hematite rosettes. The 3-dimensional form and composition of this showy piece is outstanding.
6.3 x 5.4 x 2.8 cm. A wonderfully ornate pseudomorph from Argentina! This is a familiar pseudomorph type from this locality, the hematite having replaced sharp crystals of magnetite, the form of which are easily visible. This one formed a number of separate "towers", and is really unique!
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