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3.7 x 2.6 x 0.7 cm. A sharp, thin floater crystal with excellent lustre and vibrant brown hue, from finds in the 1980s that are now modern classics and the pinnacle of alpine-type axinites. Sadly, the piece has minor edge wear, a few dings around the edges, which can be seen on close inspection. Still, the overall form, gemminess, and color add to the value and make it desirable as a good reference example from this important find. Ex. Charlie Key.
3.4 x 2.7 x .7 cm. A very fine doubly-terminated Axinite crystal from this famous locality. The 3 cm Axinite has superb luster, and is as gemmy as you are likely to find. There is one contact at the base, and typical chatter along some of the edges, but this remains a very aesthetic quality Axinite crystal. Ex. Charlie Key.
4.9 x 4.1 x 2.0 cm. A gemmy, very sharp and lustrous, 2.2 cm axinite crystal jauntily set on a thin matrix plate with smaller axinite crystals from the Shigar Valley of Pakistan. The large crystal is pristine and has beautiful clove-brown to plum-purple color with a very sharp beveled edge. A very showy and essentially damage-free specimen of this mineral from a pegmatite region, NOT from the traditional alpine clefts it is normally found in.
4.1 x 4 x 3.8 cm. Mined in 2005, this sharp axinite specimen features two large crystals (to 3 cm) that rise elegantly in back of a cluster of smaller crystals.
6.2 x 5.2 x 4.3 cm. A fine combination specimen of a line of gemmy and lustrous, reddish-orange hessonite garnets capping a vug lined with an earlier generation of gemmy and lustrous, honey-colored garnets. This specimen is complimented by a very glassy, striated, colorless axinite blade sandwiched between the two generations of garnets and a lustrous, 3.2 cm, milky quartz crystal. Ex. George Elling Collection.
3.1 x 2.2 x 0.7 cm. These Ferro-Axinite crystals came out of Russia for a short time in the late 1990s-early 2000s. This is a superb, highly lustrous, GEM/gemmy, trichroic smoky purple, red and brown color, doubly-terminated crystal cluster.
7.7 x 6.5 x 4.4 cm. A fine, old-time Cornwall axinite specimen from the Lord Calvert Collection. This large, old-timer features a very well-placed vug atop matrix filled with lustrous, brown axinite blades up to 1.0 cm. This piece is from a very uncommon Cornwall locality, the Rosevanion Quarry at St. Columbia. Ex. Dr. Mark Feinglos Collection.
4.5 x 4.0 x 4.0 cm. An aesthetic combination specimen of gemmy, very glassy, clove-brown axinite crystals with razor-sharp edges beautifully accented with lustrous calcite rhombs and a bit of green chlorite. Ex. Ryan Bowling Collection.
5.5 x 4.5 x 2.0 cm. A huge, well-crystallized, blocky and gemmy, clove-brown axinite crystal from a very uncommon locality for axinite - Minas Gerais, Brazil. This crystal is remarkably gemmy for its thickness. Some crystal faces are well-striated, while others are as smooth as glass. The intensity and variation in color saturations are fascinating. Ex. Ed Ruggiero Collection.
6.2 x 4.5 x 3.2 cm. Sharp, very gemmy axinite crystals to 7mm are covering this contrasting matrix.
5.4 x 3.4 x 2.4 cm. Here we have a significant matrix example from the type locality for axinite-(Fe). A classic, gorgeous, gemmy and lustrous, 3.6 cm, clove-brown axinite crystal is set on matrix and accompanied by a pristine, water-clear quartz crystal. Ex. Scott Williams Collection.
11.5 x 8.1 x 5.7 cm. A fine cabinet combination piece from the well-known, but abandoned Geigenberg Quarry of Austria. The quarry was mined for diabase. Two, fan-like clusters of lustrous, parallel-growth, olive-green clinozoisite blades are nestled in the center of a large vug and are surrounded and accented by milky quartz and light purple axinite, as distinct blades or in massive form. Ex. Rolf Wein Collection, an Alpine specialist and purchased in 1968.
5.5 x 2.4 x 0.8 cm. Most people today do not realize that before the finds from California and the Ural Mountains, in the last couple of decades, the world's best gem axinites came from Brazil (even if larger ones came rarely from Japan in the 1800s, they weren't gemmy). Bahia today produces many other minerals, but the axinite deposit seems to be gone. This beautiful, gemmy, transparent crystal is nearly a floater. It is doubly-terminated. According to museum records, this was in a Donahue collection. Ex. Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia Collection.
An exceptionally large and rich locality specimen of axinite, which is exceedingly rare in the County. Ex. Tim Sherburn Collection 6.5 x 6 x 2.4 cm
A beautiful pair of attached glassy axinites from the Polar Ural Mts.of Russia,. Great aesthetic form, excellent color and clarity, and superb luster with striations, make this a wonderful specimen. How many really good axinites do you come across that are affordable? 3.1 x 2.2 x .5 cm
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share specimen![Axinite-(Fe) from Dodo Mine, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Polar Urals, Western-Siberian Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-163269a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-163269a.jpg)
![Axinite from Dodo Mine, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Polar Urals, Western-Siberian Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-168079a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-168079a.jpg)
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![Grossular (Var: Hessonite), Quartz, Axinite-(Fe) from Vesper Peak, Sultan Basin, Sultan District, Snohomish Co., Washington, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-176368a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-176368a.jpg)
![Grossular (Var: Hessonite), Quartz, Axinite-(Fe) from Vesper Peak, Sultan Basin, Sultan District, Snohomish Co., Washington, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-176368b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-176368b.jpg)
![Axinite-(Fe) from Puiva (Pouyva) Mount, Saranpaul, Prepolar Ural, Khanty-Mansi (Khanty Mansiysk) Okrug, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Western-Siberian Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-176668a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-176668a.jpg)
![Axinite from Rosevanion Quarry, St Columb Major, Belowda Area, St Austell District, Cornwall, England, UK [db_pics/mdpics/MD-179429a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-179429a.jpg)
![Axinite from Rosevanion Quarry, St Columb Major, Belowda Area, St Austell District, Cornwall, England, UK [db_pics/mdpics/MD-179429b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-179429b.jpg)
![Axinite-(Fe), Calcite from Puiva (Pouyva) Mount, Saranpaul, Prepolar Ural, Khanty-Mansi (Khanty Mansiysk) Okrug, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Western-Siberian Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-190282a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-190282a.jpg)
![Axinite from Baixa da Brauna farm, Guajeru (Santa Rosa de Condeúba), Bahia, Northeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-190290a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-190290a.jpg)
![Axinite from Lucomagno pass (Lukmanier pass), Santa Maria Valley, Blenio Valley, Ticino (Tessin), Switzerland [db_pics/mdpics/MD-190552a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-190552a.jpg)
![Axinite-(Fe), Quartz from Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France [db_pics/mdpics/MD-192723a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-192723a.jpg)
![Clinozoisite, Quartz, Axinite-(Fe) from Geigenberg Quarry, Kirchham, Maishofen, Saalfelden, Salzburg, Austria [db_pics/mdpics/MD-201696a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-201696a.jpg)
![Axinite-(Fe) from Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Northeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-202001a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-202001a.jpg)
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![Axinite from Puiva (Pouyva) Mount, Saranpaul, Prepolar Ural, Khanty-Mansi (Khanty Mansiysk) Okrug, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Western-Siberian Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-20990a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-20990a.jpg)