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If you can get past the fact that they are "just" pyrites, you have to admit that these PERFECT cubes on matrix from Spain are amongst the most striking crystals in the mineral kingdom. Non-mineral people usually cannot believe that they form naturally, in fact! This is a LARGE, PRISTINE cube, wonderfully isolated and fully exposed on the matrix. It measures 2.5 cm on edge and has a mirror-golden luster. A fabulous-looking specimen! 7.5 x 5.8 x 4.4 cm
What a dazzling new discovery! On selective edges of the calcite crystals on this large cluster is bright, golden pyrite - even brighter and more amazing than the pics show! The result is so dramatic and eye-catching! Got these about a month ago from a close and good contact in China who brings us now and then wonderful new things that have not been seen yet....these are SO pretty, in person. We have the best of the lot so far, and are waiting to see if more come! 10.6 x 9.6 x 5.0 cm
Talk about dramatic - here is a sharp, fine pyrite crystal, isolated in the middle of a field of glossy, bladed hematite crystals. This is old specimen is from Elba Island off of Italy (site of one of Napoleon''s exiles, by the way), but also known for fine pyrite specimens. teh composition is striking! Big, impressive old European specimen! 11.3 x 11.2 x 10.5 cm
Just beautiful - little milky dogtooth calcites, sprinkled on a cluster of striated crystals of brassy pyrite. Another fine Eastern Euro specimen! 7.4 x 4.7 x 4.0 cm
Another Gene Meieran specimen, and again, you can see why he had it in his fine collection, even though it is "just" a Peruvian pyrite. A small percentage of them are just SO aesthetic - this one, for example, has these wonderful deep striations on the faces of the crystals (the largest is over 3 cm on edge), and bevels on the crystal edges. There is a ding on the back corner away from the display face, so it does not really matter much. The way the big crystal is nestled amongst the smaller ones - well, I think you can see why I think this is a cut above the quantities of pyrites coming out of Peru. 6.0 x 5.1 x 4.3 cm
One of several Zacatecas classics in this auction, all from different sources - this one, from the collection of Ed Ruggiero, and still with his index card, showing him to have acquired it in 1975. His card says it was sold to him as tennantite on quartz, and that he had in addition found the sphalerite and pyrite crystals. IN person they are all quite easy to see, and the presence of this snowy white quartz serves to beautifully isolated this combination of crystals. In places, you can see where crystals of one type have grown atop crystals of another - they are wonderfully mixed up on this pretty old piece! 13.9 x 10.8 x 7.8 cm
What a dazzling new discovery! On selective edges of the calcite crystals on this large cluster is bright, golden pyrite - even brighter and more amazing than the pics show! The result is so dramatic and eye-catching! Got these about a month ago from a close and good contact in China who brings us now and then wonderful new things that have not been seen yet....these are SO pretty, in person. We have the best of the lot so far, and are waiting to see if more come! Presented in this update are the three best so far . . . 16.5 x 9 x 5 cm
What a dazzling new discovery! On selective edges of the calcite crystals on this large cluster is bright, golden pyrite - even brighter and more amazing than the pics show! The result is so dramatic and eye-catching! Got these about a month ago from a close and good contact in China who brings us now and then wonderful new things that have not been seen yet....these are SO pretty, in person. We have the best of the lot so far, and are waiting to see if more come! Presented in this update are the three best so far . . . this one does not have as dense a covering of pyrite, but makes up for it in size and brightness of crystals – for someone who likes BIG specimens. 18.5 x 12 x 5 cm
Killer thumb - A translucent, softly-colored specimen of rhodo from this classic locale, complete all around! 2.4 x 2.3 x 2.1 cm
What a dazzling new discovery! On selective edges of the calcite crystals on this large cluster is bright, golden pyrite - even brighter and more amazing than the pics show! The result is so dramatic and eye-catching! Got these about a month ago from a close and good contact in China who brings us now and then wonderful new things that have not been seen yet....these are SO pretty, in person. We have the best of the lot so far, and are waiting to see if more come! Presented in this update are the three best so far . . . 12.5 x 6.5 x 6 cm
In a recent update was a specimen from this find that sold four times over. So I am happy to be able to present another piece from the same incredible pocket! Rather than being a single large calcite crystal, this is a profusion of sharp smaller rhombs, but decorated with the same bright, sparkly, colorful iridescent pyrite that made this limited find at the Bor Pit so spectacular. The calcite rhombs measure up to 3.5 cm. 13.5 x 9 x 8 cm
ex. Marilyn Dodge
It is hard to argue with how aesthetic this lustrous and complex pyrite crystal is sitting in the calcite. For sheer quality, this is hard to beat for a franklin pyrite, I am told. Beyond that, it is an important historical specimen that, I am told, would have been collected in the mid-1800s. It has Harvard #113145 attached to the side and an old dealer price of $275 on the original thumb box
ex. Dr. Eugene Meieran
Heavily striated, beautifully formed cubes of lustrous pyrite, are additionally blessed with small, but perfect, incipient, octahedral faces at the corners. The largest modified cube is 2.5 cm tall. I must say that this is one of the nicer miniature pyrite specimens I have seen from ANY locality.
ex. Martin Zinn
This is a superb example of this rare nickel species, with brilliant hulk-green crystals to 1 cm in a protected cavity in a quartz geode. I believe this is the world's best locality for the species....at least, I have not seen good honessite from other places for sale. Honessite is MUCH more rare than the millerite found in geodes from this hard-to-collect locality (I know, i collected there as a kid!). The location is a roadcut along a major state highway, now completely off-limits to collectors.
This combo piece features several cubes of fluorite, to 2.8 cm across , which have been coated by drusy, lustrous pyrite crystals. All this is aesthetically perched on a lustrous, radiating knoll of quartz crystals, reaching 1.0 cm across. COMPLETE ALL AROUND and brighter in person! An unusual yet interesting Moroccan piece!
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