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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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12.7 x 9.3 x 6.0 cm. Here we have a superb old-time English Quartz and Fluorite specimen from Weardale. This piece features dozens of sharp, white, lustrous, "stubby" Quartz crystals coating very good sized, gemmy, purplish cubic Fluorite crystals. The Quartz crystals seem to have a higher concentration along the edges of the Fluorites and are thinner on the actual Fluorite faces. These pieces are English classics, and seldom seen in such high quality display specimens on the market today. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
22.0 x 5.6 x 4.1 cm. A huge, magnificent, doubly-terminated crystal that one has to acknowledge as one of the largest such ever to come out of the Himalaya and survive. The mine is notorious for its rough handling in situ of gem pockets, and most large tourmalines are irreparably broken in the pockets. This one snapped cleanly in the middle while in situ, and has been very expertly repaired now. It is not just big, but actually elegant, as well. I love the contrast of the two terminations: one a superb cityscape of elongated towers; the other a sharp an unusually lustrous basal termination with an attached quartz crystal. The piece is a floater, complete-all-around. The color on this is intense, no pale pink but a deep red hue throughout, with good translucency as well. Weighs 576 grams. Ex. William Larson Collection.
7.0 x 4.8 x 3.3 cm. A sharp, doubly-terminated, 2.2-cm crystal sits smack in the middle of this plate of beautiful, sparkling quartz, surrounded by sidecar crystals.
5.7 x 5.1 x 2.5 cm. This one features a SHARP crystal to 1.8 cm on edge, shooting off the matrix. It is complete, 3-dimensional, and terminated all around!
6.0 x 5.9 x 3.0 cm. Each cluster here is about 3 cm tip to tip, perched atop a plate of contrasting quartz matrix for admirable display. The back of the scheelite clusters is contacted, but the display face is pristine.
7.4 x 5.8 x 3.4 cm. Beautiful red-orange scheelites mounded up one atop another, with crystals to 1.2 cm, on contrasting matrix.
5.3 x 4.1 x 3.1 cm. This specimen features a starkly contrasted, sharp, freestanding, 2.75-cm long crystal (2.5 cm and 2.2 cm in depth and width). The crystal is complete all around and is extremely 3-dimensional, with great aesthetics upon its perch!
5.6 x 5.2 x 3.4 cm. This is the gemmiest crystal I have yet seen, looking more like a garnet than a scheelite, softly nestled in amongst sharp, gemmy quartz points! The crystal measures 2 cm longest dimension, and leaps out at you visually. It’s a superb piece from any locality.
9.6 x 7.9 x 3.2 cm. Gemmy, orange-red spessartine garnets are isolated on a bed of feldspar, with three smoky quartz points (sprinkled with very tiny spessartines) rising at one end of the matrix.
9.7 x 5.9 x 5.4 cm. A rich Eastern European galena specimen distinguished by its very ornate, complex crystals. All of them have these wonderful stepped faces. Intergrown with the galenas are some frosty quartz crystals.
7.6 x 4.9 x 2.9 cm. Here is a smoky quartz specimen that is both highly aesthetic and really interesting! The crystals range from the classic prismatic quartz form all the way to a weirdly flattened tabular crystal. This is a floater cluster with ALL TERMINATIONS COMPLETE!
2.4 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm. A thumber of Swiss smoky quartz that amply show why they are the standard by which all other smokies are judged - with gem-like clarity and glassy luster.
6.7 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm. A super-ELEGANT specimen of uvite tourmaline and quartz, because the quartz crystal hosting the uvites is so slender, gemmy and fine - and the uvites stand out so dramatically on its faces. The largest uvite measures 0.7 cm.
7.9 x 3.2 x 2.9 cm. This is a large crystal of amethyst from Brandberg, famous for their beautiful "blushes" of internal color (rather than being all purple), along with gemminess and surface luster.
2.8 x 1.9 x 1.6 cm. Jasper has replaced a ball of bladed baryte, retaining the form of the baryte blades perfectly. This is an unusual old-timer thumbnail specimen from Moab.
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