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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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5.0 x 2.6 x 1.8 cm. A showy and excellent Pakistani specimen of a gemmy and lustrous, tri-colored, pencil tourmaline wrapped in pearlescent, bladed cleavelandite, and nicely accented by smaller tourmalines and a couple of quartz needles. The terminations of the tourmalines are indicolite blue, grading downward to green to black schorl. Classic and cute material from Stak Nala.
4.9 x 4.0 x 4.0 cm. Papagoite is a very rare copper-related silicate. This is a fine, unpolished, pristine natural quartz crystal that displays a rich zone of concentrated, turquoise-blue papagoite inclusions. This piece is from the famous, small, 1985 find from the Messina Mine of South Africa, source of the very best papagoite-included quartz crystals. The papagoite phantoms are fabulous. Complete-all-around. Ex. Rob Smith Collection.
4.1 x 2.8 x 2.2 cm. An aesthetic and cute cluster of four, intergrown, highly lustrous, divergent sprays of olive-green epidote crystals from the recent and small find in Afghanistan. The little quartz needles scattered about are a neat accent.
5.6 x 4.5 x 3.7 cm. A sharp, very gemmy and glassy, beautifully striated, amber calcite rhomb nicely set on matrix and beautifully framed by pastel-pink stilbite blades on the right and botryoidal, drusy quartz on the left. A very showy combination specimen from Jalgaon. Ex. Rob Lavinsky Collection.
10.5 x 8.5 x 5 cm. Citrine is VERY rare from Russia. This is a large, spectacular specimen; the crystals are gemmy as can be, with the beautiful and distinctive acid-yellow color peculiar to the best Russian citrines.
10.8 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm. Citrine is VERY rare from Russia. This one does not have the intense acid-yellow color that some Russian ones do, but a lighter amber hue. The large, intergrown crystals here are in fine condition and complete all around. You can see a patch of green inside from inclusions of chlorite.
8.2 x 6 x 6 cm. A fantastic 4-cm "ribbon" of pyrrhotite, standing fully exposed on a field of quartz. This super-sharp caterpillar-like composite of hexagonal crystals has a terrific brassy luster to it.
10 x 9 x 4.5 cm. While fluorites of this style from Dal’negorsk often appear with quartz, it is very unusual for larger, isolated quartz crystals to be intimately intergrown with the fluorites, as here. In fact, you even have quartz crystals spiking right through the fluorites! The fluorites are modified cubes with clear windows framed by frosty bevels; they measure to 3 cm.
8 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm. Dal’negorsk AMETHYST! This is from a very small, surprising find in 2006. The specimens are not world-class for the species, but the importance here is the locality; and, actually, they ARE rather pretty – with good transparency, glassy luster and a very delicate lavender color. Most of the asymmetry here is due to contacts: contact on this specimen is natural, where the crystals pressed up against other now-missing crystals around them; there is only one area of shallow damage in the lower-front. Still, very pretty, most unusual for the locale.
5.6 x 4 x 2.1 cm. Dal’negorsk AMETHYST! This is from a very small, surprising find in 2006. The specimens are not world-class for the species, but the importance here is the locality; and, actually, they ARE rather pretty – with good transparency, glassy luster and a very delicate lavender color. This is a nice single crystal, complete all around.
7.5 x 4.5 x 3 cm. Dal’negorsk AMETHYST! This is from a very small, surprising find in 2006. The specimens are not world-class for the species, but the importance here is the locality; and, actually, they ARE rather pretty – with good transparency, glassy luster and a very delicate lavender color. Almost pristine with just a few tiny dings. There are 3 fine crystals here, really gemmy.
9.5 x 6.5 x 5.5 cm. Dal’negorsk AMETHYST! This is from a very small, surprising find in 2006. The specimens are not world-class for the species, but the importance here is the locality; and, actually, they ARE rather pretty – with good transparency, glassy luster and a very delicate lavender color. This is the best specimen we saw from the find, and actually can hold its own with good amethysts from other more familiar amethyst localities. And, it has a distinct pretty hue all its own.
7.0 x 5.4 x 5.2 cm. A SUPER and RARE combination specimen from the famous Stewart Mine. This really showy specimen features a CLASSIC, 1.5 cm, gemmy and lustrous, "hot" pink tourmaline embedded in the termination of one of two glassy, smoky quartz crystals. A super-gemmy and glassy, 2.3 cm, pink morganite is also nested in the bed of pearlescent cleavelandite blades. OLD and choice material from the 1960s or 70s. Ex. Chris Korpi San Diego collection.
5.0 x 2.5 x 2.1 cm. An OLD-TIME, water-clear quartz crystal FILLED with acicular crystals of valentinite and a few, starkly contrasting stibnite needles from the Bloody Canyon Mine of Nevada. The very glassy quartz crystal is complete all-around and is very nearly pristine. Outstanding, RARE and classic material from the Richard Hauck Quartz Collection.
2.3 x 2.0 x 1.6 cm. A rich and showy specimen of bright, microcrystalline and hackly gold in hydrothermal quartz from an uncommon Japanese locality - the Nakase Mine on Honshu Island. Highly representative of the species and locality. Older material from the John Ydren Collection. He obtained this from the Burton Jirgl Collection, a dealer who had spent much time in Japan after the 1940s and amassed a sizable and important reference suite, all well documented.
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share specimen![Tourmaline, Albite (Var: Cleavelandite), Quartz from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169806a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169806a.jpg)
![Papagoite, Quartz from Messina mine, Messina District, Limpopo Province, South Africa [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169810a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169810a.jpg)
![Epidote, Quartz from Balochistan (Baluchistan), Pakistan [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169837a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169837a.jpg)
![Calcite, Stilbite-Ca, Quartz from Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169839a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169839a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Citrine) from Olkhovka, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Polar Urals, Western-Siberian Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169973a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169973a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Citrine), Chlorite Group from Olkhovka, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Polar Urals, Western-Siberian Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169974a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169974a.jpg)
![Pyrrhotite, Quartz from Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169975a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169975a.jpg)
![Pyrrhotite, Quartz from Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169975b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169975b.jpg)
![Fluorite, Quartz from Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169980a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169980a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Bor Pit (Boron Pit; Bor Quarry), Dal'negorsk B deposit, Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-170072a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-170072a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Bor Pit (Boron Pit; Bor Quarry), Dal'negorsk B deposit, Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-170073a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-170073a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Bor Pit (Boron Pit; Bor Quarry), Dal'negorsk B deposit, Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-170074a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-170074a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Bor Pit (Boron Pit; Bor Quarry), Dal'negorsk B deposit, Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-170076a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-170076a.jpg)
![Beryl (Var: Morganite), Elbaite, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Stewart Mine (MS 6162; Stewart Lithia), Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala; Queen), Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-170551a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-170551a.jpg)
![Quartz, Valentinite, Stibnite from Bloody Canyon mine, Star District, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-170556a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-170556a.jpg)
![Gold, Quartz from Nakase mine (Nakaze mine), Yabu-gun, Hyogo Prefecture, Kinki Region, Honshu Island, Japan [db_pics/mdpics/MD-170558a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-170558a.jpg)