|
Mineral Specimens with Quartz
(click on a page number to go to that page:)
page 136 / 372 - prev - 5579 specimens selected - next
8.5 x 5.5 x 4.0 cm. Superb and uncommon, very glassy, transparent, light purple fluorite dodecahedrons to 1.6 cm are scattered on matrix covered with glassy, colorless quartz crystals and nicely accented with calcite rosettes. A superb combination piece from the Nikolaevskiy Mine at Dal’negorsk. Note that the fluorites are even more interesting for their wispy inclusions of what seems to be acicular quartz, grown through them like needles into the purple depths.
9.9 x 5.2 x 3.3 cm. An old Maine specimen, a fascinating compound crystal that is complete and doubly-terminated, showing parallel growth of its subcrystals. A coating of hematite gives it an orangey-red tone. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
6.2 x 4.2 x 2.2 cm. This is a rare tabular crystal, very glassy. It has a really attractive accenting cluster of smaller crystals at the bottom. The termination is natural and has what appears very much like a faden line running down from it through the crystal. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
6.5 x 4.9 x 3.6 cm. A really aesthetic example of this now-familiar combo from Tongbei, with a single, complete and undamaged smoky rising off the matrix wrapped by gemmy, sparkly orange spessartines.
8.9 x 7.8 x 5.7 cm. Out of the Hauck Collection, here is a big, rich, beautiful pocket full of sparkly quartz on chrysocolla.
11.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 cm. A very interesting pseudomorph specimen from China, where sparkly microcrystals of quartz have pseudomorphed crystals of a first generation of Calcite that has been completely replaced leaving sharp scalenohedral forms. These pseudomorphs sit on a large chunk of massive green fluorite.
17.3 x 9.9 x 8.4 cm. A big cluster of very gemmy quartz crystals shot through with orangey-red acicular crystals of rutile. This is rare Alpine material and came out of the Wein Collection.
8.5 x 8.2 x 4.8 cm. A cluster of tightly-intergrown large crystals of arsenopyrite from the finds in China. These arsenopyrite crystals have attractive accenting milky quartz crystals with them. There are individual crystals here to over 2.5 cm.
3.5 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm. A transparent quartz crystal richly shot through with acicular, golden needles of rutile - classic from Brazil. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
9.5 x 8.8 x 5.1 cm. The vast majority of Brandberg quartz specimens are not matrix specimens, but single crystals - prized for their stunning clarity and "blushes" of internal color isolated in the clear quartz. This crystal shows superb luster and clarity. But, it also has the prized chevron patterns of smoky and purple hues inside. What is more, the matrix it is framed by is covered not only by quartz crystals, but also has little shiny olive-green epidotes on it. You can see some tiny epidotes, as well as bright red lepidocrocites included inside some of the quartz crystals.
7.2 x 1.8 x 2.3 cm. This is a sharp, very gemmy single citrine crystal, with superb glassy luster and fine symmetrical form. There is a patch of pretty green chlorite included inside.
8.3 x 5.9 x 4.9 cm. From the personal collection of Gilbert Gauthier, a rich, flowery specimen of quartz crystals with a rich pea-green coloring from internal inclusions of hedenbergite. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
5.3 x 2.7 x 2.0 cm. A fine specimen of water-clear, glassy, tabular quartz crystals with a very distinct curved faden or "string" running the length of the piece from a recent find in Pakistan. Most of the crystals are doubly terminated and the piece is nearly pristine.
10.0 x 7.9 x 4.0 cm. An old-time and aesthetic cabinet cluster of super lustrous, brick-red, hematite-coated quartz crystals from a classic German locality - Wolsendorf, Bavaria. This very fine example, uniquely called eisenkiesel in Germany, has the typical beautiful red color and is nearly pristine. Ex. Crunden, Dr. Otto Runge and Richard Hauck Collections.
6.0 x 5.8 x 5.3 cm. A contemporary classic and very aesthetic combination piece from the famous Nikolaevskiy Mine at Dal’negorsk. A 2.5 cm, super sharp, iridescent, brassy metallic, tabular pyrrhotite hexagon proudly rests vertically atop a sloping matrix covered with quartz needles, and galena and pyrite crystals.
(click on a page number to go to that page:)
page 136 / 372 - prev - 5579 specimens selected - next
Rob Lavinsky, rob@irocks.com
All Content and Design ©1996-2012 The Arkenstone
Mineral Specimens by species; or
by specimen id.
|
share specimen![Fluorite, Quartz, Calcite from Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-182992a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-182992a.jpg)
![Fluorite, Quartz, Calcite from Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-182992b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-182992b.jpg)
![Quartz from Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183875a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183875a.jpg)
![Quartz from Hot Springs, Garland Co., Arkansas, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183891a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183891a.jpg)
![Spessartine, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183898a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183898a.jpg)
![Quartz, Chrysocolla from Globe, Globe Hills, Globe Hills District, Globe-Miami District, Gila Co., Arizona, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183913a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183913a.jpg)
![Quartz, Calcite, Fluorite from Taolin Mine, Yueyang City, Yueyang Prefecture, Hunan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183929a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183929a.jpg)
![Quartz, Rutile from Krumlbach valley, Hüttwinkl valley, Rauris valley, Hohe Tauern Mts, Salzburg, Austria [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183932a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183932a.jpg)
![Quartz, Rutile from Krumlbach valley, Hüttwinkl valley, Rauris valley, Hohe Tauern Mts, Salzburg, Austria [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183932b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183932b.jpg)
![Arsenopyrite, Quartz from Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183942a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183942a.jpg)
![Quartz, Rutile from Ibitiara, Bahia, Northeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183943a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183943a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst), Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz), Epidote, Lepidocrocite from Brandberg area, Brandberg District, Erongo Region, Namibia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183954a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183954a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Citrine) from Olkhovka, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Polar Urals, Western-Siberian Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183964a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183964a.jpg)
![Quartz, Hedenbergite from Mega Horio, Serifos Island (Seriphos), Cyclade Islands (Cyclades; Kikladhes; Nomos Kikladhon), Kykládes Prefecture, Aegean Islands (AiyaÃon) Department, Greece [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183969a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183969a.jpg)
![Quartz from South Waziristan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Pakistan [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183972a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183972a.jpg)
![Quartz, Hematite from Wölsendorf Fluorite mining District, Schwandorf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183989a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183989a.jpg)
![Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Galena from Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-183992a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-183992a.jpg)