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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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8.2 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm. What you have is crystals of purple fluorite clearly visible inside transparent quartz crystals. This one has 4 crystals inside it, and unlike the great majority of these, is doubly-terminated and undamaged, with a little sidecar crystal that is also in perfect condition.
6.1 x 5.4 x 4.4 cm. These are sharp crystals of olive-green epidote in a cluster nestled amongst transparent quartz crystals.
6.4 x 5.9 x 2.8 cm. An old-time New Hampshire combo specimen that came with an old J. Cilen label. One main smoky sticks up about 2 cm from the bladed albite. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
7.4 x 2.6 x 1.6 cm. A razor-sharp Dinkey Creek smoky quartz, in superb condition; very dark, with a bit of gemminess at the top. Glassy luster. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
21.9 x 18.4 x 10.4 cm. This is a huge plate of crystals, with the distinctive yellow color, from hematite (which normally gives a rusty/red tint, but in this case, yellow (note that the specimen was shot under pretty bright light). These crystals are long and elegant, up to over 7 cm in length.
15.2 x 14.5 x 7.4 cm. A superb specimen of amazingly sharp and dramatic octahedrons of fluorite on stark white quartz. This one has just the balance you want of green with purple edge highlights. The crystals here measure to 2 cm.
8.9 x 5.8 x 4.9 cm. A bizarre Georgia quartz specimen, with a large quartz crystal that has somehow grown an amethyst reverse scepter on a broken-off shard at its tip! The large quartz crystal broke off in the pocket, and the amethyst formed later - both as this scepter, and also in a complexly-crystallized patch at the other end of the quartz. The little scepter has terminations at both ends. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
6.9 x 6.8 x 6.4 cm. A superb specimen of North Carolina amethyst. The large crystal is surrounded by smaller ones, giving the specimen beautiful overall aesthetics. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
14.5 x 7.4 x 5.8 cm. What you have here is an anchoring crystal that looks like it has been split down the middle by a bar of gemmy parallel crystals. So, one side of the anchoring crystal is dramatically bent out to the side as if it were made from rubber. It really looks almost as though the bar of parallel crystals were rammed into the base crystal, bending it out to the side. On the other side is a rocket-like crystal with multiple terminations. And then there is the row of transparent crystals themselves - terminated on both ends, and bending up and off of the anchoring crystal. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
12.2 x 9.2 x 2.6 cm. These crystals are like razor-sharp bars of glass. The color you are seeing is from a layer of a dark mineral underneath the crystals. The calcites themselves are absolutely colorless like water. The largest crystals measure 3.5 cm. They sit on a bed of small quartz crystals.
6.2 x 3.7 x 1.3 cm. From the prime worldwide lazulite locality, sharp, deep teal-blue crystals to 1.2 cm, in assocation with quartz and siderite. Ex. Rod Tyson Collection.
4.2 x 3.5 x 3.3 cm. An aesthetic and excellent mounded specimen of lustrous, dark olive-green epidote crystals interspersed with glassy, transparent quartz crystals from the famous Green Monster Mine of Alaska. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
6.2 x 3.3 x 3.2 cm. Two superb, intergrown, gemmy and lustrous, reddish-orange wulfenite crystals to 1.3 cm set atop quartz matrix from the famous 2003 find at the Red Cloud Mine. The sharply beveled corners are distinctive and classic.
6.8 x 4.0 x 1.4 cm. An old-time and superb specimen of lustrous, discrete, forest-green olivenite crystals strewn across a sliver of quartz from the famous Wheal Gorland of Corwall. Ex. John Ydren Collection.
3.8 x 2.9 x 2.4 cm. A superb specimen from Brandberg, Namibia of doubly terminated, very gemmy and glassy, intensely purple, amethyst scepters perched, stair-step-like on a doubly terminated smoky quartz crystal. Ex. Charlie Key dealer stock.
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