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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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An English classic: transparent "Herkimer-style" quartz crystals to 1.8 cm on a sparkly black hematite matrix. The photo of the back shows a completely different aspect of the hematite, familiar from English "kidney-ore" hematite specimens. 6 x 4 x 1.5 cm
6.9 x 5.6 x 3.9 cm. This is a fine plate of chrysocolla covered with sparkly microcrystals of quartz that light up the surface. The blue band wraps all the way around the specimen.
6.8 x 3.9 x 2.8 cm. An elegant combination specimen from China, featuring a lone, slender quartz crystal rising above a bed of thin, platy hematites.
A double-dome of snowy quartz crystals from Colorado - big, showy and pretty. Ex. George Fisher Collection (notable colorado collector and dealer) 13 x 7.8 x 3 cm
5.7 x 3.4 x 3.4 cm. Well-known author and collector John Sinkankas self-collected this fine smoky quartz on cleavelandite from the famous Little Three Mine in 1965. The unusually blocky, complete all-around smoky has excellent lustre and is very transparent/glassy. The smoky quartz is beautifully perched on a bed of bladed cleavelandite.
6.5 x 6.4 x 5.2 cm. A superb combination specimen of numerous, silver-bright molybdenite crystals included in two, intergrown, terminated, water-clear quartz crystals. Three of the quartz crystal faces have been polished to better reveal the molybdenite crystals. Ex. Terry Szenics collection.
3.7 x 3.2 x 3.1 cm. Amethyst from Switzerland is rare, more so in a fine cluster, such as this from the Richard Hauck Quartz Collection. Glassy and lustrous, beautifully color saturated, enechelon, stair-stepped amethyst crystals, capped by the largest "steeple" at the top comprise this old-time, aesthetic piece. The two crystals in the front are doubly terminated.
5.5 x 4.0 x 2.2 cm. A classic combination specimen from the Nikolaevskiy Mine at Dal’negorsk of a sharp, lustrous, 1.5 cm, cuboctahedral galena crystal aesthetically perched atop a jumbled field of radiating quartz crystals coated/included with siderite. Tiny quartz scepters are noted at the tip of almost every quartz crystal. Ex. Ryan Bowling Collection.
This is a spray of crystals of rose quartz, the most desirable quartz variety, with fine transparency and nice pink color. 6.4 x 3.5 x 2 cm
9.2 x 7.8 x 3.3 cm. Sharp, isolated, lustrous sphalerite crystals (to 1 cm) on sparkling quartz background.
8.9 x 8.5 x 3.3 cm. This is a superb specimen where every one of the three species, sparkles brightly. The contrast, with the quartz vein winding over the sphalerite, and accented by golden siderite, is striking.
12.7 x 6.9 x 5.9 cm. An attractive large specimen with fat white quartz, draped upon by dolomite, in which sharp 1 cm arsenopyrite crystals are perched and peek through.
5.3 x 5 x 3.6 cm. A beautiful example of an association from Andreasberg of sparkling drusy quartz upon a large, translucent calcite rhomb.
6.3 x 5.7 x 1.7 cm. Sharp crystals to 1.25 cm of classic Neudorf, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany galena are emplaced on beautiful siderite, sparkling quartz, and very 3-dimensional. The siderite is translucent and sharp.
5.2 x 3.9 x 2.4 cm. A razor-sharp, isolated galena crystal of classic Neudorf form, 1.3 cm across, sitting on brilliantly lustrous golden siderite.
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