|
Mineral Specimens with Quartz
(click on a page number to go to that page:)
page 168 / 372 - prev - 5579 specimens selected - next
3.6 x 2.2 x 2.2 cm. A fine sceptre of multi-colored quartz from the famous Brandberg locality. There are two crystals here: a smaller purple one, which has grown tightly against a sceptred crystal with an amethystine "stalk" and smoky sceptre cap.
WOW! The pics of this amazing specimen pretty much speaks for it, but beyond that it won the prestigious Savinar prize for best San Diego specimen at the Los Angeles club show last year. It is one of the finest large Himalaya specimens I have handled, and really stands elegantly apart from most because of its dramatic termination and its amazing perch on matrix. Now, it is repaired onto the matrix cleanly but the tourmaline itself is miraculously not repaired, and moreover it is pristine! The tourmaline crystal is 14.5 x 4 x 3.75 cm. it has good color, not the best but not pale either, and nice color-zoning. the termination is REALLY unusual. i have seen very few himalaya tourmaliines with such wildly divergent terminations like a spray of crystals with intensified color, erupting from a common center! this colorful and 3-dimensional termination is one of the best things about the piece. Lastly, the 13 x 9 x 4.5 cm quartz has some small broken but rehealed (in situ) areas to it. it is a complete FLOATER all around, with no attachments to the quartz or the tourmaline - amazing! 20 x 9 x 7.5 cm
6.9 x 4.4 x 3.9 cm. An elegant floater specimen of milky quartz from South Africa, featuring two doubly-terminated crystals that have grown across one another. The crystals have stepped, milky faces wrapped around an interior, earlier generation of growth with a smooth surface.
12.4 x 7.9 x 6.8 cm. A very uncommon Argentine specimen of fluorite that came out of the collection of Dave Stoudt, featuring light green octahedra to 1.5 cm on a matrix of sparkly quartz. Some of the tiny quartz points have grown right on the surface of the fluorites. The quartz itself forms a "seat" in shape, and is sparkling and bright. Very unusual material obtained by Dave Stoudt while there on oil business.
20.9 x 16.9 x 10.9 cm. A very large and dramatic specimen from the exciting finds in China around 3 years ago - deep green, lustrous crystals of epidote scattered amongst quartz crystals. Some of these crystals have red hematite inclusions inside them. We have shot both sides of this large specimen, as there are crystals on both sides; this was a ridge in a pocket that allowed crystals to form on both sides.
Small white hambergite crystals perched on quartz, itself on a matrix of a feldspar fragment. 4.9 x 4.5 x 2.2 cm
5.7 x 3.7 x 3.6 cm. Papagoite is a very rare calcium, copper, aluminum silicate hydroxide. This is a superb, unpolished natural quartz crystal that displays a rich zone of concentrated, blue papgoite inclusions. This fine piece is from the small, 1985 find from the Messina Mine of South Africa. The papgoite phantom is beautiful. Ex. Rob Smith Collection, who marketed the 1985 find.
6.7 x 5.1 x 3.5 cm. A rare, superb combination specimen of many sceptered quartz crystals dominating the skyline and beautifully complimented with contrasting, sharp lustrous sphalerite crystals. Sceptered quartz from the famous Alimon Mine of Huaron, Peru is very rare and this is an exceptional specimen from the locale from the Dr. Eugene Sensel and George Elling Collections. The note on the back of the Sensel label states that he bought the piece in 1988 from Dick Hauck.
6.5 x 6.5 x 3.5 cm. A superb, old-time, and extremely rich combination piece of gemmy, honey-brown eosphorite blades festooned on beautifully contrasting, glassy rose quartz on a 3-dimensional matrix of smoky quartz. This fine, rare combination piece is from 1960s-70s finds at the Lavra da Ilha pegmatite, located on a island in the Jequitinhonha River, Minas Gerais. The pegmatite could only be mined when water levels were low. Ex. George Elling Collection.
10.1 x 8.0 x 4.9 cm. A fine cabinet combination piece from the Morchnerkar area of Austria. Lustrous anatase crystals to 3 mm are scattered on a jackstraw matrix of very glassy, transparent quartz crystals. Sagenite or mesh-like, herringbone-patterned, wine-red rutile needles are located near the anatase crystals. Ex. Rolf Wein and Josef Stuckl Collections.
6.5 x 4.8 x 3.0 cm. A striking and aesthetic quartz crystal from the Yaogangxian Mine of China. A complete all-around, water-clear, glassy quartz crystal has a superb, preferentially coated chlorite phantom, with the lower portion of the front of the quartz crystal also preferentially coated with chlorite. A beautiful surprise on the back features two, gemmy and lustrous, purple fluorite cubes.
11.1 x 3.3 x 1.9 cm. A superb, highly lustrous, striated, sharply terminated, cabinet sized schorl crystal beautifully accented with water-clear quartz crystals and bladed, snow-white albite from recent finds in the Shigar Valley of Pakistan. The large, 2.5 cm, quartz crystal is doubly terminated. Ex. Gene Meieran Collection.
A sparkly coating of hubeite, apophyllite, and secondary quartz microcrystals makes this large quartz point really spectacular! The photos do no accurately show how sparkly and just darned beautiful this specimen is. A few inesite clusters add an extra accent. NOT your average quartz crystal! The sparkles cover 4 faces of the 6-sided quartz point. The other two faces are normal, glassy quartz as you''d expect. 14 x 6 x 5 cm
A BIG (10-cm), fine, doubly-terminated kyanite crystal, perfectly excavated without damage sticking up off of its matrix of quartz. Fine blue color and excellent luster! 10.5 x 8.5 x 3.2
WONDERFUL spessartines, with superb color and luster, are isolated on the matrix amongst smoky crystals to 3 cm, with some having grown right on the smokies! Some damage to the tip of the large smoky, but not a big detraction in the overall scheme of things. 8.5 x 8.5 x 8 cm
(click on a page number to go to that page:)
page 168 / 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![Quartz (Var: Amethyst), Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Brandberg area, Brandberg District, Erongo Region, Namibia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-203931a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-203931a.jpg)
![Tourmaline, Quartz from Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-20394a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-20394a.jpg)
![Quartz from Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province, South Africa [db_pics/mdpics/MD-203953a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-203953a.jpg)
![Fluorite, Quartz from El Gaudro Mine (Mina El Gaudro), Talampaya, La Rioja, Argentina [db_pics/mdpics/MD-203988a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-203988a.jpg)
![Fluorite, Quartz from El Gaudro Mine (Mina El Gaudro), Talampaya, La Rioja, Argentina [db_pics/mdpics/MD-203988b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-203988b.jpg)
![Epidote, Quartz from Jinkouhe, Ebian Co., Leshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-204029a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-204029a.jpg)
![Epidote, Quartz from Jinkouhe, Ebian Co., Leshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-204029b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-204029b.jpg)
![Hambergite, Quartz from Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-20404a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-20404a.jpg)
![Papagoite, Quartz from Messina mine, Messina District, Limpopo Province, South Africa [db_pics/mdpics/MD-204044a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-204044a.jpg)
![Quartz, Sphalerite from Alimon Mine (Animon Mine), Huaron Mining District, San Jose de Huayllay District, Cerro de Pasco, Daniel Alcides Carrión Province, Pasco Department, Peru [db_pics/mdpics/MD-204054a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-204054a.jpg)
![Eosphorite, Quartz (Var: Rose Quartz) from Ilha claim, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-204055a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-204055a.jpg)
![Anatase, Sagenite, Quartz from Mörchnerkar, Mörchner area, Zemmgrund, Ziller valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria [db_pics/mdpics/MD-204058a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-204058a.jpg)
![Anatase, Sagenite, Quartz from Mörchnerkar, Mörchner area, Zemmgrund, Ziller valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria [db_pics/mdpics/MD-204058b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-204058b.jpg)
![Anatase, Sagenite, Quartz from Mörchnerkar, Mörchner area, Zemmgrund, Ziller valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria [db_pics/mdpics/MD-204058c.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-204058c.jpg)
![Quartz, Chlorite Group, Fluorite from Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-204183a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-204183a.jpg)
![Quartz, Chlorite Group, Fluorite from Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-204183b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-204183b.jpg)
![Schorl, Quartz, Albite from Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan [db_pics/mdpics/MD-204200a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-204200a.jpg)
![Schorl, Quartz, Albite from Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan [db_pics/mdpics/MD-204200b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-204200b.jpg)
![Hubeite, Inesite, Quartz from Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper mine), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-20438a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-20438a.jpg)
![Kyanite, Quartz from AraçuaÃ, Jequitinhonha valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-20440a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-20440a.jpg)
![Spessartine, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-20493a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-20493a.jpg)