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ex. Charlie Key
This huge plate consists of lustrous and translucent quartz crystals, to 3.0 cm in length, heavily included reddish-iron color by hematite. Most of the crystals are leaning in one direction, toward the top of the specimen as if away from the direction of flow within the vug. Fiery color, pristine condition - and HUGE !
ex. Charlie Key
Clearly emanating from milky or colorless cores, these orange colored, hematite included, lustrous and translucent quartz crystals, to 2.5 cm in length, make an attractive LARGE plate of color contrasts.
ex. Charlie Key
The beauty of this quartz plate lies in two areas. Several crystals are not only doubly-terminated , but appear to have grown as "bow ties" with a main crystal being wreathed by smaller crystals displaying parallel growth. Then there is the exquisite light rose color emparted by hematite inclusions, along with the glassy and translucent highlights of the crystals. The largest "bow tie" is 6.0 cm in length. Aesthetic as it can be!
ex. Charlie Key
WOW! This magnificent specimen of glassy and gemmy quartz crystals is mostly a light smoky in color, with intense color centers of deep lavender. Several crystals are sceptered with clearly defined phantoms. The largest crystal is 9.0 cm in length. Especially for the locality, such pieces in this size are rare and almost unheard of!
ex. Charlie Key
Amazing, visually stunning, piece with electric and chatoyant deep green, primary malachite perched on the blue quartz! The deep blue color is caused by shattuckite investing the quartz, so its sparkly and bright, not dull. A single non-included clear quartz is in the middle of the natural pedestal that serves as a base for the 2-inch , doubly-terminated malachite crystal! The color contrast is simply AMAZING. Note also the accenting shattuckite rosette atop the upper-left of the malachite !
ex. Charlie Key
This is one of Charlie's two best ilmenites...he said that he rushed to the find, when they came out, and obtained the best of the lot along with only one other SA collector (whos epiece was pictured recently in the MR for comparison). Charlie felt that for size and sharpness, and overall display, this is the best. You can see it is a very 3-dimensional specimen with beautiful, geometric form and a really nice complementing balance of smokies with the ilmenites amongst which they grow. I think these are world class ilmenites for the species, especially because they are relatively beautiful and less earthy than usual in this size. The smokies, and the perfection of the piece overall in its display, make it of a quality for any collector to consider, not just those who like the "rare uglies"!
ex. Charlie Key
A somewhat more elegant but less massive specimen featuring, this time, an ilmenite perched ON the smokies instead of vice versa. This specimen ALSO HOSTS, in the middle zone of sparkling brown you see there, ferberite and a small 8 mm topaz as well as probably other species that are micros. It is extremely aesthetic, overall, for what it is...and the crystal is complete around the upper termination and sides around to the back face
ex. Charlie Key
One of the choicest thumbnails in the collection, featuring a transparent, read-through, blue aqua perched on smoky! What perfect, complementing balance! The aqua rises through the smoky, which has grown around the base of the aqua. No damage, and complete and pristine all around save for a very shallow natural contact on the smoky that is hard to see anyhow, at its base. The aqua has PERFECT and highly bevelled termination
ex. Charlie Key
Beautiful contrast, from this snowy blanket of drusy quartz laying over the top and back of a deeply colored amethyst! Comes with custom lucite display base.
ex. Charlie Key
Wow! What a juxtaposition! I cannot imagine how such a thing came to be, but here it is - smoky off one hlaf (sceptred as a bonus); and amethyst shooting the other way! Comes with custom lucite display base. Pristine and complete all around.
ex. Charlie Key
Another surprising combination of quartz colors on the same specimen, with both amethyst and smoky quartz zones within the same crysatl - not phantoms with discrete layering but truly MIXED up and contrasting wildly! You almost never see this effect carried off so well...usually the result is ugly, not pretty. Also, the crystal has fantastic glassy lustre and extreme transparency, so it practically glows. Pristine and complete all around except for one tny ding on the back of the term. Comes with custom lucite display base.
ex. Charlie Key
A shocking find, to me. I had never seen this style of quartz from Namibia til now...and Charlie had a whole flat of them of which this is one of the few best. The contrast is really striking, as with so many of his quartzes - collected with an eye to the unusual. Pristine and complete all around. Comes with custom lucite display base.
ex. Charlie Key
The suite of Oranje River quartz was one of Charlie's prides, built up over 20 years as this locality steadily produced a trickle each year. This is one of the most dramatic pieces, i fnot the largest (we have plates to 12 inches!), featuring the most intense red coloring due to hematite inclusions. It is a pristine and lustrous specimen with excellent 3-dimensionality and form, much more apparent in person. The largest crystal is 8 cm. Comes with custom lucite display base.
ex. Charlie Key
Incredible contrast in two common varietals of quartz, resulting in a NOT so common specimen! This is complete and well formed all around! Comes with custom lucite display base.
On a matrix of drusy, gray quartz, are two botryoids of dark lemony- tan color fluorite. The largest hemisphere of fluorite measures 4 cm across and 1.75 cm high. The luster is muted but the fluorite is translucent and the color is outstanding. There is no doubt in my mind that this habit is best seen in Indian fluorites, and botryoidal fluorite in general is quite rare in nature. This is a very choice example of this habit, which really only started to appear on the market from a new zone hit about 5 years ago. . All Content and Design ©1996-2012 The ArkenstonePowered by http://mineralwebsites.comMineral Specimens by species; or by specimen id. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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