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5.8 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm. This fine combination specimen is from an old and little-known locality – Sierra Rica, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scintillating, spherical clusters of midnight-blue azurite blades and isolated azurite blades have grown on the tips of quartz crystals of a light blue color from a thin coating of a copper-rich mineral. Ex. Consie Prince Collection.
6.4 x 4.8 x 2.6 cm. Gemmy and lustrous rose quartz crystals fill a well-placed vug in rose quartz and quartz matrix on this fine, old-time specimen from Newry, Maine. Adjacent rose quatz crystals have a subtle tan tint. Pegmatite 24 was discovered in 1942, before rose quartz was discovered in Brazil. Ex. Bob Whitmore Collection.
9.2 x 6.9 x 4.1 cm. A fine, 3-dimensional specimen from the famous, but less well-known Deardorff Mine of the Illinois Fluorspar District. Well-placed and isolated sphalerite and fluorite crystals are set like jewels on the coral-like, drusy quartz matrix. The 1.3 cm, fuchsia, fluorite cube and 1.7 cm lustrous, twinned, jet-black sphalerite are stunning in their crestal locations. Smaller sphalerite and fluorite "jewels" are nestled in the drusy quartz framework. This is classic, old-time material from this mine dating from the 1930s to 1950s, as the mine closed in the early 1960s. The Deardorff was considered to be the specimen mine of this period in Southern Illinois.
5.9 x 3.6 x 2.1 cm. A dramatic, floater, doubly terminated, strawberry quartz crystal tinted red from inclusions of hematite - very rarely seen from this locality. This is a pristine crystal with striking translucence. It has fine form and the flattened, contacted back, has no damage, per se.
7.8 x 5.3 x 4.2 cm. A striking, 5.2 cm, smoky quartz crystal "sentinel" is fully "clothed" on all sides with gemmy and lustrous, orange spessartines and "guards" impressive feldspar "porch" covered with spessartines and two smokyquartzes. Only the termination of the smoky lacks spessartines. The pointed termination is frosted. Complete all-around and pristine, this is an outstanding spessartine garnet and smoky quartz specimen from recent Chinese finds.
11.8 x 10.4 x 4.9 cm. This is a fascinating cabinet pseudomorph specimen from a find in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Two interestingly shaped knobs of upright, parallel-growth, poker-chip crystals of calcite have been pseudomorphed by sparkling quartz. This is from the same find that included pseudomorphs of quartz after fluorite. I really like the sculptural aspects of this piece and the variable amounts of iron oxides tinting the pseudomorphs, especially on the edges. Ex. Elling Collection.
12.0 x 11.8 x 10.0 cm. A striking and beautiful cabinet cluster of sharp, glassy, transparent smoky quartz crystals from recent finds at Brandberg, Namibia. The two large crystals are complete-all-around and are pristine. These crystals have razor-like edges and incredible crystal face patterns, interior color zoning and interior crystal growth features.
8.5 x 2.8 x 2.4 cm. The famous quartz crystals from Denny Mountain, Washington are highly desirable, difficult to obtain, and very dangerous to collect. Several people have lost their lives collecting there, over the years. This striking, strongly tapering crystal is aptly called a "dagger" quartz crystal for its shape. The sharp, transparent termination is smoky quartz and it includes an interesting phantom. The glassy shaft or "blade" is glassy, milky quartz with a smoky quartz edge stripe and all sides have very distinctive skeletal and stepped-growth features. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
11.0 x 9.0 x 9.0 cm. A beautiful cabinet specimen of a glassy, highly lustrous, translucent, black quartz crystal accompanied by smaller crystals on one side. The crystals are di-pyramidal with no prism faces and are called morion quartz by some people (I know not why) and beta quartz by others on the market. This is old material from a few famous finds in Brazil. These are high temperature quartz crystals, technically quartz ps. after beta quartz (see MINDAT for a further explanation under "Quartz-beta" at http://www.mindat.org/min-7395.html). The fine, large, complete-all-around crystal is very nearly pristine. Older material from the Richard Hauck Quartz Collection; and hails from an uncommon Brazilian locality - the Recruta Farm, Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia.
6.4 x 4.5 x 4.3 cm. Lustrous, steel-gray, cuboctahedral galena crystals to 2.7 cm form an elegant and fine specimen from recent finds at the Borieva Mine of Bulgaria. The 3-dimensional cluster of galena crystals is beautifully framed by two water-clear quartz points. Some of the galena crystal faces have a preferential coating of green chlorite. Very nearly pristine.
5.0 x 4.8 x 3.6 cm. A beautiful and rare pseudomorph specimen from Switzerland. I have not personally seen another like this - which I obtained from a US dealer at the Munich show in 2005 or 2006. Waxy lustred, pink quartz has pseudomorphed a sharp, 2.5 cm, fluorite octahedron, that is aesthetically framed by glassy, smoky quartz crystals. The pseudomorph and smoky quartzes are set on weathered granite matrix. Quartz pseudomorphs after fluorite are very rare from any worldwide locality.
5.3 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm. A fine specimen from Tsumeb. An elongate vug in lined with very pleasing, apple-green cuprian smithsonite rhombs. The gemmy and lustrous, stout crystals reach 7 mm and the matrix is massive milky quartz. Quartz is relatively uncommon at Tsumeb. The older, handwritten label accompanying the piece says Arlene Handley, Oct. 1972.
16.5 x 10.9 x 6.8 cm. Translucent, stepped-face, cuboctahedredral fluorite crystals to 3.3 cm are aesthetically scattered on the on the mounded matrix of popcorn quartz on this fine large cabinet specimen from recent finds at the De’an Mine of China.
5.7 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm. Two beautiful, gemmy and lustrous, multi-colored liddicoatite tourmaline crystals to 2.3 cm are perched on the side of a glassy, translucent, euhedral smoky quartz crystal. Camp Robin is a new Madagascar locality and this excellent piece is from the 2006 find. The complexly crystallized, very glassy faces are alive with interior colors ranging from raspberry-red to sherry-brown. The large crystal is doubly terminated, with one of the termination faces being lightly frosted.
18.4 x 14.2 x 5.8 cm. An impressive large cabinet okenite specimen from recent finds at Jalgaon, India. Soft-to-the-touch velvety puffballs of okenite very richly and aesthetically cover the undulating basalt vug lined with sparkly, drusy, gray chalcedony. The okenite balls consist mostly of microscopic acicular crystals. All Content and Design ©1996-2012 The ArkenstonePowered by http://mineralwebsites.comMineral Specimens by species; or by specimen id. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
share specimen![Azurite, Quartz from Sierra Rica, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-239898a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-239898a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Rose Quartz), Quartz from Rose Quartz Crystal Locality (Pegmatite 24), Newry, Oxford Co., Maine, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-239913a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-239913a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Rose Quartz), Quartz from Rose Quartz Crystal Locality (Pegmatite 24), Newry, Oxford Co., Maine, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-239913b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-239913b.jpg)
![Fluorite, Sphalerite, Quartz from W.L. Davis-Deardorff Mine, Ozark-Mahoning Group, Cave-In-Rock Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-239915a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-239915a.jpg)
![Quartz from Almaty Oblysy (Almati Oblast'), Kazakhstan [db_pics/mdpics/MD-239919a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-239919a.jpg)
![Spessartine, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-239921a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-239921a.jpg)
![Quartz, Calcite from Ourika Valley, High Atlas Mts, Atlas Mts, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-239930a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-239930a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg area, Brandberg District, Erongo Region, Namibia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-239939a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-239939a.jpg)
![Quartz from Denny Mountain, King Co., Washington, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-239941a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-239941a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from http://www.mindat.org/min-7395.html). [db_pics/mdpics/MD-240019a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-240019a.jpg)
![Galena, Quartz from Borieva mine, Madan ore field, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria [db_pics/mdpics/MD-240023a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-240023a.jpg)
![Quartz, Fluorite, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Frunthorn Mt., Lake Zervreila, Vals Valley, Lugnez Valley (Lumnezia Valley), Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden), Switzerland [db_pics/mdpics/MD-240025a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-240025a.jpg)
![Smithsonite (Var: Cuprian Smithsonite), Quartz from Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-240143a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-240143a.jpg)
![Fluorite, Quartz from De'an Mine, De'an Co., Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-240146a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-240146a.jpg)
![Liddicoatite, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Camp Robin area, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar [db_pics/mdpics/MD-240228a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-240228a.jpg)
![Liddicoatite, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Camp Robin area, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar [db_pics/mdpics/MD-240228b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-240228b.jpg)
![Okenite, Quartz (Var: Chalcedony) from Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India [db_pics/mdpics/MD-240230a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-240230a.jpg)