|
Mineral Specimens with Quartz
(click on a page number to go to that page:)
page 221 / 372 - prev - 5579 specimens selected - next
7.1 x 3.6 x 2.4 cm. A fine piece from the Hedgehog Pocket (known for its quartz associations) with sharp rhodochrosites to 1 cm, and little quartzes poking out between them. The lustre and color is high and even more importantly the translucency/transparency of the crystals is good.
12.3 x 8.5 x 7.1 cm. A beautiful, elegant stalactite of amethyst from the classic locale of Uruguay. This piece, however, is an older one, dating back probably 40 years. It was until recently in the Richard Hauck quartz collection. It is complete all around, and has intense, deep, grape-juice color. The highest quality alone though, does not make these more than lumps of purple unless you get form, too. And this stalactite, complete all around, has that good form.
12.4 x 6.9 x 3.8 cm. A 600-gram Smoky Quartz crystal of substantial size for this classic locale, from a famous find of the mid-1990s. Gem smoky quartzes of this elongated, tapered style can be found at other locations, but what made this find special was not just the root-beer color and great gumminess, or the elegant tapering form – those sharp chevron-like phantoms are really just mesmerizing, and not seen in other smoky quartzes. This piece is huge and is complete literally all-around except for a faint, tiny ding in the back of the tip and a truly trivial bit of edge wear. Ex. Bob Nowakowski Collection.
9.9 x 8.9 x 7.4 cm. This is a superb combination piece of the style that made this region famous as the world’s best rose quartz locale, some 40 years ago now. The central crystal of quartz is smothered by wreaths of crystallized rose quartz, making for dramatic display. The color of the rose quartz is striking, deep pink against the quartz matrix. Old material, seldom seen in sizable specimens nowadays.
I have never even seen a tourmaline with rose quartz from these old localities?! This one just floored me! It is a smoky quartz specimen from one side, a smoky with rose quartz from another angle, and a tourmaline on multicolored quartz specimen from yet a third angle of view!. The smokies are nearly pristine (just minor ding here and there) and are very gemmy and lustrous. The rose quartz forms a wreath around 50% of the circumference of the specimen. The tourmaline, which is a true indicolite for its blue hue, measures 4 cm from end to end and is perched on teh side of a smoky, with its termination facing into the rose wreath. Now, the tourmaline upward-facing end IS broken or frankly this would be a mega-priced rock, but still its a very attractive and highly interesting combination piece from classic 70''s era or older localities in Brazil. ex. Dr. Gary Hansen dealer stock and not shown since early 1980s. 10.1 x 9 x 7.2 cm
Just a super little cluster! ex. Dr. Gary Hansen dealer stock and not shown since early 1980s. 4.5 x 2.8 x 1.5 cm
Just a really nice amethyst specimen from this region famous for big tonnage of amethyst cathedrals…but how often do you see a smaller specimen, up to par with specimen quality and not merely a deco rock, from this productive locality? It is just a good amethyst from somewhere that we usually ignore as providing anything more than decorator pieces in this regard. ex. Dr. Gary Hansen dealer stock and not shown since early 1980s. 10.5 x 6.8 x 4.9 cm
A gorgeous, pristine and aesthetic little cluster of translucent amethyst and smoky quartz crystals from Brandberg, Namibia. 3.0 x 2.7 x 1.9 cm
A very showy combination specimen from the famous Yaogangxian Mine of China of large, transparent, lustrous and striated quartz crystals with sharp, lustrous to iridescent golden chalcopyrite crystals, lustrous silver metallic stannite crystals and tiny quartz crsytals at the base of the quartz crystal cluster. There is even a stannite crystal included within the base of the largest quartz crystal! One edge of the tallest quartz crystal near the termination was contacted at one time, but has healed and is now dusted with micro sulfide crystals. 5.7 x 5.1 x 4.4 cm
An aesthetic specimen of blue quartz coating a chrysocolla stalactite and the wall of a vug of solid chrysocolla from the famous Ray Mine of Arizona. 3.8 x 3.1 x 2.5 cm
A very interesting Himalaya Mine combination piece of very gemmy and lustrous pencil tourmalines to 2.5 cm long and euhedral microcline crystals embedded in and on a lustrous, transparent and terminated smoky quartz crystal. 6.7 x 4.6 x 4.0 cm
An superb, pristine, aesthetic and gorgeous Red Cloud wulfenite thumbnail of a sharp, lustrous and gemmy 1.1 cm wulfenite crystal perched on a quartz crystal with a small piece of quartz attached to one edge of the wulfenite crystal. Front and back views are given of the superb specimen. You will not have many more opportunities to obtain pieces of this quality, as the Red Cloud Mine is now permanently closed. 2.5 x 2.5 x 1.9 cm
A really excellent amazonite and smoky quartz combination piece from the recent work at the Take 5 Claim in Teller County, Colorado. The robins-egg blue amazonite crystals are lightly frosted on the sides and the smokies have excellent lustre. This is about the finest of the mixed Colorado buyout lot that we obtained from Collectors Edge. Expertly repaired 2 times, as many fine amazonite and smokies have been repaired due to tectonic movement in the pockets. 6.0 x 3.4 jx 3.1 cm
12.9 x 10.4 x 7.5 cm. Gem-like, blocky to tabular, honey-brown baryte crystals to 1.6 are studded on the massive green fluorite matrix with a sparkling multitude of smaller baryte crystals on this fine cabinet specimen from finds in China a couple of years ago. Sadly, very few of these pretty specimens have come out, and one wonders if any more will.
5.7 x 1.9 x 1.6 cm. An excellent, doubly terminated, smoky quartz scepter from recent finds in Namaqualand, South Africa. The scepter has very interesting color zoning and the crystal has good lustre, with gently striated faces. These fine South African smoky quartz crystals show both wonderful clarity and gorgeous form - long, slender and elegant and rival Swiss and Brandberg smoky quartz. Smoky quartz scepters from Namaqualand are very uncommon.
(click on a page number to go to that page:)
page 221 / 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![Rhodochrosite, Quartz from Sweet Home Mine (Home Sweet Home Mine), Mount Bross, Alma District, Park Co., Colorado, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-245189a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-245189a.jpg)
![Rhodochrosite, Quartz from Sweet Home Mine (Home Sweet Home Mine), Mount Bross, Alma District, Park Co., Colorado, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-245189b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-245189b.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from San Eugenio, Artigas Department, Uruguay [db_pics/mdpics/MD-245198a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-245198a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from San Eugenio, Artigas Department, Uruguay [db_pics/mdpics/MD-245198b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-245198b.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Silent Grove Mine, Torrington, Clive Co., New South Wales, Australia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-245200a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-245200a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Silent Grove Mine, Torrington, Clive Co., New South Wales, Australia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-245200b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-245200b.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Rose Quartz), Quartz from Sapucaia Mine, Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-245202a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-245202a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Rose Quartz), Quartz from Sapucaia Mine, Sapucaia do Norte, Galiléia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-245202b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-245202b.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz), Quartz (Var: Rose Quartz), Tourmaline from Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-24525a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-24525a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Guerrero, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-24526a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-24526a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Rio Grande do Sul, South Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-24531a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-24531a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst), Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Brandberg area, Brandberg District, Erongo Region, Namibia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-24536a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-24536a.jpg)
![Stannite, Quartz, Chalcopyrite from Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-24538a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-24538a.jpg)
![Quartz, Chrysocolla from Ray Mine, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District (Ray District), Dripping Spring Mts, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-24541a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-24541a.jpg)
![Tourmaline, Microcline, Quartz from Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-24545a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-24545a.jpg)
![Wulfenite, Quartz from Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, Trigo Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-24546a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-24546a.jpg)
![Microcline (Var: Amazonite), Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Take 5 claim (Take Five claim), Crystal Peak area, Teller Co., Colorado, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-24549a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-24549a.jpg)
![Baryte, Quartz from Xiefang Mine, Ruijin Co., Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-245491a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-245491a.jpg)
![Baryte, Quartz from Xiefang Mine, Ruijin Co., Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-245491b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-245491b.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province, South Africa [db_pics/mdpics/MD-245501a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-245501a.jpg)