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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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8.5 x 6.0 x 3.5 cm. An excellent epidote on quartz combination specimen from this small Chinese quarry from a find about 3-5 years ago. Bundles of lustrous, green epidote crystals richly coat the base of both sides of the very showy jackstraw cluster of lustrous, lightly frosted quartz crystals. The dominating quartz cluster at the top is 3.4 cm long.
7.5 x 5.8 x 5.8 cm. A large, fine, 3.5 across rhodochrosite rhomb with excellent, cherry-red color and lustre rests atop this excellent specimen from recent Chinese finds. This large crystal sits on a quartz matrix with needle quartz and is nicely accented by smaller rhodochrosite crystals, purple fluorite and sparkly pyrite microcrystals.
9.5 x 7.9 x 6.5 cm. A distinctively different, very showy schorl and quartz specimen from recent finds in the Shigar Valley of Pakistan. These high lustre schorls have an unusual fibrous look to them. The dominating, upright schorl, at 7.8 cm tall is striking and is slightly bent. The quartz crystal, studded with and included with schorl crystals, is actually doubly terminated, pristine and is 6.0 cm long.
15.2 x 10.8 x 6.8 cm. A fine, large cabinet combination specimen from recent finds at Jalgaon. The typical curved basalt vug is prominently highlighted by a superb, 5.7 cm wide cluster of very glassy, prismatic, green apophyllite crystals. The band of pearlescent, light peach-colored stilbite blades along the top and scattered in the vug are a super accent to the vug lining of light pink, popcorn-style drusy quartz.
5.5 x 4.0 x 2.4 cm. An aesthetic and fine Elmwood specimen of pristine, lustrous, translucent, color-zoned, purple fluorite cubes set on matrix. The lightly frosted cubes rest on a sliver of quartz matrix covered with tan dolomite crystals. Classic material from this famous and now-closed mine.
13 x 9.5 x 4.4 cm. Glassy, gemmy “flowers” of quartz crystals, the larger of which are amethyst. Much of the matrix has epidote on it, which contrasts nicely with the amethyst. There are tiny red (hematite?) blebs, most noticeably in the center of the piece that look nice on the glassy crystals. Unusually for the locale, it is almost colorless rather than purple in the cores – quite different than the norm. Hence the title of the piece as amethyst on quartz – only the few larger points have any color, and they show starkly against the smaller clear crystals below.
6 x 4.7 x 4.5 cm. Classic material for this pegmatite. Two double terminated tourmalines (with good luster, to 4.7 cm) on double terminated quartz. Albite penetrates the crystals as is typical of this locality, and a white coating covers the albite and some faces of the quartz crystal. The top and bottom of the quartz crystal has nice luster and you can see through the faces into the center of the piece. The bottoms of the tourmalines are a gemmy light green, which grade into the dark green typical of this locality. The top terminations are achroite with pink at the very top of the termination.
7.3 x 4.7 x 3.8 cm. A euhedral, sharp, colorless/white Quartz crystal hosts light green, gemmy, complex crystals of Fluorite from the Huanzala mine in Peru. This piece is from the Richard Kosnar collection and was found in the 1980s.
5.2 x 2.5 x 2.3 cm. This piece is not a typical Sphalerite from Elmwood as the smaller crystal on the end of the specimen is especially gemmy and has a superb blood-red color, not a brown red, but a true red.
6.1 x 3.3 x 2.1 cm. Richard Kosnar mined the Sweet Home for a few years during the late 1970's and managed to collect some excellent Rhodochrosite specimens. This piece is from one of the last pockets that Rich opened before he was done at the mine. The Rhodochrosite crystals on this specimen have good red color with excellent sharpness and gemminess. They are associated with minor cubic purple Fluorite on thin "needle" Quartz crystals on sulfide matrix. The largest Rhodochrosite crystal measures 1.6 cm across. This mine is now completely defunct, and will never produce these world class Rhodochrosite specimens again. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
An excellent cluster of metallic-bright heubnerite blades on milky doubly-terminated quartz crystals from the famous Huayllapon Mine, Pasto Bueno District, Peru. Extremely aesthetic whereas most of these are somehwat clunky or just singles. 5.4 x 4.7 x 1.5 cm
A showy thumbnail cluster of rose quartz crystals from the famous Plumbago Mountain occurrence in Newry, Maine. These were very uncommon. This specimen is from the Gene Meieran Quartz collection. 2.1 x 1.3 x 0.9 cm
An EXQUISITE epidote specimen, one of the most elegant we have seen from anywhere, that is far better in person than in the photos (this one comes SATISFACTION GUARANTEED). The spray of finely-terminated epidote is perched on the tips of silky, terminated quartz crystals. it was actually photographed in a position different from what we would have chosen - in reality, it sits naturally, without a base, with the cluster of the the best quartz crystals just below and in front of, and setting off, the lustrous spray of epidote sitting on the tips of the quartz crystals in the back. 5.0 x 3.8 x 3.0 cm
A stunning and uncommon combo specimen from Azerbaijan (better known for military unrest). It features a beautiful translucent ball of calcite on a bed of velvety moss-green epidote, with gemmy quartz crystals adding an accent and euhedral magnetite crystals on the back! 6.2 x 5.5 x 4.2 cm
4.7 x 2.9 x 1.4 cm. Monazite gets its name from the Greek word "monazein", which means "to be alone", in allusion to its isolated crystals and their rarity when first found. Monazite is usually found in granitic pegmatites, but these crystals are found in hydrothermal tin veins where is an absolute absence of Thorium (usually a trace element in Monazite). This is a remarkable, very well crystallized, very rare specimen consisting of a sharp, lustrous, translucent, orange-pink, twinned crystal group of Monazite-(Ce) measuring 8 mm on Quartz crystals on matrix. The crystals actually perform a color change in different lighting ranging from orange-pink to a white/yellow depending upon the light source. This piece is from the same mine for which this material was discovered along the Contacto and San Jose veins in this mine and was first described by Sam Gordon and Mark Bandy.
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