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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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11.9 x 7.0 x 4.4 cm. A beautiful and aesthetic cabinet plate from the 1998 find at the Lily Mine of Peru. Three sharp, transparent, wonderfully striated gypsum crystals to 2.5 cm are nicely set on very sparkly, drusy quartz-coated matrix. Tufts and individual crystals of green atacamite are richly strewn across the piece and some of the atacamite is included in the gypsum crystals. The primary, atacamite tuft-included gypsum crystal is indeed, striking. These were at first wrongly marketed as "brochantite inclusions in gypsum".
4.9 x 4.5 x 4.2 cm. A very aesthetic Japan-law twin quartz crystal specimen from recent finds in Peru. The Japan-law twin is superbly set on a bed of quartz points and looks great from either side. The lustrous, flattened, tabular crystals are water-clear to lightly frosted, striated and have interesting, beveled edges. This is an excellent Japan-law quartz crystal specimen, with textbook crystal form.
4.7 x 1.9 x 1.4 cm. A rare and beautiful, complete-all-around, doubly terminated amethyst scepter from an uncommon South Korea locality - Eonyang. The purple zoning in the amethyst scepter is fascinating in this pristine, flattened crystal and the other quartz termination is an equally striking, reverse scepter. Ex. Richard Hauck Quartz Collection.
2.3 x 1.8 x 1.6 cm. Bright, translucent, emerald-green botryoids richly coat the quartz matrix of this unique and exceptionally fine thumbnail specimen of the rare phosphate philipsburgite from the Type Locality - the Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg Area, Montana. The bulk of the philipsburgite actualy lies on the base of a very sharp, iron oxide-coated quartz crystal. Very uncommon in this quality. Ex. John White Collection. This is certainly the style found from the type pocket, as well, I am told.
8.8 x 7.5 x 2.9 cm. The Finch Mine is famous for these pseudomorphs of quartz after wulfenite. This striking piece consists of two, distinctly different vugs. One vug is richly filled with reddish-orange wulfenite blades coated with sparkly drusy quartz. The other, starkly contrasting vug is lined with botryoidal, gray quartz with far fewer wulfenite blades. The few broken crystals reveal the quartz-coated wulfenite blades. This mine has also produced the rare specimens where the drusy quartz has totally pseudomorphed the wulfenite crystals.
6.4 x 4.7 x 3.1 cm. A lustrous, twisted schorl tourmaline crystal is aesthetically set on quartz crystals on this showy and unusual specimen from the Shigar Valley of Pakistan. The schorl was distorted from pressure during growth in the pocket and is complete-all-around and pristine. Both the large quartz the schorl rests on and the large quartz on the side of the schorl are doubly terminated and both are pristine. This is a floater specimen. Very interesting and unusual.
13.2 x 9.5 x 5.0 cm. A fine cabinet specimen of glassy, vivid purple amethyst crystals from the Thunder Bay District of Ontario, Canada. The large crystal is 3.1 cm across and many of the crystals have interesting purple color zoning. As is typical of many Thunder Bay amethysts, inclusions of brown hematite add a very distinctive and beautiful look. This very fine piece is nearly pristine.
MD-249328 - Quartz, Albite (Var: Pericline), Calcite, Rutile - - Archived
Erfurt way, Grieswies-Schafkar, Grieswies - Krumlkeeskopf Mt. area, Hüttwinkl valley, Rauris valley, Hohe Tauern Mts, Salzburg, Austria
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12.0 x 11.9 x 6.4 cm. An uncommon, fine, cabinet combination specimen from the less well-known Erfurt Way locality in Austria. Quartz and pericline (an albite varietal) are rare from here, but here we have a very glassy complex of quartz crystals nicely accented with a couple of clusters of bone-white pericline crystals, scattered snow-white calcite rhombs and lustrous, wine-red rutile needles included in the quartz crystals. Ex. Alois Steiner and Rolf Wein Collections.
10.0 x 5.3 x 2.7 cm. A fine locality piece. It has elongated dark tourmalines attached to a vertical quartz crystal cluster. Ex. William Larson Collection.
12.5 x 7.8 x 2.7 cm. A beautiful polished section of a large and unusually clear quartz crystal, showing delicate, individual sprays of montmorillonite within. The pale pink sprays are beautiful, unusual, and unique in this form to the mine. Considered a locality classic. Ex. William Larson Collection.
8.5 x 6.5 x 2.9 cm. An old and little-known location today, the Esmeralda was mined heavily in the early 1900s and this piece may well date back that far. It is unusual in that citrine is rare for the county. Ex. William Larson Collection.
8.6 x 7.0 x 5.3 cm. A 7 x 5 x 4 cm schorl in association with quartz and albite - a great combination piece, unusual for the locality in both its size and aesthetic arrangement. Ex. William Larson Collection.
9.7 x 8.7 x 8.5 cm. Morganite from this mine is, typically, admixed with aquamarine and of pale color. This is an unusual specimen with barrel-shaped hexagonal crystals, extremely gemmy and clean inside, to 3.5 cm. The horizontal crystal, 3.5-cm across, is complete and doubly-terminated. The slightly fatter crystal, approximately 3 x 3 x 3 cm in size, has a shallow, conchoidal, curving break on its upper edge of the termination. Ex. William Larson Collection.
11.6 x 10.2 x 8.9 cm. This hillock of albite, stark white and bladed, hosts a 4 x 4 x 3 cm multicolored tourmaline crystal atop. It is, in person, fairly gemmy when backlit with even a half decent light. It has the classic purple zoning of some tourmalines from this mine, and excellent lustre. Although there is a crack in one lateral line through part of the tourmaline, it does not go through and the piece is unrepaired, as the albite held it solidly together. Matrix examples of these purple-capped Stewart pieces are uncommon and this is an excellent example. Weighs 1200 grams. Ex. William Larson Collection.
9.8 x 6.4 x 4.3 cm. This beautiful smoky quartz hosts a 6-cm-long, doubly terminated apatite crystal - a particularly rare species from this mine, and a huge crystal of it. The ghostly white apatite is terminated on the bottom quite nicely, and etched or contacted into a scepter shape on its top termination. The contrast of the two forms is appealing. The quartz is a floater, complete-all-around, even terminated on the bottom. Ex. William Larson Collection.
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![Gypsum, Atacamite, Quartz from Lily Mine (Lilly Mine), Pisco Umay, Ica Department, Peru [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249242a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249242a.jpg)
![Gypsum, Atacamite, Quartz from Lily Mine (Lilly Mine), Pisco Umay, Ica Department, Peru [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249242b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249242b.jpg)
![Quartz from Pampa Blanca, Ica Department, Peru [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249256a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249256a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Eonyang, Gyeongsangnam-do (Kyongsang-namdo), South Korea [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249266a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249266a.jpg)
![Philipsburgite, Quartz from Black Pine Mine (Combination Mine; Black Pine Tailings; Black Pine Dump), Flint Creek Valley, John Long Mts, Philipsburg District (Flint Creek District), Granite Co., Montana, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249267a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249267a.jpg)
![Philipsburgite, Quartz from Black Pine Mine (Combination Mine; Black Pine Tailings; Black Pine Dump), Flint Creek Valley, John Long Mts, Philipsburg District (Flint Creek District), Granite Co., Montana, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249267b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249267b.jpg)
![Philipsburgite, Quartz from Black Pine Mine (Combination Mine; Black Pine Tailings; Black Pine Dump), Flint Creek Valley, John Long Mts, Philipsburg District (Flint Creek District), Granite Co., Montana, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249267c.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249267c.jpg)
![Quartz, Wulfenite from Finch Mine (Barking Spider Mine), Reagan claims (Regan/Reagan Camp prospects; Lee Reagan property; Lee Reagan prospects; Kullman-McCool group), Keystone Gulch, Chilito, Hayden area [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249278a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249278a.jpg)
![Schorl, Quartz from Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249301a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249301a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Diamond Willow Mine, Pearl Station, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249303a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249303a.jpg)
![Quartz, Albite (Var: Pericline), Calcite, Rutile from Erfurt way, Grieswies-Schafkar, Grieswies - Krumlkeeskopf Mt. area, Hüttwinkl valley, Rauris valley, Hohe Tauern Mts, Salzburg, Austria [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249328a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249328a.jpg)
![Tourmaline, Quartz from Elizabeth R. Mine, Chief Mountain, Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249603a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249603a.jpg)
![Quartz, Montmorillonite from White Queen Mine, Hiriart Mountain (Heriart; Heriot; Hiriat Hill), Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249616a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249616a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Citrine) from Esmeralda Mine, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249617a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249617a.jpg)
![Schorl, Albite, Quartz from Carmelita Mine (MS 6130; Peter Cabat Mine; Big Spring Mine; Blue Gem; Estudillo Mine; French Pete Mine; Elinor Mine; Crest Gem Mine), Warner Springs District, San Diego Co., Califo [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249618a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249618a.jpg)
![Beryl (Var: Morganite), Quartz, Lepidolite from Elizabeth R. Mine, Chief Mountain, Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249626a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249626a.jpg)
![Elbaite, Albite, Quartz from Stewart Mine (MS 6162; Stewart Lithia), Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala; Queen), Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249630a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249630a.jpg)
![Apatite-(CaF), Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Little Three Mine (Little 3), Ramona District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249634a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249634a.jpg)