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19.6 x 10.7 x 9.6 cm. A serious smoky quartz for the Himalaya. This is a large, symmetric, very smoky quartz, and such are rare from the mine, When found, they are usually quite pale, but this is intensely colored. It weighs over 2 kilograms and so is very hefty. It is almost pristine all around. Ex. William Larson Collection.
8.5 x 5.4 x 4.4 cm. A unique Little 3 Mine piece, as you never see tourmaline perched on quartz like this from there. Yet, this piece hosts a 4.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm deep green tourmaline, just sitting up there on the quartz. It has a very fine, smooth termination, and silky strands of green color, almost fibrous, running down the sides. This specimen is most unusual, for the tourmaline's gemminess and nice lustre, and for its perch. Ex. William Larson Collection.
10.6 x 6.2 x 5.5 cm. A sharp, pristine, doubly-terminated smoky quartz, rare for the locality. Ex. William Larson Collection.
24.5 x 18.7 x 5.7 cm. This is a beautiful cluster of unusually large quartz crystals, richly included with the pink mineral montmorillonite. The White Queen is as well known for this combination, as for its famous morganites. This specimen is a level of magnitude higher than most others, in that it is large, beautiful, and complete. It was sawed down the middle, and each half mounted so they could be displayed to show the inclusions and the form to maximal visual effect. The reverse sides are complete, by the way, showing the outer milky quartz. Each weighs about 7 pounds. It is incredible to me that this specimen came out in one piece and was not repaired. Amongst many others in the Pala collection, this was the finest large example. Second photo shows the other half. Ex. William Larson Collection.
30.3 x 17.9 x 4.5 cm. A huge, floater, shard-like quartz crystal that is not just big and beautiful, it is big and beautiful and from San Diego County. It is the kind of thing you would expect to see from Brazil, not from San Diego. A large museum-sized specimen, quite impressive in person. Ex. William Larson Collection.
19.3 x 7.2 x 5.8 cm. This is an extremely impressive specimen, visually, and quite unusual for the county for both its size and display. Schorls from San Diego are rare. Big ones, all the more so. This is a 5.5-inch-long (14cm), doubly-terminated schorl, perched on a doubly-terminated quartz. The whole cluster is a floater, complete-all-around and fully terminated all around. Larson ranked this as one of the top schorls from the county, and certainly for a matrix piece it presents dramatically. Ex. William Larson Collection.
6.3 x 4.3 x 2.8 cm. Unusual, elongated, robust crystals of hollandite frozen in quartz matrix. Very odd for the species. I had not seen crystals in this style before. Ex. John White Collection.
22.9 cm tall. This is a huge and incredibly pristine, complete 360-degree cluster of giant feldspar crystals from this important locality. At 12.8 pounds, 9 inches tall, it is dramatic and impactful. Even more, it is a floater cluster of two large crystals with no attachment points, complete all around. It is partially covered with cleavelandite and with a nice smoky quartz crystal for accent. Ex. William Larson Collection.
11.7 x 6.5 x 6.0 cm. An aesthetic and excellent diverging spray of lustrous tapered amethyst crystals to 5.8 cm with vivid purple color and colorless tips from the famous deposits at Amatitlan, Guerrero, Mexico. The specimen is in fine condition, as all of the major crystals and nearly all of the secondary crystals are pristine. This is very fine, old-time material from this locality and from the John Sinkankas Collection. According to his card, he purchased this piece in February, 1962. It is a classic exmaple of this material and a very aesthetic, divergent spray as well. Ex. Richard Hauck Quartz Collection, as well.
9.3 x 5.6 x 4.2 cm. A very aesthetic and exceptional dolomite specimen from the Morro Velho Mine of Brazil. A beautiful rosette of glassy, translucent, gray, flattened dolomite rhombs is set on smaller dolomite crystals and all are set on a glassy, transparent quartz crystal. Light brown pyrrhotite plates richly dust and accent the dolomite crystals. The little pyrrhotite "emblem" on the lower right is 8 mm. This is a very fine, complete-all-around specimen that is essentially pristine. Ex. Ed David Collection.
6.4 x 5.4 x 4.4 cm. Tsumcorite is one of the signature mineral species rarities for which the Tsumeb Mine is renowned and is also the Type Locality. Tsumcorite is a lead, zinc, iron arsenate and is named after the Tsumeb (Tsum) Corporation (Cor) Mine. Yellow-brown and orange-brown radial clusters of tsumcorite are richly and aesthetically scattered on the 3-dimensional matrix and are complimented by a multitude of tiny quartz crystals. Quartz is uncommon at Tsumeb, so this is not only a fine rarity, but also an outstanding combination rarity.
9.8 x 6.6 x 4.8 cm. Doubly-terminated Arkansas quartz crystals of this quality from the Ouachita Mountains, not Hot Springs, are rarely available. This glassy, transparent crystal has skeletal faces and the sidecar crystal and clay inclusions are very fine accents. It is a complete-all-around floater and is pristine. The contacted, flat base is damage-free. Ex. Clyde Hardin Collection.
6.9 x 5.2 x 4.3 cm. A 2.4 cm, brilliant-metallic molybdenite crystal is set on sculptural quartz matrix on this fine specimen from the Moly Hill Mine of Quebec. The platy crystal has textbook, hexagonal crystal form. Smaller crystals are scattered on this fine piece. Classic material.
9.0 x 7.0 x 2.2 cm. Golden-metallic rutile needles to 7.6 cm in a fabulous jack-straw pattern richly fill this stunning quartz specimen from Minas Gerais, Brazil. This classic, slabbed and polished, water-clear quartz shard is from the Robert Fender Collection and dates to the 1960s or 1970s.
7.1 x 6.0 x 3.8 cm. A sculptural, old-time specimen from the famous Copper Country of Michigan. Crudely crystallized to hackly acanthite-coated silver richly protrudes from both sides of the massive, milky quartz matrix. The silver "feathers" at the top of the piece are classic Michigan silver forms. Old and excellent material from the N.A. Wintringham Collection. Weighs 130 grams. All Content and Design ©1996-2012 The ArkenstonePowered by http://mineralwebsites.comMineral Specimens by species; or by specimen id. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![Hollandite, Quartz from Ultevis, Lappland, Sweden [db_pics/mdpics/MD-249805a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-249805a.jpg)
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