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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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17.8 x 11.8 x 5.1 cm. An impressive, old-time, large cabinet plate studded with glassy, water-clear quartz crystals to 4.8 cm from the well-known Ellenville Mine of New York. This lead mine closed in 1932. For such rich coverage and size, the plate is very nearly pristine. Classic material from the Richard Hauck Quartz Collection.
17.0 x 12.2 x 8.8 cm. This is a fine, dramatic and probably old large cabinet specimen of calcite on amethyst from the ancient workings of quartz in Idar-Oberstein, used for centuries for carving and lapidary art. Still today, the world center of the highest end of the lapidary crafts is based in Idar-Oberstein, though stone to work on is now imported from elsewhere. This is a striking and beautiful pocket in basalt of lightly hematite-tinted amethyst crystals hosting a dense cluster of glassy, colorless calcite crystals to 2.5 cm. Ex. Richard Hauck Quartz Collection.
13.4 x 9.4 x 5.4 cm. A very unusual and showy cabinet cluster of glassy, water-clear quartz crystals with highly variable amounts and colors of clay inclusions from recent finds in Brazil. The interior of each crystal has a different look. The three large crystals at the top are doubly terminated, with the largest being 6.7 cm. A very interesting quartz crystal from this noted locale.
8.4 x 5.4 x 3.2 cm. A superb and aesthetic cluster of splendent, steel-gray galena cubes to 1.3 beautifully accented with needle quartz, sphalerite and brass-yellow pyrite cubes from the famous mines at Madan, Bulgaria. Classic material from the Ed David Collection.
8.0 x 7.5 x 6.5 cm. A pleasing, powder-blue, 4 mm ajoite ball with a stunning halo of ajoite is strikingly included in the face of a glassy, 5.3 cm, quartz crystal attached to a sculptural crust. The ajoite halo is surreal and the double refraction at the quartz crystal edge is really interesting. This aesthetic piece is from a new find at the Messina Mine of South Africa. This is an impressive, highly representative example of the very rare sodium, potassium, copper silicate, named after its discovery locality, the New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Arizona.
10.0 x 7.4 x 6.8 cm. Water-clear, glassy smoky quartz crystals to 5.0 cm are richly and aesthetically scattered on feldspar matrix on this excellent specimen from the well-known Zinggenstocke area of Switzerland. Good matrix alpine quartz specimens are rare. The strahlers risk their lives to collect pieces such as this. To bring out a piece like this, undamaged, the collector must recover it in a larger plate and then haul it down the mountain. The larger specimen is later trimmed at home. It is not a collecting trip for the faint of heart. Pristine, except for the periphery wear. Ex. Franz Saller Collection.
10.4 x 7.5 x 3.2 cm (largest). A very fine and pretty pair of sliced and polished, hollow, agatized coral fossil. The snow-white exterior is a striking accent to the geode halves lined with sparkly amber shades of chalcedony - considered very rare and of highest quality replacement for this material. This is one of those unusual cases where biology meets mineralogy. This excellent specimen is from the Hauck Collection.
12.7 x 8.0 x 4.6 cm. A very fine and unusual, mounded, cabinet specimen from the famed Joplin Field of Missouri. Sparkling, metallic marcasite crystals are festooned on the glassy quartz crystals that cover the matrix of silicified limestone and sphalerite. One side has an unusual, 2.7 x1.7 cm, sharply rectangular, sphalerite-cored area surrounded by quartz crystals. This area looks to be a cast after a dissolved galena crystal. This complete-all-around piece is essentially pristine. Old-time and strange material from this historic district. Ex. E.R. Chadbourn, Phil Scalisi and George Feist Collections, dating back to the 1950s or before.
13.3 x 4.4 x 3.0 cm. The White Queen Mine is one of the most famous San Diego County pegmatite mines and has produced a wide and unusual variety of mineral species. Here is an unusual, but very showy one. This cabinet cluster of quartz crystals is richly included with pink montmorillonite. One side is water-clear, has been polished and you can easily see the montmorillonite in the interior. The other side of the cluster is glassy and frosted. The base has also been sawed and polished. Ex. Bill Larson San Diego County Pegmatite Collection. A classic combination specimen from the White Queen Mine.
16.7 x 16.5 x 7.0 cm. A dramatic, large cabinet combination specimen from recent finds at Jalgaon, India. Lustrous, pearlescent, salmon-pink stilbite bowties and blades and two salmon-pink, saddle-shaped heulandite crystals richly and very aesthetically cover the curved vug lined with drusy quartz. The stilbite bowtie on the upper left is 5.1 cm and the large heulandite on the bottom-center is 5.4 cm. A few small, glassy, green apophyllite crystals scattered about are a nice accent to this impressive specimen. The stilbite blades attached to both of the heulandites are noteworthy and very pretty.
14.0 x 11.0 x 9.6 cm. A huge, important, floater smoky quartz crystal from the classic old North Carolina mines, and later the Ed David Collection. Morion quartz is a very dark brown to black opaque variety of quartz and this is, indeed, an exceptionally dark color for this locality. This is a superb, cabinet single crystal. The glassy, highly lustrous, translucent crystal superficially looks like it is di-pyramidal with no prism faces. This is old material from the famous Hiddenite area of North Carolina. This very fine, large, complete-all-around, floater specimen is very nearly pristine.
6.2 x 4.5 x 3.4 cm. This is a great specimen from one of the most storied and well known districts in Colorado. The pegmatites near the Lake George area of Colorado have produced what most collectors and dealers consider to be the finest Amazonite specimens from the standpoint of superb color, top quality, wonderful display specimens and excellent associations. This particular specimen, has no Amazonite, but it does feature a few, sharp, gemmy purple color "tumbling dice" cubes of Fluorite measuring up to 1.4 cm on edge sitting on grey Quartz crystals on matrix. To find Fluorite crystals so well-balanced on a specimen is quite unusual for this area. This specimen was collected over nearly years ago (September of 1980) when Richard Kosnar found some of the finest color Amazonite from Colorado extant. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
3.7 x 3.4 x 2.8 cm. The Prospect Park Quarry is one of the most impressive (and under appreciated) Zeolite localities in the world. This quarry has produced some amazing specimens in the last 100 years. This specimen features a few isolated, rare blue-grey crystal groups of Babingtonite (partially altered to some kind of Pyroxene) which are associated with pale golden Calcite plus Heulandite on gem quality Quartz crystals on matrix. The Babingtonites from this locality are very distinctive, and certainly some of the most attractive for the species from the standpoint of the unusual color. Unfortunately, this great New Jersey locality is being filled in for a housing development (like so many of the great Trap Rock localities in this area), and pieces like this one will be never be collected again. A nice looking specimen of this hard to find material.
8.0 x 5.0 x 3.6 cm. Despite the incredible amount of minerals coming out of China these days, Tourmalines are exceptionally uncommon. This specimen hails from the Gaoligong Shan area which is very close to the border with Burma. It hosts a wonderfully lustrous, sharp, gemmy, bright bubble-gum pink euhedral crystal of Tourmaline sitting on a partial Quartz crystal. The Tourmaline crystal does have a light green hue near the termination but 90% of it is vibrant pink in color. The termination of the crystal is rather lustrous too. Ex. Brian Kosnar Collection.
3.4 x 3.0 x 1.7 cm. Beautifully burnished, curved and curled silver wires are very aesthetically perched on matrix of metallic-bright acanthite and quartz from a new find at the Hongda Mine of China. This piece bears strong resemblance to classic Kongsberg wire silvers.
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share specimen![Quartz from Ellenville Mine (Ellenville Lead Mine; Ulster mine), Ellenville, Ulster Co., New York, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282301a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282301a.jpg)
![Quartz from Ellenville Mine (Ellenville Lead Mine; Ulster mine), Ellenville, Ulster Co., New York, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282301b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282301b.jpg)
![Calcite, Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Idar-Oberstein, Hunsrück Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282311a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282311a.jpg)
![Calcite, Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Idar-Oberstein, Hunsrück Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282311b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282311b.jpg)
![Quartz from Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282315a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282315a.jpg)
![Galena, Quartz, Sphalerite, Pyrite from Madan ore field, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282325a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282325a.jpg)
![Galena, Quartz, Sphalerite, Pyrite from Madan ore field, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282325b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282325b.jpg)
![Galena, Quartz, Sphalerite, Pyrite from Madan ore field, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282325c.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282325c.jpg)
![Ajoite, Quartz from Messina mine, Messina District, Limpopo Province, South Africa [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282328a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282328a.jpg)
![Ajoite, Quartz from Messina mine, Messina District, Limpopo Province, South Africa [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282328b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282328b.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Zinggenstöcke, Oberaar lake area, Grimsel area, Hasli Valley, Bern, Switzerland [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282333a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282333a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Chalcedony) from Tampa Bay, Tampa, Hillsborough Co., Florida, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282337a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282337a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Chalcedony) from Tampa Bay, Tampa, Hillsborough Co., Florida, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282337b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282337b.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Chalcedony) from Tampa Bay, Tampa, Hillsborough Co., Florida, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282337c.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282337c.jpg)
![Marcasite, Quartz from Joplin Field, Tri-State District, Jasper Co., Missouri, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282347a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282347a.jpg)
![Marcasite, Quartz from Joplin Field, Tri-State District, Jasper Co., Missouri, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282347b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282347b.jpg)
![Marcasite, Quartz from Joplin Field, Tri-State District, Jasper Co., Missouri, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282347c.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282347c.jpg)
![Quartz, Montmorillonite from White Queen Mine, Hiriart Mountain (Heriart; Heriot; Hiriat Hill), Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282349a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282349a.jpg)
![Quartz, Montmorillonite from White Queen Mine, Hiriart Mountain (Heriart; Heriot; Hiriat Hill), Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282349b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282349b.jpg)
![Stilbite-Ca, Heulandite-Ca, Quartz from Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282351a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282351a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Hiddenite, Alexander Co., North Carolina, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282356a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282356a.jpg)
![Fluorite, Quartz from R. A. Kosnar #2 Prospect, Lake George, Park Co., Colorado, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282357a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282357a.jpg)
![Babingtonite, Calcite, Heulandite-Ca, Quartz from Prospect Park Quarry (Sowerbutt Quarry; Vandermade Quarry; Warren Brothers Quarry), Prospect Park, Passaic Co., New Jersey, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282525a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282525a.jpg)
![Babingtonite, Calcite, Heulandite-Ca, Quartz from Prospect Park Quarry (Sowerbutt Quarry; Vandermade Quarry; Warren Brothers Quarry), Prospect Park, Passaic Co., New Jersey, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282525b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282525b.jpg)
![Babingtonite, Calcite, Heulandite-Ca, Quartz from Prospect Park Quarry (Sowerbutt Quarry; Vandermade Quarry; Warren Brothers Quarry), Prospect Park, Passaic Co., New Jersey, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282525c.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282525c.jpg)
![Babingtonite, Calcite, Heulandite-Ca, Quartz from Prospect Park Quarry (Sowerbutt Quarry; Vandermade Quarry; Warren Brothers Quarry), Prospect Park, Passaic Co., New Jersey, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282525d.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282525d.jpg)
![Tourmaline, Quartz from Gaoligong Mts (Gaoligong Shan), Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282549a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282549a.jpg)
![Silver, Acanthite, Quartz from Hongda Mine, Xiaoqinggou Ag-Mn deposit, Lingqiu Co., Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282557a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282557a.jpg)