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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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A CLASSIC combination specimen, showing very nice aesthetics! It can be displayed eithe ron its side or vertically as shown and is, truly, a pretty good deal for a combo of this quality. This one has no repairs! 8 x 5.5 x 3.3 cm
MD-33947 - Microcline, Feldspar Group, Quartz, Albite, Lepidolite - - Archived
Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA
large cabinet, 25 x 14.6 x 14.3 cm
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This cluster of twinned feldspar crystals has to be among the largest ever recovered from the Himalaya mine, and IS one of the 2 or 3 largest specimens of any good quality. It is actually completely crysatllized all around. One side displays the associations and the other displays the clean faces of the feldspars. Really, quite impressive in person! From the hands of 3 major County collectors, too. 25 x 14.6 x 14.3 cm
A superb Chinese combination piece from a unique find of apophyllite on amethystine quartz, that to this day remains unrivalled though this came out 5 years ago. This piece was exhibited at the Tucson 2000 show as a new find. It has since been in a private collection, since I bought it out of Irv Brown's display case at that show. It has a sparkle and life to it that makes these among the glassiest quartzes around, and the gem-clear apophyllites atop enhance the pale amethystine color. 10 x 5.5 x 5 cm
A superb, sharp, lustrous cluster of very robust stephanite crystals from this classic locality. Quite nice, I think. 3 x 2.5 x 2 cm
A SHARP oldstyle anatase, wonderfully associated with gemmy bright quartz! This anatase crysatl is almsot an inch long! Notice it has the sharp classic termination, and not the broad termination of more recent finds 2.8 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm
A gorgeous specimen with really rich coverage of Paratacamite , to 1 mm or so, on matrix of sparkling quartz infused with blue chrysocolla. Selenite, which you can look right though, caps off the protected vug! 5 x 3.6 x 1.2 cm
A 5 mm cluster of sharp green Paratacamite at the pinnacle of quartz matrix! What a cutie! Could easily trim to a thumbnail, too. 3.9 x 2.4 x 1.3 cm
crystals to 5 mm of sharp green Paratacamite in a protected vug of beautiful chrysocolla-infused quartz crystals! 9.8 x 6.9 x 4.1 cm
10.1 x 6.6 x 6.3 cm. Lustrous, forest-green paratacamite crystals to 3 mm richly line a well-placed vug in the cabinet quartz matrix and are in stark contrast to the water-clear gypsum blades adjacent to the right. This specimen is from the one-time, 1998, Gladys Pocket in the Lily Mine of Peru.
4.7 x 4.2 x 2.6 cm. This is a miniature sized specimen rich with perhaps 2 dozen sub-mm crystals, eye visible, scattered all over it. On the nice, crystallized quartz of the display face are two larger crystals which are almost 2 mm in size, bright and sharp, and possibly twinned.
6.8 x 5.1 x 1.3 cm. On the nice, crystallized quartz of the display face are two larger crystals which are almost 2 mm in size, bright and sharp, and possibly twinned. This is a display-sized specimen rich with perhaps 20 sub-mm crystals that are smaller, but still eye visible and very sparkly so the appearance of the piece as a whole is quite rich, scattered all over it.
MD-34319 - Stibiotantalite, Tapiolite, Quartz, Tourmaline, Albite - - Archived
Cryo-Genie Mine (Cindy B-Cryogenie; Lost Valley Truck Trail prospect), Warner Springs, Warner Springs District, San Diego Co., California, USA
miniature, 4.4 x 2.1 x 1.8 cm
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This is a unique specimen, the best of its small pocket. It was in the Chris Korpi collection and he made a point to obtain many of the oddball things that came out of this small series of pockets we lovingly call a mine. This is one that he had kept for a reference suite, when I bought the core of his collection some time ago. It remains an interesting and unique piece. 4.4 x 2.1 x 1.8 cm
CLASSIC , exceptionally gemmy, yellow-green apatite is perched on a complete quartz! The aaptite is 1.7 cm across. The whole piece is complete all around and is just a super display quality miniature! 5.0 x 2.8 x 2.2 cm
This specimen features a 2 x 1.5 x 1 cm apatite perched smartly atop a perfect quartz, partially enveloping the quartz termination. It is transparent, lustrous, glassy, and pristine. You couldn't have forged a better aesthetic miniature than this! In person, the apatite is more gemmy and has a faint hint of pastel color to it. 5.8 x 1.6 x 1.6 cm
6.6 x 5 x 3.8 cm. A very attractive specimen featuring a 1.75-cm blue-purple apatite hanging off the side of a quartz cluster. The apatite is translucent and very lustrous. The piece is pristine on the front though it has a natural break and partial re-heal on the back of the larger quartz termination. Ex. Dr. Gary Hansen Collection.
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