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ex. Charlie Key
Deep green crystals , some doubly-terminated, here reach about 1.5 cm and are clustered richly on quartz matrix. This specimen is pristine , except only for a few tivial peripheral crystals to the left or bottom depending on how you display it. It looks good horizontal, and vertical both. The crystals are sharp and 3-dimensional and "pop" out at you - looking for all the world as if they were glued onto the quartz matrix, because they are so remarkably freestanding! A choice cherrypicked specimen. When shipped to us, it was a protected pocket, from which this was trimmed out carefully.
ex. Charlie Key
A remarkably unusual piece with starkly isolated crystals of dioptase, perched on quartz! The razor-sharp, pristine, major dioptase crystals reach 1.9 cm, fairly good size from any locality. While not gemmy, they are quite translucent. The smaller crystals to the lower left are also compete, though show some minor contacting. This is a unique style of combination, not similar to material yet found at other dioptase lcoalities in the isolation upon crystalline quartz matrix
ex. Charlie Key
A beautiful specimen, really unique in aspect, featuring sharp, swordlike dioptase crystals to about 1.5 cm. They have intense color and great translucency (gemmy when backlit) , just popping up out of sparkling, drusy quartz matrix. The combo is really quite unusual, and the stark contrast makes this among the most pretty, even if with smaller crystals, of the specimens from the find. A special miniature for the sophisticated collector, I think.
ex. Charlie Key
This small miniature is the most elegant piece we obtained, and looks like a snake coiled and rising up above its prey. The dioptase is floating, or hanging, or curling, upon this little shard of quartz at its core. All the dioptase is super-lustrous, very green, and translucent throughout. A sharp and special specimen, I think!
ex. Irv Brown
This 2.3 cm long, transparent, highly lustrous, blue gem crystal of elbaite is girdled by a druse of colorless quartz. Very aesthetic specimen with incredible aesthetics for a matrix tourmaline thumbnail, as so many are just singles.
ex. Dr. Edward David
A unique example of aegerine made so dramatic by the presence of this sharp, floater shard of quartz! It IS a floater, terminated all around. The aegerine itself is superb on its own merit, too!
ex. Dr. Edward David
An extremely elegant, 3-dimensional specimen of this classic! This piece features a red-pink octohedraon sitting smack in the middle of VERY gemmy smoky quartz crystals which serve to frame it and highlight the color! This remarkable specimen was acquired from the collection of the strahler who found it, Otto Werther. For its size and price range, I think it is one of the best out there on the market and it was one of Ed's more well-known specimens in its original state (by which I should clarify - it was a larger plate with damage in the middle, and so I trimmed it to release this piece, and another which will be shown later featuring two slightly smaller fluorites on a plate about twice this size).
Perched on a shard of chert is an inergrown cluster of splendent, black crystals of sphalerite, a few exhibiting orange highlights. The largest crystal measures 2.0 cm across. SUPERB quality for an Elmwood sphalerite!
Perched on a gray chert matrix is a cluster of splendent, black, sphalerite crystals, the largest of which measure 3.0 cm across. Very nice and among the best sphalerites for this size I have seen from the mine...this collection was particularly well stocked on sphalerite!
Scattered all over one face of a colorless 10 cm long quartz crystal are translucent are numerous, bladed, lustrous, translucent, crystals of orangy-brown, childrenite. The largest of these is more than 1.5 cm long. And more than a few exhibit bi-pyramidal terminations.
The high point of this matrix childrenite, on quartz, are the diverging rosettes of very gemmy, lustrous, blades, of orangy-brown childrenite, to 1.0 cm in length. Some damage to the sides, but displays beautifully
Euhedral crystals of colorlrless quartz are totally smothered by bladed, lustrous, orangy-brown, crystals of childrenite, up to 1.5 cm in length. VERY RICH SPECIMEN, and displays well!
ex. Ernie Schlichter
This is a classic example of the fairly rare phosphate, eosphorite, with unusually individualized crystal rising from crystallized rose quartz which is itself draped over a matrix of crystallized clear quartz. This combination from Brazil came out at the heyday for this locality more than 25 years ago - none of this type have been found since and they remain a highly desirable classic. The light brown eosphorite crystals, to 1.5 cm, are sprinkled liberally over the top of the specimen and stand starkly - most such specimens have much less relief to them. In addition, I really like the color contrasts. Note that the piece can be displayed vertically, as well.
ex. Ernie Schlichter
WOW! Rutilated quartzes of such size are VERY rare and a SMOKY one, I have never seen...this piece, despite its size, is in pretty good shape with just minor edge wear in the form of a few dings here and there. It is NOT POLISHED as are so many, particularly larger specimens, of rutilated quartz. That would have been a tragedy! It is, rather, well terminated, nearly transparent, and just filled with brilliant golden rutile needles that exceed 2 inches in length. Again, pieces like this usually enter the market with the terminations machine polished but this one is as it came out of the ground. It is MUCH better in person!
ex. Ernie Schlichter
This unusual combination specimen features clusters of 1-cm crystals of white calcite and colorless quartz contrasting with several splendent, black, ilvaite crystals to about 1 inch. All of this sits on a matrix of massive hedenbergite (sawed flat on the bottom to stand). All of the upright, major ilvaite crystals are fully and magnificently terminated, with the only damage confined to the periphery and thus to the less significant sideways-pointing crystals at the base. Ilvaites of this quality came out richly in the late 80s and the 90s but have since completely evaporated from teh market. Now a Russian classic! All Content and Design ©1996-2012 The ArkenstonePowered by http://mineralwebsites.comMineral Specimens by species; or by specimen id. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![Tourmaline (Indicolite) on Quartz from Santa Rosa Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil [db_pics/pics/dtn7a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/dtn7a.jpg)
![Aegirine with Quartz from ex. Dr. Edward E. David Collection [db_pics/pics/edd5a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/edd5a.jpg)
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![Fluorite on Smoky Quartz from Ziggenstock, Grimsel, Switzerland [db_pics/pics/edd7a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/edd7a.jpg)
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![Sphalerite on chert from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA [db_pics/pics/elm06a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/elm06a.jpg)
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![Childrenite on Quartz from Poco Danta, Corrego Piaui, Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil [db_pics/pics/eos02a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/eos02a.jpg)
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![Rutilated Smoky Quartz from Minas Gerais, Brazil [db_pics/pics/es108a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/es108a.jpg)
![Calcite and Quartz with Ilvaite from Bor Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia [db_pics/pics/es142a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/es142a.jpg)
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