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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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A striking specimen with obvious aesthetic appeal....pricey, I admit, but also just THAT good. 7.8 x 7.2 x 5.5 cm
We have all seen numerous garnets frm this location in recent years, but some are just so outstanding they rise above the crowd,. This piece, illustrated in teh China issue of ROCKS & MINERALS, is one such. It is really breathtaking in the quality of the color contrast; and the lustre and color are just top percentile. 8.8 x 6.1 x 3.5 cm
Rose Quartz from this mine is now almost 40 years out of the ground and is rarer in the market, at least in quality, than most people think. This is , to me, the BEST miniature I have ever seen of the classic material, with the elegant form of a flower perched on a bit of matrix. YES, the color really is this deep - top percentile, that! 5 x 3.7 x 3.4 cm
This is certianly one of the very best miniatures from this small find of the late 1990s, especially for the size range since most specimens were bigger in size. It has TOP, intense color, good aesthetics, and is in excellent shape with just a few irrelevant dings. I have not seen such a good one for sale recently. 5.1 x 4.7 x 4.5 cm
This specimen exemplifies the best qualities, translucency and rich grape-purple color, of the fluorite mined in about 2003 from this mine in China. The fluorite grew and was covered later by a layer of quartz, which could be physically removed to expose again the underlaying fluorites now perched in translucent plates of purple and white. This large specimen features two such crystals, well-isolated, and is one of the best I have seen for sale since the original lot from whence it came. These are stunning specimens in person! 14 x 7.3 x 5.2 cm
A superb, pristine, well-balanced matrix sceptre perched on contrasting white quartz! The piece is complete all around. The sceptre is surprisingly zoned, from amethyst at the top and left down to smoky at the base and grading to the right. This is an exquisite specimen by any standard, though I think the locality adds even more value I did not factor in to the pricing as yet. 6.8 x 4 x 3.6 cm
Even more strange, pretty and impressive in person – this is a super-complex floater crystal of smoky quartz, unusually flattened, showing the growth pattern sometimes referred to as “elestial.” The crystal is displayable from either side and terminated all the way around. You can’t see it from the pics, but as you rotate it, the light reflects off of all the parallel faces at once, demonstrating the crystallographic order amidst what seems to be a confusion of faces. Really impressive! 15 x 11.5 x 2.3 cm
Cubes of purple fluorite, intergrown with gemmy quartz needles, on a matrix of tetrahedrite and pyrite. Sparkling and colorful! 5.4 x 4.3 x 2.6 cm
Smoky Quartz from Colorado in combination with anything is usually a good deal, but this is a GREAT big deal for what it is. The Smoky is well-formed, lustrous, and has excellent color. The Fluorite is every bit as good, being a sharp octahedron with a very good silky luster and a variegated purple-to-white color. This excellent specimen will have appeal to many collectors. It is very 3-dimensional! 2.2 x 2.2 x 2.2 cm
This is , gram for gram, one of the finest examples of the Ajoite-included Quartz crystals from the world-famous discovery at the Messina Mine (MR, V.22, #3). Now impossible to obtain on the market! This crystal is sharply terminated with good clarity and luster, which permits an excellent view of the equally sharp Ajoite phantom inside the UNPOLISHED crystal. Moreover, it is doubly-terminated and a floater, complete all around. It has only the tiniest of small edge wear and is doubly terminated, too. A world class thumb of this material! Has to be among the very best.... 2.9 x 1.3 x 1 cm
Twinned smoky quartzes are rare to begin with, and closed twins like this even more so. From this particular locality, now within a national park and illegal to collect from, they are truly a treasure! This is thus a fascinating and unusual specimen from one of the world’s best smoky localities: this gem has everything from being transparent to lustrous, to twinned. The crystal measures about 1.8 cm tall. 2.2 x 2.2 x 1.3 cm
Pleasing to the eye and to the discerning taste, this doubly-terminated scepter is really quite a little gem. It is rather more developed than most from the locality, in terms of 3-dimensionality. This was a onetime find in or about 1981 if i recall. VERY hard to get one, nowadays! 2.9 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm
This crystal has wonderful symmetry, and is a terrific example of the species. one natural contact along one edge does not detract at all. 1.7 x 1.6 x .2 cm
The pictures really tell the whole story. This is a wonderful Amethyst scepter (doubly-terminated, no less!), that has fine color, excellent luster, and superb form. Quartz though it may be, it is still a highly attractive killer thumbnail. 3 x 1 x .7 cm
If a picture is worth a thousand words, start talking about how delicate and beautiful and perfectly designed this specimen is. It is a killer thumb. Small but of the finest quality imagineable 1.9 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm
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