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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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This is one of the better pieces from a very small find in India this year, one pocket I believe, from which we bought the lion''s share of pieces, and certainly the best of them. The salmon-colored stilbite bowties contrast beautifully with the dove-gray stalactitic quartz. 6.1 x 4.9 x 2.1 cm
Bright, gemmy and lustrous spessartines to 3 mm interspersed with smoky points. There is one little ding on a quartz tip. 3.1 x 4.9 x 2.9 cm
An amazing Japan-Law twin quartz specimen with a wing-span of over 10 centimeters! Behind the twin is a cluster of conventional quartz crystals that serves as a natural base, so that this specimen stands up perfectly all on its own. The twin is wonderfully transparent, too, which is NOT the case with many of these. The twin has pretty bevels around its edges; on one side there is a ripply area that was where the twin grew against something, then later rehealed and formed little faces once the contacted material etched away (or the twin broke away). You can see this same phenomenon along one of the sides. This is just a spectacular example of the rarest form of quartz twinning, much desired by collectors and very seldom seen in specimens of this magnitude. From the collection of Ed Ruggiero. 10.4 x 9.6 x 5.3 cm
A superb mini of molybdenite that just could not be more aesthetic - with a perfect hexagonal crystal measuring 1.4 cm, perfectly trimmed and exposed on the matrix. The crystal is much brighter than it appears in the pics, almost mirror-bright. Came with an old Gary Hansen label. 3.5 x 3.4 x 1.4 cm
A GORGEOUS, very glassy and transparent, unusually doubly terminated amethyst crystal from Brandberg, Namibia. Pocket forces broke the crystal at the base, which then healed. The smaller quartz crystal grew over the healed surface, making this a doubly terminated crystal. The frontal crystal faces and termination are totally pristine, and the contact on the back is in invisible. CHOICE material from the Lewadny Collection. 6.6 x 1.9 x 1.8 cm
A pristine, yellow-green, translucent hemisphere of fluorite on quartz from Mahodari, India. These came our a few years ago and are pretty much UNIQUE in the world. The backlit photos highlight the translucency of the fluorite. 3.0 x 2.5 x 1.7 cm
A DRAMATIC and excellent Chinese combination specimen of mirror-bright, brass-yellow and striated pyrite cubes perched on cream-colored dolomite crystals and lustrous, frosted, colorless quartz crystals. The quartz crystal is 7.0 cm long. This very fine, essentially undamaged piece is from the Marty Lewadny Collection and hails from the Shangbao Mine. 9.0 x 6.5 x 6.0 cm
A BEAUTIFUL specimen of four, gemmy and lustrous, pristine, watermelon-pink tourmaline crystals with faint purple caps aesthetically attached to a lustrous, translucent smoky quartz crystal from the famed Himalaya Mine. MATRIX SPECIMENS especially are uncommon adn will only be more so 4.7 x 3.2 x 3.1 cm
A SUPERB and pristine miniature of a gemmy, doubly terminated amethyst crystal beautifully perched on a bed of needle quartz crystals from Las Vigas, Mexico. Ex Ruggiero Collection, who purchased this beauty from the Zweibels in 1977. 4.7 x 2.6 x 2.5 cm
A SUPERB, very gemmy, water-clear, doubly terminated, Herkimer quartz "diamond" with an aesthetic sidecar crystal from New York. A couple of super-trivial edge bruises are barely noticeable, as is the contact on the back. This is REALLY a GOOD SPECIMEN from the Lewadny Collection. Very few of these are coming out today, due to mining restrictions. 5.9 x 5.5 x 4.3 cm
An elegant specimen of gemmy quartz crystals with light olive, bladed muscovite crystals and one lone crystal of light purple fluorite. 8.1 x 5.2 x 4.7 cm
A classic: sharp, flashy and lustrous crystals of amethyst with inclusions of reddish hematite, from Thunder Bay; this is a rather large specimen of this classic material. 11.2 x 7.5 x 5.4 cm
A showy CABINET specimen of vugs filled with lustrous arsenopyrite crystals to 6 mm on sparkly, needle quartz matrix from Zacatecas, Mexico. Ex Marty Lewadny Collection of Winnipeg, Canada. This piece has multiple display possibilities, as you can see. 10.5 x 8.0 x 5.9 cm
An aesthetic and showy stalk-like specimen of stacked, transparent, lustrous, water-clear, elongated and tabular quartz crystals with three, vertical faden (string) lines on a large quartz crystal from Pakistan. MUCH, MUCH BETTER in person. Ex Marty Lewadny Collection of Winnipeg, Canada. 8.7 x 3.0 x 2.3 cm
A beautifully glassy, 1.9 cm, cherry-red rhodochrosite crystal nicely perched on matrix with iron-stained quartz crystals from the famous Uchucchacua Mine of Peru. The rhodo is pristine. This is a killer thumbnail. 3.0 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm
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share specimen![Stilbite, Quartz from Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38261a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38261a.jpg)
![Spessartine, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38282a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38282a.jpg)
![Quartz from Ica Department, Peru [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38293a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38293a.jpg)
![Molybdenite, Quartz from Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38307a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38307a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Brandberg area, Brandberg District, Erongo Region, Namibia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38314a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38314a.jpg)
![Fluorite, Quartz from Mahodari, Nasik District, Maharashtra, India [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38316a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38316a.jpg)
![Pyrite, Dolomite, Quartz from Shangbao Pyrite mine, Leiyang Co., Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38322a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38322a.jpg)
![Tourmaline, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38326a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38326a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst), Quartz from Mun. Las Vigas de RamÃrez (Mun. de Profesor Rafael RamÃrez), Veracruz, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38329a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38329a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Herkimer Diamond) from Middleville, Town of Newport, Herkimer Co., New York, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38332a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38332a.jpg)
![Quartz, Fluorite, Muscovite from Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38342a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38342a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst), Hematite from Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38361a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38361a.jpg)
![Arsenopyrite, Quartz from Mun. de Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38369a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38369a.jpg)
![Quartz from Neeli Kach, South Waziristan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Pakistan [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38372a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38372a.jpg)
![Rhodochrosite, Quartz from Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima Department, Peru [db_pics/mdpics/MD-38374a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-38374a.jpg)