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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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Two intergrown points of amethyst richly included with hematite with pretty combination of purple and rust tones. 4.5 x 3.9 x 3.1cm
You might recognize this form as typical of intergrown blades of selenite, but here, the selenite crystals have completely altered to quartz, maintaining the form of the previous selenites perfectly! This is a floater cluster, with no contacts or damage. Ol dmaterial from the Dan Belsher collection 4.0 x 4.0 x 3.1cm
A big, beautiful smorgasbord of Yaogangxian minerals! In person, this whopper specimen just glitters with brassy gold and red from the chalcopyrites, lavender touches here and there from fluorite, and silvery arsenopyrites scattered amongst the quartz points! 20.8 x 13.2 x 8.4cm
On one end of this specimen are two large, extraordinary intergrown crystals measuring 3 cm along the edge, with very clear DOUBLE phantoms: frosted purple, inside of a sharp thin purple band, inside a layer of gemmy teal-blue! Between the larger crystals on this specimen are very small, sparkly crystals of a later generation, which make the whole specimen really glitter. There are accenting quartz points as well, and sparing muscovite. 10.6 x 6.6 x 4.4cm
6.8 x 3.8 x 1.8 cm. An elegant spray of deep bottle-green crystals of epidote, with the unusually aesthetic addition of a transparent quartz crystal lying across the bottom of the spray. Just a very few of the terminations are incomplete, and they are hard to find amongst the naturally rough terminations of the other crystals. This is a super example for the size of a famous find of the mid-1990s brought to market by Harvey Gordon at the time.
An AMAZING, old-time CABINET specimen from the Himalaya Mine of two, lustrous and gemmy, watermelon-pink tourmaline crystals to 3.8 cm perched spectacularly on a COMPLETE ALL-AROUND and undamaged FLOATER feldspar crystal with quartz and lepidolite. Note how sharp and unusually symmetric the matrix feldsapr crystal is, as well?! This is the "spiker" for the week! The larger tourmaline crystal has a complex, interesting "cityscape" termination. Both are in good condition and have rich pink color. Ex Ed Ruggiero Collection, who purchased this piece from Pala Properties (the owners of the mine at the time) in 1975. The card says that this piece was mined in about 1910 and was formerly in the Jerry Wentworth Collection, according to Bill Larson at Pala. It is, regardles of history, A STRIKING matrix specimen. Valued at close to $2000, i think quite fairly. THIS IS A WHOLE FLOATING POCKET OF himalaya minerals! 14.2 x 7.9 x 5.8 cm
A SUPERB and AESTHETIC cluster of diamond-like Herkimer quartz crystals from New York. The doubly terminated quartz crystals are extremely glassy and gemmy and the trivial termination bruising is barely noticeable. Very few of these are coming out today, due to mining restrictions. 7.3 x 7.0 x 5.0 cm
A BEAUTIFUL, competition-quality cluster of four, gemmy, lustrous and pristine amethyst quartz crsytals from Las Vigas, Mexico. EXQUISITE aesthetics! 3.2 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm
A BEAUTIFUL and aesthetic cluster of pristine, water-clear, colorless quartz crystals to 4.3 cm on matrix from Pakistan. Showy material from the Lewadny Collection. 9.0 x 6.5 x 6.0 cm
A VERY RICH and showy, sliced and lacquer-sprayed ore specimen of dendritic silver in quartz from Cobalt, Ontario. Ex Marty Lewadny Collection. 7.6 x 3.0 x 0.9 cm
A particularly elegant example of the pretty quartz-covered chrysocolla specimens from Arizona - a cluster of intergrown stalactites, complete and terminated all the way around. 4.7 x 3.5 x 2.5cm
An elegant Veracruz amethyst, with three fine crystals of roughly the same length sticking out symmetrically in different directions. All three are quite gemmy, sharp and pristine, and are terminated. 3.9 x 3.8 x 2.7cm
Gemmy quartz crystals with pretty deep moss green epidote crystals on, and in some cases included INSIDE, the quartz crystals. These pretty combination specimens were one of the exciting finds of early this year. This specimen is in fine shape, with just a couple of minor contacts on a couple of the quartz crystals. 11.0 x 5.9 x 5.4cm
A large, pretty combo specimen combining quartz crystals with purple and teal fluorites and a few accenting brassy chalcopyrites. 10.8 x 6.5 x 6.4cm
We bought the lion''s share of the good specimens from this pocket discovered early this year in India. They consist of pretty salmon-pink stilbite bowties growing in assocation with dove-grey quartz stalactites. 4.2 x 3.1 x 2.4cm
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