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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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An EXCELLENT, VERY SHOWY, FLOATER combination specimen from the less well-known Blue Lady Mine of San Diego County, California. A lustrous and glassy, doubly terminated smoky quartz crystal is very attractively studded with lustrous, schorl crystals to 4.9 cm. This VERY FINE piece is nearly pristine, with only one broken schorl crystal on the side and a trivial termination bruise on the smoky. This piece has many display possibilities, as you can see. Ex Chuck Houser Collection. 6.4 x 6.0 x 4.9 cm
CLASSIC, OLD-TIME material of turquoise-blue vesuvianite (idocrase) in lustrous, milky white to gray quartz from the well-known Telemark area of Norway. Ex Richard Hauck Collection. 7.6 x 6.1 x 4.1 cm
A DRAMATIC and AESTHETIC cluster of very glassy, translucent and pristine, vertically-zoned, gray smoky quartz crystals from the Pencil Pocket of the famous Cryo-Genie Mine of California. This pocket was found in February, 2004. The bit of white albite and a few small tourmalines add character. Ex Chris Korpi Collection. 9.3 x 9.0 x 5.3 cm
A druse of sparkly quartz adds pizzazz to the robins-egg blue aurichalcite, which in fact is a densely-packed layer if millions of acicular crystals. 9.3 x 7.1 x 5.1cm
This is a DRAMATIC and beautiful example of the CLASSIC Colorado combo: deep blue amazonite with smoky quartz. What makes this one special is how the smoky has grown right around the side of the amazonite. Note how the smoky grew right into the amazonite, except for the very left side, where it continued its growth and then sharply terminated! 5.4 x 4.1 x 3.5cm
From near the famous Thunder Bay locality - this is a VERY unusual specimen of amethyst with hematite, in that rather than the usual plate of smaller crystals, very dark, this is a single large crystal, rather gemmy, with a phantom inside that shows the hematite coating. 5 x 4.5 x 3 cm
This is, for quality, one of the best specimens recovered in a small find of the past summer. It features a very attractive 1.3 cm purple fluorite surmounting a sparkling matrix of quartz and smaller fluorite cubes! 4.9 x 3.4 x 1.6 cm
I have been trying for two years to get more citrines from Russia, since I got just two of them about 2 years back and sold them immediately. I have not seen one – till I finally saw just two more specimens at the Tucson show with a dealer I met with before the official opening of the show. So of course I bought them both. They are just incredibly hard to come by. And, they have this unique coloration I really like. This specimen has two gemmy, intergrown, slender crystals, with fine color. 5.3 x 1.4 x 0.6 cm
We have been spoiled lately by bournonites coming out of China, easily forgetting how hard it was to get a bournonite of any quality from any locality till these started coming out. Still, the vast majority from China are highly damaged, even if large, and there have not been many that are truly elegant, and in fine condition. This one qualifies, certainly. The 2-cm, very lustrous bournonite has grown against a single quartz crystal, providing a very attractive matrix. 4.5 x 2.3 x 2 cm
A very elegant Veracruz amethyst cluster, beautifully balanced on the matrix, with the wonderful purple “blush” that makes these amethysts so famous. 3.8 x 4 x 3 cm
A 7-cm crystal of ferberite slants through a cluster of gemmy, terminated quartz crystals. The largest quartz crystal has actually grown around the ferberite. Ferberite specimens are not always that aesthetic, but this one is! 9 x 7 x 6 cm
This specimen is just SO dramatic and aesthetic in person! The smoky quartz crystal is a GEMMMY and extremely sharp chisel-shape, complete all around and beautifully terminated, measuring a whopping 9.5 cm in each direction! It is set off wonderfully by a cluster of muscovite and snowy albite.The pics do not do it justice -- it really is breathtaking smoky specimen! 12.5 x 10 x 7.5 cm
Two, blocky and bladed, chatoyant green malachite pseudomorphs after azurite jauntily perched on matrix with gray quartz crystals from Tsumeb. A showy combination piece. 3.8 x 3.3 x 2.9 cm
An aesthetic and striking CABINET plate covered with glassy, water-clear, quartz needles to 1.7 cm, small muscovite crystals and three, lustrous, translucent, honey-brown scheelite crystals to 8 mm from the recent finds at the Yaogangxian Mine of China. This bright scheelite color is not typical of Yaogangxian and this fine piece has many display possibilities. Essentially pristine. 11.4 x 7.5 x 2.0 cm
A fine and large example from the find of last year of deep moss-green epidote crystals on quartz crystals, with a nice balance of the epidotes scattered across the lustrous faces of the quartz crystals. A striking combo! 12.3 x 7.7 x 3.7cm
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share specimen![Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz), Schorl from Blue Lady Mine (Blue Tourmaline claim; San Diego group; Blue Bell deposit; Blue Bell Mine), Chihuahua Valley, Warner Springs District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-57321a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-57321a.jpg)
![Vesuvianite, Quartz from Øvstebø, Kleppan, Sauland, Hjartdal, Telemark, Norway [db_pics/mdpics/MD-57327a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-57327a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Cryo-Genie Mine (Cindy B-Cryogenie; Lost Valley Truck Trail prospect), Warner Springs, Warner Springs District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-57334a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-57334a.jpg)
![Quartz, Aurichalcite from Hidden Treasure Mine (Sacramento; Chicago), Ophir Hill area, Ophir District, Oquirrh Mts, Tooele Co., Utah, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-57356a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-57356a.jpg)
![Microcline (Var: Amazonite), Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Teller Co., Colorado, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-57361a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-57361a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst), Hematite from Diamond Willow Mine, Pearl Station, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada [db_pics/mdpics/MD-57362a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-57362a.jpg)
![Fluorite, Quartz from Highway 17 roadcut, Rossport, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada [db_pics/mdpics/MD-57429a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-57429a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Citrine) from Polar Urals, Western-Siberian Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-57541a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-57541a.jpg)
![Bournonite, Quartz from Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-57589a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-57589a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Mun. Las Vigas de Ramírez (Mun. de Profesor Rafael Ramírez), Veracruz, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-57601a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-57601a.jpg)
![Ferberite, Quartz from Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-57606a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-57606a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz), Albite, Muscovite from Galiléia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-57608a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-57608a.jpg)
![Malachite, Azurite, Quartz from Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-59221a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-59221a.jpg)
![Scheelite, Quartz, Muscovite from Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-59233a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-59233a.jpg)
![Epidote, Quartz from Hongquizhen Quarry, Meigu Co., Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-59241a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-59241a.jpg)