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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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Very similar to the material from the nearby Thunder Bay locality, this is a cluster of sharp, lustrous amethyst crystals with pretty inclusions of rust-colored hematite inside. 5.8 x 3.6 x 2.4cm
A very weird and interesting Eastern European specimen of calcite crystals intermixed with quartz, with both pseudomorphing occurring and the calcite being etched away on many crystals to form hollow casts. You can really study this one for a long time without getting bored! 9.9 x 6.4 x 6.1cm
These snow-white quartz crystals have a stark beauty about them that makes them really special and distinctive. They consist of conventional quartz crystals that were covered with a thick layer of quartz microcrystals during a subsequent phase in the pocket in which they formed. 7.2 x 5.7 x 4.9cm
A lustrous, 2.5-cm compound crystal of sphalerite is nestled amongst beautiful, silky, slender quartz crystals. Another really nice Eastern European specimen! 8.9 x 8.6 x 4.1cm
This LARGE and very impressive galena specimen still has the label from a previous dealer for $695, and you can see why. All along one edge are these big, super-sharp and beautifully formed galena crystal (to 3 cm), with a fine metallic luster. They are attractively set off by a field of quartz crystals that were selectively coated (on one side, that is) by a later generation of creamy microcrystals. You can display this piece as shown, or with the galena crystals in front and the field of quartz crystals in back, with their clear sides facing you and the microcrystals outlining them. Either way, a remarkable Eastern European combo specimen! 15.9 x 12.1 x 7.0cm
A STUNNING miniature, really unique and beautiful - a perfect bowtie of heulandite intergrown with a sceptered quartz crystal with a hexagonal scepter top. Wow! 4.7 x 3.1 x 2.2cm
A very large, spectacular specimen of "starburst" quartz from the Nikolaeskiy Mine at Dalnegorsk, quite uncommon, and named for the gorgeous radial bursts of crystals that look almost like fireworks. Note also the "bonus" euhedral pyrrhotite crystal over to one side. This is quite a showpiece! 16.9 x 11.4 x 7.9cm
Here is a BIG, FAT quartz crystal mined at the White Queen Mine in the 1950''s in Pala, with inclusions on most of the faces of milky montmorillonite. The faces on the crystal are complete save one, and the bottom is technically terminated as well, having come loose in the pocket and then "healed" with small subterminations apparent. A scarce old specimen! 15.6 x 9.0 x 7.2cm
This specimen is FAR prettier in person - it just sparkles like crazy! You have these super-sparkly little apophyllites decorating sharp, lustrous quartz crystals, with tiny chlorite inclusions lending a slightly green tone. Flashy and beautiful! 8.7 x 6.7 x 5.9cm
Brassy, lustrous, striated crystals of pyrite to over 4 cm, intergrown with pretty quartz blooms and sparing chalcopyrite - a large and pretty Peruvian piece. 14.7 x 13.1 x 5.7cm
There are incredibly ornate modifications on the faces of these shiny galena crystals (to over 2 cm) on this old Eastern European specimen. When you look at it very closely, you see that it is in fact intense hoppering on a micro-level causing this effect! Came with an old label . . 6.4 x 6.4 x 5.1cm
Inside this sharp, gemmy quartz crystal is an unusually highly visible phantom, visible from all sides, terminating clearly just under the termination of the crystal that engulfed it. A fine example of the phantom phenomenon! 6.6 x 4.7 x 3.4cm
A cluster of WONDERFUL, large crystals of amethyst from Bolivia, with the look of amethysts from Brandberg in that instead of an allover purple hue, the purple is in beautiful blushes or zones inside the crystals. There are incomplete crystals around the periphery, but the main crystals in the center have only a couple of tiny dings. 13.5 x 11.9 x 8.2cm
This whopper geode or vug contains hundreds of little sandcastle stalactites of quartz, like some strange other-worldly landscape, with several small and one large (6-cm) salmon-colored heulandite bowtie cluster for decoration! 22.3 x 16.9 x 11.7cm
A BEAUTIFUL and AESTHETIC combination specimen from Pakistan of a lustrous, pristine, 3.6 cm, dark green tourmaline crystal nicely attached to the side of a pearlescent, lustrous muscovite mica book. Blades of cleavelandite are attached to the tourmaline and a water-clear quartz crystal is attached to the lower left side of the mica book. A gemmy, green area lies below the frosted, pinacoid termination of the tourmaline. 6.1 x 5.3 x 3.0 cm
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![Quartz, Montmorillonite from White Queen Mine, Hiriart Mountain (Heriart; Heriot; Hiriat Hill), Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-60771a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-60771a.jpg)
![Apophyllite, Quartz from Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-60777a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-60777a.jpg)
![Pyrite, Quartz, Chalcopyrite from Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department, Peru [db_pics/mdpics/MD-60779a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-60779a.jpg)
![Galena, Quartz from Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic [db_pics/mdpics/MD-60781a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-60781a.jpg)
![Quartz from Saline Co., Arkansas, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-60797a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-60797a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Ayoreita mine, La Gaiba District, Sandoval Province, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-60805a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-60805a.jpg)
![Heulandite, Quartz from Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India [db_pics/mdpics/MD-60813a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-60813a.jpg)
![Tourmaline, Muscovite, Albite (Var: Cleavelandite), Quartz from Skardu Road, Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan [db_pics/mdpics/MD-60821a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-60821a.jpg)