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A DRAMATIC and SIGNIFICANT LARGE CABINET combination piece from the famous Nanisivik Mine, above the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island, North West Territory, Canada. Most of the specimen and matrix consists of sparkly, brassy pyrite blades pseudomorphing marcasite. Aesthetically scattered are lustrous, doubly terminated, amber calcite crystals to 1.8 cm, clusters of lustrous, chalcopyrite-speckled, gray dolomite rhombs, and transparent, water-clear, doubly terminated quartz crystals to 5.8 cm. Scattered periphery damage is trivial, for such a large piece. The Nanisivik Mine is one of the highest latitude and coldest underground mines in the world. 15.3 x 11.5 x 7.0 cm
Three, gem, water-clear at the terminations to faintly green and purple at the centers, apatite crystals to 1.2 cm rest on a matrix of lustrous zoned, hexagonal siderite crystals to 0.9 cm. The 1.7 cm, lustrous and transparent quartz crystal at the top. Smale Collection. 5.2 x 4.5 x 2.3 cm
An aesthetic and showy specimen of a 1.0 cm, matte-finish, blood-red fluorite ball perched on the apex of a ball of transparent to translucent, frosted, gray-green quartz crystals on a small bit of basalt matrix from the several year old, one-tiime find at the Mahodari Quarry in India. The specimen can be rotated, so that the trivial contacting and a trivial termination bruise on adjacent quartz crystals to the fluorite ball are not visible. This would be a very fine specimen, without any damage. 6.7 x 6.0 x 4.5 cm
11 x 10 x 6 cm. This shell has been entirely replaced by light pink rhodochrosite. When you peer into its interior, you can see it’s like a little pink cave inside. This is an 11 x 10 x 6 cm specimen with a rhodochrosite-replaced clam so big that inside of it there are numerous others. This is a phosphate mining district where they are now through the fossil-bearing zone, and so no more have come out in years, of this quality.
An AESTHETIC and pristine, floater combination quartz specimen from Brandberg, Namibia. A "rocket ship", very glassy, doubly terminated, smoky quartz crystal has several "fins" of amethyst and smoky quartz crystals projecting out of the tail section of the ship. 3.8 x 2.8 x 1.5 cm
A LARGE and very impressive Eastern European galena specimen, MUCH more impressive in person, in that you have a compound cluster of galena with staggere, stepped growth all along the sides, so that it just shimmers. But more than that, the galena cluster is nestled in a bed of small, translucent poker-chip calcites that wrap around its edges, which have grown atop silky quartz crystals -making this piece truly exceptional. 12.4 x 8.4 x 6.7cm
Another fine Eastern Euro specimen, featuring a cluster of finely-formed sphalerite crystals accented by frosted quartz crystals, which stick out from all sides of the matrix. 6.2 x 5.4 x 5.0cm
This striking specimen consists of the slightly concave side of a quartz-lined pocket with a 1.8 cm ball of red fluorite (tinted by hematite) unique to this find, with another smaller ball hiding nearby. There is also a little quartz stalactite beside the fluorite balls (you are viewing it from the top - from the side, it has a hook shape). These are a really unique form and color for fluorite, similar in form at least to the yellow Indian fluorite balls that look like eggs. 10.0 x 8.8 x 2.9cm
Much more familiar from Arkansas and Russia, but NOT from California - this is a specimen of chlorite-included quartz - in this case, the chlorite has coated an earlier generation of crystal growth, creating green phantoms inside the clear quartz. 3.2 x 3.2 x 2.2cm
A fine, whopper amethyst crystal, complete all around with NO damage, with the deep purple tip characteristic of top-quality Bolivian material. This crystal has a pretty, double-peaked termination. WEIGHS 970 grams! 15.5 x 8.8 x 6.5cm
One of two Sunnyside rhodos in this set of auctions, this one on the opposite extreme size-wise. Very nicely-formed crystals on this thumber. Sunnyside rhodos are very hard to get these days! 2.2 x 1.8 x 1.4cm
A fine Russian mini Japan-law twin quartz; both crystals are complete and terminated. 3.5 x 2.4 x 1.3cm
Irai was known for these unique calcites, and then the supply seemed to dry up. There were hardly any available at the last year''s Tucson show, and they were overpriced, so we bought none. Then, to our surprise, we found a cache of new specimens with one dealer at the small Spring Denver Show last year, and cherry-picked all the best ones, and sold them. Then they disappeared again - until finally, a contact brought us the only specimens we saw at this year''s Tucson Show, and we bought the entire lot - the good, the bad and the ugly - in order to get the good ones. This is a relatively large specimen with one big crystal lying flat on its side and others sticking up off the matrix. The matrix is very unusual in that it has purple tones from amethyst mixed with the usual copper-mineral green, adding to the attractiveness of this one. 12.6 x 12.2 x 6.6cm
This relatively large specimen of the classic Colorado combo is notable for many reasons. First, the amazonite is an INTENSE deep robins-egg blue. It is also beautiful how the crystal is tucked back behind the smoky. And, the smoky itself has a very unusual, multi-peaked, architectural structure that gives the specimen wonderful form. These continue to be greatly prized by collectors. This specimen (as many of these do) has repairs (3 of them, the label says). If you have seen these pockets before, they generally look like a jumble of amazonites and smokies in mud that have to be "reassembled" by matching and fitting the crystals together. The repairs are virtually undetectable on this specimen. 8.4 x 7.9 x 7.7cm
A spectacular starburst of quartz crystals with an unusual powdery white coating on them that instead of detracting, actually adds to their beauty and gives them a unique look. The terminations are complete save for a couple down at the bottom and the termination faces have a slightly different luster that gives them some contrast to the side faces, making the crystals even more distinctive. 10.8 x 9.0 x 7.4cm All Content and Design ©1996-2012 The ArkenstonePowered by http://mineralwebsites.comMineral Specimens by species; or by specimen id. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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