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3.1 x 2.6 x 1.5 cm
2.8 x 1.2 x 0.8 cm
This interesting specimen came out about 4 years ago and I have never seen their like since this one find. Weird, and totally unexplainable secondary growths of colored quartz crazily overlap and drape the earlier , normal, quartz crystals in this cluster. Truly a mesmerizing quartz specimen, and one unlike just about anything else out there. 16.6 x 10.8 x 6.1 cm
An oustanding, truly fine Brandberg amethyst on its own merits, but also with a very large and visible bubble right in the middle! You can quite clearly see the oval shape of it, front and center. It is one of the more dramatic bubble inclusions I have seen, but ALSO present in a fine amethyst of top quality glassiness and lustre. Together, a superb piece! 7.3 x 2.9 x 2.5 cm
This remains to my knowledge the only good matrix example of tourmaline from this pocket, which I bought from a dealer directly out of Brazil around 1998 or so. I have seen only matrixless singles, since. It features a sharp 4.5-cm (almost 2 inch!) crystal sitting in a natural groove through the contrasting quartz point. The colors are VIBRANT and stunning, with a deep red cap on top of gemmy green body. At the very bottom is a gem nodule of liquid red tourmaline, as well. . Since then, I have bought and sold it twice, taking the opportunity each time a collector changed focus or style, to buy it back. In this case, it was a trade at Munich with a tourmaline-collecting friend who is now specializing in other localities, so the price remains fairly affordable, I think. It is MUCH more dramatic in person, where the 3-dimensionality comes off better. 9.5 x 4.0 x 3.1 cm
WOW. This incredible dramatic specimen, about 13 inches across, is just amazing to me in that it survived the aeons. I think the aesthetics speak for itself. The small inclusions you see are casued by microlite, taken into the crystals during growth. The piece has one repair about the midpoint, and I actually purchased it in two portions - and we only then found they went together in somewhat of a minor miracle! The two portions had come apart in geologic time, and were separated in the pocket when it was found, not realized to connect. There is a small discontinuity to the smoothness at the join because, over time, aquamarine recrystallized minutely over the break and so each half has a few millimeters of extra growth added after the break. When they were rejoined, we left this slight dip at the join as illustrative of the natural processes which form such impressive large pegmatite specimens, rather than grind down the secondary growth to make a perfectly smooth fit. Elsewhere, the pieces fit together semalessly, and you would not even know it was repaired if I did not tell you. It is a LARGE and very striking piece, geometrically, and I think one of the more impressive beryls to come out of here, for sheer visual appeal. 32.5 x 22.9 x 12.8 cm
A good pink elbaite attractive combination piece featuring a 9 x 3.75 x 3 cm crystal perched dramatically next to a slightly smoky quartz, with both showing free-standing terminations unencumbered of the other. The smoky has a slight chip out of the back, but is otherwise complete all around! The tourmaline is pristine except at its junction to the quartz in the lower half on one side. 17.6 x 10.8 x 8.1 cm
The translucent, blue-to-purple termination splits off into many little terminations, with lepidolite nestled between the points!. The indicolite itself grows out of a giant schorl body, which seems to be dark and is probably in reality a very dense indicolite. The termination is accented by the flanking cleavelandite blades, the purplish lepidolite, and the presence of a large quartz crystal which is intergrown with the tourmaline. 12.3 x 10.6 x 9.5 cm
This gemmy, 6-inch tourmaline is that rare thing from Brazil, a LARGE AND UNREPAIRED indicolite! It is gemmy, if not gem quality, and translucent throughout with large transparent zones as well. The color is a very rich green grading into blue, and it gets gemmier at the termination. The piece is miraculously unrepaired - almost unheard of for a Brazilian tourmaline of this size, today. It is the best specimen brought to market from a remarkable find at this old location, digging into the same deposits which yielded fantastic crystals 40 years ago. Hence, its illustration as a surprising example of what was found. The accent of quartz at the base really makes it and adds to the appeal. 16.4 x 4.8 x 3.3 cm
This is quite simply the best matrix Brazil emerald known, and has been featured on the back cover of Le Regne Minerale in 1998 and in a photo in the Min Record as well. It GLOWS with color. Steve has owned this since the 90s. The pocket was found in 1997 and it was sold to noted french collector Gilles Emmringer. He had one of the best collections of fine quality brazilian gem crystals at the time. Shortly thereafter it was exchanged to Steve Smale. Since its deaccession to Smale, Steve has owned it as one of his marquis gem beryl specimens, well-known from being shown at Tucson and at his home You simply cannot find an equivalent emerald from Colombia or Nigeria , as this rich matrix look remains unique as well. In person, the color is a very glassy and rich hue of green that gem people tell me has a "hint of blue" in it. the result is a very intense color that stands out in brightness form the rather more common , and still expensive, Colombian material. There is simply not another matrix emerald like this, to our knowledge, anywhere on the planet. The piece is large, at 7 x 4.5 x 4 cm overall. The crystal is also of good size at 3.5 cm tall, 2 cm wide, and 1.5 cm thick. It is , again, extremely glassy and bright. the extra color pizzazz contributed by all the small crystals on the side of the central quartz contributes a lot of visual impact and helps to "centre" the eye on the middle. EVEN IF THIS WERE COLOMBIAN , it would fetch a very high price for the aesthetics and color brilliance of the large emerald. The fact that it comes from Brazil, from a mmuch rarer and smaller discovery that seems to have been a on-time occurrence, makes this far more significant than any comparably sized Colombian piece could be, however. I consider myself fortunate that we were able to make an exchange with which we both feel happy (he still has one of the best Colombian matrix emeralds!), to acquire this specimen. It was not for sale, only for trade, in other words. Comes with custom lucite base for easy display. 7 x 4.5 x 4 cm
A rare bright pink elbaite on matrix! The tourmaline is pristine and free of damage, complete all around except only a small bit on the backside. The size of the tourmaline is 10 x 5 x 4.5 cm. The smoky quartz is pristine and free of damage, complete all around . The delicate accent of the "v" of 2 gem tourmalines of entirely different habit at its base, makes this piece special and truly elegant. There is a third, small, pink tourmaline between the "v" crystals, which is reflective of the large crystal atop in form. 12 x 11 x 7 cm
Like agate, chalcedony is typically not considered a high-end collector mineral specimen. But sometimes, chalcedony as well as agate qualifies nobly – as with this large, striking specimen! This botryoidal, taupe-colored chalcedony is lustrous and translucent, so that you can see a generation of whiter chalcedony as internal phantoms within the finger-like forms. Really dramatic! 23 x 12 x 3.5 cm
11.5 x 9.2 x 7.5 cm. A cluster of tall, slender, elegant quartz crystals, sparkling with little apophyllites, and with phantoms of green fluorite inside the terminations. A sizeable and dramatic Dal'negorsk piece. These interesting combination pieces came out around 2005.
ex. Marilyn Dodge
High on everyone’s list of gold specimens to get is a ropy wire of some sort, and this excellent specimen has great color, aesthetics, and luster. It looks like a shofar, or ancient religious rams horn, to me. It is just a damned good gold by ANY standard - and you know pieces with such thick wires from Alaska or Colorado go for five figures, even if small. On top of that, the associations make it even more prized as a locality speicmen of some import. The Caprivizipfel is the long finger of land that stretches from Namibia east to Zambia.
ex. Marilyn Dodge
Twinned smoky quartzes are rare to begin with, and closed twins like this even more so. From this particular locality, now within a national park and illegal to collect from, they are truly a treasure! This is thus a fascinating and unusual specimen from one of the world’s best smoky localities: this gem has everything from being transparent to lustrous, to twinned. The crystal measures about 1.8 cm tall. All Content and Design ©1996-2012 The ArkenstonePowered by http://mineralwebsites.comMineral Specimens by species; or by specimen id. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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