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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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ex. Marilyn Dodge
Pleasing to the eye and to the discerning taste, this doubly-terminated scepter is really quite a little gem. It is rather more developed than most from the locality, in terms of 3-dimensionality. This was a onetime find in or about 1981 if i recall. VERY hard to get one, nowadays!
ex. Marilyn Dodge
Campyllite is a variety of Mimetite, and these lustrous, well-formed crystals are exceptional for this mineral. Their luster, color, and habit are well above what you normally find, even from this classic locality. Moreover, this piece has such unique aesthetics, with the ball of lustrous crystals atop a quartz crystal itself covered with micro-mimetite druse, that it is an excellent specimen - that just happens to be also a killer thumbnail.
ex. Marilyn Dodge
What better way to add a Japan Law Quartz specimen to your collection than finding one from Japan itself. This crystal has wonderful symmetry, and is a terrific example of the species. one natural contact along one edge does not detract at all.
ex. Marilyn Dodge
This is another specimen from the same locality as the previous piece. It features a single barite spear now replaced by jasperoid quartz.
crystals to 5 mm of sharp green Paratacamite in a protected vug of beautiful chrysocolla-infused quartz crystals!
Dozens of small but very sharp crystals of green Paratacamite in a protected vug of beautiful chrysocolla-infused quartz crystals! Part of the righthand side of the cavity is fille din with selenite, for added assemblage of minerals here. Colorful, large, and very neat specimen for the species!
A gorgeous specimen with really rich coverage of Paratacamite , to 1 mm or so, on matrix of sparkling quartz infused with blue chrysocolla. Selenite, which you can look right though, caps off the protected vug!
A 5 mm cluster of sharp green Paratacamite at the pinnacle of quartz matrix! What a cutie! Could easily trim to a thumbnail, too.
A superior, sharp, brilliant gold crystal measures 6 mm across, and is perched in contrasting matrix. This is exceptional for the quality of the crystallization and from a hard-to-get locale!
ex. Al Partee
ex. Austrian Museum of Vienna
ex. Dr. Steve Neely
ex. Irv Brown
This piece has to be one of the most aesthetic golds I have ever seen for sale from the old deposits here. It feaures an arborescent cluster of thick gold crystals leaping off contrasting TERMINATED quartz matrix. The gold is sturdy itself, and strongly embedded in the quartz as well. This incredibly aesthetic specimen has a long history! It was in the collection of the Austrian Museum of Vienna, until traded out and sold to collector Al Partee in the 1980s. When Al sold his his best miniature competition pieces, it went from him through Steve Neely to Irv Brown's miniature collection. I got it from Irv sometime in the late 1990s and traded it to Cal Graeber. Cal sold it to Mark when Mark was a curator up in Canada. Mark moved to Houston a couple of years ago. Mark brought it to lunch here in Dallas in July, and voila, its back with me again! I recognized it immediately. And, as a bonus, its now on the front cover of an important book on the mineralogy of Transylvania and these historic deposits.
A killer miniature from this hard-to-get locale! Great Red Ledge specimens are scarce now. They used to come to market up until the 1980s or so. Some say they have the best lustre of any US gold specimens, and this one certainly illustrates the point in person. This one features both crystals and leaves, arranged elegantly around a core of quartz . It is of superior quality.
ex. Dr. Eugene Meieran
Translucent, curving crystals of lustrous yellow siderite, gracefully wreath a lustrous, transparent, doubly-terminated quartz crystal. The largest siderite measures 2.5 cm across and the quartz crystal is 6 cm in length. This is a wonderful combo piece, typical of the venerable old gold mine at Morro Velho, Brazil.
ex. Dr. Eugene Meieran
Most twisted or "gwindel" quartz specimens are pretty large. However, this elegant, clearly twisted smoky gwindel is a miniature - and smaller sized specimens for the miniature collector are actually harder to obtain than the large ones! It is transparent, richly smoky in color, and displays all the characteristic nuances of its big brothers. This is a striking miniature!
ex. Martin Zinn
This is a superb example of this rare nickel species, with brilliant hulk-green crystals to 1 cm in a protected cavity in a quartz geode. I believe this is the world's best locality for the species....at least, I have not seen good honessite from other places for sale. Honessite is MUCH more rare than the millerite found in geodes from this hard-to-collect locality (I know, i collected there as a kid!). The location is a roadcut along a major state highway, now completely off-limits to collectors.
ex. Martin Zinn
This is a very rich example of millerite nestled within a protected cavity in a quartz geode. This is a hard-to-collect locality (I know, i collected there as a kid!), and geodes this full and this wel filled are just rare as can be. The location is a roadcut along a major state highway, now completely off-limits to collectors. This particular specimen has millerite poking out all sides, and is delicate to mail, so best sold for hand-delivery at some time as possible.
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![Gold on Quartz from Rosia Montana, Verespatak, Transylvania, Romania [db_pics/pics/mm11b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/mm11b.jpg)
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