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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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Beautiful GEMMY citrine crystals with a very good amber/smoky hue to them, host several cute tourmalines included iside the bottom of the big crystal. Citrine of this size and quality is very uncommon. The piece came apart in the mail to me and is now simply contact-repaired at their junciton. It is seamless, and if I did not say it, you would never know; so this does not detract visually at all. The crystals are pristine save for a few trivial dings in back and really are jus tincredible Brazilian citrines entirely aside from the tourmaline inclusions.
A HUGE twinned quartz, showing symmetric twinning at a near-90 degree angle, called Japan Law. This piece is really in pretty good shapr considering the size, as most of these are heavily damaged from the locality. It has only very , very minor dings on a few edges, one small contact on a lower wing, and a contact at the lower-center where it grew against a very small crystal in the pocket. Otherwise, the display face is pristine and visually it looks so anyways, at first glance. This is a VERY dramatic piece for the price, given the sheer size of it !!!
A sparkling bright druse of white quartz upon which is emplaced several crystals of intensely colored, translucent crystals of fluorite, to 3.25 cm across makes for a visually appealing specimen here...very much more desirable than the usual solid blue plates. The color contrast is wonderful as is the fact that each fluorite crystal exhibits both purple and lavender hues differentially in zones. This was collected by Ray DeMark on his claims in the area in the summer of 2007.
Truly fine rhodos are gettting harder and harder to scrounge up, now the mine is closed and people are hoarding what is left. This is a fine thumbnail with unusually good aesthetics in combination with quartz
A stunning, glassy, gemmy, doubly-terminated crystal perched on matrix!
A REALLY sharp smoky sceptre, with deep and unusually rich color!
A very showy and interesting, historic specimen of this rare copper PHOSPHATE, not to be confused with much more common malachite (a copper carbonate!). This is very old material
A showy specimen with sparkling quartz on top of deep green fluorite - very nice and unusual for the locality, as well!
This specimen is a sharp doubly-terminated quartz literally loaded with BOTH brookite and rutile inclusions! I just couldn't believe it when i saw it - both in one piece, and so aesthetic as well?!
This specimen is a doubly-terminated quartz that features stunning inclusions of brookite crystals to 2.5 cm, from which sprout acicular golden rutile crystals. The quartz is fairly well damaged on the bottom tip and rear-right edges, hence the price about 20% what it otherwise might be
This specimen is the largest specimen I have seen of quartz associated with brookite in good quality. It is a pristine, jewel-like, sparkly cluster of quartz that is good on its own merit. Within the cluster, is a 2 cm brookite crystal whose termination is totally enclosed within one of the quartz points in teh cluster. You can look right in through the quartz to see it! This is an attractive and unusual specimen.
WOW! THE PIC SAYS IT ALL! THIS CLEAR, doubly-terminated quartz encloses a 2.2 cm doubly-terminated brookite crystal that is floating in perfect alignment to the axis of the quartz, as if it grew around the brookite as a seed! Small acicular rutile crystals shoot off the brookite, as well. This small treasure , for rarity and novel aesthetics, is one of the best included quartzes of ANY type that I have ever seen. It has every quality you can ask for in a significant inclusion, including the fact that the brookite even on its own would be a major example of the species.
Just a wonderful, showy miniature for the price! It has a good blaannce of gold to matrix, and good aesthetics of the gold as well. The pics don't do it justice...it really has a finely crysatllized nature to it that is not apparent here
This unique specimen has such startling color contrast between the green and the white that it looks fake, almost. The piece features a wonderful gem green fluorite that is translucent to transparent, on which is perched smartly a doubly-terminated crystal of calcite that has been changed over to quartz! I have never seen the like from China and it seems a one-off specimen that I found in amongst a lot of fluorite with just a few other specimens showing association with quartz casts but no sharp pseudos like this one. Oh - almost forgot to mention those two internal white spots you see in the fluorite are actually 2 more small pseudos, INCLUDED INSIDE THE FLUORITE!
This is one of the largest such specimen I have seen of this now-classic material, called "raspberry fluorite" by many in the direct market. It is a pristine large plate with many sharp fluorites to about 3 cm in size. In good lighting, it GLOWS with color! The shot here shows it in pretty moderate normal room lighting...in a case, it is far more intense. I have seen only a handful of specimens of this size and quality, trickling out over the last few years. I am told , and believe, that this mine produces just a few small pockets now and then and is not very productive in the manner of the Hunan fluorite locales.
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