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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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ex. Charlie Key
Charlie had a whole pocket of these strange fluorites, like no others I have personally seen on the market at any time from the area. This is the largest piece from his stash, and is very much more dramatic in person. It features highly modified crystals of fluorite with (for lack of a better word) "bubbly" cubic fluorite outgrowths from oriented faces of an underlaying octahedral fluorite. They are green and gemmy with purple highlights. The piece as a whole is sparkly due to a thin coating of bright little calcites.
ex. Charlie Key
Charlie had only one flat of this very unusual association, which he said was found at the end of the 1990s here. The fluorites here are mattte-green, but translucent, and they sit on contrasting amethyst crystals to 1 cm in size. The largest fluorite on this plate is 2 cm.
ex. Charlie Key
Gemmy, transparent, lavender-colored fluorite crystals perched on the edge of a quartz cluster make for a really distinct specimen, here.
ex. Charlie Key
This specimen comes from the Uis tin mine, from the 1970s or earlier according to Charlie. It features a large freestanding crystal perched on quartz matrix - and the crystal is , in person, translucent and of a nice pastel green color. Such specimens are extremely hard to obtain today and , especially in such aesthetic form, are rare in fluorite collections.
ex. Charlie Key
Charlie had only one flat of this very unusual association, which he said was found at the end of the 1990s. The fluorites here are mattte-green, but translucent, and they sit on contrasting amethyst crystals to 2 cm in size. The largest fluorite on this plate, which is also our largest specimen of the pocket, is 3.6 cm. These are octahedral, translucent crystals and on the edges have oriented outgrowths of minute cubic faces. I cannot think of a fluorite on amethyst association from any other locality (can you!?).
ex. Charlie Key
This is a schorl specimen so good, I just wasn't even sure at first glance it was...I mean, schorl is usually just black tourmaline, to be discarded as secondary in priority compared to a glorious gemmy crystal of color. But when you get ANY mineral specimen with such sharpness of form, contrast to matrix (crystallized matrix no less, not just rock), and eye appeal, even a traditionally secondary species to the collector can produce a first rate specimen of competition quality. This specimen is complete all around, and pristine save for a few very trivial contacts.
ex. Charlie Key
A brillianlty lustrous cluster of sharp schorl, again on contrasting quartz matrix, shows off how good Erongo schorl can be! It is 3-dimensional, complete all around, and MUCH MUCH BETTER in person! This piece is pristine and complete save for a few very tiny dings or contacts that, in person, do not detract at all. I have seen such clusters before from Erongo, and thought highly of them...but the fact that this is perched upon crystallized smoky quartz takes it to the next level. And, I think the prices on these are pretty reasonable for world class exmaples of their species.
ex. Charlie Key
A stunning, 3-dimensional, ball of beautiful and lustrous schorl crystals perched like an imporbable stack of cards upon a small pedestal of crystallized smoky quartz! VERY unusual for the quality and aesthetics! This is one of my favorites of the many schorls here.
ex. Charlie Key
Brilliantly spessartine-orange garnets from the famous early 1980s find at Marienfluss! Almost all were found loose and although this isn't the gemmiest of them, its on matrix...something almost unhear dof for the find! This locality is long sinc edefunct.
ex. Charlie Key
A pristine, sharp, 2 x 1.5 x 1 cm ilmenite perched on quartz! Very nice example for the locality!
ex. Charlie Key
Wow! pics say it all, eh? 3-dimensional, complete, and just a smoker...
ex. Charlie Key
You do not normally think of prehnite in and of itself as a top class mineral specimen, because the crystals don't usually get big and isolated. Well, they do from here! This 3 cm , translucent, pear-green ball on matrix just blows me away! It has to be one of the most aesthetic prehnites I have seen, in this size!
ex. Charlie Key
A stunning, lustrous, deep green translucent aggregate of prehnite crystals, making for a beautiful and impressive piece - all the more so for the locality!
ex. Charlie Key
You do not normally think of prehnite in and of itself as a top class mineral specimen, because the crystals don't usually get big and isolated. Well, they do from here! This translucent, pear-green doublet on matrix just glows! It has to be one of the most aesthetic prehnites I have seen, in this size!
ex. Charlie Key
An apple-green ball of prehnite perched on a natrual pedestal. GLOWS with juicy color in person!!! This is a KILLER prehnite thumbnail...and a great thumbnail period, for that matter.
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