|
Mineral Specimens with Quartz
(click on a page number to go to that page:)
page 51 / 372 - prev - 5579 specimens selected - next
9 x 7 x 6 cm. Lovely and intensely colored deep lavender Kunzite with Quartz and Albite. Kunzite: 5.5 x 2.5 x 1.4 cm. Not often will you find a Kunzite with this rich of a color, and consistent all the way through the crystal, no less (on all axes, not just the c axis!). The crystal has an excellent sharp termination and it has the brilliant silky luster that Kunzites are so well-known for.
13 x 7.2 x 6.3 cm. Classic Afghani Kunzite, like a chisel point, very sharp. It has great size (13 cm) and form, very good luster, and an attractive color that ranges from pink along the outside to a light green near the core. The matrix association makes the piece more valuable and rarer than a relatively common single would be, and the sharp termination adds appeal.
8.5 x 7.0 x 4.8 cm. A showy and excellent combination piece from the 1992 Museum Pocket at the famous and now-closed Sweet Home Mine of large tetrahedrite crystals to 3.5 cm attractively covered with and surrounded by clear to frosted, light blue fluorite cubes and needle quartz crystals on sulfide matrix. This is the pocket that produced the famous large diorama exhibit in the Denver Museum of Natural History.
4.0 x 2.6 x 2.6 cm. A STRIKING English CABINET piece of gray quartz pseudomorphing cubic fluorite crystals; and beautifully sprinkled with two steel-gray galena crystals and tiny, complex sphalerite crystals from Alston Moor. The back is covered with sphalerite crystals. CLASSIC, OLD-TIME English material of each species - but rare in such an unusual combo.
10.0 x 5.8 x 4.2 cm. An excellent and showy CABINET plate of cherry-red rhodochrosite rhombs to 1.4 cm embedded on water-clear quartz crystals from the famous Huayllapon Mine at Pasto Bueno, Peru. You can see that the rhodos grew around or on the quartz needles. Specimens of this quality came out in the 1970s to early 1980s and are in fact, rarer than Sweet Home rhodos. Ex.. George Elling Collection.
7.2 x 2.6 x 1.8 cm. A stunning example of the world-class amethyst from Brandberg! This crystal is water-clear at the top, razor-sharp and undamaged. Right in the center is a perfect amethyst phantom, its form sharp and clearly outlined and visible from every angle.
6.4 x 4.5 x 3.1 cm. Look at how the green octahedral fluorites tucked in the nook of this quartz cluster just GLOW like gems! They are not the dull green color of many Chinese fluorites, but the particular minty bright color peculiar to the Daye Mine. The quartz crystal itself has a very sharp phantom inside of it, its faces outlined clearly by tiny blooms of chlorite which were deposited on its surface before growth continued and engulfed it.
12.6 x 4.3 x 4.2 cm. The frosty faces of this BIG, fine, complete and terminated smoky quartz crystal are STUDDED with bright little gemmy orange spessartines!
12.1 x 8.6 x 6.2 cm. A large cluster of quartz crystals speckled with sharp, lustrous little ilvaites! From one of the great world mineral localities, late 1980s.
12.6 x 8.4 x 4.2 cm. Sharp, metallic crystals of arsenopyrite in a fine balance with milky quartz crystals. The arsenos have a nice bronzy luster. On the back side of this large and impressive specimen is massive sphalerite.
12.7 x 10.1 x 7.7 cm. A large, rich, very impressive Himalaya Mine combo specimen! What you have here is a fine balance of sharp quartz crystals, blooms of lavender lepidolite, and multicolored tourmaline. There are two intergrown tourmalines at the top of the specimen, with two intact terminations. The larger one measures about 2 cm across the termination, and is dark green. The other is a VERY gemmy pink and green (contacted on the back end). The quartz crystals are not just accessories here but really add a lot, with good luster, sharpness and gemminess.
14.5 x 9.3 x 9.0 cm. This specimen is a great small cabinet size piece consisting of super quality, sharp, gemmy, lustrous, prismatic, light purple color "reverse" scepter and simple prisms of Amethyst measuring up to 1.9 cm sitting atop white/colorless, modified scalenohedra of Calcite on matrix.
7.4 x 2.8 x 2.6 cm. These new Spessartines are some of the most attractive and highly displayable specimens to come out of China in the last few years. This particular piece features several lustrous, gemmy, reddish-orange trapezohedra with dodecahedral modifications measuring up to 5 mm sitting atop highly lustrous, gem quality Smoky Quartz crystals. The color in these crystals is a rich orange hue and very attractive, and they are not at all dull or pitted.
13.7 x 13.2 x 7.9 cm. This is a large and gorgeous specimen from Brazil. There is a complete, multiply-terminated, silky calcite crystal sitting right on a cluster of gemmy, glassy amethyst crystals. The calcite measures over 10 cm, and the specimen was trimmed out very carefully around it, so you have this wonderful balance between the calcite and the amethyst. The calcite has this wonderful creamy, silky luster, and is translucent, a light golden color which does not come through in the pics; it contrasts nicely with the glassy amethyst. This was very likely an amethyst geode, and the geode was cut and trimmed out to create this dazzling specimen that highlights the calcite.
9.9 x 3.7 x 3.4 cm. If you have been to the Crystal Mines in Arkansas, you might know what a joy it would be to find a crystal of this quality, though most visitors and miners there never do. This is a complete, undamaged crystal, of optical quality, DOUBLY TERMINATED, with no contacts. It has pretty striations on its faces. Arkansas turns out some of the best quartzes on earth.
(click on a page number to go to that page:)
page 51 / 372 - prev - 5579 specimens selected - next
Rob Lavinsky, rob@irocks.com
All Content and Design ©1996-2012 The Arkenstone
Mineral Specimens by species; or
by specimen id.
|
share specimen![Spodumene (Var: Kunzite), Quartz, Albite from Konar Valley (Kunar Valley), Konar (Kunar; Konarh; Konarha; Nuristan) Province, Afghanistan [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118153a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118153a.jpg)
![Spodumene (Var: Kunzite), Quartz, Lepidolite, Tourmaline from Mawi pegmatite, Laghman (Lagman; Nuristan) Province, Afghanistan [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118155a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118155a.jpg)
![Tetrahedrite, Fluorite, Quartz from Sweet Home Mine (Home Sweet Home Mine), Mount Bross, Alma District, Park Co., Colorado, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118188a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118188a.jpg)
![Quartz, Fluorite, Galena, Sphalerite from Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118193a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118193a.jpg)
![Rhodochrosite, Quartz from Huayllapon Mine, Pasto Bueno District, Pallasca Province, Ancash Department, Peru [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118210a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118210a.jpg)
![Quartz, Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Brandberg area, Brandberg District, Erongo Region, Namibia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118219a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118219a.jpg)
![Fluorite, Quartz from Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper mine), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118228a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118228a.jpg)
![Spessartine, Quartz from Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118229a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118229a.jpg)
![Quartz, Ilvaite from Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118249a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118249a.jpg)
![Quartz, Ilvaite from Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118249b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118249b.jpg)
![Arsenopyrite, Quartz from Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118258a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118258a.jpg)
![Elbaite, Quartz, Lepidolite from Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118276a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118276a.jpg)
![Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Bombori, Chayanta Province, Potosà Department, Bolivia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118292a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118292a.jpg)
![Spessartine, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) from Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118298a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118298a.jpg)
![Calcite, Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from Rio Grande do Sul, South Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118317a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118317a.jpg)
![Quartz from Miller Mountain Mine (New Coleman Mine; Jimmy Coleman Mine), Blue Springs, Garland Co., Arkansas, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-118339a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-118339a.jpg)