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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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ex. Charlie Key
This is a large and beautiful example of the classic material from Washington, circa the 1950s-1960s. It is an extremely elegant and large specimen. Remarkably, it is nearly pristine (just a few tiny bruises of no import) and furthermore is completely crystallized around the back (where flat crystals seem to have grown upon a contact face where the piece sheared off from its host rock, essentially making it a floater. BETTER IN PERSON! This is a significant US mineral specimen and , for the size and elegance, a significant example of the species. And I think it is priced cheaply, myself.
ex. Charlie Key
DEEPLY-hued, intense amethyst phantom within a 4 inch plus crystal! WOW, what an eye pleaser.
ex. Bill Pinch
ex. Charlie Key
A really rich specimen , beautiful, with orange curite microcrystals completely covering the Vandenbrandeite within protected vugs on 2 faces of the specimen. The rest of the specimen shows solid Vandenbrandeite - and is thus among the richest examples of the species I have seen. This can, obviously, be broken up into several pretty good specimens of both minerals, and sold fo rmor emoney
ex. Charlie Key
This wonderful deeply colored amethyst crystal is doubly-terminated with two distinct types of terminations: one sharply prismatic atop; and the other an extended and elongated multiply stepped temrination on bottom. A great addition to any quartz collection aside from the gorgeous white-purple-white color zoning!.
ex. Charlie Key
A VERY striking, colorful, large specimen of gorgeous yellow autunites! the hue on these is more yellow than green, unlike autunite from other localities. I am told this is an exceptional piece for the locality.
ex. Charlie Key
Here we have a sharp, equant, GLASSY, doubly-terminated quartz crystal with a wonderful aurora of smoky and amethyst color within. Note the phantoms pointing in different directions! The piece is a complete floater save for one hole in the back side where it attached to a now-missing secondary crystal. It is really stunning! The small red streaks seem to be slightly included hematite.
ex. Charlie Key
A stuningly glassy quartz crystal with a wash of amethyst inside. Doubly-terminated and truly so lustrous you cannot belive its not polished (which it is NOT!)
ex. Charlie Key
This is an unusual matrix group from Brandberg, the rarer of the two Namibian locations. The crystal on the left side has a remarkable intense purpley-raspberry color surrounded by more normal amethyst. Beautiful!
ex. Charlie Key
Wow! A superb light amethystine-colored scepter on a clear quartz crystal. This a competive show piece wiht real sex appeal, and just leaps out in person. VERy 3-dimensional, and note the unusual attached matrix at bottom, so it is complete!.
ex. Charlie Key
This is one of my favorite larger crystal specimens here. It has light amethyst on the bottom and a perfect demarcation about halfway up to a zone which is, in startling contrast, a briliantly glassy and lustrous smoky color. It also has a wonderful moving water bubble near the top for added bonus. What i find really neat is that you have this sharp demarcation of COLOR without a GROWTH demarcation?! This is bizarre...you expect and see generally from this location a sceptre or change in growth when the color of the crystal changes. Or a phantom at the leat. But this bicolored beauty is, as i said, bizarre in that there isn't the slightest growth demarcation or surface change - the crystal just kept on , schizophrenically, growing.
ex. Charlie Key
Here is another large, incredibly lustrous & glassy crystal with deep smoky amethyst coloration and a small water bubble towards the top. Add this smoky phantom and you’ve got yourself a winner. It is MUCH better, more appealing in its subtle blend of colors, in person.
ex. Charlie Key
A very large, rich amethyst crystal with perfect termination. Very showy for the size and price! There is an amethyst phantom inside, though its lines are not as sharp as you might wish - but the color is intense!
ex. Charlie Key
One of the best scepters in this collection. Totally pristine: A perfect amethyst scepter that is able to grace any collection in the world already full of quartzes. It has gemminess, a robust 3-D form, and good color.
ex. Charlie Key
A perfect, equant and 3-dimensional scepter of smoky quartz with an interesting amethyst wisp right at the base of the head - in person, you could see slight, subtle phantoms of amethyst within.
ex. Charlie Key
A cute scepter of quartz over an amethystine zone inside, and a smoky zone right at the base of the head.
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