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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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6.8 x 5 x 3.2 cm. This is a fine Spessartine and Smoky Quartz specimen from Tongbei. The garnets have a beautiful uniform deep orange color, excellent gemminess, and a terrific luster. Most of the Spessartines are 2-3 mm, but some actually reach .6 cm, and with their gemminess, they absolutely glow under light. There are five lovely terminated Smoky Quartz crystals, the largest of which reaches 2.2 cm.
4.4 x 2.3 x 2.0 cm. An exquisite miniature from a new find of gemmy fluorite cubes with a slight purple blush, on equally gemmy, prismatic quartz crystals.
7.9 x 5.2 x 5.1 cm. A cluster of amethyst crystals with gemmy tips, covered right up to these tips with a second generation of super-sparkly, small amethyst crystals.
6.4 x 4.3 x 4.3 cm. This is a great favorite of collectors because of the incredible sparkly the chrysocolla takes on with the microcrystals of quartz having formed over it. In this case, there are also areas of quartz over a dark gray mineral that contrast beautifully with the chrysocolla.
5.2 x 3.4 x 3.4 cm. Rather than just being a flat plate, this spessartine has real form to it. What apparently happened is that a smoky quartz crystal broke off in the pocket, and then was covered completely by spessartines - giving it this blocky form. There are also other smaller smokies on this specimen.
6.1 x 5.3 x 3.6 cm. Bright and brassy chalcopyrites in association with milky, translucent crystals of quartz, in a very aesthetic arrangement. There is minor galena on some of the chalcopyrite surfaces.
3.3 x 2.4 x 1.6 cm. killer mini with an elegant, elongated crystal of kunzite with a pale pink blush color, sticking right up off of a euhedral quartz crystal. The kunzite is complete and terminated! This fine piece came out of the collection of Lou Schwartz.
9.7 x 6.2 x 5.9 cm. This specimen consists of a plate of intensely lustrous small crystals with, at one end, a single large crystal rising up with a gemmy tip, wrapped by a second generation of smaller crystals.
4.9 x 2.6 x 1.4 cm, 3.4 x 2.1 x 1.9 cm. Two miniature specimens of rose quartz, the most desirable and rare variety, from Minas Gerais. One is a prism with facial distortions of pale pink - the other is a complex compound crystal with over a dozen terminations.
8.7 x 6.1 x 4.5 cm. The amethysts from Brandberg are arguably the best in the world - and this specimen gives ample evidence as to why. This is an unusually large specimen for this locality, and as you can see, is just incredibly aesthetic. You have a central doubly-terminated, super gemmy and lustrous smoky crystal, with just a hint of a purple blush inside. A cluster of smaller crystals have formed on one face.
6.5 x 3.5 x 2.9 cm. A STRIKING and really good, parallel-growth quartz crystal cluster from recent finds at the Daye Mine of China. The water-clear, glassy quartz crystals surround the dominating, largest crystal.
12.5 x 7.0 x 5.7 cm. A DRAMATIC and UNIQUE tourmaline and smoky quartz CABINET specimen from the Gene Meieran Collection. A 6.0 cm, gemmy and lustrous, doubly terminated, gray tourmaline crystal with vivid, raspberry-red terminations rests diagonally and beautifully on a nearly pristine, doubly terminated, translucent, complex smoky quartz crystal. Gene Meieran helped fund a late 1980s mining venture here, and kept this as one of his finders choice pieces when they hit.
4.4 x 4.4 x 2.3 cm. An excellent and showy specimen of gemmy and lustrous, orangey-red spessartine garnets surrounding a pristine, very glassy, smoky quartz crystal from recent finds in Tongbei, China. The bit of feldspar matrix is a nice accent.
6.2 x 5.5 x 5.3 cm. A dramatic specimen of a 2.2 cm, aesthetic cluster of sharp, lustrous silver crystals beautifully perched atop milky quartz matrix from last year’s Chinese fines in Shanxi Province. Very few NATIVE SILVERS of this quality were available, as most of the specimens were acanthite.
11.1 x 6.0 x 4.8 cm. Many collectors are not familiar with Rift Valley amethysts, but they are really quite fine (and of course, a lot more uncommon on the market that amethyst from the traditional localities, including even high-end localities such as Brandberg, Las Vigas and Guerrero. This is a very large, doubly-terminated floater crystal, complete all around - with a purple blush at the ends and smoky areas as well.
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