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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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9.0 x 6.7 x 5.1 cm. China keeps producing great quality, crystallized display specimens and has provided collectors with more fine quality minerals than virtually any other country in recent memory. Here we have a very attractive crystal group of beautiful purple color cubes of Fluorite measuring up to 9 mm on edge with medium luster and sharp faces. The Fluorites are sitting on great, sharp, lustrous, colorless Quartz crystal matrix.
4.6 x 3.0 x 2.8 cm. This locality has produced some of the best quality Pyromorphite specimens in the world. A few years ago, some of the brightest green Pyromorphite specimens came out of this locality. This particular specimen isn’t bright green but rather more of a subdued green with a orange/brown overtone. The piece features several sharp, lustrous, fine quality, sharp, prismatic, "hoppered" AND complete un-"hoppered" crystals of Pyromorphite measuring up to 1.4 cm on Quartz matrix.
7.2 x 4.0 x 3.7cm. Here we have a great Smoky Quartz and Amethyst specimen from a new find in Hallelujah Junction in California. It actually has very good form and color, for any locality, but is especially attractive for a U.S. piece. This specimen consists of a large, sharp, lustrous, well formed, partially skeletal, defined smoky and purple "Amethyst" bi- color zoning.
4.6 x 3.0 x 3.0 cm. This is a superb specimen of a very rare phosphate from a world-famous locality. Zanazziite is a hydrated calcium magnesium iron aluminum beryllium phosphate and some of the crystals of this species are found at this locality. This piece has a scattering of large, semi lustrous, well-formed, translucent, green spheroids of the rare phosphate Zanazziite associated which are sitting on translucent crystallized Rose Quartz and white Quartz matrix. The aesthetics and superb quality of the Zanazziite spheres on this specimen make it a great treasure. This specimen is over 25 years old and is from the ORIGINAL find from the 1970’s that was brought to the United States by Richard Kosnar. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
5.0 x 4.5 x 2.8 cm. A divergent cluster of highly lustrous, black ferberite blades nicely accented with glassy quartz crystals.
10.2 x 10.2 x 6.5 cm. An INCREDIBLY FINE combination CABINET piece from Pakistan. A large, 5.6 x 4.0 cm, gemmy and lustrous, light-champagne-colored topaz crystal sits at a divergent angle to a 13.5 cm, water-clear, lightly frosted quartz crystal. The topaz has a wonderful, complex termination. The large crystals are beautifully accented by two, embedded schorl crystals and a bed of bladed, snow-white albite. Ex. Gene Meieran Collection.
3.2 x 1.2 x 1.2 cm. A pretty thumber out of the Elling Collection, featuring a translucent crystal of light mint-green prehnite that has grown right on the side of a gemmy, terminated quartz crystal. From a little-known Namibian locality.
11.4 x 7.5 x 4.2 cm. You have seen the specimens of rutile needles sticking up off shiny hematite from this locality. This is a very unusual specimen in that it is a MATRIX specimen of quartz and gemmy quartz crystals, with the "star" of rutile needles in a pocket within the quartz matrix, surrounded by the quartz crystals. You can see just a bit of the hematite at the center of the shimmering golden rutile needles. VERY different from the usual specimen from this find!
13.1 x 8.3 x 4.8 cm. A calcite crystal, complete and undamaged, of bizarre form, on a bed of lustrous purple amethyst. The calcite is a compound crystal of cubic forms, with a pleasing, translucent honey color. It is really stark and striking sitting there against the amethyst backdrop! A large and showy specimen!
6.6 x 6.5 x 4.6 cm. Shooting off the matrix in all directions are isolated, slender prisms of lustrous amethyst, with the beautiful gemminess that makes Vera Cruz amethyst one of the true "collector quality" amethysts of the world. These beautiful crystals measure to 2.5 cm in length.
8.5 x 4.7 x 3.9 cm. A very unusual DOUBLY-TERMINATED crystal of the prized quartz variety from Brazil that is shot through with golden crystals of rutile. This one looks for all the world as though it has a lock of golden blonde hair trapped inside! The larger crystal has terminated around a smaller crystal, which then extends further to its own termination. The smaller crystal is richly included with rutile crystals just as the larger one is.
8.4 x 6.6 x 3.2 cm. Gemmy, bright orange spessartine garnets decorate the sides of two frosty, prismatic quartz crystals in a "V" form. The larger crystal is terminated, the smaller is not.
22.0 x 18.7 x 6.4 cm. This is a large and beautiful specimen of ancient coral that has been fossilized (pseudomorphed) by black agate. It has been sliced and polished to show the beauty, showing off its botryoidal interior and swirling patterns in the black agate surrounding the natural "vug." Ex. Elling Collection.
7.2 x 3.5 x 3.4 cm. This is just an amazing Brandberg quartz crystal. What you have is a water-clear crystal with big, wide, window faces. Deep in the center is this intense, chevron-shaped phantom of glowing rich scarlet color, surrounded by dark, smoky tones. The isolation of the color in the center of this gemmy crystal is just stunning!
15.6 x 5.2 x 4.7 cm. A large, complete, dazzling stalactite of deep purple, gemmy amethyst from Uruguay. The amethyst from here has a richer color and is more gemmy than the common Brazilian material. The crystals completely cover this stalactite, and there is no damage!
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![Rutile, Hematite, Quartz from Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-121670b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-121670b.jpg)
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