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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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6.5 x 4.3 x 4.3 cm. A lovely and very unusual Aqua from the famous Erongo Region. These doubly terminated crystals, which range up to 5.1 cm, have excellent luster on all faces and terminations and are attached to gemmy smoky quartz. What is so attractive and rare is the pastel sky-blue color. I have not seen the likes of this before, especially from Erongo. The larger crystal even has a 2 mm gemmy cap to it. A wonderful specimen in its own right, and a killer rarity for this world-renowned locality. Ex. Charlie Key stock.
6 x 4.7 x 4.2 cm. A beautiful and highly lustrous Schorl on Smoky Quartz. The faces and edges are very sharp, and the luster is out of this world. Although there is varying amounts of contacting on each termination, this Schorl is actually doubly-terminated. There are even some fluorescent minerals attached. A beauty in its own right. Ex. Charlie Key stock.
8.5 x 7.7 x 5.7 cm. A gorgeous 4.8 cm Aqua on a matrix of Smoky Quartz and Schorl. The Aqua has superb luster and a fantastic .6 cm gemmy termination. Much better in person, this very much reminds me of the Aqua on the cover of the MR "Erongo" special issue. Ex. Charlie Key stock.
5.2 x 4.1 x 2.8 cm. A superb and very aesthetic MATRIX Brandberg amethyst scepter from the Charlie Key Collection. Freestanding scepters on matrix of this quality are RARE. The beautifully glassy and pristine scepter has smoky highlights that really accent this fine piece. One of the accessory quartz crystals has a broken tip, but it is really not a detraction to this exceptional piece.
7.1 x 4.3 x 2.7 cm. A VERY RICH and showy specimen covered with highly lustrous, indigo-blue lazulite crystals to 8 mm. The cluster of quartz crystals is a very nice accent. This is excellent quality combination material, even with the super trivial bit of bruising and one broken quartz crystal. The specimen hails from the famed Rapid Creek locality in Canada, which I recently obtained from an old stash.
9.3 x 2.9 x 2.4 cm. A SUPER SHOWY Chinese specimen. Gemmy and lustrous, orange spessartine garnets completely wrap a complexly terminated, translucent and striated smoky quartz crystal. This complete all-around beauty is very nearly pristine, with only a couple of super trivial terminations bruises, which are barely noticeable. A super single.
8.1 x 7.3 x 2.3 cm. Yes, this is just a quartz crystal cluster, but WHAT A BEAUTY! The pristine, very lightly frosted, water-clear quartz crystals form a nearly perfect cross. The DT quartz looks like it has been inlaid into the main quartz crystal, which is beautifully terminated. The graphite inclusions are RARE and are a real bonus! This stunning piece is from a small and recent find at Cong Li, China.
9.0 x 6.3 x 3.1 cm. A showy and excellent Pennsylvania copper with scattered quartz and a bit of shale matrix on the back of the "tail"! This sculptural copper has a nice patina. The copper is platy and hackly. This is a fine piece from a recent, small find.
1.0 x 1.4 x 0.8 cm. A RARE and showy thumbnail cluster of lustrous, deep blue, dipyramidal quartz crystals colored by aerinite inclusions from near Malaga, Spain. Aerinite is a RARE silicate, found worldwide almost exclusively in Spain. A well-written article on this find is found in the Mineralogical Record, Volume 27, Number 2, 1996.
4.9 x 3.3 x 3.2 cm. A LARGE, sharp, flattened rhodochrosite rhomb beautifully set in a bed of needle quartz from the recent find at Wuzhou, China. The rhodo has high lustre and gorgeous, pastel-pink color. This is one of the largest and finest rhodos that I have seen from this find. The back and base have been sawed to enhance display.
6.2 x 4.0 x 3.5 cm. An aesthetic and very showy combination piece from the famous Yaogangxian Mine of China of a glassy, transparent to translucent quartz crystal growing around two, perpendicular, parallel-growth and beautifully iridescent, bladed ferberite crystals. The sharp quartz termination is pristine. Excellent material from this famous mine.
8.2 x 6.6 x 4.9 cm. For Tongbei, a large smoky, with the now-familiar association of pretty little gemmy red-orange spessartines. This is a more "displayable" specimen than most, however, as the spessartines are not only on the smoky itself, but also on attached crystals of feldspar, which serve as a natural support and complement to the smoky. So it is not the typical plate of crystals sticking up with spessartines around them.
8.1 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm. This crystal provides ample evidence as to why Brandberg amethysts are so desirable. The rich purple color is isolated in the interior on a distinct phantom, within a setting of super-gemmy clear quartz. Ex. Charlie Key collection.
13.9 x 11.5 x 2.3 cm. Another fine quartz specimen from the Rift Valley in Kenya, this one completely different from the other! This one has a tabular form, and much of it is smoky except for at the edges, where on one side it has formed a series of gemmy purple terminations, and on the other side an elongated, gemmy purple face. What a strange and pretty quartz specimen!
6.9 x 1.6 x 0.9 cm. This silky, symmetrical smoky quartz crystal is wrapped all around the bottom with a blanket of small, bright, gemmy orange-red spessartine garnets. A really elegant and fine one!
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