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9.6 x 8.5 x 6.7 cm. A fine 6-cm crystal juts up from amongst a setting of partial and smaller crystals. It is complete all around and nearly damage-free - there is just a bit of damage right at the tip. Swiss smokies are still the standard!
7.2 x 6.9 x 5.5 cm. An extremely impressive HAND-SIZED specimen of galena from Eastern Europe, featuring two very large, tightly intergrown crystals with large, architectural faces. One quartz crystal is embedded along a side face of the specimen, and another is sticking up right through the middle of a face! The galena grew right around it. The galena has a sort of silky, brushed-steel luster.
5.4 x 4.9 x 4.4 cm Two intergrown crystals of dark, smoky quartz from Brazil, with super-sharp faces. If you look very closely, you can see tiny wear at the tips, but they are hard to see with the naked eye - these crystals are in superb condition. These were called morions, for a reason I do not know, but related to the incredibly dark nature of the hue. Old find, and Rare today on the market! Ex. Hauck Collection.
3.1 x 2.5 x 1.8 cm. A killer thumber of Shingle Springs quartz (hard to find around!), with extremely sharp chlorite-coated phantoms just underneath the surface. Beautiful piece for quartz or California collector! Ex. Hauck Collection.
16.1 x 7.4 x 5.8 cm. When was the last time you saw a fine quartz from the Lyndhurst (Canada) area on the market? These intergrown crystals are all 4 DOUBLY-TERMINATED and transparent, and measure up to 14.5 cm in length. They are anchored in back by a conglomeration of smaller crystals. Ex. Hauck Collection.
6.4 x 5.9 x 4.4 cm. A rare Washington twinned quartz specimen, with the best two twins sitting up right on top, right next to each other! You can also see flat, tabular, un-twinned crystals on this specimen, as well as the typical prismatic ones - so there is a whole range of varied crystallography that makes it interesting to think about what was going on in the pocket to cause such varied forms right next to one another. Ex. Hauck Collection.
9.9 x 9.6 x 5.4 cm. The gem topazes on this large specimen are the centerpiece, but they are beautifully accented by prismatic crystals of quartz, snow-white cleavelandite and a nice book of muscovite that sits right beside the best topaz crystal. Actually there are two very fine and bright ones, the larger measuring about 2.3 cm. Both are glass-transparent through the center, pure gem.
11.9 x 3.9 x 3.2 cm. You can see clearly how this large Brazilian quartz crystal formed multiple phantoms as successive terminations were coated with a light clay, then engulfed as the growth of the crystal resumed. What a striking result! Ex. Hauck Collection.
6.5 x 5.9 x 2.5 cm. NOTE: the apparent surface flaws on this specimen are not there in person - they are just photo artifacts; in person, the surface is polished and glassy and there are no dull spots or lines as the pic implies). Elsewhere in this set of auctions, we have a goethite and mentioned that this mineral (basically, rust) can take on all sorts of forms. Here, it is goethite lining the cavity deep in the interior of the vug, underneath a layer of agate that gives this fire agate its internal form under the gem silica itself! This is rare and precious material. This is so pretty, though, it should remain a mineral specimen. This is an intense and beautiful piece in person!
6.8 x 2.6 x 2.1 cm. Sorry for the vague locality, but we do know this is Swiss, an oldie out of the mineral collection of J.V. Jochem. What you have is an original crystal all shot through with tan-colored crystals of actinolite, that was later engulfed by continued growth so that it is now encased as a phantom inside the outer quartz crystal. Ex. Hauck Collection.
5.6 x 5.2 x 1.7 cm. An outstanding specimen from the world's greatest Rhodo locality, the Sweet Home mine. This Hedgehog Pocket piece features a lovely 2 cm! reddish pink rhomb that has excellent luster, is virtually pristine from the front (and is naturally contacted along the back, and we are lucky to have it at all from the extremely difficult mining) and sits on a bed of Quartz crystals and matrix. Below the main crystal is a ribbon of beautiful smaller Rhodochrosite rhombs, several of which a partially gemmy. Good quality Sweet Home pieces are getting harder and harder to come by. This is a gem in its own right. Very aesthetic.
8.7 x 5.6 x 3.5 cm. Equant and sharp Quartz crystals grown over one side of a beautiful plate of gemmy clear-to-green Fluorite crystals. The Fluorite crystals, the largest of which is 1.4 cm, has excellent fluorescence (after all, this is where the word "fluorescence" is derived), good luster and color, and very sharp cubic habit. There is minor edge wear. A very fine specimen from a classic locality.
6 x 5 x 3.8 cm. A very nice Rhodochrosite specimen from the American Tunnel. This specimen consists of numerous .2 cm rosettes of pink Rhodochrosite clustered throughout the piece, on and intergrown with Quartz. A very nice representative specimen.
7.8 x 6 x 3.5 cm. An outstanding and very distinctive cluster of sharp, gemmy, and lustrous Quartz crystals. The largest is about 3 cm. It is very unusual to find Arkansas Quartz with phantoms (likely manganese), let alone ones that are this well-defined, but when you do, Mt. Ida is the likely source. A terrific specimen, really, and much better in person.
7.6 x 6 x 5.2 cm. The Jeffrey Quarry of Arkansas is justifiably famous for its superb solution Quartz crystals. Gemmy and lustrous almost beyond belief, they are highly sought-after world wide. On rare occasion, the crystals develop to exceptional size. This is one of those specimens. As lustrous and clear like its smaller cousins, the largest crystal on here (aside from the tabular crystal on the base) is an amazing 4.2 cm. The fan of crystals that you see in the same photo is 2.5 x 1.5 cm. An incredible specimen, no doubt about it. All Content and Design ©1996-2012 The ArkenstonePowered by http://mineralwebsites.comMineral Specimens by species; or by specimen id. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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