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Mineral Specimens with Schorl
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An EXCELLENT and SHOWY specimen of lustrous, black schorl crystals to 5.0 cm embedded in white albite from the famous Fano Mine of Riverside Co., California. A bit of periphery damage on the left side is in no way detracting. Ex Chris Korpi Collection. 7.5 x 7.2 x 5.5 cm
A large, super-lustrous, floater crystal of schorl tourmaline from the Erongo Mountains in Namibia. It is complete and undamaged all around! 5.9 x 5.2 x 4.6cm
GEMMY aquas to over 4 cm, all terminated - intergrown with a cluster of schorls, with all but one or two terminations on the schorls complete as well. In fact, this appears to be a floater cluster. Very dramatic combo! 8.0 x 7.1 x 6.2cm
A huge, complete floater crystal of quartz, of amazing form, shot through with sharp, needle-like crystals of schorl tourmaline! This specimen is fascinating and rare not only for the size and the flat, chisel-edged, triangular form of the quartz, but also for these wonderful inclusions! This superb crystal is complete and undamaged. WOW! Never seen the like! 16.0 x 10.7 x 1.1cm
A STRIKING and DRAMATIC CABINET Pakistan combination piece. Gemmy and lustrous, etched aquamarine crystals to 9.0 cm rest amongst gemmy and lustrous spessartine garnets to 1.8 cm, lustrous schorl crystals, and lustrus muscovite books on albite matrix. The vertical aqua crystals and capping large spessartine and schorl really make this a beautiful piece. Extremely trivial damage overall, and complex aesthetics, make this a unique piece for the collector of alpine minerals from this part of the world. 12.7 x 10.0 x 5.5 cm
A translucent, lustrous, dark raspberrry-red, trigonal tourmaline crystal with a schorl core from the recent finds at Mogok, Burma. These "mushroom" shaped tourmalines are some of the most unusual tourmalines ever found and they are much sought after. 3.2 x 3.2 x 2.7 cm
An amazing and unique aquamarine specimen, where the larger crystal has wrapped itself around the slender one that protrudes from the top! To make it even better, there is a fine little complete schorl crystal embedded in the bottom of the lower, fatter crystal. Have you ever seen anything like this? What a fabulous mini for this gem species! 6.2 x 1.3 x 1.1cm
OK, schorl is not all that glamorous a mineral usually, but it is a different story when it forms perfect, glossy crystals such as this 2-cm one, on a fine accenting matrix - in this case, a cluster of euhedral feldspar crystals. 6.6 x 5.9 x 3.7cm
This unusual columnar crystal is superb for the locality, and highly unexpected! I wouldn't believe it if not from a reliable source...would have assumed it to be some odd-colored Portuguese piece, instead. But it IS Moroccan (just to be sure, I showed it around for a year before posting it, to experts on the locales there). The piece is complete all around and has a wonderful, sharp termination at one end. At the bottom, you can see that a schorl crystal has angled through and is enclosed within the apatite. Also, you can see there is a hollow tube running through the length of the crystal and out the top! 5 x 2.3 x 2.1 cm
An extremely rare thing, this! Green hydroxylherderites of this odd tabular form were found just once, about 1988. I got this one from Herb Obodda. This one features a 2 x 2 x 1 cm crystal perched on a knob of albite, with a small schorl hanging off one side for accent from that view; and the beautiful white of the albite ball presenting on the other side. There is a smaller, secondary crystal beneath the major crystal. 3.3 x 3 x 2.3 cm
A highly unusual, trigonal green tourmaline and schorl crystal with a schorl core from the recent finds at Mogok, Burma. These "mushroom" shaped tourmalines are some of the most unusual tourmalines ever found and they are much sought after. 4.2 x 3.4 x 2.8 cm
This fat, dramatic crystal is one of the largest, sharpest single crystals I have seen for the locality to date. It is sharply formed and very symmetric. The termination is lustrous, and really neat to look at because of the included schorls - not too many, and not too few. A small bit of matrix gives it contrast and presence. 7 x 3.6 x 3 cm (150 grams)
This specimen looks like nothing so much as a large aqua constricting around a smaller one. Both have extremely complex, unusual, elegant terminations. The juxtaposition of the two nested terminations as you rotate the piece, viewable from any angle, is striking. IN PERSON, IT IS MORE LUSTROUS, TRANSLUCENT/TRANSPARENT, and just plain GEMMY than it appears in teh pics! The piece also has included within it, diagonally from the bottom, a 1 inch schorl crystal just going straight up into its gut, for extra accent. This is from a new find, I am told. 120 grams. 8 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
Note: The mineral deposits around Alchuri are alpine metamorphic-type. With cleavelandite and schorl, this beryl is obviously from a granitic pegmatite and likely from elsewhere in the Shigar Valley. (Jesse Fisher, Nov. 8, 2006)
Well, wow. Where to begin?! This specimen features a fat, 2-INCH-PLUS, TOTALLY GEMMY AND CLEAN, PRISTINE, GLASSY topaz crystal perched smack in the middle of a contrasting cluster of albite (white) and quartz (smoky)....the two colors together highlighting the deep champagne hue of the topaz far better than either color contrast might do alone! The toopaz is DOUBLY-TERMINATED. It is 5.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm. The piece is completely crysatllized all around 360, too - matrix and all (lower-right photo)! This is a stellar combination specimen, with a topaz that is really, for matrix topaz in this size range, right up there at the top for quality. It is so gemmy, you can look right throug it to the matrix on the other side, through over an inch of solid topaz! In there, you can see that there is a schorl crystal included diagonally through the bottom of the topaz (it induced some natural internal veils that refract and make it hard to see in the photo, but the inclusion is really quite obvious and sharp in person). NO repairs, NO damage, NO problems at all! 10 x 8.7 x 5.5 cm
This monstrous matrix aqua features a 5-inch (12.5 cm!) crystal perched nicely amongs and rising from clear quartz and albite matrix, with schorl for accent. It has a complete, lustrous, sharp termination and superb glassiness and transparency throughout the body of the crystal. The combination of size and stark contrast makes this one of the most dramatic aquas for the price I have seen for sale. It does have one repair, but lower down just above the join with the quartz, and not so easily visible. In context, as well, its minimal. The crystal has really attractive, interesting inclusions of small feathery sprays of what I think might be hematite , inside. Never seen... 19 x 13.5 x 6.9 cm
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