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Some of the best contemporary Aquamarine specimens are those from Erongo. Not only is the quality superb on many of these Aqua specimens, but the associations can make for some really stellar specimens. This piece features a 2.5 cm razor sharp, highly lustrous, gem/gemmy deep blue color Aquamarine crystal aesthetically flaring out of the center of two relatively thick, lustrous, doubly-terminated black Schorl crystals plus some whitish Feldspar crystals on the reverse side of the specimen forming a highly displayable and attractive combination specimen from this prolific locality. One end of the Schorl crystals is comprised of dozens of tiny terminations. A very good specimen for size, aesthetics, color contrast and associations. 6.4 x 5.0 x 3.7cm
An EXCELLENT, VERY SHOWY, FLOATER combination specimen from the less well-known Blue Lady Mine of San Diego County, California. A lustrous and glassy, doubly terminated smoky quartz crystal is very attractively studded with lustrous, schorl crystals to 4.9 cm. This VERY FINE piece is nearly pristine, with only one broken schorl crystal on the side and a trivial termination bruise on the smoky. This piece has many display possibilities, as you can see. Ex Chuck Houser Collection. 6.4 x 6.0 x 4.9 cm
This is a very large Baveno-twinned crystal of microcline, impressive in its own right, with sharp faces, good luster and nicely terminated, decorated with crystals of aquamarine, schorl and small albites! Several of the aquas are of good size - the largest measures 4.5 cm and is doubly-terminated. In fact, just about all the terminations on all the aquas are intact! The little schorls give a pretty "salt and pepper" effect to the pile of albite and schorl wrapped around the bottom of the big albite. A VERY impressive mineral specimen. 12.3 x 9.7 x 7.4cm
A showy and excellent quartz column covered with lustrous, deep cherry-red spessartine garnets to 9 mm and lustrous, flattened schorl crystals from the famous Audrey Lynn Claims of California. The quartz is trying to become a crystal, as some sides have sharp faces. Spessartine is RARE from the Audrey Lynn Claims and this is a fine combo piece. Collected by Tim Sherburn in February, 1995 and ex Chris Korpi Collection. 3.5 x 1.9 x 1.8 cm
Pezzottaite is a rare Cesium-rich member of the Beryl group. It is named after Dr. Federico Pezzotta of Milan, Italy and was approved by the IMA in September 2003. This specimen is from the type locality in Ambatovita, Madagascar. Pezzottaite crystals are a beautiful, vibrant, purplish-pink color, and this piece is no exception with a few very attractive, well formed, hexagonal rich pink crystals measuring up to 8 mm on beautifully contrasting black Schorl matrix. This is definitely one of the most beautiful and highly publicized new minerals in the last few years. This material is now virtually mined out and there may never be any more specimens from Madagascar in the coming years. The gem value of this material has gone through the roof over the last few years, and with the supply of good matrix Pezzottaite specimens dwindling, these are certain to go up in value. 5.3 x 3.6 x 1.6cm
2.7 x 1.2 x 0.9 cm
1.9 x 0.9 x 0.8 cm
This remarkable combo specimen features a super-gemmy, SHARP, 100% terminated topaz embedded in the arms of a diverging quartz termination. The topaz is 4 cm in length and actually is doubly-terminated, with its bottom or rear end wrapping around a sharp, perfect, 4-cm-long schorl which lances out at about a 90-degree angle from the topaz, perfectly in plane, emerging through the OTHER side of the quartz at that same 90 angle of separation! It is very sharp, very exquisite, and much better in person. Th3e whole cluster is damned near a floater, with just a small bit of albite matrix attached at the back, near the junction of all 3 minerals. Otherwise, this is complete all around, and undamaged, as well.
A very old specimen from this classic pegmatite locality, with lustrous, long schorl crystals to 4 cm, perched on feldspar and muscovite matrix. Although many of the schorls are damaged or missing terminations, some are intact...and in any case its overall an impressively large display specimen for the locality, all things considered.
ex. William Larson
This is an extremely impressive specimen, visually, and quite unusual for the County for both its size and display. Schorls from San Diego are rare. Big ones, all the more so. This is a 5.5-inch-long (14cm), doubly-terminated schorl, perched on a doubly-terminated quartz . The whole cluster is a floater, complete all around and fully terminated all around. It is a miracle it survived at all, a few repairs on the stalk or not (repaired 3x). Larson ranked this as one of the top schorls from the County, and certainly for a matrix piece it presents dramatically. Other than the repairs themselves, it is pristine and undamaged elsewhere
ex. William Larson
A 7 x 5 x 4 cm schorl in association with quartz and albite - a gret combo piece, unusual for the locality in both its size and aesthetic arrangement. The schorl has damage on the back-left edge as shown, but it still displays nicely
ex. William Larson
A large, towering, complex tourmaline crystal from this small locality, worked mainly in the early 1900s. This crystal is very complex and interesting, cityscape in its form, though it is sadly unterminated. Still, it displays well and was a nice locality piece for this collection 600 grams
ex. William Larson
Two cute schorl crystals, jet black, and beautiful for it. These are complete all around and well temrinated on their tops. One crystal shows a dislocation-offset, caused by pocket movement during the crystal growth. The effect is that the little portion atop looks like a top hat, being lifted up. Very cute set! Dimensions are for larger crystal, as given
ex. William Larson
This specimen is a rare LARGE schorl and matrix piece from the mine. As a bonus it has a sharp 1.5 cm Spessartine crystal sitting within the cast of a former , larger crystal, perched on beautiful and marge matrix of albite and schorls. For the matrix, itself, this is a classic specimen and you rarely see such in large size. Most larger pieces from here are quite broken up. This is an old piece from Louis Spaulding, the mine owner. Stabilized with a little glue injected into a seam in back , but not repaired. In person, it is much more dramatic and really an immediately recognizable locality piece with impact in person
ex. William Larson
An unusual goshenite specimen from this briefly-mined claim, now sadly exhausted (at least for practical purposes, and without a lot of dynamite). The CG produced a huge variety of gem crystals in its brief lifetime in the late 90s and early 2000s, among them this fine miniature from the "goshenite pocket" . A stoudt single crystal is accented by schorl tourmalines here. Unusual!
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![Spessartine, Schorl, Quartz from Audrey Lynn Mine, Little Cahuilla Mountain, Cahuilla, Cahuilla District, Riverside Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-62619a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-62619a.jpg)
![Pezzottaite, Schorl from Sakavalana mine, Ambatovita, Mandrosonoro area, Ambatofinandrahana District, Ampandramaika-Malakialina Pegmatite Field, Amoron'i Mania Region, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar [db_pics/mdpics/MD-70406a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-70406a.jpg)
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![Tourmaline (Var: Rubellite), Schorl from Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar) [db_pics/mdpics/MD-83138a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-83138a.jpg)
![Topaz and Schorl on Quartz (floater!) from Dassu-Haramosh, Gilgit, Pakistan [db_pics/pics/mun05-3a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/mun05-3a.jpg)
![Topaz and Schorl on Quartz (floater!) from Dassu-Haramosh, Gilgit, Pakistan [db_pics/pics/mun05-3b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/mun05-3b.jpg)
![Topaz and Schorl on Quartz (floater!) from Dassu-Haramosh, Gilgit, Pakistan [db_pics/pics/mun05-3c.jpg]](db_pics/pics/mun05-3c.jpg)
![Topaz and Schorl on Quartz (floater!) from Dassu-Haramosh, Gilgit, Pakistan [db_pics/pics/mun05-3d.jpg]](db_pics/pics/mun05-3d.jpg)
![Topaz and Schorl on Quartz (floater!) from Dassu-Haramosh, Gilgit, Pakistan [db_pics/pics/mun05-3e.jpg]](db_pics/pics/mun05-3e.jpg)
![Schorl from Mursinka, Urals, Russia [db_pics/pics/oldeuro-100a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/oldeuro-100a.jpg)
![Schorl from Mursinka, Urals, Russia [db_pics/pics/oldeuro-100b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/oldeuro-100b.jpg)
![Schorl on Quartz from Fano Mine, near Anza, Cahuilla District, Riverside Co., California, USA [db_pics/new09mix/pala01a.jpg]](db_pics/new09mix/pala01a.jpg)
![Schorl on Quartz from Fano Mine, near Anza, Cahuilla District, Riverside Co., California, USA [db_pics/new09mix/pala01c.jpg]](db_pics/new09mix/pala01c.jpg)
![Schorl on Quartz from Fano Mine, near Anza, Cahuilla District, Riverside Co., California, USA [db_pics/new09mix/pala01d.jpg]](db_pics/new09mix/pala01d.jpg)
![Schorl and Quartz from Elizabeth R. Mine, Chief Mountain, Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/new09/pala21a.jpg]](db_pics/new09/pala21a.jpg)
![Schorl and Quartz from Elizabeth R. Mine, Chief Mountain, Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/new09/pala21b.jpg]](db_pics/new09/pala21b.jpg)
![Schorl and Quartz from Elizabeth R. Mine, Chief Mountain, Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/new09/pala21c.jpg]](db_pics/new09/pala21c.jpg)
![Schorl and Quartz from Elizabeth R. Mine, Chief Mountain, Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/new09/pala21f.jpg]](db_pics/new09/pala21f.jpg)
![Tourmaline var. Schorl from Pala Chief Mine, Chief Mountain, Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/new09/pala31a.jpg]](db_pics/new09/pala31a.jpg)
![Tourmaline var. Schorl from Pala Chief Mine, Chief Mountain, Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/new09/pala31f.jpg]](db_pics/new09/pala31f.jpg)
![Tourmaline var. Schorl from Pala Chief Mine, Chief Mountain, Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/new09/pala31c.jpg]](db_pics/new09/pala31c.jpg)
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![Tourmaline var. Schorl from Lookout Mine, Ramona District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/new09/pala40b.jpg]](db_pics/new09/pala40b.jpg)
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![Schorl with Spessartine, Albite, Quartz from Little Three Mine, near Ramona, San Diego County, California, USA [db_pics/new09mix/sd313e.jpg]](db_pics/new09mix/sd313e.jpg)
![Schorl with Spessartine, Albite, Quartz from Little Three Mine, near Ramona, San Diego County, California, USA [db_pics/new09mix/sd313f.jpg]](db_pics/new09mix/sd313f.jpg)
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![Goshenite with Schorl on Albite from Cryo-Genie Mine, Warner Springs, San Diego County, California, USA [db_pics/new09mix/sd317d.jpg]](db_pics/new09mix/sd317d.jpg)
![Goshenite with Schorl on Albite from Cryo-Genie Mine, Warner Springs, San Diego County, California, USA [db_pics/new09mix/sd317a.jpg]](db_pics/new09mix/sd317a.jpg)