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ex. Charlie Key
A stunning specimen with unusual contrast in that this top quality, gemy, glassy aqua cluster is perched smack dab in the middle of jet black schorl, rather than just associated with it as is normally the case. Out of thousands of Erongo pieces i have seen, i cannot recall another with quite such aspect. The contrast enhances the blue hue and also makes the aqua look like a jewel set in the rock, enhancing the damatic effect of the piece as a whole.
ex. Charlie Key
Several slender, exceptionally gemmy aquamarine crystals perched jauntily on a crystal of etched feldspar, and with a sharp schorl at its base. VERY elegant miniature of competition quality and a good deal for the price, i would think
ex. Charlie Key
A most unusual plate, like none others I have seen from here, with incredibly lustrous crystals that are unusually squat. They are all solidly interjoined and connected into a thin plate that is complete all around.
ex. Charlie Key
A stunning combination piece with a 2 inch aqua perched diagonally and in contrast to one of the most lustrous schorls you will ever see! I think the pics say it all!
ex. Charlie Key
A strange combination specimen featuring a single stark green fluorite isolated on top of schorl crystals. This in itself is unusual. The larger crystals are schorl, and I am told (though havent analysed), that the smaller tourmaline crystals , almost needlelike, are the related tourmaline species foitite
ex. Charlie Key
A really sharp, eyeatching specimen with a triangular crystal termination perched, floating like off a launch pedestal, atop a normal schorl stalk! This crystal is complete on 3 sides, contacted only at the back edge (shown), Like most of Charlie's schorl collection (which is vast at over 200 good pieces), this one is special and carefully selected. It will stand out dramatically in any case.
ex. Charlie Key
This is a schorl specimen so good, I just wasn't even sure at first glance it was...I mean, schorl is usually just black tourmaline, to be discarded as secondary in priority compared to a glorious gemmy crystal of color. But when you get ANY mineral specimen with such sharpness of form, contrast to matrix (crystallized matrix no less, not just rock), and eye appeal, even a traditionally secondary species to the collector can produce a first rate specimen of competition quality. This specimen is complete all around, and pristine save for a few very trivial contacts.
ex. Charlie Key
A brillianlty lustrous cluster of sharp schorl, again on contrasting quartz matrix, shows off how good Erongo schorl can be! It is 3-dimensional, complete all around, and MUCH MUCH BETTER in person! This piece is pristine and complete save for a few very tiny dings or contacts that, in person, do not detract at all. I have seen such clusters before from Erongo, and thought highly of them...but the fact that this is perched upon crystallized smoky quartz takes it to the next level. And, I think the prices on these are pretty reasonable for world class exmaples of their species.
ex. Charlie Key
A strange specimen! This is a complete schorl,floating and doubly-terminated, complete and undamaged. But, millions of years ago probably, it separated and then rehealed even as it was forming leaving a slight disjunction at that point, resulting in the few millimeter sharp offset you see here. It LOOKS like the piece will slide apart like a few cards coming off a deck, but its on there, cemented back together in situ, and certainly at the same time it was even forming. Doubly-terminated.
ex. Charlie Key
A stunning, 3-dimensional, ball of beautiful and lustrous schorl crystals perched like an imporbable stack of cards upon a small pedestal of crystallized smoky quartz! VERY unusual for the quality and aesthetics! This is one of my favorites of the many schorls here.
ex. Charlie Key
Incredibly weird specimen with gemmy, transparent purple fluorites showing oriented growth and coloration patterns, perched atop a splaying schorl crystal! Dramtic and certainly unusual
ex. Charlie Key
Sharp,lustrous, isolated schorl crystals of this rare habit,perched starkly on crysatllized quartz matrix!
Delaware, can you believe it!! The specimen is a very nice schorl, with rich black color and a bright shiny luster on a matrix of feldspar and quartz. This old time piece shows some small fractures in the crystal but is not broken and well terminated. The piece has no old labels but originally came through Lawrence Conklin, who had obtained it decades earlier. Great east coast specimen! Ex. Kevin Brown collection.
4.9 x 4.7 x 3.4 cm. A nicely-balanced combo of three Erongo Mountain minerals - it is unusual to see a nice quartz crystal combined with the aqua and schorl you often see together from this locality, however. The aqua is far from world-class, and in general, of course, Erongo specimens are not of the caliber of Brazilian or Pakistani ones, but the combination here is quite nice. The aqua IS terminated, though with a natural contact and some mineral attachment. The schorl is terminated as well.
2.7 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm. An exquisite combo thumber with a terminated schorl crystal accented by albite, intergrown with a terminated GEM crystal of aquamarine!
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