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Mineral Specimens with Schorl
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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! 11 x 8 x 7.5 cm
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 6.5 x 5.8 x 3.7 cm
8.7 x 1.9 x 1.6 cm. This doubly-terminated schorl tourmaline crystal has the distinction of having a gemmy quartz crystal growing right off of one of its terminations - with little needle schorls growing inside of IT! (That makes it a schorl in quartz on schorl!). The schorl has good luster on its striated side faces.
12.8 x 9.8 x 4.7 cm. A HUGE 830-gram single crystal of schorl, with great lustre and jet black color. It is mostly terminated on top and bottom both, with just a few contacts but generally doubly-terminated. Ex. Charlie Key Collection.
2.1 x 2.0 x 2.0 cm. From the new find in the late Fall of 2005 in Pakistan. This is a nice little specimen from the most famous Tourmaline locality in Pakistan. I have seen many Tourmaline specimens from Stak Nala for many years and the one characteristic that many of them lacked was decent color. This crystal features several colors ranging from a light blue shade one end ranging into a slight colorless "Achroite" zone, grading into a blue-green area, then into an olive-green color, then a very dark forest-green color. The prism faces of the Tourmaline are rather lustrous for this material. This is a great display piece and a wonderful pegmatite specimen from a classic locality. These pieces are becomingly increasingly difficult to find in today’s market.
6.8 x 6.8 x 4.2 cm. A complex, compound crystal of shiny schorl tourmaline, that looks almost like hundreds of tightly-stacked smaller crystals lined up in various directions. This is now hard-to-obtain old material from Sonora (as opposed to the common, modern schorl localities of Pakistan, Brazil, Erongo, etc.). The edges are contacts, not terminations.
A VERY SPECIAL crystal of tourmaline! This is a complete floater, showing starkly triangular or rather pyramidal form. It is the same on both sides, and with incredible jet black lustre...the display of symmetry is extremely impressive, and unusual. For schorl, tourmaline, anything. Its black, I know, but an exceptional specimen nonetheless. 4.6 x 4.4 x 2.2 cm
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. 3.3 x 2.5 x 1.9 cm
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. 7.7 x 7.5 x 6.1 cm
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. 7.5 x 6.2 x 5.4 cm
10.8 x 1.5 x 6.0 cm. A very showy cluster of lustrous, striated schorl crystals aesthetically attached to the side of this SIGNIFICANT CABINET combination specimen from an UNCOMMON San Diego County pegmatite - Naylor Rock near Pala. A large, lustrous and terminated smoky quartz crystal is set in bladed cleavelandite along with a large, partial microcline crystal. The smoky and microcline are contacted, but this remains a highly representative combo piece from a famous mine. Naylor Rock is any OLD term (used by Kunz in 1905!) and is actually part of the Vanderberg dike workings. Ex. Chuck Houser Collection.
8.3 x 4.8 x 3.8 cm. A STUNNING, LARGE Erongo hexagonal aquamarine crystal beautifully accented by jet-black schorls and embedded feldspar. This complete all-around monster is EXTREMELY GLASSY and the upper 1.9 cm is very gemmy. The rest of the aqua is included. The super lustrous and striated, large schorl is 2.0 cm.
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. 9.7 x 3.0 x 2.5 cm
Sharp,lustrous, isolated schorl crystals of this rare habit,perched starkly on crysatllized quartz matrix! 8.0 x 7.0 x 6.8 cm
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. 11.2 x 9.6 x 8.6 cm
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