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Mineral Specimens with Vivianite
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4.1 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm. This miniature size piece is an absolutely beautiful, superb quality, lustrous, gemmy emerald-green, sword-shaped "textbook" crystal of Vivianite with minor metamorphosed Sandstone.
4.3 x 3.2 x 2.6 cm. This miniature size piece features absolutely beautiful, superb quality, lustrous, gemmy emerald-green, sword-shaped "textbook" crystals of Vivianite on metamorphosed Sandstone matrix.
2.2 x 0.4 x 0.2 cm. A rare American vivianite, this is a sharp, complete, doubly-terminated thumbnail crystal with blue and purple hues. Collected in the 1980s from a little known phosphate locality in Florida.
2.9 x 1.9 x 1.3 cm. American vivianites are rare, including these stunning blue ones from Florida. Here you have about a dozen gemmy little sharp crystals of deep blue clustered on a nicely-trimmed matrix. Found in the 1980s.
5.3 x 3.0 x 2.8 cm. This piece features an absolutely beautiful, lustrous, gem-quality, emerald-green, sword shaped "textbook" crystals of Vivianite sitting atop metamorphosed Sandstone.
3.5 x 0.6 x 0.3 cm. A sharply terminated, gemmy and lustrous, bi-colored vivianite crystal from the famous Blackbird Mine of Idaho. The upper portion is a rich lilac color with the bottom being a pleasing sea-green. Blackbird vivianites of this gemminess and quality came out in the 1940s and 50s.
6.3 x 2.6 x 1.1 cm. A thick, super-gemmy crystal of vivianite, the classic Bolivian bottle-green, There are natural rough contact faces on the two ends and one side, with a few termination faces having formed on one termination where the crystal was not growing against the pocket wall. This crystal is remarkably transparent, despite its thickness.
2.3 x 1.6 x 0.6 cm. One of the very few Florida collector minerals - crystals of green to a unique blue (there are shades of both here) - against a stark white contrasting matrix. Small (as these typically are) but nice. From a find in the early 1980s.
1.8 x 1.6 x 1.1 cm. A doubly terminated, 1.1 cm gemmy and lustrous, bi-colored vivianite crystal set on matrix from the Clear Spring Mine of Florida. The upper portion is a pleasing sea-green with the bottom having a rich violet-purple color.
I had seen this specimen in the room of a Czech dealer early in the Tucson show when I was buying Eastern European specimens, and later went back to see him specifically to buy it when I thought about how few really good vivianites I was seeing around, and the prices they are getting. It is a striking arrangement of two lustrous, super-sharp, intergrown crystals of a translucent bottle-green. Matrix on the left side of the specimen adds a nice contrast. The crystal in front is double-terminated, and the one in back is terminated on top (small natural contact towards the back). 8.7 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm
5.9 x 3.4 x 2.6 cm. A gemmy 3.5-cm crystal of vivianite on matrix - bottle-green as is classic from here, but with a bluish edge, which is not common at all for vivianites from Bolivia. Fine glassy luster and sharpness all around. Ex. Joe Freilich Collection.
5.8 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm. A bottle-green, gemmy and razor-sharp crystal of vivianite which, despite its 1.5-cm thickness, you can clearly see through.
18.9 x 11.5 x 9.8 cm. Here is a vivianite crystal 7 cm in length by 3 cm thick, jutting off of a rocky sandstone matrix. With superb luster, it is quite gemmy, with strong lighting.
3.2 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm. This piece features a beautiful, lustrous, gemmy, emerald green, sword-shaped "textbook" crystal of Vivianite sitting atop metamorphosed Sandstone.
5.6 x 4.6 x 2.7 cm. This fine specimen features a well-placed vug lined with highly lustrous, dark sea-green vivianite needles to 2.8 cm aesthetically set in a fossilized mollusc shell from the Kerch Peninsula of the Ukraine, near the Black Sea. Both sides of the clam have been partially replaced with blue vivianite. This portion of the deposit is now mined through and gone. The calcium and phosphate needed to form this species are both derived from the original shell material.
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