Featured New Specimens
A selection of crystals from new finds and classic locales!
Sugilite
An extremely colorful specimen of solid, fibrous royal-purple sugilite richly embedded with darker purple sugilite microcrystals. very UNCOMMON with this richness. The crystals are small, but so bright and so colorful! This is very desirable and hard...
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Quartz with Papagoite Inclusions
From the premier finds at the Messina mine in South Africa in the heyday of production in the 1980s is this magnificent quartz crystal with large sprays of included papagoite. The robust quartz crystal is large for the find, and so is the main papago...
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Emerald on Calcite
A gorgeous gem crystal of emerald on matrix from Colombia, with the best and most radiant color that a mineral collector could want! This is a remarkable full-sized thumbnail specimen with a textbook 2.1 x 0.8 x 0.7 cm hexagonal prism dramatically si...
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Beryl var. Heliodor
A classic, vibrant, greenish-yellow, gem quality, lustrous, pristine crystal of heliodor beryl from the famous discovery in the Ukraine in the 1980s. This locality is world renowned for these highly sought after and admired Heliodor specimens. The cl...
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Pyromorphite
The most beautiful and desirable European green pyromorphite specimens have come out of Les Farges long ago, and this superb small cabinet piece is no exception. The specimen has considerable aesthetics and is composed of numerous, intense green spra...
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Red Beryl
This is a significant crystal of gemmy, intensely saturated red beryl or "red emerald," found only in Utah in the past. The color is caused by manganese in parts per million. These are astonishingly rare in the world, and no more are mined today of a...
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Much like the minerals we treasure and collect, the Arkenstone comes from humble beginnings and a small start, but we're thrilled to see how the industry has grown over the 30 years we've been operating!
READ MORETake a Look in The Vault
The Vault is where we keep our very significant, admittedly pricier, specimens for viewing. These minerals often find homes with collectors who not only enjoy the beauty of fine minerals, but who treat their collections as valuable investments.
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