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Elbaite - Beni Bouzra, Chefchaouen Province, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region, Morocco
(#MINS9219)
Nice prismatic xsl of Elbaite up to 6 mm tall, green-brownish, well terminated and vertically striated, set on matrix.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 6 mm
 Overall size:67mm x 30 mm x 57 mm
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Adamite (Var: Manganese-bearing Adamite) - Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
(#MINS9190)
Sample with Manganoan Adamite crystals up to 7 mm, purple in the terminations, very glossy. on limonitic matrix. Found in the 80's, it's in very good conditions.
Specimen weight:65 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 7 mm
Overall size:45mm x 44 mm x 37 mm
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Tourmaline var. Elbaite and Quartz - Stak Nala, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
(#MINS9193)
Cluster of green Elbaite xls up to 3,6 cm tall fully terminated with clear biterminated quartz crystal 4,7 cm wide. Showy.
Specimen weight:75 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3,6 cm tall
Overall size:43mm x 47 mm x 55 mm
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Fluorite - Poggio Balate - Termini Imerese - Palermo Prov. - Sicily - Italy
(#GMA26009)
A typical fluorite specimen from this well-known Sicilian location.
The crystals are partially intertwined.
Specimen weight:150 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 17
Overall size:76mm x 44 mm x 47 mm
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Awaruite (Josephinite) - Josephine Creek placers, Josephine Creek Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
(#MINS9149)
silvery-bright, flattened alluvial thumbnail Awaruite nugget from the Josephine Creek placers of Oregon (Arlson & Co. placers). Awariute is an intermetallic alloy of Nickel and Iron.
Specimen weight:6 gr.
Crystal size:22 mm wide
Overall size:22mm x 8 mm x 12 mm
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Prehnite - Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
(#MINS9135)
Spheroidal growth of Prehnite crystals with perfect terminations, translucent, with a very bright luster and an intense yellow color, on graphite matrix.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:Upto 2,6 cm
Overall size:36mm x 25 mm x 40 mm
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Montgomeryite - Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
(#MINS8912)
Cluster of Montogomeryite crystals up to 1-1.5 mm richly set on matrix.
Specimen weight:20 gr.
Crystal size:Up to1.5 mm
Overall size:50mm x 38 mm x 18 mm
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Beryl var. Heliodor - Volodarsk-Volynskii (Volodars'k-Volyns'kyy; Wolodarsk-Wolynskii), Zhytomyr Oblast' (Zhitomir Oblast'), Ukraine
(#MINS9119)
Heliodor crystal, gemmy, glassy fully terminated 2,6 cm tall.
Specimen weight:2 gr.
Crystal size:2,4 cm tall
Overall size:5mm x 5 mm x 24 mm
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Vesuvianite - Bellecombe, Aosta Valley, Italy
(#12732_VESU_DANI)
Superb Vesuvianite (biterminated) xx of important dimensions being nearly full 4 cm long.
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:38 mm
Overall size:38mm x 13 mm x 13 mm
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Calcite psd Aragonite - Cozzo Disi mine, Casteltermini, Sicily, Italy
(#12476_ARAG_DANI)
Classic sicilian combo belonging to the past. This specimen offer nice and large calcite psd aragonite.
Specimen weight:1180 gr.
Crystal size:26 mm on edge
Overall size:190mm x 155 mm x 65 mm
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Titanite - Tormiq valley - Haramosh Mts. - Skardu Distr. - Baltistan - Gilgit-Baltistan - Pakistan
(#GM25013)
Several transparent, brilliant and brown coloured crystals of titanite are spread all over the white surface of this specimen for a strong contrast.
Specimen weight:105 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 9
Overall size:78mm x 57 mm x 30 mm
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Pharmacosiderite, Carminite, Malachite - Cap Garonne mine, Le Pradet, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
(#9947b_PHAR_DANI)
Nice creamy pharmacosiderite cubes with globular malachite and carminite xls on matrix.
Specimen weight:36 gr.
Crystal size:1 mm
Overall size:55mm x 30 mm x 23 mm
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Chondrodite - Ladjuar Medam, Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Kuran wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
(#MINS9079)
Dark red complex terminated crystal of Chondrodite 1,6 cm wide on minor matrix.
Specimen weight:4 gr.
Crystal size:1,6 cm wide
Overall size:16mm x 11 mm x 23 mm
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Epidote - Tormiq valley - Haramosh Mts. - Skardu Distr. - Baltistan - Gilgit-Baltistan - Pakistan
(#GM24107)
A jemmy floater of epidote !
It's an aggregate of transparent crystals of epidote, without matrix.
The crystals are up to 37 mm long, have a beautiful dark green color with yellow reflections and ...
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 37
Overall size:52mm x 19 mm x 7 mm
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Epidote and calcite - Tormiq Valley - Pakistan
(#GM24086)
A big epidote crystal (28 mm.) is clearly visible on the surface of this cluster.
It is surrounded by numerous other smaller epidotes and white areas with calcite crystals ...
Specimen weight:760 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 28
Overall size:100mm x 90 mm x 70 mm
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Parisite-(Ce)/Sinchisite-(Ce) - Trimouns - Luzenac - Ariege - France
(#MINS9040)
At Trimouns, Parisite-(Ce) and Synchisite-(Ce) are often present within the same crystal. Analyses on lots of specimen have shown that in sharp terminated crystal parisite-(Ce) is more often the main mineral...
Specimen weight:58 gr.
Crystal size:4 mm tall
Overall size:48mm x 33 mm x 26 mm
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Microcline var. Amazonite - Crystal Peak area, Park and Teller Cos., Colorado, USA
(#MINS9001)
Nice blue amazonite crystal 2,3 cm tall, fully terminated on with albite in association.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:2,3 cm tall
Overall size:53mm x 27 mm x 38 mm
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Elbaite - Forcel Rosso Gully, Mt. Foppa, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy
(#FERR1593)
Nice prismatic xl of Elbaite, green-brownish, well terminated and vertically striated, set on a xl of Quartz.
Very unusual italian locality!
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:5mm
Overall size:26mm x 12 mm x 12 mm
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Vinogradoite - Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
(#MINS8994)
Acicular crystals of vinogradovite well terminated up to 1 mm in a vug of matrix with yellow leucosphenite xls in association.
Specimen weight:33 gr.
Crystal size:up to 1 mm
Overall size:37mm x 33 mm x 20 mm
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Manganite - Manganese deposit, Ilfeld, Harztor, Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany (TL)
(#MINS8988)
Here we see sharp and lustrous crystals of steel gray Manganite xls up to 1,2 cm. a nice specimen with well developed and sharp edged crystals. They are excellent striated as well, mostly superbly terminated.
Specimen weight:80 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 12 mm
Overall size:53mm x 25 mm x 35 mm
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Eosphorite - Ilha claim, Taquaral, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
(#MINS8966)
Cluster of brown terminated eosphorite crystals up to 1,0 cm on matrix.
Specimen weight:20 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,0 cm
Overall size:45mm x 30 mm x 16 mm
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Beryl - Nagar mine – Hunza Valley - Gilgit Distr. - Baltistan - Pakistan
(#GM24047)
A large, semi-transparent crystal of beryl is stunnong on the matrix of this specimen.
The top is perfectly terminated, the bottom has some parallel growth.
Other small crystals are ...
Specimen weight:110 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 41
Overall size:48mm x 32 mm x 53 mm
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Corundum (Ruby) - Zazafotsy, Ihosy, Ihorombe, Madagascar
(#BALD0782)
Wonderful, biterminated Ruby variety Corundum's 39 mm crystal, showing a red color with blue shade (Sapphire), well evident on the rich in mica matrix. Interesting sample, intensely fluorescent under the UV light. Photographed under strong light.
Specimen weight:282 gr.
Crystal size:39 mm
Overall size:60mm x 62 mm x 56 mm
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Apatite with Muscovite - Skardu Area, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
(#MINS8707)
Fully terminated pinkish Apatite crystal 2,4 cm tall set on pegmatite matrix with muscovite in association.
Specimen weight:300 gr.
Crystal size:2,4 cm tall
Overall size:80mm x 50 mm x 60 mm
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Endlichite (Arsenic-bearing Vanadinite) - Touissit - Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
(#BALD0772)
Hexagonal Endlichite's crystals up to 7 mm, some biterminated, show bright shine and cover the matrix, on which there are black Descloizite's traces. Nice and aesthetic sample, photographed under strong light.
Specimen weight:272 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 7 mm
Overall size:92mm x 68 mm x 55 mm
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Weloganite - Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada
(#BALD0769)
A nice group of Weloganite's crystals up to 10 mm, with a characteristic lemon-straw color, with pseudo-hexagonal habit, biterminated, with streaks perpendicular to the axis of development. Weloganite is a rare carbonate. Sample coming from...
Specimen weight:120 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 10 mm
Overall size:75mm x 53 mm x 23 mm
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Quartz var. Hematoide Quartz - Brandberg Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
(#BALD0766)
Elegant group of Quartz's crystals, some biterminated, up to 40 mm in lenght, partially covered by a second generation of Hematoide Quartz, that gives the sample its reddish appearance. Crystallized on every side, elegant and aesthetic...
Specimen weight:215 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 40 mm
Overall size:71mm x 73 mm x 54 mm
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Microcline - West Lake Mine, Cardiff Township, Highlands East Township, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada
(#MINS8644)
Sharp, terminated Microcline xls up to 4 cm long with good colo on matrix.
Specimen weight:223 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 4,0 cm long
Overall size:90mm x 50 mm x 52 mm
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Analcime with Natrolite, Rhodochrosite and Aegirine - Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
(#BALD0757)
Analcime's crystals, the biggest of 50 mm, are partially covered by 22 mm Natrolite's crystals, also biterminated, nice well formed Rhodochrosite's rosettes up to 15 mm and Aegirine, both in big crystals up to 38 mm and in small, slender...
Specimen weight:945 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 50 mm
Overall size:170mm x 130 mm x 82 mm
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Elbaite on Quartz - Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan, Afghanistan
(#BALD0751)
Wonderful Elbaite's crystal, with color from pink (at the base) to light green (on the top), well terminated, translucent and gemmy, implanted on a Quartz's crystal. With two cuts, on the base and on one side, that are not so visible.
Specimen weight:145 gr.
Crystal size:13 mm
Overall size:64mm x 41 mm x 38 mm
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Axinite-Fe with Quartz - Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia
(#BALD0744)
Quartz's crystals up to 20 mm, some biterminated, lay on a marvelous carpet of well-terminated and glossy Axinite-Fe's crystals up to 15 mm, very evident on the matrix. Important collector's specimen, in very nice conditions, better in...
Specimen weight:248 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 15 mm
Overall size:105mm x 68 mm x 34 mm
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Fersmite - Alpe Rosso, Orcesco, Piedmont, Italy
(#11994_FERS_DANI)
Rare brown fermite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:15 gr.
Crystal size:< 1 mm
Overall size:30mm x 20 mm x 30 mm
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Fersmite - Alpe Rosso, Orcesco, Piedmont, Italy
(#11875_FERS_DANI)
Rare golden brown fermite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:11 gr.
Crystal size:1 mm
Overall size:25mm x 20 mm x 18 mm
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Kunzite (var. of spodumene) - Dara-e-Pech Pegmatite field - Dara-e-Pech Distr. - Kunar - Afghanistan
(#GM22026)
Excellent big floater of kunzite, without matrix.
It has a nice pink color, is good terminated and is completely transparent.
A high quality specimen !
Specimen weight:72 gr.
Crystal size:--
Overall size:122mm x 37 mm x 5 mm
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Quartz var. Amethyst - Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
(#BALD0730)
Wonderful bi-terminated Amethyst's crystal, with violet zoned color, with another smaller, intense-colored one, on a matrix that has some cuts on the rear. In excellent conditions, very nice and aesthetic.
Specimen weight:89 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 41 mm
Overall size:53mm x 48 mm x 42 mm
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Anatase on Adularia - Hardangervidda, Hordaland, Norway, Norvegia
(#BALD0727)
Sharp, well crystallized Anatase's crystal, on a matrix covered by Adularia's microcrystals. The crystal is bi-terminated and comes with numerous other little crystals of Anatase, scattered on the Adularia.
Specimen weight:13 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 14 mm
Overall size:31mm x 22 mm x 14 mm
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Bastnaesite, tuperssiatsuaite, apophyllite and makatite - Aris Phonolite quarry - Aris - Windhoek distr. - Khomas Region - Namibia
(#GM21005)
A little, brown colored crystal of bastnaesite (3 mm.) is featuring on and edge of the vug of this specimen: this species is a rarity for this locality.
In a corner of the vug ...
Specimen weight:140 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 3
Overall size:65mm x 45 mm x 35 mm
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Hematite & Albite - Arbola Glacier, Sabbione, Formazza, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
(#FERR1532)
This is a classic alpine floater, with a shiny group of Hematite "ironrose" set atop a cluster of Albite in pearl white translucent crystals, well shaped and mostly double terminated.
Showy!
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:.
Overall size:43mm x 30 mm x 25 mm
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Antimonite - Miniera del Tafone, Manciano, Grosseto province, Toscana, Italy
(#FERR1521)
Spray of elongated gray Stibine crystals, well terminated.
Not at the level of the famous chinese or japanese specimens, but interesting for the italian topology.
Former Fregosi collection, with label.
Specimen weight:87 gr.
Crystal size:2,2 cm
Overall size:89mm x 64 mm x 44 mm
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Natrolite - Koashva Quarry, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia
(#MINS8321)
Natrolite xls, well-terminated, with a pearly luster up to 2,7 cm tall.
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2,7 cm tall
Overall size:27mm x 22 mm x 32 mm
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Epidote - Tormiq valley (Tormic; Tormik; Tormig; Turmiq), Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
(#BALD0704)
This nice sample shows sharp, glossy, gemmy, olive green crystals, with well defined faces and numerous twinnings. It shows also a slight pleochroism. In very good conditions.
Specimen weight:80 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 35 mm
Overall size:77mm x 25 mm x 48 mm
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Clinozoisite - Cerro San Cristobal, San Vincente de Cañete, Cañete Province, Lima, Peru
(#BALD0702)
Group of really nice crystals, well distributed on the matrix, to form a pleasant geode. The green crystals are shiny, well terminated and with good dimensions. The sample is in very good conditions.
Specimen weight:220 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 18 mm
Overall size:73mm x 48 mm x 56 mm
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Scapolite - Marble occurrence, Morogoro, Uluguru Mts (Uruguru Mts), Morogoro Region, Tanzania
(#BALD0677)
Very nice yellow crystal, gemmy, with frosted pyramidal termination faces.
Specimen weight:29 gr.
Crystal size:17 mm
Overall size:17mm x 16 mm x 35 mm
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Manganite - Manganese deposit, Ilfeld, Harztor, Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany
(#BALD0663)
Nice sample of Manganite, dating back to the end of 1800, with well terminated crystals and metallic luster. A classic of mineralogy, coming from the type locality.
Specimen weight:692 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 13 mm
Overall size:81mm x 56 mm x 62 mm
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Epidote - Margone - Usseglio - Viù Valley - Lanzo valley - Torino prov. - Piemonte - Italia
(#GM19048)
A big, brilliant and dark green colored crystal of epidote is stunning over the matrix.
It's not perfectly terminated 'cause it was in contact in its upper top.
Specimen weight:295 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 37
Overall size:92mm x 50 mm x 53 mm
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Baryte - Niccioletta Mine, Grosseto, Toscana, Italy
(#FERR1408)
Nice plate withe several clean well terminated colorless xls of Baryte scattered all atop.
Nice oldtimer from a classic italian locale now closed since decades.
Specimen weight:400 gr.
Crystal size:1.2 cm
Overall size:125mm x 80 mm x 43 mm
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Heulandite-Ca - Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India
(#BALD0614)
Heulandite-Ca's crystal really big, pearly, vitreous, shiny, biterminated, on a basalt matrix, from a classic locality. In very well conditions.
Specimen weight:360 gr.
Crystal size:61 mm
Overall size:83mm x 70 mm x 68 mm
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Anatase - Cuiaba District - Gouveia - Minas Gerais - Brazil.
(#MINS7912)
Silvery-tan colored prismatic Anatase crystal 1,8 cm tall and doubly terminated.It is coated by small metallic golden-brown colored Rutile crystals on nearly all sides of this "floater" specimen.
Specimen weight:4 gr.
Crystal size:1,8 cm tall
Overall size:8mm x 8 mm x 18 mm
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Quartz ver. Herkimer Diamond - Middleville, Town of Newport, Herkimer Co., New York, USA
(#BALD0594)
Probably, the Herkimer Diamond is the most known Quartz's variety in the world. This sample is a group of biterminated, very shiny, translucent and well formed crystals, with insignificant ruptures, almost invisible to the naked eye.
Specimen weight:183 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 50 mm
Overall size:100mm x 34 mm x 50 mm
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Roselite on Quartz with Goethite - Aghbar Mine (Arhbar Mine), Aghbar, Bou Azzer District (Bou Azer District), Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
(#BALD0579)
Group of isolated Roselite's crystals, very nice, with good color, translucent, in very well conditions. The biggest crystal, twinned and biterminated has really remarkable dimensions (10 mm).
Specimen weight:122 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 10 mm
Overall size:65mm x 45 mm x 46 mm
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Stibnite - Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia (Kisbánya), Baia Mare (Nagybánya), Maramureș Co., Romania
(#MINS7847)
Shiny, well terminated Stibnite's crystals up to 4,0 cm long with minor matrix.Showy.
Specimen weight:49 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 4,0 cm long
Overall size:30mm x 15 mm x 65 mm
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Amethyst Quartz - Amethyst locality, Ankijabe, Ambilobe District, Diana Region (Northern Region), Antsiranana Province, Madagascar
(#BALD0475)
A carpet of nice, shiny and translucent Amethyst's crystals, some biterminated and twinned, well evident on the matrix, from a little known Malagasy locality. Inside the Amethyst's crystals there are innumerable little acicular Rutile's?...
Specimen weight:133 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 20 mm
Overall size:84mm x 64 mm x 37 mm
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Quartz var. Hyaline Quartz - Tibet Autonomous Region, China
(#BALD0358)
Floating group of hyaline Quartz's crystals, compenetrated, extremely shiny, almost all biterminated and with black inclusions. Truly beautiful, in excellent conditions.
Specimen weight:144 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 109 mm
Overall size:77mm x 109 mm x 72 mm
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Chalcocite - Bouismas Mine - Bouismas - Bou Azer distr. - Tazenakht - Ouarzazate prov. - Souss-Massa-Draâ Region - Morocco
(#GM15161)
A really new that I presented on my table in Munich !!
A new found of chalcocite from Bouismas, a mineral that is really rare in Morocco.
This specimen is ...
Specimen weight:20 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 20
Overall size:28mm x 21 mm x 12 mm
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Sturmanite - N' Chwaining II Mine - Kuruman - South Africa
(#FERR1072)
Cluster of Sturmanite in deep yellow xls showing nearly only the two pyramidal terminations.
Excellent luster and coverage.
From a previous collection, with label.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 0,3 cm
Overall size:32mm x 18 mm x 15 mm
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Valentinite - San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia
(#FERR0901)
Stunning individual xl of Valentinite, perfectly terminated, standing on a blocky galena matrix.
The xl shows pearl to brown color, excelent shape and luster. Very difficult to find this specie in a so well represented way.
Specimen weight:167 gr.
Crystal size:1 cm
Overall size:65mm x 40 mm x 40 mm
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