Opal

Gunheath China Clay Pit | Stenalees | Treverbyn | Cornwall | England

Size: 6.5x5.1x4.0cm

Price: € 800.00 ~ 929.12 $
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Who is aware of Cornish Opal? I think only very few of us are, and I was all eyes when I was offered two pieces of Cornish Opal. The first specimen, the one you are looking at, is a massi ...

Galena

Erlenbach Mine | Moresnet | Kelmis | Liége | Wallonia | Belgium

Size: 5.6x5.0x3.8cm

Price: € 1500.00 ~ 1742.10 $
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This is an incredible Belgian Galena specimen with sharp, pyramidal crystals up to 4.8 cm. This elongated pyramidal habit, stretched along the c-axis, is pretty unusual for an isometric m ...

Elbaite & Quartz

Beni Bouzra | Chefchaouen Province | Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region | Morocco

Size: 4.6x3.9x2.4cm

Price: € 750.00 ~ 871.05 $
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This is a very nice, 1.6 cm tall magenta-red Elbaite crystal with a very dark, almost black cap, right next to an excellent short prismatic Capped Quartz on pegmatite matrix. The Elbaite ...

Tanzanite UNHEATED

Merelani Hills | Lelatema Mts. | Simanjiro | Arusha | Tanzania

Size: 3.6x2.1x1.5cm

Price: € 2800.00 ~ 3251.92 $
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This 3.6 cm tall cluster of parallel grown Tanzanite crystals is dramatic and sculptural. The specimen was part of a small but choice lot mined in the 2010s and has an unusual natural ind ...

Orpiment & Calcite

Jiepaiyu Mine (Shimen Mine) | Shimen As-(Au) Deposit | Changda Prefecture | Hunan Province | China

Size: 5.1x4.7x4.2cm

Price: € 700.00 ~ 812.98 $
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These extraordinary Orpiment-Calcite specimens from China from the 1990s were considered the "Best of Species" for decades and can still easily compete with the best finds of the species ...

Malachite pseudomorph after Azurite

Seabra | Bahia | Brazil

Size: 5.1x4.4x3.8cm

Price: € 600.00 ~ 696.84 $
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This is an amazing specimen with bladed, green rosettes of Malachite pseudomorph after Azurite in an exceedingly aesthetic arrangement on gossan matrix. Numerous botryoidal Malachite clus ...

Ludlamite on Siderite

Huanuni Mine | Huanuni | Dalence Province | Oruro Department | Bolivia

Size: 4.6x2.9x1.6cm

Price: € 900.00 ~ 1045.26 $
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Actually, Ludlamite crystals are not necessarily the benchmark of mineralogical yearnings; however, things change when you have a crystal cluster of almost gigantic dimensions such as thi ...

ILvaite

Laxey Mine | South Mountain Mining District | Owyhee County | Idaho | USA

Size: 4.6x3.7x2.6cm

Price: € 350.00 ~ 406.49 $
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This is a very excellent example of Ilvaite from an extremely rare and classic US locality: the Laxey Mine in Owyhee County, southern Idaho, that worked a base and precious metal deposit ...

Elbaite

Paprok | Kamdesh District | Nuristan | Afghanistan

Size: 5.7x3.1x2.7cm

Price: € 1200.00 ~ 1393.68 $
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Solid pink colored Elbaite from the famous Afghan gemstone deposit of Paprok are rather unusual and therefore highly sought after, especially in this quality. This specimen has an excepti ...

Elbaite on Quartz

Pederneira Mine | São José da Safira | Minas Gerais | Brazil

Size: 5.3x3.6x3.3cm

Price: € 4500.00 ~ 5226.30 $
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This is a magnificent Elbaite on Quartz from the Brazilian Pederneira Mine near the municipality of São José da Safira in the state of Minas Gerais. In this specific case it is a very exc ...

Catapleiite

Poudrette Quarry | Mont Saint Hilaire | Montérégie | Québec | Canada

Size: 2.4x2.0x1.3cm

Price: € 650.00 ~ 754.91 $
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A very outstanding cluster of two relatively large euhedral, perfectly six-sided Catapleiite crystals on matrix. They are milky white and absolutely translucent and, they significantly th ...

Scheelite on Muscovite

Pingwu Mine | Huya | Mt. Xuebaoding | Pingwu. Co. | Sichuan | China

Size: 5.6x4.3x3.7cm

Price: € 850.00 ~ 987.19 $
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This specimen is perhaps slightly more compact of the two Pingwu Scheelite pieces. And, as I said before, we have all definitely seen much larger crystals of this species. And again, the ...