Recently Handled Minerals

Free-standing, sharp and lustrous iron roses with muscovite; the snowy white adularia gives even more contrast to this very aesthetic, rare specimen! Ex Heinrich Prager collection.

A sculptural assemble of sharp zepter crystals with beautiful concentration of purple color along the end-points. The faces are very glossy and show amazing "fenster" growth structures. No significant damages to report. Ex Heinrich Prager collection.

Four doubly-terminated rutile crystals up to 20 mm in length resting on a calcite and schist matrix. One of them even shows the typical knee twinning. The crystals are in perfect conditon and the luster is the best you can look for.

Rare rutile from this classic locality! The 3.2 cm crystal shows pyramidal end-points, sharp terminations and fine satiny luster.

Very fine cluster of amethyst from Romania, partially covered by tiny pyrites. Lovely specimen from this classic European locality!

This specimen features a large columnar strontianite predominantly sitting on magnesite matrix. Towards the termination the colour gets more intense and results in a pleasing and highly desired reddish brown hue. The prism faces are sharp and lustrous, the termination faces are stepped and bevelled. Oberdorf an der Laming is the only locality in the world that has produced strontianites of that size and quality. This is a remarkably fine miniature, very hard to find in the market today. Ex R. Metzger collection, his label is coming with the piece. A note on the back side says that he sold it to Dr. Thaller in 1961 for 80 Shillings.

A well formed, aesthetic cluster of highly lustrous epidote crystals! The main crystals are all well terminated. The lying crystals show a special bent structure, resulting from a rehealed break that happened during genesis in the pocket. Ex Dr.Patzak collection, Vienna.

An exceptional specimen from the type-locality. The mineral was discovered in 1821 and until now there are no other localities world-wide, which have ever produced crystals in this exceptional dimension. Ex Heinrich Prager collection.

Blue floss ferri specimens from the locality are exceedingly rare and very hard to obtain. This particular specimen shows an outstanding saturation and should be high valued for its rarity! Ex K.Eggerth and Heinrich Prager collections, Vienna.

This is a very showy large cabinet sized hematite included calcite specimen, featuring a highly impressive and very 3-dimensional crystal formation! The bottom side is fully crystalized, actually the piece grew as a complete floater. It is in great condition, just one calcite side crystal on the lower left side is not fully terminated, all the others are in great condition. Calcite is admittedly quite a common species, but hard to find in this beauty and aesthetics - combined with this enormous size!

Sharp columnar calcites in a lovely and very 3-dimensional group. Very distictive Bigrigg style! Ex Anton Berger collection, his label is coming with the piece.

A well formed cluster of several tourmaline crystals with satiny luster. The crystals show light pink color, and the main crystal is almost colorless area on top with a little amount of pale green. Several smaller crystals are inter-grown at the lower base and all of them are double terminated - the specimen is developed as a floater! No significant damages to report and very showy all around. Ex Heinrich Prager collection.