International Minerals #13

This is a killer thumbnail specimen, featuring a floater group of several highly iridescent spephanites in fantastic shape and condition! The pictures show both the front and back sides, both are just awesome!

Super lustrous demantoide garnets to 19 mm across scattered on matrix! There is no damage on the main crystals, the piece is in excellent shape and condition all around. The crystals are indeed super glossy on all sides! Definitely one of the very best specimens I have yet seen from this locality!

This is a superb 750 grams tourmaline crystal cluster, featuring pink colour with a slight green cap. The entire specimen is in great condition, there is no damage worth mentioning. Some lepidolites add a pleasing contrast. I do especially like the stacked formation on the front, clearly showing 5 individual tourmaline crystals in almost parallel, but still slightly diverging directions. Great visual impact!

Deep blue, sharp and super-glossy azurite crystals forming a wonderful cluster on malachite matrix! The back side features nicely crystalized malachite ps. azurite crystals. Great condition and shape.

Intensely yellow "red cap" heliodor from the recent finds. Nicely elongated and almost 4 inches tall. No damage.

Highly lustrous sperrylite crystals prched on chacopyrite matrix. One of the best and most aesthetic sperrylite specimens I have ever seen!

What a striking composition! A doubly terminated aquamarine crystal grew on another dt aquamarine crystal, both in perfect condition and lovely perched on mica matrix. Showy all around. Zero damage!

WOW! What a gorgeous multiple-coloured tourmaline crystal! The picture was just made with natural daylight from the back side, no artificial light used, and the colours are indeed that strong and intense. There is one repair right above the pink zone, but this was professionally done and is barely visibly. The termination is perfect and shows a pleasing yellow colour. The sidecar crystals are all terminated. The size of the crystal is indeed shocking, it is a true masterpiece for an advanced collector of gem species!

Two rose-coloured amethyst crystals on quartz and calcite matrix! Great aesthetics, perfect all around! No chipping on the terminations.

Elongated white calcites perched on a nicely contrasting matrix. No damage.

What a fantastic dioptase miniature! A 18.5 x 11 mm crystal is perched on white smithsonite matrix. It is actually freestanding and very well isolated on all sides. Some malachite balls set a beautiful contrast. The specimen is in great condition, ther is just very tiny edge wear present on one edge, however, this is very trivial and also not visible from the front side. The aesthetics of this specimen is breath-taking, it is indeed one of the best dioptase miniatures i have ever seen. Definitely a killer specimen for the very advanced collector!

Floating etched petalite, well crystalized on all sides. Ex Wilfried Schlosser collection.