Recently Handled Minerals

Fine crystals of topaz from the Ural Mountains date back to the czarist days of the mid to late 1800s and are highly sought after today. Natural blue topaz is generally rare and should be high valued for their rarity. And this particular crystal shows a very good saturation, fine clarity and excellent luster on all sharp terminated faces.

What an amazing tourmaline - sharp terminated and lustrous all around! There is a really remarkable combination of colors: Dark green at the base, almost colorless in the middle, a sharp pink zoning and finally sky blue below the end-points.

Light blue, end-pointed crystals with glossy faces set on muscovite matrix. Good contrast and in good condition overall. Hard to photograph, more 3-dimensional and better in person

A true and absolutely thought-after European classic. A cluster of bright pink rhodochrosite crystals with an overgrowth of sparkly white quartz points. This specimen is a typical example of what made Romanian minerals so attractive to the collectors and what brought up the fame of the Cavnic mine itself. Ex Alfred Haas coll.

This is from this famous, unique discovery in 2007 (Geoda de Las Calcitas), the most famous, most wanted material ever found at this classic Fluorite locality. The main crystal is 23 mm across. It shows the typical habit with combination of hexaeder and rhomb. The faces are very lustrous, the modification of rhomb are a little frosted. With minor back-light you can see this fantastic purple to blue internal color. The assemble is so aesthetic and contrast with crystalized Calcite is also wonderful. This material is very rare and very hard to obtain and it´s among of the most important classics from Spain.

Highly transparent crystal of vivianite perched on chalcopyrite and marcasite matrix. No damage.

An intense orange, almost red, transparent crystal perched at the top of the piece. Material from the locality is generally rare and hard to obtain.

The Kongsberg silver mines are famous since the 17th ecntury and are for sure the most relevant locality for Native silver world-wide. And here we have a really representive thumbnail - a well formed wire with this wonderful patina. Very aesthetic and on same high quality all the way around.

884 gramm of lustrous, well shaped Scheelite in the most intense color you will ever see of this mineral! This is not orange - this is already red! It looks like lava! Xuebaoding produced amazing Scheelite specimens - but this size, this volume even in union withthis superb color makes this piece stand out the crowd!

Lovely spray of stibnite crystals on a small calcite matrix. Very showy all the way around! Ex Oliver Konczer collection.

Gorgeous etched bi-colour fluorite from Zogno! The colours are lovely, and the composition is just striking! No damage. Ex Robert Brandstetter collection no.677, his label is still coming with the piece.

I saw hundreds of specimen from this discovery - and out of a ton you will not find more than a fist full of pieces which show such perfect quality. The crystals are like glass, each one is highly lustrous, the phantoms are sharp as well and the cryszal tips are in very good condition. Just tiny chips are present, but no significant damage to report.