International Minerals #31

The quality of these crystals is amazing - concerning luster, color and clarity I wouldn´t rank them less then specimens from Canada. All crystals are in excellent condition and show perfect quality, the contrast with feldspat-matrix is very attractive, too.

Compared with most other specimen from this locality the saturation is very strong. All crystals are in fine condition, sharp terminated and lustrous. They formed a star-like assemble, very aesthetic in various positions.

The two main crystals are 44 and 36mm across, they are exposed and show very good translucency. The photo was done with just minor backlight to show the dark green center and the purple zonings along all edges. No significant damages to report.

Two Schorl crystals formed a V-formed assemble, the Aquamarine raise up vertically in the middle. It is sharp terimanted, undamaged and shows perfect luster. Pure eye-candy in amazing quality.

A well developed Wolframite crystal with glossy faces and attractive texture. On it you can see three Fluorite crystals with a touch of green and violet color. Minor yellow muscovite crystals give even more contrast to the piece. No significant damages to report.

A classic, old-time and fine German cabinet fluorite specimen in combination with Siderite and Chalkopyrite. The Fluorite shows fine luster and light lavender color. Perched at the top you can see an aggregate of well shaped Siderite crystals and a small Chalkopyrite crystal. This is a historic piece and will come with the old labels.

The Guanajuato district is one of the largest silver producers in Mexico and usually known for Silver sulfides and sulfosalts. Milarite is most rare and the specimens from the locality are among the best of this mineral world-wide. Milarite is a rare beryllium silicate, usually crystals are very small - the size of the particular crystals is out-standing and they even show an amazing contrast to Adularia.

Great old US classic - the locality is a pegmatite, well known and famous Topaz and Elbaite. Most relevant discoveries were done in the 70ties to 90ties. These intense orange Spessartine crystals (up to 13mm across) also came out decades ago, today very rare and hard to obtain!

Sharp terminated light pink Tourmaline crystals - the larger one shows olive-green color tones at the lower half. They are embedded in well crystalized light grey Smoky Quartz. Great old classic and NOT repaired like so many of them.

This specimen is developed as floater, it is water-clear without internal cracks and almost flawless. The texture of the faces is fantastic - photos don´t do justice to this piece at all! One side looks like a saw. Undamaged.

Great old classic from France in excellent condition. The crystals are very exposed, they show a yellow color with steps of olive-green and are attachted to small matrix. All end-pointed, glossy and in excellent condition!

The only relevant locality for Topaz in mid-Europe, so really of high relavance and very rare! Usually the crystals are just lying on matrix. This specimen features two free-standing light yellow crystals on tiny sparkling Quartz crystals. They are sharp terminated, transparent and undamged. A third larger crystal is lying diagonal in the front.