Recently Handled Minerals

A superb thumbnail sized specimen featuring a perfect 15 mm, doubly terminated scheelite crystal of lovely blueish-gray and brownish colours. Super aesthetic and hard to find on todays market! Ex Oliver Konczer collection.

Very rare material from this famous classic Austrian locality. It is the most relevant locality for baryte in entire Austria! The crystals are all sharp and well terminated and show steel-blue color with lighter zonings along the edges. The assemble is very 3-dimensional and the piece is in excellent condition all around.

This specimen features a razor sharp and highly lustrous, doubly terminated hematite crystal on matrix! The crystal measures 25 mm in length and is free of any damage. Great aesthetics!

Most of this lustrous crystal shows very fine clarity with only minor internal cracks, the color is an open, light sea blue-green. In the upper quarter you can see steps of green with a thin light pink zoning below the end-point and it doesn´t need any backlight to see these wonderful colors.

This lustrous and sharp terminated crystal shows various steps of green, a darker area in the middle and a concentration of pink below the end-point. Translucency is very fine, it needs only minor backlight to expose these colors. Three repairs and a few restorations were done professionally.

Two completely free-standing and well exposed dioptase crystals up to 20 mm set on white calcite. The crystals show fantastic luster and this wonerful, intense and glowing green color. The contrast to calcite is pure eye-candy, minor duftite is also present. Great aesthetics and condition.

Sharp and well termianted smithsonite crystals up to 20 mm across nicely perched on rock ore matrix! A few of the crystals feature beautiful iron inclusions and show intense red colour zoning. A very uncommon piece with nice contrast and remarkable crystal size. No significant damages to report.

Sphereical aggregates of sparkling, sharp and roayal blue azurite crystals attractively set on intense green malachite. Really a superb contrast and a more uncommon style for this famous classic locality.

Sharp, tapering mimetite crystals to 17 mm on matrix.

This is a lovely pseudomorph of malachite ps. azurite, very aesthetic and showy all around! The floater matrix is covered by several dozen sparkling cerussite twins.

A chatoyant spray of Malachite set on black "glaskopf" matrix. Very rare material from an old, even prehestoric locality. First activity of the mine dates back to the last bronze age. Ex Heinrich Prager collection, his label is coming with the piece.

A water-clear, sharp and lustrous rock crystal with lots of red rutile crystals inside, a few siderites is also present. No damage.