This specimen is a group of black mirrors! Brilliant sharp hematite crystals are clustered on a plate – hematite does not get more lustrous than this. These are beautiful complex crystals. In excellent condition – a contact at the back on the right, and tiny chips and rubs in a couple of spots, not at […]

This specimen features two absolutely brilliant silvery black hematite crystals. The lustre on these things is super bright – they have faces like mirrors. They are a bit less so around the back. The crystals are incredibly sharp and complex. In excellent condition – no damage (with magnification I can find one tiny corner rub, […]

This matrix specimen is loaded with sharp, complex metallic black hematite crystals. In fact this one is good from many different angles. It features two large crystals, one of which stands out obviously at the top, and the larger one is embedded lower down on the piece. Each of these crystals has a mirror-bright pinacoid […]

This is a cluster of sharp, well-developed, silvery hematite crystals with complex morphology. In excellent condition – one nick at an edge to one of the smaller crystals, and two surface chips on faces, you need to look to see them, not remotely distracting. This piece is almost a floater – can’t know if the […]

Detailed Description A sharp, brilliantly lustrous singly-terminated epidote, the main crystal is accompanied by a small sidecar almost-parallel crystal that is doubly-terminated. Some selective frosting around the back of the crystal.There is associated albite, quartz (with an etched appearance), and small crystals of bluish-green amphibole. In excellent condition – no damage. Stands perfectly for display. […]

Detailed Description A beautiful pair of epidote crystals, the larger one (singly-terminated) hosting a second crystal growing out an an angle. The crystals are sharp and lustrous, with selective frosting by tiny crystals of associated minerals (albite, quartz, hematite, blue-green amphibole). In excellent condition – no damage. There is some surface marking beneath the second […]

Detailed Description A sharp, doubly-terminated floater with textbook form. Bright glassy lustre, and frosting in minor places. In excellent condition – no damage. (One corner, which is underneath as I would display it, has a 1mm contact.) A couple of small additional epidote crystals along for the ride on this one. The last photo shows […]

Detailed Description This is a sharp, brilliantly lustrous singly-terminated epidote with a super termination. There is a little bit of albite frosting in spots. Near the termination there is an associated group of bluish-green amphibole crystals with albite. In excellent condition, no damage. A beautiful epidote, the termination makes the piece. About These Epidotes Even […]

Detailed Description This is a beautiful large, sharp, singly-terminated crystal of epidote. Brilliant lustre, one termination face has a curious more frosted appearance, and there is some quartz/albite frosting around the back of the specimen. In excellent condition – no damage. You may notice that there is some kind of hollow near the top of […]

This cerussite has beautiful twinning, sharp, glassy faces, and aesthetic salmon-coloured zoning. Daoping cerussites of this style came out of one or two finds (depends on who is giving the information(!)) – they are distinctive and very attractive. The total number of these is very small and only a few are top quality, free of […]

This specimen features a pair of sharp, lustrous, parallel-growth ferberite crystals hosting a sharp arsenopyrite crystal and two small muscovite crystal rosettes, all surrounded by sharp terminated quartz crystals. It’s not too often that we see such a nice aesthetic specimen (from any locality) which includes four minerals as well-developed, high-quality crystals. In excellent condition […]

Sharp, bright arsenopyrite crystals up to 0.9 cm in size are stacked entirely covering underlying bladed crystals of löllingite. When you examine the specimen, you can see that there is some kind of stacking going on, but no löllingite is visible because the arsenopyrite crystal clusters are so thick. We know that the löllingite is […]