A “dumbbell” of thomsonite crystal balls, with stilbite. These balls are radiating clusters of bladed thomsonite crystals (thomsonite-Ca), and this particular specimen has good sparkle. In good condition with a bit of contacting (mostly the left/lower ball, depending on how you chose to orient it for display), where the thomsonites were up against other pocket […]

A beautiful specimen with a ball of thomsonite crystals on, and surrounded by, stilbite crystals. For display, I would support this specimen to stand up as in the first photo. If you like the specimen down one can see that the thomsonite ball is actually partially suspended over the matrix below, also crystallized underneath – […]

A beautiful thomsonite from the small 2020 find. It is comprised of one larger ball of thomsonite crystals upon a smaller partial ball of thomsonite crystals intergrown with stilblite crystals.  With magnification, one can see a myriad of bladed individual thomsonite crystals, some radiating outwards in the general aspect of the ball of crystals, and […]

A “snowman” of thomsonite! Two balls of thomsonite crystals stacked together. With magnification, one can see countless small bladed thomsonite crystals, and although the balls are comprised of radiating crystals, the surface (particularly of the larger ball) has thomsonite blades in various directions, not uniformly radiating from a centre. These are thomsonite-Ca. In excellent condition. […]

A great arrangement of beautiful blue kyanite crystals with minor quartz. Kyanite is a rock-forming mineral, which is found enclosed in one or more other minerals. Kyanite very rarely has perfect terminations and the kyanite crystals comprising this specimen have typical rugged ends, not clean terminations – and last photo show them from the backside. […]

A beautiful spray of fluorapohyllite crystals arranged in a “bow tie” cluster with stilbite. The fluorapophyllite crystals are a nice green, certainly the most sought-after colour, and the stilbite crystals provide nice contrast. This specimen is complete all-around and seems to have formed as a floater – it is very 3-dimensional. In excellent condition with […]

If you could dream up any Pakistan spessartine in this size range, it would be hard to do any better than this specimen. The central trapezohedral crystal is superb – sharp, lustrous, textbook form, internal red colour under the lights. The white albite crystals provide the perfect background. In excellent condition, no damage. This spessartine […]

This is a beautiful cluster of rhodochrosite crystals from the Wutong Mine. The Wutong Mine was originally a small polymetallic mine (lead-zinc-silver) with relatively small production. Beginning the early-mid 2000s, the mine became the focus of a specimen mining venture, seeking rhodochrosite. The well-known specimen mining dealership Collectors’ Edge worked in collaboration with the mine […]

From a locality that has not produced a great abundance of material, this is an amazing specimen: over 100 elbaite crystals on matrix. The crystals are distinctively zoned, each having one termination that is a deep pink and one termination that is much lighter. These tourmaline crystals are also textbook hemimorphic crystals (crystals with no […]

A striking specimen, this piece is visible across the room – a textbook rhombohedral calcite crystal stands up over smaller calcite crystals, and all of the calcites themselves are completely enclosed in a blanket of sparkling crystals. On close inspection, the coating of fine crystals includes a myriad of quartz crystals, along with some fluorapophyllite […]

Deep red vanadinite crystals on a mound of barite crystals. These vanadinite crystals are as sharp as if they had been cut from glass, and they are as lustrous as vanadinite gets – they look wet. The crystals have some translucence and exhibit internal glow and reflection under good light. In excellent condition! This is […]