A beautiful, elongated, doubly-terminated calcite on salmon-orange chabazite from Wasson’s Bluff. The calcite has a silky sheen with fine intricate surface detail on the crystal faces under magnification. The main chabazite crystal positioned below the calcite is in fact a fine contact-twin. There are other small calcite crystals on the piece but the big one […]

This crystal is super sharp with amazing bright lustre and a killer termination – top calibre for ilvaite. In excellent condition – two tiny corner nicks are hard to see without magnification and a contact around the back out of view. Recrystallized across the bottom surfaces. An exceptional ilvaite miniature. About These Ilvaites Although the […]

Detailed Description This is a stunning ilvaite crystal. The bright lustre and sharpness are top for the mineral. Singly-terminated, in perfect condition. Small parallel crystals provide a nice aesthetic. Fantastic specimen. About These Ilvaites Although the finds at Huanggang have clearly produced ilvaite specimens of a calibre and in numbers previously unknown for the mineral, […]

Detailed Description This slender, elegant group is comprised of parallel-growth ilvaite crystals that are a bit subparallel, just to be artistic. The quality, lustre and sharp definition of this specimen are fantastic. This group of singly-terminated ilvaite crystals is in exceptional condition – a tiny edge rub at a top corner, and a nick around […]

Detailed Description This is a complete floater – a doubly terminated crystal of parallel-growth habit with no point of attachment. It is as if it was created as a crystal model from a textbook drawing. It actually has a little more complexity than that – lots of parallel faces and a small amount of “wheat-sheaf” […]

This is a super parallel-growth group of sharp, clear fluorite crystals with a group of parallel-growth quartz crystals providing an aesthetic offset. The fluorite crystals have three combined forms – the most prominent are the dodecahedral faces, while the square cubic faces and the triangular octahedral faces are relatively prominent as well. With magnification using […]

This specimen features a beautiful water-clear 2.0 cm fluorite crystal perched on a composite parallel-growth crystal of cream-coloured calcite. The fluorite crystal has three combined forms – the octahedral faces are dominant, the cubic faces are relatively small and the dodecahedral faces are relatively smaller still. It’s a wonderful crystal, and that’s before you look […]

This is one of the most beautiful fluorite specimens I have ever had the privilege to own. The fluorite crystal has textbook perfection, as if it was faceted. It is transparent and combines the forms of cube, octahedron and dodecahedron almost equally. It is nestled at the intersection of three dark-tipped sceptered quartz crystals. In […]

This piece features an excellent pair of elongated butterscotch-coloured wulfenite crystals (the largest of which measures 1.2 cm) and several smaller ones as well. These are sharp, lustrous high-quality wulfenite crystals, with nice translucency and even a little bit of transparency within the smaller ones, visible with magnification. Minor microscopic crystalline mimetite is also present. […]

This is an elegant specimen. Golden yellow wulfenite crystals up to 1.0 cm are accompanied by hundreds of little balls of light green mimetite microcrystals. The wulfenites are sharp and incredibly bright and lustrous. The main group of larger wulfenites is particularly aesthetic, and there is a much greater number of smaller wulfenite crystals, giving […]

This cabinet specimen features remarkable wulfenite crystals. Although we are used to seeing zoning in Ojuela wulfenites, the wulfenite crystals on this piece look at a quick glance as if they feature particularly dark zoning bands across their centres. In fact, upon closer inspection, the dark bands are microcrystalline mimetite crystals, and looking around the […]