This is an exceptional crystal of fluorapatite for Cerro de Mercado – the crystals are typically 1-3 cm in length, and this one is 5.3 cm, very large for the locality. The crystal is sharp, with bright, glassy faces all around. It has great yellow-green colour, and some impressive transparency for a crystal of this […]

The tourmaline crystals from this find are known as the “bullet tourmalines”, for obvious reasons. This is a great little specimen, brilliantly lustrous and sharp, with a super top termination (the bottom is not terminated).  In very good condition, the termination is damage free, and there is relatively minor chipping in a couple of spots, […]

The tourmaline crystals from this find are known as the “bullet tourmalines”, for obvious reasons. This is a wonderful specimen – completely crystallized all around, with minor frostings of adularia and with small adularia crystals covering the bottom surface. The crystal is sharp and lustrous. In virtually perfect condition, very minute edge chips can be […]

A beautiful elbaite tourmaline crystal, special for three reasons: (1) it has a beautiful termination, (2) upon close inspection, it has two internal phantoms, one extremely dark, the next an olive green, capped by a super green zone by the termination, and (3) the elbaite crystal is enclosed in a group of sharp, glassy albite […]

This handsome cabinet specimen features two beautiful deep red spessartine garnet crystals on contrasting pale cream-coloured albite crystals. It was brought out of Pakistan by well-known Pakistan mineral expert Dudley Blauwet. The spessartines are quite something – they are razor-sharp, glassy, and the larger one measures 2.0 cm. The colour inside the spessartine crystals varies […]

This is a remarkable specimen, featuring a cavity of brilliant sparkling quartz crystals hosting a 1.8 cm ball of terminated malachite crystals. The quartz is tinted a pale aqua blue and the malachite is deep green. These are crystals of “primary malachite”, which are malachite crystals that formed originally as malachite crystals. Most malachite specimens […]

Gorgeous deep pink, translucent crystals of cobaltoan calcite on this one really stand out. The crystals are sharp and glassy, with lots of sparkle. With magnification one can see tiny green malachite prisms as well. There are some spots where crystals are missing but overall there are lots of complete, excellent undamaged crystals. This specimen […]

From the contemporary classic occurrence at Novo Horizonte, this hematite crystal is a black mirror. Incredible lustre and sharpness. This is not a thin plate of hematite – it has a bit of thickness and dimension to it, with a particularly prominent pyramidal face (not Photoshopped…). One area of epitactic golden rutile on the display-side […]

This is a very unusual specimen – it is a crystal of quartz that is coloured blue by inclusions of a myriad of blue elbaite tourmaline crystals. The quartz crystal is doubly-terminated, although the bottom termination ends mostly in the matrix.  The matrix is comprised of hundreds of tiny (micro) interlocking blue to bluish elbaite […]

A beautiful singly-terminated elbaite crystal, this one has a rich deeper green zone at the termination, and the rest is a very pretty mid-green.  Nice contrast with the lepidolite, which is a very pale colour, hints of the typical lilac. In excellent condition, no damage. No edge chipping visible at all without magnification, except one […]