Beautiful specimen featuring several groups of lustrous, transparent, glassy light blue barite crystals. The two vertically-oriented barite crystal clusters give the piece superb aesthetic balance.  In exceptional condition, no damage other than that the bottom of the larger cluster is incomplete (this is not distracting because of its orientation).  Excellent blue hue in the larger […]

This one is a killer. A gorgeous large parallel-growth crystal with a myriad of glassy termination points stands up on the matrix, and a second, smaller parallel-growth crystal intersects it making for an incredibly aesthetic arrangement. Beautiful delicate light blue colour, sharp with excellent lustre. Speaking of incredible, there is no damage. An amazing barite […]

This piece features a 1.6 cm doubly-terminated dioptase perched on small quartz crystals with plancheite. With magnification you can see that some of the quartz crystals contain complete balls (micro) of plancheite as inclusions – really cool. The dioptase is sharp, lustrous and has a slightly greener (ie less bluish tint) colour – with magnification […]

Beautiful sharp lustrous dioptase crystal measuring 1.7 cm perched on quartz and plancheite. In the vug with the dioptase there are small terminated quartz crystals. Near the top termination of the dioptase there is a patch of golden-orange crystalline wulfenite, giving extra colour interest to the piece. No damage to the main dioptase – its […]

Group of large dioptase crystals up to 2.0 cm, lying flat against a very thin plate of matrix. The largest dark green crystals have some sort or partial inclusion, and second-generation gemmy little dioptase crystals (the bright, colder/more blue colour) are sprinkled about as well. I would say the specimen appears a bit darker in […]

This specimen features a pocket lined with brilliant, glistening deep green dioptase crystals. The dioptase are top colour and lustre and excellent quality. Some contacts around the edge of the cavity and the area at the top toward the back, where it was removed from the rock. The back and bottom of the specimen have […]

Detailed Description This specimen features a gorgeous erythrite crystal – transparent, sharp, the best colour, approximately 1 cm, nestled in the centre of an erythrite-filled vug. The trick with this piece is orientation, mounting it to get that crystal to reflect in your display lighting, as in the first two photographs. That crystal is only […]

This is a beautiful doubly-terminated lavender crystal of lepidolite mica. How often do we see isolated, euhedral lepidolites like this? The crystal is doubly terminated, with a thin pale veneer on one termination (seems like a late-generation overgrowth of paler lepidolite). Perched on microcline and accompanied by albite crystals, this specimen site perfectly for display. […]

Detailed Description This pair of parallel-growth deep green elbaite tourmaline crystals is distinctive for the colour zoning. The outer (shorter) crystal has a significant zone of pale green to colourless. The tourmaline crystals are flanked by albite blades. The tourmaline crystals are singly-terminated, and in excellent condition with no damage, except on the side which […]

Detailed Description A totally distinctive specimen – the main elbaite tourmaline crystal rises straight through a wide cluster of albite crystals. Both elbaite crystals on this specimen are singly-terminated, deep green crystals with frosted terminations. In excellent condition – no damage to the main elbaite, there is a small missing tip between the two tourmalines, […]

Detailed Description This is such a great piece – the whole thing is a floater, with a doubly-terminated elbaite tourmaline, albite crystals and a microcline crystal. The elbaite crystal is colour-zoned throughout, with the darkest green through most of its length, palest pink (virtually colourless) at the steeper termination to the lower left, and then […]

Detailed Description A pair of gorgeous deep green elbaite tourmaline crystals on microcline with albite. The colour zoning ranges through greens and is capped with a very thin zone at the termination of each crystal, visible upon close inspection – in the shorter crystal it is colourless and in the taller crystal it is pink. […]