This dark-golden barite is sharp and glassy with excellent translucence. There are barite overgrowths on either side of the “top” termination which almost meet in the middle – if they did, this would be a full sceptre. Similarly, the front-facing prism face has sceptre-like overgrowth. Under good display lighting this crystal glows as the light […]

A sharp, dark-golden sceptred French barite with excellent form and beautiful subtle crystallization features, including the full sceptre and a similarly-raised front prism face. Many of the crystal faces have bright, glassy lustre. At certain angles, internal phantom faces are visible. In excellent condition, no damage (there are a couple of tiny natural indents along […]

This is a beautiful large dark-golden barite! The main crystal is a sceptre, and the small sidecar crystal on the left is an even more pronounced sceptre. The barites from this find show recrystallization textures around the undersides, indicating that they broke away from the host rock sometime near the end of the crystallization processes. […]

This is a doubly-terminated parallel-growth crystal of light smoky quartz, hosting many sharp tan-coloured zircon crystals up to 0.9 cm. The zircon crystals are sharp and lustrous  (sparkly, actually) – there are a few larger ones and many more small ones. There is a particularly interesting one with a right-angle arrangement (seen in the one […]

The phantoms in the three main fluorite crystals on this piece are striking! They are sharp, bright, and can be seen without any particular lighting or need for close inspection – they are simply vivid. These main fluorites also contain beautiful inclusions. On the piece here are other smaller fluorites that exhibit different phantoms, proportionally […]

Beautiful specimen with deep red, sharp, lustrous spessartine garnet crystals. In excellent condition, a few incomplete crystals at the periphery (not distracting), and many at the periphery are complete. A great miniature of Chinese spessartine.

This plate features beautiful deep red spessartine garnet crystals – they are sharp and lustrous! In excellent condition, just a few incomplete crystals at the periphery, and many at the periphery are complete. Super, high-quality spessartine from China.  

These purple fluorite cubes are perched on a bed of muscovite mica rosettes. The fluorite crystals on this piece are particularly sweet from the angle photographed, which maximizes the view of the sharp purple colour zones in the crystals. In excellent condition – no damage. A couple of small arsenopyrite crystals tucked in on the […]

This group of quartz crystals from the Yaoganxian Mine hosts water-clear, lavender fluorite cubes. They are so sharp and lustrous, they look like transparent glass. To the eye, no damage except at the periphery where the quartzes were attached to adjacent quartz in the surrounding rock. With magnification I can find one tiny chip, that’s […]

This plate of quartz and fluorite crystals features beautiful sharp purple fluorites. The fluorite crystals are cubes, modified with dodecahedral form faces – the cube faces in particular are bright and glassy. Very attractive combination with the clear quartz – some of the fluorites are very delicate light colouration and transparent, so you have to […]

This piece features a beautiful deep golden barite crystal, 1.7 cm, surrounded by smaller glistening barites on quartz. The main barite crystal exhibits a super phantom. In excellent condition, with magnification one can see extremely minor chipping on the lower edge of the main crystal (the upper edge it’s growth patterns or possibly tiny contacts) […]

From a very small recent pocket at the Daoping Mine, this beautiful pyromorphite specimen features sharp, lustrous, elongated crystals, grouped together on a plate with minor matrix. What is particularly neat about this one is that the crystals are not terminated with a pinacoid or hoppered appearance, as is usual for the locality, instead they […]