Recently Handled Minerals

Wonderfully etched, gem clear spessartite garnet from an old production in Brazil! The rear side is equally fine than the front.

An interesting dark gray ilvaite cluster complete all around from the island of Elba in Italy.

A cluster of Cuprite crystals with one exposed crystal pereched at the top. The crystals are all partly replaced with intense reen Malachite, which is typically for the locality.

Lovely nests of Gold perched on goethite, quartz and mother rock. Ex Hilde Könighofer coll.

A huge Fluorite - up to 45 mm on edges - attractively set on highly lustrous Sphalerite. The Fluorite shows fristed faces with uncountable tiny steps and this typical texture. It shows light lavender color, the contrast to Sphalerite is very eye-catching.

This specimen is developed as floater, beautiful shape all around. The crystal is very gemmy and shows candy pink color. The texture - caused by etching - looks really very eye-catching. No significant damages to report.

This crystal is on very high quality - it is much more translucent as material on average and shows almost glassy character. The colors are typical, but more intense as usually. All faces are lustrous, there are no repairs neither any significant damage.

Kämmererite crystals up to 12 mm on rock matrix. From the classic old finds, recovered at least 40 years ago. No more crystals have been found for several decades. A great miniature, hard to obtain today. No damage.

The only relevant locality for Topaz in mid-Europe, so really of high relavance and very rare! Usually the crystals are just lying on matrix. This specimen features two free-standing light yellow crystals on tiny sparkling Quartz crystals. They are sharp terminated, transparent and undamged. A third larger crystal is lying diagonal in the front.

Well shaped dark blue crystals of Benitoite embedded in snowy white matrix. The crystals are sharp terminated and glossy. A really nice sample from this famous classic locality.

A beautiful cluster of a Russian garnet with sharp crystal faces and edges. Russian specimens are becoming more difficult to obtain due to partial ban and low volume export and most of the Russian minerals found on today's world market are those recycled from old private collections.

Intense pink cobaltoan calcite crystals with highly lustrous faces in combination with spheres of rare kolwezite. Great and uncommon combination in fine quality!