Recently Handled Minerals

Amazing purple fluorite cubes resting on a doubly terminated quartz crystal. Both the quartz and the fluorite crystals show beautiful chlorite phantoms. Great condition and aesthetics!

A neat small cabinet size fluorite from the classic locality of Stollberg, Harz, Germany. The pleasant light mint-green gemmy crystals slightly resemble those from Dalnegorsk, Russia. However, the surface structure on these is slightly different.

So this is really an amazing specimen - a large, free-standing and complete star-formed Cerussite in good transparency. One photo was done under daylight, the other one with moderate backlight to show the internal brown-yellow color. The terminations of all these uncountable faces and edges are sharp and well-formed lines, the front faces are very glossy. The specimen is well developed all around! Ex Heinrich Prager collection.

Two elongated afghanite crystals in marble, a couple pyrites add a nice sparkling contrast. Ex Oliver Konczer coll.

A complete, highly etched aquamarine crystal from Minas Gerais, Brazil. The heavily etched crystal is complete all around, intact, and is gemmy with a pleasant greenish-blue coloration.

Fine crystals of topaz from the Ural Mountains date back to the czarist days of the mid to late 1800s and are highly sought after today. Natural blue topaz is generally rare and should be high valued for their rarity. And this particular crystal shows a very good saturation, fine clarity and excellent luster on all sharp terminated faces.

What an amazing tourmaline - sharp terminated and lustrous all around! There is a really remarkable combination of colors: Dark green at the base, almost colorless in the middle, a sharp pink zoning and finally sky blue below the end-points.

Light blue, end-pointed crystals with glossy faces set on muscovite matrix. Good contrast and in good condition overall. Hard to photograph, more 3-dimensional and better in person

A true and absolutely thought-after European classic. A cluster of bright pink rhodochrosite crystals with an overgrowth of sparkly white quartz points. This specimen is a typical example of what made Romanian minerals so attractive to the collectors and what brought up the fame of the Cavnic mine itself. Ex Alfred Haas coll.

This is from this famous, unique discovery in 2007 (Geoda de Las Calcitas), the most famous, most wanted material ever found at this classic Fluorite locality. The main crystal is 23 mm across. It shows the typical habit with combination of hexaeder and rhomb. The faces are very lustrous, the modification of rhomb are a little frosted. With minor back-light you can see this fantastic purple to blue internal color. The assemble is so aesthetic and contrast with crystalized Calcite is also wonderful. This material is very rare and very hard to obtain and it´s among of the most important classics from Spain.

Highly transparent crystal of vivianite perched on chalcopyrite and marcasite matrix. No damage.

An intense orange, almost red, transparent crystal perched at the top of the piece. Material from the locality is generally rare and hard to obtain.