Detailed Description A gorgeous amethyst sceptre, with great sharpness, clarity and lustre – including the stem. Beautiful fine purple zoning at the tip, along with some smoky zones. With a loupe, one can see red hematite crystal inclusions, and one two-phase inclusion with a moving bubble (visible through the front pyramidal face, inside a long […]

Detailed Description This is a sharp amethyst sceptre with some smoky zoning and a slender amethyst stem – it has great lustre and transparency. In excellent condition, an elegant sceptre from the Chibuku Mine.   About the Chibuku Mine, Chiredzi, Masvingo, Zimbabwe Amethyst and smoky quartz sceptres from Chiredzi have been known locally for at […]

Detailed Description A great pairing of sceptres from the Chibuku Mine. The large amethyst sceptre has beautiful fine zoning near the termination, and a phantom outlined by tiny platy hematite crystals. With magnification, this piece is wild – the hematite crystals are the bases of fine red streamers radiating out toward the outer areas of […]

Detailed Description A gorgeous colour-zoned amethyst sceptre with great transparency and incredible lustre. With a loupe one can see intricate red hematite inclusions. In excellent condition, a tiny nick on the left-hand side of the top termination. This crystal is brilliant! Browse more Chibuku Mine Specimens (click here) About the Chibuku Mine, Chiredzi, Masvingo, Zimbabwe […]

Detailed Description A colour-zoned amethyst sceptre with super form – it is sharp and has good lustre, with a light phantom. With a loupe one can see many red and black-silver hematite crystal inclusions. In excellent condition – one back edge has tiny edge chips hard to make out without magnification. A very high-quality, textbook […]

Detailed Description This is a wonderfully colourful piece – it has intense royal-purple and also tiny flashes of bright red from some of the many included hematite crystals. It is sharp and well-developed, and it has truly brilliant lustre (the amethyst looks wet). In excellent condition – tiny edge chips are visible if you examine […]

Detailed Description This is a superb sceptre with a phantom outline of the original growth (stem) crystal, and fantastic zoning inside the top of the crystal that is the sceptre’s head. The sceptre has wonderful contrast and overall form. It is sharp, lustrous and in excellent condition. A superb Chibuku Mine specimen!   About the […]

Detailed Description This is a rare matrix specimen from the Chibuku Mine, with an amethyst sceptre standing up over milky colourless quartz crystals. The sceptre is sharp with good transparency at and nice sharp amethyst colour zones. There are a few tiny red hematite crystal inclusions as well. This crystal has very lustrous faces and […]

Detailed Description This is a fantastic smoky quartz sceptre from the Chibuku Mine – it features a phantom of the termination of the original “stem” crystal, and perfect form and development, along with great contrast between the stem and the smoky sceptre head. This sceptre contains two two-phase inclusions with moving bubbles, both in the […]

Detailed Description A beautiful amethyst sceptre – good colour, sharp with brilliant lustre and great transparency. This crystal has a sharp phantom at the top of the “stem” and has great amethystine zoning in the upper part of the crystal. In excellent condition, a tiny nick on one side of the tip if you look […]

Detailed Description This is a wonderful specimen – the textbook smoky quartz sceptre is paired with a reverse sceptre. Both crystals have very faint amethystine hue but the colour of the larger crystal is visually dominated by the smoky zone, so I’ve labelled it smoky quartz. Both crystals are sharp with great transparency, and in […]

Detailed Description One of the most colourful pieces of the lot, this amethyst sceptre is a great purple, with a myriad of brilliant red hematite crystal inclusions. The sceptre head has very bright lustre and great transparency. There is a two-phase inclusion with a small moving bubble, visible through the front prism face (as oriented […]