Detailed Description A crown of gemmy, transparent smoky quartz crystals adorning the top of a flat recrystallized shard of colourless quartz. The underlying colourless quartz is fully crystallized, with striations on the prism faces. The smoky quartz crystals are doubly terminated and sharp with absolutely brilliant lustre. Overall in excellent condition – one chip (tip […]

Detailed Description This is a superb specimen from the Smoky Mountain find. Four jewel-like smoky quartz crystals are perched on a recrystallized shard of underlying colourless quartz. The shard itself is fully crystallized with striations on the prism faces. The smoky quartz crystals are doubly-terminated and transparent with brilliant glassy lustre. In excellent condition – […]

Detailed Description One of the top specimens from the Smoky Mountain find, this is a smoky sceptre with skeletal growth capping the termination of a colourless crystal. The colourless crystal is sharp with prism face striations. The smoky cap is transparent with complex windows and faces, and gemmy-clear downward-facing terminations around the rim. In excellent […]

Detailed Description One of the finest pieces known from this locality, this is a superb smoky quartz sceptre on a colourless stem, with small transparent quartz crystals at the base. Razor sharp, the lustre is fantastic and the smoky quartz has great transparency.  In excellent condition – pristine. An absolute killer from the John S. […]

Beautiful green balls of wavellite crystals from Lime Ridge. Under magnification one can easily see the myriad of lustrous terminations forming the surfaces of the balls, and without magnification, they sparkle brightly under the lights. A few of the wavellite balls are partial, and in these one can easily see the radiating structure. In excellent […]

Dolomite is not a rare mineral, and it is sometimes overlooked by collectors. However, there are great dolomite specimens! This piece exhibits one of the more interesting and most classic crystal habits of dolomite – the “saddle” habit, where rhombohedral crystals grow together into curved aggregates to create a saddle-like appearance. These light pink crystals […]

Detailed Description This is a specimen with a lot going on. At first glance it is most obviously a fine analcime specimen. The larger analcime crystals are the first generation of analcime crystals – they are share and highly lustrous. In association there are wonderful tabular crystals of glassy hydroxyapophyllite-(K) crystals. The specimen is then […]

A specimen with stepped chalcopyrite crystals from the historic French Creek Mines. (operated from 1717 until 1928). This specimen is really about the large crystal at upper left – it is the one that is complete, and shows the hollowing and stepped habit for which French Creek chalcopyrites are known. This crystal is in very […]

Balls of beautiful stellerite crystals from the Dyer Quarry.  The crystals are translucent with nice lustre, and in excellent condition. Small white areas on this specimen are laumontite, not damage. This specimen has been reinforced from behind to stabilize it – this is not easily visible and not visible at all except when looking at […]

Balls of beautiful stellerite crystals from the Dyer Quarry. These are translucent with nice lustre, and in excellent condition with a couple of small nicks – other small white spots on this specimen are laumontite, not damage. Collected by Skip Colflesh and Scott Snavely in August, 2014. One commonly sees specimens of “stellerite” offered for […]

Detailed Description Collected at the Cornwall Iron Mine in 1885, this specimen features sparkling beds of small, lustrous azurite crystals. These crystals are beautiful under magnification! In very good condition, the piece has a saw cut behind and at the base, to reduce the matrix. From the John S. White Pennsylvania Collection – he acquired […]

Detailed Description This is a great specimen for this historic locality – sharp, nearly equant crystals of intense blue azurite cover an area of a vein section containing chalcopyrite. Some of the azurite crystals are clustered together in one area, while others are nicely separated across the matrix (they look great under magnification!). Associated with […]