A beautiful light smoky quartz gwindel from the Mont Blanc Massif. This crystal grew in a tight high Alpine seam, with chlorite (no longer present). It has good definition and lustre and internally is water-clear. Where the chlorite was, the crystal faces retain a faint pattern which sparkles under the lights. The top terminations are […]

A superb cluster of elongated quartz crystals from the Ganesh Himal Massif in Nepal. The quartz crystals are accompanied by white albite feldspar, providing striking contrast.  The quartz has good lustre, along with some sparkle from the included chlorite. In excellent condition (a couple of quartz tips are truncated). From the Tracy Kimmel collection, originally […]

A wonderful starburst cluster of quartz crystals from the Aosta Valley. This is a floater, 3-D, complete all-around, no damage. Very cool for an Alpine cleft quartz. And hard to imagine a more aesthetic one! From the Tracey Kimmel collection (acquired originally from Andy Seibel, who obtained it from an Italian collection).   About Tracy […]

A group of slender amethyst crystals topped with aggregates of lustrous white calcite. The amethyst crystals are sharp with good lustre, and are accompanied by a little chalcopyrite at the base (right side). In excellent condition, no damage – this piece is from the Tracy Kimmel collection, acquired originally from the Marty Zinn Collection (whose […]

This is an exceptional specimen of the arsenolamprite, the rare orthorhombic dimorph of arsenic. Arsenolamprite can occur as massive material, in foliated masses or in radiating aggregates of plates. This arsenolamprite exhibits super radiating structure, and at one end is accompanied by a dull dark grey concave aggregate of arsenic. From the Tracy Kimmel collection […]

Clusters of legrandite crystals on cream-coloured smithsonite from the Flor de Peña Mine, which is the type locality for legrandite – the first specimen was collected there by Louis C.A. Legrand, after whom the mineral was named. These legrandite crystals are sharp and lustrous with good colour, in radiating crystal aggregates. In excellent condition, minor […]

This specimen is a fantastic “curved” or “bent” quartz crystal. A bent quartz crystal forms where there is significant physical stress on the crystal such that during formation it breaks more or less perpendicular to the c-axis and then continues to grow after slight displacement. When repeated, the process results in continuing growth in a […]

A wonderful curved crystal of elbaite, variety rubellite, from the Himalaya Mine. This sharp, lustrous  crystal is a doubly-terminated “floater”, complete around 360 degrees. As one sees with Himalaya tourmalines, it  exhibits hemimorphic crystal growth, where the crystal forms of each termination are different – in this case pyramidal at the top (with a deeper […]

An absolutely beautiful aquamarine crystal standing up on white albite, with microcline. The aquamarine crystal is sharp and lustrous, with a slightly stepped termination. In excellent condition with no damage, and stands perfectly for display as photographed. This is a wonderful cabinet specimen! From the Gerald Panneton collection.  

An absolutely gorgeous specimen of golden selenite! A superb, water-clear twinned selenite crystal stands over clusters of smaller selenite blades, frosted with halite. The selenite crystals are sharp and lustrous. In superb condition for a selenite from this locality, this piece is from the Gerald Panneton collection. A magnificent selenite. Please note: halite specimens do […]

A landscape covered with a crown of beautiful slender, transparent quartz crystals. The crystal morphology on these crystals is very distinctive – instead of the more usual six faces at the termination, there are three. The crystals are sharp and lustrous and radiate upward from a base of a sparkly micaceous mineral, I assume cookeite […]