This is a beautiful sharp, lustrous brazilianite crystal, with albite and muscovite crystals attached. the top termination is pristine, glassy and gemmy, and the bottom termination is sharp, with a contact. In excellent condition, this is a fine thumbnail-sized Telirio brazlilianite from the collection of Pete Richards (#5479). Exceptional display specimens of brazilianite have been […]

A classic, sharp Brazilian aquamarine crystal with rather light aqua colour, this piece is all about the exquisite complex termination. The termination has two orders of pyramidal faces capped with a small pinacoid at the top – it’s a wonderful thumbnail-sized crystal from the Pete Richards collection (#1025). The colour is quite light, not intense. […]

This is a superb fluorapatite crystal from the famous 2006 pocket at the Sapo Mine. It is sharp, glassy and in excellent condition – associated with small white albite crystals.It is a doubly-terminated and, upon close examination, one can see that it exhibits two orders of pyramidal (“bevel”-like) faces. A great thumbnail from this iconic […]

A deep green elbaite crystal from the famous Pederneira Mine. The termination has two orders of pyramidal faces – the lower faces have a neat etch-crystallization pattern, and the top faces are glassy and bright. This crystal is transparent even though it is dark – the upper 2/3 are almost completely flawless (internally). A beautiful […]

A particularly aesthetic group of quartz crystals from the John S. White quartz collection (#27-2-13). The specimen is complete, including underneath where it shows signs of having split from its original location and recrystallized. The main two crystals on the piece have etch pits on alternating prism faces – a very curious feature. They are […]

A cluster of sharp, glassy, transparent quartz crystals of unusual morphology from the John S. White quartz collection (#19-2-12). This is a very 3-D specimen, so the video really helps to show what it’s like. These crystals feature disproportionately-large pyramidal faces, and relatively smaller prism faces so as to appear blocky and/or tabular. In the […]

A series of chlorite depositions create a beautiful set of internal phantoms in this quartz crystal. The crystal is sharp with good lustre and, unlike many of these, no crystal faces have been polished – it’s all natural. In excellent condition with contacts down near the base of the crystal. When you get the light […]

A group of three very sharp, lustrous and clear quartz crystals, each of which contains a single dark green phantom of chlorite. In each case, the phantom is actually quite planar (one can see upon close inspection and rotating the piece, but the effect is very 3-D and the phantoms are very striking. In excellent […]

A sharp quartz crystal with a series of 3-D chlorite phantoms inside. From the front (display face), one sees one predominant dark green phantom, with hints of fainter ones as well. However, since the phantoms are so three-dimensional, the predominant phantom blocks the internal series except from the side, where one clearly see the series […]

This is a beautiful light smoky quartz – it is so sharp and water-clear. It then has a wonderful internal pattern near the base that reflects sparkling light back through the clear crystal (this pattern was a contact where this crystal would have attached to another once upon a time, and the contact is now […]

This quartz crystal contains a series of chlorite inclusion phantoms, where the chlorite only covered some faces of each phantom, leaving the display face clear, and therefore, as displayed, one has a perfect window on all the phantom layers. No faces have been polished to facilitate this view – it is entirely natural. In excellent […]

A gorgeous light smoky quartz crystal with small crystals intergrown at the base. The crystal is sharp and the prism faces are as bright as quartz gets – super-lustrous. In excellent condition. A wonderful smoky quartz! Please Note: the colour representation in the still photographs has been carefully calibrated and adjusted to show an accurate […]