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Epidote with Byssolite and Dolomite | This is a visually impressive epidote from the classic old locality, with unusually stoudt and thick crystals. They have lustre like glass! The terminations are remarkably 3-dimensional and stand out dramatically from the matrix which acts as a natural prop to the crystals for display purposes. You ... | Actinolite |
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Quartz included with Byssolite | I found on MINDAT that Schipsius is an antiquated name used by Kenngott in 1866. It was located southeast of the St Gotthard pass.This was a unique, famous find of the time, I am told. I think you could say that, pedigree aside, this is one of the more dramatic byssolite-included quartzes imagineabl... | Actinolite |
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Tourmaline with Clevelandite | This is a good example of a multi-hued elbaite from Southern California but of a rare style...and quite distinct to one pocket found around 1984. Originating from a matrix of bladed white clevelandite, the lustrous tourmaline has a dark, opaque, green body : capped by a .5 cm translucent zone apple ... | Albite |
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Demantoid Garnet | I should say up front that Wendell considered this and I like to think thought it worthy; but the purchase was put off in part because of the large exchange we made for another specimen. This wasn't in his collection - but as he specializes in garnets, I had purchased this with him in mind when the ... | Andradite |
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Demantoid Garnet | A superb, bright, display-quality example of this old classic! Demantoids on matrix are among the rarest of garnets, and these bright and gemmy crystals from Val Malenco are certainly the most desirable of the variety. This is a large specimen with excellent coverage and more importantly crystals of... | Andradite |
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Demantoid Garnet (pseudomorph?) | This odd creature SEEMS to be a single crysatl of another mineral, I know not what, that has been overgrown and deplaced with solid garnet of this rare varietal. These have trickeled out for 3-4 years now, but I have not before seen one like this. Also, the specimens tend to be smaller, mostly thumb... | Andradite |
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Red Beryl | This is THE RED BERYL SPECIMEN TO OWN, if money is no object and other treasures are too common. It is not cheap by any means, in fact it is an insane price. But, it is considered by many to be one of the finest and most unique American mineral specimens in existence, and the changes of ownership ha... | Antimony |
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Smithsonite var. Cobaltian | Superb thumbnail of thick, elongated scalenedrons of very light Cobaltian Smithsonite. Such well-developed crystals, in this size (up to an amazing 2 cm) and thickness (4 mm) are quite unusual. These Smithsonites are lustrous, gemmy, and the cluster is quite aesthetic. Rarely will you find one this ... | Arsenopyrite |
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Kamotoite and Astrocyanite with Uranophane on Uraninite | TYPE LOCALITY material of these VERY rare species! The kamotoite are the vibrant yellow crystalline sprays with individual flat-laying crystals to 6 or 7 mm, accented by microcrystalline uranophane around their periphery and by a small bit of subcrystalline Astrocyanite (blue). Aesthetic, rich speci... | Astrocyanite-(Ce), Kamotoite-(Y) |
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Tennantite pseudo after Chalcocite | Like most Tsumeb lovers, Charlie seems to have a love for tennantite. What were once crystals of prismatic, well formed, Chalcocite , have since been transformed into pseudomorphs of eerie black Tennantite. The crystals reach 7.0 cm in length, making this a major Tsumeb pseudomorph and of a good dis... | Azurite |
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Aquamarine with Smoky Quartz (twin) and Schorl | If I had to pick one miniature for sheer pizzazz, this would be it. The specimen features a really fine aqua with deep color, excellent glassy lustre, and complete all around....but its those associations that obviously make it outstanding and visually unique! Never have I seen a miniature from here... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | Several slender, exceptionally gemmy aquamarine crystals perched jauntily on a crystal of etched feldspar, and with a sharp schorl at its base. VERY elegant miniature of competition quality and a good deal for the price, i would think | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | A very "juicy" cluster with about the richest blue color you can ask for in an Erongo aqua, moreintense blue even than pakistani aquamarine material. It has an inner brightness to it that intensifies the color, and extremely good lustre. VERY 3-dimensional in person....the pics do not quite convey h... | Beryl |
| Aquamarine with Feldspar | This elegant cluster has a lot of pizzazz, with sharp, lustrous, very gemmy (for Erongo material) aquas shooting every which way! VERY 3-dimensional in person. | Beryl | |
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Aquamarine on Smoky Quartz | Great combination piece with several aquas perched amidst a cluster of smoky quartz! The larger aqua is 2.5 cm and has a sceptred termination pointing front. The smaller aqua is about 2 cm and features a stunning, gemmy, sharply bevelled prismatic termination. The piece as a whole is very bright and... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl and Fluorite on Feldspar | This specimen is "elegant" in every sense. It features a slender but super quality aqua, 3.5 cm long, perched gently on a sharply angled feldspar crystal decorated with schorl and fluorite. Just a really fine piece that stands out from the crowd of Erongo pieces! | Beryl |
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Aquamarine on Smoky Quartz | A stellar cluster of upright aquamarines, complete all around 360-degrees, that is perched smack on top of crystals of smoky quartz. Its amazing, really, that it grew this way and survived! The aquas are majestic, how they reach up to a multilevelled termination. It look slike a cityscape on a mount... | Beryl |
| File:Beryl-Fluorite-k-190a.jpg | Fluorite on Aquamarine | The pic pretty much says it all...this is one of the most extremely sculptural combos I have seen, and althoug a slender spray, is dramatic beyond its size. Repaired (the fluorite attachment), or it would be "priceless" at a higher price... | Beryl |
| File:Beryl-jonas-28a.jpg | Emerald | If I did not know the source 100% on this, I would have sworn this to be a Colombian or perhaps Afghani specimen of emerald. But i KNOW this came from Brazil and the trail is well documented, and I have to say i am genuinely surprised. This is a vibrant green, lustrous crystal of a rich green color ... | Beryl |
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Emerald on Calcite | This cute miniature features a sharp, deep green, 13 x 10 x 10 mm crystal perched nicely in contrasting matrix! It is not of gem rough calibre, but DOES have a lot of transparency and brightness and is certainly a worthy specimen without breaking the bank. For a specimen emerald, the color is quite ... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine in Schorl | A GEM aquamarine about 2.5 cm long, perched in the side of a very sharp and lustrous schrol crystal - great contrast and stark symmetry make this piece have a lot of impact for the price! | Beryl |
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Aquamarine (unusual flat plate) with Schorl | A most unusual plate, like none others I have seen from here, with incredibly lustrous crystals that are unusually squat. They are all solidly interjoined and connected into a thin plate that is complete all around. | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | A stunning combination piece with a 2 inch aqua perched diagonally and in contrast to one of the most lustrous schorls you will ever see! I think the pics say it all! | Beryl |
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Aquamarine (unusual tapered crystal) | A strange, tapered crystal with a flat natural temrination atop! Strikingly different! The only one we have seen like it, from here. | Beryl |
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Idaho Aquamarine rough & cut set | GEM: 1.0 x 0.6 x 0.4 cm (1.87 carats) A really neat set of a single terminated crystal and a gem cut from rough found on this famous find, by Richard Kosnar. He passed the rough to his sons, and the gem was cut by Brett Kosnar recently . The stone is simply valued at $187 , my cost. | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | An exquisite specimen, one of my absolute favorites, featuring a sharp, VERTICALLY upright aqua perched on matrix of crystallized msoky quartz. From Erongo, the smoky quartz association is uncommon but you find it from time to time. Pakistan occasionally has aquas in association with smoky quartz, b... | Beryl |
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Emerald on Quartz | While there were perhaps (only!) several dozen specimens recovered that featured large crystals in matrix, from what I saw of the find, most were repaired at least once if not more - and few had such nice aesthetics as this one. The large central crystal on this expertly trimmed matrix is 6.5 cm tal... | Beryl |
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Emerald on Quartz | This specimen features a 4.6 x 1.3 x 1.1 cm emerald of deep evergreen color, on quartz. As with most emeralds from this mine, the surface is a little rough and pitted compared to Colombian emeralds, but then there is admittedly a tradeoff for sheer color and impact vs price; and this difference in s... | Beryl |
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Emerald on Quartz | Few Kagem emerald crystals were as gemmy and lustrous as Colombian pieces, but this comes as close as any I saw in the new finds. It is a very transparent crystal, perched in a rare crysatllized quartz matrix (at least, the quartz has some surviving faces on the front, though is massive on back). Th... | Beryl |
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Emerald on Quartz | In some ways, this was my favorite of the emeralds on sale from the first specimen production out of this world-famous gem mine, for its overall quality and aesthetics. The knoll of quartz matrix features a SHARP and VERY EQUANT, 2.6-cm-long emerald perched atop its natrual pedestal. Remarkably, it ... | Beryl |
| File:Beryl-aqua-v4082big.jpg | Aquamarine on Feldspar | Pakistan has provided collectors with some outstanding matrix Aquamarine specimens over the years, and this piece is certainly one of the finest quality matrix specimens that I have offered for sale. It features a wondrous GEM quality crystal of Aquamarine with an alluring baby blue color and remark... | Beryl |
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Emerald | A Superb, 1.2 cm-tall Emerald sitting perfectly on dark matrix with minor calcite. This incredible Emerald is GEM-clear, lustrous, and has the absolute best deep emerald color that you could ask for. It is a depth and color saturation you rarely see on an emerald. Although small , perhaps to some, i... | Beryl |
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Goshenite on Fluorite | Another unusual combo piece, this one particularly well-balanced and with a very gemmy goshenite, and large fluorite for the find as well! | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | Ivory colored feldspar is the matrix for a plate of intergrown, lustrous, black, schorl crystals, to 2.5 cm across, upon which are emplaced several, glassy and gemmy, intensely colored, blue aquamarine crystals, to 4 cm in length. A few aqua crystals on the right side are unterminated either by cont... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | This is an aesthetic and impactful, combo specimen of aqua accented by contrasting black schorl. The large, glassy and gemmy, rich blue aquamarines, to 7 cm in length, form a wide cluster with the dominant fatter crystal shooting up ion the middle and capped by a 4-cm-long gem termination coming out... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | Aesthetically perched and angled up for display as if placed on a pedestal, is a majestic, fully exposed crystal of glassy, rich blue aquamarine. It is 8 x 2.5 x 1.8 cm in size, thus very thick, and intensely color-saturated. Piled in a dome-like pattern beneath and propping up the aqua on feldspar ... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | This is a dramatic, space-filling, 3-dimensional specimen that can be displayed 360 degrees around. A thick crystallized matrix of white feldspar is surmounted by splendent black schorl crystals, to 2.5 cm in length, from which shoot out a number of glassy and gemmy, rich blue aquamarines. Three gem... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | Emplaced on ivory-colored feldspar are lustrous, black schorl crystals, to 2.0 cm in length. Perched on the schorl are a few glassy and gemmy, intensely colored, blue aquas, to 4.25 cm in length. This is a piece with great contrast and super quality, totally representative of the contrasting associa... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | A superior display specimen, this is stunning in its geometry which hihglights the large doubly-terminated crystal in the center. This cluster is a combination of three aqua crystals, the major of which is doubly terminated, forming a natural and exquisite Y shape (when displayed upright). The aquas... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | Smothering a mound of ivory colored feldspar, are lustrous, black schorls to 3.0 cm aross: the largest of which is doubly-terminated. Perched on the schorl are several glassy and gemmy, intensely-colored aquas to 4.0 cm in length. Minor, but unimportant, wear on some crystal edges and terminations o... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | Two crystals of glassy and gemmy, intensely colored, blue aquamarine, to 3.75 cm in length, are aesthetically perched on a matrix of ivory colored feldspar and lustrous, black schorls to 3.0 cm across. Although there is a small bit of edge wear on some crystal edges, the scuptural and textural quali... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | This is a jewel-like, attractive combo specimen of schorl and aquamarine on ivory colored feldspar. The lustrous, black schorls reach 2.25 cm across and the glassy and gemmy, intensely-colored aquas reach 2.1 cm in length. This specimen exhibits a pleasing sculptural form and has among the best glas... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | Nearly a complete foater, this specimen features intergrown, lustrous, black schorl crystals, to 2.5 cm across, upon which rises a pristine, single, thick, glassy and gemmy, intensely-colored, aquamarine crystal... An absolutely elegant specimen! In fact this is one of the more starkly dramatic of t... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | What makes this combination specimen of schorl and aquamarine special is that it ALSO contains two spear-like crystals of smoky quartz, to 4.5 cm in length. Quartz seems rare in this pocket at least. Additonally, this plate of feldspar matrix is smothered by lustrous, black, schorl crystals to 2.75 ... | Beryl |
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Emerald (12-SIDED) | A simply stunning, fat thumbnail-sized crystal of emerald with very good COLOR , LUSTRE , and GEMMINESS...in person, much better than you can relate from the pics. The termination is glassy. The upper half is quite gemmy and mostly transparent, whereas it grades to opacity towards the base. This has... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | A mound of intergrown, lustrous, black, schorl crystals, to 3 cm across is topped by glassy and gemmy, intensely-colored, blue aquamarine crystal, measuring 4.0 cm in length. At least two of the schorls are doubly-terminated. The back, or non display side, of this specimen has been contacted and the... | Beryl |
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Spessartine hat on Aquamarine on Albite | A really complex combo piece, with an aquamarine shooting straight up through the crystallized albite feldpsar matrix (you can see it from underneath) like a fiber-optic cable of gem blue glass. On it is perched, wraparound, a spessartine garnet crystal that is pretty good on its own merits; plus th... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | Emplaced on ivory colored feldspar are lustrous, black schorl crystals, to 4.0 cm in length. Perched on the schorl are several glassy and gemmy, intensely-colored, blue aquamarine crystals, to 6.1 cm in length. The largest schorl is rather equant in form and the largest aqua is doubly terminated, sl... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | Even amongst so many unusual association pieces from this pocket, without question this is a very elegant and unusual combo specimen. An ivory-colored feldspar crystal (slightly etched but sharp enough) extends above the lustrous, black schorl crystals (to 3.5 cm across), and is transected by a doub... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl inclusions | This speicmen is more than jus tyour normal aqua because of the starkly contrastign accents of schorl running throughout its beltline. There is literally a forest of small schorls included inside, at the midpoint of the crystal, on a flat plane that probably represents an internal termination from w... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | A very dramatic, 3-D, sculptural, UNREPAIRED cluster with no significant damage, complete all around, AND nearly a floater with just a minute matrix contact point on the bottom...for under 5k?! I got it as a fixer upper, and am passing it on! This central crystal is 10 x 4 x 4 cm in size and it spro... | Beryl |
| File:Beryl-gem7-50a.jpg | Emerald (read-through clarity!) | A simply stunning, fat thumbnail-sized crystal of emerald with very good COLOR , LUSTRE , and GEMMINESS...in person, much better than you can relate from the pics. The termination is awesome - large, equant, and super-glassy. You can look right down through the crystal to read what is below it, with... | Beryl |
| File:Beryl-Calcite-gem7-58a.jpg | Emerald with Calcite | This is a riveting crystal of TOP QUALITY, with the best color, exceptional gem-grade gemminess to the top 1/3, and association with calcite to make it a nifty "matrixy" specimen instead of just another loose single as we so often see. The crystal has intense color, diminished slightly by the stunni... | Beryl |
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Morganite | A sharp hexagonal 4 x 2.75 x 2.5 cm crystal, plush pink color, set atop unusual crystallized matrix - I am making a guess that it is quartz-coated lepidolite, or perhaps quartz-infused or quartz-replaced muscovite or lepidolite. The matrix is odd. Sculptural, trimmed nicely, oddly interesting! This ... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | This aqua cluster GLOWS with sparkling lustre thrown off from a secondary coating of very minute aquamarine druses crystallized on top of some faces of the original growth. It is complete all around and free of damage. The terminations are glassy on top. The color is intense. The gemminess is near t... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine (floater) | A pristine specimen with absolute gemminess and glassiness, top lustre, and a beautiful pastel blue color! These are from one famous pocket of about 5 years ago, and really set a new standard for etched aquamarines with their beauty and symmetry. | Beryl |
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Morganite with Albite on Schorl | This pegmatite has produced arguably the best and largest number of fine morganites in the world from any one small find, back about 30 years ago now. This is a HUGE specimen with so much color and impact, because of the size, that it seems fake at first! It masses/weighs just over a kilo. The cryst... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | This specimen is highlighted by large, intergrown, lustrous , black schorl crystals, to 2.5 cm; and glassy and gemmy, intensely colored, blue aquamarine crystals, with one to 6 cm in length. The three largest aqua crystals are doubly-terminated! And pristine... At the bottom of the specimen, two aqu... | Beryl |
| File:Beryl-palasd-18a.jpg | Morganite | Wow! Any large hexagonal crystal of morganite from San Diego is a rarity, and desired. Few come from any mine but the White Queen during the mid to late 1900s. But this one comes from a mine generally known only for tourmalines, and thus this was a freak find there (dug by Edward Swoboda and Bill La... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | A fine miniature from the 1976-1977 find here, brought out by dealer Tony Jones. I got it from a collection about 6 years ago and Tony validated it was one of his (and it still had his label, too). These are VERY rare on the market!!! And this is a failry large specimen | Beryl |
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Morganite | A very old , very sharp morganite crystal that makes for a cute small miniature. It is unusually gemmy and well-formed, for this locality, complete save s bit of damage at the top-right-rear of the termination. A small hint of purple lepidolite included in the base narrows the mine origin to the Pal... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine on Feldspar | A very rare specimen, consisting of a matrix aquamarine from this small pegmatite. The crystal is highly lustrous and has beautiful surface ripplings on the termination. It is 2.7 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm in size. It is repaired, but as these are very rare, and it displays well, i can forgive that detraction ... | Beryl |
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Morganite on Quartz with Lepidolite | Morganite from this mine is, typically, admixed with aquamarine and of pale color. This is an unusual specimen with barrel-shaped hexagonal crystals, extremely gemmy and clean inside, to 3.5 cm. The horizontal crystal, 3.5-cm across, is complete and doubly-terminated. The slightly fatter crystal, ap... | Beryl |
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Goshenite with Schorl on Albite | An unusual goshenite specimen from this briefly-mined claim, now sadly exhausted (at least for practical purposes, and without a lot of dynamite). The CG produced a huge variety of gem crystals in its brief lifetime in the late 90s and early 2000s, among them this fine miniature from the "goshenite ... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | A cute locality piece from this remote, seldom seen locale | Beryl |
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Aquamarine (etched) | Another really strange aqua, from the same place, and equally bizarre in what its termination has chosen to do!? I would love to sell these as a set and keep them together...$1000 gets the two! | Beryl |
| File:Beryl-Microlite-tt44a.jpg | Aquamarine with Microlite | The little teeny orange spessartine at base gives this away as Shengus, or from the quality of the aqua I woul dthink it was Shigar! Interestingly, the pristine aqua crystal, already quite good anyhow, has a cute accent: a 3mm twinned microlite hanging off the side. | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | A totally flawless GEM crystal of aquamarine, with a superb and unusually sharp termination | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Cassiterite | Being an unusual combination in any case, and an elegant matrix thumbnail at the same time, makes this a very distinct aqua specimen for any thumbnail collection. The cassiterite is 1.5 cm across, and the aqua and cass are both complete around the other side. | Beryl |
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Morganite | This several-kilo specimen has a HUGE 9 x 8 x 7.5-cm morganite crystal perched atop a matrix of quartz and cleavelandite. It is one of the most impressive large and dramatic County pieces I have laid hands on, and was a cornerstone of the Larson/Pala collection case. The thing GLOWS with color more ... | Beryl |
| File:Beryl-sd345a.jpg | Aquamarine (rough and cut set) | A beautiful set of unusual gemmy crystals that nobody really would believe was from the County if it came with anything other than the pedigree of the biggest County collector and miner of our time. All have glassy lustre, and glisten, in person. Bill Larson collected these specimens himself at this... | Beryl |
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Morganite | At 671 grams, this translucent, very richly-colored pink morganite is certainly among the larger single morganite crystals to come from the County as a whole. It is visually impressive, and very colorful for a morganite from any US locale, for that matter. It is a floater, completely terminated on m... | Beryl |
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Morganite on Cleavelandite with Quartz | This oustanding specimen from the 1960s-1970s heyday here is both aesthetic and fine in quality. It is not repaired. It features a rich pink 4 x 3.5 cm crystal of GEMMY morganite, perched on contrasting white matrix. Not only is it on contrasting matrix, but it is on contrasting CRYSTALLIZED matrix.... | Beryl |
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Morganite with Tourmaline | This translucent to transparent crystal of morganite is from a final held-back portion of the collection of Peter Bancroft, world renowned mineralogical author. This morganite is rich pink, very lustrous and is highlighted by two deep green, elbaite crystals, to 2.0 cm in length, the terminations of... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | This is a deep blue, slightly rounded and etched, transparent, gem crystal of aqua which has one rough termination and what may be a healed termination on the other end. It weighs 26 grams. Rare in such color, from Brazil! | Beryl |
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Emerald | Without question the world�s finest emeralds are from Muzo, Coscuez, and Chivor in Colombia. This emerald specimen features a richly saturated, deep emerald green, lustrous and gemmy, emerald crystal which measures 2.0 cm in length. If this crystal had been any gemmier, it would have been relegated ... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | This pastel colored, blue-green, gem crystal of aqua, is totally transparent. It is prismatic with several pyramids modifying the basal pinacoid. Its gem weight is 65 grams. Rarely does one see an aqua so completely gemmy, and this complex termination is also uncommon. This would have been one of th... | Beryl |
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Morganite | This pegmatite has produced arguably the best and largest number of fine morganites in the world from any one small find, back about 25 years ago now. This is a HUGE specimen with so much color and impact, because of the size, that it seems fake at first! It masses/weighs just over a kilo. This spec... | Beryl |
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AQUAMARINE with Albite | This crystal has DEEP blue color, really in a class above the normal Pakistani aquas and characteristic of the rarer Nepalese aquas when found. Lustre is extremely good, like glass, and the piece is better in person! It is also doubly-terminated, although one end is tapered and makes a more natural ... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine on Albite | A REALLY STRANGE, matrix, unrepaired aquamarine that looks as if it is about to rocket off the matrix from its connecting stalk of aqua-fire. This whole crystal, solution-etched uncharacteristically from the bottom up to form a tapered crystal in the reverse of the usual habit, is complete all aroun... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | A vivid, gemmy blue 3.3 x 1.3 x 0.9 cm aquamarine is here perched in massive quartz matrix. This specimen is a beautiful piece of extremely high quality for a Maine aquamarine - sinc emost from this region are opaque or pale, or both. Here, however, is a peice with areas so gemmy you can cut stones ... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | A limpid, clear, sculptural cluster of parallel-growth aquamarine crystals, from a remote find that came to market in the late 1980s as I recall (he bought or traded for this in 1989). This is an attractive miniature, complete all around except one fairly trivial little ding. We all thought a flood ... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | A killer, gem quality, 10-gram aqua of intense color and with good clarity - exceptional for County aquamarine, and long prized in this collection | Beryl |
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Morganite | A sharp, large, 6.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm, hexagonal morganite crystal is here just perched up , totally freestanding, on a huge feldspar crystal ; and accented by associated cleavelandite blades. For some reason its hard to photograph - I can simply say its MUCH better in person, and very dramatic because... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | A really neat pale blue-green aquamarine crystal, perched in matrix, from old Germany (likely early to mid 1800s). The crystal is 5 cm long and is complete, with only very minor edge wear | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | A dramatic contrasting blue on black specimen: a single glassy and gemmy, rich blue aqua measuring 3.5 cm in length is nicely perched on splendent, black schorl crystals to 3.0 cm. One of the smaller aquas is doubly terminated. Other aquas are broken off right at the matrix and provide color accent.... | Beryl |
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Morganite | A sharp hexagonal 4 x 3 x 2.75 cm crystal, plush pink color, set atop unusual crystallized matrix - I am making a guess that it is quartz-coated lepidolite, or perhaps quartz-infused or quartz-replaced muscovite or lepidolite. The matrix is odd. Sculptural, trimmed nicely, oddly interesting! This cr... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | Aesthetically centered and perched on white feldspar matrix are intense blue aquas highlighted by a large 3.5-cm crystal with exceptionally glassy luster and gemmy termination. Framing the aquas are several splendent, black schorl crystals to .7 cm. Very tiny chips on the terminal edges detract only... | Beryl |
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Morganite | A large, hefty, compostite crystal of translucent morganite with a rich pink color. This is a FLOATER, complete all around with no attachment points. It fell off its matrix in olden days, but the old contact point has been covered by new crystallization, thus making it a true floater. Looks too pret... | Beryl |
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Morganite | A sharp hexagonal 5.25 x 2.75 x 2.2 cm crystal, plush pink color, set atop snowy blades of crystallized cleavelandite matrix Beautiful specimen, perfectly sized and balanced small cabinet...with a 2-inch gem morganite smack in the middle! The crystal is complete on BOTH sides, freestanding, and unda... | Beryl |
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Morganite | This specimen jumps out at us, as an unusually brilliantly glassy, lustrous morganite crystal . It has stunning water-clear transparent zones mixed with the intergrown cleavelandite matrix. There is a small bit of damage to the upper-left, almost out of sight to the back edge, and the front is other... | Beryl |
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Morganite | A dramatic specimen with a 6 x 5 x 2.25 cm , sharp hexagonal morganite perched amidst crystallized cleavelandite blades. The color here is a pleasing light pink, a little bit better than the photos show. The crystal is complete, totally transparent and gemmy, so that you can see through to the matri... | Beryl |
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Morganite | This is a FLOATER, complete all around with no attachment points. It is slightly etched on some front faces, but complete. It fell off its matrix in olden days, but the old contact points on back been covered by new crystallization, thus making it a true floater and complete all around. Fine example... | Beryl |
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Morganite | A sharp hexagonal 4 x 3.5 x 3 cm crystal, plush pink color, set atop crystallized cleavelandite matrix as if nestled into snow. I like the aesthetics on this one very much! The crystal is freestanding, clean and complete all around on the back as well. It is obviously gemmy, transparent, and has a g... | Beryl |
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Morganite with Muscovite | A strange, etched, organic-looking morganite crystal with a hexagonal termination remaining atop the elongated, etched body. It has a pale pink color, and is very attractive, if unusual, in person. It shows crystal form, still, though is overall stretched and weird in appearance. Accents of muscovit... | Beryl |
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Morganite | An unusual crystal measuring 5 x 5 x 4 cm, the size of a tangerine, just stuck there unlikely as it is, atop tentacles of albite and cleavelandite matrix. It is fat and unusually "round" in apperance, but it DOES have all the faces there. Internally it is pink with some unusual white wispy patches I... | Beryl |
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Emerald | With such good color, gemminess, and form, this would be a great emerald specimen from anywhere modern; but to have such from an old classic locality in the Urals makes this a true killer. It is also a 3-dimensional and well balanced thumbnail of exceptional showiness and color. It is the gemmiest s... | Beryl |
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Morganite | A sharp 5.5 x 2.75 x 2.5 cm morganite, extremely razor-sharp on all faces, embedded deep in a nestling matrix of cleavelandite blades. Dramatic matrix specimen with a 2-inch morganite undamaged and on matrix, without breaking the bank. | Beryl |
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Morganite | This large plate features two matrix crystals, both VERY transparent and gemmy, both sharply hexagonal, and both about 4 x 4 cm in size. They are a little pale but definitely pink, and the color shown here is accurate, in person highlighted by the contrasting matrix of crystallized cleavelandite. Pr... | Beryl |
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Morganite | A superbly balanced 6 x 4 x 1.6-cm morganite, totally gemmy and transparent, surmounting a matrix of crystallized cleavelandite!!! Note the crystal is so gemmy that you look right through to the small bits of cleavelandite blades behind and underneath the bottom portion of the crystal. This stunning... | Beryl |
| File:Beryl-mun05-111a.jpg | Emerald | The emeralds from Jos can get very large but like this one are usually under-saturated in color. That said, they are infinitely gemmier than their Colombian cousins and exhibit a deeper blue-green color. In addition, they are more interesting from a crystallographic viewpoint, with lovely bi-pyramid... | Beryl |
| File:Beryl-mun05-5a.jpg | Aquamarine | A most unusual , elegant, TAPERED crystal of aqua curbing gracefully to its termination. Also, teh bottom end is crudely terminated so technically this is a doubly-terminated floater | Beryl |
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Aquamarine on Quartz | This amazing combination specimen has absolutely NO REPAIRS (i assure you on this)! This is almost impossible, you'd think, given the apparent exposure of the crystal to the elements. It came out in a very large piece, which was then trimmed down to size, preserving the central core and the protecte... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine on Feldspar | This showy specimen features a 7 x 4.5 x 2 cm aquamarine crystal perched on starkly contrasting matrix of crystallized feldspar. It is a large and impressive specimen. The piece is priced very reasonably , I think, because the aqua is repaired (one clean join at its midpoint). If not for the repair,... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine on Muscovite | Most Chinese aquas are tabular, short prismatic crystals. This exquisite aqua on muscovite is more prismatic, doubly terminated, transparent, lustrous, with a good blue color. I particularly like the way this 2.7 cm tall aqua sits up on the micaeous matrix. An unusual specimen from a source of plent... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | A beautiful, very glassy, gemmy aquamarine crystal from this small claim. At 86 grams, we are confident that this is one of the larger and finer aquamarines recovered from the locality. It always held a valued place in the collection, certainly. The crystal has a small bit of albite attached in back... | Beryl |
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Morganite on Cleavelandite | This is an adorable small cab with extremely good aesthetics, that is an old specimen actually pictured in the mainstream art book: Tiffany - 150 years of gems and jewelry. The crystals have the typical matte finish on upper faces and glassy, gemmy windows into the hexagonal faces. The major crystal... | Beryl |
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Morganite | A sharp hexagonal 5.25 x 3 x 2 cm crystal, plush pink color, set atop crystallized cleavelandite matrix as if nestled into snow. I like the aesthetics on this one very much, as with the above, for the stark contrast of the sharp gemmy hexagon atop to the random-ordered white blades below! The piece ... | Beryl |
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Trapiche Emerald | This type of emerald is characterized by thin septae of carboniferous shale separating the crystal into a flower like appearance. Trapiche Emeralds are quite rare, and highly valued especially for their value in jewelry. They are typically made into cabochons, rather than faceted stones. This one ha... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl | This specimen is a starburst of intergrown schorl and aquamarine, shooting out from all angles. It is a very 3-dimensional specimen overall, with crystals on 3 sides and contacted in back where it was removed from matrix. Most of the aquas are 2 cm or so in length (though one is 3 cm). A fat, very g... | Beryl |
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Emerald on Calcite | A vug of well crystallized, gray, calcite hosts this incredibly GEM-CLEAR, transparent, rich green emerald, measuring 1.75 cm in height. In recent years, the Coscuez Mine has produced many fine emerald specimens, like this one. However, to get such an aesthetic piece, without damage (and not a fake.... | Beryl |
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Emerald | MORE GEMMY in person, please note! This large crystal weighs in at over 300 carats and is complete all around, terminated and with GLASSY lustre on ALL faces. The color is intense! VERY FEW Colombian emeralds reach sizes of this magnitude, and of those a vanishingly small percentage survive "geology... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | A very rare and oddball locality piece, said to be from the early 1900s. These two specimens were exchanged from the Natural History Museum in Sofia by dealer Keith Williams, when he was over there buying minerals in the early 1990s as this region was opening up to the specimen trade. I have not see... | Beryl |
| File:Beryl-d06-44a.jpg | Aquamarine | A very rare and oddball locality piece, said to be from the early 1900s. These two specimens were exchanged from the Natural History Museum in Sofia by dealer Keith Williams, when he was over there buying minerals in the early 1990s as this region was opening up to the specimen trade. I have not see... | Beryl |
| File:Beryl-Calcite-d06-45a.jpg | Emerald on Calcite | STUNNING, absolutely GEMMY, intense green emeralds in matrix from the Panjshirs! This is an amazing matrix miniature of unusual quality not just fo rthe matricx, but for the sheer quality of the crystals themselves which is unusual in Panjshiri specimens. | Beryl |
| File:Beryl-d06-95a.jpg | Aquamarine | This large crystal is remarkably well formed for this location, and has an intense blue color whereas most arepale and ugly(-er). It is a significant old US locality piece, thus.The termination is intact at the front, and contacted to the left and rear where it grew into quartz (a bit of which remai... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine | A 3-dimensional cluster that gives new meaning to the words "aqua spray!" This pristine cluster is one of the best of this style I have seen recently, evoking a memory of a famous pocket that came out around 1988, where all the sprays were so dramatic (albeit with smaller crystal size). Now, such fo... | Beryl |
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Aquamarine with Schorl & water bubble inclusions | This is a briliantly lustrous, sparkling blue specimen that is large and unrepaired. The major crystal is 4 inches tall, and 2 inches across the termination! ALL crystals here are GLASSY, with the best lustre I have seen, almost glassy and polished in appearance. Even the terminations share the incr... | Beryl |
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