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Stilbite | A bed of white chalcedony acts as the matrix for this cluster of lustrous, translucent, light, salmon-pink, stilbite crystals, to 10.0 cm across for the largest "bow tie". To boot, a 5 cm colorless fluorapophyllite juts out underneath the left side of the largest stilbite. A relatively inexpensive, ... | Stilbite-Ca |
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Fluorapophyllite and Stilbite | Surrounded by sheaves of pearlescent, stilbite, to 3.0 cm in length, is a large, translucent, lustrous, emerald green, crystal of fluorapophyllite, terminated by a basal pinacoid and measuring 4.0 cm across. | Stilbite-Ca |
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Andradite var. Demantoid garnet with Stilbite | A cluster of glassy and gemmy, brilliant green, demantoid crystals has grown on and with an ivory colored matrix of stilbite crystals, to 5 mm in length. The largest demantoid is 1 cm in length. This is an unbelievable melding of stilbite and demantoid in associatio - you don't see that from anywher... | Stilbite-Ca |
| File:Powellite-Stilbite-Ca-pkn9a.jpg | Powellite on Stilbite | On an unusally colorful matrix of stilbite sits a lustrous, white composite crystal of powellite. This crystal exceeds 4 cm in length, which is relatively huge. However, to my thinking, this specimen is further refined by the remarkable sharp terminations at the top of the powellite. | Stilbite-Ca |
| File:Stilbite-Ca-pkn56a.jpg | Stilbite | When displayed vertically, this stilbite group of a pleasing light salmon color features bowtie crystals up to 8 cm across. All of these sit nicely on a thin crust of matrix. | Stilbite-Ca |
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Cavansite on Stilbite | Two discrete clusters,one to 2 cm ,of deep royal blue, lustrous cavansite are perched on the upper portion of a gray mm size stilbite crystal matrix. This is an aesthetic piece. | Stilbite-Ca |
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Powellite on Stilbite | This is an absolutely perfect white, translucent powellite crystal that is 3 cm tall, perched on beige stilbite. If the color of the powellite had been a lustrous peach,like those of twenty years ago, the price of this specimen would be many kilobucks. But, I also like these new stark white crysatls... | Stilbite-Ca |
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Powellite on Stilbite | From a matrix of .5 cm hematite-included stilbite rise two crystals of sharp, diverging, lustrous beige powellites to 4 cm. Both powellites are doubly terminated and for added aesethetics there is a 2 cm blade of stilbite between the two powellites. The contrast of colors as well as the diverging na... | Stilbite-Ca |
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Stilbite on Quartz | Pseudo-stalactitic fingers of snowy white, lustrous, drusy quartz act as the host for 1.0 cm across lustrous, white crystals of stilbite. A most unusual specimen, of an classic style for this locality! | Stilbite-Ca |
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Stilbite | This is, quite simply, the finest stilbite I have ever seen from Malmberget. It also happens to be big, and pretty, period! Note the fine individual, translucent crystals all over the piece, all around!? I have not seen the like, and priced based on cost only as I really have nothing of this calibre... | Stilbite-Ca |
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Cavansite on Stilbite | Two clusters of deep royal blue color cavansites to almost 1.5 cm are perched on a matrix of mm size crystals of gray-white stilbite. | Stilbite-Ca |
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Stilbite (with great color and translucency!) | When minerals are said to resemble "bow ties", this piece and its species are the definitive description. This specimen is deeply colored yellow-orange and does have translucency. I know it is "just" a stilbite but geez, is it a good one! | Stilbite-Ca |
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Cavansite on Stilbite | Two deeply colored royal blue clusters of cavansite to 1.5 cm sparkle in a vug of lustrous mm size grayish-white stilbite. The real beauty of this piece is that the cavansites are centered perfectly. | Stilbite-Ca |
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Red Stilbite | The primary crystal is a "bow tie", lustrous and translucent, terra-cotta, colored crystal, measuring 4.5 cm across. | Stilbite-Ca |
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Andradite var. Demantoid garnet with Stilbite | This elegant cluster of glassy and gemmy, richly green demantoid garnets is unusual in its great presentation of the crystals, and in the fact that the white material highlighting and separating them is STILBITE. This is a very rare occurrance at this locality (and to my knowledge unique, in fact). ... | Stilbite-Ca |
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Stilbite and Fluorapophyllite | Clustered on a matrix of spiky, white, chalcedony are a group of lustrous, translucent, light salmon stilbite crystals, to 7.0 cm across. Adjoining is a cluster of mint green, brilliantly glassy and lustrous, translucent, fluorapophyllite crystals to 3.5 cm across. Beautiful contrast, pristine speci... | Stilbite-Ca |
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Cavansite with Stilbite | Transparent blades of colorless, gemmy, and lustrous, stilbite, to 1 cm in length, underly and surround deep, teal blue, sprays of cavansite, to 1 cm across. The cavansite crystals are highly lustrous, translucent, and is well arranged throughout the specimen. | Stilbite-Ca |
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Stilbite | This is the largest specimen of this rare locality stilbite that I got from a collector recently. Interesting and unusual for the US or zeolite collector! | Stilbite-Ca |
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Pentagonite on Stilbite | Teal blue, clusters of lustrous Pentagonite , to 1.5 cm across, are nestled in a vug of drusy, lustrous, ivory colored stilbite. The stilbite is VERY glassy, unusually so. The Pentagonite is very bright blue, unusually so. together, a stark contrast! The specimen has, overall, a very rich amount of ... | Stilbite-Ca |
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Fluorapophyllite and Stilbite | This matrix specimen features pearlescent, 3.0 cm across, stilbite crystals which surround a pastel green, lustrous, translucent, fluorapophyllite crystal measuring 7.75 cm in length. Very dramatic! I love this new style of apophyllite crystals ending in such stark and sudden planar terminations, an... | Stilbite-Ca |
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Red Stilbite | This vertical specimen features several lustrous, translucent, terra cotta colored stilbite crystals, to 4.5 cm in length. SUPER quality! | Stilbite-Ca |
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Fluorapophyllite and Stilbite | This very aesthetic specimen features glassy, transparent, faint green to colorless, fluorapophyllite crystals which culminate in two large crystals, at the top, each measuring 4.0 cm in length. Bisecting the two large fluorapophyllite crystals is a doubly terminated, translucent, lustrous, light, s... | Stilbite-Ca |
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Red Stilbite | A blocky, lustrous, translucent, terra cotta colored, stilbite crystal, measuring 2 cm across, is nicely framed by two elongated crystals on either side. | Stilbite-Ca |
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Red Stilbite | This is an intergrown group of lustrous, translucent, terra-cotta colored stilbite, with the largest crystal measuring 3.5 cm across. | Stilbite-Ca |
| File:Stilbite-Ca-indi-76a.jpg | Red Stilbite | A doubly terminated stilbite crystal, reaching 4.0 cm across, highlights this group of lustrous, translucent, terra-cotta colored crystals. | Stilbite-Ca |
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Red Stilbite | More elongated, lustrous, translucent, terra-cotta colored stilbite crystals, to 3.6 cm in length, highlight this specimen. | Stilbite-Ca |
| File:Stilbite-Ca-indi-85a.jpg | Red Stilbite | This specimen is composed of several lustrous, translucent, terra-cotta colored stilbite crystals, the largest of which is 2.5 cm in length. | Stilbite-Ca |
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Andradite var. Demantoid garnet with Stilbite | This unusual and lovely demantoid specimen hosts glassy and gemmy, light emerald-green crystals, to 1 cm across, emplaced on a sugary, massive garnet matrix. The matrix is actually sparkly, itself. Growing on the matrix and among the garnet crystals are lustrous, white crystals of stilbite, to nearl... | Stilbite-Ca |
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Stilbite | GORGEOUS! Golden clusters of stilbite on matrix, to .75 cm across, highlight this thumbnail from the trap rocks of Virginia. The clusters are lustrous and translucent. | Stilbite-Ca |
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Fluorapophyllite and Stilbite | Pearlescent, ivory colored stilbite crystals underlay an 8 cm tall, pastel green, lustrous, translucent fluorapophyllite crystal. Very dramatic! I love this new style of apophyllite crystals ending in such stark and sudden planar terminations, and bought much of the pocket. Both species are on a mat... | Stilbite-Ca |
| File:Stilbite-Ca-tcm04a.jpg | Stilbite | The only larger stilbite specimen i have sene in good condition, for this locality. It is really quite nice for any stilbite, and reminds me of old New Jersey material. For China, this is something new! | Stilbite-Ca |
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Apatite | This is an exquisite, competition quality, fluorapatite specimen. It is a large thumbnail or small miniature depending on how you display it. The color is a light green with super luster. For me, the specimen is highlighted by a transparent crystal exhibiting color zoning around the perimeter of the... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Everybody WANTS a purple apatite from here, but the really purple ones are so uncommon that most folks only see the "lavender" hue and not the real purply pieces, such as this one! It is a glassy, intensely colorful crystal with interesting phantom zones inside ranging from yellow to green to purple... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | A lustrous, starkly geometric cluster of two beautiful crystals of the classic mixed color hue from here (part green, part blue, overall sorta a grey-greenish color in the end) | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Everybody WANTS a purple apatite from here, but the really purple ones are so uncommon that most folks only see the "lavender" hue and not the real purply pieces, such as this one! It is a glassy, intensely colorful cluster , and is a complete FLOATER with no attachment point on the apatites. The mi... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | An intricate, extremely fine cluster of glassy crystals to almost 1.5 cm! They are interconnected like a puzzle, with minor bits of siderite in the interstices, and it is extremely aesthetic overall. | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | The piece is a floater cluster with glassy crystals, very translucent, to 3 cm! In person, they are more translucent than they appear . Moreover, this specimen has a very rare blue color to it! This is the rarest color of apatite for the locality! It is not quite a pure blue as hints of purple predo... | Strontiumapatite |
| File:Quartz-Strontiumapatite-ap9a.jpg | Apatite on Quartz | CLASSIC , exceptionally gemmy, yellow-green apatite is perched on a complete quartz! The aaptite is 1.7 cm across. The whole piece is complete all around and is just a super display quality miniature! | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | A most unusual apatite from this once productive locality, with the unusual feature of several layers of concentric growth. This is something you often see from here, in crude form, but seldom so sharply defined, and with such contrasting colors! It looks like it has an eyeball in the middle! The ap... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Although repaired and with cracks, this has some historical value as one of the oldest documented apatites from the mine, perhaps the oldest. Old early 1900s label with it from the famous dealer Lazard Cahn | Strontiumapatite |
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Lithiophilite ps. After Apatite | Very large, robust crystals of presumably apatite, replaced by lithiophilite. A very strange rarity from the Stewart! | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | This crystal features an intricately bevelled front face, combined with exquisite crystallography on the well-developed edges. This is a really glassy, gemmy, crystal that has the glassiest lustre i have seen on apatite from the lcoality and color so rich that nearly glows with color (especially whe... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite with Siderite | This is a huge, fine crystal of fluorapatite from the world famous Panasqueira deposit which has arguably produced the finest specimens of this species. This crystal is literally monstrous for the locality! It consists of a deeper-colored green core covered by a layer of secondary apatite. The gray-... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite (floater thumbnail!) | A classic style of crystal with a deep purple band in the core, surrounded by clear apatite, makes this specimen really an excellent thumbnail for the locality. It is so glassy it is almost slippery, complete all around, and a floater. BETTER COLOR IN PERSON! | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | This is a fine combination specimen: a doubly terminated, 6 cm long, lustrous, beige colored apatite, that has one side covered with pearlescent muscovite and a doubly terminated quartz crystal. Extremely fine, especially for the size of the doubly-terminated crystal! | Strontiumapatite |
| File:Strontiumapatite-mz260a.jpg | Apatite "tower" | This specimen is comprised of many euhedral, highly lustrous, white to colorless, crystals of apatite, with muscovite in the interstitial spaces. The crystals are generally uniform in size, averaging 1.25 cm across. They stack one upon the other to make a "tower" of crystals that displays really mag... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | The fame of this pegmatite district in Maine, owes much to the purple apatite known as "the Roebling Apatite". This is from the other major locality besides the Pulsifer, and is as deep and rich a purple apatite as ever I have seen from Mount Apatite. This particular matrix specimen is studded, on b... | Strontiumapatite |
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Kulanite, Apatite, Siderite, & Brazilianite | This matrix specimen is a cornucopia of Yukon area phosphates. The dominant mineral is fluorapatite in glassy, colorless crystals, to.7 cm across (rare for the locale). Golden amber crystals of siderite are also evident in crystals .2 cm in length. Blackish green crystals of kulanite, a barium, iron... | Strontiumapatite |
| File:Strontiumapatite-mrn11a.jpg | Apatite | Rich blue highlights sparkle through this dark blue, exquisitely formed specimen of apatite. These are traditionally opaque but much darker; and I have seen others through the years, but never before had one of such sharp stereotypical form and brilliant surface lustre. Really a mesmerizing miniatur... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite enclosing Schorl | This unusual columnar crystal is superb for the locality, and highly unexpected! I wouldn't believe it if not from a reliable source...would have assumed it to be some odd-colored Portuguese piece, instead. But it IS Moroccan (just to be sure, I showed it around for a year before posting it, to expe... | Strontiumapatite |
| File:Strontiumapatite-ch14a.jpg | Apatite | Ugly but important for its rarity, a sharp 1-inch apatite (perched on quartz) from the Elizabeth R mine! | Strontiumapatite |
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Pink Apatite with Albite | If I had to guess where this fluorapatite specimen originated, my answer would be Pakistan. However, it is from a pegmatite in the heart of Minas Gerais, Brazil (as I bought it from a good source down there!). Gemmy, pinkish-purple fluorapatite crystals, to 1.5 cm across are perched on white quartz ... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite on Arsenopyrite | This choice miniature features a 2 x 2 x 1.5 cm apatite crystal of blue-gray color, perched upon an extremely lustrous cluster of arsenopyrite. It is an extremely aesthetic arrangement and isolated apatites on such matrix are very rare for the locality compared to apatite on other types of matrix. | Strontiumapatite |
| File:Strontiumapatite-ck32a.jpg | Apatite | An unusual apatite from any location, which looks like a drip deposit hanging off what used to be a much more sharply formed crystal and so preserved in a partial state of being dissolved (?). In any case, it is oddly attractive and is an unusually large apatite for the mine, even if not it is a par... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite on Smoky Quartz | A lovable ugly to some, this is a MAJOR County specimen to others. This beautiful smoky quartz hosts a 6-cm-long , doubly terminated apatite crystal - a particularly rare species from this mine, and a huge crystal of it. The ghostly white apatite is terminated on the bottom quite nicely, and etched ... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Apatite was very rare and uncommonly found at this mine, during its brief heyday. This is actually a fairly good piece, for the locality, and has very vitreous and bright lustre. | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Sparkling, white albite is the host for several discrete crystals of apatite, to 2.0 cm across. They are strikingly isolated on this well-trimmed vertical matrix. Most of the crystals exhibit tabular form, and are doubly terminated, glassy and translucent with a dark forest green color. This is defi... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | This cabinet specimen features tens of apatite crystals, to 2.3 cm across, emplaced on white albite matrix. There are crystals that are tabular and those that exhibit more barrel-like, equant forms. They are mostly doubly terminated, and all are glassy and translucent, with dark forest green color t... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Nicely emplaced on the matrix of lustrous white albite are discrete crystals of apatite, to 1.5 cm across, that have sharp tabular form. These crystals are glassy and translucent with a forest green color. Other than some slight contacting to the back of a top edge of the upright crysatl on top, thi... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Nestled in a vug of lustrous, white albite is a cluster of apatite crystals, to 2.4 cm across. They are tabular, with the largest crystal being doubly terminated. The crystals are glassy and translucent, with a forest green color. An unfortunate contact on the side of the main crystal is not obvious... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | This specimen is a larger version of the previous specimen, with unusually isolated and upright crystals that miraculously are pristine. It is equally outststanding and of a larger size. Several discrete , really lustrous crystals of apatite, to nearly 2 cm across, abound on the grayish-white lustro... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Nicely emplaced on the matrix of lustrous white albite are discrete and isolated crystals of apatite, to 2 cm across, that have sharp tabular form. One is more barrelshaped and equant, amidst them. These crystals are glassy and translucent with a forest green color. Other than some slight contacting... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | On bladed and lustrous white albite is a cluster of bevelled, glassy and translucent, forest green, apatite with the largest crystal measuring 2.3 cm across. The largest crystal is also doubly terminated. The small sidecar crystal has an attachment contact. Aesthetic! from this now-famous find of 20... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | This is a huge plate:no repairs and no damage! It has DOZENS of the highest-quality apatite crystals to 2.25 cm in size, perched dramatically on matrix of weathered albite. They are olive green with dark cores, and most are translucent. The overall flash and lustre of the piece is very high, with re... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | This is a huge plate for teh find in remarkably good condition :no repairs and no damage! It has a beautiful coverage of crystals . ISOLATED, they are all of the highest-quality apatite crystals for the find , and to 2 cm in size. Again, the isolation is unusual and these are perched dramatically on... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Perched high on a matrix of crystallized, lustrous, white albite is an elegantly beveled, equant, glassy and translucent, forest green crystal of apatite measuring 2.5 cm across. Smaller gemmy crystals of apatite are also present. The lower right side of the main crystal is slightly contacted where ... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Magnificent, glassy, columnar crystals fo CLEAR apatite combine to make this elegant cluster. It is unlike any I have ever had for sale, in its combination of form and beauty and crystal size for these starkly hexagonal crystals. Note tha tthey are transparent and gemmy at the terminations, and tran... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Apatite is rare for the Himalaya mine, though found periodically over the years. Tis is a nice locality thumbnail with a good pink color. | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite with Tourmaline | This is a very unusual apatite specimen from a new find in the area, not to be confused with the typical Pakistani apatites from Chumar Bakhoor. This piece has a very impressive 4 x 3 x 2 cm apatite crystal with the unique rich maroon-pink color that is apparently characteristic of this pocket, flan... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite on Quartz | This is a gorgeous thumbnail, for my taste the most elegant and best-colored Himalaya mine apatite I have seen. Although small, it�s a real jewel for the locality, and something considered quite rare | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | A cute locality piece from this remote, seldom seen locale, showing multigeneraltional growth | Strontiumapatite |
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| File:Fluorite-Strontiumapatite-ap1a.jpg | Apatite with Fluorite | Unusual, yellow apatite in the form of a radial aggregate, dusted with minute specks of chalcopyrite. The surface of the hemispherical cluster has a multifaceted and sparkly lustre to it. There is microcrystalline pale-purple fluorite, which is very rare for the location, in association on the backs... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Thick, glassy, gemmy, transparent crystals to 1.7 cm thick and 3 cm across make this a steller display quality miniature. Seldom do you see so much good apatite concentrated on a miniature-sized specimen! It is complete and 3-dimensional all around. In person, the crystals are MUCH gemmier than they... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite on Quartz | This specimen features a 2 x 1.5 x 1 cm apatite perched smartly atop a perfect quartz, partially enveloping the quartz termination. It is transparent, lustrous, glassy, and pristine. You couldn't have forged a better aesthetic miniature than this! In person, the apatite is more gemmy and has a faint... | Strontiumapatite |
| File:Strontiumapatite-ap12a.jpg | Apatite | This is an unusually large crystal of the rare deep green color from the locality. It is a fat, very lustrous crystal that just leaps out at you visually, from a shelf, with its strong color and high lustre. It is complete on all sides except the back where it was naturally contacted. | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite on Ferberite with Topaz | This material, I am told, came from one pocket in the late 1970s. I have seen only 3 specimens for sale out there. All 3 i have seen feature very unusual wheat-sheaf-like apatite crystals of a pastel yellow hue, in association with ferberite. More interestingly, they also have small 1-3 mm crystals ... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | WOW! This specimen features GEM crystals to 1.6 cm, nicely isolated on matrix of siderite-coated ferberite. The apatites are pristine and gorgeous. The ferberite is not quite complete, but it is on the back anyhow. Pieces with crystals of this quality are simply unobtainable now. | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Obviously, this specimen is from one of the alpine clefts in the Tyrol, but of such size and gemminess it is really unprecedented. This crystal is lustrous, razor sharp, and complete save for the bottom. It has some attahed matrix in the back. It is a rather large, transparent to translucent, fluora... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite (floater thumbnail!) | This exceptional crystal is a complete floater, gemmy/transparent throughout (more so in person than it appears) and is perched on a stalk of siderite. It is quite simply a world class thumbnail. In the pics you can see some of the subtle interplay of greenish, blue, and lavender color zones in the ... | Strontiumapatite |
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APATITE on Calcite | This piece stands so far above most others of its kind, that it really has been for many years my single favorite piece for the locality that I have known about, in any collection. The piece features a stunning electric green-yellow crystal the color of a good brazilianite, measuring 2.25 inches tal... | Strontiumapatite |
| File:Strontiumapatite-gem7-77a.jpg | Apatite | A gorgeous doublet, whereas mos tare singles, from this new find of 3 years ago. This is an elegant large thubmnail or toenail specimen. It is complete except a small ding or contact on back. | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | An aesthetic and intensely colored thumbnail with relatively large juicy purple apatites to 1.3 cm, quite good size for the locale. | Strontiumapatite |
| File:Strontiumapatite-dtn15a.jpg | Apatite | Purple apatite from Maine elicits a reverent response among serious mineral collectors. That is because the Smithsonian�s "Roebling Apatite" is considered one of the great mineral specimens in the world. This well terminated, transparent, lustrous, purple beauty is an old specimen, having once belon... | Strontiumapatite |
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Goyazite with Apatite | Superb, sparkling specimen with microcrysatlline apatite coating some goyazite and accenting them nicely. Large, sharp goyazite to 4 mm on a 3-dimensional matrix! | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Gorgeous, glassy-lustered gemmy crystals of apatite to a full 1 cm in length, quite rare for Pakistan. This piece has super gemmy crystals, like I have not seen before for the locale, and you can look right through them to the matrix. They look pristine but i feel tiny bits of edge wear with fingres... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | Gorgeous, glassy-lustered gemmy crystals of apatite to 7mm, quite rare for Pakistan. | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | On a bed of colorful massive calcite sits a beautiful, equant, doubly terminated apatite crystal with the most exquisite deep blue-green color. The very glassy luster, unusually good transparency, color and sheer size of this apatite help make this a splendid mineral specimen. The quality is the hig... | Strontiumapatite |
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Turquoise ps. after Apatite | A VERY strange pseudo, one of the best I have yet seen from this new find down in Mexico! This crystal is relatively sharp, so far as they go, faithfully showing apatite crystal form even though the crystal is now completely replaced by carving-grade turquoise! This one is slightly sharper than the ... | Strontiumapatite |
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Turquoise ps. after Apatite | A VERY strange pseudo, one of the best I have yet seen from this new find down in Mexico! This crystal is relatively sharp, so far as they go, faithfully showing apatite crystal form even though the crystal is now completely replaced by carving-grade turquoise! | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite (SET) | GEM: 1.8 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm (25.5 carats) I love this set because its a rare instance to match the significance in both specimen and gem! The specimen is a superb example for this classic locale because it is large, complete, and very well colored. the gem is HUGE for what it is unusually clean, and is ... | Strontiumapatite |
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Elbaite Tourmaline with Apatite | This is an OUSTANDING tourmaline for Africa in general and for this locale in particular, from a small pocket found in the early 1990s after Gene Meieran and Wayne Thompson financed renewed specimen-mining at this classic old locality. This remarkably gemmy, pristine, unrepaired, and transparent cry... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | This remarkable crystal is a complete floater! It is terminated all around, sculpturally 3-dimensional in a gracile way that almost looks curved, as the composite crystal shows outgrowths at angles to the original growth direction. The piece is complete all around with no damage beyond a few truly m... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | This bizarre cluster of elongated apatite crystals is in form quite unique. I have seen apatite of this color from Pakistan, rarely, but not of this form. A really neat piece, geometrically and for a Pakistani suite. | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite var. Mangan-Apatite | Although labelled at the time Mangan-Apatite, this is scientifically/technically Apatite-(CaF) with small trace manganese present (there is a long article on this on MINDAT). Nevertheless, it is neat, blue, apatite as far as I am concerned as a collector. It is a really elegant miniature of this rar... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | A complete-all-around, pristine, incredible geometric cluster of SHARP apatites perched upon a slender stalk of albite matrix. This is a recent find, and an exceptionally good specimen from it. The lustre is incredible, like glass...and in person the apatites have a dark, subtle green coloration har... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite on Quartz with Siderite | A very attractive specimen featuring a 1.75-cm blue-purple apatite hanging off the side of a quartz cluster. The apatite is translucent and very lustrous. The piece is pristine on the front though it has a natrual break and partial reheal on the BACK of the larger quartz termination. The piece sits ... | Strontiumapatite |
| File:Fluorapatite-Strontiumapatite-gem7-43a.jpg | Apatite (fluorapatite) | The pinnacle of East Coast classics in thumbnail size: a 1 cm pulsifer apatite on matrix; and gemmy; and complete! This is literally a JEWEL! Ex. Fay Pough (wife of Fred Pough) collection. | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite on Quartz | Two fat yellow apatite crystals to 2.3 cm are perched on a clear, lustrous quartz point...exceptional combo specimena dna a very rare example of yellow apatite from the locality. In person, they are colored pretty much as shown in the closeup photo...a beige-yellow color characteristic but quite rar... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite with Tourmaline | This is a very unusual apatite specimen from a new find in the area, not to be confused with the typical Pakistani apatites from Chumar Bakhoor. This piece has a very impressive 5 x 4.5 x 2 cm apatite crystal with the unique rich maroon-pink color that is apparently characteristic of this pocket, im... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite | The most desired color for Panasqueira fluorapatite has always been the gemmy purple, barrel shaped crystals. This is a prime example and a competition quality miniature, to boot. It features a pristine, 1.8 cm across, gemmy, lustrous, purple edged, color zoned, fluorapatite crystal, perched jauntil... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite on Quartz | A CLASSIC combo for the locality, with greenish apatite perched upon lustrous, sharp quartz crystals! | Strontiumapatite |
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| File:Strontiumapatite-t08-apa02a.jpg | Apatite | This is a very unusual apatite specimen from a new find in the area, not to be confused with the typical Pakistani apatites from Chumar Bakhoor. This piece has a unique rich maroon-pink color that is apparently characteristic of this pocket, flanked by a few sprays of attached white cleavelandite ma... | Strontiumapatite |
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Apatite on Muscovite | A sharp, gemmy, exceptionally translucent and glassy apatite crystal nestles snugly in bladed muscovite in this classic assemblage specimen from Chumar Bakhoor. The apatite is just about 2 cm across and is actually a composite of two intergrown crysatls, it seems. The apatite is gemmier than usual a... | Strontiumapatite |
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Tourmaline and Apatite on Quartz | Basically a doubly-terminated, wonderful himalaya quartz, though it has a little mass of tourmaline and apatite in back as well. | Strontiumapatite |
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Thomsonite | Beautiful, salmon-colored, elongated crystals of thomsonite in a natrual geode from this classic Alpine locality! This is from the collection of Phil Scalisi, exchanged to him from Harvard over 20 years ago. These crystals are quite large by ANY standard, alpine or otherwise. | Thomsonite-Ca |
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Thomsonite on Prehnite | Thomsonite is one of the less common members of the zeolite family. In this case, it has grown as a large, ivory-colored crysatl aggregate, measuring 6.5 cm across. It has formed on an earlier generation of green, prehnite, to 1.5 cm across. The rarity and size of the thomsonite, make this a very co... | Thomsonite-Ca |
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Thomsonite (rare!) | Crystallized Thomsonite is exceedingly rare from the Manganese Fields, and this is one of only a handful of specimens i have seen in decades of looking. The piece features a 1-inch ball perched smack atop a natural pedestal. THis is a significant and readily displayable specimen of this rare species... | Thomsonite-Ca |
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Keilhauite | An extremely rare crystal of Keilhauite , an oddball Calcium Titanium Aluminum Iron Yttrium Silicate | Titanite |
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RUTILE with Sphene and Albite | This is a bizarre Pakistani specimen, quite different from any rutile I have seen before from this region. It is a very aesthetic piece with a crosshatched cluster of pipelike (for lack of a better word) rutile crystals that runs along the plate of albite and green sphenes, like irrigation pipes wit... | Titanite |
| File:Titanite-tt56a.jpg | Sphene (twinned) | This is the only undamaged, aesthetic matrix piece in a batch of some 300 crystals, that I saw from this find when it came in about a year ago. It features a twinned, upright 3.9-cm-long sphene crystal that is totally GEMMY and transparent, with a light olive-green color, perched on matrix of calcit... | Titanite |
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Sphene (twinned) | This is a superb, twinned, lustrous, and somewhat gemmy sphene from the Gamsberg mines known more for rutile than anything gemmy. It is very 3-dimensional and complete all around, and would be good even by Brazilian standards! But for Namibia, its even more a killer - and sitll competes even by worl... | Titanite |
| File:Titanite-k-158a.jpg | Sphene (twinned) | This is a superb, twinned, lustrous, and somewhat gemmy sphene from the Gamsberg mines known more for rutile than anything gemmy. It is very 3-dimensional and complete all around, and would be good even by Brazilian standards! But for Namibia, its even more a killer - and sitll competes even by worl... | Titanite |
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Sphene (untwinned!) | This unusual crystal is a rare untwinned sphene of unique aspect, so strange that it came into the US (already priced highly) as a strange spodumene rather than as a sphene. I have never seen the like. It is truly elegant and surreal, in person. From teh gem crystal collection of Gene Meieran | Titanite |
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SPHENE (twinned) on PERICLINE (feldspar) | This is a fine old classic but also an aesthetic, well-balanced specimen for ANY sphene locality, featuring a DOUBLY-TERMINATED, PRISTINE, LUSTROUS, 4.5-CM-LONG CRYSTAL of translucent green TWINNED sphene perched on contrasting white matrix of pericline feldpsar - what more could you want in such an... | Titanite |
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Poldervaartite | TYPE LOCALITY. This mineral was discovered in the 1980s but only recognized later as a new species, and then named in 1992. Specimens were always extremely rare and hard to obtain. In fact, a good example was considered a hallmark and a token of any "sophisticated" Kalahari collection and they were ... | Topaz |
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Inesite | INTENSE red color saturation makes these beautiful inesites, from a famous mid-1980s series of pockets, still rank among the best of species. This is a compact cluster of several spherical aggregates of radiating crystals, with top color intensity , and overall great aesthetics as a miniature. It wa... | Topaz |
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Tourmaline | This is a STUNNING, GEM, ELECTRIC GREEN "pencil" tourmaline crystal from a very desired pocket found in 1978. It is 100% gemmy and transparent. Though tin and slender, it is impactful. From the specialized Maine thumbnail collection of Jim Mann (although a miniature, this squeezes into a TN box when... | Topaz |
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Albite (rare gem crystal) | This really surprised me! In fact, I was not able to guess what it was without seeing the label. It is a SHARP, GEMMY, TRANSPARENT, albite crystal. In person it is much sharper and gemmier, as its hard to photograph both the shape and transparency at the same time so we had to aim the light to frost... | Topaz |
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Rose Quartz Scepter on Quartz | From a superb pocket of unusually intense rose quartz for this classic old locality, found in 2009, this is perhaps the best thumbnail specimen. And, for my taste, frankly the most aesthetic and interesting rose quartz i have EVER seen form the USA (and for pedigree, this locality long predates the ... | Topaz |
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Rhodochrosite | From the major finds here of circa 1980, this is a gorgeous, complete-all-around, stalactite of crystallized rhodochrosite in sheaf-like clusters. This particular style has long been highly prized among collectors, and fine thumbnails of this quality are thus rare on the market today. They come up o... | Topaz |
