A very aesthetic piece featuring three cleanly terminated, glassy Amethyst Quartz crystals on a dark matrix completely covered with miniature, translucent, white scalenohedral Calcite crystals. The luster, the color contrast and the symmetry are all outstanding. A beautiful specimen in excellent condition. Location: Daye Mine, Hubei...

A lustrous cluster of light brown, interpenetrating Calcite rhombohedrons on a druse of sparkling miniature colorless Stilbite crystals over white Calcite. A very nice specimen with great color, luster, contrast and balance. In excellent condition. Location: Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India Size: 9.5 x 8 x 4 cm...

A large specimen featuring numerous translucent, peach-colored Stilbite crystals on a colorless Chalcedony coated black matrix. The focal feature is a large Stilbite crystal (7 cm ) with a smaller perpendicular intersecting Stilbite crystal, both nicely centered. Great color, contrast and symmetry. A very...

This beautiful miniature specimen hosts an elegant cluster of gemmy, lustrous, miniature Amethyst Quartz scepters perfectly positioned atop a dark, contrasting matrix. Quality specimens like this from Tamil Nadu are very scarce and the material coming out now is inferior to the older stock...

This beautiful piece hosts an elegant cluster of gemmy, lustrous, miniature Amethyst Quartz scepters perfectly centered along with miniature lustrous, white Calcite scalenodra on a dark, contrasting matrix. This piece really sparkles. Quality specimens like this from Tamil Nadu are very scarce and the...

This beautiful piece hosts an elegant cluster of gemmy, lustrous, miniature Amethyst Quartz scepters perfectly positioned atop a dark, contrasting matrix. Quality specimens like this from Tamil Nadu are very scarce and the material coming out now is inferior to the older stock like...

This beautiful piece hosts an elegant cluster of gemmy, lustrous, miniature Amethyst Quartz scepters perfectly positioned atop a dark, contrasting matrix. Quality specimens like this from Tamil Nadu are very scarce and the material coming out now is inferior to the older stock like...

A very interesting piece: The matrix front is coated with mostly white to peach-colored miniature Barite blades which have in turn become partially coated with Malachite and lesser Azurite. The contrast really caught my eye, but under magnification it’s even more impressive. There is...

An exceptionally large cluster of lustrous dark-red Hematite included Quartz crystals from a new find out of Morocco. The crystals are all complete and terminated and the color is outstanding. It is very difficult to find a piece this large and in this good...

A large specimen featuring lustrous, reddish-orange, tabular hexagonal Vanadinite crystals coating numerous clusters of bladed white Barite crystals, all on a contrasting brown matrix. Even the matrix has a sparkly luster due to microscopic Pyrite inclusions. Exceptional color, luster, contrast and balance. Superb, aesthetic...

A very unusual and rare formation: A large cluster of lustrous, white, translucent micro-stalactitic Chalcedony hosting a number of pristine, transparent to translucent peach-colored Stilbite crystals. It is a stunning piece with outstanding luster, crystal formation and contrast - in excellent condition. Location: Jalgaon, Maharashtra,...

A very aesthetic piece that features a plate first coated with peach-colored microcrystalline Heulandite, and then subsequently completely covered in gemmy, transparent, Apophyllite crystals. But the focal point of the piece is the large, lustrous, pseudocubic Apophyllite crystal (2.3 cm) with modified corners and...

A large Geode lined with pink-orange Heulandite crystals with a partial coating of miniature, colorless Stilbite crystals, hosting a large (4.5 cm) translucent, soft-yellow Calcite rhombohedron. The Heulandite and Stilbite is colorful with a sparkling luster, while the Calcite rhomb has a satin luster....

A very large cabinet-size specimen hosting numerous lustrous, transparent, mint-green pseudocubic Apophyllite crystals with modified corners (up to 2.6 cm), along with smaller, colorless and nearly transparent Stilbite crystals (1.5 cm), all on a bed of white miniature Huelandite crystals on a dark gray...

A very large aesthetic specimen hosting numerous radiating flower-like clusters of Calcite scalenohedra. The Calcite crystals are soft-white with minor reddish Hematite inclusions and have a pearly luster. Even the matrix, with colorless Quartz, lustrous Galena and Chalcopyrite, adds to the overall aesthetics of...

An aesthetic piece featuring large, highly translucent, mint-green intersecting cubic Fluorite crystals on massive Fluorite matrix hosting a dense cluster of lustrous, translucent, yellow-brown Barite crystals covering nearly the entire front of the Fluorite. The contrast between the two generations of crystal growth is...

A very striking specimen featuring fibrous deep-green Malachite pseudomorphs after bladed Azurite crystals on a white clay matrix. The original Azurite retained its crystal form but was molecularly altered to (or replaced by) Malachite, thus the pseudomorph. The Malachite presents a silky and chatoyant...

A beautiful specimen of vivid turquoise-blue botryoidal Chrysocolla with dark-green microcrystalline and botryoidal Malachite. A very aesthetic and colorful piece! Location: Lupoto Mine, Katanga, DR Congo Size: 9 x 9 x 6.5 cm

Deep-blue crystallized Azurite with minor rich-green fibrous Malachite. Great symmetry and contrast in both color and luster - very nice specimen in great condition. Location: Aouli, Medelt, Morocco Size: 8 x 4.5 x 4 cm

This specimen features both a larger and smaller cluster of jet-black, lustrous Hubnerite crystals, both centered on a plate of highly translucent to transparent Quartz crystals. At the base of both clusters are radiating clusters of miniature Quartz crystals. There’s also a well formed...

A very aesthetic, eye-catching specimen of vivid turquoise-blue botryoidal Chrysocolla with dark-green microcrystalline and lighter-green botryoidal Malachite. The banding of the Malachite/Chrysocolla throughout the matrix is really quite stunning. Great piece in excellent condition.

A perfectly centered crystal of pink-red Ruby in contrasting white Marble matrix. The Ruby crystal is lustrous, highly translucent and nicely terminated. A very aesthetic specimen with a beautifully colored Ruby crystal perfectly balanced - a great piece in excellent condition.

A beautiful piece featuring numerous lustrous, transparent to translucent golden rhombohedral crystals of Barite on a crystalline gray-Quartz matrix. The crystals are sharp and exhibit zoning and the piece has great balance. Pieces like this from the closed Sherman Mine in Colorado are hard...

A very large and superb specimen featuring numerous hemispherical clusters (“cotton balls”) of fibrous Okenite crystals with lustrous, white Gyrolite on a dark matrix coated with white Quartz microcrystals. The Okenite balls are of various sizes, and at the front is a intergrown cluster...

A very large, single, lustrous and sharp Amethyst crystal rising above an Amethyst crystal base. The focal Amethyst crystal is well formed and sharply terminated with zones of darker-purple Amethyst color inside. A great aesthetic piece, especially with the zoned color, the clarity and...

A large and extremely aesthetic cluster of translucent, snow-white elongated Quartz crystals on white bladed Albite and minor Pyrite. In addition to the dozen or so larger, elongated Quartz crystals, there are many more of smaller Quartz crystals filling in at the base. A unique,...

A large, lustrous partial cube of colorless Fluorite with internal purple zoning and subsequent light blue zoning, which gives the illusion of a light-blue colored Fluorite cube at first glance. The zoning is beautiful and quite striking. The Fluorite cube has modified and stepped...

An aesthetic cluster of diverging Hedenbergite-included Quartz crystals. The crystals are lustrous and translucent and display a grayish-green color due to the Hedenbergite inclusions. The crystals also host an overgrowth of smaller Quartz crystals all around the prism faces of the larger crystals up...

This is a large, beautiful and striking piece that features a vuggy Quartz matrix hosting numerous clusters of translucent, lustrous apple-green Pyromorphite crystals throughout the piece. There are Pyromorphite crystals on all sides of the matrix. There is a particularly dense band of Pyromorphite...

A colorful specimen of lustrous, translucent, golden botryoidal Chalcedony in a Flint vug. A unique, aesthetic piece with great color, luster and form. In excellent condition. Location: Etretat, Seine-Maritime, Upper-Normandy, France Size: 7 x 5.6 x 4.5 cm