DZ5507 - Gold
Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA
small cabinet - 7.4 x 5.6 x 2.7 cm
$ 5500.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 3850.00

In recent years, Round Mountain has been the most prolific producers of fine gold specimens in the world. The variety of habits, crystal forms, and aesthetics is mind boggling. Of the thousands of specimens that came out, only a very small percentage came with matrix. This specmen is a classic quartz/adularia vein with leaf gold at the center. The main leaf is nearly 8 cm tall, has great gold color and good luster. There are small crystal growths along the edges. Specimens like this are rapidly becoming classics due to the fact that the mine stopped producing specimens 3 years ago. It is unlikely any new specimens will see the market.

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DZ5508 - Tourmaline
Cruzeiro Mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
small cabinet - 9.3 x 1.9 x 1.6 cm
$ 1400.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 980.00

The most remarkable thing about this specimen is that is 9.5 cm tall and has not been repaired. It is 100% natural with gemmy green color and nice lilac lepidolite at the base.

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DZ5601 - Topaz
Mogok, Burma
cabinet - 11.2 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm
$ 2500.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 1750.00

A long prismatic topaz, well terminated at the upper end, and mostly terminated at the opposite end. It is much more elongate than normal topaz crystals. Inside the crystal there is what appears to be a negative crystal, or fluid inclusion, nearly 6mm long.

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DZ5602 - Reibeckite on Quartz
St. Peters Dome, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
small cabinet - 8.4 x 5.2 x 5.1 cm
$ 1500.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 1050.00

I normally think of Reibeckite as a rock forming mineral, but this one is a bonafied specimen. The crystal is 8.3 x 1.6 cm and is actually terminated at one end. It has great provenance, having been in the Barbara Muntyan Collections, and before that in the Clarence Coil Collection.

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DZ5603 - Chabazite with Calcite on Matrix
West Paterson, New Jersey, USA
cabinet - 10.8 x 10.4 x 7.1 cm
$ 500.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 350.00

Nice brown chabazites on calcites from the Traprock deposits of Patterson, New Jersey.

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DZ5606 - Elbaite with Albite & Muscovite
Tormiq, Gilgit, Northern Areas, Pakistan
cabinet - 11.6 x 8.2 x 5.7 cm
$ 4000.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 2800.00

While the label identifies this as schorl with Elbaite, I think it would be more appropriate to call all of these tourmalines elbaite. If you shine a bright light at the large darker tourmalines, you see a green color. In any case, it is a fine example of sharp lustrous tourmalines in a matrix of muscovite books and albite crystals.

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DZ5701 - Almandine Garnet with Muscovite
Springfield, New Hampshire, USA
miniature - 4.6 x 3.1 x 3.0 cm
$ 475.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 332.50

A single euhedral garnet perched on a muscovite book.

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DZ5702 - Rhodochrosite on Quartz
Sunnyside Mine, Silverton, San Juan County, Colorado USA
small cabinet - 5.6 x 4.3 x 2.5 cm
$ 875.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 612.50

The "other" rhodo locality in Colorado. Here we have a classic pink rhodochrosite on white drusy quartz.

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DZ5703 - Realgar
Shimen Mine, Shimen County, Changde Prefecture, Hunan, China
miniature - 4.2 x 3.8 x 2.6
$ 2000.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 1400.00

Deep red realgars typical of the material that came out in the mid 1990's.

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DZ5704 - Bornite pseudo after Chalcocite with Malachite
St. Ives, Cumberland, England
small cabinet - 7.1 x 4.0 x 3.2 cm
$ 750.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 525.00

Here is an interesting one from England. The old label states the Bornite has been confirmed by x-ray.

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DZ5705 - Pyromorphite
Badem, Nassau, Germany
small cabinet - 6.2 x 2.8 x 1.6 cm
$ 1500.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 1050.00

A true German classic: pyromorphite from Badem. This piece is nearly a floater with only a 0.5 cm contact at the base where it came off the matrix.

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DZ5707 - Bournonite Cogwheels on Quartz
Liskeard, Cornwall, England
small cabinet - 7.0 x 6.5 x 4.0 cm
$ 2500.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 1750.00

Bournonites from the Liskeard District used to be considered the finest known, however the Yaogangxiang Mine has redefined the standard of excellence. That said, pieces from Liskeard are still iconic, and this is a very fine example showing classically twinned crystals standing upright on quartz matrix.

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DZ5708 - Beryl var. Aquamarine
Shigar Valley, Gilgit Division, Pakistan
small cabinet - 8.1 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm
$ 1100.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 770.00

A single 8cm tall aquamarine crystal with an interesting banded growth line with apparent fluid inclusions along the structure.

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