Mineral Details

Loralai, Baluchistan, Pakistan - A very nice fluorite specimen with  a dozen violet fluorite cubes nicely compenetrated one with the others. The fluorites are up to 1.5 cm on the edge and the calcites are up to 1.6 cm. Some of them are biterminated ! overall size is 5x4x2.2 cm. Ex Ikram Mineralogy collection.

Niaslo, Basha Valley, Skardu Distr., Northern Areas, Pakistan - A nice light violet fluorapatite crystals sits on the top of a terminated well defined adularia crystal. The apatite is 0.7 cm wide and the adularia is 2.3x2 cm. Overall size is 2.5x2.4x2.2 cm

Alchuri Village, Shigar, Northern Areas, Pakistan -A very good gemmy glassy lustrous clean fluorapatite crystals incombination with well terminated pure white well terminated orthoclase crystals hosts to matrix. The fluorapatites are gemmy and perfectly terminated ! their size are up to 0.8 cm ! the color is light pink. All around there are miriad of terminated orthoclases. Overall size is 8.5x6x4 cm

Case Collina quarry, Pitigliano, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy - An old timer since this quarry was closed more than 20 years ago. The specimen hosts a number of large and well exposed brown vesuvianite crystals up to the size of 1 cm ! The vesuvianites have also some tiny grossular crystals all around. The whole rock is a pyroclastic stone. Overall size is 8.7x5x5 cm. Weight is 245 gr.

Colonnata quarry, Apuane Alps, Carrara, Italy - A bright yellow sulfur crystal of 1x1 cm in size shows on the top of this marble specimen ! A very nice crystal, terminated. Rare to find such kind of crystals. Overall size is 7x4.5x3.5 cm.

LA FACCIATA QUARRY, APUANE ALPS, CARRARA, ITALY - Classic specimen from Apuane Alps ! There is a biterminates quartz crystals of 0.9 cm in size ! There are some other 2-3  mm quartz crystals around a nd a lot of tiny dolomite crystals. Overall size is 6.5x6x5 cm.

GIUMENTARO MINE, ENNA, SICILY, Italy - A classic from Sicily sulfur mines. Giumentro was one of the most prolific for sulfura and for celestine crystals. This specimen hosts large celestine crystals up to 3 cm. The whole specimen is a cluster of crystals. Overall size is 8x5x4.5 cm.

Trepča, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo - A great real esthetic specimen with well defined bright arsenopyrite crystals surrounded by quartz crystals ! There are also some sphalerite enclosed and rhodochrosite. A real nice specimen rare to find ! Overall size is 3.8 × 3 × 2.3 cm. Weight is 25 gr

Minas Gerais, Brazil - A very nice and esthetic specimen ! A quartz point, perfectly terminated hosts a couple of bright green elbaites that emerge from the quartz crystal. A third elbaite is completely frozen inside the quartz. Real nice and peculiar Brazilian specimen of 3.5x2.5x2.5 cm in size. Weight is 20 gr.

Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA - Glassy prismatic, terminated, crystals of calcite measuring to 2.5 cm in length set nicely upon matrix. There are various calcite crystals forming a cluster. Incomplete the crystals at the lower part of the cluster but very nice the whole complex. A classic from this locality. Measures 7.0 x 4.0 x 4.0 cm.