Архиви: Минерали

Japanese law twin in quartz with sphalerite-marmatite, pyrite and galena

Absolutely gorgeous and very rare aesthetic specimen, presenting very lustrous galena crystals – strongly dissolved, to rounded shape, followed by black sphalerite – marmatite, with strong black lustrous crystal faces and pyrite. The unique rarest part of the specimen is small Japanese law twin in quartz, which is actually double twined – one and same quartz wind of the twin, has two different „winds“

Rodochrosite „forest“

One exceptionaly rare  and very aesthetic, cabinet size specimen, of small rhodochrosite crystals completely covering plate with vertically developed quartz  crystals.

Galena with quartz

One excellent cabinet size specimen of very well terminated large galena cubic crystals on quartz, lately dissolved and with very shiny crystal faces

Limonite quartz – „Leopard skin quartz“

Extremely aesthetic specmen of quartz coated by limonite with color, darker closer to the top of the crystals. The spots are relicts of limonite spherolites washed out in the latest stages of minarization.

Rainbow pyrite with quartz

An excellent specimen of very well shaped pyrite crystals with sharp edges covered by transparent quartz – rock crystal, and lately particularly coated  by bornite.

Limonite quartz sun

One very aesthetic cabinet size specimen of transparent quartz crystals coated by limonite. Intensity of limonite coating is larger in the top of the crystals

Galena, sphalerite,chalcopyrite, pyrite

A very aesthetic cabinet size specimen,  of large galena crystals overgrowth by sphalerite – marmatite, followed by chalcopyrite secondary corroded, dissolved and replaced by pyrite.

Chalcopyrite, quartz,galena

„The rat“ – An amazing small, and extremely aesthetic specimen of chalcopyrite, covering galena and quartz crystals, secondary oxidized and coated by bornite-covelite.