Spessartine and Smoky Quartz   

Wushan Mine, Tongvei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Perfecture, Fujian Province, China.

Translucent lustrous orange Spessarine garnets with dark grey Smoky Quartz crystals to 55 mm on white albite matrix. Very good specimen.

8.0 x 5.0 x 5.0 cm

Galena   

Krushev Dol Mine, Maden, Rhodope Mountains, Plovdiv Oblast, Bulgaria.

A great cluster of large lustrous up to 30 mm galena crystals with some minor whitish base rock.

11.0 x 6.0 x 3.0 cm

Aquamarine   

Altay Mine, Altay Mountains, Altay Perfecture, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China.

Very nice transparent Aquamarine crystal of delicate blue colour and flat termination at the top end of the crystal.

3.0 x 1.5 x 1.0 cm

Rhodochrosite on Quartz   

Hezhou (Babu) Perfecture, Guangxi Zhuang, Autonomous Region, China.

Cluster of Quartz crystals partly covered with pink Rhodochrosite crystals on matrix of pyrite, quartz, and some sphalerite.

9.0 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm

Vanadinite   

Another spectacular cluster of lustrous large deep-red blocky Vandinite crystals to 17 mm across and up to 6 mm thick and undamaged on all the crystal faces. A top specimen from this classic Moroccan location.

4.0 x 2.0 x 2.5 cm