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[Tobi]

Yellow baryte from France:

[Joaquin Montoro]

Nice collection Tobias, please keep posting your specimens.
Regards

[Tobi]

Thank you! Here's another specimen not yet published before, ruby from Tanzania:

[Tobi]

A better photo of the classic Sicilian sulphur pictured above.

[Tobi]

Not yet published quartz specimen no. 1:

[Tobi]

Not yet published quartz specimen no. 2:

[Tobi]

Another European classic that showed in this thread before, but here with better pictures:

[Tobi]

Here's another quartz specimen i like very much (shown before only on a poor photo), sceptered amethyst from Brandberg:

[Tobi]

Old specimens, better photos, fluorite # 1:

[Tobi]

Old specimens, better photos, fluorite # 2:

[Tobi]

Old specimens, better photos, fluorite # 3:

[Tobi]

- Old specimen
- Better photos
- I trimmed the specimen and removed a lot of dispensable matrix

Schorl on Orthoclase.
Erongorus 166 Farm, Karibib District, Erongo Region, Namibia.
105 x 100 x 70 mm, largest schorl crystal 20 mm, largest orthoclase crystal 35 mm.

[Tobi]

- Old specimen
- Better photos
- I trimmed the specimen and removed much of the quartz layer that covered the specimen
- Due to a wrong locality provided by the vendor and some talks to garnet experts i had to correct the locality

Grossular var. Hessonite.
Žulová, Olomouc Region, Moravia, Czech Republic.
105 x 95 x 50 mm, largest crystal 20 mm.

[GneissWare]

Tobi,
Nice specimens, and very good job on the trimming and preparation.

[Tobi]

Thank you. Actually i hate trimming minerals on my own because i always fear the one hit too much that tears of crystals or breaks specimens. But this time it worked, i could remove the schorl's matrix and the hessonite's quartz coating successfully :-)