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Quartz from Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Transparent Quartz point with chalcedony inclusions.

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Quartz from San Cristobal, Suaita, Santander Department, Colombia. (Nº-31).

Single Quartz crystal cloudy at the base with smoke at the middle and clear at the top.

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Hematite from Tadaout, Taouz, Er Rachida, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco.

Brilliant botryoidal Hematite with cold touch and heavy weight (236 gr).
In the cut we observe concentric growths of different colours, and radial fibrous growths of hematite.

These pieces have been cleaned in origin with sand which eliminates the surface oxide layer to let us see these spherical forms of good size. Curious Moroccan novelty found in 2018.

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Quartz from Muzo, Boyacá Department, Colombia. (Nº-27).

Crystal with two crossed doubly terminated, the bigger with some phantoms in a point.

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Quartz from Muzo, Boyacá Department, Colombia. (Nº-20).

Slim and flat Quartz point with internal drawings.

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Quartz from La Belleza, Vélez, Santander Department, Colombia. (Nº-37).

Couple Quartz crystals clearly a victory sign.
One of them with white phantom geometrical inclusions. This inclusion takes well defined forms.

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Quartz from Muzo, Boyacá Department, Colombia. (Nº-25).

Cluster with two main Quartz brothers crystals and many smaller some of them doubly terminated.

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Aquamarine from Shigar Valley, Skardu, Pakistan.

Group of two Beryl (aquamarine) with a doubly terminated crystal settled on the termination of the vertical one, looking like a tower crane.

The vertical has well defined faces and edges and shows a clear and subtle blue aquamarine color.

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Quartz from Muzo, Boyacá Department, Colombia. (Nº-8).

Two slim crystals arranged in V with sons all around the main. There are many terminations in a point of the largest crystal.

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Aquamarine with smoky Quartz from Erongo, Namibia.

Light blue hexagonal aquamarine crystal with smoky quartz.
The top is rich in faces, two of them symmetric with a bevelling in both.

A Beryl from Namibia dedicated to the memory of our fellow Heimo Hellwig, who showed us some wonders of this usually unknown country.

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Quartz from Segovia, Northeast, Antioquia Department, Colombia. (Nº-44).

Good size doubly terminated translucent Quartz crystal with many termination points at both ends.
Also in a side there are growing of caramel color smaller ones.

The quartzs i have from Segovia are usually without notches, but the size and the well conservated edges from this locality, where gold is the King, make this piece a special example.

To know more you have a thread in the spanish side showing a trip to Segovia looking for a “entable” or gold ore transformation colombian factory.

Segovia, the village of the gold

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Quartz from Bolívar, Santander Department, Colombia. (Nº-40).

Main cristal with a white geometric phantom.

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Quartz from the Buriticá gold mining area, West Region, Antioquia Department, Colombia. (Nº-47).

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Smithsonite from Tarragona, Spain.

Botryoidal yellow Smithsonite on matrix. Ex Lluís Daunis.

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Quartz from Bolívar, Santander Department, Colombia. (Nº-45).

Transparent single needle Quartz.

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Quartz from Bolívar, Santander Department, Colombia. (Nº-46).