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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).

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Quartz from Muzo, Boyacá Department, Colombia. (Nº-50).

Transparent Quartz crystal with anthracite phantoms taking well defined geometric forms looking like a sergeant stripes.

There are some notches but was hard to buy; the seller loved this Quartz.

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Quartz from Bolívar, Santander Department, Colombia. (Nº-43).

Doubly terminated transparent Quartz crystal with some divergent ones.

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Quartz with Elbaite (variety verdelite) from Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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Quartz from Bolívar, Santander Department, Colombia. (Nº-48).

Quartz cluster with a bent main crystal.

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Quartz from Bolívar, Santander Department, Colombia. (Nº-49).

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Quartz (variety amethyst) from Sidi Rahal, Marrakech, Morocco.

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Quartz from Bolívar, Santander Department, Colombia. (Nº-51).

Five points together.

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Cuprite from Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia.

Ex Lluis Daunis.

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Quartz from Bolívar, Santander Department, Colombia. (Nº-52).

Main doubly terminated Quartz with someone crossed also bi-terminated, one of them a thin needle.

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Dolomite and Pyrite from Eugui, Navarre, Spain.