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We've seen many pieces of this material, but just a few in matrix like this one, and also with the well-defined 'star' of Rutile-Hematite.
Caí bom Mine, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region Brazil
Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.5 × 1.9 cm = 1.85” × 1.77” × 0.75”

GB52AD4: Rutile with Hematite

Epitaxial growths on platy Hematite crystals of thin Rutile crystals with finely striated prismatic faces and good terminations. They have a golden color and are very bright. The sample is from the first finds of this type of Rutile from the locality.
Caí bom Mine, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region Brazil
Specimen size: 4.5 × 3 × 0.9 cm = 1.77” × 1.18” × 0.35”

JX48W6: Rutile with Hematite

Acicular crystals of Rutile with good terminations, very bright with a golden yellow color. The crystals of Rutile have grown epitactically on laminar crystals of Hematite with a very sharp hexagonal contour.
Novo Horizonte, Bahia Brazil (±1999)
Specimen size: 5.5 × 3 × 1.7 cm = 2.17” × 1.18” × 0.67”

SM85MER: Rutile with Hematite after Ilmenite

Rutile crystals forming epitactic lattices on a Hematite pseudomorph after a tabular Ilmenite crystal.
Mwinilunga District, North-Western Province Zambia (05/2007)
Specimen size: 3.3 × 3 × 3.7 cm = 1.30” × 1.18” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.30” × 0.98”

CG76AJ7: Rutile with Muscovite

Reticular aggregate of twinned crystals that are translucent, bright, with a very intense red color and on a matrix of tabular Muscovite crystals.
Boiling Springs, Cleveland County, North Carolina USA
Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.9 × 2 cm = 1.34” × 1.14” × 0.79”

TA68AI8: Rutile with Pyrophyllite

Twinned Rutile crystal with very well defined faces and edges. The surface of the faces is very bright with intense red reflections. On the base and partially on the back and the top there is a small matrix of Pyrophyllite.
We will send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia USA
Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.3 × 2.1 cm = 1.02” × 0.91” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.2 cm = 0.94” × 0.87”

EL73AI5: Rutile with Pyrophyllite

Twinned Rutile crystal with very well defined faces and edges, an excellent luster and implanted on a matrix of a laminar Pyrophyllite aggregate. An excellent sample, a classic both for the species and for the locality.
We’ll send to the buyer, with the sample, the original commercial label of “Aesthetics Underground” from Canada from the Rob Woodside collection.
Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia USA
Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.1 × 4.2 cm = 2.91” × 2.01” × 1.65”

XM330MV: Rutile with Pyrophyllite

Group of twinned Rutile crystals, with sharp and shiny crystal forms, on a Pyrophyllite matrix. A classic from the USA.
Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia USA
Specimen size: 4 × 3.7 × 3 cm = 1.57” × 1.46” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.6 cm = 1.18” × 1.02”

TM26L1: Rutile with Pyrophyllite

A well defined and aerial crystal with very sharp faces and edges, showing reddish reflections. This specimen shows the typical Rutile twin. Well positioned on a Pyrophyllite matrix.
Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia USA (1998)
Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.5 × 3.3 cm = 2.17” × 1.38” × 1.30”

AE48N4: Rutile with Pyrophyllite

Very sharp crystal, twinned, unusually acute for a sample from Graves Mountains. It is very bright and it is on matrix.
Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia USA
Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.7 × 2.7 cm = 1.85” × 1.06” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.71”

SV2110TXA: Rutile with Quartz

Fine reticulated crystals of Rutile with brown reflections, encompassed in a crystalline matrix formed by Quartz crystals, some of them doubly terminated, highly translucent and lustrous. The specimen comes from the old collection of Robert-Auguste Touchon.
Pizzo Centrale, Airolo, Central St Gotthard Massif, Leventina, Ticino (Tessin) Switzerland
Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.7 × 3.6 cm = 2.24” × 1.85” × 1.42”

AF46M9: Rutile with Quartz

Doubly terminated crystals that have very well defined faces and edges. The crystals consist of a single prism and two terminal dipyramids twisted 90º degrees to each other. They are very bright and are on Quartz matrix. We note that the pieces from this locality are practically, nowadays, not available in the market.
Kaputjugh Mount, Paragachai, Orubad District, Syunik Province Republic of Armenia
Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.1 × 4.2 cm = 1.81” × 1.22” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.9 cm = 0.51” × 0.35”

TE12T6: Sabinaite with Analcime and Aegirine

Aggregate of very flattened crystals of Sabinaite. They have a clear cream color, they are bright and on matrix, with Analcime and Aegirine. The sample is with a label signed by Ann Sabina, in whose honor the species was named.
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec Canada
Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.2 × 4.2 cm = 2.05” × 1.65” × 1.65”

EG6T4: Salammoniac

Efflorescent growth with crystals with curved faces, translucent and with a vivid intense yellow color. The matrix is lava from the Vesuvius eruption in 1906.
Vesuvio, Somma-Vesuvio, Napoli, Campania Italy (1906)
Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.1 × 3 cm = 1.93” × 1.61” × 1.18”

CA66AI4: sand after Calcite

Group of crystals, one of them clearly dominant and all them (except one) doubly terminated. They show a prism with curved edges and a poorly defined terminal rhombohedron. The crystals are completely filled by sand inclusions. An American classic that is currently difficult to obtain in good samples because the area where they are found has been declared a National Park.
Rattlesnake Butte, Jackson County, South Dakota USA (±1990)
Specimen size: 7.7 × 5 × 3.9 cm = 3.03” × 1.97” × 1.54”

MT60AF1: sand after Calcite

Two doubly terminated crystals, formed by a prism with curved edges and a poorly defined terminal rhombohedron. The crystals are completely filled by sand inclusions. An American classic that is currently difficult to obtain in good samples because the area where they are found has been declared a National Park.
Rattlesnake Butte, Jackson County, South Dakota USA (± 1990)
Specimen size: 10.9 × 4.9 × 4.7 cm = 4.29” × 1.93” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 9 × 3.3 cm = 3.54” × 1.30”

21DKX11: Sanidine

Crystal of Sanidine embedded in a matrix of volcanic ash, very marked by degassing effects, displaying a very clean contact, slightly translucent, and coming from Santa Pau volcano in the La Garrotxa volcanic field in Catalonia. This specimen comes from the collection of Lluís Daunis, whose handwritten label with the obsolete name 'riacolita' we will send to the buyer. It is not easy to find pieces of this quality from this deposit.
Roca Negra Volcano, Santa Pau, Olot, Comarca Garrotxa, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 4.0× 3.2 × 1.9 cm = 1.57” × 1.26” × 0.75”

MX6AC8: Sapphirine with Quartz and Mica

Sapphirine crystals on matrix, one of them clearly dominant, with very well defined faces and edges and an intense and uniform blue color.
The sample is from the Thomas P. Moore collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Androy Region, Toliara Province (Tuléar) Madagascar
Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.1 × 2.3 cm = 1.06” × 0.83” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.51”

MFR47AO3: Sarabauite

Encrustations, microcrystalline concretions and acicular crystals of Sarabauite, a rare calcium sulphantimonide with a vivid and uniform red color, on matrix. The specimen, from the type locality for the species and among the highest quality known, has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Sarabau Mine, Bau, Kuching, Kuching District, Kuching Division, Sarawak State, Borneo Island Malaysia
Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.8 × 2.9 cm = 2.05” × 1.89” × 1.14”

MCT97AO3: Sartorite on Calcite

Sartorite crystal with very sharp crystal forms and good terminations, something uncommon in this type of specimen, lustrous, and included in a white Calcite matrix. A Swiss classic, from the type locality for the species, a rare lead arsenic sulphosalt. Originally labeled “Skleroklas” (Scleroclase), a name given to sartorites long ago.
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld, Binn Valley (Binntal), Wallis (Valais) Switzerland (1977)
Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.1 × 2.7 cm = 2.91” × 2.01” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.3 cm = 0.39” × 0.12”

NA26AL4: Sb-rich Tennantite-(Fe) with Pyrite

Globular growth of antimony-richTennantite-(Fe), very lustrous, on matrix, with growths of iridescent Pyrite in dominant blue, red and brassy tones, and twinned Chalcocite crystals. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Las Cruces Mine, fase 6, levels 130-135, ↓175 m., Gerena-Guillena-Salteras, Comarca Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalusia Spain (09-11/2019)
Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.2 × 1.3 cm = 1.50” × 1.26” × 0.51”

TY16I2: Scepter Quartz

Two main crystals have very sharp scepter growths. The crystal on the left forms an inverse scepter from the prism on the base and finishes with a very well-defined normal scepter.
Previously in the Thomas P. Moore collection.
Liliana Mine, Municipio Chihuahua, Chihuahua Mexico
Specimen size: 3 × 2.9 × 1.9 cm = 1.18” × 1.14” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.24”

ED91AH2: Scepter Quartz (variety amethyst / variety smoky)

Scepter growth on a colorless Quartz crystal stem of a very sharp doubly terminated crystal, with very neat window-like and phantom growths. The crystal, transparent and extraordinarily bright, has a smoky color with amethyst shades.
The sample is form the Desmond Sacco collection which label we’ll send to the buyer.
Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg area, Erongo Region Namibia
Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.9 × 3.7 cm = 2.80” × 1.93” × 1.46”

NF58H1: Scepter Quartz (variety amethyst)

A very sharp scepter growth. The amethyst crystal with a short prism stands on white Quartz. The color is very deep and distributed in zones. The luster is excellent.
Mas Sever Quarry, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, Comarca La Selva, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain (10/2005)
Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.8 × 1.8 cm = 1.73” × 1.10” × 0.71”

TN56AG8: Scepter Quartz (variety smoky)

Sceptered Quartz variety smoky from an isolated find in which the upper part of the crystals is of an excellent smoky color and the lower part on which the scepter grows is milky Quartz with faces coated by parallel growths of small crystals, also Quartz.
Steinkopf, Namakwa District (Namaqualand), Northern Cape Province South Africa (08/2010)
Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.73” × 1.50” × 0.91”

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