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AF647 - Tanzanite $ 2000 Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mtns., Arusha Region, Tanzania miniature - 3.6 x 1.7 x 0.9 cm Fine quality Tanzanite, undamaged with good luster. Trichroic with nice red color when viewed from the top.
AF380 - Tanzanite $ 2400 Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mtns., Arusha Region, Tanzania miniature - 3.5 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm Gem Tanzanite crystal with Calcite and another partial crystal in fron that realy sets off the main crystal. Beautiful specimen.
AF388 - Pyrite on Tanzanite $ 750 Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mtns., Arusha Region, Tanzania thumbnail - 2.5 x 1.5 x 0.8 cm Single Tanzanite crystal with a Pyrite crystal attached to one side. Pyrite is not unusual from Merelani, but Tanzanite specimens with attached Pyrite are fairly uncommon, especially those with the pyrite perched so aesthetically on the Tanzanite. The Tanzanite is also a bi-color with a yellow termination over a blue body color. Unusual addition to a Merelani suite.
AF758 - Quartz on Tanzanite with Prehnite $ 800 Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mtns., Arusha Region, Tanzania miniature - 3.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm Water clear 2.8cm Quartz crystal attached to the front of a partial Tanzanite crystal. Some small, bright yellow Prehnite crystals add some color contrast to this unusual specimen. The left side of the Quartz crystal is coated by a druse of white Prehnite, and there are even some Graphite crystals attached.
AF763 - Tanzanite $ 4500 Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mtns., Arusha Region, Tanzania thumbnail - 3.1 x 1.8 x 0.8 cm Glassy bi-color crystal, blue base with a yellow termination. This crystal has superb luster and unusually uniform shape, retaining an even 8mm thickness all the way from the base to the termination. The yellow zone is facet grade and the blue zone, while having some internal fractures, is still mostly transparent - you can read through most of the crystal. Just a few tiny, trivial nicks otherwise totally undamaged. This is one of, if not the best of these yellow/blue bi-color crystals I have ever seen.
TS100 - Cerussite on Mottramite $ 4500 Tsumeb, Namibia miniature - 5 x 5 x 4.5 cm Stunning Cerussite crystal set atop a mound of Mottramite. The Cerussite is 4.3cm wide and complete all around. The Mottramite is sparkly mounds of a particularly deep forrest green color.
TU51 - Tremolite $ 120 Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Arusha Region, Tanzania thumbnail - 1.8 x 1.5 x 0.6 cm Vivid green Tremolite with a perfect, glassy termination. Not as transparent as some, but with deep green color.
TS181 - Cadmium Smithsonite Tsumeb, Namibia small cabinet - 6 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm Golden yellow rhombs of Smithsonite to 1.2cm wide. Good coverage of quality crystals in a less common color.
AF963 - Olmiite $ 1500 N'Chwanning Mine, Kuruman, South Africa miniature - 5 x 3 x 2 cm Superb matrix specimen with two complete clusters of translucent Olmiite. This is a specimen I bought many years ago from Clive Quiet from the original find. Perfect and undamaged Olmiite clusters that look like a pair of gumdrops.
TS183 - Smithsonite $ 750 Tsumeb, Namibia miniature - 4.5 x 4.5 x 3 cm Fine and lustrous crystals of pink Smithsonite. Some of the crystals have a grey/black coloration right along the very edges - people say this style looks as if a blow torch was passed over them.Good color and undamaged.
TZ146 - Prehnite $ 270 Merelani Hills, Arusha Region, Tanzania miniature - 3.2 x 3.0 x 1.5 cm Blue Prehnite in a fantastic, flower-like formation. A complete floater with minor amounts of attached Graphite. Translucent blue with a really nice formation, way better than most from the find which were mostly irregular massess of crystals with damage along the edges.
TZ156 - Tanzanite $ 600 Merelani Hills, Arusha Region, Tanzania miniature - 3.8 x 1.0 x 1.0 cm Glassy and gemmy single Tanzanite crystal with an elongated, unusual form. It's somewhat triangular in cross-section, natural and unheated. Fine and undamaged with good size and an interesting form.
TZ212 - Wurtzite with Sphalerite $ 250 Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania thumbnail - 1.4 x 1.0 x 1 cm Translucent red/orange color pagoda-shaped crystal of Wurtzite. At the tips are dark areas of epitaxial Sphalerite. These recent Wurtzite specimens from the Merelani Tanzanite mines are the world's best and now rarely found.
TS194 - Hausmanite with Ettringite, Andradite $ 260 N'Chwanning Mine, Kuruman, South Africa miniature - 3.8 x 3 x 2 cm Aesthetic combo specimen from the N'Chwanning Mine with Hausmanite, Ettringite, and Andradite. Fine quality Hausmanite (sharply formed with very bright, satiny luster) with an attached pale yellow Ettringite crystal all on red Andradite. For what is sometimes called a 'black ugly' mineral, this one is quite colorful!
TZ252 - Prehnite $ 300 Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania miniature - 4 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm Blue Prehnite specimen about as good as these get form wise as most of these are massess of crystals with at least some damage around the edges. This is a clean group front and back, nearly a floater with some traces of Graphite on the bottom where it was attached. These have a nice color change between shades of blue in different lighting.
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