Spinel ("floater")

Spinel ("floater")A beautiful and excellent quality floater octahedron of gorgeous lavender colored Spinel. The faces are incredibly smooth and lustrous, and you can see this is a textbook example of a single octahedron. The crystal is quite gemmy, with good sized sections inside the crystal that are WATER CLEAR when backlit. Hard to photograph, but really attractive in person, and a nice piece to add to any thumbnail collection or a suite of gem crystals. The crystal

A great historic specimen from the locality that produced some of the finest crystals of Uvarovite in the world

It's a tremendous rarity to find specimens of Bertrandite like this with such large fine quality crystals

Specimen #VIVBOL81805

Only minor damage

especially nice matrix pieces like this one

Good quality all the way around

The piece is associated with a pair of gemmy

This is a very impressive specimen of this often overlooked and sometimes underappreciated phosphate

but also a unique quality that one does not often see in Spinel

golden tetragonal scalenohedron of Chalcopyrite sits in the center of a plate of grey-white Quartz “needles”

almost skeletal appearance

we were immediately impressed with their fantastic coloring and patterns