Spinel on matrixA superb small cabinet display specimen featuring a very good sized free standing octahedral crystal of beautiful reddish pink Spinel with very sharp, highly lustrous faces and textbook form flaring out of sold white marble matrix. The Spinel crystal is completely undamaged and it's NOT repaired, which is significant, as the vast majority of Spinels from this locality are glued back on the matrix. The color is beautiful in person, and the crystal

The side and base of the piece shows the square cross-section of the once preexisting Anhydrite crystal that was the base for the cast

Specimen # BOL711B08

This small cabinet size specimen features wonderful

the specimen has excellent isolation and spacing between the Brookites

Here we have an interesting and rarely seen Cassiterite from Sakangyi

or any other world locality

save a rough spot on the bottom where it detached from the matrix

they were still interesting with wonderful pink and green bi-color crystals

Specimen #PREH31130

The two-tone effect created from the inclusions makes for an eye-catching piece as a lot of the specimens from this mine are not terribly colorful

thus destroying a large percentage of specimens that would have made their way to the market

This specimen hosts several sharp