{"title":"Featured Specimens","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"native-gold-on-quartz","title":"NATIVE GOLD on QUARTZ","description":"An excellent and fabulously rich small cabinet specimen of Native Gold from Nevada, USA.  Sheets of leaf Native Gold almost entirely cover a thin 6.5 x 5.0 cm plate of creamy white Quartz matrix. Many of the sheets attain approximately 2 cm in length forming a continuous coverage of Native Gold, with a texture of crisp golden dried autumn leaves.  The lustre of the sheets varies from bright lustrous golden metallic to frosted buttery-yellow with a matt finish.  Under magnification the leaf surfaces have minute crystal growth developments in the form of multiple arrays of equilateral triangles, it is quite spectacular when studied closely. This is a rich, large, highly displayable Native Gold from Nevada, and one packed with crystallographic interest. The only possible drawback is the lack of precise provenance, but for aesthetics you can't go far wrong.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540873924783,"sku":"CC7299","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC7299.png?v=1770210014"},{"product_id":"beryl-var-aquamarine-on-albite","title":"BERYL var. AQUAMARINE   on ALBITE","description":"This completely stunning, gemmy sky-blue Aquamarine crystal emerges from a rugged snow-white matrix of Albite from Gilgit in Pakistan, a world-class location for magnificent gem minerals.  Standing 5.8 cm tall and approximately 1.2 x 1.0 cm in section, the Aquamarine crystal can be described as either a single crystal displaying vertical bifurcation or as two crystals in parallel growth.  Both crystals are semi-transparent light sky-blue to white, with wispy internal crazing up to 1.2 cm from the flat termination  The final 1.2 cm section is completely gemmy and water-clear.  A single thin and gemmy 1 cm tall Aquamarine crystal stands on the matrix close the main crystal.  Set in a showcase, this Aquamarine, a variety of Beryl, will look magnificent.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46545161519279,"sku":"CC19363","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC19363.png?v=1770374854"},{"product_id":"rhodochrosite-29","title":"RHODOCHROSITE","description":"An ex-matrix crystallised bed of densely packed Rhodochrosite crystals from the N'Chwaning Mines at Kuruman in the Kalahari Manganese Field of South Africa.  The cherry red scalenohedral crystals form a surface packed with terminations of individual crystals, each appearing 4 to 5 mm tall.  When viewed from the sides however, the true length of the crystals is revealed and these are typically between 1 and 1.4 cm long.  The prisms grade from semi transparent to translucent and when held against a strong light glow a lovely candy cherry red.  The crystal terminations end in small flat triangular pinacoids.  This choice miniature is an excellent example from this famous group of mines in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46545298817199,"sku":"CC21894","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC21894.png?v=1770379164"},{"product_id":"tourmaline-elbaite-17","title":"TOURMALINE (ELBAITE)","description":"Well, have you ever seen a tourmaline with this array of colours? It is insane, and just so mesmerizing. This small miniature individual Elbaite crystal is from Otjua mine in the Erongo Region, Namibia and is a revelation. Presented as the variety Indicolite due to its electric-blue termination, it could equally be referred to as a Rubellite with its red central zone. With appropriate backlighting this truly is one of the tourmalines that are described as 'zinging'. If ever there was a justification for small is beautiful then this must surely be testament to it. So great is its colour zoning that one nearly forgets that it is fully terminated in the classical three-sided pyramid and its short prism sides are nicely vertically striated. A breathtaking Namibian tourmaline of the highest calibre.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46545323294895,"sku":"CC26234","price":12500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC26234.png?v=1770381885"},{"product_id":"chrysocolla-ps-after-malachite-with-quartz-and-malachite-3","title":"CHRYSOCOLLA ps. after MALACHITE with QUARTZ and MALACHITE","description":"The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa and the Kolwezi mining district lies to its far mid-south where some of the world's largest copper and cobalt deposits exist. This large cabinet specimen from the Tenke-Fungurume area in the Kolwezi mining district will add a significant burst of colour to almost any display cabinet. Comprising an attractive array of pale blue bladed crystals rising up from matrix it is only when one realizes what these crystals are, or should I say \"were\" that the complexity arises. These are blades of Chrysocolla - an amorphous copper silicate - coated with a fine layer of colourless Quartz crystals, but Chrysocolla does not form crystals, let alone freestanding bladed crystals. The Chrysocolla is a pseudomorphous, or epimorphic replacement, of Malachite, but Malachite does not form bladed crystals like these either! So, the Malachite was also a pseudomorph, but probably after bladed Azurite, meaning that these are Quartz coating Chrysocolla epimorphs after Malachite pseudomorphs after Azurite. Wonderfully complex and strikingly beautiful.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46549835022511,"sku":"CC36490","price":8500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC36490.png?v=1770644544"},{"product_id":"fluorite-231","title":"FLUORITE","description":"Fluorite from Hilton mine is always so desirable. It must be the rich intense amber-yellow colour not seen anywhere else in the UK, but it should be remembered that very few of the specimens from this mine attain that wonderful colour, many are simply a washed out pale yellow. This superb miniature specimen features several gorgeous glassy, twinned amber Fluorite crystals, the largest reaching over 2 cm on edge. The surfaces of some of the main crystals are microscopically pitted, but they are still glassy, and internally extremely gemmy. One of the twinned crystals is missing a corner, but otherwise this is an extremely attractive high-end Hilton mine Fluorite.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46549851865263,"sku":"CC37923","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC37923.png?v=1770646522"},{"product_id":"wulfenite-67","title":"WULFENITE","description":"A charismatic miniature specimen comprising a cluster of vivid red, platy, Wulfenite crystals to approximately 14 mm on edge with their edges coated in a thin film of snow-white Calcite. The contrast of white on red is enchanting and so distinctive of these Chinese Wulfenites from the remote Kuruktaq Mountains.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46549852979375,"sku":"CC38249","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC38249.png?v=1770646576"},{"product_id":"fluorite-746","title":"FLUORITE","description":"The Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District not only produced industrial grade fluorspar, but provided the world with some of the great treasures of the mineralogical kingdom. Denton mine is one of the big name localities, famous for beautiful colourful cubic crystals, but the most sought after crystals are those with internal colour zoning. This huge individual cubic crystal, at 8.5 x 8.4 cm front on, and up to 5 cm front to back, is not only dramatic in size, but makes a massive statement when backlit. There is a little chipping to the area either side of one corner, but the natural undulating stepping to the cubic faces, and the lizard-skin surface texture to the Fluorite means that these imperfections do not stand out significantly against the overall dramatic appearance of this monster-sized crystal. At the end where the chipping is present the crystal is joined by a cluster of smaller (to 2.5 cm on edge) cubic crystals. Whichever direction you look through the main crystal the zoning is insane, with a purple internal cube, itself zoned from almost black in its centre to pale and then deep purple. Surrounding this a wide (2 cm) pale sky blue band, but containing many darker, to almost electric blue lines extends outwards to a dark purple outer edge layer. Small golden Chalcopyrite crystals are concentrated on one side of the main Fluorite cube and across a few of the small Fluorite crystals. A seriously impressive Denton mine Fluorite which will provide a colourful impact to any cabinet.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015977386159,"sku":"CC63027","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC63027.png?v=1780997498"}],"url":"https:\/\/crystalclassics.com\/collections\/featured-specimens.oembed","provider":"Crystal Classics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}