A very fine (private) collection of exotic, rare and top-shelf (literally) high quality, classic and new specimens! Many from historic origin and abandoned mines. Carefully collected over the years (33 specimens). Please watch all the pictures, because you quickly miss a jewel! At the end of the gallery you find some UV-active specimens. 1. Native Gold crystals on matrix; Fizes, Romania 2. Rare crystallized rose quartz; Ilha claim, Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil 3. Big Sphalerite on quartz; Osarizawa mine, Akita, Japan *4. Very rare tugtupite with chkalovite, analcime, sodalite ; Taseq Slope West, Ilímaussaq, Greenland 5. Sulphur crystal; El Desierto Mine, Potosi, Bolivia *6. Sulphur crystals with aragonite; Caltanisetta, Sicily, Italy 7. Large quartz cluster with amethyst & smoky quartz inclusions; Brandberg, Namibia 8. Stepped yellow fluorite; Wolsendorf, Germany 9. Kämmererite crystals on matrix; Kop Krom-mine, Kop Daglari, Turkey 10. Cavansite on heulandite matrix; Wagholi Quarries, Maharashtra, India 11. Vesuvianite; Jeffrey mine, Canada 12. Rare Axinite; Obira mine, Ono-gun, Kyushu, Japan 13. Rhodochrosite; Ushkatyn, Russia *14. Phantom fluorite with muscovite; Yindu, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia, China *15. Calcite (2 generations); Buena Tierra-mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico 16. Uvarovite garnets on chromite matrix; Saranovskii Mine, Urals, Russia *17. Green fluorite; Poison Ivy pocket, U.K. (with daylight fluorescence) *18. Fluorite with quartz; Boltsburn mine, U.K. (with daylight fluorescence) *19. Large honey colored fluorite; Heißer Stein mine, Stulln, Germany 20. Andradite with hedenbergite; Serifos, Greece *21. Green Aragonite; Yunnan, China 22. Azurite & malachite; TSUMEB, Namibia 23. Large quartz with schorl tourmaline sprays; Namibia 24. Ice blue aquamarines on muscovite with fluorite and fluorapatite; Shigar, Pakistan 25. Smoky quartz with amethyst, iris and enhydro incl. scepter; Hallelujah Junction, Nevada, U.S. 26. Apophyllite on chalcedony stalactite; India 27. Malachite; D.R. Congo 28. Quartz (double terminated) with schorl tourmalines; Salinas, Brazil 29. Rare elbaite tourmaline; Elba, Italy *30. Gemmy, very sharp "glassy" fluorite; Valzergues, Aveyron, France 31. Topaz crystal; Klein Spitskopje, Namibia 32. Thick Vivianite crystal; Morococala Mine, Oruro, Bolivia 33. Quartz cluster; Tessin, Switzerland * = Fluorescent specimen Size range: 0.3-13 cm