Ilvaite and Quartz aesthetic combo)

Item Description

This combination specimen features a showy ilvaite leaping out from a nesting of green, hedenbergite-included quartz crystals. The ilvaite is nearly complete all around, with just a few small contacts in the back. The ilvaite termination is sharp and tapering, also nearly complete (just a few contact spots in back side), and is nicely freestanding. The side-car quartz provides a highly desirable shape and color contrast, and have come to be considered the classic association for the best matrix ilvaite from this mine. This piece is very dramatic for the size, and quality - it would be hard to find a comparable example in teh full miniature size today, from these older finds. Valued $750-1250,