Diaspore (rare)

Diaspore (rare)This Diaspore is a beautiful "Brilliant Oval" cut gem with very very slight inclusions and a gentle lilac pink hue in incandescent lighting but shows more of a yellow pink hue in LED lighting. Outdoors, the color is more of a pure pink, with no purple overtones. When it comes to gem quality Diaspore, most people are familiar with the sandy colored gems from Turkey (sometimes marketed as "Zultanite" or "Csarite"), but in 2020 there was a brand new

sitting on Quartz crystals atop a thin layer of basalt matrix

I think the rough spots are forgivable

Specimen #BURMA22111

and not a Ruby as had been thought for centuries

You can see in the last photo that the crystal displays a superb deep red fluorescence under UV light

medium blue-green colored prismatic Amazonite crystals are intergrown to create this nice thumbnail specimen

Specimen # QTZINDO111610

one-of-a-kind

This Parisite has a rich orange color

if not THE most luminously lustrous specimens in the lot

A notably sharp

The famed Copper County of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is one of the great Copper deposits in the world and has produced inarguably the largest quantity of superbly well-crystallized specimens of the species ever found