Fine Mineral Specimens $100 and Up

This page gathers the upper half of the catalogue: available, individually photographed natural mineral specimens priced from US$100. Pieces between $100 and $300 come first, then $300 and up. Price is a merchandising filter here, not a grade — a $120 specimen with sharp crystals and a clean locality record can be a better cabinet piece than a larger one at twice the price.

At this level the things worth comparing narrow to four: crystal quality (transparency, lustre, face sharpness), damage (chips and contacts at the display face matter far more than on the back), the strength of the locality record, and how the piece stands. We state condition plainly, including repairs, and every photograph is of the piece you receive under color-calibrated 5500K daylight.

Locality evidence stays at the level documented on the product page. A specimen recorded only as China is not promoted to a province or a mine on the strength of its colour or crystal habit. Carvings, spheres, polished pieces and fossils are excluded from this page — they are catalogued separately, because a shaped object is not a natural specimen however fine the material.