Found: Multiple pieces

Our first find was Cavansite! Cavansite is a rare mineral with flower-like crystals attached to a matrix (mother rock). This is the first time we have found these pieces polished. Some stones are completely cavansite while others are still partly attached to the matrix.

Found: A number of pieces

This rough Prehnite has grown in Sphere-like shapes and has a light green color. We have taken some rough spheres but also clusters as seen in this picture.

Found: Multiple pieces

Spessartine garnet is one of our favorite stones because it has a special color and grows beautifully in nature. It has a garnet-like shape and the lines on the crystal are clearly visible.

Found: a number of pieces

Hackmanite is a special stone from Afghanistan that becomes deeper in color due to sunlight (UV).

Found: several pieces

This Gold Topaz from Zambia is transparent while the inclusions make the stone gold-colored. That is slightly different from the 'normal' Gold Topaz from Brazil. Those from Brazil are often a lot more orange.

Found: several pieces

Teal Kyanite is a mix of green and blue Kyanite. Right between the transition zones between blue and green Kyanite you will find the 'Teal' variant. These pieces are normally rarer and therefore more valuable.

Found: a number of pieces

These are beautiful rough pieces of Scapolite where the crystalline growth structure is clearly visible. The natural lines along the crystal show how the mineral has formed. A nice find of nice quality, and for a good price.

Found: a number of pieces

We also came across beautiful polished Variscite, it is a fairly rare mineral and it has a very specific mint green colour with veins of other minerals.

Found: some pieces

We came across small rough pieces of Green Fluorite from the gentleman from the Scapolites in Morocco, he had some nice small pieces so we took those with us too.

Found: some pieces

Alexandrite is one of the rarest crystals on earth. Alexandrite is dark green in color and can be partially transparent. Some Alexandrite can change color depending on the light. During the day or under white light it looks greenish, but in the evening under warm light such as from an incandescent light bulb it turns red or purple-red.

Found: some pieces

Euclase is also one of the rarest minerals in the world. Euclase is actually a colorless stone but there are also blue variants to be found due to the presence of iron. The bluer and clearer the stone, the more valuable.

Found: a number of pieces

These are small quartz points with inclusions of the mineral Dumortirite (blue). We have taken the most beautiful pieces.

Found: several pieces

We were able to purchase these Amethyst points from Kazakhstan for the first time last year at the fair in Munich. We now met the same man in France and can therefore replenish our stock! The special thing about these Amethyst points is that they are small and rough, and therefore also ideal for making pendants.

Found: a number of pieces

A new gemstone! Heliodor belongs to the Beryl family, just like Aquamarine (blue), Emerald (green) & Morganite (pink). They are beautiful transparent rods with a subtle yellow color.

Found: several pieces

Fortunately, we have also succeeded this year with beautiful pieces of Moldavite for a fair price. Our stock was almost gone, so that is good. Moldavite is an extraterrestrial mineral and probably arrived 15 million years ago via a meteorite impact.

Found: a number of pieces

These raw Aquamarine sticks come from Brazil. It is sometimes difficult to find transparent pieces that also have a lot of color. But as you can see, we succeeded! Very happy with it.

Found: several pieces

Morganite belongs to the Beryl family, just like Aquamarine, Emerald and Heliodor. It is a stone that can be found in a soft pink to peachy pink color. These pieces are polished in angular structure and have free forms.

Found: a number of pieces

These were almost gone! So we are happy that we were able to find natural Citrine points again. You would not think so quickly but it is quite difficult to find natural Citrine in a nice pendant shape. Amethyst is often heated until it turns orange and they call it Citrine.

Found: a number of pieces

Tourmaline comes in every color of the rainbow! Green and red-pink varieties are known as Watermelon Tourmaline. The mineral grows in elongated rod shapes, and high quality pieces are transparent with fine lines running lengthwise through the crystal.

These Tourmaline pieces are cut into slices, which makes the colors stand out even better. The edge of the stone is also rough and the lines are clearly visible.

Found: several pieces

We already have rough tourmaline rods but now we also came across them with an angular polished structure, just like with the Morganite. It is always nice to be able to offer different types of pendants of the same stone.

Found: several pieces

We are rarely a little bit in love with the Pink Tourmaline from Siberia. Compared to other pink Tourmalines, these are a very beautiful deep pink color. We found a large container full of pink Tourmalines with imperfections at the fair and took the most beautiful pieces with us for a good price.

Found: several pieces

This stone may also be familiar to you from last year. It is the rough Aquamarine rods from Siberia that are semi-transparent and deep in color.

Found: a number of pieces

A new gemstone in our collection! We brought small pieces of Sugilite, a rare and precious stone that ranges from lavender and light purple to deep violet or almost black-purple.

Found: a number of pieces

We also found nice quality Rhodonite. We had rough pieces before but that was not a success with drilling because of the mineral structure of the stone. Hopefully this will work again with the polished version!

Found: some pieces

We also found a number of Amethyst points with hematite inclusions. Most of the pieces are light purple but there are also some quartz pieces among them.

Found: 2 pieces available

Let's start with the complicated name haha: it's pronounced 'vay-ry-nee-not' and it's an incredibly rare mineral that's normally much more subtle in color. It's named after the Finnish geologist who first found it, which happens a lot in the gem world.

It was a pricey stone because of its rarity but it really caught our attention. Hopefully we will find someone for this beautiful piece (we have 2 by the way).

Found: 3 pieces available

This is probably the highest quality Emerald we have ever purchased. It is a clear piece with a deep green color. We also have 3 other pieces, 1 from Colombia.

Found: 1 copy

We only have one of this rough Dravite. It is a brown Tourmaline that is close to yellow, making the stone very transparent. The beauty of Tourmaline is the inclusions that give the stone a lot of depth.

Found: some pieces

Tourmaline comes in every color of the rainbow! Green and red-pink varieties are known as Watermelon Tourmaline. The mineral grows in elongated rod shapes, and high quality pieces are transparent with fine lines running lengthwise through the crystal.

Found: a few pieces

A few stones above you will find the rough Heliodor. This is the polished variety and is deeper in color but less transparent. We have found a few pieces of this in a nice shape but not super many.

Found: some pieces

This is an even rarer Tanzanite than the normal light blue variety because the stone is partly green. Unfortunately, it was not entirely possible to get the pieces on the photo but here is a preview.

Found: some pieces

These Sapphires come from Sri Lanka and are rough. The growth direction on these sapphires is clearly visible. The stones are transparent and have a light blue color.

Found: some pieces

Last year we bought raw Tugtupite for the first time at the fair in Munich. This time we found polished pieces of beautiful quality. Tugtupite is a rare mineral that is only found in Greenland. Mining is difficult, which makes the stone extra valuable. Just like Hackmanite and Afghanite, Tugtupite reacts to sunlight and UV light: if you put it in the sun, the pink parts of the stone become even more intense in color.

Found: some pieces

We came across this special stone at the fair, directly from the geologists who had brought it with them. The structure is reminiscent of moldavite, with deep grooves and a rough, almost alien appearance. But this is not meteorite glass.

Although it looks like a Tektite, this stone is largely Obsidian and is a form of natural volcanic glass. A so-called Pseudo-Tektite, formed by volcanic heat rather than an impact.

We were immediately impressed. We had never seen anything like it before.

Found: some pieces

We have also been successful in more unique Tourmaline pieces. Here you see a piece with pink and yellow colors. We have more in all kinds of different color combinations.

Found: some pieces

Here you see a larger green-blue Tourmaline bar. Really beautiful how the colors flow over.

Found: several pieces

Hackmanite is a special stone from Afghanistan that becomes deeper in color due to sunlight (UV).

Found: some pieces

Jeremejevite is one of the rarest gemstones in the world. It is almost impossible to find larger pieces for pendants so we bought some smaller rods. Now let's hope the drilling works, fingers crossed 🤞🏻

Found: some pieces

Petroleum quartz is a variety of quartz in which orange particles of oil are trapped within the mineral. With a UV light these color up beautifully.

Found: 3 pieces available

This small mineral is very rare. We were able to find 3 pieces including the well-known cube shape that Boleite is known for.

Found: some pieces

These small light yellow balls are Rhodosite and were found in Madagascar. It is a rare mineral that we did not know existed. We are curious if it will work with drilling because they are really very very small.

Found: 1 copy

This is a very unique piece of green Tourmaline because of its cone-like shape.

Found: a number of pieces

Tourmaline in quartz is rare in itself, but blue Tourmaline in quartz of this quality is rare. The quartz is exceptionally clear and the Tourmaline pieces are beautiful in color and shape.

This combination makes the stones really special. We were able to take them for a good price thanks to our good relationship with the dealer, but they remain valuable pieces.

Found: a number of pieces

Last year they also found this stone. We decided to have another look at the same dealer and took home the most beautiful bars. Some bars end with black Tourmaline (as in the picture).

Found: some pieces

We also find this a very special find! They are slices of Aquamarine and because of the inclusions there is a beautiful depth effect in the stones. Also there are sparkles and shines in them that you normally do not have with Aquamarine. This is probably due to the presence of another unknown mineral in the inclusions.

Found: 2 copies

We have taken the two most beautiful pieces of this Rutilated Quartz. The rutile needles are very beautiful to see in the quartz and have a kind of star shape.

Found: some pieces

Tsavorite garnet is one of our favorite minerals. It is a transparent light green stone with inclusions of Graphite (carbon). The front of these stones is always in a natural Garnet-like shape. And on the back you see the place where the stone was attached to the mother rock, this side is a bit rougher.

Found: some pieces

We also found a few pink Topazes from Pakistan. They are sometimes called Champagne Topaz but this specimen is more pink in color and therefore much rarer.

Found: some pieces

Hauyene belongs to the Sodalite group just like Afghanite and Hackmanite. This is Hauyene of a high quality. You can recognize it by its deep color and it is also semi-transparent.

Found: some pieces

We already had some rough Afghanite in our collection, but this time we also found pieces that are partly transparent. You can see it well with the stone on the bottom right in the photo above.

Found: some pieces

The color of this stone attracted us very much. It is a color that we have never seen before in a mineral, very special. The presence of Manganese makes this stone deep red in color.

Found: some pieces

This variation of green Tourmaline has a beautiful depth effect due to the large amount of Chromium. We have found some beautiful pieces.

Found: 2 copies

We have found for the first time 2 beautiful pieces of pink Tanzanite. The stone is colored pink because of the presence of manganese. It is rarer than the blue varieties of Tanzanite

Found: some pieces

The dark blue variety of Tourmaline is also called Indigolite called. At first glance the stone appears almost black, but as soon as you hold it up to the light, a deep indigo-blue glow appears.