Microcline (var: Amazonite)

Microcline (var: Amazonite)A decent thumbnail sized specimen of Amazonite with a handful of fairly sharp, semi lustrous, gentle blue green colored crystals and no matrix. The piece is clearly contacted, so it's mostly a reference specimen, but the main Amazonite crystals on the top of the piece are well terminated and look nice when viewing from above. Specimen # AMAZWH111926

and the midges make for a great contrast against the "rice grain"-esque beetles frozen inside

For luster

and it resided in his collection until he passed in 2025

A nice thumbnail sized group featuring sharp

the Italian specimens have set the standard for the Alpine material

making it even more enticing

it becomes cloudy and crazed leaving very little room to view what's inside

Lovely bright blue-green crystals of Amazonite with sharp faces and fine luster free of matrix

The species seen within include termites (Isoptera) and tiny flies (Diptera)

so the piece is not 100% pristine

This thin elongated piece of Copal arguably has the highest "population density" of insects of any specimen in the lot as there are approximately 100 ambrosia beetles (Platypodidae) and a few midges (Diptera)

I'm always impressed when one finds a piece this size with such good clarity and so many insects preserved within