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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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ex. Charlie Key
Rising majestically above smaller crystals is a large, glassy and gemmy quartz crystal, 5.75 cm in length, that has been included by disseminated hematite. This large crystal is also a fine scepter. It LOOKS awesome form the display face, but there is a large contact (missing attached crystal) on the left side, and thus the price is reduced accordingly...though it looks great from the front anyhow.
ex. Charlie Key
This matrix cluster of quartz crystals features three generations of growth. The first was that of milky quartz which was later overgrown by glassy and gemmy terminations which also had a dusting of goethite, giving all the crystals a smoky appearance. A third generation of hematite included quartz, with a light rose color, covered the lower 2/3 of the crystals. Each of the crystals, to 3.5 cm in length, exhibits magnificent phantoms created by the tips of the original milky cores. In all, this is a subtly aesthetic crystal group, and among my personal favorites.
ex. Charlie Key
Absolutely limpid, light smoky quartz crystals, to 8.0 in length, comprise this very aesthetic cluster. The clarity, luster, and color of these crystals is just outstanding for any locality - but without the hematite and red coloration, the quartzes from here just don't fetch smoky quartz values as with other locales. So, a relative bargain?!.
ex. Charlie Key
Three, diverging, glassy, quartz crystals, to 7.0 cm in length, are generally colorless except for the terminations, which have inclusions of brown hematite and black goethite.
ex. Charlie Key
WOW! This is a dramatic and superb miniature of parallel growth quartz crystals, to 5.0 cm in length. The crystals are very glassy and gemmy, with the lower portions of the crystals heavily included by reddish-brown hematite, with the terminal faces being transparent and colorless. The interface between the hematite colored portions and the transparent terminations exhibits beautiful phantoms. This is an incredible quartz fo rhte size range, that will leap out in any showcase.
ex. Charlie Key
A colorless stem grades into a sceptered termination of glassy and gemmy, hematite included quartz. The individual flakes of reddish-brown hematite are clearly visible in the sceptered head.
ex. Charlie Key
A doubly-terminated, gemmy and glassy quartz crystal is basically colorless at one end and hematite included, bright reddish-brown at the other. Better in person! This is a floater, complete all around.
ex. Charlie Key
This near-floater is doubly-terminated, with the largest crystal having multiple basal terminations. The glassy and translucent crystal is included with hematite which has given the specimen an INCREDIBLE fiery orange color. Pics speak for themselves...like no other quartz from anywhere!
ex. Charlie Key
Looking very similar to a pincushion, this cluster of diverging, lustrous and gemmy, quartz crystals, are all heavily included by hematite with most of the reddish-brown color in the terminal faces. The largest crystal measures 1.5 cm in length. This is an aesthetic and nearly pristine specimen!
ex. Charlie Key
This matrix specimen features two large and several smaller quartz crystals which are translucent, milky, and heavily included by chocolate colored hematite. The largest specimen, 4.0 cm in length, is also sceptered. All the crystals exhibit phantoms created at the interface of the two colors. Very nice!
ex. Charlie Key
Rising vertically from its quartz/feldspar matrix, and wreathed by its smaller siblings, is a dramatic sceptered quartz crystal, 5.5 cm in length and complete 360 degrees around. The milky stem gives way to a lustrous and translucent, hematite included termination, which also exhibits a phantom, right at the tip.
ex. Charlie Key
A cluster of gemmy and glassy, mostly colorless quartz crystals, to 4.0 cm in length, have amethystine color centers in their terminal faces. The purple color centers have created lovely and distinct phantoms.
ex. Charlie Key
This is a cluster of quartz crystals with milky cores and orange colored, hematite-included cores. The crystals, to 3.0 cm in length are lustrous and contain phantoms at the terminations.
ex. Charlie Key
Rather equant in size, this sceptered quartz crystal has a large termination which is lustrous and translucent, and exhibits a pastel lavender coloration. the tip of the crystal also has a slight phantom present. The core, which is milky, is dusted with hematite.
ex. Charlie Key
The reverse scepter quartz crystal, like this one, is far rarer in nature and much more dramatic. In this case, a gemmy and glassy, colorless stem gives way to a gemmy and glassy, smoky termination. As is the case in all reverse scepters, the termination is much smaller in diameter than the stem. As an added bonus, there is an immovable bubble in the termination. Dramatic and rare!
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