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MD-170712
Microcline, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz)
Papachacra, Belen Department, Catamarca, Argentina
Small Cabinet, 8.6 x 6.7 x 3.8 cm
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Another unusual specimen from the Argentine travels of collector Dave Stoudt, again from an area known more for its rhodo specimens - a cluster of large, chunky crystals of smoky quartz, with just a bit of attached accenting microcline matrix. You can see a sprinkling of tiny inclusions just inside the crystal faces, of what appears to be bright red lepidocrocite, and an unidentified dark mineral.