- PALA-133
- Apatite on Smoky Quartz
- Little Three Mine, Ramona District, San Diego Co., California, USA
- Cabinet, 9.8 x 6.4 x 4.3 cm
- Ex. William (Bill) Larson
- SOLD
A lovable ugly to some, this is a MAJOR County specimen to others. This beautiful smoky quartz hosts a 6-cm-long, doubly terminated apatite crystal - a particularly rare species from this mine, and a huge crystal of it. The ghostly white apatite is terminated on the bottom quite nicely, and etched or contacted into a scepter shape on its top termination. The contrast of the two forms is appealing. The quartz is a floater, complete all around, even terminated on the bottom.