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MD-223880
Apatite, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz)
Pack Rat Mine, Mt. Tule, Jacumba District, San Diego Co., California, USA
Small Cabinet, 5.8 x 5.8 x 3.9 cm
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A rare and unique combination specimen from the much less well-known Pack Rat Mine of San Diego County. A sharp, textbook, hexagonal, gemmy and lustrous, 4.5 cm, pastel-green apatite crystal is set in two, sharp, intergrown, glassy and transparent, lightly etched, smoky quartz crystals. The lower portion of the apatite crystal was broken by pocket forces, but is held in place by the smoky quartz. The apatite and smoky quartz are contacted on the side, but there is no damage, per se. It is a highly representative specimen. Older material from the Chuck Houser Collection.