Included quartz

  
Quartz with green chlorite inclusions
Origin: Dara Ismael Khan district, Waziristan, Pakistan
Ex Marvin Pearce collection
Sample size: 10 x 6 x 6 cm
 
  
Quartz with rutile inclusions
Origin: Gursa, Khapalu area, Northern Areas, Pakistan
Ex Marvin Pearce collection
Sample size: 5 x 3.5 x 5 cm
 
  
 "Shell-like" shaped hematite, or "kidney ore", matrix, the top covered by sparkling highly lustrous pyramid dominant quartz crystals to 2 cm in size. The crystals are undamaged and included with brownish-red hematite. There is a second generation of silver metallic specular hematite in micaceous crystals to 2 mm in size scattered about the quartz crystals.
Origin: Egremont, West Cumberland Iron Field, Cumbria (Cumberland), England, UK
Ex. Gene Tribbey Collection, ex British Musuem  (1926)
Sample size: 10 x 7.5 x 4.5 cm
 
  
Single terminated prismatic transparent quartz crystal, partly red due to inclusions of hematite, showing a phantom crystal. Also the crystal is partly green due to inclusions of chlorite(?).
Origin: near Jinlong, Guangdong Province, China
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 12.5 cm
 
  
Quartz with hematite and dolomite inclusions with epidote
Origin: Hongquizheng, Meigu, Xichang area, Sichuan, Southwest Region, China
Sample size: 10.5 x 9 x 5.7 cm
 

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Quartz with montmorillonite inclusions
Origin: White Queen Mine, Pala, San Diego Co., California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 8 x 5 x 2.6 cm
 
  
Polished quartz crystal with chlorite phantoms
Origin: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 4.4 x 3.8 x 3.8 cm
 
  
Hedenbergite included quartz
Origin: Seriphos Island, Greece
Sample size: 9.0 x 4.1 x 1.7 cm
 
  
Lepidolite included in quartz
Origin: Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego Co., California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3.25 x 2.2 x 2 cm
 
  
Quartz intergrown with hematite
Origin: Onca de Feir, near Bosca, Romania
Sample size: 16.6 x 9.9 x 6.8 cm
 

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Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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