Included quartz

  
Quartz coloured green by chlorite inclusions
Origin: Ojibway Mine, Keewanaw Co., Michigan, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5.0 x 3.2 x 2.7 cm
 

     

Origin: Montgomery County, Arkansas
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 2 cm
 
  
  
A unique specimen with a tentacular green spike of chlorite running straight along the c-axis of a completely pristine and gemmy quartz crystal
Origin: Haramosh Mountains, Gilgit, Pakistan
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 4 cm

 

  
Quartz full with rutile inclusions (rutilated quartz)
Origin: Novo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 12.5 x 10 x 7.5 cm
 
  
   
Quartz with chlorite inclusions
Origin: Wana, Waziristan, NWFP, Pakistan
Sample size: 5.3 x 4.2 x 2 cm
 
  
Chalcotrichite inclusions in quartz
Origin: ?
Sample size: ?
 
  
  
Quartz with rutile inclusions
Origin: Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 5.3 x 4.4 x 2.8 cm
 
Quartz included by hedenbergite
Origin: Dal'Negorsk, Russia
Ex. S. Nasser collection
Sample size: 3.1 x 2.7 x 1.6 cm
 

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Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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