Included quartz

  

A doubly-terminated quartz crystal on matrix, with a prominent enhydro (Fluid inclusion; bubble inside a water pocket trapped in the crystal). The bubble quite clearly moves as you move the crystal.

Origin: Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Sample size: 7.5 x 6 x 5.5 cm

 

  

Quartz with spessartine inclusions and mica

Origin: Pedro Azul Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 2.8 x 2.7 x 1.2 cm

 

  

Blue quartz (with riebeckite inclusions)

Origin: Baya de Calca, Columbia
Ex. Herb Walters Collection

Sample size: 9.5 x 6.5 x 4.5 cm

 

  

Quartz with ajoite inclusions

Origin: Messina Mine, northern Transvaal, Republic of South Africa

Ex. M. Dodge collection

Sample size: 2.9 x 1.3 x 1 cm

 

  

Quartz with papagoite inclusions

Origin: Messina Mine, Transvaal, South Africa

Ex. M. Zinn collection

Sample size: 7 x 4.2 x 4.1 cm

 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

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