Included quartz

    
Quartz with chlorite phantom
Origin: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 6.0 x 3.3 x 2.2 cm
 
  
Reverse scepter with chlorite inclusions
Origin: Plumas County, California, U.S.A.
Ex. Fred Pough collection
Sample size: 4.1 x 0.8 x 0.7 cm
 
  
A plate of gemmy crystals of quartz containing very sharp red phantoms inside from an earlier generation of crystals that was coated with hematite (looks like to me) or sphalerite (the Chinese say) before being engulfed by a later generation of crystal growth.
Origin: Shihkoushan, Hunan Province, China
Sample size: 11.3 x 6.2 x 4.9 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Quartz with red iron oxide inclusions
Origin: Orange River, Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Sample size: 24 x 17 x 26 mm
 
  
Quartz crystal included with several prismatic epidote crystals, these in turn are coated by reddish brown hematite.
Origin: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 18 x 18 x 36 mm
 
  
  
Quartz with actinolite inclusions on andradite
Origin: Sinerechenskiy Mine, Sinerechenskoye (Sineretschenskoye) skarn occurrence, Kavalerovo Mining District, Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
Sample size: 3.3 x 1.7 x 4.6 cm

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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