Included quartz

  
  
Quartz (right hand Dauphine twin) with included rutile at the base
Origin: Saline Valley, Inyo Co., California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3.0 x 1.9 x 1.2 cm
 
  
  
Quartz with included hematite
Origin: Xikaungshi Mine, Hunan Province, China
Sample size: 11 x 6 x 5.5 cm
 
  
  
Quartz tainted by hematite with fluorite and calcite
Origin: Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hunan Province, China
Sample size: 6.6 x 4.6 x 4.2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Quartz with hematite inclusions and epidote
Origin: Hongquizheng, Meigu, Sichuan, China
Sample size: 12.5 x 11.6 x 3.7 cm
 
Quartz with hematite inclusions
Origin:  Moselle No. 10 mine, Phelps Co., Missouri, U.S.A.
Sample size: 25 x 22 x 7 mm
 
  
  
Quartz with chlorite inclusions
Origin:  Prince of Wales Island, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough, Alaska, U.S.A.
Sample size: 28 x 23 x 26 mm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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