mineral general info

Quartz with shattuckite inclusions

Origin: Otjikotu, Kaokoveld, Kunene, Namibia

Ex. Charlie Key collection

Sample size: 5.9 x 5.4 x 3.9 cm

Ex. Clyde Hardin collection

Quartz with hedenbergite inclusions

Origin: Serifos, Hellas, Greece

Sample size: 4.4 x 2.9 x 2.9 cm (top), 4.0 x 3.4 x 2.0 cm (2nd row), 4.2 x 2.0 x 1.1 cm (bottom)

Doubly terminated quartz crystals with rutile and brookite inclusions

Origin: Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan

Sample size: 6.8 x 2.9 x 2.3 cm

Quartz with chlorite inclusions

Origin: Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 4.3 x 2.0 x 1.9 cm

Quartz with ajoite inclusions

Quartz with ajoite and copper inclusions

Quartz with ajoite inclusions

Origin: Messina Mine, Transvaal, South Africa

Sample size: 6.6 x 5.2 x 5.3 cm (top), 15.8 x 10.1 x 7.5 cm (2nd row), 13.5 x 8.7 x 7.1 cm (3rd row), 5.7 x 4.7 x 4.0 cm (bottom)

Quartz with graphite inclusions and movable fluid inclusion

Origin: Cong Ly, Sichuan Province, China

Sample size: 5.3 x 2.3 x 2.0 cm

Quartz with lazulite inclusions

Origin: Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada

Ex. Gilles Haineault collection

Sample size: 6.6 x 3.7 x 2.7 cm

Quartz scepter with hematite inclusions

Origin: Orange River, Namibia

Sample size: 7.4 x 5.5 x 3.7 cm

Quartz included in quartz

Origin: Coleman Mine, Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, U.S.A.

Sample size: 14.5 x 8.7 x 7.0 cm

Quartz with fluorite inclusions

Origin: Miandrivazo, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar

Sample size: 13.6 x 3.4 x 2.0 cm

Quartz with hematite inclusions on hematite

Origin: Le Chang, Guangdong Province, China

Sample size: 18.5 x 17.3 x 13.5 cm

Quartz with arsenopyrite inclusions

Origin: Panasquiera, Portugal

Sample size: 9.8 x 7.0 x 6.9 cm

Quartz with moving fluid inclusion pseudomorph after tourmaline

Origin: Minas Gerais, Brazil (Barra de Salinas?)

Sample size: 9.9 x 5.0 x 4.4 cm

Quartz with papagoite inclusions

Quartz with papagoite and copper inclusions

Origin: Messina mine, Transvaal, South Africa

Sample size: 7.0 x 5.3 x 4.3 cm (top), 5.0 x 4.0 x 3.4 cm (2nd row), 4 x 2 x 1.5 cm (bottom)

Quartz with included sugilite

Origin: Wessels Mine, Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa

Sample size: 2.5 x 2.0 x 1.3 cm

Quartz with included hedenbergite and hematite

Origin: Megalivadi, Isle of Serifos, Greece

Sample size: 10.0 x 8.3 x 5.6 cm

Elbaite included in quartz

Origin: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ex. Gene Meieran collection

Sample size: 10.0 x 2.5 x 1.8 cm

Rutile included quartz

Origin: Ibitiara, Bahai, Brazil

Ex. Rebecca Stewart collection

Sample size: 2.7 x 1.6 x 1.2 cm

Quartz crystals included with epidote forming distinct phantoms, intermixed with epidote crystals

Origin: Baluchistan, Pakistan

Sample size: 16.2 x 14.8 x 7.4 cm

Quartz with included chlorite

Origin: Verge Rhein, Surrein, Switzerland

Ex. John Barlow and J.R. Glover collections

Sample size: 7.3 x 5.9 x 3.5 cm

Quartz with included tourmaline

Origin: Einsenada, Baja, California, Norte Mexico

Sample size: 4.7 x 4.7 x 2.0 cm

This quartz crystal contains a phantom that would be absolutely invisible except that on its surface grew dozens of little pale transparent crystals of fuchsite, demarcating its faces. Along one side is a rich covering of fuchsite microcrystals of a larger size, with a more saturated green colour.

Origin: Cantera Quesga, Pasto Bueno, Pallasca Prov., Ancash Dept., Peru

Sample size: 7.2 x 4.6 x 3.4 cm

Japan law twin with phantom with outlines covered with clay and cookeite

Origin: PC Mine, Jefferson Co., Montana, U.S.A.

Sample size: 7.1 x 4.9 x 2.5 cm

Sharp, water-clear, tabular, Japan-law twinned quartz crystals wonderfully accented with lustrous, plumose sprays of acicular schorl crystals, which are both on and in the quartz crystals.

Origin: Bald Hornet Claim, near Mt. Teneriffe, King Co., Washington, U.S.A.

Ex. Dick Jones collection

Sample size: 4.0 x 3.2 x 1.7 cm

The clear outer layer shows a very sharp phantom, delineated by a mineral coating on the faces of the interior crystal, on this large quartz crystal

Origin: Newberry Mountains, near Searchlight, Clark County, Nevada, U.S.A.

Sample size: 8.5 x 5.2 x 3.8 cm

Quartz with included rutile

Origin: Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Pakistan

Sample size: 7.4 x 5.1 x 3.4 cm

This plate of glassy, flashy quartz from the Glover collection is distinctive due to the rich inclusions of hedenbergite and goethite, which give the crystals a rich mossy color.Origin: San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 11.0 x 9.1 x 4.2 cm

Photo courtesy of:

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

This crystal of quartz is host to a weird group of stacked calcite crystals with disk shape. The fringes of the calcite are included with some microscopic sulfide coloring them gray. The center of the quartz is also included with boulangerite and small galena crystals.

Origin: Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan Province, China

Sample size: 11.5 x 8 x 7 cm

Photo courtesy of:

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

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Included quartz