Milky quartz

  
Origin: Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., South Dakota, USA
Sample size: left largest crystal 2.5 cm, right largest crystal 2 cm
  
Ex. Grenier collection
  
Quartz with dolomite and pyrite
 
  
Quartz with dolomite, pyrite and rutile
Origin: Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., South Dakota, USA
Sample size: largest crystal 2.5 cm (top/2nd row), dolomite crystals 4-5 mm (3rd row), quartz to 1.5 cm, large pyrite crystal about 6 mm (bottom)
 
  
 
 
  
Origin: Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., South Dakota, United States
Sample size: 4 x 2.5 x 3cm (top), 3 x 2 x 2 cm (middle), 4.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm (bottom)
 
  
 
  
Quartz with pyrite and chalcopyrite
Origin: Cavnic, Romania
Sample size: 8 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm (top), 9 x 6 x 4 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Carlton Hill, Buxton, Derbyshire, England
Sample size: 5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Cambokeels Mine, Eastgate, Weardale, Co. Durham, England
Sample size: 8 x 3 x 2 cm
 
  
Quartz with stilbite
Origin: Under Water Town, Lewis Co., Washington, United States
Ex. O'Donnell collection
Sample size: 6 x 5.5 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Quartz on fluorite
Origin: Weardale, Durham, England
Sample size: 10 x 9 x 6 cm
 
  
Hollow and skeletal quartz
Origin: White Queen Mine (August ’76), San Diego Co, California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 11.5 x 6 x 5.5 cm
  
 
  
Quartz on fluorite
Origin: Berbes, near Oviedo, Spain
Sample size: 14 x 11 x 7 cm
 
  
 
  
Japanese law twin
Origin: Daye Mine, Hubei Province, Province, China
Sample size: 6 x 5.5 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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