Rock crystal

  
Quartz with muscovite
Origin: Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 2 cm, quartz to 3 cm, muscovite to 1.5 cm
 
     
Quartz with scepters
Origin: Dugway, Juab Co., Utah, USA
Sample size: left 1.5 x 1 cm, middle 1 x 1.5 cm, right 1.5 x 1.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Harvard quarry, near Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine, USA
Sample size: 5 x 5 x 3 cm, doubly terminated crystal 1.2 cm
 
  
Origin: Jeffries quarry, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Sample size: 3.5 x 2 x 2 cm
 
  
Japan law twin
Origin: left Narushima Island, Nagasaki Pref., Japan, right  Lincoln Co., New Mexico
Sample size: left twin 1.5 x 2 cm and 3 mm thick, right 3.5 x 3 cm
 
Scepter growth
Origin: Scepter Hill, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA
Sample size: 1.5 cm crystal
 
     
 
  
 
  
Origin: Cavnic, Romania
Sample size: top 5 x 5 x 4 cm reveres scepters, middle 7 x 5 x 2 cm, bottom 7 x 6 x 4 cm
 
  
Scepter quartz
Origin: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm, crystals to 8 mm
 
  
Origin: Peru
Sample size: 10 x 6 x 4 cm, crystals to 3 cm
 
  
Quartz with muscovite
Origin: Cantera Quesga, Pasto Bueno, Pallasca Prov., Ancash, Peru
Sample size: about 4 cm
 

"Herkimer diamonds"

Origin: Herkimer County, New York, U.S.A.

Sample size: 2.5 x 1.5 cm
 
  
Sample size: 6 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm
 
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 cm
 
  
Sample size: 3.7 x 2.5 cm
 
  
Sample size: 6 x 6 x 5 cm
 
  
Sample size: 3 x 3 x 2 cm
 
  
Sample size: 9.5 x 7 x 4 cm
 
  
Sample size: 1.7 x 1.2 cm
 
  
Sample size: 1 x 0.5 cm
 
  
Sample size: 2 x 1.4 cm
 
  
Sample size: 1.9 x 1.5 cm
 
  
Sample size: 2 x 1.6 cm
 
  
Sample size: 1.5 x 1.1 cm
  
 
  
Origin: Flowery mine, Storey Co., Nevada, United States
Sample size: 8 x 2 x1.5 cm (top), 4 x 3 x 2 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Washington, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, United States
Eaton Collection
Sample size: 3.5 x 2 x 2 cm
 
  
Fluorite on quartz
Origin: Yaogangxian mine, Hunan Province, China
Sample size: 3.5 x 3.8 x 3 cm
 
  
Waterclear 6 cm quartz crystal with a slight amethyst phantom. A smaller crystal at the base shows hematitic(?) inclusions.
Origin: Brandberg, Namibia
Sample size: 7 x 4 x 4 cm
 
  
Doubly terminated, water clear quartz with amethyst phantoms near one end. It also shows a slight smoky phantom in zones within the amethyst. A small 6mm light green crystal of prehnite is also present.
Origin: Brandberg, near Karibib, Namibia
Sample size: 7.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
  
Quartz with sphalerite and pyrite
Origin: Huaron Mine, Pasco Dept., Peru
Sample size: 4.3 x 2.8 x 3.3 cm
 
  
Origin: Mt Xuebaoding (Mt Xuebaodiang), Huya, Pingwu district, Mianyang (Mianxian), Chengdu area, Sichuan, Southwest Region, China
Sample size: 6.1 x 3.4 x 9.3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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