Smoky quartz

   
  
Dark smoky quartz
Origin: Warren Peak, Bear Lodge Mountains, Crook Co., Wyoming, USA
Sample size: top crystals to 5 mm, bottom crystals to 5 mm
 
        
Quartz with smoky phantom
Origin: Lincoln Co., New Mexico
Samples size left 3 cm x 5 mm, middle left 3 and 2 cm x 5 mm, middle right 3.5 x 1 cm, right 3 x 1 cm
 
Origin: Greely, Ontario, Canada
Sample size: 3.3 x 2 cm crystal
 
  
Smoky scepter quartz with hematite inclusions (and possibly anatase)
Brownish with a purple tinge, translucent, scepter and parallel growth, very nice miniature. Hematite (?) inclusions.
Origin: Brumado, Bahia, Brazil
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 2 cm (top), 4 x 3 x 2 cm (bottom)
 
Origin: unknown
Sample size: 3.2 x 3 x 2 cm
 
  
Origin: Gletscherhorn, Canton Uri, Switzerland
Sample size: 6 x 3 x 3 cm
 
     
Light smoky quartz
Origin: Switzerland
Sample size: 15 x 11 x 6 cm
  
Smoky faden quartz
Origin: Aiguille des Rochassieres, Bassin de Talefre, Dept. de Hautes-Saroie, France
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 5 cm
 
  
Smoky gwindel quartz
Origin: Gletschhorn, Canton Uri, Switzerland
Sample size: 6.5 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm
 
  
Smoky quartz with microcline
Origin: Pan Co., Colorado, United States
Sample size: 6 x 4.5 x 2 cm
 
  
Origin: Gletschhorn, Canton Uri., Swaziland
Sample size: 6 x 3 x 3 cm
 

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Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Smoky quartz gwindel
Origin: Chamonix, France
Sample size: 9 x 7 x 3 cm
 
  
Smoky quartz on microcline
Origin: Lake George Area, Colorado, U.S.A.
Sample size: 10.5 x 7.5 x 5 cm
 
  
Smoky quartz, gwindel
Origin: Chamonix, France
Sample size: 7 x 7 x 3 cm
 
  
Smoky quartz, Dauphine twin
Origin: near Tongbei, Fujian Province, China
Sample size: 11 x 6.7 x 5 cm
 
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
  
Origin: Crystal Peak area, Park/Teller Cos., Colorado, U.S.A.
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 3.6 x 4.4 x 7.7 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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