Origin: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 4 x 3.5 x 3 cm
Smoky quartz (Gwindel/closed Gwindel)
Origin: Gamilhorn, Switzerland
ex. Gene Meieran Collection
ex. Gene Meieran Collection
Sample size: 4.5 x 3.5 x 1.75 cm
Smoky Quartz gwindel and faden. "Faden" is the German word for "string", and
they most commonly form in "Alpine" and "Alpine-type" Quartz specimens, but
seldom this dramatically and in a gwindel at that.
Origin: Mont Blanc, Chamonix, France
Sample size: 9.5 x 6 x 3 cm
Smoky quartz gwindel
Origin: Val Guif, Switzerland
ex. Harvard University Collection
ex. Harvard University Collection
Sample size: 3.5 x 3 x 1.2 cm
Origin: Lincoln County, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5.7 x 5 x 3 cm
Smoky quartz with
microcline
Origin: Pikes Peak Pluton Area, Park Co, Colorado, U.S.A.
Sample size: 7.5 x 4.5 x 3.3 cm
Smoky quartz gwindel
Origin: Val Guif, Tavetch, Switzerland
Sample size: 5 x 3.3 x 1.3 cm
Smoky quartz with
amazonite
Origin: Pike's Peak Area, Teller County, Colorado, U.S.A.
Sample size: 13.5 x 12 x 8.1 cm
Photo courtesy of:
Rob Lavinsky
Granite matrix, the top completely covered by blocky colorless
microcline crystals, the largest measuring 17 mm across. These are
sparsely "dotted" by tiny orange-red
spessartine crystals. Set on the left side of the matrix is a large
translucent frosty green sharply formed octahedral
fluorite
crystal measuring 25 mm across in size. On the right side of the matrix is a
terminated smoky quartz crystal, translucent and lustrous, measuring 5 cm in
height.
Origin: Tongbei, Yunxiao (Yunling), Zhangzhou area, Fujian, East Region, China
Sample size: 11.8 x 5.5 cm
Photo courtesy of:
Dan Weinrich