Smoky quartz

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Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

  

Smoky quartz with albite and tourmaline

Origin: Kunar Province, Afghanistan, Asia

Sample size: 11.5 x 8.5 x 7.9 cm

 

  

Smoky quartz with fluorite

Origin: Goschener Alp, Uri, Switzerland, Europe

Ex. Dan Balan collection

Sample size: 5.5 x 3.6 x 3 cm

 

  

This is a nice combination piece with aquamarines standing up off of a doubly terminated smoky quart crystal matrix. Several small, thin black schorls add to the aesthetics. The 2 larger aquamarines are doubly terminated.

Origin: Erongo Mountains, Namibia

Ex. Scott Werschky collection

Sample size: 7.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm

 

  

  

Smoky quartz with spessartine and minor muscovite on feldspar matrix

Origin: Tongbei, Fujian Prov., China

Ex. Dave Douglass collection

Sample size: 10 x 5 x 5 cm

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