Smoky quartz

  
  
Origin: Sceptre Claims, Emerald Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada
Sample size: 10 x 7 x 5.6 cm
 
  
Smoky quartz with gwindel in the center
Origin: Val Giuv, Tujetsch (Tavetsch), Grischun (Grisons; Graubunden), Switzerland
Sample size: 28 x 14 x 34 mm
 
  
Terminated loose scepter quartz crystal, transparent. The “amethyst head” of the crystal is nicely smoky to purple in colour, with the “stem” nearly colourless.
Origin: Crystal Park, Elkhorn Hot Springs Area, Beaverhead Co., Montana, U.S.A.
Sample size: 1.2 x 0.9 x 4.4 cm
 
  
Smoky quartz with pale purplish amethyst
Origin: Ellis-Jones Mine, Due West, Abbeville Co., South Carolina, U.S.A.
Sample size: 4 x 4 x 5.2 cm
 
  
  
Smoky quartz with amazonite
Origin: Kenticha, near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Sample size: 15.0 x 10.8 x 9.8 cm
 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Smoky quartz sceptred on quartz on remnants of an indicolite crystal
Origin: Mt. Mica, Paris, Maine (circa late 1800's)
ex. Augustus Hamlin, ex. Harvard Museum
Sample size: 15.6 x 8.5 x 7.8 cm
 
  
  
Origin: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ex. Marty Lewadny collection
Sample size: 8.7 x 5.4 x 4.0 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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