Smoky quartz

  
Smoky quartz scepter
Origin: Fat Jack Mine, Lane Mountain, Crown King, Pine Grove District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 9 x 5 x 26 mm
 
  
Origin: Mt Saint-Hilaire, Rouville Co., Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 2.3 x 1.8 x 6.3 cm
 
  
Smoky quartz with spessartine on a feldspar matrix
Origin: Tongbei, Yunxiao (Yunling), Zhangzhou area, Fujian, East Region, China
Sample size: 15.7 x 11.2 x 7 cm
 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Smoky quartz Gwindel
Origin: Göschener Alp, Canton Uri, Switzerland
Ex. Ernie Schlichter collection
Sample size: 6 x 5.2 x 1.7 cm
 
     
Origin: Ambatondrazaka, Toamasina Province, Madagascar
Sample size: 13 x 8 x 6 cm
 
     
Origin: Whiskey Gulch, Boulder Batholith, Montana, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5.5 x 2.9 x 2.1 cm
 
  
This smoky quartz is technically terminated, it is actually broken and rehealed where in the geologic past some shards have been chipped off. It has a perfect 1.5 cm cluster of topaz crystals in the front and a smaller blue crystal in the back of the specimen.
Origin: Mursinka, near Ekaterinberg, Russia
Sample size: 6.5 x 4.5 x 5 cm
 
  
Origin: Lake George, Park County, Colorado, U.S.A.
Ex. Gayle Zinn collection
Sample size: 7.5 x 7 x 6.2 cm
 
     
Origin: Emerald Lake, Yukon, Canada
Ex. Marty Lewadny collection
Sample size: 8.2 x 2.0 x 2.0 cm
 

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Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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