Smoky quartz

  
Origin: São Geraldo do Baixio, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil
Sample size: 6.5 x 4.3 x 1.6 cm
 
  
Smoky quartz gwindel
Origin:  St Gotthard Massif, Ticino (Tessin), Switzerland
Ex. Brian Scholten collection
Sample size: 4.8 x 1.6 x 4.5 cm
 
  
The specimen consists of a "matrix" of tabular colourless quartz studded with two doubly terminated glassy transparent smoky amethystine quartz crystals.
Origin: Pohndorf Mine, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA
Sample size: 3.5 x 1.3 x 5.2 cm
 
  
  
Smoky quartz with microcline (very pale greenish variety amazonite)
Origin: Crystal Peak area, Park/Teller Cos., Colorado, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5.8 x 3.9 x 4.3 cm
 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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