Smoky quartz

  
Origin: Brandberg, Namibia
Sample size: 5 x 3.5 x 5.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Nanisivik mine, Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, Canada
Sample size: 32 x 25 x 25 mm
 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
This specimen is comprised of sharply terminated crystals of smoky quartz to 5 cm in length. There are a few scattered crystals of spessartine garnet also. The quartz crystals have colourless zones near the crystal surfaces.
Origin: Tongbei, Yunxiao County, Fujiang Province, China
Ex. Western Minerals coll.
Sample size: 7 x 5 x 4 cm
 

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John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

Smoky quartz with microcline (very light coloured amazonite)
Smoky quartz with albite
  
Smoky quartz with goethite
  
Smoky quartz with amethyst, ex. George Fisher Collection
Origin: Pikes Peak, Pluton Area, Park County, Colorado, U.S.A.
Sample size: 6.8 x 6 x 5.3 cm (top), 14 x 7 x 5.5 cm (2nd row), 4.8 x 4.7 x 3.2 cm (3rd row), 4.8 x 3 x 1.8 cm (bottom)
 
  
Smoky quartz scepter
Origin: Goboboseb Mountain, Brandberg area, Uis District, Erongo Region, Namibia
Sample size: 4.0 x 2.5 x 1.7 cm
 
  
Smoky quartz with phantom on a matrix of calcite
Origin: Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk, Russia
Sample size: 4.6 x 3.1 x 2.9 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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