Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz), Feldspar Group, Opal-A (Var: Opal-AN)
Lattice quartz occurrence, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
10 x 8 x 6 cm. The "normal" Smoky Quartz is an impressive 3.8 cm, translucent, sitting beautifully on a large Feldspar crystal. What makes this truly unique are the rest of the Smoky Quartzes. They are in two sets of 2 cm crystals, one set 6 cm long, the other 2 cm. The crystals are incredibly intergrown, resembling a spine. Such oriented growths ...
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