Quickstrike Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
A sharp quartz point with a lot of character from an unusual locality: a primary growth of milky quartz was later overgrown with chlorite which was then included under a secondary growth of glassy and textural parallel growth quartz. The reverse of the specimen is contacted.
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A cluster of quartz crystals on matrix with a coating of iron oxides/hydroxides that give an irridescent shimmer in some areas.
Quartz with "chlorite" inclusions. New Mexico Bureau of Geology Mineral Museum no. 15282.
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A doubly-terminated quartz crystal coated in iron oxides/hydroxides that give an irridescent shimmer in some areas.