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Description: Quartz Locality: China (Locality at mindat.org) Size: 17.4 x 17.2 x 6.9 cm. A wonderful specimen with vague locality information, but definitely Chinese. This is a large plate of very large sceptred quartz crystals, the sceptres being quite obvious and dramatic, as translucent caps around the terminations of heavily included crystals. What is really cool and unique about this specimen is that displaying it from one side emphasizes the sceptres, and from the other side, dramatic skeletal growth and phantoming. For the quartz collector, there is just so much interesting going on here that you can look at it for hours without getting bored.
Title: Quartz-154679
Credit: http://www.mindat.org/photo-154679.html
Author: Robert M. Lavinsky
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