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Quartz Crystals Collection (5), free floating [175270]

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Rocks, Fossils & Minerals Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 500.00 USD
Quartz Crystals Collection (5), free floating   [175270]
SOLD
120.00USDto 8*************e+ buyer's premium (30.00)
This item SOLD at 2024 Jan 28 @ 08:26UTC-8 : PST/AKDT

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Lot includes five quartz crystal specimens. Crystals are individual. 1) Prismatic clear crystal (approx. 2.5x1x0.75"), tabular, slight citrine in sections, beautiful 3-facet negative growth imprint, stepped striations (change of conditions!), iridescence patches, large daughter crystal; 2) large (2.5x1") prismatic crystal, rhombohedral, negative growth imprints, stepped striations, iridescence patches. This crystal is double terminated and twinned against a milky quartz crystal
with a small patch of sprouts beginning near the seam, very minor iron staining; 3) large prismatic crystal twins, approx. 1.75x1x1.25", rhombohedral, slight iron staining but slightly citrine in appearance, beautiful 5-facet negative growth imprint with stepping!; 4) beautiful quartz cluster (1.5x0.75x0.5"), with large crystal sprout, iridescence patch, slight iron staining, but sprouts appear slightly citrine in appearance; 5) small quartz crystal (larges approx. 0.5x0.25"), rhombohedral split/inter growth crystal clusters growing non-orientated, larger crystals have sprouting and daughter crystals. Black inclusions. This specimens should be considered a 'free floating' formation, as it only has one point of connection for nucleation of crystal growth (this is the only fractured/broken surface, with no other showing interference/intergrowth. Natural growth lines evident on all facets. Chunlin Collection.
China