Gemmy Quartz Crystal

Item Description

A large termination section with a mostly optical termination off of a giant lemurian/muzo habit quartz crystal, from this famous discovery. This crystal would easily cut a 500 carat, flawless gemstone. The Vortex Vein is probably the single-most valuable vein of quartz crystals in the world! Valued at $2500 as a fair retail value from the mine itself, if you were to purchase it there literally from the owner. MUZO/lemurian habit means this, according to wikipedia: The striation on the prism faces caused by the alternating types of faces can be well visible but also almost absent. The Muzo habit looks a bit like a very trigonal Tessin habit, but in those the m faces alternate with steep rhombohedral faces, not the r or z faces.