Quartz ("Herkimer Diamond")

Item Description

These are some of the most well-known Quartz specimens in the world. This is a very attractive matrix specimen consisting of translucent to WATER-CLEAR, sharp, highly lustrous, bipyramidal, doubly-terminated "stubby" crystals There is a little damage on the specimen but very aesthetic for the size. Some black hydrocarbon inclusions can be seen as well. From the collection of Allen Heyl, a geologist from Colorado and the namesake for Aheylite, a species in the Turquoise group.