Quartz (''Mango Quartz'')

Item Description

These beautiful specimens hit the market in 2017, and immediately made a splash as they were some of the most unique Quartz crystals ever found. They are actually mined along a roadcut in the middle of the famous Emerald mining region in Boyacá, Colombia. The tips of many of these crystals feature bright yellow-orange inclusions of a mineral that was first reported to be Humboltine, but others have since stated it is Halloysite. I cannot find definitive confirmation that the inclusions are Halloysite, only referential posts on various sites online. The crystals are high quality in their own right, as they are textbook, hexagonal prisms with supreme colorless OPTIC clarity, which is only accentuated by the beautiful inclusions. This piece is an excellent prismatic crystal group, complete on all sides (there is one small separation mark on the back where another Quartz crystal once grew) with an undamaged termination that is included with those eye-catching yellow-orange inclusions. This distinctive color has given these Quartz crystals the nickname "Mango Quartz", and have become very popular among Quartz collectors. I don't know if there will be more of these in the future, so if you're a fan of interesting Quartz specimens or unique inclusion specimens, don't pass this one up, as there are not nearly as many as there were a few years ago. Specimen weight is 11.62 grams. For more information, please see Rocks & Minerals May/June 2019 issue, Vol. 94, No. 3.