Quartz var: Rose (scepters)

Item Description

A classic old-time specimen of the famed Rose Quartz crystals from Taquaral featuring sharp, lustrous well-formed, light pink crystals showing distinct and rarely seen scepter habits sitting on a matrix of additional Rose Quartz and Smoky Quartz. The larger scepter on the side of the piece measures 3.6 cm, ad is slightly translucent, but the two smaller scepters on the piece are GEM QUALITY! No major damage that I can see, and the piece is beautiful in person, but maybe a bit hard to convey the quality in photos/video.
From the collection of Armon McPherson, a retired physicist, now living in New Mexico. Armon received his PhD from North Carolina State University in 1985, and worked at the laser laboratory at the University of Illinois at Circle Center. In the summer of 1997, Armon moved to the Argonne National Laboratory where he worked at the Advanced Photon Source, then the world’s largest synchrotron facility dedicated as an x-ray source. In 2001, he was asked to join a team at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque to conduct laser research for DARPA. Finally, staying within Sandia, he transferred to the Z Facility, the world’s most powerful x-ray facility. He retired in the spring of 2017. Armon's introduction to mineral collecting came in the 1980s during graduate school when he attended his first mineral show. He took up the hobby of faceting gems, and focused his early collection on gem crystals, and later transitioned into collecting non-gem species. We are proud to offer specimens from his worldwide mineral collection here for you.