Quartz w/ Montmorillionite inclusions reverse scepter (RARE - Bill Larson Coll.)

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The White Queen Mine is famous for gorgeous vivid pink morganite crystals and for exotic quartz crystals included with pink and tan montmorillionite. This is a remarkable, dramatically sculptural, lustrous, 360-degree small cabinet reverse scepter quartz crystal included with pink montmorillionite. Located in 1901, intermittent production occurred until the early 1960s, when a road was built to the pegmatite. Norm Dawson recovered tons of striking included quartz crystals and many kilograms of fine morganites between the early 1960s and early 1990s. The mine reverted to the Pala Indian tribe in 1992 (MINDAT). See MINDAT: https://www.mindat.org/loc-4459.html and the 2002 Mineralogical Record issue, Vol. 33, No. 5 for more information on the mine. Ex Bill Larson San Diego County Pegmatite Collection and long on display at his Pala International shop in Fallbrook. A California classic, now rarely on the market, especially in this unique form. A famous San Diego classic!