Quartz with included tourmaline

Item Description

A complete quartz crystal literally enveloping an elongated dark green tourmaline! We have all seen tourmalines sticking out of quartz, but this is ridiculous - seldom do you see so MUCH tourmaline embedded in a quartz, and then further to have it be a balanced, aesthetic specimen...very uncommon! In person, the tourm is somewhat translucent and has color, by the way, though it is hard to photograph. The outright visual oddity of a piece like this is worth something...and it is examples like this which really bedevil the collector when trying to explain how these things form (simultaneously?!) to the layman! 655 grams!