Quartz with Rutile (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

Item Description

Kapudzhukh Mt is well known for its fine quality crystallized Rutiles which are comparable to crystals from Mt Graves, Georgia for reference. This piece is more of a Quartz specimen than Rutile but still features a fine quality, very sharp, lustrous, prismatic, metallic dark silvery-reddish colored crystal of Rutile measuring 1.0 cm sitting among iron-included Quartz crystals measuring up to 2.7 cm on host rock matrix. The Rutile crystal is pristine, and most of the Quartz prisms are in very good shape, though a few contacts can be seen. You don't see a lot of these specimens on the market anymore, and it's even hard to find a piece with so many nice Quartz crystals like this. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#8825). Kay's label mentions that this locality was in the former USSR at the time she acquired it. Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Welt" November-December 2017).