Smoky Quartz (rare locale - Kidwell Coll.)

Item Description

An impressive large water-clear, gem smoky quartz crystal from an unknown pegmatite in the Teofilo Otoni area of Minas Gerais. All of the faces of the richly colored, very glassy and lustrous, hexagonal smoky are dramatically accented with stepped-growth. Complete all-around and pristine. A contact lower on one side has no damage, per se and even the contacted base has only trivial bruising. From the worldwide mineral collection of Albert Lewis Kidwell (January 1, 1919 - August 16, 2008). Al was a well-known mineral collector and research geologist with Carter Oil Company and later Exxon Oil Company in Houston, Texas. The phosphate species Kidwellite was named in his honor in 1974. A RARE, outstanding and fascinating large old 360-degree smoky from the locale, as MINDAT features no smokies on the locality Photo Gallery. Al acquired the piece in 1966.