Smoky Quartz with Spessartine Garnet on Microcline

Item Description

These impressive specimens from Tongbei are some of the most eye-catching and highly displayable minerals to come out of any discovery in China. Here we have an aesthetic and three-dimensional display specimen featuring a few sharp, lustrous, gemmy, rich Smoky Quartz crystals measuring up to 6.5 cm long which are dramatically flaring off a matrix of cream colored Microcline. The Smokies are dotted with small, sharp, lustrous, dark reddish-orange crystals of Spessartine Garnet, but if you look closely, you can see that some of the Garnets are actually FROZEN INSIDE the Quartz crystals! The piece is in good condition, with a little bit of roughness on the terminations of two of the Smoky Quartz crystals, but it's still very showy and fine quality. Very little has come from this locality in recent years, and they will go down as some of the most iconic pieces from any locality in China. Priced in our inventory at $1,450