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Nova Scotia, McKay Head Quartz – April 2024

As part of the large Nova Scotia Update, I’ve added super new specimens of quartz from McKay Head (click here).

The cliffs of McKay Head are east along the Bay of Fundy shore from Wasson’s Bluff. The locality has long been known among collectors for vugs lined with milky quartz crystals and rarely analcime. However a series of pockets collected during 2020-2022 produced beautiful Quartz groups of a different style – flowers, balls and occasionally “pineapples”, comprised of lustrous little crystals ranging from colourless to faintly amethystine. These specimens are from that series of pockets.

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 4.4 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 3.5 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 5.3 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 3.3 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 3.6 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 3.4 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 4.0 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 4.4 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 2.7 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 3.9 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 4.3 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 3.9 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 3.2 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 3.5 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 4.3 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 3.3 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 6.5 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 5.0 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 2.8 cmQuartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 4.2 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 3.8 cm

Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 2.8 cm Quartz, McKay Head, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada – 2.8 cm