This is a superb faden quartz, with beautiful form, in an arc of well-defined, doubly-terminated crystals. It’s hard to imagine a more aesthetic faden quartz! From the John S. White collection, it was sold to him with an incorrect locality – based on what we know, we strongly believe it is from the Zhob District […]

A sculptural specimen of globular quartz from Nashik. Looks particularly cool when backlit. The magnification one can see that there are tiny quartz tips all over. In association, there are tiny calcite crystals and, I believe, stilbite and apophyllite. A neat piece from the John S. White quartz collection. About John S. White (click here) […]

This is a beautiful, intricately crystallized quartz specimen from the John S. White collection – he personally collected it on September 7, 1999. Upon close inspection, many of these Tessin-habit quartz crystals are terminated with a reverse-sceptre. Adding interest, there are small hollows in a few spots that appear to be casts after calcite crystals. […]

A doubly-terminated smoky quartz from the John S. White quartz collection – he personally collected it in May, 2014. The crystal is very sharp with complex growth. In excellent condition, no damage (it is not complete underneath where it was attached). Great terminations (sharp as a knife edge!) and a very fine specimen. About John […]

This is a complex-growth specimen from the John S. White quartz collection – he personally collected it in May, 2014. It is a parallel group of crystals, primarily smoky, but lightly amethystine as well, at the upper terminations. These crystals are sharp the overall form is unique. In excellent condition. A very cool specimen with […]

A gorgeous crystal of smoky quartz rises over this specimen from the John S. White quartz collection. This crystal is sharp, with glossy lustre as bright as it gets. It is water-clear and is reminiscent of a fine Swiss Alpine crystal. However, my favourite feature of this piece is the array of triangular growth features […]

An elegant Tessin-habit quartz, coloured green by inclusions of tiny hedenbergite crystals. (This variety of quartz is sometimes referred to by the varietal name, “prase”.) Under strong light, and with no more magnification that with a loupe, one can easily see the myriad of green needles responsible for the colour. This specimen exhibits parallel growth, […]

These parallel smoky quartz crystals stand up over a bright white background of mounded albite crystals, dotted with muscovite crystals. The smoky quartz is sharp and as lustrous as it gets. It is transparent in its upper portions and has internal fractures throughout – some of these give the specimen a very nice play of […]

This cluster of sharp, transparent quartz crystals rises up from a thin quartz plate (from the underside, it looks as though this plate may have grown upon a large earlier generation quartz crystal). These are gorgeous, bright quartz crystals with great lustre and internal rainbows in a couple of places. In excellent condition – no […]

A one-of-a-kind piece from the John S. White quartz collection and figured in Rivista Mineralogica Italiana (2007, 31:1, p. 35). A thin, continuous blanket of sparkling druzy quartz artistically draped over several of the quartz crystals, all standing up over a base of bladed hematite crystals. The hematite crystals are lightly dusted with tiny sparkling […]

Detailed Description Sharp, lustrous, red quartz crystals, with a second generation of smaller sparkling red crystals crystals covering many faces and crystals. This specimen has good and is in excellent condition, a tiny chip at the termination of the large crystal, not obvious unless you’re searching for it. From the John S. White quartz collection, […]

A fantastic specimen of  “growth-inhibited” or “interrupted-growth” quartz crystals. As the quartz crystals grew, platy calcite crystals periodically interfered and interrupted the growth of perfect quartz crystals. As the interference was only partial, the quartz crystals were able to resume their growth after the interruption, to be interrupted again, repeating the process. Looking down into […]