Amethyst on Smoky Quartz - Pipestone, Montana, USA
This is a beautiful and complex multi generation quartz crystal, showing 3 distinctive phases of growth. The first being a smoky quartz crystal, the second, a thin jacket of milky white quartz. The third is an adornment of at least 13 small amethyst overgrowths in various positions around the main body. While subtle in color, they are high in luster and unique in form. This crystal is entirely doubly terminated, also displaying multi directional penetration growth, and a contact point against a feldspar.
This crystal comes from a find made by Ralph Booth in Pipestone Flats, of Jefferson County, Montana in the early 2000’s. The pocket produced remarkably complex scepters and amethyst growths over matte smoky quartz.
Specimen Measures: 3.19×1.70×1.28 inches (81.1×43.3×32.6 mm) 91.49 Grams
This is a beautiful and complex multi generation quartz crystal, showing 3 distinctive phases of growth. The first being a smoky quartz crystal, the second, a thin jacket of milky white quartz. The third is an adornment of at least 13 small amethyst overgrowths in various positions around the main body. While subtle in color, they are high in luster and unique in form. This crystal is entirely doubly terminated, also displaying multi directional penetration growth, and a contact point against a feldspar.
This crystal comes from a find made by Ralph Booth in Pipestone Flats, of Jefferson County, Montana in the early 2000’s. The pocket produced remarkably complex scepters and amethyst growths over matte smoky quartz.
Specimen Measures: 3.19×1.70×1.28 inches (81.1×43.3×32.6 mm) 91.49 Grams
This is a beautiful and complex multi generation quartz crystal, showing 3 distinctive phases of growth. The first being a smoky quartz crystal, the second, a thin jacket of milky white quartz. The third is an adornment of at least 13 small amethyst overgrowths in various positions around the main body. While subtle in color, they are high in luster and unique in form. This crystal is entirely doubly terminated, also displaying multi directional penetration growth, and a contact point against a feldspar.
This crystal comes from a find made by Ralph Booth in Pipestone Flats, of Jefferson County, Montana in the early 2000’s. The pocket produced remarkably complex scepters and amethyst growths over matte smoky quartz.
Specimen Measures: 3.19×1.70×1.28 inches (81.1×43.3×32.6 mm) 91.49 Grams