• A polished piece of garden quartz held between finger and thumb for scale, in sunlight to highlight internal features. The freeform is blocky, a bit longer in one direction.
  • Detail of the specimen tilted in the sun to highlight swirling colorless inclusions that look like whitewater
  • Another angle of the piece with colorless inclusions illuminated, and a tube-like inclusion of dark red-brown chlorite snaking through it
  • Another side of the garden quartz, showing a pale background and some light green and coppery brown inclusions.
  • A side of the piece of garden quartz where four sides come to a point, with some clarity through the colorless quartz and a light greenish and brown chlorite formations like galaxies in the center
  • Side-view of the piece, with an abraded line visible on the surface near the top. There are lumpy pale white and red-brown chlorite inclusions in the bottom half
  • Looking down one end of the piece, appearing quite white and pale green with the inclusions illuminated, and with one ultra-clear patch of quartz on the right-bottom side
  • A large flat side of the freeform, with wispy white inclusions and darker green and pinkish lumpy chlorite in the background. Almost copper-colored inclusions reach the surface.
  • The piece illuminated from below, highlighting the textured layers of green, white, and pinkish inclusions. There is a dark brown inclusion on the left end.
  • The specimen with sunlight shining directly on it, appearing darker than when side-lit. It has dark green and coppery brown inclusions through it.
  • An angle of the garden quartz nearly completely filled with colorful inclusions, off-white, dark green, and dark red tones.
  • The piece held at an angle showing a large section is clear of inclusions, with fine parallel lines of green spots across part.
  • Detail view of dark green and coppery chlorite inclusions spotting the inside
  • Close view of the inclusions, a lumpy light-colored chlorite background with dark green and red-brown inclusions diagonally across the interior. The nearest corner is bruised.
  • Scale image of the piece on a measuring mat, measuring a bit under two inches long by about an inch and a half wide.
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Garden quartz freeform

Garden quartz freeform

$26.00 USD
$26.00 USD
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Approx dimensions: 1.75 x 1.25 x 1"

Approx weight: 67g

 

Garden quartz, also called lodolite, is the trade name for clear quartz included with chlorite to create a scene like a miniature mossy garden landscape. The different types of chlorite inclusions are colored by other trace elements to produce muted tones of green, purple, pink, and coppery browns, reds, and oranges. I think they’re like peering into a tide pool!

Garden quartz is generally sold polished to best reveal its internal features. The inclusions can make the garden quartz appear dark, so it can be especially captivating in bright light or when lit from underneath, illuminating the interior scene.

This smaller freeform piece of garden quartz has red-brown and dark green chlorite. The colorless quartz gives depth into the piece, with swirling inclusions making the chlorite appear like rocks under churning waves.

Note: because garden quartz is heavily included, it is common to see pitting on the surface where inclusions touch the surface and the softer material was pulled away in the polishing process. For the same reason it is also common to have light fracturing or chipping at points and junctions of polished faces. This specimen does exhibit these features!

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