• Full view of a stubby hedenbergite quartz point, well-formed straight point with base cleanly broken. It has a light greenish-gray color. It is tilted to reflect light off its surface, highlighting complex sprouting growth forms and small lines etching the surface.
  • Detail of the tip of the point with light reflecting off it, highlighting the edges of faces are solidly formed but the center has skeleton-like growth caused by faces of the sprouting growth form.
  • The point in indirect light, without reflection. It seems to have a dull surface luster, with a light green-gray body color. The piece is semi-translucent. The complex surface pattern of the sprouting growth is subtle but visible.
  • The point tilted into the light so the surfaces reflect, highlighting the complex surface patterning caused by the sprouting growth. There is a patch of an opaque white mineral on a corner of the base.
  • The point tilted away from the light so the sprouting growth has shadows, highlighting the crystal outlines. They have a fanning pattern out from the center of the piece and do not cover the edges of the face. The piece is mostly near-opaque with some translucency near the base.
  • Close view of the sprouting growth on another side of the piece, the face similarly covered with sprouting growth forms.
  • Two sides of the piece visible, each with several fairly large and three-dimensional sprouting growth crystals near the base.
  • Detail of some larger sprouting growth at the base of the point. The surface appears rough and dull.
  • Scale image of the point on a measuring mat, showing it is over two and a half inches long, inclusive of angled broken base
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Hedenbergite quartz point with sprouting growth

Hedenbergite quartz point with sprouting growth

$30.00 USD
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Locale: HuangGangLiang mining district, Inner Mongolia, China

Approx point length: 2.25"

Approx weight: 55g

 

These quartz points are from HuangGangLiang, and commonly called Mongolian or Inner Mongolian quartz. When the primary inclusion is hedenbergite, enough to give the quartz a greenish tint, it is more appropriately called hedenbergite quartz. 

This isn’t your typically shiny quartz crystal; the points have a matte luster with a sheen effect, producing a ghostly appearance. Broken ends reveal the first generation of growth was an icy clear colorless quartz. A second generation of growth occurred, depositing a layer of cloudy hedenbergite-included quartz. Hedenbergite is often green-to-olive-brown in color, and gives the quartz a dull green-ish gray hue.

This piece has excellent complex sprouting growth forms on all faces, including some that looks almost like skeleton forms on the tip of the point. Hedenbergite inclusions make the point near-opaque, but some light travels through at the base.

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