• Option A, four views of a greenish-gray near-opaque point with some sprouting growth forms on the surface. Some natural fracturing is visible but does not endanger the piece. Near the base are some irregular black crystals There is a cluster of small glittery rice-grain shaped quartz crystals near the tip, and sprinkled around the surface of the piece.
  • Three small quartz points spread out in a hand. They are all smaller than the width of the palm. They have a semi-opaque greenish-gray color.
  • Hedenbergite quartz point option C, a short point heavily included with hedenbergite.
  • Preview of the three small hedenbergite quartz points, labeled "pick your own small hedenbergite quartz." All are six-sided straight points, opaque to semitranslucent and tinted a light green-gray. A and B have sprouting growth and black crystals. B doesn't have a perfect tip. C has small crystals on it
  • Option B, four views of a light greenish-gray point with good sprouting growth forms near the base. There is a black crystal at the base, and remnants of one in an impression on the face of the point. A powdered-sugar dusting of white points accompanies the black crystal and sprouting growth at the base
  • Option C, four views of a piece near-opaque and light greenish gray from inclusions, evenly colored with an odd lighter grainy phantom visible inside each main face. Smasll black spot inclusions and the surface is sprinkled with glittery small rice-grain shaped quartz crystals.
  • Scale image showing the three points line up on a measuring mat. Options A and B are a bit over two inches long, and option C is a bit over an inch and a half.
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Hedenbergite quartz points, small

Hedenbergite quartz points, small

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Locale: HuangGangLiang mining district, Inner Mongolia, China

Approx point length and weight: A 2", 16g  B 2", 13g  C 1.5, 10g

 

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. Some hedenbergite quartz like options A and C produce an odd grainy effect just under the surface at the tip. Inclusions make the point near-opaque.

Points A and C are sprinkled with whitish rice-like quartz crystals, and imprints from small crystals that have dissolved. All have some sprouting growth, with B displaying the best. A and B are also accompanied by a dark mineral similar to schorl (black tourmaline) in appearance. While schorl can commonly accompany quartz, I'm not sure that would apply to this locale.

The small dark spheres included inside the crystal and dotting the surface may be goethite or hedenbergite, but on other specimens they have a near-metallic luster resembling pyrite. The spots also may simply be iron or chlorite!

 

The background model in the first image is a Silver squill, ledebouria socialis var. violacea.

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