• Detail of one of the smaller quartz points on the cluster, with excellent sprouting growth patterns on the faces. The tip of the crystal is thicker, whiter, and more translucent
  • A cluster of quartz points close together and intergrown, with a dull luster and a gray-tan coloration. The piece appears near-opaque with inclusions, with better translucency in the sceptered tips of the points.
  • The cluster tilted so the tips are pointed into the light. The capped tips of the points are bright and translucent but the rest appears fairly opaque.
  • Detail of the top of the cluster, two larger points intergrown and capped with clearer quartz. Both have a grass-skirt pattern on the surface, caused by small parallel sprouting growth forms with clearer capped growth like the main point.
  • The piece with light shining on it so that the crystals on the the surface are reflecting, showing a geometric pattern of triangular faces of tips arranged in rows.
  • The piece with light shining on it so that crystals between two points are reflecting, highlighting a bunch of triangular faces on the tips of sprouting growth.
  • A closer view of the cluster with light shining at it, showing most of the surface is a matte off-tan color. One well formed small quartz crystal reflects near the base.
  • Close view of the two main points lit from a low angle highlighting the details of the sprouting growth forms on the surface. They appear like rows of matchsticks, dull rows capped with larger shinier crystals.
  • Detail shining light up the bottom of the piece, showing it has some translucency
  • Scale image of the cluster on a measuring mat, showing it is about two and a half inches long.
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Inner Mongolian quartz cluster with sceptered points

Inner Mongolian quartz cluster with sceptered points

$36.00 USD
$36.00 USD
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Locale: HuangGangLiang mining district, Inner Mongolia, China

Approx point length: 2.5"

Approx weight: 47g

 

These quartz points are from HuangGangLiang, and commonly called Mongolian or Inner Mongolian quartz. This isn't your typically shiny quartz crystal; this quartz cluster is the definition of pretty-ugly, aggressively dull on the surface with intriguing patterns of glittering crystal faces on its surface. The piece is near-opaque with inclusions, likely hedenbergite, which give it a slightly olive-gray tint.

The cluster is composed of a pair of longer intergrown points with several smaller ones fanning out from the base. All of the crystals have capped, or sceptered, growth where the tip has grown differently. The tips have whiter color, better translucency, and are larger than the rest of the crystal.

The quartz points also have small sprouting growth forms that have grown in parallel rows ringing the surface. They appear to be capped with clearer shiny crystal faces like the larger points, and create a pattern of rows of reflecting triangular point faces.

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