• Detail of the pair of points on the side. Both ends are broken on both points, but they have good thin hexagonal prism shape. The surface is dull with a light sheen visible. The black lines are composed of small black spheres indented into the surface.
  • Full view of the opposite side of the piece, the long quartz point crossed with a few black lines and covered in webby blade-like white calcite.
  • A large straight quartz point, well-formed with good symmetry, and a slanted broken base. The quartz is a milky translucent white with a light mint-green colored tip. There is a pair of smaller points attached perpendicularly on one side. The whole piece is covered in black lines.
  • Detail of the main point backlit, showing good translucency. The surface is frosted and crossed with lines composed of small black spheres indented into the surface, and the indentations left by crystals. Thin blades of white calcite cut through the surface like the black lines.
  • Full view of the piece better showing the linear patterns of the small round inclusions spotting the piece
  • Detail of thin blade-like white calcite in an intersecting pattern near the tip of the main point. The tip is tinted darker with inclusions.
  • Another view of the pair of crystals, revealing there is a smaller point on the piece behind them, with tip intact. The base has web-like white calcite growth.
  • Detail of the small point perched between the larger crystals, showing it has an x of two black lines crossing through it.
  • Holding the piece close to a light source, showing good translucency with the tip of the main point more opaque with greenish-gray tinted inclusions.
  • Scale image of the point on a measuring mat, with the main point measuring nearly five inches long, inclusive of angled broken base. The pair of crystals on the side make the piece about two inches wide.
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Inner Mongolian quartz, large point

Inner Mongolian quartz, large point

$48.00 USD
$48.00 USD
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Locale: HuangGangLiang mining district, Inner Mongolia, China

Approx point length: 4.5"

Approx weight: 118g

 

These quartz points are from HuangGangLiang, and commonly called Mongolian or Inner Mongolian quartz. This isn't your typically shiny quartz; the points have a matte luster with a sheen effect, producing a ghostly appearance. The tip of the main point is tinted a greenish-gray color by hedenbergite inclusions, while the rest of the point is more translucent.

Broken ends reveal the first generation of growth was an icy clear colorless quartz. A second generation of growth occurred, depositing a layer of frosty quartz on the surface. Spherical black inclusions stripe the points in fine lines. They are embedded into the surface, and dissolved crystals have left behind indentations. Looking closely, spheres appear to have a dark olive green color and almost metallic luster with radial growth. Calcite has grown in a cross-hatch of thin white blades that have also formed fine lines across the surface of the quartz.

UV reactivity The white calcite fluoresces moderately well under 365 nm UV light, glowing a peachy red. The calcite extends into the quartz as a thin layer and makes the tip glow when exposed to UV light (hard to photograph though!).

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