• Option A, four views of a nearly opaque straight quartz point with marbled coloring due to light tan colored inclusions swirling through it. The piece has a matte surface crossed with fine black and white lines. The white lines are blade-like and the black lines are composed of small black spheres.
  • Four small quartz points spread out in a hand. They start shorter than the width of the palm with each subsequent point longer than the prior. They are all light and desaturated in color, off tan and grayish tints.
  • Detail of option D, a semi-opaque white quartz point with tentacle-like pattern on the surface.
  • Four images, a preview of the four small quartz points. Option A is a point included and semitranslucent with creamy inclusions, and stripes. Option B is half smooth with round circles on the surface, and the other half is rough and irregular. Option C is a point broken on both ends, a taupe color with glittery crystals coating the outside. Option D has an irregular crust on one side, and a smooth face with indented circles all over it.
  • Option B, four views of an opaque off-white straight quartz point One half of the piece has a smooth surface with round and ring-shaped indentations. The other half of the point has a bumpy crust growing on the tip and base, and between them the quartz surface is inverted with a rough sandy surface. a few small crystals poke out of this area.
  • Option C, four views of a opaque brownish-gray quartz point, a thin straight piece with both ends broken. One side of the piece is irregular, but the other side is covered in multiple glittering skirts of parallel sprouting double-terminated quartz crystals on the surface.
  • Option D, four views of an opaque off-white straight quartz point. One side of the piece has a whiter smooth face pocked with indented rings. The other side has an irregular bumpy crust cover a lot of it.
  • Scale image of the four points lined up on a measuring mat. Point A is about two inches long. Point B is two and a quarter inches long. Point C is about two inches long. Point D is two and a half inches long.
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Inner Mongolian quartz points, small

Inner Mongolian quartz points, small

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Locale: HuangGangLiang mining district, Inner Mongolia, China

Approx point length and weight: Point A 2", 22g  Point B 2.25", 18g  Point C  2", 9g  Point D 2.5", 16g

 

These quartz points are from HuangGangLiang, and commonly called Mongolian or Inner Mongolian quartz. This isn't your typically glittery quartz crystal; the points are all opaque or close to it. They have light off-tan coloration; the slightly green or gray tint to the pieces is likely caused by low concentrations of hedenbergite.

Point A has lightly marbleized coloration from its inclusions, and is crossed with thin black and white lines. The white is a small amount of calcite, which will fluoresce under 365nm UV light. Looking closely, the dark lines are composed of spheres that have a dark olive green tint and almost metallic luster with radial growth.

On the back side of points B and D, there is a bumpy crust which may also be calcite as it reacts to 365nm UV light. On the front, an intriguing tentacle imprint pattern is indented into the surface. These are the impressions of other spherical crystals that have largely disintegrated; if you look closely under magnification you may see remnants of an orange-brown mineral (unknown) with high luster in the indentations. I’ll admit even with magnification my eyes aren’t good enough to tell what it is—email me if you know about this material, I’d love to learn more!

Point C has the ugly duckling discount because it is quite thin and both ends are broken. The back side is a mess, but on the front is a lovely pattern of rows of small parallel triangular quartz faces from sprouting growth. These faces glitter compared on the otherwise dull luster.

 

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

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