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Museum-grade specimen of smoky quartz and spessartine garnet.
Numerous smoky quartz crystals fill this beautiful specimen. The crystals range in height from a few centimeters up to about 6 cm. The matrix and the base of many quartz crystals are coated with orange spessartine garnet crystals, which render the specimen of indisputable interest.
Some crystals are broken at the base or show slight damage, but overall an important specimen and increasingly difficult to find on the market

MUSEALE campione di quarzo fumè e granati spessartina. 
Numerosi cristalli di quarzo fumè riempiono questo bellissimo campione. I cristalli hanno altezze varie da pochi centrimetri, fino a 6cm circa. La matrice e la base di molti cristalli di quarzo sono coperti da cristalli di granato arancione che rendono il campione di indubbio interesse.
Alcuni cristalli sono rotti alla base o presentano lievi danni, ma nel complesso un campione importante e sempre più difficile da reperire sul mercato

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Quartz Crystals on matrix - Height: 16 cm - Width: 19 cm- 3182 g

Tongbey, Fujian, China

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Smoky quartz with spessartine garnets on a quartz matrix; crystals vary up to about 6 cm in height, with many covered by orange garnet crystals, Origin Tongbey, Fujian, China, weight 3182 g and dimensions 16 × 19 × 10 cm.

Quartz Crystals on matrix - Height: 16 cm - Width: 19 cm- 3182 g

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Smoky quartz with spessartine garnets on a quartz matrix; crystals vary up to about 6 cm in height, with many covered by orange garnet crystals, Origin Tongbey, Fujian, China, weight 3182 g and dimensions 16 × 19 × 10 cm.

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