RARE ICE QUARTZ SPECIMEN

RARE ICE QUARTZ SPECIMEN

Check out this amazing and beautiful Rare Ice Quartz Specimen.  Also known as Etched Quartz and even Nirvana Quartz!  There is no describing this one-of-a-kind crystal.  It does look a bit like ice with its scraggly yet natural ‘terminations’.  Pieces like this are few and far between, we have seen very few in over 15 years of collecting and dealing minerals.  This piece has a small amount of Chlorite inclusions.  One for the quartz or rare mineral collector.  We cannot order these in, they find their way to us very rarely.  The crystal formation is called Interference Quartz and also shows Trigonic form.  This beautiful specimen comes with a perspex base stand to show off its best form.

Location:
Karakorum Mountains, Pakistan.

Dimensions:
6.6cm x 4.5cm x 4.9cm, 131g.

Quartz: SiO_2.

Quartz is one of the most common minerals found in the Earth’s crust.  If pure, quartz forms colorless, transparent and very hard crystals with a glass-like luster.  A significant component of many igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, this natural form of silicon dioxide is found in an impressive range of varieties and colours.
Quartz in it’s polished form was the most advanced technology thousands of years ago, used by the Assyrians.  Quartz was used as a lens to focus light and could start a fire.  The Vikings would have used one of these to find the sun on a cloudy day.  It would have been used as a magnifying glass too.  Today it leads technology being the main component of transistors which make our computers work and solar panels.