Specimen #2414
Name: Phantom Quartz
Type: Mineral
Locality: Brooster Mine, Montgomery Co., Arkansas, USA
Favorite? N
Fluorescent? N
Size: 6.4 x 2.2 x 2.0 cm
Weight: 39
Acquired: 2012-03-17
Source: Arkenstone Auction
Label: N
Comment: A water-clear quartz crystal is strikingly included with a distinctive phantom of angled, spearpoint-shaped, iron oxides. This showy and uncommon quartz is from an obscure Arkansas locale, but is well-known among locals for producing phantom quartz. Complete all-around and nearly pristine, with only trivial edge wear. The prism faces really enhance the optical effects of the angled phantom! The photo does not adequately capture the phantom.
Minerals: Quartz (SiO2)
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