Smoky Quartz

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Etched smoky quartz floater crystal, 9 cm, with a slight gwindel, from St. Gotthard, Canton Uri, Switzerland. Ex American Museum of Natural History, collection of Clarence S. Bement (1843–1923). The museum file card with attached original label in Bement’s handwriting indicates that this piece was in Bement’s personal display collection. Collected in the late 1800s. Photo by Jeff Scovil.

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SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions9.0 cm
Added on02/13/2026
Publications
  • Mineralogical Record Mineral Collections In American Northeast page 154
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DateCollectorAcquisition price
—Clarence S. BementNot disclosed
—American Museum of Natural HistoryNot disclosed

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Smoky quartz from Central St Gotthard Massif
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Central St Gotthard Massif
Central St Gotthard Massif, Switzerland — Alpine locality famed for smoky quartz, rock crystal, adularia, and iron-rose hematite rosettes, a collector classic.