Schorl, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz)

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A fine cabinet combination specimen from the Erongo Mountains of Namibia. An aesthetic cluster of sharp, lustrous, striated schorl crystals to 3.3 cm is beautifully bracketed by glassy, smoky quartz crystals. Both the schorl and smoky quartzes rest on a bit of feldspar matrix. The rear, 5.5 cm, smoky "sentinel" is very imposing and is complete all-around.