Quartz Ps. Calcite on Quartz

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I purchased this piece in 1992 from an intinerant mineral dealer from Guanajuato, a really nice guy who split his time between running minerals up to the States, and US citizens down to his ranch in Gjto to meditate and explore nature. He sold me part of his own personal collection of Gjto minerals at the time, to help fund the development of the "meditation retreat" they were building. Since I collected calcite, I jumped all over this specimen and owned it for nearly 10 years before somebody pointed out that it my hopeful wishes occluded my judgement in specimen identification: it is quartz, not calcite! The quartz replaced the original calcite, somehow creating this sandwich effect of colored layers. To this day, I have not seen another such piece except for those in that original flat of material he showed me, which I was told came from a single pocket in the late 1980s. (I did buy the rest, for resale, and sold them cheaply as calcites at the time!) Joe Budd photos