Quartz, Hematite

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Very glassy, lustrous, doubly-terminated, di-pyramidal, "beta-style" smoky quartz crystals are very richly and aesthetically scattered on both sides of the mounded cabinet matrix covered with sparkly, bladed, black hematite rosettes on this classic and showy specimen from the Florence Mine of Egremont, England. The quartz crystals reach 1.9 cm. They look like beta quartz (a special heat-induced and unusual crystallographic form of quartz) superficially but really are not, despite most of us thinking so. There is even a scattering of scintillating, specular hematite microcrystals. The matrix is massive hematite.