Xenotime-(Y), Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz)

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Xenotime is an uncommon rare earth, being yttrium phosphate. This excellent and showy specimen features a 1.3 cm cluster of three, sharp, parallel-growth, brown xenotime crystals and a 8 mm, isolated crystal aesthetically set on an attractive pair of very glassy, transparent, smoky quartz crystals. Matrix xenotime specimens are NOT that common, so even the contacted side and broken termination on the quartz are not that detracting. The smaller, sidecar smoky is essentially pristine.