Quartz, Hematite

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An excellent and very showy, doubly terminated, floater quartz crystal from the Messina Mine of South Africa and the Jaime Bird Collection. This translucent specimen has a glassy, sharp, primary termination and a broken, healed and regrown, multiple, secondary termination. Two-thirds of the crystal is encased in secondary, sidecar, quartz crystals. And there are two generations of iron oxides on this fine crystal: the hematite tinting giving the crystal the reddish-brown color; and the preferential coating of sparkly, specular hematite.