Liddicoatite, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz)

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Two beautiful, gemmy and lustrous, multi-colored liddicoatite tourmaline crystals to 2.3 cm are perched on the side of a glassy, translucent, euhedral smoky quartz crystal. Camp Robin is a new Madagascar locality and this excellent piece is from the 2006 find. The complexly crystallized, very glassy faces are alive with interior colors ranging from raspberry-red to sherry-brown. The large crystal is doubly terminated, with one of the termination faces being lightly frosted.