Quartz

Unknown Owner

Help improve this recordNo owner is registered for this specimen yet. If it's yours or you know more about it, you can add the owner, provenance, publications and other details.

A striking and aesthetic quartz specimen from the historic Palermo #1 Mine of New Hampshire. A cleft in massive quartz matrix holds a jewel-like, 4.5 cm, doubly terminated quartz crystal. The upper termination of the glassy, translucent, compound crystal is jagged and looks like a range of sharp mountain peaks. The upper terminations are pristine and the very minor contacting near the basal termination is barely noticeable. Classic material from this famous locale, but in rare aesthetic form. Ex. Robert Whitmore Collection.