Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz)

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A huge, important, floater smoky quartz crystal from the classic old North Carolina mines, and later the Ed David Collection. Morion quartz is a very dark brown to black opaque variety of quartz and this is, indeed, an exceptionally dark color for this locality. This is a superb, cabinet single crystal. The glassy, highly lustrous, translucent crystal superficially looks like it is di-pyramidal with no prism faces. This is old material from the famous Hiddenite area of North Carolina. This very fine, large, complete-all-around, floater specimen is very nearly pristine.