Quartz

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Quartz is mined by the ton in Arkansas, and this tends to make people a little jaded about specimens from there. But the really superb ones are not only uncommon, but can hold their own with quartz specimens from the great localities around the world. This is a big, fat crystal of incredible glassy clarity, razor-sharp and with no damage. These are hard to photograph, of course, and always look a lot less clear than they are in person. Suffice it to say you can read clearly through it with little distortion even though it is over 4 cm thick. There are some pretty, natural veils in the bottom of the crystal - which look just fuzzy in the photos but in person are beautiful floating "sheets." A large and superb quartz crystal!