Quartz on Hematite

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This is a beautiful curving plate of kindey-ore hematite shell, on which is perched sparkling hematite crystals, on which are perched sharp white crystals of bipyramidal quartz (often called beta quartz from this locality, though it is not thecnically true "beta" quartz form). From the Schortmann's famous Hotel Lexington exhibitions held in NYC yearly, dated 1950 on the back of the label.