Phenakite

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Mesmerizing in its complexity, this 20-gram crystal has a lot of surface area for the price. It is complete all around except a small bottom contact where it must have been attached to a larger mass. It has ultimate luster and gemminess, like #19 and#20 above. The crystal itself is absolutely colorless, a pure colorlessness that adds to the gemminess of the specimen in person (and makes it extremely hard to photograph because light refracts off all the hundreds of facets and faces here, bouncing back and forth through the crystal and making the camera unable to capture its true clarity). Similar to #19, I rank this one of the absolute highest for outright quality!