Quartz

A real stunner: Best smoky quartz specimen from the pocket of fully transparent smoky quartz crystals on granite matrix from Fiescher Glacier, Valais, Bernese Alps, Switzerland

That´s definitly a museum piece. What an eye catcher for an alpine collector.

A group of perfect undamaged crystals of transparent smoky quartz from a cleft in the Alpine rocks.

Crystals of quartz such as this are extracted from lens-like cavities and clefts on steep peaks in the French and Swiss Alps by specialist mineral collectors who are also skilled climbers.

Location: From Fiescher Glacier, Valais, Bernese Alps, Switzerland

Measures: 18.2 x 14,5 x 8,8 cm in total size.

And many thanks to Laszlo Kupi from Finemineralphotography for this fantastic shot! @finemineralphotography