Clear Quartz with Ingrown Crystal Inclusion Polished Standing Point - 36mm, 46g

Locality - Madagascar
Size – 36 x 34 x 26mm
Weight – 46g

This quartz standing point features an impressive, exceptional ingrown, fully terminated crystal inclusion highly visible within its glassy clear form. The surfaces of the ingrown crystal are highly lustrous and reflective in good lighting. It is a very characterful and unique crystal that has been expertly shaped to a classic crystal point form, polished to a high lustre and cut to stand freely.

Quartz is the most common mineral found on the surface of the Earth, occurring in virtually every locality. Pure crystals are colourless, transparent and hard, though many are coloured by natural processes such as irradiation or by the presence of certain elements within them. These coloured varieties include the popular gemstones amethyst, purple quartz, and citrine, yellow quartz. Some quartz crystals have unique inclusions of minerals that have grown within them, such as golden rutile, tourmaline or chlorite, and others may show silvery reflective internal veils and bright rainbows. Whilst the majority of quartz is created from molten magma that has cooled and crystallized, much quartz also chemically precipitates from hot hydrothermal veins. Well-formed crystals deep within the Earth can reach colossal sizes, with some measuring several meters in length and weighing hundreds of kilograms.