Large Madagascan Clear Quartz Polished Egg - 88mm, 497g

Locality - Madagascar
Size – 88 x 65mm
Weight – 497g

This quartz egg features nice clarity and is filled with white wispy clouds and shiny internal reflective veils, one of which has an inclusion of golden yellow limonite. It has been expertly polished and shaped and makes an ideal collection piece for a quartz lover. This egg will be accompanied by a wooden stand as shown.

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.