Unique Natural Ansirabe Candle Quartz 'Flower' Point - 89mm, 380g

Locality - Ansirabe, Madagascar
Size – 89 x 75 x 71mm
Weight – 380g

This chunky natural candle quartz point is an unusual and highly unique specimen featuring bizarre but beautiful 'flowering' crystalline formation displaying a forked termination point surrounded by intricate, splayed side crystals. It has snowy white colour throughout with maroon tints across its highly lustrous surface and is able to freestand on its base as an attractive display specimen. There is a minor chip on its main termination point, but this does not detrcact from its overall characterful aesthetics. These candle quartz crystals have unique cascading formations that resemble molten wax, hence its name, and are found in Ansirabe, Madagascar, where may beautiful quartz specimens are found.

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.