Nice smokey quartz with chlorite point
Light smoky quartz with a tip covered in chlorite, which gives the crystal a distinctive character. Some host rock is still attached on one side. It comes from a very large cleft in amphibolite. There were only a few crystals in it, but of good quality. The crystal stands beautifully on its own and looks best in natural light.
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Nice smokey quartz with chlorite point · CHF 60.–
Provenance Details
Piz Ravetsch, Canton of Graubünden
2026
2900 m
Amphibolit
6.5x3.5x3 cm · 90 g
Discovery Video
Watch how this crystal was discovered:
The Story of This Crystal
The cleft was right next to an ice field, and it was empty. A rockfall a few days or weeks earlier had cleared it out completely. The crystals were lying at our feet on the glacier, and we could simply collect them. Another rockfall a few days later would most likely have destroyed them or buried them under debris. In a way, we rescued them from natural erosion. Check out the linked Instagram video to see what else was in this cleft.