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Minerals  Beginning with "Q"

	JC12357.  Quartz, mordenite.  Rat’s Nest claim, Bayhorse district, nr. Challis, Custer county, Idaho.  5 x 7.5 cm 90g.   $15.00     Very sparkly small quartz crystals forming on almost botryoidal matrix.  Quartz is growing on/in mordenite in hairlike crystals.  Although well known for its beautiful heulandite crystals, these odd quartz specimens are different and quite pretty.  Nice and bright and sparkly in person
	JC12357.  Closer view.
	JC12355.   Quartz.  Rat’s Nest claim, Bayhorse district, nr. Challis, Custer county, Idaho.  4.5 x 6.5 x 9 cm 183g.  $25.00    Very sparkly small quartz crystals forming on almost botryoidal matrix.  Minor mordenite present.  Although well known for its beautiful heulandite crystals, these odd quartz specimens are different and quite pretty.  Nice and bright and sparkly in person.
	JC12355.  Another view.
	JC12355.  Another view.
	JC12042.  Quartz.  Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh, India.  6 x 6 cm   $35.00.
	JC12042.  Different angle.
	JC12042.  Different angle.
	JC12042.  Different angle.
	JC11882.  Quartz, dolomite.  Saint-Eustache Quarry, Saint-Eustache, Deux-Montagnes RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada.  4 x 5 cm 71g.  $25.00.   Cute little transparent quartz crystal in amongst pale pinkish dolomite crystals.  A lesser known locality.
	JC11882.  Another view.
	JC11882.  Another view.
	JC11862.  Rose quartz.  Taquaral,  Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil.   3 x 7 cm  68g.   $175.00   Light pink crystals.  A partial crystal of muscovite on the back side.  A few dinged crystals on the front, not obvious.
	JC11862.  Another view.
	JC11578.   Amethyst (grape agate)  Mamuju regency, West Sulawesi province, Indonesia.  4 x 5 x 11 cm   214g.  $35.00  Typical purple botryoids from this locality.  Botryoids are not lustrous.
	JC11578.   Back side.
	JC11578.  Close up.
	JC11566.  Quartz, arsenopyrite.  Yaogangxian mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang county, Chenzhou, Hunan, China.   4 x 4 x 10 cm  145g.  $60.00  Couple of long quartz crystals with arsenopyrite crystals clustered at the base of the quartz crystals.
	JC11566.  Another view.
	JC11566.  Another view.
	JC11566.  Another view.
	JC11525.  Quartz, calcite, fluorite, sphalerite.  W.L. Davis-Deardorff mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock subdistrict, Hardin county, Illinois.  3.5 x 7 x 10 cm  $200.00.   Bright quartz crystals, with calcite crystals perched on the quartz, with a small fluorite off to one side, and a sphalerite matrix.
	JC11525.  Another view.
	JC11525.  Another view.
	JC11525.  Another view.
	JC11439.  Quartz (prase) with actinolite inclusions, andradite.   Serifos Island, Milos, South Aegean, Greece.  4 x 10 cm  107g  $140.00.   A deep green quartz crystal completely filled with actinolite inclusions giving the intense color.   It lies on a bed of tiny andradite crystals.  There is a spot near the base of the crystal where it looks like another crystal has broken off.
	JC11439.  Slightly different angle.
	JC11439.  Different angle.
	JC11250.  Quartz.  Zaca (Advance) mine, Colorado hill, Loope, Monitor-Mogul district, Alpine county, California.  3.5 x 7 cm  63g.  $10.00  Three vugs.  One on each end, and one in the middle.
	JC11250.  Another view.  Note the odd bent crystal on the extreme left, sticking out side wise.
	JC11253.      Quartz.  Zaca (Advance) mine, Colorado hill, Loope, Monitor-Mogul district, Alpine county, California.   6.5 x 11 cm  281g.  $15.00.   Busy piece with lots of crystals.
	JC11253.   Another view.
	JC11254.      Quartz.  Zaca (Advance) mine, Colorado hill, Loope, Monitor-Mogul district, Alpine county, California.  7 x 13 cm  241g.  $10.00.
	JC11254.
	JC11255.  Quartz.  Zaca (Advance) mine, Colorado hill, Loope, Monitor-Mogul district, Alpine county, California.  6 x 10 cm  180g.   $13.00.
	JC11257.      Quartz.  Zaca (Advance) mine, Colorado hill, Loope, Monitor-Mogul district, Alpine county, California.  5 x 7.5 cm  140g.  $10.00   Two vugs one above the other.
	JC11257.  Slightly different angle.
	JC11259.      Quartz.  Zaca (Advance) mine, Colorado hill, Loope, Monitor-Mogul district, Alpine county, California.  5 x 5 x 7 cm  136g.  $10.00.   Most crystals from here are smallish.  This is a much larger than usual, with drusy crystals around the base.
	JC11261.  Quartz.  Zaca (Advance) mine, Colorado hill, Loope, Monitor-Mogul district, Alpine county, California.  5 x 9.5 cm  174g.   $10.00.
	JC11040.  Quartz, rutile.  Minas Gerais, Brazil   6.5 x 9.5 cm x 3 cm thick.   365g.  $30.00.   Not a crystal, this is a broken slab of clear, gemmy quartz, pale smoky, with hair thin rutile needles all through it.   Would be great material for cabs or faceted stones.  Doesn't appear to have any flaws in it.    Some close ups below show a bit of the rutile.
	JC11040.   Hair like needles of rutile can be seen.
	JC11040.   Another view.  The rutile needles can be seen as very thin hair like golden reflections within the quartz.
	JC11040.   Another view.
	JC4014.   Amethyst.  Piedra Parada, Tatatila municipality, Veracruz, Mexico.   6 x 9 cm   94g.   $135.00  Several crystals on a matrix plate of tiny quartz crystals.  There is a crack underneath the quartz crystals that I was not sure would hold up in shipment, so I put some super glue in the crack to stabilize it.   Crowley collection #:  1587.  Purchased in 2007.
	JC4014.  Another view.
	JC10946.   Quartz.  Crystal Creek, Teller county, Colorado.      6 x 7 cm  144g.    $10.00     These were found in 2003, a large pocket typical of the area...unfortunately the pocket was all microcline and smoky quartz.  No amazonite.   The pocket was full of shards of smoky quartz that had re-healed faces.  This piece looks normal from the front, but when looked at from the back, it appears to have been sheared off and then re-healed with multiple faces.
	JC10946.  Back side.
	JC10947.  Quartz.  Crystal Creek, Teller county, Colorado.      13 cm. crystal shard.  46g.    $10.00     These were found in 2003, a large pocket typical of the area...unfortunately the pocket was all microcline and smoky quartz.  No amazonite.   The pocket was full of shards of smoky quartz that had re-healed faces.  I kept a few and this is one of them.   Doubly terminated.
	JC10947.  Back side.
	JC10948.   Quartz.  Crystal Creek, Teller county, Colorado.      15 cm. crystal shard.  165g    $10.00     These were found in 2003, a large pocket typical of the area...unfortunately the pocket was all microcline and smoky quartz.  No amazonite.   The pocket was full of shards of smoky quartz that had re-healed faces.  I kept a few and this is one of them.
	JC10948.  Back side.
	JC10949.   Quartz.  Crystal Creek, Teller county, Colorado.      14 cm. crystal shard.  56g    $10.00     These were found in 2003, a large pocket typical of the area...unfortunately the pocket was all microcline and smoky quartz.  No amazonite.   The pocket was full of shards of smoky quartz that had re-healed faces.  I kept a few and this is one of them.
	JC10949.   Back side.
	JC10950.  Quartz, goethite after siderite.  Crystal Creek, Teller county, Colorado.      8 x 19 cm  301g.  $25.00     These were found in 2003, a large pocket typical of the area...unfortunately the pocket was all microcline and smoky quartz.  No amazonite.   The pocket was full of shards of smoky quartz that had re-healed faces.  This is a group of re-healed crystal shards with the front partially covered in goethite after siderite, so the goethite has a sort of box work look to it.   The goethite is actually a bit sparkly in bright light.    An odd specimen.
	JC10950.   Closer view of the goethite.   Box work doesn't show up really well.
	JC10950.  Back side.
	JC10704.  Quartz (enhydro).   Hunan, China.   3.5 x 9 cm  113g.  $50.00.   A doubly terminated quartz crystal with carbon inclusions, has a small, L shaped water bubble on one side.  Kind of hard to see.  I took two close up photos to show it.
	JC10704.  Another view.
	JC10704.  Another view.
	JC10704.  Close up of bubble.  Its near the top center in the photo.
	JC10469.  Amethyst.   Piedra Parada, Tatatila Municipality, Veracruz, Mexico.  4 x 5 x 6.5 cm   87g  $110.00.    Nice, cute little group.
	JC10469.   Another view.
	JC10469.  Another view.
	JC10458.  Quartz.  Huanggang Fe-Sn deposit, Hexigten Banner , Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China.  5 x 6 cm  57g.  $78.00.  The base of these crystals have hematite inclusions.  The Chinese call these "flower quartz".   Nice little group of divergent crystals.
	JC10458.  Another view.
	JC10458.  Another view.
	JC10458.  Another view.
	JC10458.  Another view.
	JC10198.  Quartz.   Penalobo (or Pena Lobo), Sabugal, Guarda, Portugal.  5 x 8 cm   104g.  $15.00.  White quartz crystals from this relatively unknown location.
	JC9509.  Quartz, siderite, magnesite.  Morro Velho mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil.  5 x 8 cm  106g.  $98.00.   Tan siderite crystals with clear quartz crystals.  A 3 cm wide magnesite crystal is on the front or backside, depending on orientation.  It has little speckles of what looks like inclusions of pyrrhotite.  A few other bladed magnesites are also present.    One of the quartz crystals has a long, flat inclusion of an unknown mineral, this can be seen in the photos below (hematite?).  The quartz crystals are clear and gemmy.
	JC9509.  The magnesite is front center in this photo.  The inclusion in the quartz crystal is easily visible in the left most quartz crystal.
	JC9509.  Close up of the inclusion.
	JC9509.  Another view.
	JC9222.  Amethyst.  Gobobosed mountains, Brandberg area, Erongo region, Namibia.  4.8 x 6 cm 238g.  $65.00.  Single, fat, light amethyst crystal on matrix.  Nice luster on front faces.
	JC9222.  Another view.
	JC9070.  Amethystine, grape agate/grape chalcedony?  Manakarra beach?, West Sulawesi, Indonesia.   7 x 9 cm  137g.  $125.00.   There was quite a bit of this stuff scattered around the Tucson show, 2018.  The only definitive location is Sulawesi...I have not seen an exact verified location as yet.  Manakarra beach is consistant amongst several dealers, so for now I'm going with that.  The poorer quality material is off color, with the better stuff a nice lavender/amethyst color.  The poorer material does not have any luster, whereas the better material has a nice shine of minute, microscopic, quartz? that makes up the chalcedony.  Prices are all over the place, and surprisingly high considering the abundance of material.   I picked up two, with nice luster and color of intermediate quality.
	JC9070.   Reverse.
	JC9019.  Amethyst.  Goboboseb mountain,  Brandberg, Namibia.   4.5 x 6 cm  69g.  $70.00.   Small grouping on matrix.  Smaller crystal is lighter amethyst, while larger crystal is a bit darker, with nice purple color.  Three crystals all together.
	JC9019.   Another view.
	JC9019.   Another view.
	JC2916.  Amethyst.  Piedras Parado, Mun. De Professor Rafael Ramires (Las Vigas), Veracruz, Mexico.  5 x 7.5 cm  64g.  $150.00.   A lovely group of midrange color amethyst, collected in 2004.
	JC2916.  Another view.
	JC1340.    Quartz.  Zaca (Advance) mine, Colorado hill, Loope, Monitor-Mogul district, Alpine county, California.  4.5 x 7.5 cm  133g  $10.00   Larger crystal surrounded by small drusy crystals.
	JC1340.  Slightly different angle.