Brandberg crystal Smoky Phantom & Enhydro inclusions

From: Goboboseb - Namibia

Item added: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:38:37 GMT

This crystal has dark smoky very thin lines making up chevron phantoms in the top end of the crystal with a hint of amethyst in the mix. Natural inclusions of negative quartz has trapped at least 5 enhydro's gas/fluid bubbles, one moves up and down the small chamber, and there is a little bit of black to red hematite flecks as seen under magnification. The termination is perfect and unusually it displays left and right sided 's' faces either side of the 'r' face. The surface of the crystal has well defined striations as well as impressions of where another mineral has dissolved. There is a 'blow-out' a shattering from within during growth due to high temperatures, the crystals has re-healed itself but shows a large hole right into the centre of the quartz allowing a view of the shapes of the negative quartz. The base has been cut to allow the crystal to stand upright.

Weight: 35g

Dimensions: 23 x 55 x 21
(Width x Height x Depth, all in millimeters)