14.4\" Jumbo SMOKY QUARTZ Crystal Lucy Brook No.Moat NH ex-P. Samuelson for sale For Sale

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14.4\" Jumbo SMOKY QUARTZ Crystal
Lucy Brook, North Moat Mountain, NH
ex-Peter Samuelson
for sale

$1,300.00

Size:
14.4\" x 4.4\" x 4.1\"


Shipping weight:
9.6 pounds


Condition:
Excellent

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Here is an extra large specimen of White Mountains smoky quartz from the Lucy Brook pocket, collected by Peter Samuelson. The crystal is doubly terminated and translucent, and ranges from dark gray to light gray in color. The sharp crystal has the characteristic glassy faces on one side and tiny microcline crystals and quartz crystals on the other.

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Very well crystallized and doubly-terminated crystal

Lovely natural smoky quartz crystal

14.4\" large cabinet size

Excellent old-timer from the good old days of NH collecting

No damage
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Locality
Information about crystals/mineral specimens from this location

This is a fabulous specimen of SMOKY QUARTZ from Moat Mountain in the White Mountain National Forest in North Conway, NH. This crystal was collected from the Lucy Brook (Pine Knoll) pocket by Peter Samuelson, sometime in the 1980s. There is re-healing on some of the surfaces, but no collecting damage. I picked this up at the Gilsum Rock Swap from a dealer who had picked it up as part of an old collection. This is a magnificent crystal, of a size and quality that nobody is finding these days. I haven\'t seen one of this size and quality in years.

Mineralogy
Facts about gems, rocks and minerals

Smoky quartz is a popular variety of quartz. It has an unusual color for a gemstone and is easily recognized and is well known by the general public. Only a few other brown or black minerals are ever cut for gemstones such as the smoky topaz, the very rare black beryl or the brown corundum. Smoky quartz is also popular as an ornamental stone and is carved into spheres, pyramids, obilisks, eggs, figurines and ornate statues.

Smoky quartz, a variety itself of quartz, has a few varieties of its own. Cairngorm is a variety that comes from the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland. Morion is a very dark black opaque variety of smoky quartz. Coon tail quartz is a smoky quartz with an alternating black and gray banding.

The color of smoky quartz is variable from brown to black and sometimes smoky gray colored specimens are included as smoky quartz. The cause of the color of smoky quartz is in question but it is almost certainly related to the amount of exposure to radiation that the stone has undergone. Natural smoky quartz often occurres in granitic rocks which have a small but persistant amount of radioactivity. Most smoky quartz that makes its way to rock shops and to some gem cutters has been artificially irradiated to produce a dark black color.

Metaphysics
Information about crystal, gem and mineral metaphysics and healing

People interested in metaphysics and crystal healing tell us that they use smoky quartz to open the 7th Chakra, drawing light down to the root chakra. Smoky crystals are also effective for inducing alpha/deep meditation for channeling, deep relaxation, and lovingkindness. Ancients used them also to stimulate meridians and kundalini. Smoky quartz stores information well, and it alleviates fear, anxiety and depression.

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