AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Colorado > Quartz var. Smoky Quartz Dauphiné Law Twin |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 78632 |
Mineral: | Quartz var. Smoky Quartz Dauphiné Law Twin |
Locality: | Lake George District, Park County, Colorado |
Description: | Two interconnected lustrous transparent smoky quartz crystals with complex suture patterns on the prism faces, indicative of twinning following the Dauphiné Law of quartz twinning. The faces have small embedded light-colored crystals (mica?). Collected ca. 1993 |
Overall Size: | 42x26x18 mm |
Crystals: | 42 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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