| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Hampshire > Quartz var. Smoky Quartz (Tessin Habit) |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 90159 |
| Mineral: | Quartz var. Smoky Quartz (Tessin Habit) |
| Locality: | Finally Found It Pocket, Bald Mountain, West Ossipee, Carroll County, New Hampshire |
| Description: | Lustrous Tessin-habit smoky quartz crystal with no attached matrix. Tessin-habit quartz crystals are tapered form, resembling scalenohedra, resulting from repeatedly alternating termination and prism faces forming stepped, tapered crystals. Rare. Ex Jon Herndon collection #82338, collected in 2010 |
| Overall Size: | 29x13x12 mm |
| Crystals: | 29 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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