quartz crystals for sale

QUARTZ CRYSTAL SPECIMENS FOR SALE
Well folks - if you made it to this page, your hopefully crazy about Quartz just like us! Below you will find a selection of specimens from various U.S. and worldwide localities that we certainly hope you will enjoy. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop us an email! earthquest@volcano.net

Item# Q-56

QUARTZ with CHLORITE INCLUSIONS

Jackpot Hill,
Valley Springs,
Calaveras County, California

Cx: Jake and Dana Harper, 1996

Size: 3" X 2" Price: 45.00 Description: A lovely, tabular crystal with deep green Chlorite inclusions. Dana and I collected this specimen along with many others (some with Epidote) in 1996 at this little known California locality. This piece is "as collected" and washed with soap and water only, so could easily be cleaned further.

Item# Q-58

"GOLDEN" QUARTZ

Hwy 49 road-cut,
Carson Hill,
Calaveras County, California

Cx: Jake and Dana Harper, 10/29/1998

Size: 2 3/8" X 1 3/4" Price: 54.00 Description: A beautiful golden Quartz crystal group that is colored by a thin coating of iron oxides. There is also a rainbow irridescence to the crystal faces when the piece is rotated - that being due, I am guessing to the oxides as well. I discovered this pocket in a road-cut cliff on historic hwy 49, south of the Carson Hill Mine.

Item# Q-60

QUARTZ (Amethyst Rosette)

Sonora Pass,
Tuolumne County, California

Cx: Kurt Vitek, 1994

Size: 2 1/2" X 2 1/2" Price: 68.00 Description: A rare specimen, indeed. This light, Amethystine Quartz rosette specimen is also colored orange/red by Iron oxides. Sonora Pass ia an obscure California locality that is known only to a small handfull of collectors due not only to the climbing difficulties just to reach the locality - but also to the extremely dangerous collecting conditions present there. Collected by: Kurt Vitek, 1994.

Item# Q-59

RUTILATED QUARTZ

Bahia, Brazil

Size: 2 1/4" X 2" Price: 75.00 Description: A very nice polished specimen of Quartz with Rutile inclusions. The photos speak for themselves!

Item# Q-50

ENHYDRO QUARTZ variety AMETHYST

Goboboseb Mountains,
Brandberg Area, Branberg District,
Erongo Region, Namibia

Size: 2 5/8" X 1 1/16" Price: 75.00

Description: A superb Amethyst specimen that features two moveable Enhydros in near parallel position. The crystal is sharp and lustrous with numerous tubes, veils and other interesting inclusions within as well. A super attractive specimen from this renowned Namibian locality!

Item# Q-55

QUARTZ Variety AMETHYST

Minas Gerais State,
Brazil

Size: 7 1/4" X 1 1/2" Price: SOLD

Description: This large (5 1/2 LB!) Amethyst Geode displays a very interesting and unusual crystal pocket - in that the individual crystals (mirror bright and lustrous) range from water clear to a rich Purple in color. The colorless crystals are randomly dispersed amongst the purple ones - thus making for a very attractive display. Also, it must be added that this specimen has a natural (unpolished) rind and thus escaped processing!

Item# Q-51

QUARTZ Variety NATURAL CITRINE

Loena Mine,
Congo (Zaire)

Size: 2" X 2" Price: 50.00

Description: A beautiful, complex crystal specimen of richly colored natural Citrine with lustrous, divergent, parallel growth crystals. A few small "wilbers" on some crystals.

Item# Q-53

QUARTZ Variety AMETHYST

Minas Gerais State, Brazil

Size: 7 1/2" X 4" Price: SOLD

Description: A nice 3 1/2 LB Amethyst geode with a green rind of typical Caledonite. Natural, unpolished rind.

Item# Q-54

QUARTZ

Diamantina,
Minas Gerais State, Brazil

Size: 5 1/2" X 3 1/2" Price: 85.00

Description: A whopper (3 1/2 LB!) Diamantina crystal that is transparent and lustrous with veils and whispy inclusions. The large X face is very prominant and inticates that this is a "right-handed" crystal. Minor "chattering" on termination.

Item# Q-52

QUARTZ

Minas Gerais State, Brazil

Size: 5 1/4" X 1 3/4" Price: 65.00

Description: Another very cool Brazilian Quartz crystal! This one's glassy and lustrous on three prism faces and and has a coating on the other three. It is transparent on the upper half and displays inclusions of green Chlorite. There is a bright, "right-handed X face and the crystal has a nice termination.

Item# Q-41

SMOKY QUARTZ SCEPTER

Peterson Peak,
Hallelujah Junction,
Washoe County, Nevada

Size: 2" X 1 3/8" Price: $65.00

Description: A sharp, highly lustrous scepter head with that desirable light citrine color on a short deep brown "stalk". Super piece collected by Herb & Helen Ramsey, 1970's.

Item# Q-45

"FADEN" QUARTZ

Dara Ismael District,
Waziristan, Pakistan

Size: 3" X 2 3/8" Price: $68.00

Description:A very nice grouping of lustrous Quartz crystals with a wide, cloudy Faden "bridge" spanning the piece. There is some chipping on some of the crystals as shown in photos -- however, the mineralogical significance of a good Faden and the aesthetics of the piece certainly warrants close consideration.

Item# Q-40

QUARTZ

Georgetown,
Georgetown District,
El Dorado County, Califonia

Size: 2 3/4" X 1 3/4" Price: $38.00

Description: Ah, Georgetown Quartz! If you are familiar with Swiss Quartz then you know just how mirror bright and high quality a Quartz crystal can get. Well, Georgetown Quartz is just that! This crystal is doubly terminated & "Swiss quality" with mirror lustrous faces, a light smoky coloration anf sharp termination. There are some orange, iron stained satellite crystals (some incomplete) that ride piggy-back that add even more interest to the piece. Super!

Item# Q-44

QUARTZ

Diamantina,
Minas Gerais, Brazil

Size: 5 1/4" X 1 3/4" Price: $85.00

Description: A large highly lustrous and partially transparent crystal with wonderful textbook form that displays a thin, bright "x" face. Beautiful!

Item# Q-43

SMOKY QUARTZ

Sawtooth Mountains,
Boise, Boise County,
Idaho

Size: 2 3/8" X 1" Price: SOLD

Description: A nice sharp Smoky with great texture on the prism faces. There is some incomplete Smoky Quartz attached to the side. Old ex: 1980's show stock of Hollowell Minerals. An awesome article on the minerals of the Sawtooth Mountains can be read here:
The Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho.

Item# Q-28

QUARTZ with TOURMALINE on CLEVELANDITE

Minas Gerais,
Southeast Region, Brazil

Size: 2 1/8"X 2" Price: $65.00

Description: Nothing beats a nice Brazilian Pegmatite specimen! This piece consists of a sharply terminated, blocky Smoky Quartz crystal that is loaded with Tourmaline crystal inclusions and sits on a crystalline Clevelandite matrix. Nice specimen!

Item# Q-20

QUARTZ Variety AMETHYST

Irai,
Rio Grand do Sul,
Minas Gerais, Brazil

Size: 5 1/4"X 4" Price: $165.00

Description: Very fine Cabinet specimen of Amethyst that consists of PRISMATIC crystals of unusual, sharp Trigonal form in a wonderful "Jackstraw" grouping on Green, Basaltic Caledonite matrix. As the photos clearly show - this is no ordinary Brazilian Amethyst specimen. Fine aesthetics coupled with its super unusual crystal morphology for the locality makes this piece a top shelf winner!

Item# Q-26

QUARTZ with RUTILE inclusions

Bahia, Brazil

Size: 2 1/2"X 2" Price: $42.00

Description: A nice light colored Smoky Quartz crystal with Rutile crystal inclusions.

Item# Q-22

QUARTZ variety ROCK CRYSTAL

Montgomery County,
Arkansas

Size: 3 1/4"X 2 1/8" Price: $75.00

Description: An absolutely suburb crystal specimen! The main crystal measures 2 1/2"X 1 1/4 and has a very unusual, stepped/ beveled termination that is glassy and flawless. This is a very difficult to describe termination, so I'll let the photos speak for themselves! Top Quartz specimen that sits upright and displays quite aesthetically!

Nothing in the world is more beautiful, I repeat once again, than the view of a freshly opened pocket of excellent Quartz, the various colors of nature playing therein. I have opened many which are not large but exquisite, and I cannot adequately describe the great joy which that view gives me, nor the sorrow which overtakes my heart when I must break apart such beauty in order to dig it out.

- Father Placidus Spescha 1752 - 1833 -