5.64 ct. Quartz with Gem Sphalerite
Color: Colorless
Clarity: Heavily Included
Origin: Brazil
Cut: Rectangular Step
Treatments: None
Measurements: 15.3 x 9.3 mm
We always enjoy seeing what new species with show up as an inclusion in Quartz. It hosts such a variety of other minerals that it seems each year there is something new and interesting. A few years ago, it was a limited find in Brazil that produced colorless Quartz with extremely well-formed (and entirely gem grade) crystals of Sphalerite. These wonderful triangular shapes float in the Quartz host, the light catching their deep brown-red color. Really lovely and quite fascinating - there was very little of this material mined.