PRODUCT INFORMATION

General Description

Very nice cluster with golden healer like limonite coating! Madagascar produces a wide range of quartz, and in many colour hues as one could imagine. The colouration is always a geochemical infusion, but tends to be limited in terms of pocket size. So some colour hues are actually exceptionally rare! Colouration if external is removed during acid cleaning, whilst others are internal and acid will not remove colour. The geochemical nature of this is fairly complex. Generally Speaking - Madagascar is mined fairly extensively for a wide range of quartz both in the north and south of the country. The best deposits yield optic to near optic white to smokey crystals which are mostly small crystals in complex and dense arrangements. Clusters either having a plate or complex vug like habit. The material is exceptionally well mined, and mostly intact but damage can be expected depending of the grade of the specimens. Irrespective of some damage the material is mostly all cleaned and been through a round of acid. On rare occasions some haematoid colouration remains evident on some specimens. We recently obtained 7 tons of material from Madagascar! Several mines production for a long time, covid has done some serious damage to the miners in Madagascar simply due to the break down of distributional channels and the total ban of foreign visitors for several years! We adopted a "total deposit" concept when we purchased from our friends. The only way to ensure sustainable mining to facilitate economic empowerment to a wide range of local families. Each batch is graded and priced according to what is in the box. Good to A grade means exactly that. Price is grade dependant. Item/s are as shown.

Product Data

Locality = Madagascar
Grade = Good Grade
Size = 212 x 132 x 109 mm | 4.1 x 5.1 x 0 inch
Net Weight = 2.5 Kg | 5.4 Lbs
Product Type = Décor Item

Net Weight = 2.47 kg
SKU = QWMNNTO145465