'Gitter' Quartz on Feldspar
available$ 350
- Locality
- Erongo Region, Namibia
- Minerals
- Quartz
- Dimensions
- 9.2 x 4 x 3.5 cm
- Size class
- Small Cabinet
- SID
- P833
Cris-crossing Quartz crystals known as 'Gitter Quartz' (a German name for fence or lattice Quartz). The Quartz crystals form epitaxially on an elongated single Feldspar crystal in a lattice of crystals. The tan-colored Feldspar is mostly covered by the Quartz, but visible on one end. The Erongo Mountains is the only locality I'm aware of that produces this style of unusual Quartz specimens.