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Tourmaline, Apatite on Quartz

Tourmaline, Apatite on Quartz

sold
Locality
Kunar Prov., Afghanistan
Minerals
Quartz
Dimensions
4.5 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm
Size class
Miniature
SID
T251

Very unusual specimen that starts with a double-terminated Quartz crystal. The Quartz is a smokey color that has been overgrown with an opaque white Quartz - one end has the internal smokey Quartz sticking out, and the other termination is white but slightly cavernous. Sticking out one side of the Quartz is a terminated Tourmaline crystal. Attached are strange, double-terminated purple Apatite crystals reaching 1.6cm long, with a purple core and a lighter cat's-eye at each termination.