SiS: STUNNING Water Clear Rutilated Quartz Specimen with Golden Straw Needles For Sale
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SiS: STUNNING Water Clear Rutilated Quartz Specimen with Golden Straw Needles:
$43.00
This is a slab that I've lapped smooth and polished to a perfect invisible finish on both sides. The visual effect is one of golden needles growing in a clearsuspended quartz. It looks really nice in person but hard to get the effect with the camera. This stone is nice enough to cut jewelry from and makes a truly museum grade collector piece.
Lastyear in Tucson we saw some of the best rutilated quartz specimens we've ever come across. I don't know if we just got lucky or if the miners have hit some particularly good pockets recently, but what we witnessed on this trip was just incredible. The most impressive crystal was two feet long, full of golden straw rutile and priced at a mere $35,000! Fortunately, we found some more modestly priced specimens and were the first buyers to go through the lot so we acquired some really choice ones!
This large specimen is densely packed with large sprays of golden rutile blades frozen inside. If you aren't familiar with this material it's something you have to see in person to truly appreciate. The rutile needles are actually titanium oxide crystals. They can vary in color, density, shape and thickness, but the most stunning are the thick, golden, straw-like specimens set in either clear or smokey quartz. This piece has lots of them intersecting in all sorts of angles and directions throughout the specimen. It looks like the needles have been scattered through the specimen like straw on a barn floor. These are really exceptionally thick needles in this specimen and there are many more of them than you can detect in the photo. They are straight and about the thickness of blades of grass. The formation is much more three dimensional and the quartz much clearer than the photo would suggest - you'll be stunned when you open this one up I promise!
This piece measures about 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" across the polished face and is about 0.26" thick. I've flat lapped it and polished it to a gem quality finish on my specially designed laps. You'll never find the equal to our finish work on , no matter how much our imitators claim otherwise - they simply won't work that hard!
A nice, professionally prepared, unique natural wonder collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary.
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