{"product_id":"smoky-quartz-18","title":"SMOKY QUARTZ","description":"This alpine Smoky Quartz really does have everything. It is widely accepted that the pinnacle in alpine Quartz crystals is the 'gwindel', a crystallographic peculiarity whereby several flattened prismatic crystals have grown in a line, but each offset by just enough to produce a twist, or bend in their alignment. Occasionally very large, most examples are chipped in some way on their edges and off-matrix because of the nature of how they were extracted from the crevices, or alpine-type fractures, within the rock. Finding a completely undamaged gwindel is extremely rare, and finding one on matrix even more so. This magnificent cabinet-sized display specimen has not only that - a perfect, damage-free, 5.6 x 3.5 cm gwindel, standing upright on a flat plate of matrix, but it is optically stunning: transparent, with a sumptuous rich brown smoky colour. Added to this, this specimen features many classic terminated prisms of Smoky Quartz, to 2.7 cm, equally as richly coloured and super-gemmy, and all perfectly free of damage. To top things off, a little deep grey-grey Chlorite is scattered across the granitic matrix. An absolute wonder of an alpine Quartz specimen, of the highest calibre.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46792082096303,"sku":"CC20339","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC20339.png?v=1779096300","url":"https:\/\/crystalclassics.com\/products\/smoky-quartz-18","provider":"Crystal Classics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}