Natural Floater Smokey Quartz with Feldspar Cluster x 1 From Erongo Namibia

A NOTE FROM NICK 
A Rare Natural Large Intact Floater Smokey Quartz, with Feldspar and some Foitite Cluster. A Grade Beauty!

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 

Smoky quartz (SiO₂), a macrocrystalline variety of quartz colored by natural irradiation-induced color centers and trace aluminum impurities, exhibits a translucent to opaque brown-to-gray hue and vitreous luster, typically forming prismatic hexagonal crystals terminated by rhombohedral faces; in this specimen, it is intimately intergrown with feldspar—predominantly orthoclase or microcline (KAlSi₃O₈)—manifesting as creamy-white to pinkish cleavable masses with characteristic perthitic textures, while minor fluorite (CaF₂) occurs as cubic crystalline inclusions or veinlets displaying isotropic optical properties, fluorescence under UV light, and perfect octahedral cleavage, collectively forming a polymineralic assemblage likely originating from a granitic pegmatite or hydrothermal vein system where late-stage fluorine-rich fluids facilitated fluorite precipitation alongside quartz and alkali feldspar crystallization.

PRODUCT MINERALS 

smoky quartz, feldspar, fluorite

PRODUCT FEATURES 

translucent to opaque, brown-gray color, hexagonal crystals, pointed ends, shiny surface, white-pink feldspar chunks, striped texture, cube-shaped fluorite bits, glows under UV, easy to split, from pegmatite rocks

PRODUCT COLOUR 
Clear, Smokey

MOHS HARDNESS SCALE
4 - 7

PRODUCT DATA
Locality = Erongo, Namibia
Grade = A Grade                      
Size = 190 x 182 x 78  mm