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Inner Mongolian quartz pointLocale: HuangGangLiang mining district, Inner Mongolia, China Approx point length: 3. 5" Approx weight: 34g These quartz points are from HuangGangLiang, and commonly called Mongolian or Inner Mongolian quartz. This isn't your typically shiny quartz; the point has a matte white crust that glitters like sand. This piece is particularly messy with mineral growth obscuring the form of the quartz, so it has earned the ugly duckling discount for the batch

visible through the pink chalcedony (in the botryoidal form just to the left of my thumbnail)

and a later generation of growth deposited the less common hyalite on the specimen

UV reactivity Visible calcite fluoresces and phosphoresces moderate red under 365 nm UV light

The soft matrix on the back will leave red-brown dusty staining on surfaces

Option L gets the ugly duckling discount for having no discernible pattern

Calcite has formed clusters of small scalenohedral crystals

creating beautiful tones

This one lacks all of those lovely features so of course I was going to snatch it up

Approx size: 2"

I suspect it could be a feldspar pseudomorph

but the bulk of the growth is triangular

colloquially called “dino doo