Garden quartz freeform

Garden quartz freeformApprox dimensions: 1. 75 x 1. 25 x 1" Approx weight: 75g Garden quartz, also called lodolite, is the trade name for clear quartz included with chlorite to create a scene like a miniature mossy garden landscape. The different types of chlorite inclusions are colored by other trace elements to produce muted tones of green, purple, pink, and coppery browns, reds, and oranges. I think theyre like peering into a tide pool! Garden quartz is generally sold

Approx dimensions: 1.75 x 1.25 x 1"

Approx weight: 75g

Garden quartz, also called lodolite, is the trade name for clear quartz included with chlorite to create a scene like a miniature mossy garden landscape. The different types of chlorite inclusions are colored by other trace elements to produce muted tones of green, purple, pink, and coppery browns, reds, and oranges. I think they’re like peering into a tide pool!

Garden quartz is generally sold polished to best reveal its internal features. The inclusions can make the garden quartz appear dark, so it can be especially captivating in bright light or when lit from underneath, illuminating the interior scene.

This piece of garden quartz is weird as heck so buy it before I decide to keep it. The freeform shape has been cut so that a hexagonal inclusion—best described as "sausage meat" in color and texture—runs through the center of it. Quartz typically grows six-sided crystals which makes me wonder whether the first phase of growth was quartz so heavily included it was opaque, followed by glassy-clear quartz included with green, orange, and golden chlorite. The backside is covered in mossy-looking chlorite and has unusual blade-like growths I suspect could be another mineral; one is shaped like two points of a star with symmetry that doesn't seem accidental (second to last image).

Note: because garden quartz is heavily included, it is common to see pitting on the surface where inclusions touch the surface and the softer material was pulled away in the polishing process. For the same reason it is also common to have light fracturing or chipping at points and junctions of polished faces. This specimen does exhibit these features!