Specimen
Alligator Quartz
Massive quartz stained gold and amber where iron-bearing water ran through its cracks. The color follows old fracture lines, so each broken face shows a different map of where the water went.
Photographed, not listed for sale yet.
This piece gets a price when it is ready to sell.
- Hardness
- Mohs 7
- Crystal system
- trigonal
- Family
- iron-stained quartz
- Luster
- vitreous
- Streak
- white
- Cleavage
- none
