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Weight
35.3 g
0.0353 kg
1.25 oz
0.078 lb
176.5 carats⸻DimensionsLongest dimension
50.88 mm
5.088 cm
2.00 inchesThis piece comes from my personal collection, carefully kept as a natural mineral display specimen.This natural Himalayan quartz specimen comes from Ganesh Himal, Nepal. It preserves a strong natural prismatic crystal form with a well-defined termination, broad crystal faces, and fine horizontal growth striations. The crystal remains in its natural formation, with no visible cutting, polishing, or artificial shaping, and the preserved surfaces show no obvious mining scars.One of its most distinctive features is the small naturally attached golden companion crystal growing from the side of the main point. Its rounded, projecting form resembles a tiny golden bud or a small hand reaching outward from the larger crystal, giving the specimen a very recognizable natural silhouette.The upper portion of the main crystal is exceptionally transparent. Several broad faces act like natural windows, allowing a clear view through the quartz and into the internal and rear mineral landscape. These window-like faces create strong depth and make it possible to observe the specimen from multiple angles rather than only from the surface.Inside the crystal is a delicate combination of natural starry cotton-like inclusions, fine mist, soft cloudy veils, and tiny dew-like textures. Instead of forming one dense opaque area, these inclusions appear as numerous fine points and soft suspended clouds, creating a layered “silver rain” effect inside the highly transparent body.Under direct light, the crystal produces pronounced silvery reflections across both the natural faces and internal structures. Some angles show mirror-like flashes, while small localized areas can also reveal subtle natural rainbow reflections. The combination of clear quartz, fine internal mist, and silver light gives the specimen an especially luminous appearance when rotated.The back of the specimen is dramatically different from the clear front. Natural mineral skin, matrix material, golden-toned mineral deposits, golden mica, and silver mica are preserved along the rear and lower sections. Some of this mineral material appears deeply embedded into the crystal growth rather than simply resting on the outer surface. Viewed through the transparent window faces, these embedded minerals create a natural landscape inside the quartz, almost like a small mineral scene preserved behind glass.Golden mica and silver mica are important features of this specimen. Warm golden mica tones appear throughout the mineral-rich areas, while silvery mica produces brighter metallic reflections. Together they create a noticeable contrast with the colorless to lightly champagne-toned transparent quartz.The lower section and base are equally detailed. The bottom displays a complex layered Nirvana-style growth structure, with stacked natural crystal textures, stepped formations, small crystalline surfaces, mineral skin, golden mica, and silver mica arranged through the base. The layered structure gives the bottom a floating, naturally regenerated appearance rather than a simple flat termination.The specimen therefore presents two very different visual sides: broad, highly transparent window faces on the front and a dense mineral-rich landscape on the back and base. Through the clear quartz, the golden and silver mica, embedded mineral material, starry internal inclusions, and layered Nirvana-style bottom can all interact visually within the same crystal.Key natural features include a high-transparency prismatic body, broad window faces, natural termination, fine growth striations, a small golden companion crystal, embedded mineral landscape, natural mineral skin, golden mica, silver mica, starry cotton-like inclusions, dew-like mist, internal veils, strong silver reflections, subtle rainbow flashes, and a layered Nirvana-style base.