Anatase on Quartz

24 x 10 x 9 mm overall

Lustrous, mirror-bright, sharp, doubly-terminated, deep blue-black crystals of Anatase to 5 x 2 mm, are aesthetically perched upon and partly included within a sharply-terminated, transparent, gemmy crystal of colorless to light smoky Quartz, which measures 24 mm in length. Difficult to photograph because the Anatase have such high luster and the Quartz is so transparent. Collected by Torgeir Garmo before the early 1990s, this is a superb thumbnail from Norway with no damage.