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The Brushy Mountain, a.k.a. Mule Creek, quartz crystal area is located on the Arizona-New Mexico border in Grant County, New Mexico. The quartz crystals formed in cavities in a rhyolite rock. Most of the crystals are small (1-8 cm on average), and rather heavily included, but they are typically a light amethystine color and display unusual crystal shapes. Many of the crystals are scepters with skeletal habit. The above specimen is one of those rare pieces that could be recovered still attached to matrix. This specimen shows a half-inch long scepter at the entrance of a vug. Nestled deep inside the vug is a nice inch-long scepter. Only the top of that crystal, which had to be reattached during specimen preparation, is shown in this image. (m498 is priced at $30.00)
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