Wana, South Waziristan, Pakistan

This is a very complex Quartz specimen. There is one very large, thick, twinned crystal which has attached to one of its sides different groupings or stacks of faden Quartz. The term faden in German means thread and refers to a white line which runs through a group of parallel growing crystals. The different groups/stacks of faden crystals are aligned at different angles from each other (I count 5 different alignments). The actual faden line is very distinct in some groups and hard to find in others. The large crystal also has smaller crystals in alignment with it at each end. Some of the groups/stacks of crystals exhibit gwendel like curvature. This came from a large lot of faden Quartz from this location I purchased; only this specimen had a single large flat crystal of this habit and only this specimen had so many different angles of orientation of the faden crystals.

13.2 x 7.3 x 5 cm

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