Black Chlorite Phantom Quartz 644528aa43de5441b11fc572f58bdb6e

Black Chlorite Phantom Quartz 644528aa43de5441b11fc572f58bdb6ePhantom Quartz is created when minerals have been washed over and captured within a crystal during its growing process. The mineral deposit acts as a record of the crystal's lifetime. Phantoms appear as ghost crystals, or faint lines that mimic the shape of the main termination of the crystal. Phantom colors vary depending on the mineral which is captured. Very frequently, these phantoms are chlorite, hematite, or clay. Another way that phantoms can

then recognized by the scientific community in 1854 when it was given its official name “Astrophyllite”

Central and South America

Giant clams are the largest living bivalve molluscs

making it the second hardest natural mineral

the small serrations found on their teeth are similar to those found on herbivorous reptiles

4th millennium BC

For some reason many flintstone axes and knives have been found in in lakes and streams by what would have been farmlands

Compare that to the average 3" tooth size of a modern Great white and one can begin to imagine the size and power of Carcharodon Megalodon

giving the specimen a slight shimmer

The name Chrysoberyl is from the Greek words (chrysos and beryllos)

but most of the commercial amber we see is from plants that did not evolve until the Jurassic or early Cretaceous periods

Mining these Agate specimens is extremely difficult as they are found only in the mountaintops of Argentina