PETROLEUM QUARTZ WITH A WORLD MOVING INSIDE

PETROLEUM QUARTZ WITH A WORLD MOVING INSIDE

This 18.76 gram Petroleum Quartz from Madagascar is absolutely mesmerizing. At first glance, the crystal is beautiful—but once you get it moving and start looking inside, it becomes something completely different.

The interior is loaded with petroleum-bearing fluid inclusions and tons of moving bubbles. Tilt the crystal and you can literally watch the bubbles travel through their tiny internal chambers, surrounded by incredible golden, amber and fiery orange petroleum inclusions.

It’s like holding a miniature geological time capsule in your hand—fluids trapped inside the quartz during its formation and preserved within the crystal.

The contrast is killer too: beautiful transparent quartz surrounding explosions of gold, orange, red and black, with movement everywhere you look.

18.76 grams of crystal, petroleum and moving bubbles. One of those specimens you could stare into forever.

Madagascar
18.76 grams
Petroleum Quartz

Quartz specimen from Madagascar. Weight 18.76 g.