This is a superb rose quartz from the Dr. Steve Smale Collection. It is complete-all-around and on both sides, fully crystallized. It’s about 3 x 2 x 2 inches and has deep, vivid color, no paleness about it. It is a rich pink, not pastel as usual. And, more importantly perhaps, it has big crystals instead of the usual small and insignificant jumble of aggregate crystals. This is truly outstanding in other ways: it is also pristine, lustrous, and complete-all-around (Steve's absolute requirements). He obtained it long ago in Brazil.
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