Quartz

This attractive quartz specimen features a milky to clear, doubly terminated quartz crystal accompanied by a smaller “side-car” crystal all perched on a minimal amount of matrix. The main crystal is notably transparent and well formed, with sharp terminations and clean prism faces that give it excellent visual clarity and balance.

The specimen comes from the Plata Mine on the Inca Property in the Yukon, a remote northern locality best known for silver-lead mineralization but which has also produced fine quartz crystals from vugs and fractures associated with hydrothermal activity. Yukon quartz from classic mining properties such as this is relatively scarce on the collector market, especially in well-formed, doubly terminated examples.