Garden Quartz

the world in a raindrop

Garden Quartz rough specimen on dark stone
Provenance
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Mineral family
Quartz over gardens of chlorite and feldspar
Hardness
Mohs 7 — wear-ready
Energy
Abundance — The treasure-basin frequency — plenty, planted and kept.
Inside clear quartz: green chlorite hills, feldspar cliffs, iron-red soil — whole landscapes the size of a thumbnail, a hundred million years deep. Chinese collectors call the half-filled stones 聚宝盆, “treasure basins,” bowls that keep what falls into them. Lodolite, garden quartz, dream stone — every trade name is an attempt at the same astonishment.
“A landscape the size of a thumb, a hundred million years deep.”Collectors’ lore · lodolite
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