Quartz

specimen number:
2062427

location:
Wigwam Creek, Jefferson Co., Colorado, USA

description:
A loose cluster of crystallized quartz, the prominent crystal double terminated. Iron oxides are present. This is in very good condition.

Wigwam Creek in Jefferson County, Colorado, is not a structured commercial mine with formal historical opening and closing dates, but rather a renowned public mineral collecting and rockhounding area that has been prospected informally by mineral enthusiasts for generations. Geologically, the site is situated within the robust Mesoproterozoic rocks of the Pikes Peak Batholith, which formed roughly 1600 to 1000 million years ago. The area is primarily composed of granite and alkali feldspar granite featuring miarolitic pegmatite pockets, which naturally house quartz veins and cavities responsible for producing well-known mineral specimens such as amazonite, fluorite, smoky quartz, and clear quartz.

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