Quartz

specimen number:
2062551

location:
Coldwater Creek, Rock Branch, Elbert Co., Georgia, USA

description:
A cluster of glassy translucent purple quartz crystals coming off matrix. This is in very good condition all around with just slight and very minimal micro-damage present. Neat locality example, this is the variety of the species often called amethyst. The specimen comes with a previous label from the collection of Ray DeMark.

Coldwater Creek near Rock Branch in Elbert County, Georgia, is a historic mineral locality situated within the Piedmont geological province, characterized by ancient metamorphic and igneous basement rocks. While it was never operated as a formal commercial mine with fixed opening and closing dates, the area has long been known to mineral collectors as a surface occurrence for purple quartz. Local quartz veins cutting through the regional metamorphic bedrock weather down to release specimens into stream gravels and residual soils, where mineral enthusiasts have historically recovered quality mineral specimens.

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