Brookite Topaz This piece is one of

This piece is one of the better specimens to come out of that 2002 discovery and features several sharp

and I've been actively buying and selling minerals from this country since 1998

the color of the Brookites is a deep orange-red (best seen with backlighting) which contrasts wonderfully with the black "phantoms"

The modified termination along with the high luster and saturated golden hue all come together to create a stellar thumbnail specimen of a species that most people are familiar with but rarely have a good representation in their collections

prismatic hexagonal crystals of Quartz (var: Smoky Quartz) that range in color from a very pale smoky color to a rich nearly "morion" black at the base

Brookite Topaz This piece is one ofAn attractive miniature display specimen which plays host to a 9 mm, gemmy, lustrous, sharp "sword" shaped crystal of rich burnt sienna colored Brookite associated with a few secondary Brookites and a handful of gemmy, colorless Quartz prisms on matrix. The main Brookite is undamaged and is actually intergrown (bisected) with a smaller Brookite that created an interesting form at the base. A beautiful miniature sized display specimen of these