Quartz (var: Chalcedony) / (var:Agate) / ("Grape Chalcedony / Grape Agate") Phacolite This Diaspore is a beautiful

This Diaspore is a beautiful "Brilliant Trillion" cut gem with very very slight inclusions and a gentle purplish-pink hue in incandescent lighting but shows more of a yellow-pink hue in LED lighting

As the crystal was naturally etched in a way so that you can see the termination stayed completely untouched while the upper portion of the crystal was hollowed out but

The crystals sit wonderfully on bladed Albite (var: "Cleavelandite") matrix with a coating of Muscovite

The stone is about 50% colorless

The piece is from the collection of my brother

Quartz (var: Chalcedony) / (var:Agate) / ("Grape Chalcedony / Grape Agate") Phacolite This Diaspore is a beautifulAn attractive medium purple color group of botryoidal Chalcedony from the new find in Indonesia. Associated moss green Celadonite makes for a great contrast, and both the purple and the green are not at all muted or grey like so many from this discovery. The upper edge has a contact along with the bottom where it was clearly removed from the pocket, hence the reduced price, but overall, its showy, and the size of the individual spheres is larger than