Smoky Quartz – Lower Cavagnoli Glacier, Robiei, Ticino, Switzerland
Find September 2022, ex collection Dr. Stefan Weiß
 
Wonderful smoky quartz with flawless transparency. Some prisms are slightly chloritized. The base of the 10.7 cm long crystal is recrystallized. This collection piece was found in the western residual ice channel at an altitude of 2600 meters.
Alpine collector's specimen from the collection of Lapis editor-in-chief Dr. Stefan Weiß