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PostPosted: Apr 04, 2013 13:34    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

Fantastic!
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PostPosted: Apr 04, 2013 14:10    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

Hello Pierre,

You have some beautiful scepters. Thanks for posting them.

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PostPosted: Apr 04, 2013 15:00    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

Wonderful pieces, congratulations!

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PostPosted: Apr 05, 2013 03:14    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  




QtzLil1.jpg
 Description:
Quartz
Liliana Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico
3.1 x 2.8 cm
 Viewed:  30154 Time(s)

QtzLil1.jpg



QtzLil2.jpg
 Description:
Quartz
Liliana Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico
1.9 x 2.7 cm
 Viewed:  30096 Time(s)

QtzLil2.jpg



QtzLil3.jpg
 Description:
Quartz
Liliana Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico
3.2 x 1.8 x 2.6 cm
 Viewed:  30100 Time(s)

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PostPosted: Apr 05, 2013 07:10    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

Hi David, Don and Tracy. Thanks for the comments. Fantastic sceptered specimen Am! QtzLil1.jpg

Here are few more.



P1100389.JPG
 Description:
Quartz scepter
Northern Cape, South Africa
29 x 14 x 11 mm
 Viewed:  30082 Time(s)

P1100389.JPG



P1100330.JPG
 Description:
Quartz scepter
Northern Cape, South Africa
26 x 08 x 08 mm
 Viewed:  30052 Time(s)

P1100330.JPG



P1100254.JPG
 Description:
Quartz scepter
Brandberg, Namibia
21 x 06 x 06 mm
 Viewed:  30050 Time(s)

P1100254.JPG



P1100241.JPG
 Description:
Quartz scepter
Brandberg, Namibia
18 x 07 x 06 mm
 Viewed:  30030 Time(s)

P1100241.JPG



P1100242.JPG
 Description:
Quartz scepter
Brandberg, Namibia
18 x 07 x 06 mm
 Viewed:  30020 Time(s)

P1100242.JPG



P1100297.JPG
 Description:
Smoky quartz scepter
Northern Cape, South Africa
21 x 13 x 10 mm
Some of these scepters have water or oil inclusions.
 Viewed:  30118 Time(s)

P1100297.JPG



P1100291.JPG
 Description:
Smoky quartz scepter
Northern Cape, South Africa
21 x 13 x 10 mm
Same as above.
 Viewed:  30066 Time(s)

P1100291.JPG



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PostPosted: Apr 05, 2013 13:42    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

Hi, it's me again with more scepters.


P1100452.JPG
 Description:
Smoky quartz scepter
Northern Cape, South Africa
25 x 16 x 13 mm
 Viewed:  30069 Time(s)

P1100452.JPG



P1100406.JPG
 Description:
Quartz scepter
Brandberg, Namibia
45 x 11 x 10 mm
 Viewed:  30069 Time(s)

P1100406.JPG



P1100429.JPG
 Description:
Quartz scepter
Northern Cape, South Africa
47 x 26 x 23 mm
 Viewed:  30083 Time(s)

P1100429.JPG



P1100463.JPG
 Description:
Smoky quartz scepter
Northern Cape, South Africa
26 x 17 x 13 mm
 Viewed:  30103 Time(s)

P1100463.JPG



P1100469.JPG
 Description:
Smoky quartz scepter
Northern Cape, South Africa
26 x 17 x 13 mm
same as above.
 Viewed:  30069 Time(s)

P1100469.JPG



P1100404.JPG
 Description:
Quartz scepter
Brandberg, Namibia
44 x 12 x 11 mm
 Viewed:  30119 Time(s)

P1100404.JPG



P1100562.JPG
 Description:
Smoky quartz scepter
Northern Cape, South Africa
17 x 07 x 06 mm
 Viewed:  30112 Time(s)

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PostPosted: Feb 18, 2014 17:53    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

A few from the Tucson show this year.


KarurScepter.jpg
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Quartz (var: Amethyst)
Karur District, Tamil Nadu, India
6.1 x 16.0 cm
 Viewed:  29183 Time(s)

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BlackStemScepter.jpg
 Description:
Quartz
Benchmark Quarry, St Johnsville, Montgomery Co., New York, USA
3.5 x 6.0 cm
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PostPosted: Feb 19, 2014 10:22    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

So after putting a lot of effort on theorizing how this scepter/reverse scepter configuration occurs together here's my try at a guess.

First, I'm thinking the solution in which the quartz crystals are growing is such that the conditions for growth sit right at the border of dissolution and growth. In other words crystal structure is being added and dissolved at the same time. This would account for what appears to be melted or curved features you see in some specimens. It would also account for why we don't just always see melted scepter structures -- as the structure is quickly repaired as it dissolves preserving the nice crystal shape.

Now, to account for differences in structure within the same pocket, geode, ect, I'll be making big leaps of assumptions that may or may not be possible due to my ignorance to the physical and chemical process of crystal growth.

First, the fluid would have to be some viscous fluid in which mixing does not occur quickly. And perhaps non-viscous fluids can also have this same property. The attached drawing I made demonstrates how certain flow patterns, eddies, or blebs of fluid might contain properties of dissolution. This property of dissolution could be a combination of temperature, acid, or some other chemical property that dissolves the quartz. Now I have arrows demonstrating a possible flow pattern, however, blebs of dissolving fluid that do not move around much if at all may be possible too. In this case the picture would not have arrows but small zones (circles) of quartz dissolving properties.

So how would I explain how most scepters are larger at the termination? Another leap here -- perhaps the prism faces of quartz (the shaft) is much more susceptible to dissolution than the rhombahedral faces (the termination), thus the majority are normal scepters. I know this seems to contradict how reverse scepters are formed. But in these cases I believe the flow pattern or blebs are taking precedence overpowering the terminations resistance to dissolving.

I can imagine a scenario where a very slow moving bleb dissolves a termination on one crystal, the bleb now containing the silica from the dissolved crystal shifts slightly hovering around another crystal and now perhaps losing some of its dissolving properties deposits it on next crystal forming a normal scepter.

Whether or not such concentrated blebs (zones) or flow patterns are even possible in micro environments may well blast my theory out of the water. Perhaps there is more than one way to form a scepter. If this is the case than trying to come up with a single explanation for scepter growth is made overly complex or impossible based on the physical evidence and variety of scepters we see. Perhaps similar to Ptolemaic astronomy where in a geocentric system things become very complex trying to explain how the planets are moving around.



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Quartz Scepters
imagination
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The geocentric model
Solar system
very large
In a geocentric solar system this is what the motion of mercury and venus would have to look like. The image is from Wikipedia.
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PostPosted: Feb 24, 2014 12:20    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

Okay, I do realize my theory is full of holes and most likely easily dismissed, but I'm not worried about being blatantly and publicly wrong with my silly assumptions especially knowing that I can learn from it. So, please don't worry about letting me know how I'm wrong. I was mainly interested in keeping the topic of scepter formation going. Obviously I'm intrigued by how it happens.
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PostPosted: Oct 18, 2017 14:53    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

Very interesting find


4 (1).jpg
 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Orenburgskaya Oblast, Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia
 Dimensions: 15x7mm
 Description:
Unusual double terminated scepter like dumbbell
 Viewed:  25273 Time(s)

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4 (6).jpg
 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Orenburgskaya Oblast, Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia
 Dimensions: 15x7mm
 Description:
Unusual double terminated scepter like dumbbell
 Viewed:  25327 Time(s)

4 (6).jpg


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PostPosted: Oct 18, 2017 16:19    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

There is much that is really conjecture in geology. We don’t directly observe the formation processes but we get some evidence as we mine deeper. We can also gain some insight from the “experimental results” of manufactured quartz crystals. Its also often the case we look at something and think “this is its final state” when we are really looking at where the process ended for this specimen which is not the destination if the process had been allowed to continue. Eg as temperature changed, as the solution it formed in weakened or drained away .

Interesting thoughts though but I dont think you’re on the right track there with it. A number of those specimens appear to be longer crystals that got broken in half, perhaps as the cooling ground around them shrunk and cracked as it solified. That held the two parts in position in relation to each other as the potentially millions of tons of rock around them moved by a small amount. This crack could have allowed more solution to fill the void and a new crsystal started to form between the two halves joining them.

The melted ones I think were more a change in the solution itself. Melt rock to a liquid and heavier elements will still gravitate towards the bottom of the liquid over time, lighter to the top, so like taking a jar of water and adding a handful of dirt and shaking it up, the entire solution is not 100% identical at every point in the solution or over time. Time I think is the hard part to imagine. Itseasy to pick up a specimen and think it formed like this and has been waiting in the ground for us to come along and find it. It may have taken a vast amount of time to first form in the right conditions but over time the conditions change and formation struggled, faltered and stopped,. But this process could also be repeated if conditions come back to restart formation or even start a new different formation. So I think these “melted” examples are more likely to be a transitional phase in the specimens growth.

These thoughts can be tested by analysing samples of a specimen at different positions and depths in the specimen to determine the precise chemical composition of each specimen itself. Knowing precisely where the specimens were found can give some indication as to possible transitions to other minerals also found at the location. We may never know for certain exactly how a specimen formed but we should be able to reproduce similar formations and this may hint at the original processes. It wont prove them but will demonstrate one combination of factors that end up at a given end point.

You can observe a variety of differences yourself making copper sulfate crystals. I grew batches in icecream containers. The crystals inside the solution that formed would be self similar: same shape geometry and colour, different sizes, not just one giant crsyatl or a hundred small ones but a variety of both. Clusters could form and somtimes where two formed next to each other or just grew large they could become unbalanced and shift position, causing some finer specimens to crack and break and also reform differently. Around the top of the container where it was open to the air the edge of solution would form a different structure of “melted” oxidised whitish formations (but i didnt leave the solution to continue until this layer met the growing crystals ). Also I noticed there would be a sludge in the bottom of the solution around the growing crystals. Sometimes this would interfere with the crystal growth, stunting its growth in one or more directions. This sludge I put down to impurities in my source copper sulfate and the tap water. Point being this is a simple enough experiment to try at home and just observe the results for yourself, Usually we are wanting nice clear blue crystals from this but take a small crystal out of he solution and sit it on a tissue and it will start to eventually grow the whitish crust as air and humidty reacts with the surface. And it all happens over long time, but it helps give an appreciation of how long term conditions can effect mineral growth and how weird and wacky formations can be found, not everything forms perfectly the same with the same solution.
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PostPosted: Oct 19, 2017 06:04    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

SteveB wrote:
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Interesting thoughts though but I dont think you’re on the right track there with it. A number of those specimens appear to be longer crystals that got broken in half, perhaps as the cooling ground around them shrunk and cracked as it solified. That held the two parts in position in relation to each other as the potentially millions of tons of rock around them moved by a small amount. This crack could have allowed more solution to fill the void and a new crsystal started to form between the two halves joining them.

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At once I apologize for the poor knowledge of English. I translate with Google.
Your assumption is mistaken. Unequivocally I can say - this is a real double terminated scepter. And the caps have grown up on a crystal master like an ordinary scepter. In the photo you can see the clasps of the heads of the main crystal. Inclusions presumably anthraxolite.And in the rest I agree with you. Steveb, thanks for your understanding



4 (4).jpg
 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Orenburgskaya Oblast, Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia
 Dimensions: 15x7mm
 Description:
 Viewed:  25192 Time(s)

4 (4).jpg



4 (7).jpg
 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Orenburgskaya Oblast, Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia
 Description:
 Viewed:  25171 Time(s)

4 (7).jpg



4.jpg
 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Orenburgskaya Oblast, Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia
 Description:
 Viewed:  25179 Time(s)

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PostPosted: Oct 19, 2017 07:51    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

I Have more doubly terminated Scepters.


Quartz double terminated scepter, Karur, Tamil, India.jpg
 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Karur District, Tamil Nadu, India
 Dimensions: 4.2 cm
 Description:
Quartz double terminated scepter
 Viewed:  25159 Time(s)

Quartz double terminated scepter, Karur, Tamil, India.jpg



Quartz green double scepter, Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia.jpg
 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
 Description:
Quartz green double terminated scepter
 Viewed:  25177 Time(s)

Quartz green double scepter, Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia.jpg


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PostPosted: Oct 19, 2017 10:26    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

As you can see, my scepter is not alone. How often do such creations occur?
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PostPosted: Oct 19, 2017 11:17    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

I found also some scepters in other minerals. True scepters, not etched.


Calcite scepter crystal, “BOR” Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia.jpg
 Mineral: Calcite
 Locality:
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia
 Dimensions: 4.2 cm
 Description:
Calcite scepter crystal
 Viewed:  25213 Time(s)

Calcite scepter crystal, “BOR” Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia.jpg



Scepter Tourmaline, Barra de Salinas, Aracuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil.jpg
 Mineral: Tourmaline
 Locality:
Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil
 Dimensions: 3.5 cm
 Description:
Tourmaline scepter crystal
 Viewed:  25176 Time(s)

Scepter Tourmaline, Barra de Salinas, Aracuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil.jpg



Fluorite sceptered crystals and Stibnite, Chajdarkan, Mitte Aria, Turkmenistan, URSS.JPG
 Mineral: Fluorite on Stibnite
 Description:
Chajdarkan, Mitte Aria, Turkmenistan, URSS
xl 1.2 cm
Fluorite scepter crystal on Stibnite
 Viewed:  25119 Time(s)

Fluorite sceptered crystals and Stibnite, Chajdarkan, Mitte Aria, Turkmenistan, URSS.JPG


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PostPosted: Oct 19, 2017 16:23    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

Some scepters seems to start with a secondary grow preferential on the rhombohedrum faces. The cap-scepter quartz crystals on hematite from Jinlong hill, China have similar grow pattern that the tourmaline crystal from Barra do Salina with a secondary grow on the termination with different color. If the cap continues growing we will have a scepter.
But reverse scepters or crazy crystals as those from Goboboseb or Liliana Mine, I think they can have a different origin. And it doesn't look to have any relation with dissolution



Quartz cap-scepter crystals on hematite, Jinlong hill, Longchuan, Guangdong Prov., China.jpg
 Mineral: Quartz on Hematite
 Locality:
Jinlong Hill, Longchuan, Heyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province, China
 Description:
Quartz cap-scepter crystals on Hematite
 Viewed:  25071 Time(s)

Quartz cap-scepter crystals on hematite, Jinlong hill, Longchuan, Guangdong Prov., China.jpg



IMG_9421 (Medium).JPG
 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg area, Erongo Region, Namibia
 Description:
Quartz crazy crystal
 Viewed:  25071 Time(s)

IMG_9421 (Medium).JPG


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PostPosted: Oct 21, 2017 12:15    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

Quartz scepter var smokey amethyst with phantoms.


amethyst crystal park.jpg
 Mineral: Quartz (variety amethyst, variety smokey)
 Locality:
Crystal Park, Pioneer Mountains, Elkhorn Hot Springs, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA
 Dimensions: 16mm x 47mm
 Description:
 Viewed:  24996 Time(s)

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PostPosted: Oct 22, 2017 05:27    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

Quartz scepter with rhombohedra {012} or {102}


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 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Orenburgskaya Oblast, Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia
 Dimensions: 11x5 mm
 Description:
 Viewed:  24871 Time(s)

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 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Orenburgskaya Oblast, Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia
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PostPosted: Oct 23, 2017 13:26    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

Some more specimens.


2891 (Medium).JPG
 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Madagascar
 Dimensions: 42 mm
 Description:
Scepter crystal with amethyst head.
 Viewed:  24762 Time(s)

2891 (Medium).JPG



Quartz scepter crystal with amethyst head, Andilamena, Madagascar.jpg
 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Andilamela District, Alaotra-Mangoro Region, Toamasina Province, Madagascar
 Dimensions: 35 mm (biggest)
 Description:
Two scepter crystals with amethyst head.
 Viewed:  24777 Time(s)

Quartz scepter crystal with amethyst head, Andilamena, Madagascar.jpg



Quartz scepter crystals and double scepter, San Antonio, Chihuahua, Mexico.jpg
 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico
 Dimensions: 28 mm (crystal)
 Description:
Double scepter crystal.
 Viewed:  24773 Time(s)

Quartz scepter crystals and double scepter, San Antonio, Chihuahua, Mexico.jpg



Quartz scepter cathedral crystals, Nuristan, Afghanistan.jpg
 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
 Dimensions: 8 cm (crystal)
 Description:
Scepter crystal with cathedral termination.
 Viewed:  24771 Time(s)

Quartz scepter cathedral crystals, Nuristan, Afghanistan.jpg



Quartz scepter crystal, Guizhou, China.jpg
 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Guizhou Province, China
 Dimensions: 45 mm
 Description:
Very clean scepter crystal.
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 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Monte Fonza, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
 Dimensions: 26 mm
 Description:
A scepter with double termination.
 Viewed:  24767 Time(s)

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 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Monte Fonza, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
 Dimensions: 30 mm
 Description:
My favorite, a crystal with a sceptered phantom.
 Viewed:  24785 Time(s)

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PostPosted: Mar 21, 2018 17:37    Post subject: Re: Scepters - (1)  

This is an old topic - but incomplete without a scepter from Hallelujah Junction. So here's one:
12.5cm - Royal Scepter Mine, Peterson Mountain, Nevada, USA.



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 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Royal Scepter Mine, Hallelujah Junction area, Washoe County, Nevada, USA
 Dimensions: 12.5cm
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