He shared little gifts, tapes, books and even a rock of smoky quartz from the Snowy Mountains, as a reminder of his prospecting days, with friends.
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In addition to the typical smoky quartz crystals and amazonite, the Gold Camp Road area contains several minerals that are relatively rare in other parts of region.
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More recently, high-quality crystals have been obtained from Pike's Peak, Colorado, where it is found associated with smoky quartz, orthoclase, and albite in a coarse granite or pegmatite.
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Sunglasses, in the form of flat panes of smoky quartz, were used in China during the 12th century . } } Similarly, the Inuit have used pinhole effect.
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During tunnel, subway and skyscraper excavations, they've unearthed sparkling mineral crystals, some of them clear-colored and precious, including blue-green aquamarines, chunks of smoky quartz, golden beryl, topaz, black tourmalines and wine-red garnets.
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It was first described from complex crystals and as broken fragments in the disintegrated material of a granitic vein at Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine where it is associated with feldspar, smoky quartz, beryl and columbite.
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It is composed of over 1, 000 precious stones; including 555 white diamonds ( 30 carats ), 375 cognac diamonds ( 14 carats ), 10 smoky quartz crystals ( 20 carats ) and 19 morganite gemstones ( 60 carats ).
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They begin as prismatic quartz ( including the color sub-varieties such as Smoky Quartz and Amethyst ) in the quartz veins alongside the Delaware River that get eroded out of the host rock and wash down 200 miles to the shore.
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Smoky Quartz first appears in the episode " Earthlings ", near the end of the third season, formed during a moment of commiseration between Steven and Amethyst over their shared fears of not being able to live up to their potential.
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The major collecting areas are on the west side of the mountain and they contain the usual assortment of smoky quartz and amazonite, although, like the Tarryalls, the amazonite is usually very pale and is most often grades into plain microcline.
