Natural Mixed Spirit Quartz Clusters x 12 From Boekenhouthoek, South Africa Arts - Craft Petrifaction or petrification is the

Petrifaction or petrification is the process by which organic material becomes a fossil through the replacement of the original material and the filling of the original pore spaces with minerals

Rhodonite from Zimbabwe is a Manganese Silicate mineral

the region has produced mostly clear to smokey cascading quartz with well-defined phantoms

Locality = Vakinankaratra

particularly in comparison to material from other regions

Natural Mixed Spirit Quartz Clusters x 12 From Boekenhouthoek, South Africa Arts - Craft Petrifaction or petrification is thePRODUCT INFORMATION General Description Spirit Quartz often called Cactus Quartz or Fairy Quartz depending on the exact habit comes from the north western region of South Africa. The deposits are mined by individual miners who simply own a small piece of land which scatters the areas of the deposit. The material is not mined on a commercial level but rather you have hundreds of individuals mining their own small area, often in their back gardens. The