Minerals, Perekatnoye deposit, Yakutia, Russia
Rock crystal
Quartz, rock crystal
A hundred sharp crystals from a fully worked-out deposit.
Price on request · In stock — Gimenei shopping centre
- Epoch
- Early Precambrian
- Age
- ≈ 2.5 billion years
- Origin
- Perekatnoye deposit, Yakutia, Russia
- Size
- 47 × 34 × 26 cm
- Weight
- 23 kg
- Classification
- Oxides, quartz
- Composition
- Silicon dioxide SiO₂, colourless
- Ref.
- R–0258
More than a hundred sharp, smooth crystals are united on a single base, forming a harmonious and visually powerful composition.
Perekatnoye is the second most important rock-crystal deposit of the former USSR after Astafyevskoye. Discovered in 1961, it was actively worked until the early 1990s; today the deposit is entirely exhausted, and finds of this quality are all but impossible.