Seven-foot-tall, 8,000-pound quartz crystal cluster from Arkansas on display at Smithsonian by David Ramsey November 3, 2021 12:35 pm March 20, 2024 12:50 am. Share this: ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History unveiled a stunning slab of quartz crystals today, Oct. 27. This is among the largest examples of quartz specimens on display in any museum in ...

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — A large quartz crystal cluster was stolen from a gem mine in western North Carolina, authorities said. The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post ...

A seemingly inexhaustible supply of the six-sided crystals, many of them tap-water clear, often appearing as clusters, occurs in the gritty, red-clay soil of the “quartz belt,” a roughly 30 ...

Cloer said the cluster is from Madagascar and believed to be worth about $5,000. It was stolen from the store’s holding area, where it and two other large crystals were waiting to be put on ...

As it turns out, this is an expansive exhibit that goes well beyond displays of crystals. While it includes the largest crystal cluster ever mined from Arkansas, a 1,500-pound specimen called Holy ...

But Arkansas is also home to the Arkansas state mineral: quartz. A seemingly inexhaustible supply of the six-sided crystals, many of them tap-water clear, often appearing as clusters, occurs in ...

Cloer said the cluster is from Madagascar and believed to be worth about $5,000. It was stolen from the store’s holding area, where it and two other large crystals were waiting to be put on ...