Beautiful Large 7.87Lb Smoky Crocodile Alligator Quartz Statement Specimen Crystal Elestial Brazil Overlapping Terminations

Collector notes

Smoky quartz is a brown to black variety of the mineral quartz, with key properties including a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale, a glassy luster, and a color caused by natural radiation. Crocodile quartz—also known as alligator quartz, jacaré quartz, or skeletal/elestial quartz—is a rare natural quartz formation named for its scaled, ridged surface resembling a crocodile's back. It typically forms as smoky or clear quartz with layered, overlapping crystal terminations.