Řečice, Žďár nad Sázavou District, Vysočina Region, Czech Republic

Beautiful, completely intact and absolutely transparent smoky quartz crystal, from about 2 m thick common pegmatite dike containing cavities filled with columnar crystals of citrine, rock crystal and smoky quartz. The largest cavity contained about 600 kg of crystals, the largest of which reached up to 60 cm and weight over 50 kg ! Personal ...

© Petr Gadas

Base 5 mm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Base 3,5 mm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

FoV 8mm.

© Vítězslav Snášel

© Vítězslav Snášel

Amazing hypoparalel smoky quartz overgrown with muscovite. Found 2012. Size: 130 x 82 mm. Collected, collection & photo J. Čermák.

© Jan Čermák

Crystal size 2,4mm x 1,5mm x 0,9mm.

© Vítězslav Snášel

Gem deep brown smoky quartz from pegmatite. Spring 2012. Size 64 x 55 mm. Collected, collection & photo J. Čermák.

© Jan Čermák

© Vítězslav Snášel

Outcrop of the Řečice Li-pegmatite vein

© Jan Vlk

August 2009. Pegmatite outcrops are situated on the border of the forest and the field. Digging is needed, not making the farmer happy…

© Ales Tomek