If you would rather not order using the cart through  PayPal, or want to pay with check or money order, click here for instructions CRYSTAL POINTS CLUSTERS OVERCOAT PAGE ONE you are here, a sub-heading under the OVERCOAT INDEX PAGE TWO GOLDEN OTHER     ****************

CLEAR 0197   $23.00 reduced! now $18.00 This is a nice overcoat crystal with a faint layer of coating, making it silky to the touch.  The overcoat characteristics don't show well in the photo and for some reason the front center looks damaged to me, (and I know it isn't) so if you are seeing the same thing I am, it is a trick of the lighting.  This is a nice point with crisp edges.  The base is narrowed to a point due to imprints from other crystals and there is a really cool rainbow inside that is almost hiding that reminds me of a curtain inside that you see behind the overcoat from certain angles only. 3.25 long x 1 &5/8 wide x 1.25 thick 5 oz click here to check crystal descriptions alphabetically .CLEAR 0372    $26.00 reduced! now $21.00 This is a large overcoat crystal.  It is empathic, I took a picture of the crystal from the back view to get a shot of the empathic area.  It is a ding, pictured.  It shows the internal clarity, however.  This overcoat has more fairy frost than most, though, you can see that through the base, which is not self healed.  It has some really excellent rainbows which can be seen through imprints made in the coating.  It has the "sugar druzy" on many of the sides. 3.5  long x 2.1/8 wide x 1.5 thick 9 oz click here to check crystal descriptions alphabetically CLEAR 0374    $16.00 reduced! now $13.00 This crystal is an overcoat with a piggyback crystal attached, partially complete.  There is an imprint where the remainder of the crystal used to be.  The main crystal is characteristically absolutely water clear, you can see this where the overcoat layer is missing (through the windows the imprints leave).  The main crystal is a Dow.  The picture is taken of the back view of this crystal to show the imprint and the back edge of the piggyback crystal. 2.25  long x .75 wide x .5 thick 1 oz click here to check crystal descriptions alphabetically CLEAR0135    $9.00 reduced! now $7.00 Adopted  Kathy This is a pair of similar points with a very light overcoat layer, The point on the left has a small recorder, and the base is a cake icing drag up the side (you can see it above my thumb knuckle) and it has a small bridge.  The crystal on the right has a self-healed imprint type marking up the side.  It has a light shallow key. 2.25  long x 5/8 wide x .5 thick 2.5  long x .5 wide x 5/8 thick 1.5 oz click here to check crystal descriptions alphabetically .CLEAR0D    $22.00 reduced! now $17.00 This is a flat, tabular shaped crystal that is water clear inside and also has the iridescent sheen.  It has a few imprints and a couple of small empathic areas. 2 & 3/8" long x 1.5" wide x 1" thick 3 oz click here to check crystal descriptions alphabetically CLEAR0I    $24.00 reduced! now $19.00 This crystal is very water clear inside with fairy frost inclusions seen through a large self healed base.  It has "sugar" drusy, and barnacles.  More of the "fish scale" type areas on some of the main faces. 3" long x 1 & 1/8" wide x 1.25" thick 3 oz click here to check crystal descriptions alphabetically ...CLEAR0C    $26.00 reduced! now $21.00 This point is short and wide and also has a rainbow iridescence on the faces. 2 & 3/8" long x 1.5" wide x 1.25" thick 4.5 oz click here to check crystal descriptions alphabetically CLEAR 0220   $20.00 reduced! now $16.00 This is an overcoat crystal with a deep key on one side that reveals a milky spot that appears to be a broken off end of a bridge and another shallow key that reveals a clear inside.   There is sparkily druzy, yellowish in color. 2.25 long x 5/8 wide x 5/8 thick 1 oz click here to check crystal descriptions alphabetically ************************************ ************************************* If you would rather not order using the cart through  PayPal, or want to pay with check or money order, click here for instructions   ******************************************************************************

Quartz crystal points with a layer of milky quartz coating a very clear crystal point inside.  A rare crystal variety
usually found in Colorado, these come from a mine in Mt. Ida Arkansas.  For Sale!
The following crystals are very interesting.  I didn't know what they were, the mine owner wasn't sure, he called them simply "ivory crystals" and didn't really know anything about the mineralogy of them.  I spent a long time searching the internet, asking people and etc... and just a day or two before posting these crystals to the website,  while checking one of my books (about something quite off subject, of course) I FOUND the crystal.  right there.  

I have a book called Rockhounding Arkansas by Darcy and Mike Howard (complete reference below) and there they are!  They are apparently a type of reverse phantom... a "creamy white layer of milky quartz" that formed on the OUTSIDE of clear quartz. Mike Howard, a geologist, states in this book that Art Smith*, another geologist friend of his that these were usually only found in Colorado, but they have since been found in at least two places in Arkansas.  Art called them  "Snow Crystals" but Mike preferred "Overcoat Quartz".
   
I figure whatever you call them, they are beautiful.  I am assuming they are relatively rare
since they are only found in the two places in Arkansas.  Of course, this is only an
assumption on my part based on the information I have available to me.    

The characteristics I have found almost all of them to have is that the insides are very very water clear (you can look up through most of the bases, or if there is any mine damage or imprints, you can see through the milky coating to reveal the insides.  The other thing is that they all have lots of rainbows.  Both on the insides as well as on the outer layers of the faces, an iridescent sheen.
*reference books
Collecting Crystals, The Guide to Quartz in Arkansas, Rockhounding Arkansas
by Darcy and Mike Howard (2000)
Sheridan books, Inc.
Collecting Arkansas Minerals - A Reference and Guide
by Art Smith (1996)
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