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Miage is known for the quality of colorless quartz specimens, especially faden quartz but also scarce gwindels. Sometimes these are found combined with other minerals such as this little one which is combined with faden epidotes.

Look at the luster on this lightly smoky faden quartz coming from the french side of the Mont-Blanc mountains 🇨🇵

Rare closed gwindel "sucre" crystal on a dark smoky quartz matrix. A beautiful alpine specimen coming from the high altitude Mont-Blanc mountains, France 🇫🇷

Gwindel smoky quartz from the French Alps, with the Mont-Blanc mountains in the background