The Western
Cape,
with Cape
Town
as its capital city, is a
scenic, mountainous
province with an equally beautiful coastline.
The
sandstone mountains
have a granite basin. Clear and milky quartz crystal pockets are found
in numerous
areas, with the Ceres, Worcester and Villiersdorp areas yielding the
best
specimens. Some of these specimens are double terminated, with clear
and
coloured phantoms and other inclusions.
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Vredendal is an exceptional
mineral locality. It is a small agricultural town, some 300 km north of
Cape Town. A lime and dolomite quarry
(pictured left) a few
kilometers outside Vredendal, has yielded some very interesting mineral
specimens.
We have been fortunate to obtain (over several years) a large
collection of
these hard-to-come-by mineral specimens from this exclusive site.
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Vredendal, Villiersdorp, Worcester and
Ceres (the latter two both about 120 km from Cape Town)
are beautiful areas.
Nestled
between the Cape
fold mountains,
these areas
deliver beautiful and unusual quartz specimens.
Below we
have a selection
of crystals from these lesser known areas. All the specimens
on this page have been mined by ourselves.
(FOLLOW
THIS LINK FOR MINERAL SPECIMENS FROM THE NORTHERN
CAPE.)
Specimens
for
sale from the the Western Cape:
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Light Smoky Quartz
Crystal -
SWCV 001
89
x 16 x 14 mm
US $ 28
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Twinned
Double Terminated Quartz Crystals with Feldspar and
Dolomite - SWCV 002
44 x 38 x 16
mm
US $ 75
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Phantom
Quartz Crystal Specimen -
SWCV 003
52 x 37 x 32
mm
US $ 65
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Group
of Quartz Crystals - SWCV
004
71 x 57 x 33 mm
US $ 35
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Quartz Crystal Group with
Rutile -
SWCV 005
61
x 33 x 24 mm
US $ 45 - NOW LESS 40%
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Multi-Faceted Quartz Crystal Group -
SWCV 006
73 x 30 x 25
mm
US $ 110
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Quartz
Crystal Group -
SWCV 007
85
x 31 x 26 mm
US $ 65
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster on Dolomite and Feldspar Crystals -
SWCV 008
72 x 35 x 30
mm
US $ 70 - NOW LESS 40%
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Quartz, Feldspar,
Dolomite and Rutile -
SWCV 009
68 x 35 x 30 mm
US $ 85
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Light Smoky Quartz Crystal
with Faint Phantom -
SWCV 010
44 x 16 x 14
mm
US $ 35
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster -
SWCV 011
41
x 33 x 23 mm
US $
25
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Multi-Terminated Smoky Quartz
Crystal -
SWCV 012
56
x 30 x 24 mm
US $ 65
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Quartz
Crystal with Feldspar, Dolomite and Rutile -
SWCV 013
48 x 35 x 24 mm
US $ 45 - NOW LESS 40%
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Very
Unusual Quartz
Crystal Group -
SWCV 014
58 x 40 x 13
mm
US $ 60
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Light Smoky Quartz
Crystal -
SWCV 015
63 x 31 x 30
US $ 35
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Quartz
Crystal with Rutile Needles -
SWCV 016
44 x 7.5 x 7.5
mm
US $ 25
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Quartz with Orthoclase
Feldspar and Rutile -
SWCV 017
74 x 48 x
28 mm
US $ 150
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Quartz
Crystal with Light Smoky Colouring -
SWCV 018
60 x
23 x 22 mm
US $ 25
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Quartz
Crystal with Light Smoky Colouring -
SWCV 019
60 x 18 x 13 mm
US $ 18
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Double Terminated Phantom
Smoky Quartz
Crystal -
SWCV 020
63 x 36 x 28 mm
US $ 65
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Double Terminated Quartz
Crystal with Inclusions - SWCC
001
83 x 28 x 25
mm
US
$ 65
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Double
Terminated Quartz
Crystal - SWCC
002
61 x 15 x 12
mm
US
$ 18
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Quartz
Crystal Group -
SWCC 003
65 x 43 x 28 mm
US
$ 65
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Quartz
Crystal Druse with Lovely Phantom - SWCC
004
67
x 49 x 32 mm
US
$ 120
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Quartz Crystal Cluster with
Goethite -
SWCC 005
81 x 62 x 47
mm
US $ 85
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Stubby
Quartz
Crystal Floater -
SWCC 006
49 x
28 x 21 mm
US
$ 18
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster - SWCC 008
51 x 50 x 40
mm
US $ 125
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Quartz
Crystal with Lovely Growth Patterns -
SWCC 009
56 x 16 x 13
mm
US $ 25
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster on Matrix -
SWCC 010
47
x 41
x 40 mm
US $ 55
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Double
and
Multi-Terminated Quartz Crystal Cluster - SWCC 011
58 x 25 x 15
mm
US $ 35
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Phantom
Quartz Crystals with Goethite - SWCC 012
39
x 28
x 27 mm
US $ 45
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Quartz
with Chlorite - SWCC 013
32
x 17
x 14 mm
US $ 45
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Quartz
Crystal with Lovely Termination Facets - SWCC
014
49 x 26 x 24
mm
US $ 35
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Quartz
Crystal Specimen -
SWCC 015
35 x 15 x 10 mm
US $ 7
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Clear Quartz Crystal -
SWCC 016
68 x 17 x 13 mm
US $ 35
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Clear Quartz Crystals on
Matrix -
SWCC 017
47
x 42 x 21 mm
US $ 35 - NOW LESS 40%
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Gemmy, Clear Quartz Crystal on
Matrix -
SWCC 018
43 x 40 x 31 mm
US $ 35 - NOW LESS 40%
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Clear Quartz Crystals on
Matrix -
SWCC 019
53 x 31 x
28 mm
US $ 17 - NOW LESS 40%
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Clear and Milky Quartz Crystal
Group -
SWCC 020
39 x 31 x 19 mm
US $ 12
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Phantom Quartz Crystal
Group -
SWCC 021
44
x 32 x 29 mm
US $ 25
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Quartz Crystal
Group on Matrix -
SWCC 022
49
x 27 x 21 mm
US $ 22
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Quartz Crystal
Group -
SWCC 023
89
x 52 x 35 mm
US $ 85 - NOW LESS 40%
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Quartz Crystal
Group -
SWCC 024
59
x 55 x 26 mm
US $ 45 - NOW LESS 40%
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Clear Quartz Crystals on
Matrix -
SWCC 025
56 x 34 x 33 mm
US $ 150
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Quartz Crystal Group -
SWCC 026
40 x 25 x 16
mm
US $ 14
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Quartz Crystal
Group -
SWCC 027
83 x 53 x 30 mm
US $ 125
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Floater Quartz Crystal
Group -
SWCC 028
46 x 32 x 25 mm
US $ 40
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Clear Quartz Crystals on
Matrix -
SWCC 029
83 x 36 x 36 mm
US $ 130
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Quartz
Specimen with Goethite - SWCC 030
68
x 32 x 30
mm
US $ 120
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