Included Smokies
Generally, the rule when working with included crystals is to know what each mineral is and what its attributes are, and to understand that the base energies of the crystal will be enhanced / adjusted accordingly. Along with other members of the quartz family, it is common to find smoky quartz with inclusions: many crystals have deep golden-yellow, red or orange areas within or just below their surface - these are likely to be iron deposits, which may look rather "smeary" or liquid; some have small white snowballs in/on them - these are likely to be okenite; some exhibit rutilation in shades of silver, copper, bronze or gold, or tourmaline needles - usually black. Other inclusions include hematite (usually small silvery metallic flecks or spots); lepidocrocite (usually small red or orange flecks or spots); phantom inclusions (commonly exhibiting "layers" of clear, milky or amethyst quartz - or more rarely citrine); air or water inclusions, resulting in skeletal layering and / or enhydro formation (these are comparatively common within smoky quartz, but remain rare and very sought after crystals!)
To read more about the different forms and formations of minerals and their uses, you may like to return to our main site and to the pages under the dropdown heading "Crystal Directories".
11G244
Amethyst / Smoky Quartz (Brandburg): crystal - Phantom Sceptre
17C087
Amethyst / Smoky Quartz: polished point - Enhydro Phantom (Mad.)
11G360
Clear / Smoky Quartz (Brandburg): crystal cluster - DT
17M041
Rutilated Smoky Quartz: crystal
16L009
Rutilated Smoky Quartz: Flame (Madagascar)
15E107
Rutilated Smoky Quartz: polished pebble (Madagascar)
19J039
Rutilated Smoky Quartz: polished point - DT (Madagascar)
17M102
Rutilated Smoky Quartz: polished point - Phantom (Madagascar)
17M135
Sacred Scribe (Russia): crystal - DT Included
17M134
Sacred Scribe (Russia): crystal - DT Self-healed
15E011
Smoky / Amethyst Quartz: polished point - Enhydro (Madagascar)
11G311
Smoky / Clear Quartz: crystal cluster - Phantom (Namibia)
11G279
Smoky Quartz / Amethyst (Brandburg): crystal - Skeletal DT
11G265
Smoky Quartz: crystal cluster - Red Phantom (South Africa)