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Alpine Quartz Gwindels
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Beautiful, rare, and utterly distinctive-looking, gwindel quartz specimens have always been highly cherished. Gwindels form in Alpine-type clefts by complex processes which are still in some measure mysterious, and remain controversial. Truly fine, in some cases very large, gwindels have been found only in a narrow belt of localities in the central Swiss Alps; in the French part of the Mont Blanc massif; and since about 1990 in the Polar Urals of Russia.
INTRODUCTION
Recent discoveries in Russia notwithstanding, there is no type of mineral specimen which more clearly says "Alpine" than the ...
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