this is the most fantastic tabular faden quartz that looks just like an icey lighting bolt. Its gorgeous and I mimially encased it in blacked silver hung from an awesome vintage 1960s rope chain.

Tabular Faden Quartz starts as grains of quartz in a rock split by earthquakes, and become intricate and beautiful patterns trying to bridge an ever widening fissure deep in the earth.

These represent a very unique geologic phenomena that occurs when certain minerals (apatite, quartz, et al.) grow in a fault zone, as movement continues, here quartz deposition continues to add to a chain of quartz that has deformed and yet fully terminated and brilliant crystals that mend, knit, and augment the broken chain as the earth movements persist.