This unique Himalayan Quartz crystal cluster is from Ganesh Himāl, a region in the Himalayan Mountain range near the border of Tibet and Nepal. This area is inaccessible for machinery or equipment - due to this, miners travel through the difficult terrain without large tools and hand mine each crystal from the Earth. This crystal has self-healed termination on one end and what always looks to me like a "shark eating other crystals" at the other end. It is the way the crystals run perpendicular to each other and forms in a way that blocked the rest of the primary termination from fully forming that gives this unique look! There are inclusions of green Chlorite phantoms speckled throughout. It measures 65mm by 25mm by 20mm and weighs 18.5 grams.
Mount Ganesh is naturally shaped like an elephant and is named after the Hindu deity with an Elephant head as his own. Held sacred to the Nepalese people, these crystals are known by the Shamans of the area as the "Eyes of God". Each crystal is hand collected by the traveling Sherpas of the Himalayas, whose specialty is to traverse these mountain regions.
