5 MGM Melody Green Mine Quartz Clusters

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5 MGM Melody Green Mine Quartz Clusters - Certificate

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Sold Date: 03/01/2009
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
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***Five Old Stock MGM ™ Melody Green Mine Solution Quartz Crystal Clusters***
***NEW ! Now Comes With Certificate***

I first met Melody in 2004 in Tucson. She was in her publisher's room. In an ajoining room was Bob Jackson who specializes in minerals that are described in the "Love Is In The Earth" books. He is also mentioned in her books. Bob had quartz from Melody's own mine in Arkansas called the Melody Green Mine. This mine is located in the Ouachita area in the Northwest corner of Arkansas outside of Mt. Ida and is a source of quartz crystals characterized by the presence of manganese and chlorite bearing slately shale with associated inclusions in the quartz crystals. Sadly the mine is closed now and all I have is old stock.

MGM ™ Quartz is described on page 629 of Melody's latest book. Melody's New book-encyclopedia is a huge hardcover book weighing over 10 lbs ! It is called "Love Is in the Earth - the Crystal and Mineral Encyclopedia - the Liite Fantastic and the Last Testament".
May 2008 Update: Earth-Love Publishing now has certificates of authenticity available for MGM Quartz ™ and Metamorphosis Quartz ™. This cluster will come with a certificate.
Melody Green mine crystals are truly vibrant and packed with energy! I believe these crystals are great for placing in corners of rooms as they will clear out negativity and emit positive energy. This auction is for five mini-clusters. The clusters measure from 1" to 1 1/2" in length with a combined weight of 27.3 grams. If you look at the photo in the second row middle right you will see an extraordinary cluster. It has a main double terminated crystal with several smaller double terminated crystals.

MELODY GREEN MINE

Located in the Ouachita area in the Northwest corner of Arkansas outside of Mt Ida, the Melody Green Mine is a source of quartz crystals characterized by the presence of manganese and chlorite bearing slatey shale with attendant associated inclusions in the quartz crystals, such as slate particles, manganese phantoms and chlorite. The host matrix is slatey shale, a sedimentary rock composed of consolidated clay particles. The original sedimentary deposits were associated with a southward facing seacoast, the Ouachita area corresponding to the abyssal plain just past a "continental shelf", in Paleozoic times. Near the end of that era, the area was uplifted by collision with another continental plate (Texas/Oklahoma?). The resulting folding and faulting process (multimillion year process) produced the Ouachita Mountains. The shale in the Ouachita area has undergone low-grade metamorphism associated with this folding and faulting episode. The initial quartz veins and most subsequent quartz intrusions are thought to be associated with this sequence. The silica constituting the bulk of the quartz, it is thought, originated with the erosional debris accumulated in the abyssal plain. The dating of the quartz veins and crystals suggests a late Paleozoic formation.

The most intriguing aspect of the quartz crystallization at the Melody Green Mine is the clearly discernible sequence. An initial crystallization of a milky quartz is associated with a milky quartz vein material intruding into and disrupting the shale. Associated with this, but subsequent in timing, is another sequence of milky quartz subject to profound growth interference. The formation of a milky quartz results from significant inclusion of water/gas into the quartz structure (but not the crystal lattice). The patterns of growth interference suggest a now-absent laminar substance into which the quartz attempted to form. The growth interference quartz is on top of and loosely bonded to the first milky quartz intrusion. Finally, another intrusion of silica solution occurs, producing the "solution" quartz crystals and veins. This very clear quartz is found generally separately from the former formations (although t are some clusters that exhibit all three forms), and typic...