3. $4 Million Chunk of Quartz Found in Arkansas
Location: Arkansas’s Coleman Mine
Year Found: 2016 Estimated Value: $4 million*
The eight thousand-pound quartz lump can be found at the Smithsonian Museum. As a unique stone that is part of the National Gem and Minerals Collection, Berns Quartz was found in an Arkansas mine in 2016 and is currently in charge of greeting visitors to the Smithsonian.
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A large crystal cluster like this one is extremely rare and worth millions of dollars, while a piece of clear quartz costs only $14 on Amazon. The Berns Quartz and other deeply buried crystal veins inside the Arkansas mountain range were likely exposed when the Ouachita Mountains began to erode millions of years ago, leading to the formation of the cluster.
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