Weight – 2.7`14lbs – 1.232 kg’s
Dimensions – 7.48″ x 5.347″ long/wide (19.0 x 13.5 cm’s)
Country of Origin – Madagascar
Natural Cascading Phantom Quartz Cluster
USD $183.00
SKU: Q4859
This Natural Quartz Cluster has wonderful and numerous white phantoms! The cascading form is spectacular and the aesthetics are superb!! This specimen is in excellent condition and self stands! Check out the wraparound video of this awesome specimen just above!
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- Description & Dimensions
- Cascading Quartz Properties
- Phantom Quartz Properties
- Quartz Cluster Properties
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Cascading Quartz Origins & Background
Cascading Quartz is a descriptive term used for Quartz crystals that display multiple smaller crystals, stepped growth, or triangular Elestial-like formations flowing down the sides of a central crystal. These secondary growths appear to “cascade” downward, giving the crystal a layered, abundant, and highly textured appearance.
This growth habit is also commonly referred to as Candlestick Quartz or Pineapple Quartz, reflecting the way the crystal surface builds outward in repeating layers. In rarer examples, this cascading effect may also appear on the termination itself.
Cascading Quartz is most often found in Milky Quartz. While sometimes overlooked compared to ultra-clear Quartz, Milky Quartz carries its own ancient, steady, and deeply grounded wisdom — making it a perfect host for this complex growth style.
These crystals are highly expressive records of long-term, uninterrupted growth. Their form reflects accumulation, cooperation, and the gradual building of knowledge over time rather than sudden or singular expression.
Cascading Quartz Geological Information
Cascading Quartz is a growth habit rather than a separate mineral species. It forms when Quartz continues to crystallize in fluctuating conditions, allowing repeated secondary crystal growth along the sides of an existing crystal.
These layered formations are commonly associated with Elestial-style growth, where silica-rich fluids deposit in stages rather than in a single uninterrupted phase. This produces the stepped, triangular, and overlapping crystal structures characteristic of Cascading Quartz.
The predominance of Milky Quartz in these formations is due to the presence of fluid inclusions and micro-bubbles captured during growth. These inclusions soften clarity but deepen structural complexity.
Physical Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Mineral Species | Quartz (Cascading / Candlestick / Pineapple habit) |
| Chemical Formula | SiO₂ |
| Crystal System | Trigonal |
| Hardness (Mohs Scale) | 7 |
| Luster | Vitreous to silky |
| Transparency | Opaque to translucent |
| Fracture | Conchoidal |
Cascading Quartz Crystal Care & Ownership Advice
🧼 Cleaning:
Water-safe. Rinse gently with lukewarm water and use a soft brush to clean between layered growths. Avoid ultrasonic cleaners, which may stress delicate secondary formations.
✋ Handling:
Handle with care. The cascading layers can be more fragile than smooth-sided crystals.
☀️ Sunlight:
Stable in normal light conditions.
📦 Storage:
Store separately or with padding to protect intricate surface growth.
Phantom Quartz
For what and How Does One Use it?
Phantom Quartz crystals are all about growth and moving on, moving past blockages. On a physical level, these crystals are created when another substance other than quartz washes over the crystal, leaving a layer on the termination during the crystal’s natural growth cycle. The crystal continues to grow, leaving an image of itself where it was at the time the substance washed over it. Phantoms can be made up of such minerals as Chlorite, Hematite, or even Clay. On occasion heat can play a part, causing a phantom to be visible through a different color shade. Most often either Smoky or Amethyst can display these heat-induced types of Phantom. The most powerful phantom configurations are termed as being 3D. This is where the substance has totally covered the entire termination, leaving a three-dimensional image of itself. Phantom crystals are very good for helping us move past blockages, where we may have become “stuck.” The type of inclusion that makes up the phantom also plays a part in the gifts that these special crystals have to offer us. They can also be used to project growth and plan milestones. Hold a Phantom Quartz and visualize/remember a traumatic time in your life that you may perceive as having stunted your growth. Now see yourself actually becoming stronger through this experience. Let that experience become a marker, a testament to your strength, growth and perfection in that moment. Now bring that perfection and strength forward to the present day. Give thanks to the Phantom Crystal in helping you change your perception and facilitating your self-healing! Read more regarding Phantom Quartz Properties at the link below (will open in a new tab/window)…. http://crystal-information.com/encyclopedia/phantom-quartz/
Quartz Cluster
For what and How Does One Use it?
These crystals have all the properties of Quartz. In addition, being in cluster form enables the crystal points’ combined energy to spread out, benefiting entire rooms. In the case of very large Quartz Clusters, whole houses and neighborhoods will benefit!
You may place other crystals carefully on clusters to charge them.
Quartz Clusters attract and enable you to use more life force energy. Have it around you, on you, or in elixir form, in you!
Quartz Clusters seek to bring balance on all our body levels.
Quartz has the ability to receive, store and send energy, which makes it a powerful manifestation tool. Hold/gaze into the crystal, and put your thought/need (what you wish to manifest) into it. The Quartz Cluster receives the thought (and the feeling behind the thought), then stores and transmits those thoughts and feelings into the ethers. Thus, even while you’re not thinking about that particular manifestation, the Quartz Cluster is still working on your behalf, putting out your thought forms.
This process has the effect of drawing your manifestation towards you at a much greater rate than before. They are Power tools, and you have to love ’em!
Many refer to this process as programming. Many books state that a crystal can hold only one program, but scientists have found a way to store terabytes of data into a single bubble that makes up the mist you see in the Quartz. My feeling is that Quartz crystals can in fact hold and run more programs than we could give in our lifetime!
Quartz is one of the most flexible crystal tools around. It is very responsive to our intent. What you intend is what you get! It is also one of the most powerful tools and should be treated as such.
Read more regarding Quartz Cluster Properties at the link below (will open in a new tab/window)….
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