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I contented myself with wandering around this high plateau. It was desolate and beautiful, but no real signs of pegmatites. Quite often there are lots of white quartz pieces lying about, but it’s the ’wrong kind of quartz’, weathered out from hydrothermal veins, (not smoky quartz from pegmatites), and rarely contains euhedral crystals. (Author: Mike Wood)

I contented myself with wandering around this high plateau. It was desolate and beautiful, but no real signs of pegmatites. Quite often there are lots of white quartz pieces lying about, but it’s the ’wrong kind of quartz’, weathered out from hydrothermal veins, (not smoky quartz from pegmatites), and rarely contains euhedral crystals. (Author: Mike Wood)

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