Strathbogie Ranges are well known locally for a variety of quartz specimens that have originally been mined during World War 2 for their piezoelectric properties. New small pockets are still discovered and this is a one of them, moving dirt for new dam the farmer uncovered a pocket of interesting quartz crystals like this one; lustrous translucent to transparent crystal with good termination at the smoky end and several terminations at the other white end, of the crystal.