Smoky Quartz Cluster with Clinochlore from Dodo Mine, Russia TF1314 rhodochrosite Sprays of gold rutile are specimen Sprays of gold rutile are packed into this polished quartz tower from Novo Horizonte Irkutskaya Oblast The Dodo deposit (often referred to as Dodo Mine) is a well known mineral locality in the Subpolar Ural Mountains of Russia near the village of Neroika and some 100 km west northwest of Saranpaul It is part of a quartz crystal bearing vein system in the high latitude Urals that has attracted attention from mineralogists and collectors because of its striking and often high quality quartz crystal specimens and associated minerals