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Chalcedony

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Description
Locality: 
Cavnic Mine, Maramureș County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
18 × 12.5 × 4.5 cm
Description

Huge specimen of chalcedony with some gypsum inbetween.
Chalcedony forming white, "balls" with diameter up to 3 cm.
The aesthetic balls stick out from the matrix.
Weight is almost 1kg - not a typical specimen for Cavnic region

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chalcedony

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Kadıköy (Chalcedon), Istanbul Province, Marmara Region, Turkey

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