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Mirabeau Diamond

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Mirabeau Diamond

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Description
Locality: 
Ribiers, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4.3 × 3.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.30cm
Description

diamond quartz  from septaria. Also called sometime  Mirabeau diamond in memory of Count Mirabeau,who tried (in XVIIIe) to pay his taxes with that sort of diamond !
It is a double crystal!In fact,it is the same seed for both crystals:all the faces of both crystals have the same orientation.
The rock is covered by calcite, brown to black because hydrocarbone.Very luminous cristals.
Escorted by minor calcite.
No damage.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mirabeau Diamond

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0

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