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Fensterquarz

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Fensterquarz

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Description
Locality: 
Sigoyer, Forcalquier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 3.9 × 3.5 cm
Description

window quartz,sometime called also quartz-château  (castel-quartz), from a little area in south of Alpes, near Sisteron.
This kind of quartz seems broken by tectonic, and rehealed in good conditions,but with hazardous faces.
Found nearly free, in little clefts on bad  calcite. Only one specimen in one cleft, often broken ! Unusual shape, curiousgrowths and deformations,but extraordinary luster.
No damage.
Rehealed or very good cleavage on the bottom under.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fensterquarz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Hardness: 
0.0

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