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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: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 4 × 2.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.20cm
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 !
Here, a jewel in a little garden! Very fresh...
The rock is covered by calcite, brown to black because hydrocarbone.Very luminous cristals.
Escorted by minor calcite and ankerite.
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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