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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 × 5.2 × 4.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Description

A very good one, with a fine combination, and a good aesthetic. Diamond quartz  from septaria. Also called sometimes  Mirabeau diamond in memory of Count Mirabeau,who tried (in XVIIIe) to pay his taxes with that sort of diamond !
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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