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Quartz

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Auernig, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 4 × 2.7 cm
Description

This skeletal quartz has a sculptural from, good luster and clarity. It looks like an Ice Crystal. Through the process of etching the crystal got its special shape and its very lively structure. This piece is a rare variety of quartz! Partially there is some pericline and some chlorite grown on the quartz. This fantastic piece features also a nice luster. A very beautiful undamaged floater-piece from an alpine cleft in the “Hohe Tauern”!

Mineral Data
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Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White