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Smoky Quartz With Epidote

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Smoky Quartz With Epidote

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Strzegom, Strzegom-Sobótka Massif, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 7 × 3 cm
Description

7 x 7 x 3 cm

Reserve 70

This specimen requires more precise viewing of the details to discover the beauty: it consists of intergrown, doubly terminated smoky quartz crystals with high gloss and good transparency. Light green, highly glossy epidote crystals have grown on and in the quartz crystals. An all-around well crystallized floater specimen. No significant damage to report!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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

Epidote

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al2Fe3+}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.05a
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
Colorless
Type Locality: 
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