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Quartz With Actinolite

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Quartz With Actinolite

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Description
Locality: 
Xanthi, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 1.4 × 1.2 cm
Description

A double terminated quartz crystal from Xanthi, Greece. The crystal reduces towards one top and is full of green, thin actinolite needles which color the quartz crystal completely green in the lower area.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

Actinolite

Formula: 
☐{Ca2}{Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DE.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Streak: 
White