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Tourmaline With Quartz

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Tourmaline With Quartz

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Stak Nala, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 2 × 1.9 cm
Description

This tourmaline crystal convinces with its perfect properties: All faces are glossy and undamaged. The termination is perfect and undamaged. An amazing green color on the ending makes the specimen even more attractive. In this area the crystal shows different tones of green colors. On the tourmaline sits a perfectly crystallized and double terminated quartz crystal. An extraordinary piece - completely crystallized and undamaged as floater specimen! The tourmaline stands in the displayed position without support.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tourmaline

Formula: 
A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7

Quartz

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