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Smoky Quartz

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Smoky Quartz

ex collection Dr. M. Seitz
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Description
Locality: 
Mount Sinai, South Sinai, Egypt
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
19 × 12.8 × 10.5 cm
Weight: 
3 483.00gr
Description

An astonishing smoky window quartz floater of almost 3.5 kilo. Yes, it is a floater. All surfaces, even the bottom, are healed and re-crystallized. The specimen is not only huge, but also of a very nice quality (I'd say gem-cutting quality in the tips)5, transparent in most areas with a very nice smoky brown to almost citrine-like color in transmitted light. It's the biggest and best smoky quartz group I've seen from Mount Sinai - a historically very special locality.

Very little, minor chipping and very small dull parts on the surfaces.

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

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