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Sceptre Quartz On Sphalerite

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Sceptre Quartz On Sphalerite

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Description
Locality: 
Roşia Montană, Alba County, Romania
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 4 × 3.5 cm
Description

A beautiful sceptre quartz crystal on a bed of lustrous black sphalerite crystals from the famous Adolf Scholz collection.

Collected in the 1940s

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sceptre Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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

Sphalerite

Formula: 
ZnS
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0