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Epididymite In Smoky Quartz

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Epididymite In Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
14 × 11 × 11 cm
Description

This is truely a very good and aesthetic translucent to gemmy smoky quartz crystal cluster with intergrown white epididymite crystals.

Most of the smoky quartz crystals are double terminated.

Very beautiful specimen with no damage.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Epididymite

Formula: 
Na2Be2Si6O15·H2O
Strunz: 
9.DG.55
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Narsaarsuk pegmatite (Narssârssuk pegmatite), Narsaarsuk Plateau, Igaliku (Igaliko), Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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