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Smoky Quartz & Aegirine

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Smoky Quartz & Aegirine

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
18 × 8.3 × 3.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
12.50cm
Description

This is truely a fantastic quartz specimen. Three double terminated, smoky quartz crystals a grown beautifully together only associated by lustrous black aegirine crystals.

Very good display specimen.

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

Aegirine

Formula: 
NaFe3+Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Rundemyr, Øvre Eiker, Buskerud, Norway