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Dolomite On Quartz

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Dolomite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramureș County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 8.5 × 6 cm
Description

This is a fantastic and very attractive speicmen of lustrous dolomite crystal clusters on a bed of gemmy clear quartz crystals with good contrasting golden pyrite and minor black tetrahedrite crystals.

Ex Laszlo Vany collection

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Dolomite

Formula: 
CaMg(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Rhombohedral
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White

Quartz

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