Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Hematite Quartz & Calcite

Views:
Watches:
ESM718680

Hematite Quartz & Calcite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Waldhambach, Annweiler am Trifels, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 7 × 5.5 cm
Description

Dark red-brown hematite rosettes on quartz crystals with coclorless calcite crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

Quartz

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White