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Quartz & Baryte

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Quartz & Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
18 × 12 × 8 cm
Description

A cluster of lustrous quartz crystals on baryte crystals (old piece, 1863)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White