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Stellerite & Quartz

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Stellerite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Garrawilla Station, Pottinger County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4.5 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.80cm
Description

Three peach coloured & terminated stellarite crystals that have been adorned with clusters of drusy clear to white quartz crystal.

There is a minor amount of matrix attached at the back of the specimen.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stellerite

Formula: 
Ca4(Si28Al8)O72·28H2O
Strunz: 
9.GE.15
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Mednyi Island, Commander Islands (Komandorskije ostrova), Bering Sea, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...

Quartz

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