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Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Gee, Arkaroola Region, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.2 × 8 × 3.2 cm
Description

Mount Gee is an ancient hot springs area where the weird and unusual occur including this unusual hydrothermal quartz forming a hump like specimen of concentric & radiating rings which end up as a mass of small milky terminated crystals in turn coated by iron oxides. No damage except for two slight chips at the base as seen in the photos.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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