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Smoky Quartz With Calcite

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Smoky Quartz With Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Jan Coetzee Mine, Okiep, Namakwa District, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
38 × 18 × 12 cm
Weight: 
3 521.00gr
Description

A large pseudo-doubly terminated smoky quartz crystal with a grey calcite coating typical from this mine. Small prismatic yellow barite crystals were also found on most specimens. The large quartz crystal has tapering prisms with evidence of basal tectonic fracture and rehealing, resulting in a pseudo-doubly terminated crystal. Many of the second-generation quartz crystals are complex and distorted. Crystal has a small imperfection on the back at the top where the calcite coating has been chipped.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

Calcite

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

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