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Fire Opal Quartz & Kaolinite

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Fire Opal Quartz & Kaolinite

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Description
Locality: 
Carbonera Mine, La Trinidad, Tequisquiapan Municipality, Queretaro, Mexico
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2.16 × 1.1 × 5.9 cm
Description

Cut and polished clear opal with pale red hematite included quartz crystals Kaolinite and other unidentified inclusions. The inclusions found in opals from this locality reflect their volcanic provenance. Various inclusions have been identified  in Fire Opal -  Goethite, Hematite, Fluorite, Hornblende, Rutile , Pyrite, Kaolinite , Cristobalite,  Quartz,  three-phase inclusion,  two-phase inclusion, flow structures, and multiple cycles of growth have also been described.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fire Opal

Variety Of: 

Opal

Formula: 
SiO2·nH2O
Strunz: 
4.DA.10
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Red

Quartz

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

Kaolinite

Formula: 
Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Strunz: 
9.ED.05
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Gaoling Mine (Kauling Mine), Gaoling village, Ehu town, Fuliang Co., Jingdezhen Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China

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