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Quartz Var Faden With Chrysotile & Epidote

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Quartz Var Faden With Chrysotile & Epidote

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Description
Locality: 
Kharan, Baluchistan, Pakistan
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.4 × 5.4 × 1.4 cm
Description

A new recent finds of these unusual and highly choice inclusions of acicular asbestos with well terminated faden quartz .

The yellowish brown spray of asbestos give more beauty to the quartz crystal. There is minor asbestos and tiny epidote present on the outside edge of the quartz crystal . The quartz crystal is perfect.

A really nice example of these new finds from a famed mineral locality Kharan , Baluchistan.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

Chrysotile

Formula: 
Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4
Strunz: 
9.ED.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Green
Type Locality: 
Zloty Stok (Reichenstein), Ząbkowice District, Lower Silesia (Dolnośląskie), Poland

Epidote

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al2Fe3+}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.05a
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
Colorless
Type Locality: 
Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France...

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