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Rose Quartz

Ex Dr. O. Schmidt, Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 7 × 1 cm
Weight: 
37.30gr
Description

Slice of rose quartz with very deep color, one side is rough and one is sawn & polished. Shows partly weak red fluorescence under LW and SW UV.

Comes with beautiful old label from the former collection of metallurgical plant director Dr. O. Schmidt, Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany.
He deaceased 1923 or 1924, the collection (appr. 1200 specimens) was sold to the city of Bergisch-Gladbach in 1925, used as teaching resources in a secondary school then. In 2016, after several movements, the remainders of the collection were sold to in order to support the city's fossil collection. The label means: "Rosenquarz, angeschliffen - durch Titan gefärbt - Böhmen" (Rose quartz, polished, colored by titanium - Bohemia).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rose Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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

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