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Rock Crystal

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Description
Locality: 
Piz Miezdi, Lumnezia, Surselva Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 2.6 × 2.4 cm
Description

A crazy assemble of two intergrown crystals set on small matrix. The habit of the quartz crystals is crazy - they show numerous sharp modifications and faces, highly lustrous all around and water clear. Clarity was hard to capture with the camera, you can see the matrix underneat the lower crystal and in person it looks flawless. Back to habit - it would need a scientific research to figure out which faces belongs to which habit, in the position rotated to the side it looks like gwindel (gwindel on gwindel) and I think there is a twisted rotation when you look at them from the birds view, but there are additional faces at the front side - for sure the most crazy habit I ever saw of quartz. The crystals are completely freesstanding, luster is over the roof and it is really very, very aesthetic. No significant damages to report.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rock Crystal

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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