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Rock Crystal

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MGR753593

Rock Crystal

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Grieswies, Hüttwinkl Valley, Rauris, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 3.8 × 1.9 cm
Description

The specimen is developed as floater, all edegs are sharp, all faces show best luster. Some faces show an iridiscent luster, caused my a thin layer of limonite - this layer doesn´t mean any subtraction of quality, luster or clarity - it just gives this colorfull effect to the specimen which looks like oil on water. The specimen is out of the probably most famous discovery in Rauris valley. In the 70ties in the only cleft which ever produced gwindels in the entire region was discovered - and this amazin specimen is out of this historic cleft. Hard to photograph, even better in person

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