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Tourmaline & Quartz

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Tourmaline & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Cruzeiro Mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 3.2 × 1.9 cm
Description

What a spectacular combination. The quartz crystal is double terminated, sharp at all edges, a floater in best quality with highly lustrous faces and water-clear. The Tourmaline crystals are lustrous as well and very clear. They grew on, through and inside the quartz - looks really amazing in each angle! It is very difficult to capture the brilliance and clarity of the quartz and so I have to note, that this specimen is really a jewel and much better in person.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tourmaline

Formula: 
A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7

Quartz

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