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Tourmaline & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 4.4 × 4.7 cm
Description

Extremely fine specimen from this exhausted mine. Intense pink tourmaline crystal in best quality with a green cap, perfectly sitting in the side of a fully crystallized quartz crystal. Aslso the termination of the tourmalione is absolutely perfect and without any damage and unrepaired.

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