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Agate Quartz & Calcite

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Agate Quartz & Calcite

Ex H. Fürle, Germany

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Description
Locality: 
Juchem Quarry, Niederwörresbach, Herrstein, Birkenfeld, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13 × 9.5 × 1.2 cm
Description

A nice slab of a geode with nicely baded reddish to whitish agate with quartz crystals and some calcite. Typical Juchem quarry specimen where permian andesites with abundant geodes are recovered. Very interesting intergrowth of carbonates and quartz varieties.

Both sides polished.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Agate

Variety Of: 

Chalcedony

Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

Quartz

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Aragonite and Vaterite
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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