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Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province/Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 5 × 3.5 cm
Weight: 
54.00gr
Description

Here we have a crazy specimen from the Inca de Oro mining district: worm-like formations of tiny colourless quartz crystals sit in a druse and cover a green acicular mineral that has not yet been analysed. Accompanied by turquoise radial crystal formations, also not yet analysed.

This fantastic structure is unique

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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