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Quartz Var Ticino Habit

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Quartz Var Ticino Habit

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Description
Locality: 
Nil-St Vincent-St Martin, Walhain, Walloon Brabant Province, Belgium
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 1.1 × 0.7 cm
Description

This is a Tessin quartz from Nil-St Vincent, a historical locality in Belgium. The specimen is flattened with some iron hydroxides at the surface, and in very good condition. In this quarry were recovered some quartz crystals of Tessin-habitus that reach 30 cm. This is far smaller but still not very common (even in Belgian collections), cause the Nil-St Vincent quarry was active since the 1890’s and closed and inaccessible since mid 1950’s.

Ex. Georges Vanacker* Museum specimen. *Vanackerite (from Tsumeb) is named after him.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

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