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Dauphine Quartz

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Dauphine Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Quenast, Rebecq, Walloon Brabant Province, Belgium
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 4.1 × 2.5 cm
Description

A self-collected Dauphiné habit quartz, with a clean enlarged rhombohedral face. It is quite transparent and it is a floater, with the base also crystallized, and associated to some green chlorite and dark iron oxy-hydroxides. A nice article about this quarry recently appeared this year in the Mineralogical Record (MR50(4), 441-456).

Collected by Dr Iván Blanco on April/6th/2013.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Dauphine Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0

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