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Smoky Quartz & Chlorite

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Smoky Quartz & Chlorite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Pentelicus, Athens, Penteli, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 4.1 × 3.4 cm
Description

This is a Swiss-Quality, lustrous, thick and quite large for Greece, alpine-type crystal of smoky quartz! These are extemelly hard to acquire and I got this from an old German collection. The crystal is sharp with excellent smoky color, great luster and very good transparency. There is a sharp, beautiful phantom of green chlorite inclusions in the crystal which makes this even more interesting! Smoky quartz from Pendeli are so rare that if you even get a small thumbnail, you are lucky. That is a major Greek smoky quartz for all Greek localities. Better in person!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

Chlorite

Synonym Of: 

Chlorite Group

Group Parent: 
Chlorite
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2 - 2.5
Colour: 
Green, Grey, Brown
Streak: 
colourless

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