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Herkimer Diamond

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Herkimer Diamond

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Description
Locality: 
La Facciata Quarry, Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
5.1 × 9.1 × 5.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.20cm
Weight: 
249.00gr
Description

A crystal clear quartz var. herkimer in the candid white marble of Carrara. The crystal is perfectly shaped, with mint tip and glass clear transparency, to the point that the botton of the quartz can be seen through. In the same fissure, a number of small calcite crystals, visible through the quartz crystal as well. The specimen shows brown stains, possibly indicating soil percolation prior to extraction.
A nice specimen from the Carrara marble basin, increasingly rare in this quality and size since a few years. The specimen has been sawn at the bottom for better display. Collected in the early 2000s.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Herkimer Diamond

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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

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