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Smoky Quartz

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Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Monteacuto Ragazza, Grizzana Morandi, Bologna Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.9 × 6.6 × 5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Weight: 
453.00gr
Description

Connoisseur specimen featuring crystals of dark, smoky beta quartz on the classic hazel colored hydrothermalite matrix. Sharp, lustrous, well defined and partially gemmy. Associated, some mesitine-like carbonate (not analysed, but known from the area).

Once a true Italian classic from Northern Italy, these specimens were very famous until the early 90s and are now nearly impossible to be spotted, if not in local collections. This one is unusually large.

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

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