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Quartz Var Gwindel

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RBR177748

Quartz Var Gwindel

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Description
Locality: 
Felli Valley, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4 × 3.5 cm
Description

The specimen shows a high quality gwindel on a matrix of granite. As you know, most gwindles are without matrix - so this is something special. The specimen is perfect all around and free of damage. Right in the middle you can find the gwindel that shows a great transparency and perfect clearity. There are no inclusions or internal cracks. Maybe you can't see the clearity perfect because one face shows tiny chlorite-spots. But that's nothing that would decrease the quality or aesthetic. The gwindel is 3 cm long and perfect terminated.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

Gwindel

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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