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Smoky Quartz

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Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Argentière, Mont Blanc, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.2 × 7.8 × 5.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
5.00cm
Description

In this specimen we can observe a rich group of quartz crystals with well defined faces and edges. We see a well-developed prism with rhombohedral terminal and trapezohedron faces. Transparence and brilliance are both quite good and with a very uniform smoky tone. With a fracture on the back side of the main crystal, not afecting fron view. Crystalls are esthetically disposed on the feldpar matrix. Found in 2014.

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