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Goethite On Smoky Quartz

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Goethite On Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Smoky Hawk claim, Crystal Peak, Teller County, Colorado, United States of America
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 2.8 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Description

Black goethite crystals on small quartz crystals that include goethite, that all on a dark smoky quartz crystal

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Goethite

Formula: 
α-Fe3+O(OH)
Strunz: 
4.00.
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Hollertszug Mine (Hollerter Zug Mine), Dermbach, Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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