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Rainbow Quartz

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Rainbow Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Nashik District, Maharashtra, India
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 3.5 × 2 cm
Weight: 
20.00gr
Description

Iris quartz, sometimes also marketed under the name "rainbow quartz" or "anandalite", is a quartz crystal displaying internal spectral colours (single colours or tiny rainbows) under some of the crystal faces (normally the minor rhombohedral faces). These internal colours are interference phenomenon due to reflection and refraction on extremely thin parallel brazil-law twinning lamellae. This specimen has fire of all rainbow colors on the surface of the crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rainbow Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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

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