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Quartz With Fungi

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Description
Locality: 
Warstein, Soest, Arnsberg, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 3 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Description

A very uncommon and rare specimen rich in highly lustrous, pseudocubic quartz crystals with orange to light brownish inclusions of goethite after fungi/mycelia (most likely: order mucorales oligocene-miocene), overgrown by some sharp crystals of hematite. Collected at Feldmann quarry in March 1981.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

Fungi

Variety Of: 

Organic

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