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Quartz With Fungi

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Quartz With Fungi

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Description
Locality: 
Hohenlimburg Quarry, Oege, Hagen, Arnsberg, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 2 × 1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.70cm
Description

A cluster of quartz crystals with yellowish to light brownish fibres and cauliflower-like inclusions of goethite said to be caused by fungi/mycelia (most likely: order mucorales, oligocene-miocene).

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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