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Antarctica Expedition GANOVEX I

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Description
Locality: 
Litell Rocks, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5 × 3.5 cm
Description

Clear quartz crystals in stalatitic grow in a cavity of white massive quartz matrix.

 

Uncommom shape for this locality !

 

This specimen was found during the first German Antarctica Expedition GANOVEX I 1979/80

Ex collection Dipl. Min Ulrich Vetter, Hannover - label

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

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