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Blue Quartz & Dolomite

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Blue Quartz & Dolomite

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Description
Locality: 
Camino del Agudo, Los Vives, Orihuela, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 4.4 × 3.8 cm
Weight: 
87.00gr
Description

Spectacular and very esthetic group of blue quartz crystals very well crystallized for the specie and with an excellent color and brightness, they are mixed with dolomite crystals in porphyric matrix, the blue color also due to the presence of magnesioriebeckite inclusions, the matrix is a subvolcanic rock typical of the surroundings of the Quarry of the Serranos. It is very rare to find blue quartz in this place and much more rare in this excellent quality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Blue Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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

Dolomite

Formula: 
CaMg(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Rhombohedral
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White

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