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Smoky Quartz

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Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Recruta Farm, Anagé, Bahia, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.2 × 7.7 × 4 cm
Description

A beautiful cabinet specimen of a glassy, highly lustrous, translucent, black quartz crystals accompanied by smaller crystals. The crystals are di-pyramidal with no prism faces and are called morion quartz because of the mostly black colour and beta quartz as well. This is old material from a few famous finds in Brazil. These are high temperature quartz crystals, technically quartz ps. after beta quartz (For a further explanation under "Quartz-beta" ). This fine, but not absolutely perfect specimen, comes from an uncommon  Brazilian locality - the Recruta Farm, Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0
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