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Diopside In Quartz

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Diopside In Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Feital, Casal de Cinza, Guarda, Guarda District, Portugal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 3.3 × 3 cm
Description

 Small terminated quartz crystals nestled amongst some crude feldspar crystal are coloured green by diopside inclusion, on a matrix of parallel growing diopside crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Diopside

Formula: 
CaMgSi2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
white

Quartz

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