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Faden Quartz With Fuchsite Inclusions

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Faden Quartz With Fuchsite Inclusions

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Locality: 
Hunza Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2.2 × 0.9 cm
Description

A beautiful specimen of two complete quartz fadens overlapping and green due to fuchite inclusions. Fuchsite is actually an uncommon bright to dark green variety of the common mineral muscovite. In these rare quartz crystals from Pakistan, it takes the form of bright, light green inclusions inside a tabular crystal of quartz. Unusual material from, so far as I know, a single pocket. found in 1993, which produced strange quartz of an unearthly green color,  the color is due to dispersed microscopic inclusions of fuchsite.

This particular crystal is a superb thumbnail and a floater, complete all around.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fuchsite

Variety Of: 

Muscovite

Formula: 
KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.15
Hardness: 
2.5
Formula: 
K(Al,Cr)3Si3O10(OH)2
Hardness: 
0.0
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