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Glaucocerinite On Quartz

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Glaucocerinite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Dörfel Quarry, Dörfel, Schlettau, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 5 × 4.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
7.60cm
Description

Very rare: turquoise-blue glucocerinite on huge, very fine milky quartz crystals up to 7.6 cm.

Unique find from a well-known  Saxon fluorite locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Glaucocerinite

Formula: 
(Zn1-xAlx)(OH)2(SO4)x/2·nH2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.35
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
1.0
Type Locality: 
Serpieri Mine, Kamariza Mines (Kamareza Mines), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamariza), Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece

Quartz

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

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