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Harmotome On Smoky Quartz

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Harmotome On Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Russland, Hollersbach valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 1.5 × 1.4 cm
Description

Whiteish harmotome on a healed, double terminated, intense brown crystal of smoky quartz. The find spot is called "Russland (/Russia)", an area located on the east side of Breitkopf Mt. and Schafkopf (Schafkogel) Mt.

A rare, older sample from the H.&B. Dilcher collection. Price on the bottom is in austrian schilling.

The find of harmotome is described in:
Niedermayr, G. & Brandstätter, F. (2000): 1221. Harmotom, Fluorit, Galenit, Cerussit sowie Hydrocerussit, Rauchquarz und Wulfenit aus dem Bereich von „Russland" in der Scharn, Hollersbachtal, Salzburg. Pp. 206-207 in Niedermayr et al. (2000): Neue Mineralfunde aus Österreich XLIX. Carinthia II, 190./110., 181-224.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Harmotome

Formula: 
(Ba0.5,Ca0.5,K,Na)5[Al5Si11O32] ·12H2O
Strunz: 
9.GC.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
St Andreasberg, St Andreasberg District, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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

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