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Smoky Quartz On Orthoclase

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Smoky Quartz On Orthoclase

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Description
Locality: 
Passchendaele Forest, Warwick, Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.6 × 4.7 × 3.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.30cm
Description

An unusual location in southern Queensland has produced a nice group of smoky quartz crystal with terminated orthoclase on a granitic matrix. I have heard reports from time to time of attractive miniature groups of smoky's and quartz from the

Passchendaele Forest area near Warwick in Queensland, this is the first and only specimen I have seen from this intriguing locale.

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

Orthoclase

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
White
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