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Smoky Quartz With Pyrite & Spessartine

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FRN93920

Smoky Quartz With Pyrite & Spessartine

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Description
Locality: 
Yunxiao County, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.3 × 4.2 cm
Description

Several spessartine scattered on the side of the smoke quartz with pyrite on the top of this one-terminated smoky quartz.

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

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

Spessartine

Formula: 
Mn2+3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sommer quarry, Wendelberg, Haibach, Aschaffenburg, Spessart, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
Oriental Minerals