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Description
Locality: 
Dhara, Bhuntar, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh, India
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.7 × 5.5 × 7.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
6.80cm
Description

These "knitting needles" sweep up from a thin plate of matrix, 6.8 cm tall in many spots, forming a hedge of  water-clear quartz points. This kind of formation is often found heavily damaged and is hard to extract. However, this piece shows no damage,only one little ding on a tip at the periphery. It is contacted only about the bottom periphery, but even then, the rising crystals are all clean and terminated and there are no distracting breaks to the eye on the front display view. From a first glance, this looks like a common enough specimen. This specimen looks like the finest alpine  Val Bedretto "needle-quartz" specimen.  In the last time I did not see such good and elegant quartz specimens at all.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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