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Agate With Quartz

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Agate With Quartz

Ex Dr. Krantz, Bonn, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Pachuca Municipality, Hidalgo, Mexico
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 7.5 × 4 cm
Weight: 
184.00gr
Description

Specimen consisting of green amorphous agate in layers embedded in white crystalline quartz.

The area has an interesting mining history - four extant Cornish mine engine houses, and the English Cemetery (Panteon Inglés) containing the graves of hundreds of Cornishmen in Pachuca, bear witness to the Cornish contributions to Mexican silver mining for over a century.

Comes with beautiful old label dated 1865! The label means: "dichter Quarz - grünl. Achat - Cerro de Socavon de la Prosperidad - (Berg der Stollen) - Real de Pachuca - Mexiko" (dense quartz - greenish agate - Cerro de Socavon de la Prosperidad - (mountain of adits) - Real de Pachuca - Mexiko)

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Agate

Variety Of: 

Chalcedony

Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

Quartz

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

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