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CR09745

Quartz

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Keswick, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 2.9 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.20cm
Description

Beautiful cluster of double terminated, transparent quartz crystals with hematite inclusions.

Very nice old specimen with two fantastic old labels. The specimen is likely to have come from one of the West Cumbrian mines.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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