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Quartz Sceptre

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Quartz Sceptre

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Description
Locality: 
Mine #5, Baia Sprie, Maramureș County, Romania
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5 × 4.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
4.00cm
Description

Aesthetic and undamaged specimen with large quartz szepter crystals to 4 cm on a pyrite-dolomite matrix.

These quartz specimens from Baia Sprie have become much more scarce in recent years as mining operations have changed.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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