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Smoky Quartz

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Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Papiermühle, Selb, Wunsiedel, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 2.2 × 3.6 cm
Description

Old specimen from a pegmatite location in Bavaria. The smoky quartz shows good transparency with four highly glossy faces. Some black tourmaline needles are grown on the top. The crystal has a small chip on the top, on the base it is healed and crystallized. A very good specimen with amazing size from this rare location!

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