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Smoky Quartz With Anhydrite

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RBR184782

Smoky Quartz With Anhydrite

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Description
Locality: 
Brig, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.5 × 2 cm
Description

What you see here is a rarity from Switzerland. It shows a beautiful colored smoky quartz with tunnels of anhydrite. The anhydrite was removed naturally so the hollow tube left in the quartz (photos 3 & 4). The crystal itself shows high quality with a nice color, great luster and clearity. It is developed as a floater.

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

Anhydrite

Formula: 
CaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Salt mine, Hall valley, Hall, Innsbruck, Inn valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria

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