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Gwindel Smoky Quartz

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Gwindel Smoky Quartz

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Furka Pass, Oberwald, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 3.7 × 2.5 cm
Weight: 
61.00gr
Description

Nice cluster of crystallized smoky quartz crystals with a gwindel development, doubly-terminated and floater. Interestingly, it has inclusions of different acicular crystals, probably rutile, that are perfectly visible in the transparent smoky quartz crystals.

Acquired in 1980, it is an Ex Jan Sibtsen #3788.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gwindel

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Hardness: 
0.0

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

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