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Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Chania, Crete, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.2 × 6.3 × 2.5 cm
Description

These quartz specimens come from several finds that were during a 20-year period of digging in Crete for quartz, by a German collector. All of these specimens come from alpine-type fissures.

Here is a matrix example which is quite rare as most of the crystals were found loose or on just quartz matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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