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Pseudocubic Quartz With Fungi Inclusions

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SKI901973

Pseudocubic Quartz With Fungi Inclusions

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Description
Locality: 
Warstein, Soest, Arnsberg, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.3 × 1.2 cm
Description

A very uncommon and rare specimen showing pseudocubic quartz crystals with yellowish to orangebrown inclusions of goethite after fungi/mycelia (most likely: order mucorales oligocene-miocene), partly overgrown by sharp crystals of hematite. Collected in Köster quarry.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pseudocubic Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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

Fungi

Variety Of: 

Organic

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