Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Diamond Quartz

Views:
Watches:
BEN1042060

Diamond Quartz

personal find

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Ribiers, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4.5 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.40cm
Description

Typic clear and luminous diamond quartz on a bit of jurassic septaria. Also called sometimes  Mirabeau diamond in memory of Count Mirabeau,who tried (in XVIIIe) to pay his taxes with that sort of diamond !
The rock is covered by calcite, brown to black because hydrocarbone.
Escorted by minor white calcite.It is the same material than at Remuzat, in the same quality (sometimes bigger crystals at Remuzat).
No damages.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Diamond

Formula: 
C
Strunz: 
1.CB.10a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
10.0
Streak: 
none

Quartz

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

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps