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Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Orpierre, Gap, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.3 × 1.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Description

Specimen with two trigonal quartz crystals.

Crystal 1 : photo 1. Quartz (m, r, z, -pi). Great faces -pi that make faces r and z nearly to disappear.

Crystal 2 : photos 2, 3 and 4. Quartz (m, r, -pi, +pi, and c ?). Here, face z has disappeared, and we have great obtuses faces -pi and +pi, +pi most rare than -pi. Furthermore, an undefined flat face similar to the pinacoïd (face c 00.1, an extremely rare face for the quartz), is visible.

These quartz crystal are showing a crystallographic rarity that become in the Orpierre area in France : new faces on the hexagonal pyramid of some rare quartz. It is an obtuse rhombohedra, called -pi (01-12). It can come sometimes with its opposite rhombohedra, called +pi (or pi) (10-12). Moreover, a more obtuse rhombohedra can appear (extremely rare), the rhombohedra -omega (01-13) and its opposite, omega (10-13). The study of these quartz have been done by Roger Martin, a suisse scientist, and published in the suisse magazine "Le cristallier Suisse" in  1973, 1974, ...
I extracted the pictures of his studies and join then in the last photos.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps

Seller's terms and conditions

Je vends des microminéraux, soit en boîtes de micromounts (2,8 x 2,8 x 2,2 cm), soit dans des boîtes d'autres formats selon nécessité. Il s'agit de microminéraux que je trouve moi-même ou que j'ai échangé (exceptionnellement). Je suis un particulier.

I sell microminerals, either in micromounts boxes, or bigger if necessary. This is microminerals that I find myself or that I had swapped (exceptionally). I am a private individual.

Multiple shipment possible until next weight level is reached.

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PAYMENTS : Payments might also be accepted offline or via interbank electronic transfer (IBAN), the Seller will supply details if that is your preference.