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Amazonite & Smoky Quartz

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Amazonite & Smoky Quartz

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Konso, Southern Nations Nationalities & Peoples' Region, Ethiopia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.2 × 4.9 × 3.3 cm
Description

What a fine combination. An almost perfectly formed and coloured amazonite crystals which is accompanied with an even fine developed smoky quartz crystal attached at the side. Both, the smoky and the amazonite have sharp edges and lustrous faces and form a truly desirable specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Amazonite

Variety Of: 

Microcline

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Hardness: 
0.0

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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