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Hübnerite & Quartz

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Hübnerite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Pasto Bueno, Ancash Department, Peru
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.9 × 5.8 × 5.3 cm
Description

A fine combination of free-standing, glossy, end-pointed huebnerite crystals embedded in elongated, water-clear, lustrous quartz crystals - hard to photograph and so much better in person.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hübnerite

Formula: 
MnWO4
Strunz: 
4.DB.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Erie and Enterprize veins, Ellsworth Mine, Ellsworth, Ellsworth District (Mammoth District), Paradise Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA

Quartz

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