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Topaz

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Description
Locality: 
Tepetate, Villa de Arriaga Municipality, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 1.7 × 1.5 cm
Description

Lustrous brick red topaz crystals on a matrix of rhyolite. They have very well defined faces and edges, with flat terminations and with some green fluorescent opal. A Mexican classic, in very good condition.

Ex Lucien Jusgen specimen, who bought it at the Chamonix Mineral Show, on December 1981.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Topaz

Formula: 
Al2(SiO4)(F,OH)2
Strunz: 
9.AF.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
8.0
Streak: 
White

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