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Smoky Quartz

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Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Pointe des Periades, Leschaux Glacier, Mont Blanc, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.4 × 5.4 × 2.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
5.00cm
Description

In this specimen we can observe a group of quartz crystals with well defined faces and edges. We see a well-developed prism with rhombohedral terminal and trapezohedron faces. Transparence and brilliance are both excellent and with a very uniform smoky tone. It is not easy to find specimens from this Alpine quartz locality.
Note:  Le Règne Minèral. Minèralogie du Massif du Mont-Blanc. Hors Sèrìe V, 1999.

Collected: 
2014
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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