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Quartz With Piemontite & Epidote

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Quartz With Piemontite & Epidote

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Description
Locality: 
Artonvilla Mine, Musina, Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.8 × 5.4 × 3.7 cm
Weight: 
59.20gr
Description

A self-healed crystal shard of quartz with an attached cluster of elongate quartz crystals ranging from small, to medium, to large. The crystals are clear, tinted red by hematite. The specimen also has attached small zoned tabular crystals of red piedmontite included in green epidote.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

Piemontite

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al2Mn3+}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.05
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
Reddish
Type Locality: 
Prabornaz Mine (Praborna Mine), Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy

Epidote

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al2Fe3+}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.05a
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
Colorless
Type Locality: 
Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France...

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