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Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Rugendabari, Muhanga, Southern Province, Rwanda
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 5 × 4.9 cm
Weight: 
116.00gr
Description

Whitish-grey quartz crystal with a recrystallized external layer covering a translucent core crystal, where the prism faces are scarcely developed. It is from the pegmatites near Rugendabari, an infrequent quartz locality. The sample was collected in the middle 1960’s by Professor A. Delvaux (1919-1998). Later in the stock of Jacques Deblandre, it comes with his catalogue label.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

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