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Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Karur District, Tamil Nadu, India
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 2.5 × 1.8 cm
Description

This specimen is from the recent finds in 2022 from India. The whole discovery was around one ton of material but only a small part of it was in quality for advanced collectors. There are nearly o undamaged pieces, also this here is not perfect. So what we have here is a very fine miniature specimen in fine quality - an almost perfect single crystal. This particular example has a slightly cleaved tip and is for sure a very good representative example of this amazing find. Those unique indian crystals shows deep red coloured and razor sharp developed hematite phantoms inside the clear quartz. This one even has a seperated phantop were one side has more hematite while the other side less.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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