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"Herkimer-style" Quartz

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Locality: 
Ribiers, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Description

Three diamond quartz of high quality with exceptional presentation,from a jurassic septaria. Also called sometimes Mirabeau diamonds in memory of Count Mirabeau,who tried (in XVIIIe) to pay his taxes with that sort of diamond ! The rock is covered by calcite, brown to black because hydrocarbone. Escorted by minor white calcite.It is the same material than at Remuzat, in the same quality (sometimes bigger crystals at Remuzat). No damages.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

"Herkimer-style" Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Group Parent: 
Quartz

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FRANCE <500G 7.6
7.60
EU < 500G 15
15
EUROPE OUT EU <1kg 24 to 30
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MONDE <1kg 35 to 40
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