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Bertrandite On Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Kounrad Massif, Balkhash, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.6 × 2.5 cm
Description

An excellent piece from Kazakhstan with a rich groups of white lath-like crystals of bertrandite on smoky quartz crystals.

A great and nowadays hard to find specimen, from Armin Wendland collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bertrandite

Formula: 
Be4(Si2O7)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.BD.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Type Locality: 
Petit-Port, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de Loire, France

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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

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