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6.3" Double Terminated Quartz Cluster with Inclusions - Peru
This is a unique, 6.3" wide cluster of quartz crystals, many of which are double terminated. They all have black to golden inclusions throughout the crystals, likely pyrite and/or hematite. I've personally never seen a specimen like this from Peru.
It comes with an acrylic display stand.
It comes with an acrylic display stand.
About Quartz
Quartz is the name given to silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's crust. Quartz crystals generally grow in silica-rich environments--usually igneous rocks or hydrothermal environments like geothermal waters--at temperatures between 100°C and 450°C, and usually under very high pressure. In either case, crystals will precipitate as temperatures cool, just as ice gradually forms when water freezes. Quartz veins are formed when open fissures are filled with hot water during the closing stages of mountain formation: these veins can be hundreds of millions of years old.
Quartz is the name given to silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's crust. Quartz crystals generally grow in silica-rich environments--usually igneous rocks or hydrothermal environments like geothermal waters--at temperatures between 100°C and 450°C, and usually under very high pressure. In either case, crystals will precipitate as temperatures cool, just as ice gradually forms when water freezes. Quartz veins are formed when open fissures are filled with hot water during the closing stages of mountain formation: these veins can be hundreds of millions of years old.
SPECIES
Quartz & Pyrite/Hematite?
LOCATION
Peru
SIZE
6.3 x 4.8"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#252122
