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7.5" Himalayan Quartz Crystal Cluster
This is a 7.5" wide quartz crystal cluster, collected from the Himalayan Mountains. Both sides of this cluster, contains pristine quartz crystals. There are small chlorite (green) inclusions in a couple of the crystals.
This specimen 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
LOCATION
Ganesh Himal, Dhading District, Himalayan Mountains, Nepal
SIZE
7.5 x 4.1"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#63046
