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.95" Citrine Quartz Star Pseudomorph after Ikaite - Morocco
This is an interesting pseudomorph specimen featuring citrine quartz after ikaite, a calcium carbonate mineral. Often this type of mineral is referred to as a "quartz-citrine star". It was collected from Kasba Oulad Al Bakri, Fès-Meknès, Morocco.
Comes with an acrylic display case.
Comes with an acrylic display case.
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.
$39
SPECIES
Quartz var. Citrine
LOCATION
Kasba Oulad Al Bakri, Fès-Meknès, Morocco
SIZE
.95" wide
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#317246
