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Quartz with Hematite inclusions (with phantom-growth zones) from Orange River, Namakwa, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

 
Quartz with Hematite inclusions (with phantom-growth zones) from Orange River, Namakwa, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Quartz with Hematite inclusions (with phantom-growth zones) from Orange River, Namakwa, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Quartz with Hematite inclusions (with phantom-growth zones) from Orange River, Namakwa, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Quartz with Hematite inclusions (with phantom-growth zones) from Orange River, Namakwa, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Quartz with Hematite inclusions (with phantom-growth zones) from Orange River, Namakwa, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

DESCRIPTION:No. 68427
Mineral:Quartz with Hematite inclusions (with phantom-growth zones)
Locality:Orange River, Namakwa, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Description:Lustrous transparent gray quartz crystals with internal phantom-growth zones where red-brown hematite microcrystals that coated early generations of the quartz crystals that were then overgrown with later quartz growth. Collected in 2004
Overall Size:8x6.5x4 cm
Crystals:1-20 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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