Quartz with Calcite from Yaogangxian Mine, Nanling Mountains, Hunan, China
DESCRIPTION: | No. 70269
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Mineral: | Quartz with Calcite
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Locality: | Yaogangxian Mine, Nanling Mountains, Hunan, China |
Description: | Large transparent-to-translucent colorless quartz crystal with lustrous crystal faces. The rear of the quartz crystal has partial overgrowth of pale-yellow flattened rhombohedral calcite crystals to 3 mm in spherical aggregates to 10 mm. Collected ca. 1985 |
Overall Size: | 6.5x6.5x6 cm |
Crystals: | 1-65 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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