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1.7" Hematite Quartz Crystals on Lustrous Epidote - Peru (New Find)
This is a really cool, 1.7" wide cluster of quartz crystals with red hematite inclusions, all formed from an epidote crystal matrix. It is a new find listed as coming from San Felipe (San Felipe Mine?) in La Libertad, Peru, though with many new finds, we can't be certain about this locale.
It has been mounted to an acrylic display base with mineral tack.
It has been mounted to an acrylic display base with mineral tack.
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 & Epidote
LOCATION
San Felipe, Gran Chimu, La Libertad, Peru
SIZE
1.7 x 1.3"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#375545
