1.8" Phantom Quartz Crystal Cluster with Epidote - China

This is a beautiful, 1.8" wide quartz crystal cluster featuring green epidote crystals as well as a phantom composed of red-purple hematite. It comes from the Hongxizhen unnamed mining area in the Sichuan Province of China.

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.


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SPECIES
Quartz & Epidote
LOCATION
Hongxizhen Unnamed Mining Area, Meigu County, Liangshan Yi, Sichuan, China
SIZE
1.8" wide
CATEGORY
ITEM
#290460