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8.6" Wide Quartz Crystal Cluster With Large Points - Brazil
This is a beautiful cluster of quartz crystals from Brazil. The crystals are all in excellent condition and have undergone no polishing. The cluster weighs 6.5 lbs and has a naturally aesthetic presentation that doesn't require a display stand.
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
LOCATION
Brazil
SIZE
8.6 x 5.9 x 4.8"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#121423