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Dioptase

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QRI864015

Dioptase

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.9 × 3.9 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Weight: 
36.00gr
Description

Lovely drusy of elongated dark green dioptase crystals populating a drusy of spatic calcite. Very lustrous and locally gemmy, the crystals are in excellent conditions.
Elegant and quite showy too.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Dioptase

Formula: 
CuSiO3·H2O
Strunz: 
9.CJ.30
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
Green
Type Locality: 
Altyn-Tyube dioptase deposit (Altyn-Tube), Altyn-Tyube area, Kirghiz Steppes (Asiatic Steppes), Karagandy Province (Qaragandy Oblysy; Karaganda Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

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