Welcome to TOPROCKS.COM - You are shopping on our RETAIL site for worldwide customers and collectors. You are welcome to Shop and Ship any of our 20,000+ specimens with no minimum requirements. For WHOLESALE access, please Login using your 'Approved Wholesale / Trade' email address (HOW?) or email Renate@Toprocks.com
Natural Mwinilunga Quartz Crystal Plates with Goethite Needles x 35 From Mwinilunga, Zambia
RETAIL PRICE
A NOTE FROM NICK
A large flat of 35 natural Mwinilunga Quartz crystal plate specimens with Goethite needle inclusions in some.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Mwinilunga Quartz – Some with Goethite Needles
Natural Mwinilunga quartz crystal plates from Mwinilunga, Zambia, consist of flat crystalline clusters of clear to milky quartz crystals forming tabular or plate-like aggregates. Some specimens contain inclusions of fine goethite needles, appearing as dark acicular strands or sprays within or on the quartz surfaces. These originate from pegmatite or hydrothermal vein deposits in the North-Western Province near Mwinilunga, where iron-rich fluids introduce the goethite during quartz crystallization..
PRODUCT MINERALS
Quartz, Goethite
PRODUCT FEATURES
Trigonal, Hexagonal, Igneous Rock
PRODUCT COLOUR
Clear, Optic, Black
MOHS HARDNESS SCALE
7
PRODUCT DATA
Locality = Mwinilunga, Zambia
Grade = Good to A Grade
Size = 46 - 74 mm