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EV98D1: A special specimen. The single ball with reddish color is very attractive, but also its matrix is different from the others we have seen: it is a kind of microcrystalline Quartz similar to a Chalcedony recovered by Opal. Plus a few small well-crystallized Quartz crystals are deposited on the ball. Funny and interesting in mineralogical terms!. The specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 299 in the volume 83, number 4 and in the magazine ‘Lapis’ on page 18, volume 35, number 10, Octubre 2010.
Mahodari, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra India (2003)
Specimen size: 7.3 × 4.2 × 1.7 cm = 2.87” × 1.65” × 0.67”
Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 0.71” × 0.67”
Opal fluorescent long & short UV
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