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Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz)

Locality: Blue Bridge (Lameraux Bridge), West Branch Huron River, Monroeville, Huron Co., Ohio, USA

Note: The mineral species Smoky Quartz is not listed in our database for this locality. This specimen may be misidentified or the mindat list of minerals at this locality may be incomplete.

A well formed, though distorted, gray smoky quartz xl of the 3rd generation of quartz on tan 5th generation of ferroan dolomite with micro marcasite blebs. Xl measures 5mm tall. 3 sides of this xl have a thin 1mm prism, the other 3 do not have any prism. The terminations are rotated on the prism by a few degrees and the top term is slightly stretched on the Y-axis. Specimen measures 2.4cm wide, same tall and 1.5cm thick as seen in child photo. Photo taken with an old Sony Mavica with a 10x loupe clicked into the eyepiece, hence the halo. Self-collected 7-11-08 from a septarian concretion along the river.

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Photo added: 10th Jan 2009

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