| Locality type: | Mountain |
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| Species: | Quartz var: Rock Crystal |
| Formula: | SiO2 |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Fluorite | ⓘ6 photos of Rock Crystal associated with Fluorite at this locality. |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Rock Crystal data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Planggenstock, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (48 photos) |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 548745 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:548745:5 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | b57aaecb-6871-478a-9c44-a50966807882 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Rock Crystal |
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| 1.8km (1.1 miles) | ⓘFeldschijen glacier, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| 4.8km (3.0 miles) | ⓘGalenstock, Tiefenbach, Realp, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland |
| 11.8km (7.4 miles) | ⓘSt Gotthard pass road tunnel, St Gotthard pass area, Airolo, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland |
| 12.9km (8.0 miles) | ⓘGerstenegg cleft, Gerstenegg-Grimsel cable tunnel, Gerstenegg, Guttannen, Interlaken-Oberhasli, Bern, Switzerland |
| 13.3km (8.2 miles) | ⓘScimfuss, Pontino Alp, Tremola Valley, Airolo, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland |
| 13.7km (8.5 miles) | ⓘRienzenstock, Rien Valley, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| 14.4km (8.9 miles) | ⓘPizzo Giubine (Giübin), Prevat Valley, Airolo, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland |
| 15.5km (9.6 miles) | ⓘCristallina Alp, Cristallina Valley, Ossasco, Bedretto, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland |
| 15.5km (9.6 miles) | ⓘBreccia outcrop, Triebten lake (Trübten lake), Oberaar lake area, Guttannen, Interlaken-Oberhasli, Bern, Switzerland |
| 16.4km (10.2 miles) | ⓘRitzlihorn, Guttannen, Interlaken-Oberhasli, Bern, Switzerland |
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 | | Journal (issue) | | the publishers. Cover Picture Burmese sapphire crystal weighing 502 ct, unearthed in 1994 at Khabine,... As yet the region has not yielded a corundum crystal large enough to be included in the list of sapphire...of the natural pearl E.J. Gübelin Lucerne, Switzerland Abstract Biological research discloses that...inner side of the shell as one large sheet-like crystal of aragonite, but rather to limit its size to innumerable...Moris' scale. Due to the felted nature of the crystal aggregates, it is extremely tough. Specific gravity |  | | Report (issue) | | Localities, Great Associations 78 Fluorite from Peru BY ROCK CURRIER a taste of ASIA 82 BY RAY GRANT 86 92...pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON STALDER best of the AMERICAS ..."crystallized spar ... which can be differentiated from rock crystal by its truncated or cut pinnacle columns, number...wandering the hills and one day stooping to pick up a rock that showed a strange blue glow. fluorite at a...as impurities or inclusions. The calcium in the crystal stractme is sometimes partly n,placed by sumtium |  | | Book | | vugs of crystalline talc. Easily the best extant crystal, a doubly terminated floater found in a talc vug...Shelley Lambert extracted excellent loose ilmenite crystal clusters from a calcite vein-dike digging site...Chamberlain, 1982; Joyce, 2006a). Some of the ilmenite crystal faces are partly overgrown by a brown coating which...and is by far the largest known single ilmenite crystal from any locality worldwide. The crystals are blue-black... Among the crystallized minerals in the unusual rock called "jacupirangite" found in the Jacupiranga |  | | Journal (issue) | | County, Washington (for quartz and pyrite) and the Rock Candy mine in British Columbia (for fluorite and...others, with perfection of form, spherical acicular crystal masses formed on black crystallized manganite....2022 PARTICIPATING DEALERS FOR TUCSON 2022... CRYSTAL CLASSICS THE NUMBER ONE LOCATION FOR FINE MINERALS...which he had heard on his travels concerning a “valley of serpents” which was littered with diamonds but...Hunters would throw chunks of raw meat into the valley, vultures would snatch the meat away from the snakes |  | | Journal (issue) | | blue-to-green and yellow iron-bearing beryl. The etched crystal weighs 63.31 g and the smaller faceted stones range...National University of Ireland Galway John L. Emmett Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA Emmanuel...Liechtenstein Henry A. Hänni GemExpert, Basel, Switzerland Jeff W. Harris University of Glasgow Lore Kiefert...‘calcite vein dykes’ (Joyce 2006) in calc-silicate rock near Lac Tortue, ZEC Bras-Coupé-Désert, Québec,...diffraction analysis was Figure 3: This orthoclase crystal specimen (8 cm high) from Lac Tortue, Canada, is |
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Planggenstock, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland