AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Peru > Quartz (Japan Law-twinned crystals) |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 78298 |
Mineral: | Quartz (Japan Law-twinned crystals) |
Locality: | Pampa Blanca District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru |
Description: | Cluster of intersecting tabular transparent colorless quartz crystals that has four pairs of crystals twinned following the Japan Law of quartz twinning resulting in V-shaped pairs. One crystal has a crystallized contact where it intersected another. |
Overall Size: | 8x5x5 cm |
Crystals: | 12-45 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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