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 Post subject: Not so common Cumberland habit quartz crystals Di-pyramidial
PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:34 pm 
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Hit into some unique quartz crystals from our machine dig last Spring in Virginia.
Looking like Beta quartz crystals, with their di-pyramidial habits, and lack of(or very thin) m-faces, they could very well be the rare "psuedo alpha after beta" crystals, that only occur sporadically in odd volcanic quartz deposits(rhyolite). Sadly, this was not to be the case.(as dollar signs floated away....)
Now we just call them "Cumberland habit".....still a fairly rare quartz crystal shape. I can't recall ever digging, or handling, any quartz specimens from the South that showed this cool shape.
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Most of the specimens were very small
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Dime sized single point quartz crystal with nicely formed "cumberland habit"
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