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Description: Quartz, Chlorite Locality: Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville District, El Dorado County, California, USA (Locality at mindat.org) Size: 6.2 x 4.1 x 4.0 cm. At the center of this specimen is a clear, tabular quartz crystal with a sharp phantom inside demarcated by its mossy green chlorite inclusions. Growing across its back is another quartz crystal with a sharp chlorite phantom, but of the typical prismatic form! Old California material, from the collection of noted California collector Charles Hansen.
Title: Quartz-Chlorite-Group-162731
Credit: http://www.mindat.org/photo-162731.html
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