Rose Quartz

ID	520
Mineral	Rose Quartz
Location	Minas Gerais - Brazil
Fluorescence	LW-UV: close SW-UV: close
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Mindat data

ID	3456
Long ID	1:1:3456:8
IMA Status	0 1
Variety of	3337
Entry type	2
Description	Two varieties of quartz are commonly called "rose quartz". 1. One is found in translucent masses made of intergrown anhedral crystals. It occurs in different hues of pink, sometimes bluish, sometimes more reddish; irradiation may cause the formatio...
Colour	Pink
Hardness (min)	7.0
Hardness (max)	7.0
Lustre	Vitreous
Crystal System	Trigonal
Thermal Behaviour	Pink quartz (euhedral) pales at about 200°C (Balitsky et al 1998). The color of rose quartz (massive) is stable to about 500°C (Goreva et al. 2001)

Price: € 10

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Symbol	Element
O	Oxygen
Si	Silicium