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Milky quartz — specimen 0705, photo © NMNHS
Milky quartz — specimen 0705, photo © NMNHS

Milky quartzspecimen 0705

Origin

South Asia
Afghanistan
Milky quartz — specimen 0705, locality map
Data

Weight: 0.68 ct; size: 6.33 | 5.47 | 4.34 mm; shape: hexagon; colour: very light grey; clarity: eye clean; cut: excellent; treatment: none.
Notes

Very clean specimen; design ‘Hexamixtum S 41-32’ [pavilion angle changed to 45.00], excellent cut by Tan Pen.

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More information from ‘Classification’


A semi-transparent to opaque white-coloured variety of quartz.