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Milky quartz — specimen 0374, photo © NMNHS
Milky quartz — specimen 0374, photo © NMNHS

Milky quartzspecimen 0374

Origin

South Asia
Afghanistan
Milky quartz — specimen 0374, locality map
Data

Weight: 1.65 ct; size: 8.28 | 7.22 | 5.73 mm; shape: hexagon; colour: very light grey; clarity: eye clean; cut: excellent; treatment: none.
Notes

Very clean specimen; design ‘Hexamixtum’, excellent cut by Tan Pen.

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