Gypsum with Quartz (fake)
specimen number:
1451187
location:
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
description:
A classic Brazilian faked specimen, this showing a large double terminated colorless gypsum crystal almost 17.0 cm in size on a crystallized quartz matrix. This has obviously been glued onto the matrix.
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