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Figure 5: Minerals displaying good crystal form. Although such occurrences are in the minority, they receive considerable attention because of their beauty and because they reflect the symmetry content inherent in the external form and in the internal structure of the mineral. (From top) wulfenite, PbMoO4, from Mexico; rose quartz from Minas Gerais state, Brazil; microcline feldspar, KAlSi3O8, the greenish blue variety known as amazonite, with smoky (dark gray) quartz, from Colorado, U.S.

A sample of rose quartz, a mineral displaying good crystal form, from Minas Gerais state, Braz.

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Basalt sample returned by Apollo 15, from near a long sinous lunar valley called Hadley Rille. Measured at 3.3 years old.

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