The writer has seen a remarkably fine specimen of alluvial (Ballaarat) gold, it was a group of inch and half-inch crystals of the hexaoctahedron crystallographic form, hollowing towards the centre of the faces stair fashion, parallel to the combination lines.
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Diamond, C. I. In octahedrons, hexaoctahedrons; cleavage octahedral.
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The natural crystalline form of diamonds is a regular octahedron although a few have been found that were hexaoctahedrons.[…]Hexaoctahedrons have forty-eight faces.
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The seven kinds consist of three unique forms which are the cube, octahedron, and rhombic dodecahedron, and four families of forms having the shape of icositetrahedra, trisoctahedra, tetrahexahedra, and hexaoctahedra.
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