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Unknown Mineral in Red Quartz

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Digging on a red quartz vein last weekend and this what I found when I broke the rock open. Any ideas what mineral made the honeycomb? The other rock is out of the same outcrop.
 

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Did you do a hardness and streak test?
 
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The streak is reddish. The hardness would be hard to find as the mineral is vuggy and disintegrates with pressures applied to it. Hematite?
 
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