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Smoky Quartz & Adularia

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Smoky Quartz & Adularia

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Description
Locality: 
Innergschlöss, Tauern Valley, East Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 6.5 × 6 cm
Description

Nice combination of smoky quartz on matrix which is covered with small adularia. The smoky quartz shows Swiss quality with excellent gloss and transparency. A larger shiny adularia is an additional enrichment. The specimen stands in the displayed position without support. Undamaged!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

Adularia

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6 Ortho - clase