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Albite & Quartz

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Albite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Bahia, Brazil
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
20.5 × 19 × 3.5 cm
Description

Very nice specimen of albite crystals, pericline variety, associated with gemmy colorless quartz.  Purchased in 2004.  Ex-Senckenberg Nature Museum specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Finnbo (Finbo), Falun, Dalarna, Sweden

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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