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Byssolite With Adularia

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Byssolite With Adularia

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Description
Locality: 
Knappenwand, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11 × 5.1 × 3.5 cm
Description

Very good specimen of hairfine acicular byssolite crystals with albite. Most of the white albite crystals grow on and around the byssolite 'hairs' - seemingly floating between them.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Byssolite

Variety Of: 

Amphibole Supergroup

Formula: 
AX2Z5((Si,Al,Ti)8O22)(OH,F,Cl,O)2
Hardness: 
0.0
Hardness: 
0.0

Adularia

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

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