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Orthoclase & Smoky Quartz

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Orthoclase & Smoky Quartz

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Strzegom, Strzegom-Sobótka Massif, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.5 × 10 × 4 cm
Weight: 
460.00gr
Description

Beautiful pegmatite specimen with sharp orthoclase crystals, dark smoky quartz crystals and white albite crystals from an old collection.

Specimen comes with three old labels.

Ex Knijnenburg collection - collected 1966

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Orthoclase

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
White

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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