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Smoky Quartz & Albite On Microcline

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Smoky Quartz & Albite On Microcline

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Description
Locality: 
Strzegom, Strzegom-Sobótka Massif, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4 × 5 × 2 cm
Description

The specimen has a matrix of blocky microcline crystals which is intergrown epitactically from glossy translucent dark smoky quartz crystals. Inbetween perch colorless translucent albite crystals  Very typical and classic. One ding on a qurtz edge doesnt influence the appearence.

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

Albite

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

Microcline

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Crystal System: 
Triclinic - Pinacoidal
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110