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Pollucite With Quartz

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Pollucite With Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Shengus, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
14.8 × 12.5 × 5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
6.00cm
Description

 A superb and incredibly large tdoubly terminated gemmy rare pollucite incombination with well terminated quartz crystals hots to matrix.

No damage except minor etching throughout.

A very good matrix pollucite specimen from the locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pollucite

Formula: 
(Cs,Na)2(Al2Si4O12)·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.GB.05
Hardness: 
6.5
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
La Speranza (Pisani's Quarry), San Piero in Campo, Campo nell'Elba, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy...

Quartz

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

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