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Diopside & Albite

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Diopside & Albite

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Description
Locality: 
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 1.9 × 1.8 cm
Description

The assemble of this specimen couldn´t be more aesthetic. A large, sharp terminated, lustrous diopside crystal raise up vertically. It sourrounded with smaller diopside crystals - all of them in same high quality and in dark green color. The contrast to well developed, snowy white albite crystals is really gorgeous.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Diopside

Formula: 
CaMgSi2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
white

Albite

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