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Adularia

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Adularia

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Pizzo Lucendro, Lucendro Valley, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.9 × 1.9 × 1.8 cm
Description

An amazing floater - consisting of uncountable steps of vertical inter-grown adularia crystals with glossy faces. Some faces are just powdered with chlorite, which gives a lot of contrast to this elonf´gated, elegant and aesthetic specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Adularia

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