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Smoky Quartz Muscovite & Albite

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Smoky Quartz Muscovite & Albite

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Description
Locality: 
Haramosh Mountains, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.7 × 10.2 × 6.8 cm
Description

A very impressive combination of sharp terminated, highly lustrous smoky quartz, free-standing blades of muscovite and white, well shaped albite. A wonderful pegmatite-sample, which looks great in really each angle. The smoky quartz is complete and on same high quality all around. It is set in the center, framed with smaller crystals, muscovite and - at the base - well formed albite. Vrey aesthetic and even much better in person. No significant damages to report.

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

Muscovite

Formula: 
KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.15
Hardness: 
2.5
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