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Adularia & Smoky Quartz

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Adularia & Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Innergschlöss, Tauern Valley, East Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 4.3 × 3.5 cm
Description

A very attractive combination of snowy white adularia crystals (with minor powder of chlorite along some edges) and light smoky quartz. Material from the locality is more rare and hard to obtain.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Adularia

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

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0