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Muscovite With Quartz

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Muscovite With Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Obersulzbach Valley, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.5 × 5 × 4.5 cm
Description

A beautiful specimen with terminated quartz crystals of good clarity and up to 2.2 cm in length resting on sharp reflective sprays of muscovite. A lovely display from a rarely seern Austrian locality. Comes with an acrylic base with ful locality information. 

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Muscovite

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

Quartz

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