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Titanite On Adularia

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Titanite On Adularia

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Piz Vatgira, Nalps Valley, Tujetsch, Surselva Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.5 × 2.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.10cm
Description

A floater group of adularia crystals with caramel brown coloured titanite crystals associated with penetration twins on {100}.

With a previous label, it is an Ex. Walter De Keersmaecker specimen, who bought it from Giusep Venzin in January/1971.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Titanite

Formula: 
CaTi(SiO4)O
Strunz: 
9.AG.15
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Titanite occurrence, Hauzenberg, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

Adularia

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

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