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Sunstone

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Description
Locality: 
Bjordam Quarry, Bjordam, Bamble, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.3 × 5.5 × 0.6 cm
Description

Beautiful cut and polished slab of sunstone with oriented rainbow coloured inclusions of hematite that contrast in a background of orange microcline. The optical effect is perfectly visible.

Old sample, it was in the collection of Carlos Prieto. The label reads that it was a present of Argimiro Santos in December/1980.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sunstone

Variety Of: 

Feldspar Group

Hardness: 
0.0

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