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Byssolite On Adularia

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Byssolite On Adularia

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Description
Locality: 
Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

White green fibrous byssolite on a matrix of adularia crystals. Most byssolite is free standing but they are also included in the crystals.

The associated label reads that it was obtained from Gilbert Gauthier in 1975. Ex. René Virlet specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Byssolite

Variety Of: 

Amphibole Supergroup

Formula: 
AX2Z5((Si,Al,Ti)8O22)(OH,F,Cl,O)2
Hardness: 
0.0
Hardness: 
0.0

Adularia

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

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