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Albite With Byssolite

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Albite With Byssolite

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Description
Locality: 
Le Queyron, Saint-Véran, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 4.4 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.80cm
Description

Aggregate of flattened white twinned crystals of albite with good lustre and partially included by green crystals of byssolite. Good rare pieces of the limited finds at the end of 1980’s. Ex Pablo Pereira.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Finnbo (Finbo), Falun, Dalarna, Sweden

Byssolite

Variety Of: 

Amphibole Supergroup

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

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