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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: 
5.2 × 4.1 × 2.8 cm
Description

Aggregate of tabular twinned crystals of albite with excellent vitreous lustre and partially included by green byssolite needles, mainly at the base.

Good infrequent piece from the limited finds made 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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