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Adularia With Chlorite Inclusions

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Adularia With Chlorite Inclusions

Former collection Labanti (I)
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Description
Locality: 
Formazza Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 6.5 × 3.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.10cm
Weight: 
128.00gr
Description

One of the 'oddities' of this auction is represented by this bicolor Italian adularia specimen.

It consist of a metamorphic matrix schist featuring a couple of adularia crystals that only partially include green chlorite. The resulting effect is that the crystals are partly white and partly green.

Adularia is in excellent shape, quite lustrous and esthetic too. From the former collection Labanti (I).  

Definitely not your usual adularia specimen!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Adularia

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

Chlorite

Synonym Of: 

Chlorite Group

Group Parent: 
Chlorite
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2 - 2.5
Colour: 
Green, Grey, Brown
Streak: 
colourless

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