Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Paradoxite & Quartz

Views:
Watches:
RHT820430

Paradoxite & Quartz

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Euba, Frankenberg, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.2 × 6.8 × 3.2 cm
Weight: 
203.00gr
Description

Beige paradoxite crystals on a nice quartz crystal specimen.

Paradoxite is an obsolete name for an orthoclase variety from Saony and Thuringia.

Only minor damage at edges.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Paradoxite

Renamed To: 

Orthoclase

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Hardness: 
6.0

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White
Not Sold