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Orthoclase Var Baveno Twin & Smoky Quartz

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Orthoclase Var Baveno Twin & Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 5.5 × 3.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.50cm
Description

Attractive type locality specimen featuring a plate of granite matrix with a smokey quartz crystal and two well formed orthoklas crystals developed as baveno twins. Comes with a machine typed label of Dr. F. Krantz .

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Orthoclase

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

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

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