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Adularia & Albite

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Adularia & Albite

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Description
Locality: 
Oberalp Pass, Tujetsch, Surselva Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5 × 4 cm
Description

Very attractive combination of sharp whiteish crystals of Adularia and Albite var. Pericline with minor Epidote and Chlorite. Comes with an older handwritten label of the previous collection H. Gutknecht, Basel.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Adularia

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

Albite

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

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