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Spodumene With Quartz & Amazonite

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Spodumene With Quartz & Amazonite

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Description
Locality: 
Darrah I Pech, Chapa Dara District, Kunar Province, Afghanistan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
6 × 9 × 8 cm
Description

An interesting unusal combination specimen from the locality , sharp well doubly terminarted crystals incombination with Amazonite hosts to well terminatted quartz , there are 5 well tterminated spodumen crystals largest one is 4.5cm , 2.3cm , 2cm , unudamaged to spodumen crystals , nice beautiful specimen inperson , very unusal specimen so far from the locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Spodumene

Formula: 
LiAlSi2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Colour: 
colorless, yellow
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Utö Mines, Utö, Södermanland, Sweden

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

Amazonite

Variety Of: 

Microcline

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Hardness: 
0.0

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