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Quartz Pericline & Calcite

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Quartz Pericline & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Kristallwand, Frosnitz Valley, Lienz District, Tyrol, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13.1 × 9.5 × 7.7 cm
Description

This excellent specimen features a perfect,- undamaged,- rockcrystal, accompanied by pearly lustrous, porcelain white pericline and tabular. chloride coated calcite. The quartz is very well developed, highly lustrous and razor sharp. The prism faces are glassy with a clear striation in cross section and the terminations are slightly scattered with chloride crystals, but anyway lustrous. A super alpine Austrian specimen in splendid condition.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

Pericline

Variety Of: 

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Hardness: 
0.0

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
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