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Albite With Adularia & Chlorite

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Albite With Adularia & Chlorite

ex collection Aidara/Hühne

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Description
Locality: 
Warnsdorfer Hütte, Krimmler Ache, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.8 × 3.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.00cm
Description

Large white opaque albite crystals (twinned?) up to 3 cm with colorless adularia crystals, both minerals partly covered by dark green chlorite. A very nice specimen with only minor dings.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Albite

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

Adularia

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

Chlorite

Synonym Of: 

Chlorite Group

Group Parent: 
Chlorite
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2 - 2.5
Colour: 
Green, Grey, Brown
Streak: 
colourless

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