Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Titanite Adularia & Pericline

Views:
Watches:
KFT74699

Titanite Adularia & Pericline

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Lower Weid Alp, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 6.1 × 3 cm
Description

Wonderful contrast between snow-white pericline, adularia and intensive green titanite. The big titanite is about 1,3cm long. Hard to say that there is a damage.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Titanite

Formula: 
CaTi(SiO4)O
Strunz: 
9.AG.15
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Titanite occurrence, Hauzenberg, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

Adularia

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

Pericline

Variety Of: 

Albite

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