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Quartz & Pericline

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Quartz & Pericline

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Description
Locality: 
Dhading District, Province #3, Nepal
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 5.5 × 5.2 cm
Description

An attractive and interesting specimen ofdoubly terminated tapering pointed crystals of quartz containing dark green colored chlorite inclusions from the Himalayan Mountains in Nepal. The quartz crystals are very sharply formed into slender tapering crystal that has a sharp pointed termination. The quartz crystals have a dark green color which coming from chlorite inclusions. Very good contrast by the white pericline crystals and the bright matrix. An undamaged and balanced specimen!

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