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Orthoclase With Smoky Quartz

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Orthoclase With Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Samothraki Island, Evros, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 10 × 6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
5.50cm
Description

A nice specimen of sharp and well formed orthoclase crystals together with smoky quartz. Because of the remote location very few of these specimens come to collectors. A quartz crystal that looks broken is in fact terminated in many small crystal points.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Orthoclase

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
White

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

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