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Titanite & Albite Var Pericline

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Titanite & Albite Var Pericline

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Description
Locality: 
Kleiner Finagl West Slope, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 4.2 × 2.4 cm
Description

A very uncommonly formed matrix, sprinkled on the 'hollow' side with dozens of tiny green titanite crystals, the other side covered completely with lustrous white pericline crystals with a little chlorite on both sides.

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

Albite

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

Pericline

Variety Of: 

Albite

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

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