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Aquamarine & Albite

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Aquamarine & Albite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu County, Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 5.1 × 5.5 cm
Description

What a beautiful ensamble from China. A gemmy and sky blue coloured crystal of aquamarine having lustrous faces all over which is super esthetically combined with some bright white and lustrous crystals of albite at the bottom area.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aquamarine

Variety Of: 

Beryl

Formula: 
Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Strunz: 
9.CJ.05
Hardness: 
7.5 - 8.0
Formula: 
Be3Al2Si6O18
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Blue
Streak: 
White

Albite

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