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Adularia & Pericline

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Adularia & Pericline

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Description
Locality: 
Heiligenblut am Großglockner, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.7 × 7.4 × 2.9 cm
Description

A group of well shaped pericline crystals, sharp terminated and snowy white in combination with sharp, lustrous afularia crystals. Some faces and edges of both minerals are just owdered with minor greenisch chlorite, which gives more contrast to this fine alpine specimen from a more uncommon locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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