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Sanidine

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Sanidine

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Description
Locality: 
Loket, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3 × 1.5 cm
Weight: 
26.00gr
Description

Textbook sanidine crystal with Carlsbad twinning, intersected by a second, minor twin on the side, with a fresh and moderately lustrous cream color. Some remnants of the original, volcanic host rock.

Very old connoisseur material.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sanidine

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Drachenfels, Königswinter, Siebengebirge, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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