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Albite With Stilpnomelane Inclusions

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Albite With Stilpnomelane Inclusions

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Description
Locality: 
Broughton Talc Mine, Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton, Chaudière-Appalaches, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.6 × 0.8 × 0.5 cm
Description

Description

An offbeat small specimen of twinned albite with stilpnomelane inclusions from this uncommon mine - Broughton talc mine, Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton, Quebec, Canada. The albite crystals are glassy lustrous, colorless, water clear and transparent. They have very sharp habit and they are twinned. Brown stilpnomelane inclusions form cool phantoms. In excellent condition. In a plastic box.

Choice Albite!

Shipping weight up to 0.250 kg

#20281

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Albite

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

Stilpnomelane

Formula: 
(K,Ca,Na)(Fe2+,Mg,Al,Fe3+)8(Si,Al)12(O,OH)36·nH2O
Strunz: 
9.EG.40
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Melchior and Tobias adits, Horní Údolí (Obergrund), Zlaté Hory (Zuckmantel), Olomouc Region, Moravia (Mähren; Maehren), Czech Republic