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Microcline Smoky Quartz & Albite

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Microcline Smoky Quartz & Albite

ex J. Sasamoto - Krantz stock- no old label
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Description
Locality: 
Tanakami-yama, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.5 × 3 cm
Description

Japanese minerals, particularly the older classics, are increasingly hard to obtain. This specimen is out of the Sasamoto collection at Krantz in Bonn, GER. A nice pegmatite miniature specimen with a pinkish feldspar (prob. microcline) hosting smoky quartz and some albite(?).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Microcline

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Crystal System: 
Triclinic - Pinacoidal
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

Albite

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

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Best regards Roger