Mineral: Microcline
Locality: Chhappu, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
Dimensions: 11 x 9 x 4 cm

Description: Backside seems to have been sawed although there is not saw marks and is not completely flat. Anyway its orientation do not correspond to any face. In dissolved holes can see fibrous structures parallel to -supposedly- c-axis. Also can see some inclined lines parallel to the face at top left, which is -supposedly again- (-101). Would not be more logic that these lines were parallel to the cleavage plane (001)? But if we assume that face at top left is (001) then the orientation of epitactic cleavelandite do not fits...

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